The Winslow mail., 1914-11-07

man relationships mad grown up upon
cash basis and were almost incon-
ceivable without that convenient liqui-
dating factor 1t seemed absolutely
necessary to the life of the social or
ganization to have some sort of cur
rency, and the council had therefore to
discover some real value upon which
to rest it. Various such apparently
stable values as land and hours of
work were considered. Ultimately the
government, which was now in pos,
session of most Of the supplies of en-
ergy releasing material, fixed certain
number of units of energy as the value
of a gold sovereign. declared SOW
ereign to be worth exactly 20 marks,
% francs, So and so forth. with the 9th
er current units of the world and un-
dertOok under various qualifications
and conditions to deliver energy upon
demand as payment for every SOW
ereign presented. On the whole this
worked satisfactorily. They saved the
face Of the pound sterling Coin was
rehabilitated, and after a phase of
price fluctuations began to settle down
to definite equivalents and uses again.
with names and everyday values fa-
miliar to the common run of people.
AS the Brissago council came to
realize that what it had supposed to
be temporary camps Of refugees were
rapidly developing into great towns
of ii new type and that it was remold
Ing the world in spite of itself, it de
cided to place this work of rediStrb
uting the nonagricultural population in
the hands of a compacter and better
qualified special committee. That com
mittee is now, far more than the coun
Gil or any other of its delegated com
mitteeS, the active government of the
world. Developed from an almost in
visible germ of town planning" that
came obscurely into existence in Eu
rope or America (the question is still
In diSputel somewhere in the closing
decades of the nineteenth century, its
work, the continual active planning
and replanning of the world as a place
of human habitatiOn, is now, so to
speak. the collective, material activity
dery spreadings and receSsions of pop
ulations, as aimless and mechanical as
the trickling of spilled water, which
was the substance of history for end
less years, giving rise here to conges
TONS there to chronic devastating wars
and everywhere to a discomfort and
disorderliness that was at it's best only
now, with the whole power of the race
to aid them, into every available re
gion of the earth. Their cities are no
longer tethered to running water and
the proximity Of cultivation, their plans
are no longer affected by strategic con
siderations or thoughts of social inse
curity. The aeroplane and the nearly
cOstless mobile car have abolished
trade routes. a common language and
q universal law have abolished thou
sand restraining incOnveniences, and
so an astonishing dispersal of habita
tions has begun. One may live any
where. And so it is that our cities now
are true social gatherings, each with
character of its own and distinctive
interests of its own, and most of them
with Il common occupation They lie
out in the former deserts, those long
wasted SunbathS of the race they tow
er amidst eternal SHOWS, they hide in
remote islands and bask on broad la
goons For time the whole tendency
of mankind was to desert the river
valleys in which the race had been
Graded for half million years, but
now that the war against flies has
been waged so successfully that this
pestilential branch of life is nearly eX-
tinct they are returning thither with
renewed appetite for gardens laced
by watercourses and for pleasant liV
ing amidst islands and houSehoats and
bridges and nocturnal lanterns reflect
ed on the sea.
Man, who is ceasing to be an agr1-
cultural animal, becomes more ana
more builder q traveller and a maker.
How much be ceases to be a cultlVator
of the soil the returns of the redistr1bu-
ton committee showed Every year
the work of our scientific laboratories
increases the productivity and SlmpH-
fies the labor OF those who work upon
the soil, and the food now or the Wnole
world is produced by less than per
cent of its population, percentage
which still tends to decrease. far rev
er people are needed upon the land
taau training and procliY1ty dispose