Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1922-06-22
Our Stamps Encircle Entire Globe.

onr clamps Enclrcle Entire Globe.
American two-cent stamps now en-
circle the globe.
"The recent addition to Haiti and
Bermuda to places where two cents
will carry a letter calls attention to
the vast extension, in the last few
years Of the CRUISING radius of our
two-cent stamps" says a bulletin from
Washington headquarters OF the Ma
tional Geographic Society.
"With the tiny red square you NAV
dispatch letter northward to a point
where it will be carried to its journeys
end by dog sled into some Eskimo
village; or southwark across the eaua-
tor toward muleback journey up the
Andes or canoe trip into a white set
Element among the TERRA del Fuego
natives.
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 there either postofice or friend
there to receive it, and to the far south
Patagonia or across the Strait of Ma
gellan to the Argentine portion of
TERRA del Fuego. The southern limit
of your two-cent correspondence does
not quite reach Cape Horn, which be-
longs to Chile, with which a two-cent
rate has not been arranged
east and west your two-cent stamp
will reach to New Zealand and Somoa
and to the u. S. Postal Agency at
Shanghai, China, and the u. S. Naval
hospital at Yokohama, japan. Other
points in China and Japan require the
usual foreign rate of five cents
"The alphabetical list of som, sixty
places where foreign letter will 60
at the rate Of two cents an ounce or
fraction thereof, seems complicated
But il 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 impor-
tant points in the West Indies for two
cents. The two-cent rate applies to
South American countries except Ven
czuela and Chile, Paraguay and Uru-
quay and Dutch and French Guiana.
"ln Europe, only England, Ireland.
Scotland and Wales are included in
the two-cent zone. All of Asia re-
quires a fve-cent stamp except the
points mentioned above. The ocean
ic places within two-cent reach arc
New Zealand tincIuding the Cook Is
lands as well as the New Zealand por-
ton Of Samoa, Bermuda and Haiti.
OF course it is to be remembered that
the two-cent letter rate as we'll as
other domestic rates apply to Alaska,
the Canal Zone, Guam, the Philippines,
Porto Rico, American Samoa and the
American Virgin Islands
agreement by which more coun-
tries 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 postoffice is civilizing agent
is realized more fully when it is noted
that representatives of the central pow
ers, the allied countries and the United
States met in friendly conference at
Madrid in 1920. AS this was the first
meeting Of the Universal Postal Union
sine the sessions of 1906 in Rome,
great volume of business was transact
ed. These results are embodied in a
Universal Postal Convention TO which.
ty .lrh'be'ical right, Germany GAL
ic"aeH,' IS the first s'cnatory and the
IH'tc- State, Of America is the Sec
ond.