The L'Anse sentinel., 1922-07-21
Carries a Letter to Farthest
Points in the New World and
to Distant Lands.
ESKMO-LAND TO PATAGONIA
Cruising Radius Of tho Two-cent
Stamp Greatly Extended in Last
Few Years-Haiti and Ber-
muda Latest Additions. :

Washington, d. C.-American two
rent stamps now enclrcle the globe.
''The recent addition of Haiti and
Bermuda to places where two cents
will carry u letter calls attention to
the vast extension, in the last few
pears, Of the cruising radius of our
two-cent stamps" says bulletin from
the Washington, ID. c., headquarters
Of the National Geographic society.
with the tiny red square you may
dispatch letter northward to point
where it will be carried To its jour
ney's emu by dog-sled into some
Eskimo village; or Southward across
the equaror toward u mule-back jour
ney up the Andes or Il canoe trip into
a white settlement among the TERRA
del Fuego natives.
Theoretically you are entitled to
send letter with two-cent stamp
ss fur north as Cape Columbia, the
point on Grant Land which is sup
posed to be Canada's farthest north,
were there either post Office or friend
there to receive it, and to the far
south of Patagonia or across the
Strait of Magellan to the Argentine
portion of TERRA del Fuego. The
southern limit Of your two-cent cor
raspOndence does not quite reach Cape
Horn, which belongs to Chile, with
which two-cent rate has not been
arranged.
EAST and West your two-cent stamp
will reach to New Zealand and
Samoa; and to the United States
postal agency mt Shanghai, China,
and the United States Naval hospital
at Yokohama, Japan. Other points in
China and Japan require the usual
foreign rate of five cents.
Easy to Remember.
'SThe alphabetical list of some sixty
places where foreign letter will go
at the rate of two cents an ounce or
fraction thereof seems complicated.
But it isn't hard to remember If you
catalogue it geographically instead of
alphabetically. Briefly, you can send a
letter anywhere in North America and
Central America and to all important
points in the West Indies for two
cents. The two-cent rate applies to
all South American countries except
Venezuela and Chile, Paraguay and
Uruguay, and Dutch and French
Guiana.
'In Europe only England, Ireland,
scotland and Wales are included in
The two-cent zone. All of Asia re-
Puires a fivpcent stamp except the
points mentirned above. The oceanic
places within two-cent reach are New
Zealand (intfudlng the Cook Islands
rs well an the British portion
sf Samoa), Rermuda and Haiti. OF
course 1t is 80 be remembered that
the two-ceni letter rate as well as
Cther domestic rates apply to Alaska,
the Canal Zone, Guam, the Philip
pines, Porto Rico. American Samoa.
and the Amsy:cln Virgin Islands.
Post Makes for Peace.
Agreement by which more coun-
tries gradually are being added to
the .two-cent list are reached through
the Universal Postal union which
FIRST met at Berne in 1874. The oft
repeated statement that the post Office
IN civllizinB agent is realized more
fully when II Is noted that repre-
hentatives of she central powers, the
allied countrN,e and the United States
met In friendly conference at Madrid
In 1920. AS t6fs was the first meeting
of the Universal Postal union since
the sessions n 1906, in Rome, great