Do You Want to Split Up 

 the United States? 



The New Zone System of Postage for magazines will 

 fence off the United States into sections as shown below 



NO, of course you don't. But you 

 are helping to do it right now by 

 not writing a letter of protest to 

 your Congressman and your Senators 

 about the Zone System for magazine 

 postage recently passed by Congress. 



How quickly would the States be 

 broken up into separate countries if we 

 had to pay import taxes on all goods 

 shipped between states? Well, it wouldn't 

 take very long. 



But Congress has passed a law by 

 which it will cost more to get your maga- 

 zines delivered the farther you live from 

 where they are published. The farther 

 west you live the more you will pay for 

 magazines published in New York, Phila- 

 delphia or Boston. 



Canada, at war for three and a half 

 years, still sends two pounds of reading 

 matter for one cent to the farthest points 

 of the Dominion. Our Government pro- 



poses to charge ten cents a pound for carry- 

 ing to the Western States the advertising 

 portion of Popular Science Monthly 

 and other publications — just twenty times 

 Coyiada's rate! We should be able to de- 

 liver as cheaply as Canada can. 



When the new Zone System is finally in 

 full force, the cost of magazines in the 

 Middle and Far West will be so great 

 that thousands of people \\\\\ be obliged to 

 give up their magazines and other period- 

 icals. They no longer will keep up with 

 the intellectual life of the country. The 

 West will no longer be united in the old 

 compact way with the East. 



The new Zone Law has not yet been 

 put into effect. You can help to get it 

 repealed. Write your Congressman and 

 your Senators and protest. If you do not 

 know their names, ask Popular Science 

 Monthly or your Postmaster, but what- 

 ever you do protest 



