Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-27
Geographic News
Bulletins by the
National Geographic Society 70
What a Stamp Can DO

What a Stamp a DO
American two-cent stamps now
encircle the globe.
The recent addition of Haiti and
Bermuda TO places where two cents
will carry a letter calls attention to
the vast extension, in the law few
years. of the cruising radius of Dur
two-cent stamps" says bulletin
from the Washington, d. c., head
quarters of the National Geographic
Society.
with the tiny red square you
may dispatch a letter northward to
a point where 1t will be carried to
its journeys end by a dog-sled into
some Eskimo village; or southwark
across the equator toward a mule
back journey up the Andes or a ca
noe trip into a white settlement
among the TERRA del Fuego natives.
Eskimo-Land to Patagonia
Theoretically you are entitled to
send a letter with a two-cent stamp
as far north as Cape Columbia, the
point on Grant Land which is sup
posed to be Canada's farthest north.
were their either post office or friend
there to receive it,. II 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
respondence does not quite reach
Cape Horn, which belongs to Chill.
with which a two-cent rate has not
been arranged.
East and West your two-cent
stamp will reach to New Zealand and
Samoa; and to the u. s. Postal Agen-
cy at Shanghai. China, and the u.
s. Naval Hospital at Yokohama, ia
pan. Other points in China and Ja-
pan require the usual foreign rate OF
five cents.
Easy to Remember
1.-THE alphabetical list of some six
ty places where a foreign letter will
go at the rate of two cents an ounce
or fraction thereof seems complica-
ted. But it isn't hard to remember
il you catalogue it geographically In
stead of alphabetically. Briehy, 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.
I'm Europe only England, Ireland,
Scotland and Wales are included in
the two-cent zone. All OF ASIA re-
uuires a five-cent stamp except the
points mentioned above. The ocean
lie places within 'two-cent reach are
New Zealand ~(including the Cook
Islands as we'll as the New zealand
portion of Samoa), Bermuda and
Haiti. OF course 1t is to be remem-
bered that the two-cent letter rate
as well as other domestic rates ap-
ply to Alaska, the Canal Zone, Guam,
the Philippines. Porto Rico. Ameri-
can Samoa, and the American Viz
gin 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 met at Berne in 1874. n
o~ft-repeated statement that the
post office is a civiliZing agent Is
realized more fully when it is noted
that representatives of the central
powers, the allied countries and the
United States met in friendly con-
ference at Madrid in 1920. AS this
was the first meeting of the Univer-
sal Postal Union since the sessions OF
1906, in Rome, a great volume Of
business was transacted. These re-
suits are embodied in Universal Pos
tai Convention to which, by alpha
betical right, Germany (L'Alle-
magne) is the first signatory. and the
United States of America the second.
Both America and Germany. in
fact, are entitled to more thar al
phabetical precedence in the Univer-
sal Postal Union. The success of a
conference called at the instigation
of the United States, in Paris, twelve
years before the Postal Union was
formed, and the operation OF n
Austro-German Postal Union which
had functioned effectively since 1885,
had a direct bearing upon the or
g~anization which made it possible
for a two-cent stamp to carry YOU
written message to other continents
and remote islands of the oceans"