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the fact that to keep progressive they must
advance in knowledge. "A radical in poll
itics and conservative in everything else is
out Of Mace in this community.
Llano's school system is as progressive as
the cooperative colony. The children are
not driven to learn. The subjects are arr
ranged so as to draw out of the child the.
best that is in him. With this in view, diver
sified industrial trades are placed at his dis
posal. He may thus gain an insight into a
world of endeavor and can choose that which
most nearly fits in with his natural ability.
The school has its own cafeteria now, where
foods more especially adaptable to growing.
children are prepared by the domestic SCI
ence class. Music, singing, languages, bot
any, agriculture, Esperanto, are among the
subjects offered to Llano's children; and
there are many opportunities for obtaining
real education, in addition to those pro-
Vided by the regular state course Of study,
making them thinking. alert self-reIiant
group Of future builders of cooperative
commonwealth.
Equal wages are paid to men, women and
children. The theory of this is that each
eolonlst owes to the community his best en-
deavors, whether he be learned lawyer, hus-
ky farmer. or little school child. They give,
to the whole the best they can, and in re-
turn receive the best each other can offer.
Hospital and doctor are provided when,
sickness comes, and there are no charges for
such social services. Funerals are conducted
along the same lines.
There is no need for insurance in the Coll
ony for the dependents receive their support
just the same, even if the father be remove
ed from them.
Social life is made by those who live to-
gether The great objection to living on the
land is the isolation which accompanies il.
Here in Llano, the farmers and the industrial
workers live close to the center where dane
es, entertainments, picture shows. and all
manner of good times can be had for the
making.
No rent is charged for the houses, and
any building can be used for meetings With
out cost
Men work in. whatever industry they are
best fitted for Sometimes they are moved
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around 10. different work as is deemed neces-
sary, but the fact is conceded that each
worker works best at something that he likes
to do and has fitted himself for. But when
it is remembered that each is working for the
whole, and the whole is working for the inc
dividual, no one refuses to do what is allotted
to him. ras
Women all find lots Of work TO do. They
feed the men at the hotel, wash and iron fot
them at the laundry, make dresses and overs
alls and shirts at the sewing department, at
tend store, office. etc. wherever their ser-
vices can be utilized to best advantage,
There are no parasites al Llano. Even The
incapacitated, and the aged can sometimes
help. They assemble crates, wrap papers.
attend machines, etc.
On special occasions such as harvesting,
or planting, all the school children are glad
to go to the fields and help. 1t is the com.
mon food store and all will help to save
the harvest, Men. women, and children VIII
torsake their regular work TO help where thew
can. ~
This is because they are actuated bv al 4
ideal. They believe in cooperation with
each othef. Some co-operators think coop
Grafton means that Others have to cooperate
with them, that their lot may be bettered
Lane co-operators realize that each must
sacrltice their personal interests and amaIqas
mate with the COLLECTIVELY. This Is The veTv
ideal which has made Llano signal success.
IN the cooperative field. when other IiEs
communities have disintegrated.
If you are interested in such eomn,vr-
ilty and such an ideal and would like to learn
how to get into practical application ami Az
monstration Of that ideal. write for mor N
particulars Ask for Cooperation IN A.
6on, which goes more into the detail e
Colony life and is illustrated by picturss
showing the colonists at work.
The Colony has its express and he;ob,
agency and hopes to have lis own postoffice
soon. Address S'9'-'1s
TIE LLANo COOPERATIVE COLONY
Newllano, via Leesville, La.
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all center into the one life-the APP
peal.


peal.
was with the Appeal when Kope-
lin came from New York and assumed
temporary charge, urging Warren to
SO to Europe and rest. | was with It
when Warren returned, only few
months before the great war opened.
! was with it when he was practically
forced out. Then tried TO believe
that the work Of the paper was not
over. but in my heart | know that it
was. Several have written me, sug-
costing that Zeppelin and Julius, Polish
Jews by birth, were sent from New
York on purpose to kill the Appeal.
Though the latter. at the ending Of the
paper, declared he was not socialist,
but an individualist, j ann inclined to
believe otherwise. They simply did
not understand western, country town,
native American psychology, and could
not meet it. They had not the spirit
of the Appeal Army and could not APP
peal to it. Instead Of conducting CAM
paigns. they started braveIy on sew
eral, and then dropped them for new
agitation.
The war made it difficult for any
one to publish the Appeal, and their
lack of Appeal psychology rendered
the situation more trying. Circulation
went down, down, down. have been
told that it was only $4,000 at the time
when it was decided to abandon the
Little Old Appeal" and it formally
passed from existence. That the spirit
Of the paper was strong was proven by
the fact that it continued TO breathe
and function in manner for six years
after the spirit, the soul of it, was gone.
No other paper has done the like.
Now, being dead, the Appeal will
live on and on. 1t will live in the mem
cries Of thousands who loved it and of
other thousands who hated it for in
terfering with their plans for loot. It
will live beyond their lives, as a type,
as character in journalism, as an in
fluence in history. as the strangest and
in its way the greatest paper that was
ever printed.
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population. No law can Be passed
without concurrence by the stafe sem
ate.
Under Its income tax provisions the
miIIionaires escape with low tax
rate, while shop girls and other poor
folk will pay oh incomes III excess DC
$40 week Cor $50 il case Of a house
holder).
Such outrageous inJunctIons as that
issued BY Judge Wilkerson at the re-
quest Of Attorney General Daugherty
are Iegalized and extended to include
all classes Of citizens and il will be
useless to Try to have injunction-issu-
ing powers Of judges limited.
THE big corporation interests who
prevented child labor Legislation. pro-
lection for women in industry, one day
Of rest in seven and the eight-hour
day, and who insisted on Illegal use Of
il labor disputes. are clam
oring for the new constitution. They
and their agents are telling all manner
of lies to get votes for It.
win Appeal to Citizens
The man who is chairman Of the
committee Of the constitutional com
vention to put it over on the people
is Henry |. Green Of Urbana, ILL.,. att
torney for the Illinois Traction System
mckinley Lines) the Biggest inter~
urban traction system in the state, and
several other railroads and utilities.
''Vote NO against the proposed con-
stitution. . Twin City (Ill-) Review.
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LABOR'S PLATFORM AGAINST
PROPOSED NEW CONSTITUTION

4 b.
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campaign against the proposed state
constitution. explaining why the work
ing people are 100 per cent against
its ratification, was adoptedsat a con-
ference of 200 representatives Of the
Chicago and Illinois federations Of la
Dor and kindred organizations.
The platform calling upon the work
ers to defend their liberties follows:
The proposed new Illinois state con-
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yers, comes up for adoption by the
people Tuesday, December II, 1922.
It is unbelievable that so vicious a
measure would Be seriously proposed
in country whose freedom IS its proud
boast. Every liberty loving citizen
should vote against it.
''It.is infinitely worse than the pres
ent constitution.
1T changes our form of government
from one Of law to government BY men.
building up oppressive and tyrannical
power for judges. who will rule us like
kings if it is adopted.
1T destroys the legislative power Of
the people.
mo person may attempt to change
the new form of government it will set
in penitentiary.
Free speech is destroyed. also free
press and the way is opened 10 deny
men the rights of organization and free
ASSEMBLY.
The Supreme Court may BY rule
authorize judges to make binding
declarations Of right in such matters
as wage controversies. strikes. rates
and services Of public utilities Or any
other question affecting citizens.
Jury Trial Impaired
Constitutional guarantees that ac-
cused persons must be admitted to bail
are wiped out.
Trial by jury is impaired.
Lives and liberty of citizens may
be placed in jeopardy BY being tried
for crime by mere accusation instead
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"The Municipal Court Of Chicago
(the poor mans court) will be abolish
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Enactment Of initiative and refer
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Establishment of a state bank OF
enactment Of state guarantee law
10 protect small bank depositors will
be impossible.
Home rule for cities over pubic
utilities will be killed and public own
ership will become utterly impractic
able.
Whereas, now juries are judges o
law as we'll as facts in cases involving
lives and liberty of citizens, judges
will be dictators Of the law.
Blow at Chicago
Chicago is disfranchised in the leg
stature by having oriy one-third Of TIL
senators. although it has one-half tn,
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itors were all students Of psychology
and what was known as new thought,
away back in those days,

away DdCk ia tltOSG 0dyS,
There were times in the history of
the Appeal when the whole atmosphere
seemed 10 be electrical. Call it What
ever you may, we in the Appeal office
could feel the enthusiasm of the Army
surging about us in an indescribable
manner. AS expressed it once in the
paper: The Appeal is the strangest
paper ever had anything to do with.
We do not edit it, but it seems to take
possession lof US and make US speak
for Others" Perhaps this was the real
secret of its power. We felt the Army;
and think the Army felt us. The APP
peal never was handsome or we'll
printed paper; it violated every rule.
of professional writing; but ii was
living. That tells it all.
In addition to setting new styles in
literature. exposing the high-ups and
making them resign, rescuing workers
from prison by the force Of public
opinion, causing the overthrow Of for
eign tyrants, and attracting the open
attention Of four presidents of the Uni
ted States, two Appeal editors. on four
different occasions. were candidates,
for President Of the United States. It
is record that has never been app
preached by any other publication.
This obituary" would not be COM
pleted without reference to the many
visitors to the Appeal. They came from
all over the land. and from every ma
ton on earth. Farmers, workers, Mex
leans, Indians, negroes, authors, artists,
men with national and even interna-
tional reputation, all came to see the
Appeal. 1t was the one paper of the
people that America has ever produc-
ed, As | look back over the seven
years in which | was one Of its editors
"a longer continuous period of serv-
ice than that of any man save Warren
and Wayland- now that the Appeal is
gone and it is only history and mems
DRY, it seems to me like some special
favor granted me from among hun
dreds of thousands who would have
been glad Of the opportunity; and the
one thing that stands out in my con-
sciousness is not the many associates
of those days, but the paper, the APP
peal to Reason-an entity. a living.
breathing thing.
| knew Debs, of course, from years
of close association-the bravest, the
most lovable man that ever came into
my life; | knew Wayland. practically
wise, intensely human and at the last
heroic for the cause beyond what any
But few who knew all will ever UNI
derstand; knew Warren. like a child
in simplicity, yet in clarity of vision
to the end. and in unfailing resource
fulness, a constant wonder to us. |
knew many. | treasure the memcgy
of all. And the hundreds of thousands
of human lives and human romances
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peal printed them. The DlaZ legend
was broken, and Diaz was overthrow
while, until the Appeal declined, Mexi-
co had the freest government on earth.
During all this period Of exposure,
in which the Little Old Appeal, az il
came to&be affectionately called, was
swaying this nation and others by its
uncovering of conditions. it maintained
also its teaching Of socialism and the
hope Of the workers. This was effec-
ted chiefly by two columns Of para
graphs, appearing, except when over
Swallowed by great exposures, on the
first page, and by short editorials. Il
was argued, and the argument was
borne out by experience. that the TO-
900 to 10000 new subscribers coming
on the Appeal list every week. many
of the names being handed in and
some being Of people who were oppo-
sed TO socialism. would be lured BY a
paragraph that amused them and
caught attention at a glance, to read
another and another, until finally the
reader would go through short edi-
torial. The plan worked. Many who
threw the first copies of the Appeal
they received into the fire unopened,
in the end became enthusiastic boos-
tiers for it.
These editorial paragraphs, many of
them bringing laugh. were used ex-
lt9nsively by labor and socialist papers
in England, Australia, New Zealand
and South Africa, and were translated
into Italian, French and German, and
used in those countries. 1t seemed the
European psychology could not write a
paragraph but only a treatise; yet the
editors saw the value of the two to
six line par.
In boosting the circulation of the
Appeal. the Appeal Army, the most
unique organization in newspaper his
tory, came into being. At first, it con-
sisted of unionists who solicited their
fellow unionists to take the paper be-
cause Of what it was doing for them.
AT the last, there were 10000 unionists
farmers, small town people and all
sorts of folk, in every section. of the
country, who seemed to enjoy getting
subscribers for the Appeal, without any
remuneration whatever. When it was
desired to put out big special edition
containing broadside, this Army, ov-
er and over again, contributed and col
Iected enough to send out an edition
Of from five to ten million copies. FIRE.
quentIy some town would awaken to
find an Appeal on every porch, left
there during the night by enthusiastic
Appeal Army workers.
''Baldy" Richardson, the man who
asked me to write the obituary of the
Appeal, was the first Army Editor,
the creator Of the Fairy, the Bull Dog
and the Red-Headed Girl, about whom
many iests were made. One thing
the Appeal always managed to inject
an optimistic spirit, and an element OF
playfulness into its works Yes, we ed
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tervieWing him, ordered an investiga-
ton of the stock yards, which confirm
ed the findings of Sinclair and brought
about show Of reform. General 49,
itation for pure-food laws followed this
expose, and since then the Jungle,
, which has gone into many languages
and has been followed by other novels
of exposure BY Sinclair, has made him
the best-known modern American au-
thor the world around.
The exposures begun by the Appeal
set a new fashion in magazine work,
and those publications for a time as
sumed a higher standard Of vitality
than they had had before. or have had
since. Finally, President Of the I'm
tied States began war on the tendency
toward Undertaking and the clamor
OF the press for suppression, after the,
Appeal began to decline, brought it to
an end.
The Appeal attacked the American
legend of the greatness of Dias, car
Of Mexico, showing that he was ty-
rant who had sold his people into serf-
dom, and that the legend of his benev-
olence was fostered by American inter
ests that had obtained valuable con-
cessions from him. Mexican agitators
who had been imprisoned in American
prisons were released under the pound
ing Of the Appeal. The American Mag
azine undertook to expose Diaz. but
after printing two articles, yielded to
pressure and refused to print the ten
other papers contracted for. The APP
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peal printed them. The Diaz legend
was broken. and Diaz was overthrown
while, until the Appeal declined, Mexi-
co had the freest government on earth.
, 1922-05-29

that 25 per cent of one months rent
would pay for his annual assessment
for the pavement in front of the home
he lives in. This man lives in a dis
trict where more people live than in
any other part OF the residential sec
ton of the city, and yet he has no
sidewalk in front of his home. 1 just
want to call your particular atten-
|Sion to This fact. that the persons who
are irving to head off this pavement
are the worst profitcers in Casper.
They themselves are the ones who are
always the calamity howlers, always
shouting about the profiteer. and yet
when it come to a showdown they
are making more money on their in
vestments than any merchant cver did
make in this city.
Now We wan the citizens of Cas-
per to know that the tenants are tired
of mud. and while they cannot use
their names on the petitions for the
pavement they want to impress upon
the members of h city council that
they are still voters and taxpayers and
they are entitled to some consideration.
A TENANT.
, 1922-05-29
Profiteering Landlords

Editor Tribune| just want to say
from a tenants point of view, that
the property owners who r opposing
the paving in the southwest part of
the city. are not only standing in their
own way as regards the value, and the
greatly increased value that will &C,
rue to their property by having the
paving, but, they should be willing
by this time to give the tenan some.
thing for his money besides mud. Per
haps 40 per cen of the properties af
fected by the proposed pavement are
rented outright to h tenants but
more than SO per cent of all the prop
critics in this district, while used and
lived in by the owners have enough
of. the house rented to not only cay a
big income on the money invested but
to pay for the property in a very short
time. Many of the worst kickers who
r put trying to head off this pave
ment are right now making big mon.
ey from rents and paying for their
property, n perhaps a dozen other
properties from this rent money. /
know n man, a retired ranchman
who has a rent roll big enough Sc
, 1922-05-29
Mondell Seeks Toga

From the American Issuel.
One OF the most familiar faces in
the houvs of representatives of the
! United States congress will be missing
from that body when the new on
gress following the Novem-
Der election. That is Hon. Frank w.
Mondell of Wyoming. the floor leader
of the Republican party. A quarter of
a century of service in congress was
rounded out by Congressman Mondell
on March 4, and it is said that during
all those rs years he has been absent
just five days and then only when
there was the most positive assurance
that nothing of importance would be
TRANSACTED. Mr.. Mondell has thus es-
tablished an attendance record that is
claimed cannot be matched by n Of
his colleagues.
Mr.. Mondell is recognized through
out the nation as one of the most in
fluential men in congress. Although
he is the only congressman from the
state of wyoming. he has enjoyed the
distinction of being the floor leader of
the majority party for the past three
years. He WAC a strong supporter of
the eighteenth amendment to the on
stitution, the Volstead codc and the
| Willis Campbell anti-beer law.
Late in 1921, Congressman Hill of
Maryland. introduced a bill seeking to
legalize the manufacture and sale of
beer and wine for beverage purposes
and to place a tax upon the same, the
receipts therefrom to be used in pro.
viding funds to pay a soldiers bon-
u.s." In commenting upon this bill
on December %. 1921, Mr.. Mcndell
said in part: There was some little
discussion that we raise the cash for
a soldiers bonus by liberation of and
a tax or beer and wine Ny opinion
is that it is moi only impossible as a
matter of legislation but it is altogeth-
er Improbable as a matter of serious