The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-26

4 liz SdAllC HELL WILL Iii LIZ AOetSaSs ~
the profits will go to the people and Ii
that's the rub. s
The postoffice is run smoothly and II
returns profit. No sane person would Ii
think Of turning the letter business over Z
10 private concerns to run. Yet this
beneficent necessity was fought years
ago, just as the railroad ownership is b
fought now.
A prison industrial manager has
been appointed for the state Of New
York. His duties will be to put the /
prisons on an industrial basis and ar
range matters 50 prisoners will be re-
compensed for their labor. This helps
some and takes out Of the sentence
much Of the gruesomeness Of prison
life.
Nations do not collapse; they decay.
Individuals collapse and fade out. Life |
is the only permanent thing. It is re-
presented by many forms. the greatest
and most glorified. we think, is man.
Hence the alarm cries of collapse
around the corner,
Germany cannot pay except in COM
modities. The Allies do not want that,
| it completes too strenuously. Tariff
walls only proIongs the uncertainty.
That competition is ruinous and foolish
/ is evidenced on every hand. There will
Ibe failure and fhmors Of collapse UNI
It'll the knowledge becomes worldwide
THAT man and nations are interdepen-
dent and that Life is eternal.
The leasing system for postoffice
buildings and sites is to be abandoned
\ Postmaster General Works. true to
his name, is hurrying matters and
advocates knowledge Of real estate by
postmasters.
Leah Silver, accused of abandoning
Iher baby in a swamp, and about to be-
come the mother Of another. has found
friends at last, and is comfortable" in
a sanitarium. The woman always
pays" is a truism familiar to all, The
double standard is a ruinous one-at
least Leah will admit it.
Lenin is dead again. poisoned. Some
day it will be true, but everything from
| the fabrication factory at Riga is dis
counted by the often fooled readers in
America. Too bad that he cant be
permitted to live until he and his con-
freres have wrked out the system to
their own satisfaction, so that the world
can see if il actually works.
The political trend Of the country is
being shown by the state after state
falling into progressive" ranks. Ne
braska, in her primary. dominates R.
lB. Howell. Progressive Republican
against A. W. Jeffries old line.
The landslide for Harding two years
ago will probably be repeated on the
side. Large bodies move slowly and
because Harding did not bring settle
ment for social and economic worries,
the populace will try something else,
and succeed just as weel as when Har-
ding was elected.
Education will bring new political
and social order. The mere election OIL
progressive or reactionary or a
standpatter, settles nothing. The diff
Guilty is, the people know not what they
want. Yet it would MORALLY insult the
Individual to tell him. One difficulty is
that the ordinary person Identifies his
interest with those who are running
things.
President Harding's plan to operate
the mines and railroads by enforced
labor, which means non-union labor, byl
force Of arms. failed as was expected
The. Amerlcan plan SO touted some
time since, does not make a hit with
class-conscious men, and there are
many such. a
There is no liberality in telling man
that he can work for whomsoeyer he
pIeases and leaves the selection of the
men to the private owners Of proper
ty. Men will never regard this as
privilege, notwithstanding the Presi-
dents guarante of troop protection.
Ii is unreasonable TO think that The
nearly two-thirds Of million miners
can Be replaced with any efficiency by
r,~l;u-,, IaLo~ Il fakes lono, evneri-