The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-01


at this session, says President Harding.
This is a step in the right direction.
American shipping needs government
owned ships. Because these ships
might leave any port Of America rather
from New York. there naturally will Be
a fight against it. Hard indeed is it to
give up privilege.
The mid-continent along the Miss
issippi needs more ships in which to
carry the tremendous crops Of the fer
tile fields These ships can pass down
the St. Lawrence, Great Lakes thence
to New Orleans on the bosomiof the
mighty Mississippi. But that means
diversion from the port of New York,
the premier city Of the world. How.can
she retain her premiership if part Of the
shipping goes by the Mississippi2 Com
venience for the people and efficiency
is not considered, profits is what is
wanted.
The Turks massacre twelve British
soldiers near the Dardanelles. Terrible!
What business has Britain, or for that
matter any other foreign nation, around
she Dardanelles in the guise Of guards.
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Nations and people will fight against
nice situations over in Persia where the
French have foothold. Crane Of Chi
cago is said to have gotten in wrong
and sentenced to twenty years servitude
1t is affirmed and denied. And, TO
think, in this day of correct rapid COM
munication. But censorship is as pow
erful as the tomb.
Sunday. June 4, was tragedy for
many people in and about New York.
A wind storm suddenly arose. accom-
panied by hail and rain. and fifty peo-
pie were killed within few minutes in
various ways. When the elements be-
come rampant the puny efforts of man
become more puerile than the child's
house of blocks. A gigantic Ferris
wheel crushed together as if made of
matches. When science learns how to
manage this vibrant power that is all
about us it will be turned to beneficent
uses and not one of destruction. But
then, some individual will own it and
charge SO much per protect.
Buying a newspaper at a newsstand,
the boy handed me back change for a
dollar when five cents was preferred,
His attention was called to the mis-
take. He excitedly explained that he
had won $3.50 on a horse race and
couldn't see anything but dollars. An
other example of how peoples vision
and mental slants are shaded when the
dollar poison becomes a stirring mall
: ady.
Three EngIishmen who attempted to
climb to the top of mount Everest, the
worlds highest point, $4,000 feet.
reached within half mile of the top.
How exasperating! Snow and ice
and fierce winds, filled with crystal
snow, is the report. at these heights.
Scenery not even good. Oxygen tanks
were carried One wonders what the
sense is in attempting to scale useless
heights. A little electric instrument, set
few miles away on an easily access
ible hill few years ago determined the
height to be 10000 feet and few in.
Men are beginning to believe in in
struments, but the desire for records
will ever surge in the hearts of men
another proof of individual over-collec-
tivism.
George Deutsch, old-time member of
the Colony at Llano, California, and the
first in the new colony at NewlIano,
La, visited us the other day looking
dapper, just a shade grayer, but OPP
timistic, and still bugs" over the CO.
operative idea and says it is the only
way. He likes the laws of Moses and
saws the old system thousands of years
ago. Of barter and exchange, is still
desirable, and when exchange is used
The government should make anil own
it; each Individual borrower. 50 to
speak, from the government. lhls
a would do away with champion collec-
tions Of gold in few banks where it
is now rented out at soul-searing rates.
making Shylock benevolent old gen
tleman in comparison.
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George is selling goods, and he says
conditions are rotten. Conditions al
ways are rotten. some places. At no
time, in all places, are conditions good
from a material point Of view. Compe-
tition does that. Competition is the