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STAMPS
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.
The collectors' edition of Post
master General Farley's gift sheets
of stamps went on sale Friday and
proved a disappointment to the
philatelic public.
Comparison of the replicas and the
original de luxe printings brought to
light many notable differences In
color and craftsmanship.
The 1-cent Century of Progress re
print is a new shade of green, and
the l-cent National Parks follows the
same rule.
A novel type of violet appears in
the 3-cent Mother's day, 3-cent
Century of Progress, 3-cent Wisconsin
and 3-cent Parks reproductions, the
reprinted 4-cent Parks is a much
richer brown, the 5-cent Parks a paler
blue and the 8-cent Parks a lighter
olive green.
In the case of the 16-cent airmail
special delivery stamp, the reprint is
a dark blue; not the steel blue orig
inally used.
These and other discoveries of a
like nature indicate a separate classi
fication in Scott's standard catalog
for each of the three series—the gift
sheets, the ordinary stamps as com
monly circulated and the collectors'
edition of reproductions.
Alvin W. Hall, director, Bureau of
Engraving and Printing, when asked
for an explanation of the variations,
said: "There probably is a discernible
difference, but the same principle
might be applied to any type of stamp.
We mix new batches of ink as they
are needed, and it is impossible to
duplicate exactly. Even in a single
run there may be changes."
The plates employed for the re
prints were the same as those for Mr.
Farley's presentation sheets, Mr. Hall
declared. But the quality of printing
is affected by use, and the lines of the
replicas therefore are not as clear nor
as distinct as those of the originals.
Chester L. Lankford. president,
Franklin D. Roosevelt Stamp Club,
Douglas, Ga.. was the first purchaser
of the reproductions. He waited all
Thursday night for the privilege of
being the Philatelic Agency's premier
customer.
Other early-comers were: Mead
Johnston, second in line; Gerard Ten
Eyck Beeckman, stamp editor, C. C. C.
Weekly; J H. Jenkins, Associated
Press; Clyde De Binder, Bureau of
Engraving and Printing; William
Shrader, president. Chevy Chase
Junior Stamp Club; Edwin W.
Beitzell, librarian. Washington Phila
telic Society; Mrs. Caroline Cleaver,
sponsor of the proposed Memorial day
stamp, and Mrs. Madeline Nichols.
Also, Frederick J. Roy, president,
Revenue Service Philatelists; David Π.
Davenport, The Star; Julius Bachrach
and Arnold Blankman, New York;
Joseph Miller, Philadelphia; Gordon
Warnken and Louis Ditzel, Baltimore;
Walter Poppinger, Akron, and Merle
Loveless, Baldwinsville, Ν. Y.
Horace M. Grant, Providence. Κ. I.,
bought approximately $12,000 v.orth
of assorted issues.
There was no ceremony in connec
tion with the sale. Mr. Farley was
absent, and neither Third Assistant
Postmaster General Clinton B. Eilen
berger nor Deputy Third Assistant
Postmaster General Roy M. North ap
peared on the scene. Arrangements
were in the hands of Robert f.. Fel
lers, superintendent, division of stamps.
No imperforate sheets of the Cen
tury of Progress stamps were given
away or sold by Mr. Farley. The only
excuse for reprinting those issues
was the presentation of a trial proof
of each value on heavy cardboard to
President Roosevelt.
■ι. ne irue vaiue 01 me stamps Mr.
Farley gave away." says Arthur E.
Owen, "may be gauged by the price
■which collectors will pay for the re
prints. If the sale of the latter runs
to $2,500,000, as some have esti
mated, the price of the former will
be approximately the same."
Plate numbers on the 8-cent Parks
reprint, omitted last week, are 21324
to 21327, inclusive.
There are Indications that the Con
necticut commemorative, pledged by
Mr. Farley, will be issued April 26.
A1 Burns, in Weekly Philatelic
Gossip for March 16, discusses the
classification of the Parks stamps.
"We most emphatically do not agree
that (they) are commemoratives," he
says. "Even though we understand
that the New York Sun, Prescott
Holden Thorpe and Hugh M. Clark
designate them as commemorative
stamps—they do not commemorate
anything. Those who sponsored the
drive for them, and who are respon
sible for their appearance, declare
they were only aimed as advertising
lor the parks in question. Even the
Postmaster General's slip of the
tongue at the first printing ceremony
is not sufficient to make a commemo
rative of something that does not ac
tually commemorate."
New stamps are indicated following
the resignation of King Prajadhipok
of Siam. His successor is a boy of
11, Prince Ananda Mahidol.
Advices from Madrid say that Spain
will bring out a stamp in tribute to
the memory of Rabbi Moses Ben
Maimon, Hebrew philosopher, better
known as Maimonides, the 800th an
niversary of whose birth occurs March
30. He was a native of Cordova and
was educated by his father and
Arabic masters, but the troubles of
the age disturbed his studies, and
finally he fled to Cairo, in which city
he made his home during the re
mainder of his life. As personal
physician to Seladin. he earned
celebrity in medicine, and as the most
eminent Rabbinic authority of his
time, he won a permanent place In
the pantheon of philosophy. A
modern writer has called him "the
greatest Jew of the medieval period of
history."
Dr. Herbert Putnam, librarian, has
announced that an exhibition of books
and manuscripts relating to Mai
monidles will be held at the Library
of Congress, beginning Monday,
March 25.
Czechoslovakia announces com
memorative stamps for the 85th
fcirthday anniversary of President
Masaryk.
San Marino has new set of seven
values to commemorate the founding
of the national Fascist movement.
STAMPS.
BRITISH TVBKISLANDS. All· Csnro's.
Moat* Carle. Niier Coast. Ucanda. Dji
bouti. Ecuadorian. Ivory Out. I'binil
roan trie» collector· need. FREE for 5c
peltate. EMPIRE STAMP CO.. Dept. W.
P.. TORONTO. CANADA. *
STAMP ALBUMS
Stock Books. Catalocuet. New Sets. SIM If
ettmpi Philatélie Supplie» Call and sm
mi I alio BUY Collection»
Harry B. Mason, 918 F N.W.
SPECIAL ENVELOPES FOE
IMPERFORATE ISSUE.
WHITNEY'S STAMP MART
1187 Pa. Aye.. Next to gtar Office.
Stamp·—Coin·—Autograph»
Bought and Sold
Hobby Shop
t 718 17th St N.W. DIst. |27î
EDWIN W. BE1TZELL,
Librarian of the Washington Phila
telic Society, Is among the active
workers in preparation for the Amer
ican Philatelic Society convention
and exhibition next August. A na
tive of Maryland, he is employed in
the business office of the Chesapeake
& Potomac Telephone Co. His in
terest in philately as a recreational
hobby dates back about five years,
embraces the collecting of United
States and general airmail specimens
and includes the scientific catalog
ing of the W. P. S. Library. He
also is a member of the American
Airmail Society and the Washington
Airmail Society. —Star Staff Photo.
Denominations are Used as follows:
5c, dark brown and black; 10c, deep
violet and black; 20c, brown orange
and black; 25c, dark green and black;
50c, olive bistre and black; 75c, dark
carmine and black, and 1.25L, dark
blue and black. The design is scenic
in character.
Guatemala is planning a series of
12 stamps in tribute to the memory
of Gen. Justo Ruflno Barrious. presi
dent and "reformer." The series will
be issued on the 100th anniversary
of his birth, July 17.
The German stamps commemorating
the return of the Saar were designed
by a woman—Praulein Emmy Glintzer.
C. A. Ellett, Beloit, Ohio, announces
an Easter cachet to be mailed from
Damascus, Ohio. The design was pre
pared by Anna Talbott McPherson.
Standard size covers, addressed and
stamped, but unstuffed and unsealed,
are specified.
The Spanish Cervantes commemo
rative stamps of 1916 were designated
for official use, exclusively, and were
printed without expressed values. One
set was presented to the Senate and
one to the House of Deputies. Hand
somely lithographed and of large
dimensions, they were inscribed "El
Parliament© Espanol a Cervantes."
signifying; "The Spanish Parliament
to Cervantes." An official description
said: "The central designs, in black,
are of four subjects—a portrait of Cer
vantes. a staue of Cervantes, the Par
liament House and the National Li
S brary—while the frames are in color.
Different colors were used for the two
chambers, so that there are eight
stamps of four different designs."
Used only on April 22, the series was
accorded special postmarks, reading:
"Senado" or "Congreso de los Diput
ados" with double dates. "1616-1916."
Cervantes' principal claim to his
country's gratitude is based on his
celebrated book. "Don Quixote."
A W Rln«* writing in th«> Ιλκ
î Angeles Times, says: "Alraoet every
1 religion of the world, past and pres
! ent. is represented in some form in
; postage stamps. . . . Cathedrals,
: churches, temples and other places of
worship are shown on numerous
stamps from Canada, Germany, Bel
gium, China, Indo-China, India, etc.
ι Hungary pictures the "Madonna and
I Child" on several stamps. Italy pic
! tures Christ among His disciples in
ι the 1923 issue. Palestine pictures
Rachel's Tomb and the Sea of Galilee.
"The sun, the god of the Incas.
is pictured on many of the stamps
of Peru, and similarly on stamps of
Persia, since sun-worship was an
early religious ceremony of both
countries. French India stamps show
us Brahma and a mosque near
Pondicherry. Stamps of various In
dian native states feature many sub
jects dealing with the various re
ligious sects of that great lend. In
cluding such odd pictures as that of
ι Ganesh, the elephant-headed god.
' "Religious symbols such as the
Yin-yang of China, the Chakr of
Slam, the Monad of Corea, may be
found. The cross is used In many
forms on stamps of Christian coun
tries. The crescent is prominent on
many stamps of Moslem countries.
"Such a collection provides much
opportunity for study for those who
are interested in the story behind
their stamps."
On May 6. 1940, the centenary of
the postage stamp will be celebrated.
Regarding its first appearance,
Douglas B, Armstrong has said: "The
poetal reforms which ushered In the
Victorian era were entirely dependent
for their success or failure upon the
discovery of a simple and practical
method of collecting prepaid poetal
charges, so that bookkeeping might
be reduced to a minimum. Neces
sity proved once more the mother of
Invention, and the fertile brain
which conceived the idea of uniform
postage, evolved also the means by
which It became 'un lait accompli.'
Although more than 2,700 sugges
tions were submitted in the open com
petition inaugurated by the Lords of
the Treasury, none was deemed suit
able to the purpose and it was finally
decided to adopt the device originally
suggested by Rowland Hill in Febru
ary, 1837. "Perhaps this difficulty,' he
wrote, 'might be obviated by using
a bit of paper just large enough to
bear the stamp and covered at the
back with a glutinous wash, which
by applying a little moisture might
be attached to the letter.' Like most
greet inventions, the postage stamp
was really an apt adaptation of a
system that had been In vogue for
the collection of fiscal tax duties for
a considerable period. Although there
have been many claimants to the
title, there are few nowadays who
are disposed to dispute the right of
Rowland Hill to be regarded as the
invente»' of the adhesive postage
label."
British collectors already are plan
ning centenary ceremonies, and
American collectors also should be
mindful o( the possibilities of the
occasion.
The Smithsonian Institution re
ceived custody of the Post Office De
partment's collection of stamps by
order of Postmaster General Frank H.
Hitchcock, March II. 1011. Final
transfer took place February 11, 1013.
It is announced that the Graf Zep
pelin has completed 423 voyages, in
eluding 90 ocean crossings. The ship
has carried 27,700 passengers and
3,500,000 pieces of mail.
Wilds Dubose says: "Try to use
ingenuity and natural creative ability
«hen you lay out your album pages.
Make them not only neat and attrac
tive, but a real expression of your
own love of beauty."
Coame Hlnojoea, postmaster gen
eral of Mexico during the Carranza
period, is described as having been "a
producer of stamps for philatelic con
sumption." The products of his ad
ministration are lifted on pages 616
617 in Scott's Catalog for 1935.
The three-forked pike on the stamps
of the Ukraine is a symbol adopted
from the coat of arms o' the Orand
Duke St. Vladimir of Kiev.
* The collector who is no longer on
the search for something is like an old
man who has dined and is now watch
ing the others eat," says L'Echo de la
Timbrologie of Paris.
Referring to Beverly 8. King, Mi
chael L. Eidsness. Jr., writing in
Stamps Magazine for March 16, says:
"If any one ever had asked me to
name the best representative of the
highest Ideals of American philately
I should have answered by citing
King's name. Such a reply would
have been instinctive, and it also
would have been abundantly justi
fied. I have known many men who
have been honorable, loyal and con
sistently enthusiastic in their devo
tion to stamp collecting and in their
service to the stamp-collecting fra
ternity of the world, but I sincerely
believe that King personified, as no
other Individual of my acquaintance
ever has. the richest and the noblest
aspects of the philatelic game."
Those who pretend to think of
stamps as inconsequential might do
well to remember that the World War
started with one "scrap of paper" and
ended with another.
The i936 stamp exhibition in New
York will be managed by a commit
tee consisting of Hugh M. Clark, J. J.
Klemann, jr.: Alfred F. Lichtenstein.
Laurence B. Mason, Charles J. Phil
lips and Theodore E. Steinway. In
dicated dates are May 9 to 17, and
the place probably will be Grand Cen
tral Palace.
Pencil Points Magazine for March
contains an Interesting article on
"Architectural Stamps—a Field for
the Collector to Specialize In." by
Charles Corwin. The text is copiously
and attractively illustrated, and the
author names the following as archi
tects who also are philatelists: Louis
Jallade, New York: Ε. B. McPherson.
Santa Cruz, Calif.; Clarence W.
Brazer, Lansdowne, Pa.: Francis
Kapp, Phillip Grennan and Thomas
Arcuri.
Mr Eidsness is attending the Gar
fleld-Perry Stamp Club annual meet
ing at Cleveland. He left Washington
Friday and will return Tuesday or
Wednesday.
Mr. Beeckman will address the
Theodore Roosevelt High School Phi
latelic Society Friday afternoon,
March 29.
Frank A. Bickert has been elected
a member of the American Philatelic
Society 1935 Convention Committee.
Philip Simms Wanen conducted
the Madonna Stamp Club of the Sa
cred Heart Convent School through
the philatelic division ot the Smith
sonian Institution yesterday. The
group was met by Mrs. Catherine L.
Manning, philatelic secretary, and
shown the display of United States
stamps under her auspices.
At the call of Albert P. Kunze,
leader, Washington Stamp Club of
the Air, and chairman Exhibition
Committee for the 1935 American
Philatelic Society convention, repre
sentatives of six Washington Junior
high school stamp clubs met yester
day afternoon In the assembly room
of the Washington Board of Trade,
Star Building, to discuss plans for
the junior aspect of the exhibition
next August. Those present were:
David Fusield, Stuart Junior; Melvln
Leder, Central; Billy Stevens, John
Qulncy Adams; William Clark, Paul
Junior; Mollie Lewis. Marvin
Schwartz and Robert Bilsborough,
Roosevelt High, and Charles C. Guil
ford and David Pegan. Eastern.
A second meeting will be held In
the same place next Saturday after
noon at 2 o'clock, and Mr. Kunze asks
every junior philatelic group in the
District of Columbia and vicinity to
send at least one delegate. Private
and parochial schools, Boy Scout
clubs and neighborhood clubs espe
cially are invited.
It is possible that a federation of
the younger collectors' organizations
may be effected as one result of these
meetings, and wide and general rep
resentation, therefore, Is desired.
The Washington Stamp Club of the
Air will have a broadcast meeting
from Station WOL Tuesday evening
at 6:45 o'clock, when Mr. Kunze will
speak on "Another Stamp Romance
of Luxemburg."
The Collectors' Club, Branch 5,
Society of Philatelic Americans, will
meet at the Thomson School,
Twelfth street, Tuesday evening at
8. James F. Duhamel will speak, and
the public is invited.
The Washington Philatelic Society
will meet at the Hotel Carlton. Six
teenth street. Wednesday evening at
8. Visitors welcome.
N.R. A. PLAN WOULD HIT
40 PCT. OF EMPLOYES
Sixty Per Cent of Workers in
Virginia Would Remain
Under Codes.
Br the Associated Prru.
RICHMOND. Va., March 16—If
Congress agreed to drop all of 286
N. R. A. codes recommended to be
dropped by Donald R. Richberg,
cbout 60 per cent of the workers
now under code in Virginia would still
be under a code. Dr. John J. Cor
; son. acting State N. R. A. compliance
i officer, estimated today.
I The majority of the codes recom
i mended by Richberg to be dropped do
not affect Virginia, Dr. Corson said,
i It is probable, he said, that if
! these codes are dropped the firms
; operating under them may still be
required to abide by some general
agreement, such as the President's
re-employment agreement.
The list of 286 codes Include indus
tries employing fewer than 10.000
persons, and also 13 service codes.
; Other lists being prepared will bring
ι the total to 550.
DAILY SHORT STORY
BLIND TO LOVE
The Accident and Her Scarred Face Did Not Appall Her
as Much as the Loss of Tony's Affection.
BY FRANK KERN LEVIN.
Elsies doctor
was a very
practical man,
and so when she
had asked for a
mirror when the
bandages were re· ;
moved from her
(ace he gave it to
her.
"Oh. how ter
rible!" Elsie cried
and turned her
face away. It was
fortunate she and
Tony had agreed
on that night, just
before the acci
dent. never to see
each other again.
Now she didn't
want Tony ever to
see her face again.
. .. The whole side
of her face was
scarred — yellow, J
and red, and hor- -
rible.
"Look again!"
commanded ι η e
doctor. He had Iron-gray hair and
imall gray eyes.
"I can't J" Elsie said despairingly.
"You must! Look!"
The tone of the doctor's voice
frightened Elsie, and she did look.
"Don't turn your eyes away. Keep
looking. It isn't half so terrible as
you think. It will heal some "
"But I shall always be like this?
Look, the scar from my eye—oh, I'm
grotesque!"
"It isn't bad. not nearly so bed
as you think. You musn't give in. you
mustn't break down. You still have
life, there are hundreds of things you
can do that will make you happy!"
"Are there, really?" Elise asked.
The doctor nooded his head, and
Elsie stared, fascinated, at the re
flection of her mutilated face. It
was terrible and yet it wasn't so ter
rible. She was still young, very young,
and there were hundreds of things
that could make her happy. The
doctor had said so. He must know,
he knew so much.
And yet, while she had still been
pretty, before her face was scarred,
when Tony was driving her home that
night and was saying good-by to her.
the had thought that nothing could
ever make her happy. How could she
be happy without Tony?
"There are some friends of yours
outside," said the doctor. "I think it
would be a good thing for you to
tee them. I'll send them In."
There was no sense in trying to
protest, and a few minutes later Betty
came In. There were two other girls
from the offlce with her, and one of
the salesmen. Each one of them car·
ried flowers or a box of candy, and
each smiled.
"They look as though It makes them
happy to see me 111," Elsie thought as
ihe looked at the amllei on their
faces. She knew that wasn't true;
she knew their coining In all dressed
up in smiles was their way of attempt
ing to soothe her, to make her happy.
But she saw the salesman turn his
head away quickly as he looked at her
face, and then try to recapture his
smile and not look embarrassed. The
girls, too, were 111 at east. Betty be
gan to talk very loudly.
"One little accident could never
finish off a tough bird like you,"
laughed Betty. "But, say, Tony must
have been going 60 miles an hour
when he hit that viaduct. I saw a
picture of the car In the newspapers.
It looked like a deflated balloon. And
just think i You've had your name in
the paper·. Some people have all the
hick!
Λ
3 Tony had been
Ρ going about 60
Î miles an hour
Ξ when the car had
= crashed. They had
ΐ quarreled violently,
and he was angry,
and he wanted to
get her home. She
had sat with her
Hps quivering as
he sped through
the dark, slippery
streets. They had
quarreled as they
/ had the two or
ί three times before,
ff It was her fault;
^ she realized Tony
had tired of her.
and she should
have let him go
without making a
fuss and forcing
herself on him.
But it was so hard
to under stand.
Tony had seemed
ίο De so lerriDiy in
love with her only such a short time
before. He couldn't be with her
enough or kiss her enough. And
then when it had got so a day with
out Tony was a day of agony he
suddenly, for apparently no reason
whatever, had fellen out of love
with her.
Elsie was smart enough to know
that such things happened, and she
was smart enough to know that when
they did nothing could be done about
It. And she knew it was nobody's
fault. And yet she had kept asking
herself over and over again what It
was she had done. And she had
asked Tony that. too. and the ques
tion had made him sullen.
She knew he didn't want to hurt
her; she could see the pain in his eyes.
And it was because he didn't want to
hurt her that he had driven so madly.
It was as though he were taking his
feelings out on the car or himself.
"Oh, I guess I'm just a nut," Tony
had said. "I suppose I don't know
what I want. But you haven't any
thing to worry about. You're the
prettiest kid In the office."
"Is there somebody else, Tony? You
can tell me."
"I told you there's nobody else. I
Just want to be alone, that's all."
She had begun to say something
again, but Tony speeded up, and then
there was the accident.
Elsie's visitors were leaving, calling
extravagantly cheerful farewells.
Elsie caught Betty's hand.
"How is Tony?" she asked, striv
ing to keep her voice Impersonal.
"Oh, he'» all right," Betty an
swered. "He keeps asking about you.
He says he'll never forgive himself.
He says he was an awful fool, that
he knows now what he wanted."
"Now? You mean—now it's too
late. I'll never, never let him see me
—I'm horrible."
"He'll never be able to see you,
Elsie. The accident took away Tony's
right completely. He's blind. They
haven't told him yet, but he'll never
see again."
Elsie sat up stiffly. She was star
ing far out into the distance.
"Don't let them tell him. Dont
let any one tell him until I see him.
Let me be the first to tell him,"
Elsie said.
(Ooprrlsht. 1835)
Tomorrow — "White Magic," by
Olah Maude Abbott, to a story of
the deep tenth and a .planter who
knew the peyehalofy of his Mir
ante.
A
Then there was the accident.
Washington
Wayside
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things in the
Nation's Capital.
HOLE-TEARER.
USUALLY there is some man in
the House of Representatives
who in noted for his ability to
tear holes in a proposed
measure, to hunt out the pro
verbial "Ethiopian in the woodpile."
The late Republican leader was a
specialist of this sort.
Today it is Representative Frederick
R. Lehlbach, Republican, of New Jer
sey, who sits back quietly, appearing
to be at least half asleep, only to
break out at the opportune moment
with the most thoughtful and perti
nent comment on the law under con
sideration.
The Sirovich omnibus bill for re
vamping of the civil sen-ice laws was
under way. Lehlbach appeared to be
asleep when Chairman Sirovich called
for his comment. The New Jersey
Representative stood up and replied
immediately.
"First, the President would be pre
vented from issuing any executive
orders exempting any positions ex
cept on recommendation of some de
partment head. This is contrary to
the Constitution.
"Second, the bill exempts 1.000 posi
tions in the Department of Justice
about which society must be pre
served. Under the proposed bill, to
similarly exempt men in the Secret
Service, the President would be spe
cifically required to issue individual
orders."
Then he sat down, and appeared
half asleep again in a few moments.
* * * ♦
CHARACTER CAMEO.
AVERY dignified gentleman with
pince-nez stepped up to the
sidewalk vendor.
"Pray give me the worth of these
three coppers In peanuts with the
hulls on."
And he tendered the perplexed mer
chant a trio oi pennies with all the
aplomb of a Wall Street bond trans
action.
♦ * * ♦
MIDNIGHT CACOPHONY.
IT WAS 12:30 am.
An automobile horn set up a
frightenful din. rising and falling
with an eerie, fog-horn sort of sound.
It continued for 10. then 15 minutes
Lighis flashed on in apartments all
along the block and heads began to
pop out. Sleepy wives could be heard
reporting to sleepier husbands what
the noise was all about.
A cab driver In parking for the
night had scraped bumpers with a
limousine, setting off some ingenious
burglar alarm within the car. The
alarmed cab driver finally stopped the
noise by standing on the limousine
running board and teetering violently
up and down
♦ * * *
THE PAST AT OUR DOOR.
SYMBOLS are older than words.
When men couldn't or wouldn't
take the time to read, they knew:
A red and w hite striped pole meant
a barber shop. It still does.
I Red and green globes in a window
meant a druggist plied his pestle and
mortar within. They still do. but
more rarely.
A noble-looking wooden horse, peg
ged to a platform just to the left
of a shop door, meant the occupant
was a saddler. Like the wooden horse
of Troy, this carved steed is no more.
An awl. of steel or wood, gigantic
In size, swinging from an arm above
a shop door, meant a cobbler or
leather worker busied himself therein.
Only one of these is left.
Now more than 75 years old. It
reposes in the north corner of the
window of the little repair shop at 433
Eleventh street. Once it hung over
the door of a leather worker in Bal
timore. Today the 33'i inches of wood
is just so much gold to the shopkeeper,
who looks upon it as his prized heir
loom.
* * * *
ZOO BOARDERS.
FROM the guest register at the Zoo
the following were taken. The
length of time their owners let
them stay, where known, is indicated.
Bertie, a snake.
Oscar, a baby alligator.
Oswald, a horned toad.
Lizzy, a ground lizard.
Mr. Canary, wife and family.
Mr. Rooster, with harem, for the
Summer.
Charuto. a woolly monkey. He liked
it and stayed a year.
Mr. Black Cockatoo, also a full year
guest.
Charlie, a Shetland pony.
Buddy, a trained seal, who stayed
overnight.
Leo. the celebrated lion that roars
at you from the trade mark of a
famous film company; two days.
"Nobody has asked us to take care
of a horse or cow—yet." says Dr.
William A. Mann, director of the ex
clusive animal hostelry.
* * * *
BORN OP AN ILL WIND.
COME hard times. Waste collectors
and ashmen complain: "What'β
happened to people's cast-offs?
Once we could do rather nicely with
a week's find of shoes, hats, bottles,
broken chairs and tables, even coate
and underclothing?"
What has happened? In many cues
new Industry la born to refurbish
things people hate to throw away in
depressed times. Witness:
Old neckties, once given to the
janitor, now go to the necktie cleaner,
a specialist in his own right.
Old bottles, once conspicuous in
every junk pile, now go to the second
hand man at 2 cents apiece.
Shoe-shining parlors have taken on
shoe repairing os a sideline. Uncle
Mortimer holds on to those old «hoes
now. Note alio the home kits for
shoe repairing available almost any
where.
Boy Unhurt in Race.
Racing panic-stricken from a bull
bellowing behind him. In County
Down. Irish Free State, 10-year-old
Gua Barry fell and the Infuriated
animal raced over the lad without in
juring him.
SCHOOL RETIREMENT
PROGRAM STRESSED
Teachers Are Urged to Fight for
Adequate Set-up in
Virginia.
Br the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, March 16.—An "ad
equate" teachers' retirement pay law,
to protect them against the plight of
insufficient income in old age, was
urged before members of the district
C of the Virginia Education Associa
tion here yesterday by John E. Martin
of Suffolk, president of the State As
sociation of School Superintendents.
Mr. Martin was to be one of the
principal speakers before Instructors
from district J of the association,
gathered at Charlottesville today.
He yesterday advised members of
district C, which Is the Richmond
area, to bestir themselves for passage
of a retirement law by the next Gen
eral Assembly, saying that they should
speak out on civic questions and no
longer allow themselves to be re
garded as "the timid profession." Re
tired Virginia teachers now receive
about half of the $500 maximum per
mitted by law, he asserted.
——— · ■■ ■
MRS. MARY PETER BUYS
OLD MONTGOMERY JAIL
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Md. March IS —The
old stone building a short distance
from the court house here, which was
for many years the Montgomery
County Jail, has been sold by the
county commissioners to Mrs. Mary
O. Peter, widow of Judge Edward C.
Peter, ior approximately $2,000. The
lot comprises something less than
half an acre.
Mrs. Peter owns considerable prop
erty in the Immediate vicinity of the
old landmark. She has not decided
I upon any plana regarding the ancient
structure, but it is thought likely
that she will raze It.
The county jail is now on the top
floor of the new court house and
the building which Mrs. Peter has
acquired has been unoccupied for
several year*.
Served for 54 Years.
Emily Harrel, who died recently In
' Stansted, Englard, served 54 years aa
nurse and housekeeper to the late
1 Lord Blythe and his family.
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