The Washington times., 1919-09-25
Three Acres and a Cow

| G. & Chesterton Has Cure for the Public Unrest
One of the arguments of 1851 that was used to convert
the negro to the cause Of the North that the South
defeated every ColOred man would get five acres OF
ground and mule.
The most potent influence in the breaking up Of the
Russian army the by German agents that
he ind Of the arstoacy about to be divided and
that the soldiers could only get their share by being the
ground when the division took place.
@'There is but one way to make poor Conserva-
i've says Chesterton in an article in the October number
Of Hearsts Magazine; that is, give him something to
conserve E"
There are three things that every man wants: Happ
less-MoneyLRoWer.
By getting Money or Power or BOTH he may gain Hap
oness he may have happiness without either There
thousands Of poor people that supremey Contented
By getting Money the acquisition Of Power is made
But in any case the possession Of one or all Of these
three things the cause the essence Of LIES struggle
If you satisfy the chief longing of Individual you
animate his discomfort and without discomfort there no
nres and is only truthful say that without discomfort
md unrest there is little progress.
II every could be given by some good fairy the
hing he most wanted and with its ownership he settled
down to devote himself solely to its enjoyment what ncen
i've would there be for Improvement what stimulus for
9ndeavor?
But while it is not best for any man or woman to have
al he she wants. there those things which everyone
has right to desire and should have opportunity to
gain.
The finest phrase in the Declaration of Independence is
hat which says: can men created equal and = =
endowed by their Creator with certain inaenable Rights
among these Life, Liberty and the pursuit Of
Happiness"
Slavery Of any kind is mbearable.
And monopoly is only another name for slavery with
hs monopolst as the Simon Legree
''From the very first" says Chesterton the rich
and the poor made steadily in the direction of monop
oily; the rich in the Trust and the poor in the Trade
Union Industrial Capitalism began to make rings
almost soon it began to make rails; and the first
prOletarian movements not toward anarchism still
less toward anarchy but toward the almost military
discipline of the medieval guild. So, far from scram-
bic Of highly indvidualzed individuals, the story has
ended in between two highly sOciaized and even
highly centralized states.''
Government might have been and was for a long time
oOked to for the correction of this twosided monopoly
9ut ChestsOn says the laborng man. the worker the
Ver has believed and with good deal Of evidence to
upport his belief that most modern governments are
1ade up Of men meny serving the rich at the expense Of
he poor"
What is the real cure for public discomfort?
Every sound cure consists primarily Of the removal of
he cause Of disease
The boy with thorn in his foot first pulls out the
horn.
he may sferward poutice the wound but the poutice
could do little good if the thorn remained
Chesterton has evolved remedy He has written a
description he believes that his cure improbable as he
links its application may be, would eliminate the disease
no restore the patient
But doctors disagree And the patient is sometimes
wiser than the physician.
In this YOU are the patient After you have read
Dr. ChestertOns diagnosis and sampled his remedy Won
nay have better medicine to suggest.
At least its reading will make you think and thinking
3 the basis Of all sound conclusions.