Evening star., 1947-12-14
Of Stamps
By james Waldo Fowcett

| in the issue are invited to send
to Supt. Robert e. Fellers, Stamps
Division, Post ONCE Department
any and all suggestions they may
have for the design Of the stamr
and for the proceedings relating tt
its premier distribution.
A scent airmail stamp, identit
in design with the small scent air.
post adhesive now In use but per.
forated only horizontally, will be
placed on sale in Washington ex.
clusively January IS. Collectors de.
string f1rst-day cancellations Of this
new coil issue may send covers te
the Postmaster to be serviced.
First-day sales Of the Scent Ever
glades stamp at Florida City, Fla.
December 5, totalled $24,075. The
number of covers processed was re-
ported as 466,647.
The editors and publishers Of the
Scott Postage Stamp Catalogues
have announced that Allied Military
Government stamps, issued for use
IN Austria, France, Germany, Italy
Venezia Giulia and the Free Terri
tory Of Trieste, will be listed here
after under those country headings
and subheadings and not under
United States
Ebert. Baldwin, former foreign
editor of Business Week and pub
Usher of Research Interna tional,
died on Saturday, December s. In
terested in stamps from boyhood,
one of the last of his writings was a
protest against the deliberate exploit
tation of collectors, printed in this
column last Sunday.
Don't Write Dead Letters" on
page Is of This Week Magazine, dis
tributed as part of The Star today,
contains material of interest to the
philatelic public.
Lyle F. Watts, chief Of the Forest
Service, Department of Agriculture,
has asked Postmaster General Jesse
Donaldson to authorize a stamp in
aid of the campaign to prevent
forest fires, also to help the crusade
to save the Nations timber reserves
by ordering the use of cancellation
dies with appropriate slogans.
DR.. G. s. Hitchins is the author of
an interesting article on THE
Worlds Most Beautiful Stamp
published in Stamps Magazine for
December 6.
To illustrate to what extent the
Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial
stamps of foreign nations have de-
generated into racket at the ex-
pense of collectors, the issues of
Abyssinia are selling on the Ameri-
can market at $40. the sheet of>four
of Hungary at $45 and the sheet of
Is of Nicaragua at $3.50. Other coun-
tries at fault include Brazil, Colom-
bia. Costa Rica, Guatemala, Haiti,
Liberia, Monaco, San Marino, Tur-
key and the Philippines. But the
most shameful aspect of the whole
unlovely story Is that the govern
ments of these nations were solicited
by wholesale dealers in the United
States to do what they did.
Prof. Robert F. Chambers, chair
man of the chemistry department,
Brown University, and an eminent
stamp collector, serving as curator
of the Knight deposit of philatelic
material at Brown and as an officer
of the Rhode Island Philatelic So
ciety, has died.
Sample copies of the Precancel
Optimist may be had from the pub
Usher, so West Washington street,
Chicago 2, at 10 cents each.
Vatican City has a new airpost
series, consisting of IL, red, dove of
peace Al, brown, angels bearing a
chapel through the clouds; 81, blue,
same as IL; ISL, purple, swallows
encircling a church tower; ISL,
green, same as Al; SOL, black, and
100L, orange, same as ISL.
x. Y. z. writes: II want to ask
your help to make additionally
happy the Christmas of little
Cleveland girl-Loretta Rutkowski,
now II years old. On December 26,
1914, she was burned painfully in a
fire. Every day since that date she
has been in a Cleveland hospital,
slowly recovering under the care of
doctors and nurses who have worked
and prayed over her with as much
devotion as though she were their
own child. At last she Is going
home to her real family. Let's send
her a shower Of Christmas cards In
care OF the Postmaster, Cleveland.
Ohio. I am sure that he will see to
it that they reach her on Christmas
Eve"
The Collectors Club of Washing
ton will meet at 1912 Ninth street
NV, Tuesday evening at 8.
The Government Printing Office
Stamp Club will meet In Harding
Hall Thursday afternoon at 4:40. A
constitution will be submitted, Of
ficers will be elected. there will be
an exhibition, and all GPO COL
lectors and members of their fami-
lies are invited to attend and par