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McCormick messenger. McCormjck. s. c.. Thursday, December 29, isss VJnele Sam Starts a New Year With a New “Presidential Series" of Postage Stamps By ELMO SCOTT WATSON UNITED STATES mm POSTAGE 1 CENT 1 ® Western Newspaper Union. F OR SALE: Beautiful steel-engraved portraits of every President of the United ' States, from Washington to Coolidge, at prices ranging from 1 cent to $5. Some of these have never before been reproduced in this form nor offered to the public at this price. Send in your order today or apply in person to UNCLE SAM That is a notice which your Uncle Samuel might well tack up in every one of his 45,000-odd post offices throughout the country at the beginning of the New Year. For it’s literally true that he will have for sale at that time a com plete set of these “beautiful steel - engraved portraits of our Presidents.” These portraits are to be found on the new “Presidential series” of postage stamps which the Post Office de partment has been issuing during the past year. The last in the series— the 24-cent Ben jamin Harrison stamp, the 25- c e n t William McKinley, the 30-cent Theodore Roosevelt and the 50-cent William Howard Taft—were placed on “first-day sales” in the post of- fice in the na tional capital this month and by the first of the year all of the stamps in the series will be available in every post of fice throughout the United States. It’s also literally true that some of these “portraits” have “never before been reproduced in this form.” Up un til the time this STATES UNITED it 3 CENTS 3 umm STATES j % mrm ' t' S' 7 ** , •• v\ >&? 4 CENTS 4 new senes was issued, twelve of our Presi dents have been denied the hon or of having their portraits on our postage stamps. They were. John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Millard Fill more, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, An drew Johnson, Chester Alan Arthur and Cal vin Coolidge. All of the oth ers — George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Ruther ford B. Hayes, James A. Gar field, Grover Cleveland, Ben jamin Harrison, William McKin ley, Theodore Roosevelt, Wil liam Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson and War ren G. Harding—had appeared on stamp issues at one time or an other. The same was true of such statesmen a s Alexander Hamilton, Hen ry Clay, Daniel Webster, Wil liam H. Seward, John Marshal, Robert Living ston, and Ed win M. Stanton; such military and naval heroes as Winfield Scott, Oliver Hazard Perry, William Tecumseh Sher man, David G. Farragut, and Nathan Hale; and such his torical figures as Christopher Columbus, Bal boa, Capt. John Smith and John Ericson. But these 12 Presi dents were “for gotten men” so far as their por traits on stamps was concerned. The same expanding postal needs which had brought promi- nent Americans TTATB fmmt \\ STAW i 4 mrm i into our stamp gallery in past years made it necessary t o find some more Americans worthy of this honor. So early this year Post master General Farley announced that there was to be a general revision of our stamp issues, ar ranging the Presidents in their Ar V . >:*> k v*o-<<4v>v chronological order. In addition to the 29 former Presidents thus honored (there is another, of course — Herbert Hoover—but he is ineligible for a place in the stamp gallery so long as he is living) two other nota bles, not Presi dents, are re tained in the 5TATB ^ * 10 CENTS 10 mm 12 CENTS 12 mm statb 13 CENTS 13 new series. They are Ben jamin Franklin, father of the American post al system, and Martha Wash ington, the first woman whose portrait appeared on one of our stamps. In fact, the new series begins v%th these two. Franklin, who has always appeared on the one-cent stamp is now on the one-half cent is sue instead of Nathan Hale and Martha Washington re places Warren G. Harding on the one and one- half cent stamp. There is also a 4%-cent stamp which shows the White House, the home of our Presidents. Arranging the Presidents chronologically has resulted in some noticeable shifts. Washing ton’s likeness has been on both the two- cent and the three-cent stamps in past years. He will now appear only on the one-cent, replacing Benjamin Franklin, and yielding his place on the red two-center to John Adams and on th^ pur ple three-center to Thomas Jef ferson. Since Americans spend more than $500,000,- 000 for postage every year and nearly half of this sum goes for two-cent and three-cent stamps, it’s likely that they are going to be more famil iar with the looks of their second and third Presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, than they have ever been before. It is to be hoped that Millard Fillmore was not a superstitious man, else it might have given him some uncomfortable mo ments if he could have fore seen that his portrait would appear on the 13-cent stamp! It will be no ticed that there is no 23-cent stamp. That’s not because of any superstition in regard to that number or any desire to avoid perpetuation of the “23-skiddoo!” tradition. Grov er Cleveland, who appears on the 22-c e n t stamp, served two terms in the White House but they were not consecutive. He was defeat ed by Benjam in Harrison who served one, then “staged a come-back” and was elected for another four-year term. So it seemed the logical thing to place his portrait with the dates of his two terms on the 22-c e n t stamp and place Harrison on the 24-cent issue. In additidh to being the year of the new “Presidential Series” of stamps, 1938 has been a nota ble one for the number of “com- memoratives” that have been is sued. Whether 1939 will be equally rich in these remind ers of our past remains to be seen. Outstand ing among the 1938 “commem- oratives” were: **** The three-cent Constitution stamp issued in connection with the 150th anniversary of the ratifica tion of the United States Constitu tion by the umwo sum mrm ^ - SV ' 16 CENTS 16 STATES: POSTAGE states. It was first placed on sale at ♦he Phil adelphia post office on June 21. The three- cent Delaware stamp com memorating the 300th anniversary of the landing of the first Swedish and Finnish colonists in this country. It was first placed on sale at Wilming ton, Del., on June 27. The three-cent Northwest Terri- 19 CENTS 19 torv Sesquicentennial stamp com memorating the 150th anniversary of the establishment of civil gov ernment in the Northwest Terri tory under the Ordinance of 1787. It had its “first sales” at Mariet ta, Ohio, on July 15. The three- > $ mm® STATES mm® im 20cmm 20 Moines on Au- STAlU: 21 CENTS 21 UNITED "rm STATES AHMmi v’t 22 cents 22 cent Iowa Ter ritorial Centen nial stamp, commemorat ing the estab lishment of the territory of Iowa in 1838. It was first placed on sale at Des gust 24. The Post Office department has announced four commemorative stamps as a part of the 1939 stamp program. All are of three- cent denomina tion. The first to be issued will be in honor of the Golden Gate In ternational exposition in San Francisco and will be released there February 18. Two stamps are scheduled for April 30, one commemorat ing the 150th an niversary o f George Wash ington’s taking the oath of of fice as first President at Federal Hall in New York city, April 30, 1789, and the other will be for the New York World’s Fair 1939. The Washington inaugural stamp will be placed on first- day sale in New York but the point of release of the World’s Fair stamp has not been de termined. The fourth stamp will commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening of the Panama canal. It will be issued August 15 at a first-day sale point to be an nounced. The year 1937 was also rich in special stamp issues. Out standing among them were the “Army -Navy series” of one, two, three, four and five-cent stamps. These stamps were oblong in shape and, in addition to the portraits of military and naval heroes shown in ovals at the right and left, they con tained in a mid dle panel a view of some patri otic shrine or some historic American scene. The one-cent army stamp bore a view of Mount Vernon, home of Washington, in the center, flanked by portraits of Washington and Gen. Nathanael Greene of Revo lutionary war fame. The one- cent navy stamp showed por traits of John Paul Jones, commander of the “Bon Homme Richard,” and John Barry, com mander of the “Lexington,” our two outstanding sea captains dur ing the Revolu tion. Between them was a pic ture of typical warships of that period. The two-cent army stamp 1^*1 Andrew Jackson and Gen. Winfield Scott with a view of Jackson’s home, the Hermitage, near Nashville, Tenn., in the cen- cent navy stamp STSSfff pictured Com- : ^ -■•-'•1 modore Stephen Decatur, hero of the War with the Barbary Pi rates, and Com modore Thomas MacDonough, hero of the Battle of Lake Champlain. The three-cent army stamps pictured the Union generals, Sherman, Grant and Admirals David G. Farragut and David Por ter. The four-cent army stamp honored Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. “Stonewall” Jackson of the Confederate army and the navy stamp depicted Admirals Sampson, Dewey and Schley, of the Spanish-American war. k *S I v m\rm STATES ' Jm WSVM .fj ; (iCENTS 1 Only four women have had the distinction of having their por traits appear on our postage stamps. Since Martha Washing ton was the first “First Lady of the Land,” it was fitting that she should be the first woman to be thus honored. She also has the distinction o f being the only woman whose portrait con tinues to appear on our postage —it is on the one and o n e-h a 1 f cent stamp in the new series. The other three women who share the honor with Martha Washington are: Isabella, queen of Spain, patron of Columbus. In the first com memorative stamp series ever is sued by the Post Office depart ment—the Columbian Exposition set of 1893—one of the stamps re produced the familiar picture of Isabella pledging her jewels to aid the Italian navigator. Pocahontas, the Indian “prin cess” who saved the life of Capt. John Smith and later married John I\plfe, a Virginia planter. Her portrait appeared on a stamp in the Jamestown commemora tive series of 1907. Molly Pitcher, the heroine of the Battle of Monmouth in the Revolution. A picture showing her serving a cannon, after her ar tilleryman husband had been dis abled, appeared on a stamp in 1928 commemorating the sesqui centennial of the Battle of Mon mouth. Incidentally, there are six wom en in the United States who can send personal letters through the mails without paying postage on them—something which not even the President of the Unit ed States nor members of his household can do. They are the widows of six of our Presidents— Mrs. Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston, Mrs. Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison, Mrs. Edith Kermit Carew Roosevelt, Mrs. Helen Herron Taft, Mrs. Edith TO STATES POSTA J | J #2 CENTS 4 Bolling Galt Wilson, and Mrs. Grace Goodhue Coolidge—all of .whom enjoy a special franking privilege. In the first year of the 19th cen tury, congress granted such privi lege to Martha Washington, then a widow. This frank was to last until her death, and Mrs. Wash ington used it for but one month over two years, when she died. Letters with her signature on the outside, instead of the usual post age, are rare, despite the fact that Mrs. Washington had a wide acquaintance. The “charming Dolly Madison” was the second widow of a Presi dent to receive this special frank. She wrote the word “free,” and most of the later privileges fol lowed her example. Anna Harrison, wife of the short-lived President William Henry Harrison, used her frank for 23 years; Louisa Catherine Adams,'wife of John Quincy Ad ams, four years. Sarah Polk used her frank the longest of any Presi dent’s widow, 41 years and seven months. Mary Lincoln used her frank for 16 years and five months, but because of the demand for Lincolnian specimens are very difficult to procure. Lucretia Randolph Garfield en joyed her frank the second long est, 26 years and two months. Julia Dent Grant used her privi lege for 16 years and 10 months. Frances F. Cleveland Preston received her frank in 1909 and is still using it. When she married Mr. Preston in 1914, the postmas ter general informed her that as the frank was for lifetime use, she could continue the privilege, merely adding Preston to the name. Mary Lord Harrison, wife of Benjamin Harrison, received her frank the same day as Mrs. Cleveland. Mrs. Harrison was not actually a “First Lady of the Land”; she married President Harrison four years after he had left the White House. She is still living and using her frank. One of the most common speci mens to be found in the mail is that of Edith Carew Roosevelt, who has made much use of her privilege. Mrs. Harding had the shortest use of her frank, 10 months, lack ing three days. Mrs. Wilson received the frank ing privilege several weeks after Mrs. Harding received hers, al though she had preceeded the lat ter in occupying the Executive Mansion. Mrs. Wilson is the only one of the Presidents’ widows to use a facsimile, which she does to the disappointment of the col- 'ectorm. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S UNDAYI chool Lesson By HAKOLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D. Dean of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. ® Western Newspaper Union. Lesson for January 1 Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se lected and copyrighted by International Council of Religious Education; used by permission. PETER CALLED TO SERVE LESSON TEXT—John 1:40-42; Luke 5:1-11. GOLDEN TEXT—Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.— Mark 1:17. As we embark on the New Year, we gather in our Bible schools to take up an interesting series of studies on the life and work of Peter. The life story of any great and useful man is worthy of our careful study. The life of Peter has peculiar interest because he was so intensely human, and yet so glori ously used of God. Our lesson for today starts at the right point, for we meet Peter when he as Simon first met the Lord. He was a mature man by that time, successful in business and “settled” in life, but with him (as with us) life did not really begin until he met the Lord Jesus. ' I. He Was Brought to Christ (John 1:40-42). Andrew, of whom we know but little, is a character greatly beloved because having found the Christ he at once set out to bring his brother to Him. He probably did not know that in bringing his rough fisherman brother to the Lord he was bringing one of the leaders of all time. The important thing is that he brought him. The history of the Church abounds with the stories of humble men and women who have been used to win others to Christ, who have in turn been greatly used for Him. Think of the humble man who led Spur geon to Christ, the Sunday School teacher who dealt with Moody, the simple but earnest Moravians who won Wesley—and be encouraged. You may have someone near you who may be awaiting your word to bring him to Jesus. II. He Was Given a New Name (John 1:42). Simon, meaning “to hear,” is changed to Peter, which means “rock.” The blessed Lord who in His omniscience knew what the change in Peter’s heart was to mean in his life, gave him a new name to fit his new character. What a blessed truth it is that God in Christ can and will take the blus tering fisherman and transform all of his good qualities into power and usefulness for Himself. Thus God who knows just what we ’ are is ready and willing to make us what we ought to be in Christ. Have you gone through the experience of hav ing Christ say: “Thou art . . . thou shalt be?” It may mean that you have passed through or will pass through the pressing experiences which are needed to weld together your characteristics into a “rock,” but if it is God’s hand that makes the change you will find it to be all joy. HI. His Occupation Was Changed (Luke 5:1-11). Christ had chosen Peter as one of those who should forsake all and fol low Him, as one of his disciples in the inner circle of the Twelve. Note how graciously He carries out His purpose. One day as He stands to teach on the shore of the sea of Galilee the crowd presses Him, and He steps into a boat and asks the boatman to put out from the land. And it “just happened” to be the boat of Simon, who had about a year before met the Lord and re ceived the new name of Peter. Such things do not “happen.” The destinies of men are in the hands of God. The day and hour for Peter’s call had come, and here he was to be taught by Jesus through a miraculous draught "of fish that he was to be a fisher of men. God’s clock always runs on time. Remem ber that, and also be assured that if you are His child not even the simplest “happening” in your life is unknown to Him. He who num bers the hairs on our heads. He who observes the fall of a sparrow, is not lacking in loving interest and care for His children. Had our lesson been deliberately chosen for a New Year’s message it could hardly have been more ap propriate. To the one who knows not Christ as Saviour there is an invitation to begin the New Year by coming to Him. To the Christian there is the admonition to do as Andrew did—bring your brother or friend to Christ. We are not all called to leave our daily work and become full-time Christian workers, but every believer should be a soul- winner. To the one who has heard the call of God to leave his nets and follow the Lord in full-time service, here is the urgent renew ing of that call. Step out in faith now and follow Him. To the church or religious worker discouraged by the failure of a social or ethical program here is the lesson and ex ample of a life changed by personal contact with the Lord Jesus. The New Year may be blessed and fruit ful indeed, if we each one heed the lesson of the day. Human Nature When wo are most filled with heavenly love, and only then, are we best fitted to bear with human infirmity, to live above it, and for get its burden.—Maria Hare. CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT KODAK FILM FINISHING Any Size Roll Developed With 8 Good Prints .... Dsvsloped with 8 Enlargements ENLARGO. Box 57, Salt Lake, Utah Jiffy-Knit Jacket and Coverlet for the Baby Pattern 6188. 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