Evening star., 1947-03-30


New Deal may have been respon-
sible for neglect Of him during
President Roosevelt's time, but that
excuse no longer is valid under the
present administration.
E. v. Lucas, the English essayist
who died in 1888. left these lines
for the philatelic public to remember:
A stamps tiny, flimsy thing,
No thicker than beetles wing,
And yet twill roam the world for
you
Exactly where you tell it to.
Special cachetS have been an.
nounced for Des Moines and Sioux
City, Iowa, on or about April IS.
when a new portion Of AM-48 goes
into service.
There. is mail-o-meter machine
mo. 51034) in the largest Govern
ment building ever built which
carries the explanatory slogan.
Mailed in the Pentagon."
Hans Gehrt, 8 Weidinger street.
Oksbol, Denmark, solicits CORE
spondence with American boys and
girls. Sixteen years of age, he has
been in a camp for German refugees
for the past two years.
The London Times recently pub
lished the following editorial on
THE Post Cards Worth:
For many people a sorrows
crown of sorrow is remembering
that a post card could once be sent
for a halfpenny, and there will bs
general sympathy with q corre-
spondent's recent plea for its reduce
ton in price. And yet it might be
argued, though the argument is not
one perhaps to lie well in the mouth
of Government Office, that in cer-
tain respects the post card is beyond
price. To those who use it freely
the amount Of licking saved is q
thing to beggar language. This,
however, is laziness; its real value
is in saving the embarrassment Of
beginning and ending letters, which
weigh so heavily on the sensitive.
Dear Mr.. Smith or Dear Smith
or Dear John'-this agonizing prob
lem in triplicate vanishes in flash.
No need to ponder whether Yours
very truly is little formal and
Yours ever too gushing. In a letter
a mere Yours is the resort Of
towards and Yours in haste a pail
pable untruth; either is permissible
on a post card, though both are
superf1uous, since post card Is one
Of those rare animals that needs
neither head nor tail. Moreover, il
1t appears little brusque or abrupt,
Forgive card provides a way out.
The writer has only to remember
that some things can be said in
letter and not on a card, as was
shown in case once decided in the
Irish courts. A creditor wrote to
his debtor on a post card, Your
plea Of illness for not paying this
trifie is mere moonshine'; and 1t
was he himself who had to pay.
"A post card can be used, without
any fear Of the law Of libel, in self
protection. At its nlildest it can
hint Don't bother me any more with
your intolerably long letters At its
most offensive it can end a corre-.
spondence once and for all. Witness
the old story of the man who very
unwisely, for he was putting his
head into the lions mouth, wrote to
ask whether his nonelection to q
golf club was due to his lack Of
golfing or social qualifications. He
received from the secretary card
bearing the single word Both OF
course, the post card Is open to
abuse. It's addicts too often try to
get quart into pint pot. Either
their affection for their corresponds
ent runs away with them. or they
are sordidly resolved to get their two
penn 'orth. Having covered the card
with straightforward writing, they
wreathe 1t round with illegible after
thoughts and sometimes their en-.
thusiasm spills over on to the side
reserved for the address, They
ought to be mulcted in threepence
at least, as the wretched decipherer
thinks. Again, though the card os-
tensibly tends to brevity, 1t can in
some users promote verbosity and
fussiness. Their coming on WILT
Is heralded by flights of cards deal.
ing with times, trains and cabs,
grave matters long since decided.
They resemble the people who cam
not refrain from asking the ticket
collector, the guard and several por-
ters whether they are in the right
train. Peter Magnus would have
written endless post cards, face
tiously signed Afternoon Such
creatures deserve no encouragement,
But hundred yearly
Would be very nice
and so would at least halfpenny
of the price Of the post card"
BY courtesy Of william D. Hines.
director OF public relations. copies
Of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.
pamphlet on the rubber industry,
publicized in the stamp column OF
The Star on February 16, are being
sent to ali readers who applied for
them.
The Collectors Club Of Washing
ton will meet at 1912 Ninth street
NV. Tuesday evening at 8.
CTAHrDc ANN r0y1,c