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This cutting across the lines of the "social classes" iswidespread throughout the world of stamp collecting.The doors of the most "exclusive" stamp societies arewide open to everyone genuinely interested in collectingstamps. They are exclusive only in that to become amember one must possess the ordinary attributes of THE SOCIAL ASPECTS OF STAMP COLLECTING conducting oneself as a gentleman. I know of no stampclub in this country that bars membership to anyoneof any race, creed, or color, nor do I believe that thereare many philatelic societies anywhere in the world thatmake any such distinctions. This is not something widelypublicized or boasted of. It is just a natural part of stampcollecting as a hobby that has always been so. In thisrespect stamp collecting is one of the great forces in theworld that, in combination with other such universalactivities, will eventually bring about peace and under-standing among all the nations. |
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