Imperial Valley press., 1916-12-16
4 CULVER IN HIS BONDS.

A CULVER IN HIS BONDS.
There are SIGNS that something is about to happen
with respect to the handling of the United States tood
supply Investigations bringing out telling facts DlS-
closures of the methods of middemen and distributors
strengthening the feeling OF the pubic that much OF
The pressure of high prices for the necessaes OF Vng
is merely artificial the result of Wful and unscrupuous
nanipulaon and therefore thing that ought to De dohe
away with And there is nothing strange in the fact that
people are arriving this concuson The marvel haI
SO much time has been required for the publlc to learn OF
the widespread effort make It suffer unWalantaoy
Even now there is surety that anything definite Will
be done in the way of ameoIaton Yet LOOKING at Tile
matter in its broader aspects, one can hardy 1al 10 see
that the practices which have gradually been estabsneo
IN the United States practices which have had the effect
Of making and keeping prices at an oppresslVely mgh
eve are nothing short of monstrOs 1t is only because
these practices have creeping IN upon olSy ana
growing nation little by little tightening their grip only
by degrees that they have gone unrecognzed But H.
among Individuals it is despcable that he VINO mas iood
IN plenty shall withhold it, for gain, from him who IS III
need is the thing any less intoerabe when is
pished by groups and organizations or when the greed
the unbrded greed Of system instead OF the shamefaceo
greed Of one man?
Public sentiment is GulveT, tardly, to
find himself staked and corded earth by horde OF ILL
putians, but Guliver who once thoroughly aroused
knows himself after all, giant among pygmles why
should he longer submit? Why not teach the pygmles 10
do his bidding? For the cords that bind this CULVER
Of today the cords of organ nzaton They are the
Interviewing intelpayng, threads OF business ana ll-
cia activity drawn aut here and there around some STAKE
driven firmly into intrenched interest: that tighten
ng one cord YOU draw all tighter oosening you al
low the whole network relax If CULVER in his eth-
argy has felt these Tightening cords chang him now and
then he has drOWSily assured himself that they some
how necessary his we'll being and support and has tol
Grated half understood discomfort for the sake OF hall
believed satisfaction 1t is only when the cords bind
and chafe many points, that Guiveris sr1ing Is star
ing down at himself becoming conscious that only by
breaking through this web Of threads he much
as yawn and stretch himself in preparation for day
ORGANIZATION is not necessarily evil Without or
ganizaton it would be difficult to say how modern soci-
ETY. could provide for itself could understand itself could
oven approach community of thought and action. Or
ganzaon its best is Of the golden keys OF mod
progress. It is organization that places the grapes
appleS puns and melons CT the Far West ready at the
fruit stand on every third street in the cities and
towns of the popuous East that shoots the coal Of he
Middle and Southern Atlantic states into bins and furnaces
wherever house factory needs heat power in the
North or Northwest that provides gasoline by the pint
quart gallon wherever in all the country wide there is
road trail that be traversed by an automobile OF
a WatercOurse that is navigabe to motor boat Organ
zation like this is of sort indeed undo the heavy bur
dens let the oppressed go free and to break every
yoke Well might it be called THE reparer Of the breach
the restorer of paths to dwell in.
But organization has fallen short of its high mission
has lost its inner light Satisfied in its earlier peroC
with the vision Of Service it has turned aside in its
Of sophistcaton worship at the shrine of "COntrO
Organization that in its beginnings stood for benefcen
economies has too often to only the OF
so-caed power Under its spell hnancier business
man who would never willingly an individual want
food clothing shelter will take positive delight in
trolling and manipulating the supply of necessares il
bulk so that and children, by the hundred
thousand must seemingly pay tribute to his whim or &c
down under the lack which his selfish purpose imposes
Organization like this is good business told: it is
big business it is what has made the United States