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the members. But the postoffice laws made that impossible unless 

 the member had subscribed and had sent in his remittance as a sub- 

 scription remittance. 



Now please remember that the Directors want each member to 

 receive the Rev'IEW each month. So when they found that a sub- 

 scription was necessary they passed a resolution so that every mem- 

 ber sending in his dollar as subscription could obtain full National 

 membership as well as full Branch membership by paying another 

 50c to some National Branch. An amendment to the constitution 

 is proposed for the delegates' consideration at Cincinnati in Feb- 

 ruary, which if passed will make this resolution a part of the con- 

 stitution. It will mean that full National membership can be had 

 by paying the Branch membership fee. But as all important no- 

 tices and reports will be published in the Rf.niew, each member to 

 get them would also want to be a subscriber, which would cost a 

 dollar more. That makes a total of $1.."')0 for National and Branch 

 membership as well as a subscription to the Review for a year. 



You can see by this, as we are now following the above plan — 

 and will follow it at least until the delegates decide we mustn't — 

 that every subscriber to the Review can secure full National benefits 

 if he will unite with one of the National Branches by paying his 50c 

 more. These Branches are listed in each issue of the Review, and 

 the secretary of each is given. Send your 50c to the secretary of 

 the nearest Branch to you and you will get an official receipt show- 

 ing full National and Branch membership. 



Likewise, all who are now members of the National will get the 

 Rex'iew as soon as they renew membership, if they will send in the 

 dollar as subscription and the ode as membership. This $1.50 can 

 be sent to the secretary of some National Branch, or it can all be 

 sent here, or $1.00 can be sent here and 50c sent to the Branch. 



There is no reason why every subscril)er should not be a Na- 

 tional member through some National Branch, and there is no rea- 

 son why every National member should not be a subscriber to the 

 Review, and thus not only help finance the National work, but get 

 a publication worth every cent of your dollar, and which will keep 

 you in close touch with what is going on in the way of organization 

 work. 



The High Cost of Living. 



There seems to be a universal complaint of the high cost of liv- 

 ing. There is no doubt but what the main cause of the excessive 

 price of rural products is that 4^9f of our population have taken up 

 their abode in the city, awa}' from the producing district, thus be- 

 coming consumers instead of producers, from the standpoint of food 

 production. 



