Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-07


crew helped pick about a wagon load
of cucumbsrs, and many other jobs
had to be done and there were will
ing hands to do them, too. Only il
this true in the heart of the true CO.
operato-. If one renders service thro
force Of necessity or to be praised for
it afterwards. he has lost his greatest
reward. The real reward is in his wish
to serve, regardless of what the task
may be; and the harder the work. the
greater the service and. therefore, the
greater the reward. What is the hard
est thing the newcomer must face when
he comes here? | am asked, and off
handedly | say, Adjusting himself to
the new order of things. And | tell you
it is big thing to do, too Many leave
good, up-to-date homes and come here
. to pioneer under roug h conditions. Il
especially upsets women. Another
thing hard on the women is that she
seems to want to be a slave to her
home and doesn't seem to see the way
to freedom through service to the COM
munity and the development of her
own capabilities, instead of depending
upon a man to make her living. There
is no difference between he" para
site and she parasite, and women
must learn that they have in their own
hands the power to free themselves.
Men are surprised to think the wealth
here is held in common, and he who
has hal his pay envelope every Sat
urday seems at loss what to do; but
as he finds no rent, no grocery bills,
no doctors bills, and no other expens-
es to meet, he soon refuses to worry
and learns that service is its own re-
ward and the future power of the
world, We can live without money
better than those who slave for it as
a necessity. If our land were all paid
| for, we could soon free ourselves from
all desires for anything except what we
can produce. These are only few Of
the adjustments to be made; and only
those with the cooperative common
wealth as an ideal, and have eliminat-
ed suspicion, greed, and jealousy from
their hearts find the adjustment an
easy one. Your motive will be the
determining factor for you, my COM
rade, and if your motive is not true
one, advise you, don't come; for
your fault will find you out A Col
ony dance was held tonight as part of
the celebration, and most of the col
onists attended, although it was call
ed affair. Good news travels fast in
Newllano.
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Tuesday, July 5-After two days
lay-off, everybody IS back on the
job. 1t seems strange to think of a
whole day lost to some of us. When
some work is left undone, if turns out
all right, but to other jobs it works to
a great disadvantage, for the work
must be made up in some way. 1t was
with marked degree of staggers that
entered the office to face four days
unhandled mail, and it brought forth
a resolution that | will have some help
on that job, if it is possible to dig up
some one who will take it. New work.
ers on the job make somewhat of a
REIMBURSEMENT. True Robertson has
gone into the wagon shop with Balte-
| zore and Mr.. Alexander has taken Ro-
bertson's team of mules; he and Kemp
were planting corn north of the mule
barn. Van and Carlson were blowing
in the field farthest west in order to
plant more peanuts. The gang with
the hoes were working at the orchard
and Lindsey was blowing and discing
with tractor No. 2. Satnan and Yer
non were hauling. wood with tractor
No. /. from the bottoms south of the
Colony. The building crew is wreck
ing the big shed next to the railroad,
as the new hard road will go through
where it stands. Comrade Hastings 81
drawing plans for new industrial build
ings that will soon have to be built.
Comrade Murrell started work at the
garage with Walter Langridge and is
beginning to recover from his hard
! drive on the trip down here from Ok
| lahoma. Comrade Snyder was initial.
ed into the mysteries of Colony work
to-day; he started in with the builders
but they treated him so roughly that
he lost several parts of his trousers
so, in the pm. he tackled a job at the
kitchen, and the women, made him
wash dishes. Of course, he pretended
to like the lob, but-well, he weighs