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.
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