The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-11-13

NtAii Ntudls 1 MaAh I Attald NJ nj.
You know those flying dreams In
which YOU seem TO swim through tho
air. only ita much easier than swim
ming, Meil. that was the way we
moved about. all over the basin. But
the most strange part of Il all was
that We could move through Time
Just as easily. l did not realiEa We
had done this until tho being who
held my hand said. Look
And looked. and what saw was
not Mt all like the basin as I know
Il today. II was Ese desert. with
here and there wooden shack. and
with wire fences In some PLACES.
There we're none OF the beautiful
houses and towns and bungalows and
1 things that make the basin now one
OF the most lovely as 1t IL one Of the
most productive PLACES In tho world
II was Just unirrikated desert. With
here and there giant hesps Of sun
eolored lava rock-droary. lonely
awful. place where sage brush
struggled for n hare existence. but on
which men would not live In fact.
dad. l did net sec a single animal let
alone any mon
Look at that said thu peins
with me
"And again had flown thru space
and time. and saw a section Of tho
Irrigated Yakima valley OF Is years
ago--which was tho year In which l
had been looking at tho desert which
Il nov tho Columbia basin. II made
mo mad. for I could SEQ little houses
and hts crops and happy people
while the taSn was n desert--a des-
ert would not have known for oVr
basin unless had been told
Forty eight cents an acre. ssid
the Being.
'whatr exclaimed
That Il the actual yearly cost per
acre 10 irrigate tho basin In which
you hve--the yearly cost which
makes the difference between desert
land and fertility. between misery and
happiness And 10 put ,ha three mil
lion acres Of land which was desert In
shape 60 plan, cost only. on tire aver
ago. $3.50 an acre.
1T doesn't look very muchi' I
answered
The neing smiled sadly.
-'~o. whom thing is reduced 10
terms Of money. II docs SCR, OF ioss
Its vaiuo--no matter what the thing
may be. But In terms Of human ef-
fort II 10 different And here IL tho
cause Of much trouble. The inability
10 distinguish the symbol from thu
thing II syrnbofiz>s
On the ons hand. the radical who
would DO away with money. and sub
stftute human ~ndeavor. forg.ss that
human endeavor Is impossible ~ ~.
tual comprehension unless ~ has
some symbol by which w~ can @x-
rre-r H. Money Il the only symbol
which seems 20 work II II tho same
J with thinking without words we
cannot think--we must uss the sym
bois Ne call words Human thought
would be incomprchsnsihis without
words--fesiinGs would BE- impossible
OF translation The Gauss OF % much
trouble vas the streszinx. on thu ons
hand. Of the human effort ifsslf -
aGntnst III necessary symbol; ana On
the othsr. the stresxtng Of TIE value
Of thu symbol tmoneyD a. against the
thing II symboiirisd. human effort.
Just ~ In thinking 20 many psopls
fall into the error Of mistakins the
symbol Tor the thought II symbol
fiea'
Il remember every wUd. dad. but
couldn't SEE what had been taken
up above tn. earth for to b told that.
20 asked
Look back % pears o. 60
answered tho Being. Down there.
on the Yakima Indian reservation
You zee the pioneers Of the japanese
invaaicn- They are outhtddinx the
white men. and leading the land for
three years-which Is all the time
they can lease II for. At tho end Of
tho three years. you sss shssn leaving
the land. after having sucked AL the
nourishment out Of IL Thsse laps
are not citixehs. and cannot buy land
II In the Law. and most laws are fool
ish because few wise men win con-
descend to 20 into politics. In PASS
Ing the Law symbols have been mis-
taken for tho thing syuboiired. Land.
unless human effort be applied TO It.
Ia valueIsss The titled land becomes.
with the money ~ represents. the
symbol OF whatever effort has been
spent. whether by the owner or
ieaser or by It's increased value due
20 increased value Of other lands ad.
Joining II. But the law mistakes tho
land itself. the symbol. for tho hui
man effort making II valuable The
effort II expended In whatever profit
the laps mako. and Is lost to the
land. Hence the land In impoverished
by the law. sltho IL is apparently
done by tho Japs. The same old
error
Things change. japanese arc
citizens. and can buy land Here II
no such mistake The Japanese
recognize that n they can control al
the land. and put ali their effort into
it--taklng a reasonable profit out Of
it--nothing will bo lost. Effort and
symbol go hand ia hand. But they
will have no rivals. 30. gradually,
they force sill men off the Land who
are not OF their own blood: and In
the end they control tho law. Con-
troll Is what every great sohomer has
aimed at Curiously enough. control
II best for the thing controlled. But
what OF the white men forced off the
land? Tho angwer ~ easy They
did NOT control the law. They left
that 10 windy politicians And now
they have LOST both the LAND
AND THE LAwi'
II listened 10 all this. daddy, much
Interested: and then | decided TO ask
this wise person who could see into
the past. and who was not bothered
by time or space, what would be the
end Of this trouble OF Jacks.
Values again. exclaimed my