Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-13
TWO-CENT STAMP
CARRIES LETTERS
TO GLOBE CORNERS
Two American Coppers Will
Send Message to Most
Any Country.

Washington. u. C.-American two
cent stamps now e~ncircle 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 last few years,
of the cruising radius of our two-cent
stamps says a bulletin from the
Washington, d. c.. headquarters of the
National Geographic society.
with the tiny red square you may
dispatch a letter northward to a point
where it 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 canoe trip into a white set
Element among the TERRA del Fuego
natives.
Eskimo Land to Patagonia
Theoretically you are entitled to
as far north as Cape Columbia. the
point on Grant Land which is sup
posed to be Canada's farthest north,
there either postoffice or friend
there to receive it. and to the far
south Of Patagonia. OF 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 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 so
places where a 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 Guinea.
In Europe only England. Ireland,
Scotland and Wales are included in the
two-cent zone. All of Asia requires a
five cent stamp except the points men
toned above. The oceanic places within
two cent reach are New Zealand Tin
Guiding the Cook Islands as well as the
New Zealand portion Of Saoma), Ber-
muda and Haiti. OF course it is to be
that the two cent letter
rate as well as other domestic rates
apply to Alaska. the Canal Zone,
Guam. the Philippines. Porto Rico.
American Samoa, and the American
Virgin Islands.
Post Makes Peace
Agreement by which more coun-
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 it IS noted that representatives of
the central powers, the allied coun-
and the United States met in
conference at Madrid in 1920.
As this was the first meeting of the
Universal Postal union since the ses-
siOns of 1906. in Rome. a great volume
If business was transacted. These re-
suits are embodied in a Universal
'ostal convention to which. by alphabet
cal right, Germany tL'Allemagne) is
he first signatory, and the United
of America the second.
. Both America and Germany, in fact,
re entitled to more than alphabetical
precedence in the Universal Postal
mon. The success of a conference
allied at the %instigation of the United
states, in Paris. - years before the
POSTAL union was formed, and the
peration of the Austro-German Postal
MON which had functioned effectively
ince 1850, had a direct bearing upon
he organization which made it pos
bile for a two-cent stamp to carry your
'ritten message to other continents
nd remote islands of the oceans"