Show postmaster general in south africa tells why nay he hates stamp collectors stamp collectors were set forth as aquier a queer lot by il J lenton ter general for the union of south africa rica in a recent speech before a south african philatelic society writes a cor correspondent adent in the detroit news they appear he said to be always elamin examining ing under a microscope every little bit of colored and gummed paper that we turn out it Is as if they were turning it over and over tasting the gum on it trying whether the colors will wash out counting the little indentations around the edge and doing I 1 a lot of other things in order to find out whether they had got their moneys worth asom sometimes betimes they find I 1 am given to understand owing to the strange conventions vent ions among them that they have got more than their moneys worth from our point of view they can never have less because so long as the stamp Is purchased from the post office it will always do the job it undertakes to do but of course it must be taken care of and not incapacitated by injury to us in the post office a stamp la Is a stamp nothing more nothing less the tact fact that in a sheet of little green pictures of springboks spring boks one of the springboks spring boks has got a hair on his car which the others have not means nothing to us it la is because people sometimes come to roe me and suggest that I 1 have put that hair ther on OB pur pose or at any rate refrained from having it cut off just so as to excite the collectors of these things that I 1 dislike stamp collectors so |