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Show STAMP EXCELS llSElCEDUTy : : WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (lly V. P.) JvVhen It comes to giving avrvlrt Jrieaply you can't beat the 2-cent pos-are pos-are stamu the postofflce depjrttncnt abetievea. . The little red square will now carry Jetter weighing ones ounce to fifty nrelgn countries and to more than 60.-o 60.-o postofflces In the 1'nited Htitea. Te Pan-American postal conference. lieJd at Buenos Aires last 8c pt ember, i-tt Its approval upon the 2-ccnt r.ite It foreign mail, and It Is the bllef (f idvtofflce officials that It will soon be irUversally recognized in the vt-Mtin esnisphera. Che 2-cent rate was put Into effect rtefer the close of last year tu ArKett--ida, Brazil, Costa Kica, Kcua'lor. Ja-naica Ja-naica and Martinique. On March 1 fviermuda and Halt! Joined the ranks einHl in May, Ppaln and her colonics. lny Americans err by putting fr-cent J tamps on letters when only 2 cents a'Qtage la required, it was stated at the department. he countries with which the United J ttes hs 2-cent postage rate are: a.agentlna, Bahamas, Uarbadoes, Iter-iitda, Iter-iitda, Bolivia. Brazil. British Guiana, '.fltish Honduras, Canada, Columbia, 'tsta Rica, Cuba, lminican Heptib- Z:X Dutch West Indies Aruba. Bo- 1 i art re. Curacao, St. Kustatius, Ft. Mar- irja p. Kcuador, Great Britain, Ireland, ( londuras, Jamaica tincluding Turks, t'alcoa. Cayman Islands i, Leeward ' 3 kinds (Antigua, Barbuda. St. Kitt 't fit. Christopher, Nevis. Anguilia, 1 njmlnlca, Montserrst, Virgin Islands i, iartinique, Mexico. Newfoundland. , Siew Zealand, Nicaragua. Panama, !ru. Salvador. Shanghai, China. ' 'patn (including tha Balearic Islands. 1 'anary Islands and possessions on the J Vorth African coast t, Trinidad, Toba- , ,o. Western Samoa. Windward Islands," 1 |