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BY JAMES WALDO FAW"CE"- The collectors’ edition of Post- master General Farley's gift sheets | of stamps went on sale Friday and | proved a disappointment to the Pphilatelic 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 1-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 & 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 wailted 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 T 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, N. Y. Horace M. Grant, Providence, R. I, bought approximately $12,000 v.orth of assorted issues. There was mo ceremony in connec- tion with the sale. 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. Arrangcments 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. “The true value of the 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. Al 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 for 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 Sifam. 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 Saladin, 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 ennounced that an exhibition of books and manuscripts relating to Mai- monidies will be held at the Library beginning Monday, Czechoslovakia announces com- memorative stamps for the 85th Dbirthday anniversary of President Masaryk. San Marino has new set of seven values to commemorate the founding of the national Fascist movement. BRITISH TURKISLANDS. Also Congo’s. Monte Carlo. Niger Coast, Usanda. Dii- Coast. Ubansi collectors need. FREE for 5e EMPIRE STAMP CO., Dept. W. CANADA. . STAMP ALBUMS Btock Books. Catalogues. New Sets, Single Stamps. Philatelic Supplies Cal) and see me. 1 also BUY Collections Harry B. Mason, 918 F N.W. T SPEGIAL ENVELOFES FOR ! WHITNEY'S STAMP MART __1107 Pa. Ave.. Next to Star gn;u. St ins—Aut s ump.—C::‘nm l‘d :;rnp Hobby 5 716 17th St. N.W. DIst. llfl Mr. Farley was | | their stamps.” EDWIN W. BEITZELL, Librarian of the Washington Ph 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 snd includes the scientific catalog- ing of the W. P. S. Library. He also is & member of the American Airmail Society and the Washington Airmail Society, —Star Staff Photo. Denominations are lised 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 biue and black. The design is scenic in character. Guatemala is planning a series of 12 stamps in tribute to the memory of Gen. Justo Rufino 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—Fraulein 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 Parliamento 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, & staue of Cervantes, the Par- liament House and the National Li- | brarg—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. Bloss, writing in the Los Angeles Times, says: “Almost every 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. Hungary pictures the “Madonna and Child” on several stamps. Italy pic- tures Christ among His disciples in the 1923 issue. Palestine pictures Rachel's Tomb and the Sea of Galilee. | “The sun, the god of the lncu,‘ 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 us Pondicherry. Stamps of various In- dian native states feature many sub- jects dealing with the various re- ligious sects of that great land, in- cluding such odd pictures as that of Ganesh, the elephant-headed god. “Religious symbols such as the Yin-yang of China, the Chakr of Siam, 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 On May 6, 1940, the centenary of the postage stamp will be celebrated. Regarding its first appe: Douglas B, Armstrong has sald postal 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 prepald postal charges, so that bookkeeping might be reduced to & 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 fait accompli.’ Although more than 2700 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 great 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 & considerable period. Although there have been many claiments to the title, there are few nowadays who are to dispute the right of Rowland Hill to be regarded as the inventor of the adhesive postage label.” British collectors already are plan- | ning centenary ceremonies, and American collectors also should be mindful of the possibilities of the occasion. ‘The Smithsonian Institution re- ceived custody of the Post Office De- H, Hitchcock, 1 Final transfer took place February 11, 1913, It is announced that the Graf Zep- pelin has completed 423 m"‘t' in- |face away. countries. French India stamps show | Brahma and a mosque near |y " | mustn’t break down. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 17, 1935—PART TWO. cluding 90 ocean crossings. The ship has carried 27,700 passengers and 5,500,000 pieces of mail. Wilds Dubose says: “Try to use ingenuity and natural creative ability when you lay out your album pages. ‘Make them not only neat and attrac- tive, but a real expression of your own love of beauty.” Cosme Hinojosa, 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 listed 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 t of arms of the Grand Duke St. Viadimir 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 P: 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- fled. 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 1936 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 Dlace 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; E. B. McPherson, Santa Cruz, Callf 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 flectedi & member of the American Philatelic Society 1935 Convention Committee. | Philip Simms Warren conducted | the Madonna Stamp Club of the Sa- | cred Heart Convent School through the philatelic division of 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 F. 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 Fusfeld, Stuart Junior; Melvin Leder, Central; Billy Stevens, John Quincy Adams; Willlam Clark, Paul Junior; Mollle Lewis, Marvin Schwartz and Robert Bilsborough, Roosevelt High, and Charles C. Guil- ford and David Fegan, 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. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va, March 16—If Congress agreed to drop all of 286 N. R. A. codes recommended to be daropped 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 officer, estimated today. The majority of the codes recom- | mended by Richberg to be dropped do not affect Virginia, Dr. Corson said. It is probable, he said, that if these codes are dropped the firms | cperating 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 the total to 550. DAILY SHORT STORY- BLIND T O LOVE The Accident and Her Scarred Face Did Not Appall Her as Much as the Loss of Tony's Affection. BY FRANK KERN LEVIN, LSIE'S doctor was & very practical man, and so when she had asked for a mirror when the | bandages were re- moved from her face he gave it to her. “Oh, how ter- rible!” Elsle cried and turned her It wes 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 her face was rred — yellow, and red, and hor- Then there was the accident. commanded doctor. He had iron-gray hair and small gray eyes. “T can't!” 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 l.hl.s?; Look, the scar from my eye—oh, I'm | grotesque!” | “It isn't bad, mot mearly so bad| as you think. You musn’t give in, you 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, she 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 see them. I'll send them in." There was no sense in trying to protest, and & few minutes later Betty came in. There were two other girls from the office with her, and one of the salesmen. Each one of them car- ried flowers or & box of candy, and each smiled. “They look as though it makes them happy to see me ill,” Elsie thought as she looked at the smiles on their faces. She knew that wasn't true; she knew their coming 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 Il at east. Betty be- gan to talk very loudly. “One little accident could never finish off & tough bird like you” | laughed Betty. “But, say, Tony must have been going 60 miles an hour And | Olah Maude Abbott, is a Tony had been going about 60 miles an hour when the car had crashed. They had quarreled violently, and he was angry, and he wanted to get her home. She had sat with her lips quivering as he sped through the dark, slippery streets. They had quarreled as they had the two or three times before. 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 understand. Tony had seemed to be so terribly 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 sald. “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. 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's 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, Elsle. The accident took away 'n):‘;'a sight 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. Don't let any one tell him until I see him. Let me be the first to tell him,” Elsie said. (Copyrigkt. 1935 Tomorrow — “White Magic,” b ¢ by of the deep South and a planter who knew the peychology of his serv- A Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things in the ‘ Nation’s Capital. H HOLE-TEARER. SUALLY there is some man in the House of Representatives who is 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 Prederick 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 service 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. sk CHARACTER CAMEO. VERY 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 of pennies with all the aplomb of a Wall Street bond trans- action. * x & % MIDNIGHT CACOPHONY. T 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. Lights 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 S e O THE PAST AT OUR DOOR. YMBOLS are older than words. When men couldn't or wouldn't take the time to read. they knew: A red and white striped pole meant | & barber shop. It still does. | Red and green globes in a window I 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 shcp 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!, inches of wood 15 just so much gold to the shopkeeper, who looks upon it as his prized hefr- loom. * K ok x Z0OO BOARDERS. ROM 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. i 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, & 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. Willilam A. Mann, director of the ex- clusive animal hostelry. * % X X BORN OF AN ILL WIND. OME hard times. Waste collectors and ashmen complain: “What's 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 coats and underclothing?” ‘What has happened? In many cases new industry is 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 es a sideline. Uncle Mortimer holds on to those old shoes now. Note also 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 Gus Barry fell and the infuriated animal raced ovér the lad without.in- juring him. A SCHOOL RETIREMENT PROGRAM STRESSED ‘| Teachers Are Urged to Fight for Adequate Set-up in Virginia. By 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. 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