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         DuBois Undeserving Of Stamp.           The Postal Service should          not glorify our enemies.               By Jeff Jacoby           In the end Communism will tri-          umph. I want to help bring that day.           From W.E.B. DuBois applica-          lion for membership in the Commu-          nist Party, 1961          This Week,  getting the year off          to a lamentable start, the UPS.          Postal Service plans to issue a          stamp commemorating W.E.B.          DuBois, the eminent black writer, ed-          ucator and activist. This will be the          second DuBois issue in six years. It is          two too many.           A nation that produces stamps cele-          brating Marilyn Monroe and depict-          ing the earth in a bathtub is a nation,          we can agree, with pretty loose stand-          ards for postal honors. But at a mini-          mum, the Postal Service ought to re-          frain from glorifying enemies of the          United States.           DuBois, who died in 1963 at the age          of 95, was a man of many accomplish-          ments. He was also a man who de-          spised American democracy, re-          nounced his U.S. citizenship, and          cheered the bloodiest tyrants of the          2Oth Century. That should be enough          to disqualify him from appearing on a          U.S. postage stamp.           It isn't as if the author of The Souls          of Black Folk and Darkwater is in          danger of being forgotten. DuBois's          prolific writings are studied in a          thousand and one college classrooms.          A worshipful history of his first five          decades won a Pulitzer in 1994. At          least one public building has been          named for him