Evening star., 1945-01-28
stamps
By James Waldo Faycen


mazes of Post ONCE Department
and routines. At least a
dozen different designs have been
discussed, revised, again
debated-and now are being con-
sidered." The wash drawing by Ed
ward R. Grove, which President
Roosevelt is reported to have ad-
mired, still is in the running, but
two sketches by j. Franklin Whit
man, an artist on the staff of the
Red Cross publicity organization,
have been entered in competition
with it.
What is most difficult to under
stand, however, Is the departments
insistence that the name of the
American Red Cross must not ap-
pear on the projected stamp. Mr..
Groves drawing was photographed
and the inscription eliminated from
it, and Mr.. Whitman was instructed
to omit the words from his produc-
tons. The result is the equivalent
of Hamlet" without the Prince of
Denmark One critic likened it to
a dollar bill with the phrase THE
United States of America" blacked
out.
Letters favoring the reprinting Of
the scent Korean stamp are being
received in every mail AS soon as
may be convenient, they will be
presented to Postmaster General
Frank g Walker
Collectors are warned that the
Philatelic Agency has only small
stocks of number of the stamps
still carried on the sales list Many
of the items still available will be
dropped shortly.
Despite the hostile weather, q
large audience heard Charles Lorenz
address the Washington Philatelic
Society at the National Museum
Auditorium Wednesday evening.
The material he brought from New
York for display was examined with
interest. Unfortunately, however, he
did not bring with him any "back
number" Christmas Seals for sale.
The stamp editor of The Star
apologies for having announced
that such issues would be offered.
Add to the list of distinguished
women philatelists the name of Mrs.
Caroline Prentice Cromwell of New
York, a granddaughter of John D.
Rockefeller.
The New York Sun reports that
Abraham Kalish and Morris j.
Stern have pleaded guilty to charges
Of violating the counterfeiting laws
by changing perforations, grills and
overprints on United States stamps
and having in their possession i'm
plements" for such tanpering.
1t repeatedly has been said that
no stamp ever has been restored to
the Philatelic Agency sales list after
1t had been removed by official ac-
ton, but George W. Linn, editor and
publisher of Linn's Weekly Stamp
News, Sidney, Ohio. comments:
They forget the 10-cent Lind
bergh.'
Under Soviet Union domination
Es0onia, Latvia and Lithuania have
ceased to issue stamps The same
| fate is indicated for Rumania, Hun
gary, CZechoslovakia, Finland, Ger
! many (if Hitler surrenders to Sta
lin and perhaps Sweden, Norway,
Denmark, The Netherlands and
Belgium (if the continent goes COM
munist following the end Of the
war;. All of which means that the
variety of postal paper in Europe
during the next few years, if not
during the next several centuries,
may be restricted drastically.
The Library of Congress contains
many fine works of art which would
lend themselves admirably to re-
production on postage stamps-if
anybody had genius enough to re-
member them in that connection.
One suth composition is the beau
Viful Nj erya OF Elihu Vedder on
the stairway leading from the Sec
ond to the third floor of the old
building. Another Is the mural of
the Printing Press by John w. Alex
amer. Still others are The
Sciences" and THE Arts" by Ken
yon Cox, War" by Carl Melchers
and Fire by R. L. Dodge.
Readers who wish to cooperate
in the effort to provide stamps for
wounded and sick veterans of the
armed services are requested to
communicate with Ellery Denison,
1907 Tracy Drive, Takoma Park,
Md, or Charles H. Vaughan, 1877
SachuSettS avenue NV.
| Stamps, covers, albums, cata-
logues, watermark detectors, twee-
zers, perforation gauges, magnifying
glasses and other accessories are
wanted urgently.
| The Star for December /, 1894,
said: 1T. j. Sullivan, assistant chief
/ of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, having completed his 25th
year of continuous service yesterday,
was presented with a token of re-
membrance in the shape of. a floral
horseshoe by the superintendents of
the printing division"
H. Clay Musser of State College,
Pa. has been chosen executive sec
retary of the American Philatelic
Society.
Lars M. Eidsness, brother of the
late Michael l.. Eidsness, jr., we'll
known in local philatelic circles, is
a patient at Doctors Hospital.
| Philip H. Ward, III, son of Philip
H. Ward, jr., philatelic writer, has
been awarded a bronze star and
given battlefield promotion to first
lieutenant for gallantry iii action in
the Southwest Pacific
| The Collectors Club of Washing
ton, meeting at the Thomson School,
Twelfth and l. streets NV, Tues
day evening at s, will see sound
movies shown by E. G. Galloway
and an exhibition of stamps and