The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-05-20

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scrap after a siege Of playing together
as we do here. The question comes,
:'Can old people become members of
the Colony and live among US without
being obliged to do eight hours work
"a dayp" | answer YES. We have nc
special provision made YET, but will %
SO when the occasion requires. We
now have an aged couple who are mem
bers and they draw no wages for their
at all. They have money of
their own to support themselves. Yes.
they render us a great deal of useful
service. In fact very valuable SER
vice. They wish no pay and are under
no obligation at all; because we know
their motive in coming here was to help
the cause and not for selfish purposes.
No one can live here and profit indi-
vidualIy at the colony expense. Your
motive in joining will determine your
fitness to be one Of us on that scale.
Those who wish to serve our cause are
always welcome and will be an asset
but if it is just to live off us. you will
be "out of luck" Your motive is the
determining factor. The dancing class
and dance were exceptionally we'll at
tended and many new faces were pre-
sent from our neighboring towns. So
ciability is a necessary thing to human
happiness and it is free here in New
llano, as it should be everywhere Mgr
tie has opened up the ice-cream stand
and we are now able to get refresh
ments that are home products, and we
Riddles are glad of it, too.
$3.50
Sunday, May "A. = Early this am.
Ole. King and Gallo started for the
rice farm-KIing to drive tractor a
few days to help plant the grain and
Gallo will probably stay there for Sc.
eral months TO run the boilers and en-
gine in pumping water. The rice farm
should yield us enough grain to feed
ourselves, stock and chickens, all the
rice we want. The straw will be bail
ed and brot here for roughage. Myself,
Kemp and Crawford drove down to
Anacoco to look over some of our tim
Der. But the one big event of the day
was the ringing of the wedding bells for
two of our oldest and bestowed COM
rades.. Daddy" Bell and Mother"
West decided to make home for each
other and our whole community rejoic-
es in the thot of a home where their
many useful years may be spent among
us in happiness and contentment with
the respect and love of everyone of
their colony comrades thrown around
them as a safeguard to their future
and prosperity in cooper
alive commonwealth. Thus our COM
munity is cemented a little closer to-
gether and another example to coop
eratiVe system is made possible. The
other day correspondent asked me
to explain why SO many cooperative
colonies have failed, yet religious col
onies have succeeded. Now, | can an
swer that by a question. why has
capitalism faiIed?" You say it hasn't.
But | say yes! Capitalism has utterly
failed. Ask those who are out of work
and being deprived of their homes and
businesses and you will get your an
swer. But. on the other hand, cspi-
talism is getting just what it has been
after. Competition is founded upon
greed, and fighting is bound to breed
suspicion and jealousy, which will re-
suit in the vultures gobbling the whole
mess in the long run; then the ignor-
ant will wish to destroy the vultures
for devouring their necessaries. That
is now being enacted. But to return to
cooperative colonies. Most Of them
failed (if you want to call it failure)
because they got what they were af-
ter. Few OF them went INTO cooper
alton. They started out to fight and
lick the rusts or the whole capitalistc
system, but the system was too strong
and they went down because of their
weakness as whole, or thru the weak
ness of the individuals in their unwil-
ingness to really and wholly cooperate.
| have never known of any other col
ony attempting to practice complete
cooperation. other than this one. Of
course, don't know much about them,
but from my own observation, | think
am safe in saying that cooperative
colonies failed because they failed to
follow their ideal and really cooperate
in the interest of humanity, or they
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