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selects a general manager. He selects his
foremen for the various industries, and each
is selected carefully according TO his ability
to do the work and TO direct his men.
Each manager is given free hand to run
his department, always with the supervision
of the manager and board Of directors, in
order that his actions may not be contrary to
the collective welfare.
New industries are started from time to
time as necessity demands. The object of
Llano's industries is to, provide the Colony
with what it needs, rather than to make a
profit by selling the products. Production
for use is our slogan. Thus tonake its own
food, clothing and shelter, to provide as far
, as possible every convenience and comfort
is the final object. To get as nearly as pos
sible to the source Of wealth, the Colony will
raise sheep for wool; cotton can be raised,
and the colonists can weave their own cloth
and make their clothing.
The Colony's timber lands are now fur
nishing hardwood and pine for its buildings,
its brick plant makes the necessary brick and
can make thing, hollow tile, ETC., for its own
homes.
The farm and gardens Of the Colony have
provided the tables with most of the good
things which nature offers.
Thus the three important problems are
easily solved.
Work is done as much as possible by ma
chinery. eliminating heavy drudgery, and the
more machinery used, the less the labor is.
Many tractors are used on the farm and in
logging operations for hauling, and for Iand-
clearing.
The Colony now owns about 5000 acres
Of land, some Of it of very fair character,
varying from bottom land to rolling land
and timber land. It intends to purchase a
total Of 10000 acres, because the colonists
realize that the movement is destined to grow
to large proportions, several small commune
tiles probably will be settled on the land.
When the days work is done at $3.50,
each colonist has an equal opportunity to
improve himself along many lines, such as
music, vocal training. languages. science.
agriculture, orchestra work. dancing, and
other diversions. Many Of these classes are
well attended, and all the colonists realize
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and industries are all owned by the COLLECTIVE
ity; where. each works for the other; where
each receives the same compensation for
davis work; where no member will accept
ANYTHING which any other member cannot
have on the same terms, if he desires tt
in short, imagine place where the golden
rule is the only law imposed upon the COM
munity, and you are picturing the Llano Co
operative Colony.
After eight years of work, Llano Colony is
rated in the commercial world as worth over
$250,0OO. But Llano's least asset is its COM
merciaI rating. The fullness of life, the Joy
of living, the satisfaction of working, the
security for the future, the healthy environ
ment, the opportunity for education. the at
lection of your fellowmen-these are priced
more, much more, than what the commercial
world calls success.
This colony now has something like thirty
industries, all collectively owned. Among
these are: apiary. auto garage, building de-
partment, brick-making plant, blacksmith
shop, butcher shop. broom factory, crate-
making factory, chicken farm, dairy with
about 20 milking cows and a herd of thoro-
bred Holstein heifers. goat ranch, hog ranch,
with several hundred Duroc-Jersey hogs,
sweet-potato storage houses, dressmaking.
grist mill, handle lathes, hotel, hospital, Ii
brary. steam laundry. land clearing, fruit or
chards. print shop, peanut butter factory,
magazine and weekly newspaper, picture
show and theater, wagon-making shop, cam
dy kitchen. shoe shop. harness shop, and
many other smaller concerns.
Then Llano's farms and gardens provide
the bulk of the living for the colonists, the
farmers specializing on sweet potatoes, SUI
gar cane, peanuts, corn. beans. peas, etc.
while the gardens provide greens and gar
den truck for the table the year around.
The system of government is exceedingly
simple. Stock is sold in the corporation at
one dollar share, and only stockholders
are employed by the Colony. An agreement
Of employment is entered into between the
Colony as an organization and each indiyid-
ua. Each member is employed at what
he best can do. Or which needs most to be
done. A board Of directors is selected each
year BY the stockholders. which board in turn
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II Trail That Leads the Cooperative Commonwealth

around to different work as is deemed neces-
sary, but the fact is conceded that each
worker works best at something that he likes
to do and has fitted himself for. But when
it is remembered that each is working for the
whole, and the whole is working for the in
dividual, no one refuses to do what is allotted
to him.
Women all find lots Of work 10 do They
feed the men at the hotel, wash and iron for
them at the laundry, make dresses and over
alls and shirts at the sewing department, at
tend store. office. etc. wherever their SER
vices can be utilized TO best advantage.
There are no parasites at Llano. Even the.
incapacitated. and the aged can sometimes
help. They assemble crates, wrap papers.
attend machines, etc.
On special occasions such as harvesting.
or planting. all the school children are glad
to go to the fields and help. 1t is the COM
mon food store and all will help 10 save
the harvest Men. women. and children viii
eforsake their regular work to help where they
can. f.ea
This is because they are actuated By an
ideal. They believe in cooperation with.
each other. Some co-operators think coop
Grafton means that Others have 10 cooperate
with them, that their lot may be bettered.
Llano co-operators realize that each must
sacrifice their personal interests and amalga-
mate with the collectively. This is the very
ideal which has made Llano signal success
in the cooperative field, when other ike
communities have disintegrated.
IF you are interested in such commune
ity and such an ideal and would ike TO learn
how to get into practical application and de-
monstration Of that ideal. write for more
particulars. Ask for Cooperation n Az
ton" which goes more into the detail of
Colony life and is Illustrated By pictures.
showing the colonists at work
The Colony has its express and freishe
agency, and hopes 70 have It's own postoFEiea
soon. Address
THE LLANo COOPERATIVE COLONY
NewlIano, VIA LeesviIle. u.
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BY preference with possessions and
goods, now bring what we have to the
community, and share il with every
one who has need. From the later
Fathers scores of sentences like the
following may be culled: Private prop
erty is the root Of all strife. Posses
sion is common; that is, equal owner
ship, is the natural original order of
things. Beyond what man requires
for his absolute needs, all that he has
belongs to the poor What the poor
ask is not thine, but their own. !
Perhaps a new kind of political life.
not based upon expediency and com
promise, is possible; but, if so, it will
not be brought about by those who
permit themselves 10 be lost in the cha
os Of the present political world. This
brings US oAthe next thought which we
have in mind. We believe that such
is the state Of existing political institute
tons and Of our present social order
that the only method by which men will
be convinced Of the new and better
way. is by the method Of incarnation,
if you will. Of the Kingdom of God.
That Kingdom, we believe, IS again at
hand. THERE is COMING A DRAW
ING TOGETHER IN SOCIAL COS
MIC GROUPS OF MEN AND WOMEN
OF THE INTERNATIONAL MIND
AND HEART, WHO HAVE SEEN
THE VISION OF THE BROTEIERLY
SOCIETY, BASED UPON MUTUAL
SERVICE IN LOVE, IN WHICH ALL
COOPERATE FOR THE COMMON
GOOD IN THE TOTAL TASK OF
LIFE. Such groups will be the new
form which the Christian Church will
take. and yet not new form. but the
old one with which the Church Of the
first century began. Their motive will
be an impulse to express faith in vis-
ible institution, that institution to be
a common life together (probobly more
or less communistic in which faith
functions economically, industrialIy. So
cially, in fact, in all the things which
have to do with human life and activ-
ity. Such communities will live that
through them the DIVINE WAY OF
LIFE MAY BE DISCOVERED AND
REVEALED TO MEN. Doubtless there
will be many prophetic communi-
ties before the wav is clear for that
brotherly life which all men shall re-
cognize as the social incarnation of the
will Of God.
R. B. WHITAKER.
Lintsing. Shantung. China.
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A MESSAGE FROM CHINA

May we IN China say to the friends
at home that from our Oriental point
Of observation. IT SEEMS FOOL ASH
FOR MEN AND WOMEN OF THE IN
TERNATIONAL MIND. WITH THE
WORLD VIEW, TO co ON TRUST
ING nc HE POLITICAL ME-
Cd OF SEEKING THE KINGDOM OF
GODa. Doubtless. as d.. Henry T.
Hodgkip has suggested in his recent
work, The Christian Revolution, - pol
tics has its use as register of achieve
ment; but certainly that is QUITE
DIFFERENT FROM ACCEPTING 1T
AS A METHOD Of achievement. Ii is
true that our political leaders do in
corporate certain reforms in legislation
from time to time; but we are TEMPTED
TO think that 1T is I'M RESPONSE AL
MOST INVARIABLY FROM PRES
SURE WITHOUT rather than from inn
pulse Of principle within. The line is
held for conservatism, for things as
they are as long as it is possible in
the face Of public opinion; WHEN
THE DEMAND OF THE PEOPLE
CAN NO LONGER BE WTTHSTOOD,
THEN WITH GREAT ACCLAIM,
OUR SOLONS ANNOUNCE TO THE
WORLD THAT THEY ARE LEAD
ING IT FORWADR IN A GREAT New
STEP. There are exceptions to any
rule, but to the sceptical we suggest
the study Of the legislation of the past
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THE LLANO PUBLICATIONS
LeesviIle. La.

n NCE THE DAYS Of Jesus Christ the
human heart has longed for the tune
when no mans hand would be against
,bs hand Of his neighbor, time when each
msn's interest would be identical with me
best interests Of the whole community ms
progressive thinker, all down through tne
march Of civilization, has yearned Tor a Pe'-
tar state Of society in which to i've Fof
fb;s reason. more than any other. men ana
. s have left their native soils and TAX
en- un the duties and terrible hardships o.
n;oneers. searching for the golden opportun-
ity.
West they go farther West; but the smeafy
hand Of exploitation has always followed
Close behind, leaving them often drained TO
the point Of poverty.
To get away from the tithe-paymg system
So rent, interest and protit-nen nave
STRUGGLED and fought and planned. Coloniz
at;on enterprises have come into beng IN
Toanv narts Of the world. having as their OBJ
;eet The grouping Of congenial workers IN an
sffo,t i Eliminate these Objectionable phases
of human life. Many Of them have partly
succeeded. only 10 be wrecked upon !, the
rocks, because Of lack Of understanding
Of each others motives.
After studying most Of the former attempts
at cooperative colonization, and marKlns
well the rocks and shoals in the stormy seas
lob Hartman founded a co-operaPye com
munity at Llano, California, on May lst'
1914. This community operated and pros
pered at this location until 1917. when the
water for irrigation purposes proved unequal
10 the growth of the Colony, and new and
more resourcefuI location was found IN Lou
isiana, where they are now located
Founded on three great principles OF socle
ology-equality Of opportunity, equality OF
income. and equality Of ownership, the Llano
Colony has proven that men and women g, can
live together in harmony and prosper. lhls
Colony is Incorporated under the law as 9 :,
protection against unscrupulous persons and
disgruntled self-seekeys Imagine It you can;
miniature cooperative commonwealth, ana
you have Llano Colony. Imagine COM
munity where all the land, the farms. tools
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day school many years a
that rule as bis guide fol eondues ail
the most satisfying results q himself
ever since. As teacher ii school
that no teacher was able % handle sue
cessfulIy, he had no trouble of any
kind, but had the very best Fl success.
Prof. John Dewey, Of Columbia n-
iversity, ascribes the deplOrable eondi-
ton among the great mass Of the popu-
lation to lack Of the needed education.
He says: The mass of persons have
no recourse save to accept the industri-
al situation which they find and con-
form to il, concluding bis article ii
the December number IF The World
Tomorrow. He writes:
Much Of the present confusion.
congestion and one-sided control of
power is The product Of private access
to facts Oh the part Of privileged
few, together with secrecy about their
activities and their consequences. Civ
en- changes in education, in science. IN
law, more even access to knWlecge
Of conditions and Of opportunities
would result. Publicity about the ac-
tivities Of industrial and financial cap
tains and the consequences Of their
doings would bring an overwhelming
check Of public sentiment to bear upon
what they do. They would take much
more pains to do things that will stand
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Few years in either America ii Eng
land with this thought in mind. We
believe the study will prove convincing.
Lit is really PUBLIC OPINION that
FORCES SOCIAL REFORM. and that
will force the coming social revolution,
then the effort Of men and women OF
International mind and heart should
not be to create or to uphold certain
political parties or to try themselves to
work within the political machine. Ra-
ther they should seek from the outside
the most effective means possible Of
creating a public sentiment, public
spirit. a public faith, if you will, that
is right. There is no surer way Of put
ting ones self outside the realm Of
this kiad of usefulness than by joining
in the political activity Of any govern
ment at present existent in the world,
,AIl political activity. from that Of Boil
shevist Russia down to the most bour-
geoIs capitalistic government Of Europe
or America, is based upon the princi-
i pie Of expediency; compromise is its
conerstones. Ideals are matter OF
barter and sale, and the idealist who
ventures within the machine either
quickly ceases to be an idealist. or he
finds himself outside the great poIit-
ical game almost as soon as he enters.
i History proclaims the end of all the
political parties which sought the sal
walton Of the Jewish people. and the
destruction of their city and nation by
the Roman military power Only the
ideaIism Of Jesus, and the brotherhood
which he founded when he drew the
twelve disciples to himself, survived.
And now it is time for that brother
hood to become once more what it
was when he walked the ways of earth
as its leader. Then, it had common
purse, a common work, and there was
mutual sharing in burdens and bless
lings. That group, while Jesus lived,
and during the early years OF the
Church at Jerusalem, was not merely
group which functioned in worship
and education. 1t was community
with a common life which included the
economic as well as the so-called re
Iligious." 1t is Walter Rauschenbusch
who tells, us that:
''At the outset the disciples at Jer-
usalem simply continued the life which
they had lived with the Master. They
went on doing as they had done with
him. They had common purse. he
had cared for the wants of his family
as father, and they acknowledged
that they had never been in want while
under him.
"'This communistic principle, says
III. c. Vedder, was more enduring ii
early Christianity than many have re-
allied. The Epistle Of Barnabas says
Thou shalt communicate in all things
with thy neighbor; thou shalt not cal
things thine own; for if ye are partak-
ers in common Of things that are in
corruptible, how much more of those
things which are corruptible.' justin
says, We who were before occupied
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EDUCATION AND SELF-DESCT-
PLINE LEAD TO THE CO.
OPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH

Nothing happens without a cause,
and that cause is always is natural
one. That means that any group Of
conditions will be followed BY certain
definite results; and that identical con-
ditions will always produce identical re-
suits. All the arts and sciences are
based on this certainty, and even the
reasoning ability Of man depends up
on it. The essence of this belief is
that there is nothing arbitrary or ca
PRECIOUS in nature.
Even when producing, phenomena
artificially. all man can do is TO man
ipulate the conditions in accordance
with what experience has taught him
will lead to the desired result. The
first thing man has TO learn, therefore.
concerning anything, before he can act
intelligently. is to acquaint himself with
the principles which govern the phen-
omena he desires to control. A full
knowledge of the processes Of all ma
tural phenomena would be the high
est wisdom attainable by man; and
any idea that he can do anything con-
trory to those eternal laws" is the
greatest folly.
All intelligent human striving aims at
the discovery of those natural laws.
From them, when they have once been
discovered, may be deduced rules for
guidance in all avenues Of human en-
deavor. Without such knowledge, man
is cropping in the dark. Error always
results in failure, while every right
step taken is rewarded with success.
Thus. all knowledge consists Of past
experiences stated in their uniform
consecutive order, and the leading
facts Of any group Of phenomena must
be known before they can be formula
ted into an orderly science. The pri-
mary object of science is not to discov-
.er something which is unknown altho
incidentally it may enable us to do SO
but to elucidate the processes Of
familiar phenomena, the modus oper-
andi of which is not yet fully under
stood. As John Stuart Mill concisely
stated it: ''In science those who speak
of explaining any phenomena mean
Tor should mean) pointing out moi
some more familiar, but merely some
more general phenomena of which it
is partial exemplification.
For the sake of clearness and exact
distinction, it is absolutely necessary
to point out the difference between the
methods of inquiry which distinguish
mental science from the ways Of meta
physics. 1t is entirely too often the
case that the principles Of mental sci
ence are COMPOUNDED with axioms o.
metaphysics. With respect to the lat
ter, we want to point out that it con
sists of a widespread belief that {
truth may be ascertained, proved anc
verified by a mere so-called process
of logic-a consecutive grouping o
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words. The idea i that words placed
in a certain relation and juxtaposition
to one another, logic properly applied,
as il is called, can infallibIy detect and
define all truth. provide dependable
guide to man in all the emergencies Of
life and serve for the solution of all
human problems. That, if The premises
are true and have been correctly stat
ed, the logical deductions or conclu-
sions must be true also. No more mis-
leading and harmful folly was ever IN
dulged in. depended upon. or supineIyI
accepted. knowledge needed for al
sane and wholesome human life cannot
be gained in any such harum-scarum
manner BY the mere Juggling Of words.
All the valuable and useful knowledge
from the dawn of time up to the pre-
sent day has been derived from and is
based upon the common experience Of
mankind, and must Be yerifiable BY
actual test every step Of the way.
No man ever lived in all recorded
history who could initiate, invent, Of
create law Of nature; nor can law
Of nature be suppressed or eliminated
by man. And therefore no matter
what iridescent speculation anyone may
indulge in, the course Of nature can
in no way be altered; all human ac-
tons must conform to them fully and
completely.
Neither with respect to things or the
mutual social relations to each other.
are the people at Newllano attempting
to do ANYTHING contrary to any natur-
al law whatever, human nature includ-
ed. 1t would be not only useless but
absolutely detrimental and harmful.
Human nature cannot be changed. But
the same human nature blossoms forth
in the greatest diversity Of human
character imaginable. Human nature
is the raw material and the individual
character is the product that each one
makes out Of himself thru the agency
of the emotions and thoughts that he
principally cultivates. Everyone is the
architect of his own personality This
is the lesson that the educational OPP
portunities available in the Colony ate
tempt to teach, impress, and drive home
to every child and every grown-up per-
son in Llano. Understanding of the
best possible methods Of constituting
our economic concerns and the right
attitude of the individual colonists to
these economic and social adjustments
and to the membership in general, is
really the problem that confronts every
one who is now resident of Newllano
or expects to become such.
Self-discipline, self-government from
within, complete concentration to hon
est service wholesome individual living,
and cordial, harmonious mutual social
intercourse will automatically eliminate
all outside regulations and restrictions,
When the Golden Rule is accepted
and lived up 10 by everybody, the Col
den Age will be ushered in. One Of
the colonists at Newllano. according to
his testimonial at the psychology meet
ing, December 7, when boy at Sum
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