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BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT. The Post Office Department will de- rive financial profit from recent storms of protest. Such, in any case, is the opinion of Roy M. North, Deputy Third Assistant Postmaster General, who told a meet- ing of the Collectors’ Club Tuesday “evening, “the Department desires as much criticism as it can get in a con- | “structive way. We have had a | lion dollars’ worth of free publicity «lately, and we like it. This advertising | will rgsult in larger revenues for the philatelic agency.” Postmaster General Farley, Mr. North insisted, “wishes to co-operate with collectors,” and it was for that reason that he ordered a *“collectors’ edition” of the imperforate sheets of stamps he distributed to ‘“favored friends.” Mr. North admitted that he “knows more about tomatoes than about philately.” But he pledged his help to collectors and expressed a willing- ness to serve them as well as possible, “though we must devote most of our | time to regular business.” The so-called “neglected” Presidents ' series, Mr. North confessed, never has been authorized and no definite plans for it have been formulated. “We should have a new regular set,” he said, “but whether it will be of por- trait designs or public buildings, or both, we have not decided.” In the future, Mr. North promised. “only stamps of national importance will be issued—stamps that philatelists will be proud of.’ An audience of 61 collectors heard | the deputy third assistant's address ! and joined in a rising vote of th2aks for his courtesy. Those present included Mr. and Mrs. Robert E 3 and Mrs. Frederick R. Rice. James F. Duhamel, Alden H. Whitney. David H Davenport, Claude W. Parker and Dr George W. Field. A complete set of the ‘“collectors’ reprints” of Mr. Farley's “favors” will cost the ordinary purchaser $190.30, plus 75 cents postage and 40 cents registration fee—a total of $191.45 Blocks of 4 of the 15 varieties avail- able in that condition will gross $3.32, to which also must be added return postage and registration expense Similar amounts of money invested in foreign stamps would afford a general collector a very nice showing of speci- mens equally interesting and probably of greater ultimate value. 4 The official department list of re- prints is: 3-cent, Newburgh, perfo- rated; 3-cent, Byrd, perforated type; 3-cent, Mother's day, flat-bed; 3-cent, Wisconsin; 16-cent, airmail-special delivery; 1-cent, Yosemite: 2-cent, Grand Canyon; 3-cent, Mount Rainier; 4-cent, Mesa Verde; 5-cent, Yellow- stone; 6-cent, Crater Lake; 7-cent, Acadia; 9-cent, Glacier; 10-cent, Smoky Mountain; 1-cent, Century of Progress, souvenir; 3-cent, Century of Progress, souvenir; 3-cent, Byrd, | souvenir; 1-cent, Yosemite, souvenir (Omaha), and 3-cent, Mount Rainier, | souvenir (Atlantic City). But the last five items in the list | will be sold in complete sheet form | exclusively—not in blocks of four. H. F. Hartwell suggests a mourning stamp for the unfortunates “who had received imperforate sheets and failed ¢ to cash in on them. | Representative Charles D. Millard's request for a list of the persons to whom imperforate sheets were dis- tributed has not yet been granted. Third Assistant Postmaster General Clinton B. Eilenberger, in a letter to Representative James M. Mead. ad- mitted that 98 sheets had been given | away or sold, but he did not specify to whom The imperforate sheet of Mother's | day stamps which caused all the trouble at Norfolk. Va.. originally was presented or sold to Gen. W. W. At- terbury, railroad king. A story in | News-Week for February 16, says it | was given by its first owner to “a family retainer.” i Al Burns, editor, Weekly Philatelic Gossip, writes: “Our guess is as good as yours, but—we would say that President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Interior Ickes must have tipped the balance in the favor of the stamp collectors, or it might well have been | that the Postmaster General feared | further investigation into the affairs | of his official family.” Collectors should understand that attempts to place the blame for the imperforate sheet “scandal” on the Bureau of Engraving and Printing are both unjust and useless. Thei bureau did not circulate any of the | contraband material. On the con- | trary, it merely obeyed the commands of the Post Office Department, honor- ing requisitions from the Third As- | sistant’s office in the regular way. | The following special dispatch is quoted from the New York Herald Tribune: “White Plains, N. Y., Feb- ruary 15—Speakers at the West- chester County Philatelic Society din- | ner here tonight at the Roger Smith Hotel condemned Postmaster General James A. Farley for his gifts of im- | perforate, ungummed sheets of stamps | of certain issues to President Roose- | velt and other philatelist friends high | in the Government. The society ' adopted a resolution extending thanks | to the press in general and the | New York Herald Tribune. The| Washington ~ Star, the Associated Press and Stamps Magazine in particular for their work in correcting | ‘a practice recently started in the | Post Office Department which would | have been inimical to the best inter- ests of the stamp collectors of the | world.” “Representative Charles D. Millard of Tarrytown, ‘Republican, who intro- duced a resolution calling for an in- vestigation of Mr. Farley’s stamp gifts, was a guest speaker at the dinner. | ‘What I did was not politics,’ he said. | “You people were in my district; so I | took up your burden. I charged Jim | Farley with bad ethics, and I am pretty sure that we won’t have this | situation again. d | “‘The President of the United ‘ States has stamps in his possession | today worth $300,000. I notice that of | all those who were given these stamps only Harold Ickes has been willing and has offered to turn back his | sheets of stamps to the Post Office | Department.’ “The soclety voted press membership | to R. A. Barry, stamp editor, New | York Herald Tribune; James Waldo Fawcett, The Washington Evening Star, and Harry L, Lindquist and e UBTAMER: o STAMP ALBUMS Stock Books. Catalogues. New Sets. Single Stamps. Philatelic Supplies. Call and see me. I also BUY Collections. Harry B. Mason, 918 F N.W. Stamps—Coins—Autographs Bought and Sold Hobby Shop 716 17th St. N.W. DIst. 1272 WHITNEY'S STAMP MART e 57 £ e | speak Michael L. Eidsness, jr, of Stamps Magazine.” Eighteen officers of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic have joined in an appeal to the Postmaster | General to authorize a 3-cent Me- morial day stamp in tribute to the soldiers of all wars. They represent the Nation-wide membership of the THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C 'FEBRUARY 24, 1935—PART TWO. If We Kill Foreign Trade 5p, black, and 20c, special delivery, orange-red. Brazil brought out four stamps in honor of the visit of President Terra of Uruguay to Brazilian territory. The values are: 200r, orange; 300r, yel- low; 700r, ultramarine, and 1,000r, purple. Spain has a 15c commemorative in honor of Dona Conception Arenal, so- cial reformer and philanthropist. The subject is the first woman of non- royal status to be portrayed in Span- ish stamp design. Manchoukuo has brought out four | stamps of geometrical and floral de- | signs—2f, yellow green; 4f, olive; 8f, orange buff, and 12f, orange brown. Peru's commemoratives for the Women's Auxiliary of the G. A. R., and | 400th anniversary of the foundirg of Specimens of the four values of a new set of stamps marking the completion of the first metropolitan subway in Moscow, bullt in 18 months and considered a Soviet victory “on the labor front.” view of tunnel construction; scription is: 5k. orange. escalators and network plan: 15k, c green, train at station platform. Only 50,000 sets were printed. The official de- 10k, blue-violet, armine, tunnel and station, and 20k, The series is shown by special arrangement with the Soviet Philatelic Associa- tion, U. S. S. R. —Star Staft Photo. FREDERICK J. ROY, President of the Revenue Service Philatelists, an active member of the Washington Philatelic Society and one of the stamp collectors co- operating toward the success of the American Philatelic Society Con- vention and Exhibition next August. Born at Wells River, Vt., he has been a resident of the District of Columbia since 1917, is a graduate of the Columbus University of Law and an expert on tax problems. Philately is his favorite recreation. He speaks of himself as “a general collector.” but confesses to a pare tiality for the issues of the Danish West Indies. —Star Staff Photo. for their fathers. husbands, brothers and sons. as well as for them- selves, Those signing the petition are: Pearl C. Cooke, national president, Illinois; Gertrude M. Walbridge, na- tional senior vice president, New York; Maybelle S. Nissen. national treasurer, Pennsylvania; Rohrbach, national patriotic instructor, | Kansas, and Theo C. Redfern. national registrar, Rhode Island. Also, Martha J. Van Duzor, Illinois; Ethel M. Irish, Wisconsin; Lillian Clark Cary, Iowa; Cassea Hopper Osborn, Idaho; Clara N. Sawyer, California; Margaret Grandle, Kansas; Josephine Mahar, Missouri; Lida E. Manson, Indiana; Cora M. Rowling, Ohio; Catharine De Lacy Roche, Pennsylvania; Annie M. Michener, New York; Sarah J. Ehr- mann, New York; Emily J. Tompkins, New York, and Helen M. Lehman, New Jersey—all past national presidents of the organization. The project has the support of many | philatelic societies and publications and recently was brought to the per- sonal attention of President Roosevelt. Congressional assistance for the plan likewise has been manifested, and patriotic bodies in all parts of the country have been invited to partici- pate in the request for the stamp’s approval. The Colonial Office, London, has an- nounced that silver jubilee commem- oratives will be issued for 43 colonial territories within the British Empire, They will mark the 25th anniversary of the accession of King George V, and one standard design, showing a view of Windsor and a crowned por trait of the sovereign, will be used throughout. Four values in each in- tegral set are indicated, and the pe- riod of sdle has been specified as May 6 to December 31. Denominations for Antigua, Barba- dos, Bermuda, Dominica, Leeward Is- lands, Montserrat, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Virgin Islands will be 1d, 112d, 2'%d and 1sh; Ja- maica, 1d, 1'2d, 6d and 1 sh; Basuto- land, Bechuanaland, Northern Rho- desia, Swazieland and Union of South Africa, 1d, 2d, 3d and 6d; Falk- land Islands, 1d, 2:d, 4d and 1sh; Nyasaland, 1d, 2d, 3d and 1sh; Sierra Leone, 1d, 3d, 5d and 1sh; Fiji and Nigeria, 12d, 2d, 3¢ and 1sh; Ascen- sion, 112d, 2d, 5d and 1sh; Bahamas, 1%2d, 2%d, 6d and 1sh; St. Helena, 1'2d, 2d, 6d and 1sh; Gambia and Solomon Islands, 1%2d, 3d, 6d and 1sh; Gibraltar and Gold Coast, 2d, 3d, 6d and 1sh; Grenada, ':d, 1d, 1'%d and 1sh; Cayman Islands and Malta, %5d, 2%d, 6d and 1sh; Turks and Caicos Islands, 2d, 3d, 6d and 1sh; Cyprus, %pi, 1%5pi, 2'2pi and 9pi; Trinidad, 2¢, 3¢, 6c and 24c; British Guiana. 2c, 6c, 12¢ and 24c; British Honduras, 3c, 4c, 5¢ and 25c; Seychelles, 6c, 12¢, 20c and Ir; Ceylon, 6c 9c, 20c and 50c; Straits Settlements, 5c, 8c, 12c and 25c, and Kenya and Tanganyika, 20c, 30c, 65c and 1sh. < India probably will have a special series in tribute to the King in his capacity of Emperor. Spanish Morocco announces & new pictorial set, with values as follows: 2c, deep blue green; 4c, yellow green; 25c, scarlet; 1p, slate; 2.50p, sepia; Frances S. | | Lima are described as follows: Reg- ular postage, 2c, brown; 4c. violet; | 10c, rose red; 15¢, ultramarine; 20c, | slate gray: 50c, olive: 1s, greenish blue: 2s, copper brown; airmail, 5c, yellow green; 35c, dark brown; 50c, vellow ochre; 1s, red violet; 2s, red orange; 5s, deep claret, and 10s, in- digo blue. The stamps were placed on sale January 17 and are limited to 40 days’ use. | Elkins, W. Va.. will be added to the AM-25 air route, American Airlines, | between Washington and Cincinnati, March 4. The following post offices are being closed: Meyer. Iowa; Rolf, Nebr.; Utopia, Kans.: Bartlett, N. Y.; Par- adise, N. Dak.. Buttonwood, Nettle Hill and Kellyburg, Pa.: Piedmont, Wash.; Emerson, Il Flat Work, W. Va.; Honeydew, Calif; Nashville, Jowa: Salo, Minn,: Gazley and Suver, Oreg.; Osiris, Utah; Alvis, Va.; Kendall and Pedro, Wyo., all last day, Thursday. Also, Flintside and Orange, Ga, and Bounds, Mo., last day, Friday. ‘The ship shown on several stamps of Bermuda is the Sea Venture, com- manded by Sir George Somers, head of a company formed to settle in Vir- ginia. Blown out of her course by a hurricane, the craft was wrecked on the Bermudan coast and Somers took | possession of his accidental discovery in the name of his sovereign. The incident of the wreck gave William Shakespeare material for “The Tem- pest.” The quotation, “Por Mares Nunca D'Antes Navegados.” on the Geo- graphical Society stamps of Portugal, . is translated: “By Seas Never Be- fore Navigated.” The Scott Stamp & Coin Co. an- | nounces: “Publication of the new Part III, 20th Century International Album, will take place on or about March 25. This album will complete a volume and will be published in a solid bound style, similar to Parts I and II. No information is available at this writ- | ing concerning the price, but it is | anticipated that this will be in keep- | ing with the other volumes of this series “A supplement to the present volume ‘will be issued March 6, retailing for | 85, but, as stated in the January | trade news, this supplement is so | large it will be necessary to purchase {8 new binder. The extra binder, if | wanted, will retail for $2 additional.” The Scott company, it will be re- membered, brought out a loose-leaf al- bum in 1933 which was supposed to | represent & new standard—a book of a | new size, designed to accommodate additional pages to be printed and distributed at regular intervals. Now, in 1935, the extra pages, two years late, will be brought out in a lot— not to complete an existing book, but rather to constitute a separate volume. ‘The third centenary of Lope de | Vega, Spanish poet, will have phila- telic commemoration. “Munich and Leipzig,” says Elmer C. Pratt in the Camden, N. J., Courier- Post, “are absorbing hundreds of dam- aged stamps of high value. After being most wonderfully repaired by high- class experts they are put back in the market and often fool the most expert | collectors.” The forty-first annual convention of the Society of Philatelic Americans will be held at St. Louls August 22-24. | Delf Norona, 1002 Fifth street, | Moundsville, W. Va., announces the | early publication of a general cata- |log of United States postmarks. | Cancellations included will be classi- fied alphabetically, and the table of contents also specifies airmail, Con- federate and other special markings. The edition will be limited to 1,500 copies, selling at $1 each. Any profits, it is understood, will go to the Ameri- can Philatelic Society. A notable cohtribution to the grow- ing literature of current philately is an article, “Mr. Farley’s Stamp Act.” by Dan F. Taylor, San Diego, in the New Republic for February 20. Mead Johnston recently has added to his collection of naval covers many examples of the postal markings of the Pacific cruise of the United States Fleet. The Washington Stamp Club of the Air will have a broadcast meeting from Station WOL, Tuesday evening at 6:45. Albert F. Kunze, leader, will have an important announcement. The Collectors’ Club, branch 5, So- siety of Philatelic Americans, will meet at the Thomson School, Twelfth street, Tuesday evening at 8. Dr. Field will discuss the stamps of Greece. Visitors welcome. ‘The Washington Philatelic Society will meet at the Hotel Carlton, Six- teenth street, at 8. Members of the Collectors’ Club will be the guests of the evening, but the general public also is invited. J. H. Jenkins’ auction at last week's meeting was a pronounced success—at least from the bidders’ point of view. The quality of material sold was ex- cellent, and Mr. Jenkins, ly presiding, gave the crowd every possi- ble consideratiom _ 3 [} ; Rose Siding and | (Continued From First Page.) with all of us depending on our home market? In the first place, we could not do this if we wanted to. In the second place, it would be a four-base eco- nomic error if we could do it. And in the third place, we would probably end up in a large war if we tried it. The notion that we can put this country back to the economic position of England in the year 1100 is fan- tastic, but it is possible for Con- gress to attempt it. Nor does it seem likely that the present Congress will be governed by the economic merits of the case. The “little America” movement will be stopped before it goes far by the pressure of business interests that face ruin if it is trans- lated into law. ‘The background for this movement is found in the World War. The war left the natlons of Europe bankrupt. Thelr lands were ravished, their cap- jtal eaten out, their resources dissi- pated, their gold currency vanished, their man power reduced. It left in all of them a heritage of debt, hate, disappointment and economic jeal- ousy. They all adopted a blind and snarling nationalism. The United States was fat with war profits, rich with war gold. Our eco- nomic equipment had been enor- mously expanded. We demanded re- payment of war loans and refused to accept goods in payment. We pro- ceeded to lend recklessly to these stricken nations, to enable them to continue to buy the output of our expanded equipment and our over- priced farms. At home this developed a mad fever of speculation and over- valuation of assets. In Europe it de- veloped inflation and insolvency. When these unsavory ingredients were thoroughly mixed a world depression was the outcome. All Trade Stagnated. It was not foreign trade that caused the depression. It was the war, as- sisted by an ill-balance of trade due to restrictions. Nor was it the com- petition of foreign nations Qun prostrated our agriculture. ~Foreign peoples have been hungry all through the depression. It was not the com- petition of other countries that ruined England’s export trade. The other nations could not sell either. It was the paralysis of depression that brought economic stagnation to all trade and all nations. : ; But practically all of them in their distress turned to regimentation of their domestic economy and artificial efforts to create international advan- tage. England, whose greatness de- rived from her free trade. set up a protective tariff which will eventually, if she persists, make her a little Eng- land, her history one with that of the once mighty Spain and Holland. France adopted a tariff policy that gor petty but harmful interference with trade rivaled the tariff restrictions of the Middle Ages. Italy embarked on a domestic agricultural program that undoubtedly hurt her normal export business. We in this country first passed the ruinous Smoot-Hawley tar- iff, then adopted a vast agricultural restriction and finally tried currency depreciation. ‘The depression dragged on, each naion following the fatuous theory that it could benefit by spiting the other fellow and all of them sinking deeper into the mire. In the Summer of 1933 there was a still-born plan for a return to sanity. It was the World Economic Conference. There was never much hope of a common agree- ment on trade. But there was one practicable program for world recov- ery. That was through a currency stabilization agreement. But the United States repudiated this one hope of speedy recovery. We wanted to have our fling at currency manipula- tion. Those lamp globes from Japan had terrified our statesmen. We have had our fling, and a year and a half later our foreign trade is still dead. All we have is a proof of what all economists already knew, that you cannot create prosperity by juggling the currency. Part of Nationalism. This is the background of our self- contained American movement. It is a part of that unhappy and baleful aationalism which has so long retarded world recovery, which has been seized upon by dictators, politicians and spe- cial interests in a dozen countries and made to serve their ends. After ca- lamitous experience with interference with natural international trade rela- tions, we are urged to accept a final nostrum in the form of complete abo- lition of normal trade with other coun- tries. The very economic troubles due to unnatural obstructions to normal trade are now represented as due to the trade itself. We are asked to abandon foreign trade, stop foreign investment and become ‘“self-suffi- cient.” We are to stop the enormous export“flow of cotton, wheat, tobacco, machinery, automobiles, typewriters, cloth, meats, copper, oils and all the rest. We are to do without rubber, linen, paper, tin, nickel, manganese, mercury, platinum, tungsten, chro- mium, and many other indispensable materials. We are to give up coffee, tea, sugar, chocolates, bananas, cocoa- nuts, olives, tropical fruits, cigars, quinine and a thousand other basic materials of our daily life. This Nation cannot become an eco- nomic hermit. The hands of time cannot be set back. For good or ill the nations of the world are knit together by ties that cannot be broken. The head hunters of Borneo are a self-contained people, and they are doomed to extinction. Since the dawn of man’s history trade and contact among peoples have been the meas- | ure of the progress of mankind. More than 2,000 years ago the hardy Phoe- nicians built a levantine civilization on their trips to Britain—for tin. The trade routes of medieval times were the high roads to the development of the world’s civilization. Basis of Civilization. In an age when all meats spoiled for lack of refrigeration the search for spices discovered America, and built the British Empire.. With the coming | of steam and steel, the railway and | the steamship, the commercial co-op- eration of nations became the basis of civilization. The United States has reached a certain inevitable stage in its eco- nomic development. When a nation grows out of a crude agricultural economy into a higher-culture, high-' er-living standard industrial economy immutable economic laws begin to operate. For its continued growth it must draw upon the raw materials produced by less advanced and less thickly settled territories. Its mil- lions of city workers cannot live by selling the product of its industries to a declining agricultural group, any more than the proverbial town popu- lation can live by taking in one another’s washing. ' As it becomes in- creasingly industrial it becomes a ereditor nation, acquiring by loans and investments abroad an increas- ing ‘supply of raw materials. This country has recently reached this stage. It has become capitalistic, industrial, urban. To reverse this process is impossible. That is the reason the back-to-the-land move- ment is so painfully and so obviously foolish. national dilemma, with America at the cross-roads. On the one hand, | this country can abandon cotton and wheat exports, cut production in agri- culture, withdraw 50,000,000 acres and keep our foreign products. On the other hand, we can lower tariff walls, admit foreign products and thereby create an export market for our farm products. All that Mr. Wallace writes reveals his sympathy with the latter plan, his realization that our farm restriction program can be defended only on the grounds of emergency. Actually there is no dilemma. There |is no cross-roads. We have endured a severe depression, as a result of which export markets everywhere have collapsed. Both industry and agriculture have suffered intensely. With the return of normal conditions both domestic and foreign trade will revive. Even with the tariff walls we have now, foreign trade will flourish. The sorry episode of restric- tion and subsidies to agriculture will be something for historians to explain | and apologize for. There is much talk about America’s economic independence. Assume that in some way this country could be persuaded to undertake the damming | of all international trade. We hear that synthetic chemistry can solve all | our problems. Apparently we can | have steel without manganese, tools | without nickel, shoes without leather, automobiles without rubber, lamps without tungsten, thermometers with- | out mercury, linen without flax, rope without hemp, paper without spruce, | pencils without graphite, pens without | iridium, breakfast without coffee. | What for? Is it a home market? Have we mnot seen since 1929 just | what a wretched life our farmers | lead when they depend on the indus-; | trial home market and just how in- dustry sickens when it depends on | the farm market? Is there anybody | not interested in a special tariff who is willing to continue this existing home market economy? Standard Would Decline. Assume not only that we can estab- lish this medieval isolation. but also that we can manage to exist under |it a while before outraged owners of | productive land and equipment de- | stroy the whole system. What would | we get from it? Nothing but economic | loss and a reduced standard of living. Left alone, the trade of the world | weaves a giant economic web over all the earth, joining the nations in an economic co-operation that yields the | highest returns to all. It leads to the | maximum use of the world’s resources and to the greatest economy. Of course, we can, for a time, supply all our needs for copper. But marginal costs set prices in this hard world. To get more copper from domestic mines we go deeper for poorer ores, and the marginal costs increase cruelly. Any proposal to increase marginal costs of the domestic supply when there are in other parts of the world cheaply mined surface ores is economic treas- on. We cannot, in this country, grow sufficient meat, leather and wool, on our limited acres. We let the Argen- |tine grow the leather and Australia and Argentina the wool, and sell them machinery. The little America prop- agandists actually make the suicidal proposal that we bar out the vast sup- plies of Canadian lumber and exhaust our own limited forests, increasing soil erosion and flood loss and ending up helplessly dependent on other countries. Thrive on Competition. When we look deeper into the eco- nomics of nationalism we see strange and forbidding social forces. Our economic order is maintained by competition. of competition. to fascism or communism. In the | case of many of our major industries foreign competition is the only re- straint on monopoly. the one major preventive of monopoly control. It is generally recognized by economists that industries protected against for- eign competition by law are the most monopolistic, the least efficient, and the least profitable. A little America policy would be the greatest force | for the promotion of monopoly, Gov- | ernment regimentation and socialism | that could be devised. The advocates of this policy are playing with ex- plosives that they themselves do not | even recognize. Finally, the whole philosophy of | economic nationalism is militaristic. It leads not to isolation and peace, | but to rivalry and war. Germany ! spent 40 years making herself “self- contained.” When she achieved “in- dependence” in steel, sugar, explosives and chemicals (especially nitrate and glycerine), she went to war. She was defeated and dismembered by na- tions that never heard of the policy of self-containment. World peace is the | world's greatest objective. Its best | present hope of attainment lies in an extension of the world's economic web, until the united nations will | refuse to have its strands torn apart by economic covetousness and nation- | alistic imperialism. The greatest | enemy of world peace today is the | nationalism that preaches isolation |and practices currency manipulation, tariff trickery, artificial restriction of | production and subsidies to domestic | incompetents. i —_— l HISTORIC TRACT SOLD FOR U. S. GAME REFUGE | 8675,000 Check Completes Deal for 65,000-Acre “P” Ranch, in Harney County, Oreg. By the Associated Press. | PORTLAND, Oreg., February 23.— | The sale of the historic “P” Ranch, | 65.000-acre cattle barony in Harney County, for use as a Federal game | refuge, has been announced by Carl C. Donaugh, United States attorney. | He turned over a check for $675,000 to | the Eastern Oregon Live Stock Co. to complete the transfer. Peter French fought the wilderness and Indians and battled hostile ranchers to carve out his vast holdings in “Donner und Blitzen” Valley and es- tablished the “P” Ranch in 1870. After French’s death the ranch, stretching 70 miles from Malheur Lake to the foothills of Stein Moun- tain, passed into the hands of several land development companies. If your feet hurt, don’t guess as tothe cause. Let our {oot Co:lnfon : Expert determine it for nciepr:tificall by the mm Dr. Scholl Foot Test. It costs Dr. Scholl's Foot Comfort Dept. Fourth Floor. ¥ Mr. Henry Wallace, our Secretary of Agriculture, has pictured for us & I Monopoly is the death | It leads remorselessly | HIBERNIANS PLAN ST. PATRICK FEAST Celebration to Be Marked by Sol- emn High Mass in Crypt of National Shrine. Plans for the celebration of the feast day of 8t. Patrick, patron of Ireland, next month are being made by committees of the Ancient Order SEE THE of Hibernians and the order's Ladies Auxiliary. Patrick H. O'Dea is in general charge of preparations for the event. Officials of the local chapter of the Hibernians expect to make the ‘Washington observance of the feast one of the most impressive in the country. This year the feast day, March 17, fals on Sunday and will be observed with a solemn high mass in the crypt of the National Shrine of the Im- maculate Conception, on the Catholic University campus, at 10 am. This will be followed at 8 o'clock in the Patrick’s Church, Tenth and G streets northwest. On Monday, March 18, a banquet, followed by dancing, will be heid in the main ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel. The banquet will begin at 7:30 o'clock. Several committees have been appointed to arrange detalls. Shaw to Visit U. 8. NEW YORK, February 23 (#).— George Bernard Shaw plans another visit to the United States, George Syl- vester Vierick, the author, said upon his return from a European tour. While in London Vierick visited the evening by vesper services in St. NEW playwright. 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