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 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 You can help to get it repealed.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

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