The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-04-29
Being Daily Report If Colony Life Al LIano

and Napoleon swan the Delaware and
a certain relative Of the writer had "a
brother or uncle in this particular ex-
Eploitation. Mayhap family Of Cum
ea-pigs or canary birds is The subject
of several pages Of straw that | am
compelled 10 paw thru and at the bot
tom Of the pile there is not one grain
Iof feed for the chicks to eat. Now,
comrades, am a great social : lady
and can talk with you until you are
Iblack in the face; will write you a
letter every day in the week if you will
put some feed in the scratch pen fer
1.-THE chicks. You who have never been
10 the Colony have no idea just how
busy we are and how little time we
have to waste on theories that have all
ready been proven 81 disproyen. Fam
lily histories are Of little or no interest,
not even our own; because we are liv-
ing in the today and working for
the tomorrow There is world to
be taught lessons Of cooperation;
we furnish the scratching and we want
you to help to furnish the necessary
feed. There is enough straw and de-
bris to scratch in, a world of it. You
who can see the ideal must furnish the
food for which the whole people are
hungry. We do not expect you to ship
your portion in by train loads or even
sacks full, but let us all do our part to
help the "old hens. scratching at
home until the chicken brood is so
large they will be forced into other
fields where others are also willing to
help scatter the tempting food. Mon4
eyp Yes, lots Of it will be needed as
long as we are forced TO buy land and
tools. Help7 Yes. much help is need
ed in getting out literature before the
masses Of people who want to cooper
ate and show solution of the world
problem. Ideasa You bet; but be
sure you are .willing TO help work them
out. We are burdenel with ideas Of
our own and doing all we can to put
them into practice. This particular
flock Of chicks is willing for the flock
to be increased to any limit; but we
want you to know food must be had
or the flock will scatter and we want
the kind of chicks that want to stick
and stay and make the scratching pen
worth digging in. Sure, want you
to write, and keep writing; but always
make your letters Of interest to our
cause. We, as persons. are but small
factor in this great world movement,
and so are you. Let us stop dealing in
personal things and let us all get the
big idea, cooperative commonwealth
and let US direct all our energy, time,
wealth and thought to bringing about
that ideal. A world crisis is upon us
all; let us be optimistic, courageous,
constructive in every act, VOID and
thought, and, believe me, we will not
be wasting our time in an empty pen;
but will find the food that will adj
vance civilization on toward real life
of happiness anil brotherhood.
$500
, Friday, April 81. = We sure made
some change in our work to-day, and
with good results. too. We are going
to make our iron horses work double
shift from now on as long as the rush
work is on. Darth got up at 4 am.
and started one Fordson to blowing at
the new sorghum field and at noon he
was relieved by Kapotsy, who will run
until dark tonight. Siemens took the
other Fordson at the same time in the
morning and began to disc in the cane
patch east Of the store and offices, and
at noon Vernon Boyce relieved him
and will run until dark. King fixed
up the Wallis and put it to work; but,
having no one to relieve him will only
give his iron horse a half feed for half
time. We intend to work. all our ma
chimes as much as possible on these
double shifts. Sid Merrel and HIink-
ley are still Telling trees for making
lumber for the new buildings and by
the time Ole and crew are ready to
start saw-milling and the crops are all
planted, enough lumber should be on
hand to carry out our years program
Lloyd and c. Anderson are hoeing the
cane that has grown up from last years
stubble. Buhre is still burning stumps
at the dairy. While the clearing crew
is doing its usual good work with the
stumps. Downs, Tackett and Landrum
are splitting wood for the big boiler
and Kemp with his six mules is haul
ing refuse. stumps. etc, from the clear
ing field 10 the boiler yard. Comrade
ABBY just finished hoeing the Irish po-
tatoes. and Buck. Thurman. Babb, Ben
ton and Gault are making garden as
fast as thsv know how Carl Hoovar