The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-04-29

With this number we begin the Sc
cond volume Of the LIano Colonist
This paper was not started as a money.
making proposition. nor to pandeg tc
any personal ambition. The publish.
ers have message to deliver, good
news TO proclaim, which they coRsid-
er Of utmost Importance to all man
kind. It is The message of peaceful,
voluntary and constructive co-opera-
ton on the basic principle Of reciproc-
ity-the only way out of the bedlam
of the present order. Violence in all
the worlds history has always called
forth retaliation, and only to the exten
that violence has been discarded and
an anti-sociaI attitude, ideas and con-
duct have been displaced by the atti-
tude, ideas and conduct of honesty,
courtesy and mutual helpfulness has an
Improvement in human affairs been re-
allied. We believe with the prophet
Isaiah: with righteousness [intelli-
gent understanding shall he judge the
poor, and reprove 1.-THE predatory richl
with equity [reciprocityl for the meek
of the earth; and he shall smite the
earth UNJUST human institutional with
the SWORD OF HIS MOUTH. and
with the breath Of his lips shall he
sIay the wicked wrong doers
The exposure of wrong attitude,
wrong IDEAS and all wrong-doing is
lie spiritual sword that the Nazarene
introduced in human affairs, and il is
a spiritual warfare that he inaugural
ed, and with all the emphasis he could
express he specifically repudiated phys
ical warfare and all the material instru
ments Of violence, power or authority.
Demonstrated human knowledge is
amply adequate to prove that common
ordinary courtesy, mutual helpfuiness
and reasonable work are amply ade-
quate to supply all the necessaries and
comforts Of life.
There is nothing mysterious OF mir
aculous or superhuman about it, and
no necessity to wait for the inaugur-
alton of fraternal cooperation upon
the advent Of some savior. avatar or
some super-human world teacher; good
common horse sense is quite equal to
the task.
Cooperation on the basis of reci-
procity can be practiced now; we are
doing It at LIano Colony, and if you
are from Missouri, we can show you by
your coming down here. We are tell
ing the world abroad every week thru
the pages of the Colonist just how we
are doing it and what we are doing.
Now. if you want to learn, and if you !
believe in fair play. try to get your
friends to subscribe for this paper. We
have the knowledge, are making the
demonstration and are trying to attract,
to predispose and TO win others to the
study, consideration and acceptance of
The truth.
The editor has been truthseeker all
HIS life. Ii is fifty-two years ago that
he first entered newspaper office and
learned to his sorrow that truth was not
exactly the objective of the generality |
Of newspapers. He stayed only few
years with the mechanical department
OF newspaper making. because he con-
sidered it a dissertation TO prostitute
his powers in the service of untruth.
For the last thirty-two years he has
been engaged almost uninterruptedly in
newspaper work with the exception of
a brief involuntary vacation that he en-
joyed because of his opposition TO war.
To him the position of an editor is one
Of highest responsibility and requiring
integrity and fidelity TO the utmost.
We believe with George Latimer as he
it in Reality
Editors must exert themselves-in the
capitalization Of the moral aspect Of
human life. They must be the heralds
Of the oneness Of the world and the
teachers Of true Brotherhood. They
must incite and encourage the people
il the exercise Of love, tolerance, chas-
Eity and good fellowship and teach i
them TO shun hatred and animosity.
They must speak the words of truth.
live IN the realms of truth. dream the
dreams Of truth, be clothed with the
robes Of truth. Be married unto the
ruth, BE anxious to learn the truth, see
everything with the eyes Of truth, hold
fast to the truth. be mirrors Of truth,
spread# he majesty Of the kind of
trnth PROFOUND the Immortality of
ruth for truth is the essence Of life.
ruth IS The image Of the eternal. truth