72 Cents 



Taxed for not living in New York 



Unless you help to repeal the oppressive Postage Zone Law it 

 will penalize a subscriber in California to the extent of 72 cents 

 for postage alone on a year's issues of Popular Science Monthly 



"United we stand, divided we fall," has a new significance. 

 Now, as never before, this country should strive for national 

 unity. 



Yet Congress has passed a law that will split up the country 

 as surely as though Chinese walls divided it into sections. After 

 July 1st, 1918, in accordance with the new law, magazines, news- 

 papers, and all other periodicals are to be mailed on the Zone 

 System and at rates very much higher than at present. 



The postage on Popular Science Monthly for a year is now about 

 15 cents — but when the new law is in full effect the postage will 

 range from 24 cents in New York — to 72 cents on the Pacific 

 Coast. The cost increases the further you live from New York. — 

 And most periodicals are published in or near New York. 



Give Up Magazines? 



How would you like to be deprived of all your magazines and 

 periodicals? Well, there are hundreds of thousands of citizens, 

 perhaps million? of them living in the farther away zones, who will 

 be obliged to give up their magazines because of the increased 

 expense. 



Magazines bring to the reader the achievements of the world. 

 They bring new ideas, suggest new lines of thought. They keep 

 the East abreast of the West, and the South abreast of the North. 

 They are the great Educators of America. 



Congress many years ago recognized all this and made a postage 

 rate of 1 cent a pound for magazines for all parts of the country. 

 Since then America has grown and prospered as no nation in the 

 world ever did before and has kept united, and is united today 

 as is no other great nation of the world. 



Shall we now start the deadly process of splitting up the nation? 



You and you alone can prevent the zone system from going into 

 effect. Write to your Congressman and Senator about this. 

 Tell them you object. The Editor of this magazine will be glad to 

 give you their names and any further assistance you may desire. 



