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session.
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The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08
CAN'T BLUFF JEWELL
(By The Federated Press)

Chicago. - Strikes are not illegal
under the transportation act and the
walkout of 100000 shop crafts en-
'pIoyes which began at 10 am. July
|, cannot be construed as a defiance
of the government.
This was the substance of the answer
made by B. M. Jewell. president, rail-
way employees department. A. +. Of
L., when he refused to appear before
an eleventh-hour session of the U, S.
railway labor board.
1t was the same board that had pro-
yoked the overwhelming strike vote Of
the rail workers by its decisive cutting
$60.000,000 Of their annual wages and
by its delay in securing comphahce-by
the rail executives with those of its
orders that were unfavorable to the
roads.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08
SAFE AND SANE FOURTH
PERMITS JOY AT LLANO
FEATURE OF THE DAY WAS ABSENCE OF FIREWORKS FIRE ARMS
AND OTHER RELIC S OF BARBAFdsM

Safety and sanity to the last degree
was observed by the residents of Llano
on the Fourth Of July. The day was
marked BY the total absence Of danger
Gus fireworks, explosions Of anvils and
all other noise producing devices, relics
Of the days of our savage ancestors.
While our neighbors in nearby town
amused themselves with The highly ele-
vating spectacle Of a fight between a
wildcat and bulldog, the coIonists
spent the day in manner suited TO a
community of really progressive people.
The forenoon was taken Up BY vol-
unteer work that required immediate
attention, working in private gar
dens and in the preparation Of dinner
by busy self-appointed crew who took
il upon themselves 10 see that the reg
Iular hotel crew had a real vacation for
Ionce. Threatening clouds somewhat
interfered with the preamanged plans
for dinned as it was first intended to
ii
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08
ARE CONSTITUTIONAL GUARAN-
TEES UTTERLY MEANINGLESS?

New York. = "The United States
government can use its armed forces
10 exact protection of Americans from
mobs in Mexico, but not in Texas and
Georgia" says statement by the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment Of Colored People, commenting
on Senator Borah's statement that the
Dyer anti-lynching bill is unconstitu-
tional. States and state governors,
notably in Mississippi and Texas" the
statement continues. shave recently
confessed their inability to prevent
lynching. Senator Borah completes
the picture Of anarchy by contending
that not only the states are powerless
but the federal governmen as well. In
effect, Senator Borah maintains that
within the United States the so-called
constitutional guarantees are utterly
meaningless.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08
GOOD WEEK FOR THE
DOLLAR-UP CLUB

There is nothing like success 10 make
success, when you have accomplished
one task always new and better one
is offered you.
This week. al the beginning Of the
new month, ! am going 10 ask all mem.
bers Of the Dollar-Up Club to make
clubs of their own; get up a small clut
Of three, five Or ten among your friend.
this is the best way to educate and
interest them, as well as to keep youl
own enthusiasm fresh and lively.
So, let us now have Clubs Of Dol
lar-Up'ers wherever we have one Dol
lar-Up'er. He who can make two Dol
lar-Up'ers grow where only one grew
before is benefactor to his fellows
The servant of the Dollar-Up'ers
needs your help all Of the time as vel
as your dollar. Make Club Of Dol.
lar-Up'ers and let us all cooperate anc
raise the funds needed to properly cap
italize the new society-the Co-opera-
tive Commonwealth.
Remember, readers, that if you are
not yet DoIlar-Up'er, you must join,
We need you at $l.00 or more month
all of you. See the good beginning
for this new month, Who's next2
Join the Dollar-Up'ers. and don't Be
down-and-outer.
The Servant of the Up'ers.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08
Harding Accused Of
Fighting Labor Unions

a few old men and half a dozen "yel-
lows" had stayed at work.
At machinists' International head
quarters the list Of assignments Of Off
GERS to various posts thruout the coun-
try was announced by Johnston to his
board members. Vice-President Ander-
son will have charge Of the Pennsyl-
vania shopmen. with headquarters at
Pittsburgh. David Williams will have
the roads leading into New York City.
Peter Conlon has this city. W. v.
Harmon has Denver. Other officials
have other stations south and west. St.
Paul will be headquarters for the north
western division, with James Taylor in
charge.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08
MUST FARMERS STRIKE?
(By The Federated Press)

New York. Georgia farmers. ac-
cording to figures received here, plant
ed this year about $500 acres in can
taloupes. Many of the melons were
shipped to New York. If you went to
market here to buy one you paid. us
ually, between Is and 20 cents for it.
There were several days recently when
you could have bought Georgian cam
taloupe for as little as 10 cents.
Wholesale prices in the railroad
yards here last week were as low as
10 cents for flat crate Of IS mel
ons. Standard crates. holding As mel
ons, said for 30 cents a crate whole
sale. These prices did not pay the
freight nor the cost Of the crates The
consumers. however. paid at retail al
most as much as ever.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08
The Colony Diary
Being Daily Report o., Colony Life at LIanO.

Wednesday, June 28. - Our brick
crew has been making farmers of them
selves lately and are to-day hoeing SUI
gar cane. Talk of unemployment
well | guess not! If we were not work
ing as real co-operators. we could not
swing from one job to the other as
these fellows do. But ii is greatly to
our advantage to do it and therefore
the fellows who are real co-operators
adjust themselves to the conditions and
do what is best for the whole colony.
Such is real cooperation in action un-
der adverse conditions. So Chappelle
W. Beavers, and Scharrer are fighting
weeds with hoes and Denver Cryer is
cultivating with his fathers team OF
mules. Some brick crewl The saw
mill is running lumber for crate mater
ial and made another shipment Of cam
taloupe crates. Comrade Hastings car
of furniture and machinery is being un-
loaded and distributed to the proper
places. Marchick and Lee are plowing
for corn and velvet beans, while Kemp
is planting sorghum, Jones cultiyatlng
sweet potatoes and Fread discing with
Fordson. King and Boyce are haul
ing logs and De Boer is hauling fer
tiIizer. Comrade Conlin is building ur
his bakery trade to such an extent that
Valek, Ewell and Clappa are all work
ing at the bakery getting out supplies
Mrs. Schuster is now working with the
two Gaddises in the canning factory
Putting up pickles is steady job. Bu-
hire and Chas. Anderson are steadily
working at the weeds in the cane ane
the lob will soon be completed witt
the extra help Of the brick crew ane
Comrade Tackett. Hoover, Merrill anc
Fall have just finished half mile o
new fence that helps keep the goats II
pasture and prevents them from reach
ing the orchard. The sales Of bricl
and crates are picking up and It look
as if Llano-made goods are coming IN
to demand more and more every day
If a building boom should start in town
around us, the brick business will b
our best opportunity. because we hay
all the raw material and our own labo
to produce the finished product with
OF course it will take a great deal Q
our attention away from CONSTRUCTING
Newllano, but as we are still forced 7
buy from the outside, and the Dollar
up Club is not large enough yet to COY
er these expenses. we will have t
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08
.FaYorabIe
Llano Personals

Herman Carlson. for some years a
resident at Llano, and more recently
Of Fairhope Colony. has decided to Try
the colony movement in Russia, and he
will join the American colony there
shortly.
1888
Mrs. Harry Bell, ST.. left last Sat
urday for a visit with relatives in Iowa
and Minnesota. She expects to be gone
for two months at least. returning 10
LIano about the first of October.
****
Mrs. ]. c. Rhodes and daughter.
Miss Trixie EwelI, will spend several
weeks with Mrs. Rhodes sister in Ne
vada, Mo. Mrs. Rhodes will have
a weIl-earned vacation as she has been
in charge of the sewing department
for the past two years and has been on
the job constantly during that time.
They left last Wednesday and will pro-
baby remain until late autumn.
****
General Manager Pickett, accom-
panied by Mr.. Richard Woodland and
Miss Gertrude West, motored to Jen-
nings, La. last Wednesday. to inspect
the Colony rice farm near there. Mr..
Woodland has been visitor at Llano
for several weeks, and. as he looked
into every nook and corner on the
home ranch since he has been here, he
wished to have look at the rice farm
before leaving. He goes 10 Baton
Rouge from Jennings. but will returr
10 Llano as soon as his affairs can b
arranged. Miss West will spend few
days with her parents at Jennings be
fore returning to the Colony,
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08

turn our hands to the necessaries first.
If we could turn all our time to putting
up buildings. getting in our city water,
clearing land and preparing it for agri-
culture and fruit-raising. it would not
be long before we could show you a
miniature paradise. 1t is here to be
made. and it is our job to make it. The
JOY of doing it would be sufficient
compensation for all the pioneering and
work-b there comes the outside
economic pressure that we are forced
to guard against. Have you not a
friend who has the same ideal as ours,
one who wishes to keep his ideal alive
and active2 If SO, he must do some
thing to keep it alive or it will die.
The only way you can keep your ideas
alive is to feed them, do something to
bring them into working existence.
The DolIar-Up Club can be made the
life stream to feed and accomplish the
consummation of the workers cooper
ative commonwealth.
%~*%
Thursday, June 29. Victor Mel
son, from California, arrived today, and
|'if he is as big co-operator as he is in
body, he. will make some splash in our
little pond. The farm work and log
hauling were going on as usual until
nice rain came. And ii came in fine
time to freshen up cur gardens and
farm crops. Comrade Nelson said he
was wondering if our rains here were
, sufficient for good farming or if we
! had to irrigate. This is a point that
people from irrigated districts are much
interested in, and am pleased to in
lform them that nature does our irrigat-
ling for us with an abundant supply.
la supply Of strings for musical instru-
ments Just arrived from Mrs. Don Bel
lcher and can see Comrade Martin
ewes sparkle when he reads this. By
1.-THE way, news from the rice farm IN
forms us that the rice crop is in excel
Ilent condition and am wondering whal
1--we can do towards exchanging rice
and sweet potatoes for apples, wheat
lcorn. or dried fruits Of different kinds
IEIow much nicer it would be for q
group of you farmers to get together
and each put in a few sacks Of wheai
until you have a car load to ship US il
Exchange for d car load Of rice or sweei
potatoes. The same could be done By
Continued on last page)
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08
0UTLAWING OF UNIONS
ILLEGAL, GOMPERS' VIEW

Samuel Gompers. president Of she A.
F. Of L. issued an implied warning to
the railroad labor board against further
attempts to outlaw unions Gompers
defied the board to make its order out
lawing the shopcrafts unions. now on
strike. stick.
by this astounding ruling The board
undertakes to disband the unions and
10 command at will that new organiza-
tions be formed" Gompers said This
no government agency can do because
trade unions are voluntary organiza-
tons Of the workers. =
Gompers characterized the boards
action as autocratic and bolshevistic.
Freedom Of expression vanished un-
der The order Of the board. He sais
But | say now that lie workers d
America. either on the railroads Or else
where. do not intend to sacrifice fres
dom Of expression.
The board as an institution fune
tioning il the twentieth century is
cond IN congruity only to the sozcailea
open shop movement
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08
is HARDING RESPONSIBLE
FOR WAR UPON LABOR?
CBy The Federated Pressl

Washington. - At the moment when
President Harding was reading his
speech to the representatives of the BIZ
luminous coal operators and the United
Mine Workers, "admonishing' them in
vain to settle the coal strike quickly.
two thousand railroad workers in the
shops of the capital city were laying
down their tools and walking out, In
augurating the rail-strike forced upon
them by his administration.
This is no time for the militant note
of the radical who would prefer to de-
stroy our social system said Hard
ing, in his speech 10 the coal miners.
Yet at the other end Of town. the rail-
road shopmen held him responsible for
attempting to destroy the foundations
of their social status.
I'VE know" said VIM. H. johnson,
president International Association Of
Machinists, that the railroad labor
board, in destroying our national
agreement, was carrying out Mr.. Hard
ing's wishes. He told Mr.. Jewell thai
the national agreement must 90, anc
refused to hear our side of the case
He had heard the railroad managers
side, and he pronounced judgment
which the railroad labor board carried
out. 1t may be that in reducing oul
wages the board is carrying out his in
structions.
I'VE are ready, and will be gsadtc
meet in a general conference the man.
agements of all the railroads. as the
miners are now meeting all the opera
tors. but we shall refuse to meet them
singlv. They had the opportunity
months ago, but rejected it,"
Reports show that 81 percent of the
membership had obeyed the strike call
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08
ONE BIG UNION
FOR AUSTRALIAN WORKERS

Sydney, NJ S. W. Steps are be-
ing taken to departmentalize the unions
which have joined the One Big Uniot
that is. to substitute organization or
an industrial basis for the former Graf
basis. Reports from all parts cf III
continent are that the success Of til,
o. B. U. is assured. Five departments
agriculture, manufactures. mining
transport. building, construction-a-e
being organized. Ii is expected thai
the head administration offices of the
o. B. U. will be at Sydney.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08

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serve il picnic fashion out under the
trees. But the plans were quickly
changed and the food served cafetes-
la style III the hotel.
Soon after dinner The colonists as-
Isembled near the schoolhouse and en-
joyed an excellent program By the or
Ichestra. after which an oration was del
lixered BY Lee Rhodes. Lee Is j spIen-
did speaker and bis talks ale always
well received wherever he goes.
Supper was in charge Of volunteer
crew that is to be congratulated Oh
serving particularly appetizing meal
in such an unusually satisfactory man
ner.
In the evening the coIonists had the
privilege Of hearing mastery address
on The Essentials Of Cooperation,
delivered BY MI. Richard Woodland.
who has been visitor at LIano for the
Ipast few weeks As Mr.. Woodland mas
Ibeen engaged in the cooperative move
Iment for many years. he is thoroughly
acquainted with his subject. and His
Iskillful handling Of it held his audience
lattentive to every word until darkness
lcompelled an adjournment.
| A wedding had been previously an
nounced, but no names mentioned. and
every eligible couple in the Colony had
! been guessed as the possible principals
| in the approaching ceremony. Imag-
Inc, then, the surprise Of the assembled
wedding guests when, TO the strains Of
the wedding march, in came MI. Henry
Sutton and Miss" Harry Bell. our
, lately-discovered and Incompatible fe-
male impersonator. attended by brides
maids, best men, and others. Dr. Thur
man was on hand TO perform the cer-
emony which he did in his own pecul-
lar way. Il was one that is not gener-
ally used and was certainly not calcu-
lated to encourage any Of the ladies
pre- sent who were thinking Of commit
ting matrimony The pride was pre-
sented with log chain as a symbol Of
her condition Of slavery to her futuy !
lord and master, and tie husband WIS
given a good, strong ''gad" to Be used
whenever il should be necessary 10 re-
mind his slave of her proper place and
conduct. "A baby ring was found TOD
small. but a barrel-hoop was quickly
substituted and saved the day. The
groom wore high collar. white vest,
'swaller-tail' coat. 'neverything. He
might have been easily mistaken FOX
an 'honest-to-goodness" bridegroom
anywhere. The ''bride" wore Mrs.
Sanders dress, Mrs. Gaddis' shoes. and
a lace-curtain borrowed from Mrs
Somebody's window served as long,
flowing vail. "She" was scream.
Immediately after the ceremony, 4
Colony only" dance was held in the
hotel, which was rather an unusual af-
flair for LIano. AS rule our neighbors
are always free to attend our social
functions; but on this occasion it was
decided to make It just a family af-
flair. and, as a consequence. an unus-
Iually enjoyable dance ended the day
activities,
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08
CATERED SHOWERS KEEP
VERNON'S CROPS GROWING

Rain fell on three days last week,
amounting to total of little over
two inches for the week, helping the
crops some, and not delaying farm
work to any great etxent.
Weatherman w. A. Dougherty Of the
u. S. Weather Bureau station at New
llano measured the rains and he pre-
diets more scattered thunder showers
for the balance of the week, with nor
NAL temperatures.
Records for the past week are very
f.vor.hIa.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08
DECLARED OUTLAWS BY
THE U. S. RAILWAY BOARD

Chicago, July 3. - The six shop
craft unions which went on strike SAT-
urday were outlawed BY the railroad
board to-day. The resolution declares
that the men have forfeited all rights
as employees. This ruling will pertain
to all others who may go out on strike.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08

Have you thought Of joining the
"LIano Dollar-Up club"9 Read the
announcement on another page and
see if you don't belong there.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08
My Louisiana.
BY w. Lomax Childress


"A land where flowers always blow
And south winds mumur soft and low,
And bright winged birds in blue skies go
My louisiana.
A land Of lettering days that cling
To crown the year with fadeless spring.
Its scents and sounds and blossomfng-
My Louisiana.
A land of sunsets like sea,
Of and gold immensity;
Where pearl cloud ships are sailing free
My Louisiana.
land of grooming Silver streams,
In green glades flowing soft as dreams;
Through shadows in golden CLEANS
My louisiana
land from whose storied past,
The glory CLEANS to-day cast
Of lives that loved thee 10 the last
My Louisiana.
Oh! Land of hearts both brave and true;
The world is wide beneath the blue;
But all our love we bring to you
Our Louisiana
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-08

If you receive sample copy Of this
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scribe. Some friend Of yours has ask
ed US to send it.
Sample trial subscription is ten cents
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The New York herald., 1922-11-05

the commissioned and enlisted person
mel Of our Organized Reserve.
II will be seen, then. how necessary
II Is that liberal provision be made
for the establishment and conduct OF
the training camps from which will
graduate. under Federal supervision.
the material TO make up our Organized
Reserves.
History and our own experience
providing for lean and dangerous
times. No one knows the toll of war
In lives. suffering and material things
better than the army, and, knowing
this, no one abhors war more than the
officers OF our army. Until the time
comes when we can be assured that
war Is thing OF the past. we must
provide the security necessary TO pro-
tect those high ideals of our nation
wherein every man is assured equal
opportunity and justice without re-
gard TO race. religion or color. This is
true democracy; but such q democracy
must demand that Its citizens, thus
protected, shall In turn protect their
Government when an emergency de-
maids. The army OF the United
States Will be the main instrument Of
the Government in such an emer-
gency, and II Is TO enable that army
TO do its work expeditiously and effi-
Gently that tho reorganization indi-
Gated has been effected and the train
Ing referred to has been prescribed