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Show Quite a unique scheme to add to the revenues of tho government hns been devised by Representative Repre-sentative Victor Helntr. of Ohio. Helntz proposes pro-poses that the postmaster general shall have printed and sold "patriotic stamps" to be placed on the backs of envelopes, post cards and so-forth. so-forth. , The stamps are to be of one-cent denomination, denom-ination, and nro to prominently, display the American flag. After tho cost of printing and selling tho stamps has been defrayed Helntz intends in-tends that the balance of the proceeds from their sale shall be paid annually into the treasury. treas-ury. Tho success of tho annual Red Cross stamp sales indicates to Heintz that this plan, if adopted, adop-ted, will provo a success, and he intends to secure se-cure the passage through congress of a bill containing con-taining his proposal. |