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...United States Government as an art of international importance. Mr. Glover, the Third Assistant Postmaster General, is even now en route to England with an official exhibit of the various issues which this country has printed. He will enter this display, arranged in the form of a gigantic shield, in the International Stamp Exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Hall, London; and it is expected that the American shield will surpass the exhibit of any other nation in beauty and value. President Harding himself has described it as "an exhibit worthy of so great a country...
...whereas kingdoms or empires can only issue new stamps when the ruling monarch dies. But now the custom is becoming prevalent of using landscape designs, and Europe is on a par with America. If the present exhibit is successful, a new international rivalry may be created. But the stamp shield is likely to produce still wider effects. Certain artistic collectors already use postage stamps for wall paper: and the chance for the working out of large fancy designs seems unlimited. Stamp collectors even copy the example of a German couple, who used currency to make suits of clothes save that...
...Halls. Following the meet at dinner, the prizes will be awarded to the winning individuals, and to the team which gathers the highest point total. Medals will be given to the place winners in each of the events which will be contested, while the victorious school will receive a shield for permanent possession, and a cup, which it holds during the year of its championship, and then must defend in the next meeting...
Saturday afternoon at 1.30 o'clock the thirty-eighth annual H. A. A. interscholastic track meet will be held in the Stadium. Twenty schools, with more than 250 competitors, are entered in the various events. The Athletic Association will entertain the visitors at luncheon and dinner, the shield and cup being presented to the victorious team at the latter time. The shield becomes the permanent possession of the winning team, but the cup, which was donated by the University undergraduates in 1910, is held for one year by the winning school, and is then put up again for competition...
Hugo Stinnes would probably agree with very little of this. He would almost certainly deny that his patriotism is only a shield to his own ambitions. He might be right. Coke is an agent in producing many beautiful things, and Stinnes may yet prove his policy noble, and for the benefit of the German people and the Fatherland...