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The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-06-17
The Right Development
Of Intelligent Manpower

ton follow anil this furnishes the basis
Or cause, directly OF indirectly, Of all
the sickness so-calIed disease and
crime calendared. There is quite a
popular belief that lay people should
not read about disease. That must, Of
course, depend on what they read. The
same can, with as much truth, be said
Of every form Of reading. There Is
bad and good reading on every subject;
there is good and bad in all books-yes
even in good books and people should
read much, that they may learn to
judge of the good and the bad. Peo-
pie who are prejudiced and carry into
their reading their preconceptions, Of
course, will finish as they begin. They
cultivate prejudice. which in time bars
truth, shuts them out forever from the
best in life and sends them to a pre-
mature grave. The simple open mind
is the only one that attracts truth.
When the spirit Of truth has come,
1t shall guide you into all truth. said
Jesus Of Nazareth.
The unqualified desire for truth in
each one Of you develops the open
mind that invites entrance in your con-
sciousness of all data upon any prob
lem that you want to solve and under
stand. 1t enables you to differentiate
and discriminate correctly and exercise
righteous judgment. We have to know
| the truth before we can conduct our
lifes in integral harmony with the ma
tural constitution Of the cosmos, visi-
Bile or invisible and with one another.
| 1T is a fact" DR.. Tilden continues,
that sickness is the rule, and health
the exception in our civilization. and
that if no one really dies of old age,
does it not stand to reason that some
thing is radically wrong with our man
ner Of living9 As man (more especially
his body is digestive and reproduc-
tive apparatus, it is obvious to the dis
corning and reflective that his derange-
ments must be abuse of digestion and
the function Of reproduction. To learn
the causes of perverted functioning
cause Of disease-the subjects Of dis
ease must be studied in their relation
to their building-up and their tearing
down processes. Certainly it stands to
reason that these functions must be
abused -over-used; anr in what way,
| it is necessary to discover; for then
the correcting-the curing may be in
keeping with the cause" Health Of
body and health of mind will bring har-
monious cooperation.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-06-17
WHO PAYS UNCLE
SANS DEBTS?

Our Federal Government which we
Icall Uncle Sam is merely an agent of
the people. AT least that is the case
$50 long as democracy is our method
|of rule.
Uncle Sam doing business for the
people is supposed to serve the people
in every act. That being the case, I'm
Gle Sam pays no debts-he has no
debts. The expense of running the
government falls upon the people and
they do the paying.
When Uncle Sam first began doing
business for the people, Of course he
had not money with which to pay the
various officials and employees. But
some Of the people had brought some
gold and silver from Europe and some
had mined little here in America, so
Uncle Sam printed lot Of promises
to pay called them bonds and traded
them to these people for their gold and
silver. Then he melted this up into
small coins and with these he paid off
the officials and employees for their SER
vices. These coins were called money
and the officials could take them and
go among the people and swap them
for work or products such as they need
ed. This use Of gold and silver CONS
was necessary at that time when the
people had no factories and had little
export trade and had TO buy much that
they used from other countries.
But, on account Of the great power
which the few gold and silver owners
thus acquired over both the government
and the people, such a money system
was very Objectionable and should not
have been prolonged after the govern
sment became well organized and be-
came supplied with It's own factories
and many export products.
The gold and silver CONS Of course
were Of no use TO the people generally
except as medium Of exchange and
the promises to pay which Uncle
Sam had snapped to the gold and silver
owners could have been issued to his
officials and his employees who could
have then presented them among the
people and received their real pay m
such commodities and labor as they
needed.
These promises to pay these
bonds would then have become a paper
money, real democratic medium Of
exchange.
productive government should avail IT
self Of the great advantage OF a paper
money issue and thus lift from its peo-
pie the heavy interest burden which a
gold and silver Currency System fastens
upon them.
The Gold and Silver Currency Sys-
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-06-17

tenn not only heavily taxes a people
for immense interest payments: but
the very presence of an ever-increasing
horde of idle interest takers who, with
out work, grow richer and richer among
the people, sooner or later undermines
the moral status Of the people and then
their pride, their honesty and their am
billions begin to ebb, and the decay Of
their industries and institutions is IN
evitable. Sad indeed is the decay Of
a nation, but history records the fate
Of many who went The route Of the gold
and silver Currency System. We ought
to beware while it is not yet TOO late.
In a correspondence with Mr.. c. R.
Chaplin Of Arlington, Colorado, he gives
the following clear and correct inter
probation of the meaning and use Of
Paper Currency. He says:
when the government issues Paper
Money to its employees and officials
in exchange for their services. the SER
vice has already been performed. con
,sequently the government has already
performed a service for the people. and
the Greenbacks. Treasury Notes. or 9TH
er forme Of Paper Money called the
floating debt. is not evidence that the
people owe the government govern
ment in this case meaning the machine.
which executes the will Of The people
and transacts the business Of the body
polite.
The money received BY the official
orfemployee is evidence that he has per-
formed a service for the people and is
entitled to products that he desires to
the value expressed By thai money.
r A. Spain. M. d. Paris. Texas
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-06-17
THE OUTLINING OF USURERS
PREDICTED BY WRITER

slave holders. bond-holders and
rumsellers, Of the three the most ac-
cursed before High Heaven, will be the
.bond-holder.
The slave holder took only. the pro-
fits If his victim. He clothed. fed and
sheltered him. The run-selIer does moi
compel the community By law to use his
liquids, but leaves every man with the
right Of a free moral agency to accept
or reject stock in trade.
But with the soulIess bond-holder it
is different; he goes to the government
and bribes it 10 destroy the people 4
money, brides it to issue his bonds, and
then taxes everyone, excepting himself
only.
Thomas H. Proctor, among whose
old papers we found The above in his
handwriting, was the author Of ''The
Bankers Dream and its sequel, THE
Banker Hypnotized. :
His books were read by many, and
even those who thought him visionary
had to admit that there was method in
his madness.
He startled bankers and business
men alike with his portrayals Of posi-
bilities. The slave holder had been
outIawed in his day; the rum-seller has
been since, and the interest-bearing
bond holder will yet be outlawed.
Vineland Independent.
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
Good Postal Work.
Praise From the Receiver Of Let
ter Wrongly Addressed.

TO THE NEW YORK HERALD; we
often hear complaints from the public
regarding the postal service. but not SO
often compliments due the clever ana
efficient work of the employees.
Through the carelessness of friend
in New England recently an important
letter was sent to me which was plainly
addressed to New York city-my address
being Brooklyn. Through the alertness
OF one of the older clerks Of the City
Hall station. who was painstaking
enough to ascertain II the letter be-
longed to me. II was promptly delivered
to my address In Brooklyn, which
avoided loss and embarrassment to
both the sender and the addressee.
Postmaster Morgan is to be congrat-
ulated on the efficient staff Of skilled
workers In the postal service in this city
who fully realize that cooperation Is one
of the slogans of the service. and with
this spirit and splendid results New
York city may well be proud of its high
est standard OF efficiency in what has
been and is accomplished in one Of the
most important branches of the Govern
ment. GEORGE WILSON JENNINGS.
BROOKLYN. December 81.
The New York herald., 1922-12-28

land is to hold it's own, and never
was there more favorable time for
this restoration than the present, as
Is shown by the farm records Of the
whole country. Every day~farm life
conditions are improving. In the
matter of good roads alone there has
been enormous progress. In his an
nual report, just issued, the chief OF
the National Bureau of Public Roads
says that greater progress in high
way construction was made last year
than in any other year in the coun-
try's history.
The isolation which made farm life
Objectionable to many is no more.
The telephone. the radio. the auto
mobile and the generally not distant
interurban trolley line have changed
all that. There is no reason why
those 100000 acres of now idle New
England farm land should not be re-
stored to productivity.
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
EVENTS TO-DAY.

The Rev. Ernest M. stires. d. D.. win
speak ut meeting in behalf Of the Wiawka
Holiday House. Lake George, at the home
of Mrs. John Sanford. . East Seventy-sec-
ond street. II A. NJ. -r
Association for Research in Nervous and
Mental Diseases. meeting, Hotel Commodore.
all day.
National Collegiate Athletic Association;
convention Hotel Astor. 10 A Nj. and
=. M; dinner. 80 p. NJ.
Refractories Manufacturers Association.
meeting. Hotel Pennsylvania, A. NJ.
Music Teachers National Association,
meeting, Hotel Pennsylvania. 10 A. M. and
p. NJ
National Association of Teachers OF
Speech. New York University. morning and
afternoon.
New York State Shorthand Reporters As
sociation. meeting. County Court House.
1o:3O A. NJ.
Rotary Club. Christmas tree and luncheon.
Hotel McAlpin. 12 so p. M.
Broadway Merchants Association. lunch-
con, Claride, Is Palmetto street. Brooklyn,
P. NJ.
National Opera Club. concert and dance.
Waldorf-Astoria. 3 p. NJ
stuyvesant, Polytechnic Hospital, benefit
concert. waidorf-Astoria. 2 p. NJ.
Traffic Club. meeting. waldorf-Astoria. 8
James A. Hamilton will be sworn in as
iseth street t-aad Boston Post road. The
Bronx, p. M.
Printing Fressmcns Union, 81. meeting
to take a strike vote. Beethoven Hall.
p. NJ.
Anti Ku Klux Klan conference, Al East
Forty-second street. 10 A. M.
Broadway Tabernacle Church. Christmas
concert. Pilgrim Hall, Broadway and Fifty
sixth street, s:15 p. M.
Casino Theater. fortieth anniversary cello
bration. evening.
Dinner TO Surrogate Elect John p. oBrien.
Hotel Commodore. $3.50 p. NJ.
silk Travellers Association, meeting, Hotel
Astcr. 6:30 y. NJ.
Julius Hyinan on "Intra- tion alism,"
Bowery Mission. c27 gowery. p NJ
Joseph r. eastman on John Marshall"
West Side y. NJ q; A.. sis West Fifty
Loyoia Alumni Association. dinner, Hotel
Biltmore, II. M.
American Philosophical Association, dinner,
Hotel Commodore. r. NJ.
Ciason Military Academy Alumni Society,
dinner. Hotel Commodore. p. NJ.
Brick Dealers Association. luncheon. Hotel
Commodore, I +. NJ.
Ex-1nternes' Society of tho Methodist
Episcopal Hospital Of Brooklyn. dinner.
Hotel Commodore. p. NJ
Theater Assembly, annual Christmas fes-
tival. Actors Fund Home. West New Brgh-
ton, Staten Island. morning and afternoon.
Columbia University Alumni. holiday lunch
con, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler and pr
Livingston Farrand, speakers: Columbia
University Club. 1890 p. NJ.
Bureau OF Recreation. Park Department.
holiday festival for children. Palm Garden,
=: $50 j.. NJ.
Brooklyn Institute Of Arts and Sciences.
Institute Players in Barries '"rhe Admir-
able Crichton." Academy Of Music, s:f5 p.
NJ. repeated at same hour on Friday and
Saturday.
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
DR.. Wilbur F. Crafts.

In the passing Of DR.. WILBUR F.
CRAFTS of Washington, who died
there on Wednesday, the cause of
reform lost Jealous and industrious
champion. The son Of Methodist
minister, he was born in Fryeburg,
Maine. He entered the ministry of
the Methodist, Church but later en-
braced the Congregational teachings,
ultimately to abandon them for the
Presbyterian creed, in which he
found religious peace. He acted as
pastor of various churches in the
East and once undertook the direc-
tion of flock as far west as Chicago.
From his twenty-third year he pub
lished annually book on a relig-
ious or controversial topic.
DR.. CRAFTS became widely known
after he went to Washington and
founded there the international Re-
form Bureau, which he called the
Christian lobby. He was led to
this step by the conviction, acquired
in an effort to win reduced hours OF
work in the postal and military SER
vices on Sundays, that the evangeli-
cal thought at large should be repre-
sented at Washington as other in
terests are represented there. After
that his widespread activities in re-
form work were directed from the
national capital.
AS head of the International Re-
form Bureau DR.. CRAFTS consistently
attacked the liquor trade. He was
one of a commission which drew
up a prohibition law for the United
States/ He made war on the Nor
mon Church and In more than one
instance had an important influence
on legislation affecting observance of
Sunday. He confronted, with his
own enthusiasm and the influence OF
his organization, every new factor
in national life which he thought
not in accord with the highest moral
standards. Thus the motion picture
industry came under his disapproval,
and he was a constant opponent OF
its tendencies. He was Of course a
confirmed foe of gambling and the
illegal use of narcotics.
In the adoption of the Eighteenth
Amendment OF the Constitution OF
the United States he achieved the
fullest qualification of his endeavors
He was confident that all the ben
efits expected to accrue from prohi-
bition would be realized once the
conscience OF the community was
aroused to demand enforcement oi
the law
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
The Existence Of McNally's Row Of
Flats Is Denied.

To THE New YORK HERALD Your
Buffalo correspondent, Charles i.ohlfs.
speaks Of all the nationalities that lived
In McNallys row Of fats in Bottle AL
lev. There were all these nationalities
in the Big Fiat, as I recall 1t now after
n lapse of more than fifty years. But
there was no row of fats in Bottle
Alley; only one long. low tenement and
a few shanties.
One day about thirty years ago !
visited the Five Points and that night,
after seeing "Old Lavender" met Ned
Harrigan in Engel's chop house. We
spoke Of Bottle Alley and his famous
song. He said his characters and scenes
were types, except those In "Old Law
ender." These were real, a real char
acter and faithful reproductions OF
actual scenes and events.
The discussion OF the first apartment
house has been extremely interesting,
since ! have lived In tenements In this
city nearly all my life In houses rang
ing from one of the type of the first
tenement, a house in Hester court. since
wiped out, which had neither gas. water
nor sewer connection. to a high class
apartment house with modern conven-
fences. II has been a steady evolution,
not a revolution. in architecture.
MANApoEs.
NEW YORK, December 27.
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
The Constitutions Limits.
Answer to n Critic Of Chief Justice
Taft,s Recent Opinion.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Your COR
respondent Fleming Tuckerman shows
some irritation over the recent decision
Of the United States Supreme Court as
to the limitations OF the Fourth Amend
ment. and says:
IL the Constitution not written for
the protection OF tho people within their
individual States from undesirable State
laws. then for whom was 1t written?
This exact question in slightly differ
cnt form was asked OF the United States
Supreme Court in 1888. and John Mar
shall the great Chief Justice. who was
one of the delegates in the Virginia
convention TO ratify the Constitution,
answered II In Barron VS. the Mayor and
city Council of Baltimore G. Peters,
247). as follows:
"The Constitution was ordained and
established by the people of the United
states for themselves. for their own gov
eminent and not for the government Of
the individual States. Each State es-
tablished a constitution for itself. and In
that constitution provided such limita-
tions and restrictions on the powers OF
its particular government as its judg-
ment dictated.
"The people of the United States
framed such government for the
United States as they supposed best
adapted TO their situation and best cal
culatei to promote their interests. The
powers they conferred upon this gov
ernment were to be exercised by itself
and the limitations on power. IL ex-
pressed In general terms. are naturally
and. we think. necessarily applicable tc
tho government created by the instru.
ment. They are limitations Of power
granted in the instrument Itself, not oi
distinct governments, framed by differ
ent persons and for different purposes.
'If these propositions be correct the
Fifth Amendment must be understood
as restraining the power of the genera
government, not az applied to the States
IN the several constitutions they have
imposed such restrictions oa their re-
spcctive governments as their own wis
dom suggested. such as they deemed
most proper for themselves. 1t is sub
feet on which they Judge exclusively
and with which others interfere no fur
ther than they are supposed to have q
common interest"
It is obvious, therefore, that Mr.. Tuck
srman's quarrel 10 with Mr.. Chief Jus
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
Germany's Birth, Rate.
Surprisingly Little Change Was
Caused by the War.

From the Joup()ui of the American Medical
Association.
II we compare the birth and death
rates of Germany before the war with
the figures for 1920 and 1921 they will
be found to be surprisingly uniform. AS
Is brought out I'm an article in the
Deutsche medisinische Woohensohrift by
the statistician of the central public
health bureau. DR.. Roesle, since 1920.
the year in which the effects of the war
on the vital statistics ceased to be felt,
the trend is much the same as 1t was
from 1901 to 1918.
The agreement is so marked that
from the reported records one gets the
impression that there must be an i'm
mediate connection between this recent
period and the period before the war;
Not only the birth rates but also the
death rates seem to lap right onto the
birth and death rates before the war.
The following year both figures drop.
so that 1921 stands out for Its low birth
and death rates. In spite of this fact
the excess of births over deaths was
11.3 higher per thousand OF population
than was commonly the case at the time
OF the greatest frequency of births.
The decrease in the death rate in
1921 as compared with 1920, namely,
1.2 per thousand. was much greater
than the decrease in the birth rate COZ
yer thousand) for the same period, which
explains the increase In the excess of
births over deaths. However. 1t is TO be
considered that the year 1921. owing to
the extremely favorable weather condi-
tions. was an exceptional year and that
we cannot always expect such favor
able death rate.
The present trend In vital statistics
becomes even more apparent IL we view
the conditions in the cities OF more than
I 1000 population. Here the decrease
in both the birth and the death rate for
1921 was much greater than the pre-
vious year.
AS was also the case before the war
the cities have now lower birth and
death rate than the small towns and
rural districts and among the cities II is
the largest that present the lowest birth
and death rates.
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
A Colombian Patriot.

All educated Americans know the
name of BOLIVAR and the great part
that patriot played in the liberation
of South American peoples. but
fewer recall or have ever heard the
name OF his able lieutenant, General
Francisco DE PAULA SANrANDER. The
Republic of Colombia, of which SAN
TANDER was President from 1882 to
1886, has sent to the Pan American
Union in Washington bust of him
to be set up in the Hall of Heroes.
SANTANpER was a partner with
BOLIVAR in a military achievement
which merits wholly the high admira-
tion in which South Americans hold
it. Their campaign Of 1919, in which
they definitely broke the Spanish
power in Venezuela and Colombia,
was one of the most difficult of execu-
tion ever undertaken. 1t would have
been a dismaying task even for a
we'll equipped army travelling on a
full stomach.
The fighting force with which
BOLIVAR and SANTANDER accomplished
II was short of both arms and rations,
yet they essayed to cross the Cor
dilleras through pass at an eleva-
ton of $4,000 feet; they marched
over difficult plateaus that, though
high, were swampy and swept by
winds piercingly cold; they lost al
their saddle and pack animals. But
they pushed on, met the army Of
Spain and defeated it.
When SANTANDER died-a young
man, only 4S-he had lived Ions
enough to give strength to the frame
OF the republic he helped to found
His country justly honors him as
great organizer.
The New York herald., 1922-12-28
Shrinking Farm Acreage.

The recent statement by Forest
Commissioner SAMUEL T. DANA of
Maine that rs per cent. of the States
area of 10000 square miles is still
covered by forests was encouraging
in these days of rapid forest deple-
tion. But there is reverse side Of
the shield not so pleasing. Only 10ha
per cent. Of Names territory is in
improved farm land. And that is
not all. Names improved farm land
acreage is steadily decreasing.
What is true of Maine in this re-
spect is true of all New England. In
an address in Boston few days ago,
PHILIP w. BLAKE, consulting devel-
opment engineer of the Maine Cham
ber OF Commerce, said that in the
forty years last past improved farm
land in New England has decreased
by 7.O3s.S57 acres. That is at the
rate of about 4s0 acres a day.
The average value of improved
farm land in the United States is
estimated at about s57 an acre. Mr..
BLAKE sets $40 an acre as fair
value for land lost to agriculture and
classified as unimproved. On this
basis he figures that in forty years
New England has lost more than
1890. 900. 900 in land value deprecia-
ton. The loss from non-production
is another matter. The Maine statis-
tician puts the forty years loss from
this source at more than s23S.S12, 900.
Including the land valuation loss
New England, in other words. is out
of pocket about half billion dol
lars from diminished agricultural ac-
tivity during this period.
Never did New England. never, for
that matter, did any of the north
eastern States. need heavy expansion
OF farm products output more than
is now the case. Regions that do
not raise enough food locally to feed
their populations must pay prices
lacked up by high transportation
charges. To New England this is
fast becoming serious matter. Some
manufacturing industries are already
threatened by the competition OF
communities in which lower cost
of living makes possible lower cost OF
labor.
Lands lost to agriculture must be
restored 10 productivity II New Eng.