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House & Garden 
West of the Mississippi! 
A POSTAGE CHARGE 
of Twenty-five Cents a Year on all 
Subseriptions to House & Garden 
After July 1 
All new subscriptions received, and all renewals of sub¬ 
scriptions made after July 1,1919, by subscribers living 
west of the Mississippi River, will be billed at the custom¬ 
ary $3 plus a postal charge of twenty-five cents a year. 
O N July 1,1918, the law establishing 
the Zone System of mailing sec¬ 
ond class matter went into effect. This 
law provided that the postage on maga¬ 
zines should be increased according to 
the distance the subscriber lived from 
the city of publication. The further 
away, the greater the postage. 
XT OUSE & GARDEN, like most of 
T the larger publications, is printed 
in New York. The postage to a sub¬ 
scriber in Denver is greater than the 
postage to a subscriber in New Jersey. 
F urthermore, the Postal Zone 
Law called for an increase in post¬ 
age each year for five years—the in¬ 
crease ranging from 50% to 900% ac¬ 
cording to different zones into which 
the country has been divided. 
T he first increase went into effect 
with the law on July 1,1918. Pub¬ 
lishers, meeting to discuss their policy, 
decided to carry the increase them¬ 
selves last year, instead of passing it on 
to their subscribers, and hoped that by 
this year Congress would have repealed 
what seemed to intelligent people an 
unjust and discriminatory law. 
B ut it has not neen repealed. And 
the second year’s increase in rate 
is drastic. Therefore, from July 1 on, 
we regret to say that we must make this 
additional charge of 25 cents a year to 
our Western subscribers. 
*^HIS charge of 25 cents tor postage 
T will hold good only for one year, 
for on July 1, 1920, still another in¬ 
crease will have to be imposed under 
compulsion of the Postal Zone Law. 
In other words, after July 1, 1919, the price of House & Garden will be $3 per year, east of the 
Mississippi River; $3 per year west of the Mississippi River with an extra charge of 25c. for zone 
postage. Please do not lodge any complaints with House & Garden, therefore, if you feel a righteous 
indignation at the additional charge for zone postage on subscriptions west of the Mississippi 
River. All protests against the additional zone postal charges and against the Postal Zone Law 
itself should be registered with your Congressmen and Senators. Congress has decreed the Postal 
Zone Law—and Congress alone can change it. 
HOUSE & GARDEN 
CONDE NAST, Publisher 
Issued Monthly 
35 cents a copy 
19 WEST 44TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY 
12 issues a year 
$3 a year 
