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i ~ i Meanderings By ROBERT K. WILLIAMS a's «iive to death, with 45 of s and passengers at Hampton will stimulate rather than de" press dirigible experiments. It can be done successfully. The loss of life, re grettable , always so, is a part of pro gress and is spoken of as friction spur ring to success. The next ship will be American made. The United States has tried two foreign makes and both failed. » * * * If we weren't so afraid of Germany, we might learn a lesson in aerial trans portation^ Her ships are regularly em ployed in traffic carrying business. Little is heard of it. * * * * Germany did not attain success un til all of Count Zeppelin's six ships were destroyed by accident. When the war broke out Germany had 83 ships. These were practically wiped off the map. She had to start at the bottom and she did; she had to. Won derful what people and nations can do when they MUST. * * # * Within two months, Louis Gaubert, French aviator, expects to fly from Paris to the United States in 32 hours with ten passengers. He, or others, will do it. It is always an inspiration to lift one's head above the sordid sur rounding» and look at achieving men and glory in the mind that is building for posterity. 9 * V V 9 * V V Fame is a queer thing.. Every news paper in the world has had something to say about the death of Taylor the movie director. Every possible reason has been given, jealousy among others. When Billy Sunday made a solemn statement in Washington that the cause of the tragedy was jealousy it was heralded as the last word across the nation. It seems that a reputation for doing ordinary things in an unor dinary way is the keynote of fame, «s * * * I sometimes think anyone can be come famous if he'll n.^ke sufficient fool of himself. There are a lot of orators going over the nation today telling the people that there is a busi ness depression on, and the more in sane the suggested remedy the greater is the demand for his services. If someone would really rise from the back pew and give the remedy, the doorman would throw him out. Peo ple like to lie to themselves; it's pleas anter than the truth, and it's natural, for we are all hunting the pleasant paths of life. * ¥ * * Today you are able to do something that you will not be able to do again for one hundred years, that is writing George Washington's birthday date and start it thus: 2/22/22! # * * * Wall street must sense the necessity of advertising and displaying her pur ity before the nations.. B. C.. Forbes, editor and writer on economic subjects is defending the indefensible and says that out of the 1100 members of the exchange membership he would do business with 1000 of them.. This is no recommendation; it's a condemna tion. j * v * * Just think 100 unsafe men and firms in a membership of 1000 whose busi ness rests on business honesty. Why should there be ONE dishonest person or firm in Wall street if the thing they are practicing and upholding is good for all the people. It's no compliment to say a person is honest; every one ought to be, and would be, IF— v * * * Before the war women had one chance in six of getting married; now she has but one chance in twenty. Here's a lady who has taken a mean advantage of conditions. Mrs. Laura Spencer, teacher; of Avon, N. Y., agçd 45. mother of five children, married Neil Cushing, a pupil in her class, aged 19. "Her husband continues to A-1 h„ *,»/■ Hi, .chooling h„ y begUn - ¥ . ¥ A scion of royalty fights a duel witn a pamter to whom he owes money for , work done. "The Prince wounds Count j in Duel" runs the headline. Only ' wounds him! As long as we can read such choice ] morsels we are spar- 1 ed the worry andUagedy of thinking. , , . . ... John D objects to Matilda many-. mg a debilitated nobleman who runs a ndmg academy m the hills of Swit zerland four times her age. Forty eight and 17 won t mate properly, tho j its flattering to 48. Some people imagine they are most charming about this age. The hot blood of youth soon tears away the illusion as the director of horses will find if the sound advice of grandfather John D. is not heeded. * * * * nvucih of the trash on obel and monuments was put egotists who did thought of the «M ing by the honest historian. Very like ly Sims felt himself neglected and be gan the creation of a monument that posterity would marvel at. * v * * The motives of Will Hays and the Republican party are being impugned by Democrats. It is said the former publicity man of the Republican party is only taking the movie job at $150, 000 a year to offer the means of Re publican propaganda in the next two or three years. Some movie men say it is ridiculous to pay such a fortune to a man when the industry should be economizin and retrenching everywhere possible. _____ The charges are groundless. The Re- ' publican party isn't far-sighted enough ... ... «ft*? haS recorom 1 en f ded th . a î $2,000,000 be appropriated for aerial mail service. He says the mail planes are a success. He ought to know, and ' to do that.. are always overcrowded. When every one m that profession is starving a new srrs-jr* 1 — * ■» tirely on his side. * * * * Supreme Court Judge Taft says there are too many lawyers. That's natural. The profitable professions one equally useless will be started. * * v * ✓ Republic Iron and Steel preferred; and the National Enameling and Stamping common passed dividends. This is simply an addition to the long list of woithless stocks held by the pub lic. An investigation in the bucketshop scandal continues, where $4,000,000 has been taken from the American pub lic. Little difference. * ¥ # * Even Rear Admirals seek fame, that foolish overrated bauble. No less a personage than the fightless Rear-Ad miral Simms, who made a splendid speech for- England in London a year ago, and censured forit by the U. S. government, is discovered seeking a no mination for admiralship that is suppos-1 ed to only go to men who have earned it. It seems that he had a press bureau working and agents going about work-. ing up public sentiment so that con-1 gress would be compelled to confer the honor and place him alongside Farra gut and Dewey. If we were m the age of chiseling biographies on stone the Palisades of the Hudson would be in great demand by some of these val iant fariors. CALIF. RAISIN GROWERS ARE SUCCESSFUL CO-OPERATIVE The California Associated Raisin company, packers and growers of the well known Sun Maid raisins, will be known as the Sun Maid Raisin growers the change having been authorized by the courts of California. This change was brought about by the fact that Sun Maid raisins had been so widely advertised and had taken such a place in the daily diet of the country, it was found necessary as a convenience to the trade to make synonymous the nam s of the company and its trade mark. The Sun Maid Raisin growers is an organization of approximately 14,000 growers of raisins and is the most sue cessful organization working under the co-operative plan of marketing. The organization was formed 1912, after a period of distress. Un der the old plan of marketing it was found that the growers were losing money and in many instances vine yards were destroyed. Success of the co-operative plan was almost instan taneous and from a crop of approx mately 70,000 tons in 1912, the asso ciated growers are now producing clate . a ^vers are now prooucm S f °- 000 l ° ns P er * ear - dis . P ose of Su! L Ma,d ^s.ns through ISJSgZS-SZ BiiU Isles. ENGL , SH L 0 RDS N0W HAS WOMAN MEMBER Jh e petition of Lady Rhondda to ^ jn the House of Lords was granted by the committee on p rivi leges of the (House of Lords. If she takes the seat, awwded her by this ruling, she will be the fmt woman to sit in , hc Hous > of the British par | iaInen t, as La dy Astor was in the House chamber, Lady Rhondda b the da ht er of ^ j ate Viscount Rhondda< Great BrJ _ tain ' s war . time food controller , who died , in 1918 from an illness grought on by overwork. His only child was the daughter, who is the wife of Sir Humphry Mackworth. Subscription Rates: "The Llano Colonist" weekly, for one year, $1.50; Canada, $2.00; Other foreign coun THE COLOKT DIARY (Continued from page 1) showed an inclination and a talent on mailing lists; why don't you come and handle a real live one here. We are going to have 100,000 readers for the Colonist. What say'st thou? The psychological meeting was well attend ed, considering the weather, and two interesting letters were read. One from our old colonist Bert Kenny and one from Comrade Corbin of Pa., also some interesting talks were made and we were admonished to use practical psy chology, something we can use every day. Friday, March 3. — A good letter from a Virginia comrade wants the "lady reporter" to answer some ques tions; for instance, "If some one of our big family become obstreperous and refuses to be a congenial colonist, what do we do with him? Do you use the same methods Paw and Maw would in their family? Use the toe of a boot or some other severe methods?" No, indeed, that never does any good un . the offender does it for meann ess. And very few do Y es, it has taken ug a l on ^ time to grow to co-operation !>«•»• ***»*> they thought our ideal was not right, (Truly, it is hard to learn to co-operate and especially so for positive thinkers who have been talking only theories, But those whose motives are right wjll i i n ' i —— it. The way was long and hard, tak ing nearly seven years to get to peace and harmony. You will all HAVE TO COME TO IT, either at the Colony, where friendly hands are ready to guide you, or on the out-sidè with ev erything against you. We are a big family, and our affections for each other; our willingness to practice the "Golden Rule" in our daily life, will solve the problem. We are bound to have people come here and make mis takes and we are going to make mis takes, too; so we will forgive as we ex pect to be forgiven. And as each shows a disposition to do the right thing, he solves his problem—and al so ours. If one becomes dissatisfied or a persistant disrupter during his year of probation, he is given land for the money he has paid in; but so far we have never had to deal with any one along this line. Many have left the Colony, for several reasons; but I can not recall of anyone going because [ i i n ' i —— FEDERATION OF LABOR GETTING AWAKE? ]§ I Washington . _ Wi n ingness on the of ^ execudve counci , of the \ c _j ^ r , American Federation of Labor to join hands with the national committee on political action appointed by the re cent Chicago conference of progres sives, is seen in the closing statement of the council, in session here, that it will immediately begin preparations for the congressional primary campaign. DID YOU EVER FORGET TO PAY A JUST DEBT? San Jose, Cal. — Twenty-five years ago, Jones borrowed $100.00 from Mrs. r. N. Stewart and agreed by note to pay 10 per cent interest per month compounded monthly. Jones later (left town and forgot all about the debt; Mrs. Stewart brought suit to recov er the money with interest. Jones appeared in court Wednesday in an swer to the summons and admitted he owed the money. "I'm ready to pay," Jones told Judge J. R. Welch. "How much does it come to?" "Just a minute. I'll work it out for you," said the judge. I, He set to work. After an hour, he | »toy for aifn»ofaccountants, who o.ked it out with hjgher mathematics and after two hours of intense calcu-1library. lation announced Ihe sum. • Jones owed $14 840 332 994j685 - ! jones owed 16 The court is in a dilemma, judgment ' _!■ e . a y . entered. ihe sum is more than all the gold in the world »all the national debts, and all the currency. Jones earns $200 a month as labor "AFRICAN GOLF" LANDS COLORED MEN IN JAIL Three colored men, thinking to while away the time Sunday, got into a crap game, and one won the money. The other two held him up for the money won from them and his own besides, amounting to $10, and they got jti But they hung around too long and Mar shall Craft got them. Now they, are in Lake Charles for safe keeping 1 for a while. Who has not in his earlier years played tor keeps with his playmates, sore at the winner for keeping his mar and, when beaten at the game, grew • ■ - - ly you felt the stigma of seeing your j marbles in some other fellow's pocket? ; " ' And it was only the fear of being call ed "baby" that kept you from tears. Well, we are all but children over grown. Some think they have grown up, but they only think so. Mia cleared about 35 acres not let inconsequential, trivial of per sonal things drive away their ideality. Yes,, comrade,'there are breakers ahead but * as we become stronger, as each loyal unit is added to oyr little band of co-operators, we are better fortified to withstand the shock and better pre pared to help the ones who wish to know. Revengeful or spiteful tactics will not solve the home problem, but a brotherly affection, a firm stand for the right and an equal opportunity for all will hold the family together and cause its growth and development. Those who do not belong here thru wrong motives in coming will soon go and without any compulsion being us ed. Wrong living cannot exist long in an atmosphere of justice and right ideals. The weather is so cool that the brick crew are working down on tHe ground splitting wood and helping to keep warm. Rechsteiner is now var nishing tlje refrigerator, and Mother Crawford will soon have a new piece of cooling furniture that she and the whole Colony can be proud of. A trip to the clearing field was a revelation. North of the Ford ranch the fellows have pulled the stumps from about 15 acres of ground and have otherwise This has all <*2* west or tne rora rancn iney disc. are working on another 40-acre piece and in about 3 or 4 days will have all the stumps pulled and the piece clear ed for traction plowing. This crew deserves special mention. First I stop ped at their new house where several of them eat each day apd five of them sleep at night. Daniel keeps the house as neat as any one's place could be; he is both chambermaid and cook and does a good job, too. Jones, Tackett, Phillips, E. Merrill, Waters, F. Ander son, Krug, and Marchick make up the rest of the crew and they are doing ex cellent work clearing the ground and pulling stumps. The ground? Well, il is the very best, and from now on most of our farming operations will be out that way. We shall clear at least 100 acres of new ground this year with a possibility of clearing all the year long with a steady crew. To-night the al gebra class and the agriculture class kept the school house busy until a late hour. We discussed the peanut, and how to gro w it and its many uses. It's a wonderful "bug" when one knows something about it. Saturday, March 4. — A beautiful day and a resumption of every activity makes one jump for joy. Again the brick-rnasons are at work at the roof garden. Reeves had to take Sharrer's place, as the latter got tangled up with a pet gasoline engine and the engine ' took him down yesterday. But Bea-i vers and Downs are on the job as us ual, so here we go again. The car penters have continued their regular work on the roof garden and Lee join ed that crew to-day. Jaques, Lan drum, Ole, and H. Loutrell have begun to build some small temporary houses and will put them around the çanch in order to accommodate the new ar rivals with places to stay. Lindsey and Siemens are working at the new fields with the two Fordsons and upon their return home each day they bring in wood and logs. Kemp is hauling logs regularly and Smock brings wood from the clearing where Lloyd, Buhre, and C. Anderson are working at the hog ranch. Sid Merrel is hauling wood around the town and Dad Crawford is a pretty busy man doing rousabout work. DeBoer is hauling fertilizer and there are no idle mules around our camp. Work, work and more work to do than you can imagine and some one tells us of unemployment! Some fine books for the library just arrived I, : J e J o [from two comrades, Sam Ragendorf | 0 f Ohio, and E. L. Snelson of Missouri, jThanks, comrades, these go t° a good cause> and w ,n be kept in use at the calcu-1library. We have an exceptional man f or r p„j; n(r „„„j kn«],, it*. m „ t nr ! k % [fî? g 8 , 1 the Self-Government League this p.m. .where I suppose the kiddoos will un ' rave l my "little ball of yarn." I don't seem to be able to beat them out on our debates any more, but I am a per sistent tryer anyway. To-night's dan cing class was well attended and the dance afterwards was one of our best yet. The Junion orchestra and F. New man assisted the old timers in furnish ing the music for the evening. * ¥ ¥ ¥ Sunday, March 5. — Do you believe in living your ideals or just in talking about them? This is not a hard ques tion to answer and r.ot a hard job to do, if you wish to bring your ideals in , ~ community welfare comes first and the I t, - to real use The way is now paved and the track is laid and by personal effort you can attain what you have-for been dreaming about I am speaking, or course, to those who have been pic turing a new society, where equal op "'s a »^ society, wnere equal op ° f l llf , e jindividual is ready to lay aside nerson r«. ^ 'etter all mankind. At the can live this kind of a life ir of being put to a disad wrongly treated. In the :ars the Colony assets have 11 We know 0U1 economic'our Jff,»*! 1 ?. Colony you can without felar of beins put to a disad ■ wrongly tr&têd In the ave learned that nature's laws vantage last two grown problem^ people, must be. obeyed and that our attitude towards each other determines wheth er we bring about the brotherhood or man or not. The problem we have to solve is psychological and we are solv ing it. Now, thçre is a practical side of our work that we want you to see. We own land, buildings, cattle, work stock, machinery, tools, and a ' ar 8 e amount of useful assets that must be owned by the workers in their process of throwing off the old slavery for a new system of living. We need more workers to' help put this whole tract of land under cultivation; we need money with which to buy ore land to cultivate. Now, why more land, when we haven't workers to work that which we now own? Well, we can get thousands of workers whom capi talism has ruined, who will come and work with us at any time w e call but we do not possess sufficient land equipment to begin to supply the needs "of "îrôse^isiKKsèssed "comrades, j We have a plan formulated to pay for ; b this whole tract of land this year and have enough money besides to finance people enough to put the whole acre age into useful production. Then what? Why, another Colony near enough to Newlîano to be able to back it with labor power and products to put r , , «- , l—k *k„ other and another until we absorb the wasted labor power of capitalism and have established a new order of liv ing. Oh my! what a dream! It does sound good, but can it be done? Now, there is where you come in. We are doing it and we want you to do it, too. And right now. You are work ing against your ideals out there, Un der such circumstances you cannot suc ceed. Why not join us, where suc cess will be counted by the numbers that come to work out your ideals? Thi3 year's land contract calls for lis to raise $24,000 by May 1st, and have nearly two months in which t do it." Last year we raised $20,000 ir five weeks. We sacrificed some valu able timber to do it and we have more timber to sacrifice again if we have to do it. Can you believe the workers can have more timber than they need? More land than they can put to use? Nay! Nay! Not as long as the land grabbers and timber barons are loose among us. We refuse to mortgage any of our holdings. We will sell first. We have almost discontinued paying inter est and we contract no such debts ^ain ' - lend assistance by May 1st and help " s P urc hase »our thousand acres of se as we have done. It is a goocj ^^olu- '| lion, and we will live by it, too. Mon ey you pay in here from now on is for more land and better equipment and > modern homes and improvements for those who work ( and produce. You members or the 125-Club, will you lected iand? We are given the priv ilege of selecting any land we wish in the whole tract. Place your money where it will work for the workers; here a group of people are giving their time and energy to demonstrating a new economic and social system in which you may partake and all chil dren enjoy the future thereof. Write now and let us' know if you can help with this May land purchase and just how much we can expect from you by that date. * * # * Monday, March 6. — A regular old spring day, and every body is happy. Ole and cre w are working on one of the small houses; they are now putting on the sheeting and shingles. Lan- ( gridge and crew are getting the rafters j up on the roof garden and the brick crew wili finish the west wall to-day. ' Another package of books has arrived from Comrade Snelson to be placed in our library. Also the fruit trees from irom [the Esparto nursery arrived and will be handled at once by the farm crew, ,This crew is also clearing land and preparing to raise a bumper crop, this 'year. With the assistance from the ,,i ,i , fertilizer plant, there is no reason why we cant do some bis. thiiiKs on the farm from now ig, things on the We have a good cre w of farmers for the first time in our history and we know what we can do on the farm and how to do it—what is there to prevent our success? Be ing the producers of our own focd stuff permits us to feed our people for 10c per meal; as soon as we get a tanner to tan hides we can make shoes for Sbout 25c per pair; the »«.«nne Want to ask building of our homes costs about one twentiet of what it does outside and tl Z J™ ufr 11 reduced & soon as more skilled workers come and join us and by their labor produce or manufacture things we now have to buy. We are usually asked, "If I come , to trie Colony, what will the Colony do me or guarantee me in the form of a better living, or material condi tions, in security for the 'Now, I know that few of ^ future? iNow, 1 know that few of you realize - 1 you: What can you do s a larger or better col is added brain and labor i hin , d ? ,n Joining us; that wishes to hein mäl/T I ""° l T' yU " T ft Ä2 power that has the pro hind it in joining us; make progress by bein s . unit to our otganizatio to us a desire to build productiveness, that 1 « m-m kW*. !-- — H H. mâkp nrAoriT^ k« k"' • »• 'unit tn X an 1 mte l, 8 ent ing. will secure you — us a better liv What can you do to add to our ■ .1 .„ni*, or many We have the them more efft^j? do towards solution. Wha ' y htwagthe Sstëiïi- f" •• E e an d orchestra practice at the hool house after which a ß surprise party was sprung on Bennett Babb and Ether Blair ayhedub house. Tuesday. March 7. -/ shipment of underwear, socks and dry goods from Comrade Sanders over on the coast of Florida just arrived and the Colony men folks will be well supplied with some useful wearing apparel for some time. Comrade Sanders plies the coast of Florida with a schooner and picks up snaps; he is good enough to let us in on his deals and is giving us much assistance. When we open a colony on the Isle of Pines this com rade feels that he can be of a greater service. Oh. if only we co-operators could merge all our capîtalkto*» i g demonstrate we could »» the blinded minds a way out of th 'wilderness of ignorance and '^^tice. The "lady reporter has a greatlyr,n creased family to-day. y 'youngsters at one time! Don t De shocked! Forty of them are baby chicks and the other one is no cnic STV* .~ïs««h !r r t y f* name o{ Truman Benthall. who has been put under the charge of "yours— truly." This makes two boys and one girl that look up to "your humble ser vant" as a god-mother, aünt, uncle, or grand-dad, and is only a forerunner of what our dream here is for the fu If our friends will only make the "125-Club" a real thing ^this year, we shall soon be the daddy of many boy and girl who will come to secure education where brotherhood, ser vice, and co -operation is the basis of their instruction. These things are now forming and with the installation of our electric plant, many useful things can be put into operation for • school children, that now cannot used. This summer our school chil will build their own brick school ouse. If we had an extra mason who lid and would take charge of that now, we would soon be new school building. Our childreÄÜs our greatest asset and their education^tour greatest concern. The time is ripe now fV'dUt i^operators to do the big thing in educatidfi-irsdjhe opportunity is unlimited here for mak ng this a great school for the future, Fill up the list of the "125-Club"; put this Colony beyond the reach of future want t h ru this club and we will be turning out a power of demonstration that will convince the world of the truth of our co-operative theories. The first of May will soon be here and soon after that date we have $24,000 to hand over on our next land purchase. I am anxious to know who is going to help us this year with this payment. You can purchase a membership, or buy Iand, and put into the hands ,of our movement four thousand more acres of land. Gee! 4000 acres will permit a large number of people to come here before this year is over. Yes / if the 125-Club fills itself and inten- | tention by that time our numbers will, be in the thousands instead of in thé' hundreds. Many nice compliments are paid to the Diary and the "Jady reporter ' for which we are very grate- j ful. We like appreciation the same as other humans do, but I want to tell you this: The Diary is often written in the wee hours of the night, some times the writer sitting up all night to get it over to you. Sometimes the writ er is in no mood for this kind of. work but you want it and so far we have not failed. Now, do you think this is done for your amusement? No, my purpose of uuiie ror your amusement. friends, this is done for the letting you know °that some^eo^h^v* darbte "Äad world and to carry out the teaching of the Grea Teacher n arlv £X?, , eac.ner nearly two thou sand years ago, with the hope that you will also 'VII ,11 k„J j will also "sell all you have and put it in common and follow his teachings. This is the road to happiness and jus tice and life. The "lady reporter's" efforts are in vain if she is unable to reach and spur you into constructive action along this line. Comrade Can trell informed me that this week's Col onist would be only a four-page paper; because of the lack of help. Our re K - ,ular linotype operator, Comrade Buck, has been"'sick fo 'Two weX anS S rest of the printing W are /„able l'\° do , a11 that was being done before. In other words, they are working to jthe limit all the time. ~ here. Our task i« tKo u, - » ^ .f 6 ~ ,J ■ 1 ~ g the world to-day. Do you not think we die ? e,rVC j unlimited support of our friends and co-operative believers on the out-side? Now, this is not a tale of woe; it is a message of cheer and 'hope for the \V T tas ance, your labor power, and co-opera jtive spirit, " ' civilization. to'successful booby prize i - 3 !°. ur laD , or P°wer, and co !*-«•*■« W Oh my! Wk.! , „».„p, . new . M. ... . . The ... ^ ,ss J° se Ph Krug and Miss (?) the ladies' prize and porter." Oh myl W,,«. Nothing to do until to-morrow!'