The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-12-02
APPRECIATES OUR REPORTER
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With the Llano Colonist.

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With the Llano Colonist.
LeesviIIe. La,
Dear Madam: You are particular
friend of mine, since I've been read
ing the Colonist, and try to get your
Colony Diary read each week even
if | don't always have time for the
narrowing details of industrial unrest
that burdens the world with its sorrow.
Sometimes | wonder if it is worth while
to saturate our souls with the sordid
mud of present-day news. even if it is
those sameF sordid happenings that are
driving US TO better way. | have tried
to stand aside and watch the world
go by bit during the past two years
Sometimes get eager and hopeful that
The Kingdom is coming now. Then
as | watch my own slow growth and
that of my neighbors, wonder if this
world is not continuous Primer Class
and if the dwellers here will not al
ways be wrestling with the alphabet Of
sensible living and never really learn
to LIVE on this beautiful earth at ALL
| suppose this undeveloped consci-
BUSINESS of ours that makes so much of
personality has to pass thru its kinder
garten day somewhere. As old Oliver
Wendell Holms puts it:
Yes, we're boys-aIways playing
with tongue or pen;
And | sometimes have asked, Shall
we ever be men?"
But when. one realizes the kind of
caibre of the Boys he was speaking
of; when one takes into account the
mighty-souled people of his own day
(some of whom claim to have passed
beyond deaths door and come back to
finish their work) it gives one courage
to believe that some day we shall learn
what it is all about and that some
who have striven so hard to help the
big unselfish dreams come true will
really be there when it happens. How
could people keep so optimistic and
hopeful if there were not some ground
for their hopes? Where did we as a
race get the hope Cor recoIIection) of
a better day if it be not within our
reach? Why do we not abandon it,
when we see it cannot come within the
range of our three score years and
temp" If we be but individuals and
die with our bodies, why this love of
kith and kin that even death cannot
shake off? If we be net members one
of another" by some undying tie, why
do we care? Why will even the gray
haired materialist strive to his dying
day for that "Co-operative Common
wealth" of his dreams? He knows not
why. He says it is for those who come
after him, but that does not account
for such devotion. Somewhere beyond
the ken of mortal mission, we are all
one. Why did that friend of ours, the.
Master Carpenter. tell us 10, am
always with you if he be not now, as
then, the moving spirit in our commune
istic efforts?
1t is thoughts similar to these that
give me courage to keep on working
tor the Cooperative Commonwealth,
even when the appeal of the material
lst will not reach my friends and they
have not yet grasped the vision of our
spiritual oneness. Even felt be but a
theory. it accounts for the facts far
better than some others do. And, then,
TO me, 1t seems nice to be working for
Cooperative Commonwealth that will
not be simply one-day picnic before ,
the funeral; but never-ending growth
"a continuing program of attainment
of which nobody knows the end.
Your persistent optimism, courage.
and understanding have been a contin-
ual source of inspiration to me, and I'm
taking this opportunity to frankly tell
you 50. It seems SO strange to me that
people will take only one sleepy-eyed
glance at,a paper like yours, pass some
silly remark about the failure Of col
ony cooperation, and never dream that
three months study of cooperation
under your gifted pen might we'll place |
the nation where no cooperative fall
ure need ever happen again. Here is
a question for you: If cooperation Is |
the full. Unreasonable better life that |
some Of us know it is Tin the makingY. |
why Do, not people grasp it eagerly al |
the first opportunity Are there otbs
er ways of learning the lessons coon
Grafton would taacb -.