The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-03-11


or reputation. can not change SIM
gle fact; and begin 10 do your planning
and thinking on the basis Of known
facts only. Genuine ideas are facts in
nature and can Be demonstrated to
those who are willing to learn them.
An assumption a guess. an opinion,
speculative theory. is not an idea: and
all the antagonists. wranglings from
opposing viewpoints are simply due to
the fact that the opponents are neglec-
ting to take concrete conditions and
the concrete requirements Of human
life and social relations into consider
alton. Their aircastles are built on a
foundation Of sand and cannot stand.
Only when the mind builds on the bed
rock Of natural facts, discovered and
verified by demonstration, can il erect
structure that will withstand the
stress and storm of time anil all the at
tacks Of the adversary.
Circumstances alter cases in many
respects. The farmer on the cut-over
lands in Louisiana is confronted BY a
different problem from that which
confronts the farmer in New England.
or on the western prairies, or up in
Canada, and the co-operator in Amer
lea who really wants to accomplish
something, has a different element
and different conditions to deal with
from those that surround and confront
co-operators in the various countries
of Europe.
From time to time reports are pub
lished Of the remarkable success scored
in cooperation by foreign-born Amer
lean citizent in various sections Of the
country, notably among the Firms, the
Danes and the Yiddish speaking imrni-
grants from Poland and Russia. All
these are homogeneous groups, among
whom exists a bond of fellowship and
very often also religious ties as we'll;
not overlooking the more highly es-
sential prevalence Of personal relia-
bility and mutual confidence ascertain
ed and developed by long years of So
cial intercourse. Only on the basis Of
such experience can the remarkable
success Of these foreign-born cooper
ators in America be explained.
Here, in America on the other hand
among population more or less of a
migratory character. heterogeneous in
sentiment and disposition. and various
convictions, the introduction of coop
Grafton has far more difficulties 10 con
tend with. Where the wouId-be CO.
operators do not personally know one
another, where the personal reIiabiIi-
ty of prospective trustees and the man
agerial personnel is not definitely
known by would-be co-operators, some
other bond of unity must be found.
"A bond Of scientific knowledge with
determination to scrupulously con-
form TO and live up to il is the only
one that will withstand all the Weiss
tudes Of every description. Scientif-
ic knowledge will be as true in thou
sand years from now as it is to-day.
1t is as true in America as it is IN all
sections of the world. and only differs
IN application as climatic and other
conditions vary.
Since the DAYS of Owens co-onar.
tive experiment on the Wabash in IN
diana In the early days of the 10Th
century, many others have been made
and most of them failed because the
different character of the human ele-
ment involved was not taken into con-
sideration and the individuals were not
as yet adapted to cooperate voluntar-
lily, peacefully and harmoniously. So
clal lite requires cooperation, produc-
tive and otherwise, and where II does
not voluntarily evolve in some way or
another, il will be arbitrarily imposed
by some means of deception or yio-
lence, and such often very trying forms
OF cooperation may Be maintained for
many generations by false teaching,
threats, or even the infliction Of vio-
lence to deter any one to question their
validity. lettering the minds Of those
compelled to submit to involuntary and
ubiquitous forms Of cooperation has
been the most approved method pre-
ferred by the exploiters of mankind in
all ages. And to prevent any escape
OF their victims from that thraldom ev-
cry attempt at enlightening them to
better forms has by every stratagem
that low cunning. could devise been OBJ
structed or circumvented. When the
people have partly walked up, contra
dlctory speculations have been dissem-
mated among them, 10 confuse them
and TO create dissension and to make
the growth Of cooperative sentiment
/ impossible.