Higher Postage

Two cents will still buy two boxes of matches or two pieces of slot-machine gum or two peeps at a bathing beauty undressing in a penny arcade. But after April 1 two cents will no longer be sufficient to post one letter to any foreign country.

Last autumn the first-class postal rate to every nation in the Eastern Hemisphere save Spain, which belongs to the Pan-American Postal Union, was upped to 5-c- for the first ounce in an attempt to bring first-class revenue closer to actual transportation cost (TIME, Aug. 31). Last week's announced increases raise the old 2-c- rate to Latin America and Spain to 3-c-. The Post Office department expects to gain $2,000,000 in revenue by higher rates.

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