The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-07-01

lake any large city at quitting time
in the evening, and it's streets travers-
"a BY trolley lines are perfectly swarm
ing with women. young and old. From
girls in their teens up 10 matronly look
ing, gray-haifed women. One wonders
where all these women come from, what
they are engaged in and what their fu-
ture is to be. The olden time with its
individual home, and the wife and mo-
Their as a home-maker is rapidly getting
to be. thing Of the past. No longer
are the earnings Of workingman suf-
ficient for the support Of family. and
when he does marry his wife is COM
PEELED to exc out his scant earnings BY
going to work OF keeping at work as
she did before.
And many millions of women in ev-
cry so-called civilized land are con
demned to lifelong maidenhood be-
cause Of the millions of young men IN
the prime Of life slain in the fratricidal
world war to make the world a dead
cinch for plutocracy.
The world is changing and we have
to change with the transformation 60
ling on in our environment or suffer
| the consequences. The mental hori-.
zon of too many women is circumscrib-
ed to such narrow limits that they fail
to take cognizance Of these irrefrag-
able conditions and they make demands
upon their husbands, if married, or up
on relatives or business associates that
| it is impossible to comply with.
AT present the people in America are
involved in a transition period. No
one is in a position to foretell what the
morrow may bring forth because of the
willful perversity of dominating inter-
ests and the woeful ignorance Of the
great mass Of the people.
We who have gathered from far and
near here, at Newllano came to this
Colony because Of the cooperative
principle on which it is founded. We
came here that we might own our jobs,
secure the fruits of our labor and to
acquire a safe tenure on our future
maintenance. Cooperation means to
do everything together whereby the
greatest products or results can be
achieved with the minimum of labor.
Cooperation not only in the workshops
and on the farm but also in housekeep-
| ing. The aim of the Colony manage
ment is to have everything possible
done on large scale by united eff
fort. instead of throwing it upon the
individual. Two eatshops have been
established, one at the hotel and the
other at the Cafeteria, so that the col
onists can have their choice, and it is
| the intention to provide the greatest
variety of food so that every special
diet requirement can be provided for.
The laundry is established to do the
washing for all the colonists, the sewing
dept, to sew for everybody. In
fact, the object is to practically do
away with all private Homework, SO
that there is no necessity or excuse for
Individual housekeeping. OF course, at
present the houses are somewhat scat
tered and to make beds and sweep the
rooms is left to the families and single
persons; but bachelors, husbands, and
wives, and children ought to be able
to do that little amount Of work to-
gether after their eight hours stint Of
work for the Colony has been done.
Economic determinisIn is in many
respects very ambiguous expression.
Of course, it is true everyone is econ
omically determined; but if it were the
only impulse that dominates humanity,
it would not carry us very far. Peo-
pie who have no other object in life
except to make their own support a
certainty never have done anything that
would hazard their chances for their
bread and butter. Some other emotion
certainly inspires and sustains such
men as Eugene Debs, Job Hartman
and countless others too numerous to
mention, when they devote their whole
life to efforts 10 enlighten their fellow
men to a better way Of carrying on the
productive and distributive activities Of
the land.
mo one can solve the problems Of
life until he knows himself" says DR..
tE. ], Sqhellhous; for in him, and no
where else, are the factors of that So
luton. Mankind has ever been look
ing for the factor of the solution Of
life's problems outside of man, They
have not been found. because they are
in the individual force destined to
advance him beyond the conception Of
mortals. Whenever We look within
and study and comprehend the force
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