The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-12-22
HOOSER FARMER FoRETolD EVERY
MODERN Event, 40 YEARS AGO

pockets in the future age and talk out
and speak into when they wished to
with person at a dis.
lance. (As write, a new invention,
the PONY Wireless Telephone" is be-
ing announced for practical personal
use which certainly points directly to-
ward the possibility Of the predicted
device.)
Education by Travel.
I recall that the prophecy said that
educators of that coming day would
look back upon ours as q dark age in
education, when teachers tried to COM
press within the tender brain of a lit
tie child the rudiments Of an educa-
ton that must be finished within the
lrst eighteen or twenty years Of life.
Education in this age to come was to
extend all through life; and, in order
that no one should grow up narrow
and bigoted and insular, eduation in
cluded a trip around the world on a
ticket provided for students by the
government, with stops at hotels in
ternationaly maintained for the pur-
pose, this exchange of students going
on so that every nation came in con-
tact with every other nation and
new understanding was established
among the peoples of the earth Gan
exchange of students has already be.
gun in oru colleges.)
But the most vivid thing pictured in
the socialistic state Of which this edu.
cation was part, was that there
would be no money, but every one
would give four hours work a day "a
provision being made for shirkers,
remember, which made work prefer
able to it's alternative) and in return
for this four hours work each would
draw out from the storehouse of the
nation the supplies needed for his liv-
ing. The remaining hours of the day
were to be free for the enjoyment and
development of life. All would work
and all would have leisure. There
would be no marrying for aught save
love, for there would be no money.
The condition of one family would be
the same in possessions as that of an
other. There would be no incentive to
greed, cheating, dishonesty or profit.
be lacking!
Many Prophecies Fulfilled.
This is as far as can recall the pre-
dictions of this strange pamphlet; yet
l must note that not only have the first
two events come to pass, but since l
read it fifteen years ago have also oc-
CURED the Armenian massacres, the
Balkan situation. the great war involv-
ing all of Europe, airships rapidly be-
coming vehicles OF travel, wireless
communication, and bomb liberating
4 paralyzing gas was used by Germany
in the great war. Even the inconceiv-
able thing which I derided most, the
idea of moneyless society, and of
which | never expected to hear more,
is being whispered in the world. One
day this very spring of 1919, listening
to lecture on current events" at my
woman's club, l was startled by hear
ing the speaker. in commenting on an
interview with Lenine, prominent in
the news of that mornings paper,
state his remarkable theory of no
but everything to be paid for
with service!" 49,.
certainly am not in sympathy with
Lenine or Bolshevism, but l was i'm
pressed to hear this most chimerical of
all the statements in my lost prophecy
on earth as the socialistic
theory Of anybody of my own day and
generation!
Yes, the prophecy was lost! and
am writing this account, spurred by
the rapidly-moving events of the past
few years, in the desire to find it
again.
The day after found and read it in
my storeroom, I went in town, and
on the train I related to friend, who
CHANGED to sit beside me. the story of
this prophecy which had somehow
gripped my mind. DO let me read it,"
she begged: and so when l went home.
without retreading 1t sent it to her,
and-she lost it!
In vain l tried to recall the name Of
the prophet-farmer or of his town.
Only Indiana" remained clearly with
me. I even searched the Atlas list of
Indiana towns, hoping one would sug-
gest that Of the pamphlet; but nothing
resulted. l questioned my mother on
her return. but found she could not
place the pamphlet or tell how it came
among her papers. A member of my
household who had been in the store
room with me and to whom had read
aloud the pamphlet could recall not
more than the prophecy it contained.
In fact. the matter has passed through
clew save INDIANA
Was It From kokomo7
Some eight years later, about 1912
in the New York Sun. Think read
a paragraph dated Kokomo, Ind; tell
ing Of an odd character living near
there, who claimed to have had revela-
tions and was quite noted among his
neighbors for his occult gifts. 1 wrote
to Kokomo at the time, but the post
Office returned no information. OF
course, l was merely curious then and
did not pursue the quest further. for
up to that time nothing more out of
the prophecy had happened.
The marvelously rapid developments
Of the past five or six years have made
me eagerly DESTROYS Of finding a copy
again of this $50 far) curiously true
document, and if this should meet the
eye of any Indianian who remembe IS
the prophecy, or knows it's writer, or
where it was printed. l hope he or she
will send the information to me
through this paper. Some one Is un.
doubtedly living still who worked in
that newspaper Office where it was
gotten out, or knew those select men
of the town who signed the character
certificate or who has seen a copy and
remembers more about it. Thirty or