The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-24
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Unrest and disturbance appear To
extend to all peoples and places in
the world today 1t is as if an atmos
phere of universal restlessness had
settled down in the last few years and
was enveloping all countries. The
| theory of the impelling power of
| thought enters in to explain this. 1t
points out as the world swings through
space it eaters new heavenly areas
that have existed for millions of years.
! Through these same spaces the great
| power of the universe and tens of
| thousands of centuries ago swept other
| other worlds asmind is what has
once been thought and done remains
forever an influence, SO what was
done in those unknown worlds that
passed this way in the prehistoric
times-what was thought then-has
been left in space to influence any
passing body. Our world is now
possibly entering into one of these
areas, and the i'm preSS of the thought
of that aeons-old period may be influ-
encing our whole method of thinking.
The effect is shown most visibly in
every realm of art and may be the
reason for what is called cubism.
post expressionism or futurism. This
furOre is extending to architecture
and to designs in dress and furniture.
Line drops away from color and mass
are made the medium of conveying
ideas. In some cases it is a striving
after full expression of feeling-in
others the effort to make motion and
power visible. May this not also be
the basis of the swing all over the
world to new progressivism The pol
iticians, the perhaps unconscious re-
Electors of tho minds and thought OF
the people may be involuntarily influ-
eDced by the wave of thought through
which our world is passing in space.
At any rate, this is as good an ex-
PLANTATION as any of the curious and
perturbed frame of mind or the whole
world today. Whatever the explana-
ton the effect exists, and it becomes
necessary to meet the condition, to
araIyze it, and to formulate rules for
its guidance and its just expression In
law and procedure and to restrain IL
within the bounds of reason and COM
mon sense, else it may develop into a
Wild. crazy stampede ending in a de-
struction.-The Bache Review.
PROFIT IN CO-OPERATION.
A co-operative store established in
MontcIair n. J., year ago has just
maid its stockholders per cent on
their capital stock, set aside per cent
on the stock as a reserve res .+ IunG ann
stockhoIders-of 5 per cent on the
gross amount of purchases. This
looks like success, even in comparison
with the records of the long -estao-
lished English cooperative trading
The Montclair store has dealt in
groceries, fruits and vegetables, and,
for six months OHIyS III HoHS'
much as possible goods were bought
of original producers. At first the
sales were only $4,000 month; at the
end of the year they amounted to more
than 100000 a month. The original
capital was only $4,000, distributed
among 200 stockholders.
Co-operative trading depends on
good management, which in COMPETE
tive business has been costly. Perhaps
the Montclair co-operators have been
unusually fortunate in their manage
ment. but no one can deny that there
is too great and unnecessary expense
in the ordinary retail distribution OF
foodstuffs under the competitive sys-
tenn If cooperation can be made as
succe ssfuI in the United States as IL
has been in England, the cost of liv-
ing can be reduced for many people,
Record-Herald.