The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1922-06-22
WHAT TWO-GENT
STAMP CAN DO
Carries a Letter to Farthest
Points in the New World and
to Distant Lands.
ESKIMO-LAND TO PATAGONIA
Cruising Radius. Of the Two-cent
Stamp Greatly Extended In Last
Few Years-Haiti and Ber-
muda Latest Additions.

Washington, D. C.-American two
cent stamps now encircle the globe
1.-THE recent addition of 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 bulletin from
the Washington, d. c., headquarters
of the National Geographic society.
"Wlth the tiny red square you may
dispatch a letter northward to d point
where it will be carried to its jour
neys end by a dog-sled into some
Eskimo village; or southwark across
the equator toward a mule-back jour
ney up the Andes or canoe trip into
white settlement among the TERRA
del FuegO natives.
Theoretically you are entitled to
send d letter with a twO-cent stamp
as far north as Cape Columbia, the
point on Grant Land which is sup
posed to be Canadas 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
respondence does not quite reach Cape
Horn, which belongs 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
Samoa; and to the United States
postal agency at 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.
"The alphabetical list Of some sixty
places where a foreign letter will go
at the rate of two cents an ounce or
fraction thereof seems complicated.
But 1t 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.
I'm Europe only England, Ireland,
Scotland and Wales are included In
the two-eent zone All Of Asia re-
quires a five-cent stamp except the
points mentioned above. The oceanic
places within 'two-cent reach are New
Zealand Including the Cook Islands
as we'll as the British portion
Of Samoa), Bermuda and Haiti. OF
course it is to be remembered that
the two-cent letter rate as well as
other domestic rates apply to Alaska,
the Canal Zone, Guam, the Philip
pines, Porto Rico, American Samoa,
and the American 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
is a civilizing agent is realized more
fully when 1t is noted that repre-
sentatlves of the central powers, 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 since
the sessions of 1905, in Rome, a great
volume of business was transacted.
These results are embodied in a Uni
versal Postal convention to which, by
alphabetical 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 than alpha
betical precedence in the Universal
Postal union. The success of a con-
ference called at the instigation Of
the United States, in Paris, twelve
years before the postal union was
formed, and the operation of the
Austro-German Postal union, which
had functiOned effectively since 1850,
had a direct bearing upon the or
ganization which made it possible for
a two-cent stamp to carry your writ
ten message to other continents and
remote islands of the oceansg'