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~ Llano Colonial IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT LLANO COLONY LEESVILLE. LOUISIANA. "BY THE LLANO PUBLICATIONS Entered as second-class matter. May 14, 1921, at the postoffice at Leesviile, La., under act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.50 PER YEAR FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS: Canada, $2.00; Other Countries $2,50. Make all remittances for subscriptions and address all communica tions regarding the publications to The Llano Publications, Leesviile, La. This will avoid trouble and delay in registering changes of address, etc. RENEWALS AND CHANGES OF ADDRESS—When renewing, al ways give tjie name as it appears on your label. When changing address, you MUST always give us the OLD as well as the new address. CARL GLEESER— Editor. To-day, September 9, 1922, is the 400th anniversary of the first circum navigation of Mother Earth, at least the first recorded in human history. John Fiske, in his "Discovery of America, describes Magellan's voyage as "the most wonderful in histdry * * * doubt less the greatest feat of navigation that has ever been performed, and nothing can be imagined that would surpass it except a journey to some other planet." Friend Robert Whitaker, of Seattle, Wash., reminds'us of this fourth cen tennial in No. 1, Vol. 1 of The Cosman, published by him, This little paper is "A Call to World Consciousness, World Fellowship and World Unity. „The 9th day in September is also Robert Whit aker s natal day, to which we tender our gratulations. Robert is pastor of the Fellowship Church at Seattle. We learn that in Los Angeles, Calif., 'there has been organized a co-opera tive exchange, that, according to those who have availed"themselves of its ser vices has already accomplished much good. Its slogan is: "Let's forget mon ey an3 breathe easy, what ycu need and desire for what you have to give . —all in the name of service. In 18 94 the writer started a similar move ment in California under the name of the Labor Exchange and much good was accomplished for a number of years. The right spirit of mutual help fulness can make a co-operative ex change or mutual service exchange a powerful lever in advancing the mem bers' welfare and a permanent good. If you cannot come to Llano Colony, why not try to start a co-operative exchange in your bailiwick And why not do it right away? We are in receipt of a lot of propa ganda on the shopmen's strike from Vice-President Holden of the Kansas City Southern R. R„ consisting of a number of quotations from publications completely controlled by the Wall St. syndicate of bankers who manipulate the railroads fd? their own enrichment at the expense of the working people. How in the world he expected us to fal^ for that kind of dope passes our com prehension. It is especially addressed to the farmers; on the assumption, it would seem that they are totally ignor ant of the actual state of affairs, and dead easy to be taken in. Some of the experiences farmers have had of late, however, are opening their eyes. Ac cording to a letter written by a farmer's wife to the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph, the farmers are getting wise to what the railroads are doing to them. "Last yèar they sold $772,06 worth of canteloupes, paying $611.20 to the railroads, to get them to market and netting $163.86. They sold $1,029. 50 worth of watermelons, paid the rail roads $865.90, and netted $163.60. Let Us Do Your Job Printing Quick Service ;< Good Workmanship Fair Prices Llano Print Shop Leesviile, La. They sold $2,922.77 worth of peaches, the railroads getting $2,109.62, the Ji^on C TiLf 6 L^ 2 i 5 . and they netted $141.90 Their total pro i s came apparen y o $ . , ut out of this came the cost of fertilizer, spraying material, etc, and the farmers wi e is egging ei us an to give up the business—gone on strike, as it were -declaring they are working only for e rai roa s. She wants to know if the farpe* a well as the Railroad man, is not entitled to some kind of 'standard of living.' '" The Journal of Commerce and Fin ance, a Wall Street offspring, tries to use this letter to stir up the farmers against fhe railroad shopmen, who are on strike. It presumes that the farmers are such jackasses as to think that the money they muit spend on freight finds its way into the pockets of the railroad workers. Farmers are not as stupid as that, even tho the men of Commerce and Fi nance wish they were. Those who pre sume to think that the farmers are not learning just as the workers in the city are learning who benefits by their toil, are forgetting something. It is social conditions that count. A decent living is of greater importance to the ordinary man than any principle, and when it comes to the vital question of bread and butter' every one of us is an ordinary man. You cannot live on principles, nor can we afford to waste our lives in dreaming about principles. The liberty the people demand, the liberty the masses of the people are willing to fight for, is a fair chance to make a decent living, the opportunity to make use of one's faculties and en joy the fruits of one's labor. Phrases about liberty and declama tions of justice are important. They do not answer the demand for a really civilized existence. They help none to gain a livelihood. They pay no bills and buy no food and clothes. First let us make the world safe for social justice, which means fair oppor tunities for everybody to earn his daily bread, and there will be little trouble in settliing the question of liberty. If we put an end to the exploitation of man by man and thereby do away with parasitism and class rule, liberty will no longer be a principle. " It will become an actuality as soon as econom ic serfdom has been abolished and pro fiteering done away. Liberty will cease to be a principle and becoriie a fact as soon as the use ful people have made themselves the masters of their means of life.—Ex change. In temptations against purity, the victorious are the timorous who take to flight.—Philip Neri. The Narrow Way of Conscious Enlightenment No one can learn to really know any thing except by the exertion, exercise, or activity of his or her own native powers of inquiry, apprehension and .understanding. The mental operations called learning, studying or thinking, 'are radically and essentially operations by and of the student himself, and can 'not be performed for him by any sub stitute whatever. To deal with any subject of thought intelligently one must be an accurate obserbei- and a skillful investigator and take nothing for granted. The child learns to speak by imitation, analysis and practice, and nature says: "Why.shouldn't everyone continue to learn everything else in the same way. The child's method of learning is evidently self-tuition under guidance, and not H ing e l se . He learns, Le., gath ers acquires, knows a vast number of factg re|atj tQ thi s about h; and moreover> by intuition soleIy the g a j ns a p rac tjcal acquaintance with the arU wa , ki seej heari ^ who ^ ^ him? Nature „ him _ se ]f—practically they are one. In the s, onJinary indeed of the WQrd "teaching," Nature has not taught him at all. She has given him no rules, no laws, no abstract principles, no for mulae, no grammar of hearing, seeing. walking-or talking; she simply gave the faculty, "Supplied the material, 'and the occasion for its exercise, and her ,pupil LEARNED TO DO BY DOING. This is what Nature, the teacher _,the guidé, the supervisor did. But some thing more she did; or rathe? in her wisdom left undone. When hef j pupil, -through carelessness and- heedlessness, failed to see what was before him, when he blundered ; n his walking oï talking, she neither interposed to cor rect his blunders, nor indulged in out cries and objurgations against him. She bided het opportunity. She went on teaching, he went on learning and the blunders were in time corrected by the pupil himself. Even when he was about to burn his finaers, it was no part of her plan to hinder him from learning the valu able lesson taught by the ministry of pain. The child learns lb speak by hearing and using whole words, by imitation, analysis and practice. Why not. then, says Nature, let him learn reading in the same way? Let him in view of en tire words, echo the sounds of them received from the teachers; let him by analysis separate them into their syl lables, and the syllables into their let ters, and it will be found that the phon etic faculty of the compound leads sure ly and easily to that of its separate parts. In pursuing this only natural me thod of instruction we notice that the pupil frequently repeats the same pro cess, going over and over the same ground until he has mastered it, and as in learning to walk he often stumbled before he walked freely, and in learn ing to talk often blundered and stam mered before he could use his tongue readily, so,- while learning to read in Nature's school, he will, make many a fruitless attempt, be often puzzled, of ten for a while miss h's path; yet all the while HE IS CORRECTING HIS ERRORS BY ADDED KNOWLEDGE* AND EXPEIIENCE, sharpening his fa culties by practice, TEACHING HIM SELF BY HIS OWN ACTIVE EF FORTS, and not receiving passively the explanations of others; deeply in terested too in dispoverjng for himself that which he would be even disgust ed with if imposed lipoid him by dog matic authority, he is trained even from the very beginning in the method of sci entific investigation. Mental science demands of students the exercise of their observing, remem bering, comparing, generalizing, judg ing and analyzing powërs. The ac quisitions the students will jnake are their own acquisitions, the fruits of their own desire and mental exertions —the method by which they learn is their method. In all their learhing they must pay homage to the authority of facts. Learn them accurately; grasp them firmly; apprehend, so as to thor oughly know and understand them. Compare them with each other, inter pret one by # another, make the known explain the unknown, generalize them, classify them, analyze them into their elements, re-combine the elements, at tach new knowledge to the page al ready fixed in their mind. Don't let facts slip away from you. To lose them, is to waste the labor you spent in acquiring themi Keep them, therefore, continually before you by re petition. Test general principles, said to be founded on them, by confronting them with your'facts. In all this pro cess the student is making use of na tural means for a patural end. It is in short, the method by which learners—whether the little cliild in the first school of Nature, or the adult man in the school cf every science—learn whatever they REALLY know. The essential basis of all mental progress knowledge of facts—a knowledge tfhich, to be. fruitful, must be gfeined at first hand, and not on the report of others; must be strict and accurate, and must be firmly retained. These are the essential conditions for the sub sequent operations by which knowledge is appropriated, assimilated, and incor porated with thie organic life of the mind. All that man contains, manifests and is, he has derived, assimilated and made part of himself from Native, the Cosmos, the Absolute, the Infinite, the Constructive process of Being, or any pther name that you prefer to denomin ate It or Him-Her with. Interrigence is n^nifesting everywhere in the universe wherever man may go,, and in the de gree that man desires and aspires to gam and manifest intelligence he seems to attain to it or attract it. The wonderful change that is going on everywhere in the world at the pre sent tiçie was discussed at the mental science class at Newllano cn Sunday night, September 3. This change is going on silently everywhere, and is the most important transformation that, has come to pass during the last 1900 years. • Many of the secrets of nature have been discovered and harnessed in the service of mankind. Enormous possibilities are revealed that exceed P oss ™»«« are rev f ea ' ec the wildest dreams of the imagination A 'new civilization is evolving, fet ters of tradition are being broken, and mankind has entered up6n it? great est period of existence and achievement i% all 3ges. In "Human Traits," Professor Irwin Edman says: "While in a large portion of our duties we are at the beck and call of the instincts' which are our in heritance and the habits which we have acquired, we may also CONTROL our actions. Instead of performing actions as immediate and automatic responses to accustomed stimuli, we may deter mine our actions, single or consecu tive, in the LIGHT OF ABSENT AND FUTURE RESULTS. To act thus is to act reflectively, and to act reflect ively is the only escape from random acts prompted by instinct and routine ones prompted by habit. * To act reflectively is to delay re sponse to an instinctive or habitual sti mulus until the various possibilities of action and the results associated with each have been considered. An action performed instinctively or habitually is automatic; it is performed not on the' basis of what will be the result, but simply as an immediate response to present stimulus. But an act (or a ser ies of acts) reflectively performed is P^forrned in , the 'jg ht lhe that are prophetically associated with them. In the case of instinct and ha bit, THE INDIVIDUALITY, ALMOST LITERALLY, DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE IS ABOUT. In reflective activity HE DOES KNOW, and the more thorough the reflective process, the more thorough and precise his knowledge. He performs actions be cause they will achieve certain results, and he is Conscious of that causal con nection, both before the action is per forfned, when he perceives the results imaginatively, and after it is x perform ed, when he sees the actualized fact." "To think or to reflect means to post pone response tto a given problematic situation until the possible consequenc es of thé possible responses have been mentally traced out. Instead of AC TUALLY making every response that occurs to us, we make all of. them im aginatively^ Instead of consuming time and energy in physical trial and error, we make no response at all in action until we have surveyed all the possibilities of action and their possible consequences. And when we do make a response we make it on the basis of those foreseen consequences." And this is the lesson that mental science would teach. The Soviet Government of Russia, altho having all the political power at its disposal, yet requires of Russians, who want to return to their own coun try, that tljey are able to live at their own expense for a whole year, be or ganized into co-operàtive groups, and tç be equipped with whatever machin ery and tools they may require to en gage in productive industry. And yet there are Americans who think it too exacting when a co-operative • Colony, like Llano, wielding no political power, stipulates certain requirements of would-be members, not nearly so ex acting or onerous as those set by the Russian government. "Jjie Colony is liot in a position to do what a great and powerful government is at present unable to do. The unfavorable condi tions now prevailing in Russia forbid an open dpor to immigration of even natives who wish to return. Lionçl Curtis at the meeting of the Institute of Politics at Williamstown, Mass., the other Jay insisted that the idea of the commonwealth must pro gressively displace tjye idea of the em :. He adde'd : "The most perilous WANTED * Llano Colony has need of several trained helpers in the following lines of work, who can now join us. Installment members are called in to take their placqi when their services are needed in the Colony. The following are ndw asked to communicate with the general manager at once: SHOE-REPAIRER, DAIRYMAN BRICKLAYERS, TEAMSTERS BAKERS Applicants must be willing to pioneer a little; and they should be anxious to learn to co-operate, WRITE TÖ THE GENERAL MANAGER— LLANO CO-OPERATIVE COLONY NEWLLANO, VIA LEESVIILE, LA. WHAT IS A SLAVE. What is a slave? Not long ago, when Lincoln lived, a slave was one whose person was sold as a commodity. Now it is one who is obliged to sell his labor power as a commodity. Once the slave's body was held as property. Then the master .cared for that body in order to prgserve the labor power in' herent. in it. He fed the* slave well, housed him and protected him exactly as a breeder of fancy horses cared for a thorough bred horse. Now the master does ndf care for the slave's body, he only buys the labor power. If one slave's body gives out from hunger or occupational disease or industrial accident it is discarded, fired,« shoved out of the way and the master buys the labor power of an other. He is not buying bodies, he is buying labor power. The preservation of the body of his slave does not inter est him as long as there are others to be gotten. ' v In Lincoln's time when the slave's body was bot, the master fed and hous ed that body even during unemploy ment. » It is cheaper for the master to have a slave-selling labor power. Dur ing unemployment he does not need to feed him. The slave goes hungry, for the pittance allowed him as wage does not give him a decent living,- much less does it permit him to lay by fo# sickness or unemployment. The colored chattle slave knew what he was talking about when he refused to climb up on a rickety roof saying, 'Hey, boss, send that white man up there. If I s killed I cos you one thous and dollars. If he's killed he cos you thirty cents an hour. Owning nothing but his labor power, the wage slave is obliged to hunt a mas ter, beg for a job, take what the mas ter gives him or go out and starve. Any wage worker who thinks he is not a slave gives evidence that he is also in mental subjection t8 his master. He lets his master do his thinking for him. Otherwise he would analyze life as he is forced to live it under the wage system and he would recognize his slavery and work for his emancipa tion. What is a wage worker's life but a weary drudgery, day in, day out, al ways haunted by the fear of sickness or unemployment? Always forced to rent cheap houses, obliged to buy cheap shoddy clothes and cheap food. He must deny his children the right to higher education, must see His wife grow prematurely old from drudgery and privation. He and his family are forced to remain in one locality a life time, without any pleasure trips or travel for education anywhere. Chain ed thru lack of funds as firmly as a dog is chained to his kennel. Denied the right to organize, hounded by stool pig eons and armed gunmen, framed with bomb plots, befuddled with master class teaching, this is the wagtj worker. And is he not a slave? There is one point on which we a gree with the editor of the Duluth Her ald. He says that a' government that would perpetrate such an outrage as slavery would not last. We agree. It will not last."»The government that permit ted chattle slavery did not last, neither will a government that permits wage slavery. History now records chattle slavery as a thing of the past. The time is com ing when wage slavery will also be re corded as past, and it wilt be described as even more cruel than chattle slavery. Duluth Truth. task which a commonwealth can under take is to attempt to govern other races," he said, "It cannot b e done without the gravest risks to the prin ciples upon which its own institutions are based, Athens and Rome are both warnings on that point. ARISTOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY Throughout the ages mankind has moved onî under two great controling ideàls of government ; the predominat ing one, the rule of the many by the few, the aristocratic ideal; the other, embryonic, unformed, glimmering ancï flickenng down the centuries, an ideal at times almost disappearing from view, again flaming, lurid with portentious light—a belief that society should rule itself.—Francis Parker. Some one has said that language was first created to hide thç, truth. "All men are liafs is another statement, widely quoted. A horse jocky who cov ers the blemishes of the animal he is selling is covertly, lying. A merchaiit who deceives his customer does the fie. An editor who hides the truth is the biggest liar of all. And a poli tician who deceives his constituents de serves the hottest place in h —1, togeth er with the judge who betrays his trust. Keep your heart on high, that is the ;um of philosophy.—Victor Cousin. Classified Section FOR SALE—TAILOR SHOP, in cluding Hoffman Press; best location in Parish Seat; population over 3,000,. Parish 25,000; saw mills every three, miles; good opportunity for tailor; no competition; $50 to $70 a week in cleaning and pressing; new orders about 400 a year; $1500 will make the sale.—Address Box 4, Leesviile, La - 220-tf.. TO EXCHANGE FOR COLONY STOCK—112 acres of land in Cecil County, Maryland; 12 acre wood-lot; acres permanent pasture; 93 acres now under cultivation; two miles to shipping point; one mile to school; fine big stone house; barn and other out-buildings; land suited to the rais ing of wheat, corn, oats, clover and white potatoes, particularly. Price, $5,300. $4,300 of this can remain as a mortgage at 6%. For quick action will take Llano stock for the $1,000 payment. If you want a bargain, write at once to Geo. T. Pickett, Llano Col ony. TRADE FOR LLANO STOCK.— 160 eres in Minnesota; fair buildings; drilled well and windmill; mair and Phone; 8 miles to town; I mile to school. About 40 acres wood; 30 acres fenced; 50 acres in tame grass; balance natural meadow. Lime-clay soil. Price $35 an acre ($5600.00). Time on $1200 at 7%: balance in $i9Ôo (S tak i! Uano , stock «P 3>iyu u.u i) as cash, par value.—C. J. S. care Llano Colonist " j .47 FOR EXCHANGE—926 shares of Llano stock to exchange for property. J. C. Nale, Box 32, Wasco, Calif. ^ ,^ 0R SALE—102 acres; 32 acre» cultivated; 2 good houses; 2 barns. Pnce $5,000. Close to Colony hotel. See George T. Pickett. 39 4ro° R | SALE ' "".I 1 acres of land ; 4-room house and barn.. 100 peach trees, 20 apple trees; 20 grape vines; s rawberr.es, blackberries, and dewber nes, some f lgs Well i mpr0 ved A ^WFIWÏM' D roa{ ^ viile. La ' 1 B0X 63 ' Lees " SELL OR EXCHANGE—320 acres fcnesi (arm land in New Mexico with vatioir ^ ALE ~ 500 acres : 30 in .culti- . ance Jo°d\ 8 ° 0d timber on baI " Lano Colony. See G. T. Pickett, 38