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The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-07
A GILDED BAIT FOR
THE WAGE WORKERS
CBv The Federated Press)

NJ AAAN - ~e4SA+.~T - i'@y
Washington. Not only has the
steel trust raised wages in its mills, in
order to bring back the scores of thou
sands of laborers who have wandered
away during the slack period in steel
production, but il is using the same
method TO recall its marine engineers,
needed for its vessels on the Great
Lakes and the Ohio river. Reports
from Pittsburg received by the Nation
aI Marine Engineers Beneficial Assn,
at its headquarters here show that wag-
les have been raised some 1870 on the
average, for the Ohio river trade, to
meet a like raise announced on the
lakes some months ago. The steel trust
has no dealings with any union, but
union engineers are signing for these
Jobs at the higher pay. Large num-
bers of engineers who had 7drifted IN
land, have returned and asked for
boats.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-07

dividual, no one refuses to do what is allotted
to him.
Women all find lots of work to 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 10 best advantage.
On special occasions such as harvesting.
or planting, all the school children are glad
to go to the fields and help. II is the COM
mon food store-and all will help to save
the harvest. Men, women, and children viii
forsake their regular work to help where they
can.
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 to 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 like
communities have disintegrated.
Men and women will laugh at hardships
ana pioneering Wnen Iney are propelled by
brilliantly-visible ideal. Such an ideal
is Llano's-to show to the world that humans
can cooperate together to build veritabIe
paradise in which to live, where love and af-
lection are the predominant personal reIa-
tionships and where the consideration Of The
other fellows welfare is not hidden by per-
sonal greed. In such community greed.
selfishness and jealousy cannot survive long.
If you are interested in such commun-
ity and such an ideal and would like to learn
how to get into practical application and de-
monstration Of that ideal, write for more
particulars. Ask for Cooperation III Az
ton. which goes more into the detail &c
Colony life and is illustrated By pictures.
showing the colonists al work.
The Colony has its express and freight
agency. and hopes to have its own postoffice
AT present address all communications H.
Llano Cooperative Colony. NewIIano, s.
(via Leesville).
THE LLANo COOPERATIVE COLONY
NEWLLAN0 VIA LEEsVILIE. IA
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-07
WILL CAPITALISTS
BE PROSECUTED
(Bx The Federated Pressl

Jackson, Cal. - Forty-seven nude
bodies accused the owners of the Ar
gonaut mine Of murder. When the res
cuers finally broke thru they found the
bodies Of the imprisoned miners lying
in parallel rows, poisoned by gas from
the fire. The men had removed their
clothes to stuff the crevices of wall
they had erected against the poison
Gus gass which killed them. I'VE are
going to leave you" reads a note burn
ed by one Of the victims, with his min
|er's lamp on this wall.
Many Of the men left wives and
Ichildren; one widow has already att
tempted suicide.
Charges are made that the fire was
an old one: that. if new, it was caus-
ed by defective electric insulation;
and no one has attempted to deny that
the concrete buIkhead which prevent
ed the men from escaping, was built
because of legal fight between the
Kennedy and the Argonaut mines, or
that the beginning Of the rescue work
was delayed for the same reason; al
so that the skip was not sent down for
the men, lest it be destroyed, A state
probe, which is announced, is expect
ed to end in embarrassing.
In the opinion of Walter Smith. la
Dor organizer, and James Bruce, miner,
the absentee owners of the Argonaut
mine are responsible for the deaths of
the AZ imprisoned miners.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-07
THE SUBTLE TREACHERY OF
SUAVE RAILWAY EXECUTIVES
(By The Federated Pressl

-
Chicago. - Highly unionized rail-
roads like the Burlington and Chica-
go and Alton are holding out against
individual settlement Of the shipments
strike. Atty. Gen, Daugherty is per-
sisting in his effort to make the open
shop injunction against the unions
permanent.
These facts-not wages o. working
conditions, or seniority disputes indi-
cate the strategy Of the hard-boiled
rail executives and theft allies in the
Harding administration. The unions
are to be crushed.
Railroad presidents like Hale Hol-
den of the Burlington. have always
been looked upon with suspicion by the
labor camp. Holden is one of those
smooth apostles Of friendly feeling be
tween master and men, an economic
liberal" until he gets a chance to run
the knife in deep and hard.
His actions have caused men like
President Willard, of the Baltimore
and Ohio, President Finley. of the
Northwestern and President Byram, Of
the Milwaukee road, who signed up
with the unions, to fall under a like
cloud.
I With Holden is now ranked Pres
ident Smith, of the New York Cen
trail. This system has tried in many
ways to weed out strong union men
from the shops before the strike began,
July t. Smith later joined Willard in
conciliatory attitude. Then, after an
Inouncement that the New York Central
would settle with the men, the confer
ence was broken up in a dispute over
Interpretation of terms.
The Southern and the Seaboard have
signed up, as we'll as the Monon. Fur
Their settlements are expected on num-
Der of roads within few days.
In federal court, attorneys for the
unions are demoIishing the government
case for an injunction. One-third of
the affidavits presented by Daugherty $
assistants were thrown out by Judge
lWilkerson.
An avalanche of hearsay, with the
traces of perjury" was Atty. Donald
Richberg's characterization of the gov
eminent evidence. Daugherty is trying
to make out a case that the shop unions
conspired to stop interstate commerce
| by violence. Richberg pointed out that
net single act mentioned in the affi-
davits had been traced to the union or
CARNATIONS or to the union chiefs.
The government assumption that the
strike in itself was unlawful was torn
to pieces. The Esch-Cummins act, it
was shown, did not make the findings
of the U. S. rail labor board binding
on either executives or men. Either
party could repudiate the decisions and
go to bat with the other party in the
usual American way.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-07
evenings.

A mans real working capital is his
health. Ii Isl good health which pro-
vides you with the needed mental and
physical energy 10 do your work every
day and to do ii in the best possible
way.
This needed energy is provided OF
manufactured in the human body BY
the food we eat, the air we breathe
and the rest We take. II can be vast
ed BY bad habits. such as keeping late
hours, which means loss Of sleep, eat
ing unwholesome food. and breathing
bad air.
Ii can be readily understood that a
mans ability or power to work depends
upon his strength and that is why we
tsay that health is really man work
ing capital. Of course. along with
this should go the willingness or de-
sire to work and an interest in the
work.
Ii is the law Of nature that We should
work The busy man. is contented and
happy for the reason he finds no time
to be otherwise. There are some who
regard work as hardship. when. as
mattsr of fact it is mans greatest bless
ing.
Again. Rev. Sam Jones said: "A far
mer stole his neighbours drag chain and,
seeing him coming, he dropped il down
the well. A little later he got religion
and went home and cleaned out his well
and returned the chain and asked his
Ineighbor's forgiveness. Now, the trou-
Ible with great many Christians is that
they have never cleaned out their
wells. reckon there's lots Of wells thar
need cleaning out.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-07
Revelation Interpreted
The Mysteries Of the Apocalypse Of St. John
Revealed
A Remarkable Book, Making Plain the Way
Unto Salvation, Written by C. A. Kratzer
One of the Founders of The Universal
Life Institute, Of Creighton, Nebr.

The Book of Revelation is vast assem-
blage of parallels, symbols, and allegories, so
presented that the entire book makes one of
the greatest dramas in the worlds literature
According TO the prophecy in the book itself
the time has come for the unwilling Of Jesus
Christ that the mystery of God should be
finished" Mr.. Kratzer has taken off the
veil and set forth its teachings in plain En-
glish, so that the book is of infinite value and
delight for every one who realizes the great
truth that the mind is a KINGDOM that must
be ruled. Mr.. Kratzer believes that this book
contains more teaching of fundamental impor
tance than any other known document Of
equal length, for it points out all the dangers
and difficulties and sets forth all the saving
truth to be experienced by humans in their
initiation into the Kingdom of Heaven.
This wonderful book of 400 pages, artist
cally printed on the best of paper, beautifully
bound, may be had in black cloth, stamped in
gold, at $3.50, and in full morocco, flexible
binding, round corners, gold edges, and stamp
ed in gold, at $500, postpaids by ordering 1t
from
THE LLANO PUBLICATIONS
Leesville. La.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-07
BEAMAN


If you have the courage to be your
Iself, to appear what you actually are
without any attempt to camouflage,
to cover up anything Or to hide behind
"a mask
If you have the courage 10 follow
the dictates of your conscience, even
i'm the face of others sneers and ridi-
lcule.
If you have the courage to be indie
pendent; to form your own opinions;
to think your own thoughts; TO make
your own cred and live to it.
IF you have the courage to cut the
acquaintance, to drop the friendship
Of those who show coarseness and vul-
garity, who lack fine ideals.
If you have the courage to put grit,
will power and determination against
whatever handicaps or obstacles are
trying to hold you down or turn you
aside from the goal of your ambition.
If you have the courage to stand
for what you believe to be right in
spite of all sorts of temptations and
the example Of competitors who win
wealth and coveted positions by the
sacrifice of truth and conscience.
If you have the courage to say Nc"
when others all around you are saying
Eyes.
Express your opinion when occasion
demands, no matter how Others, how
ever big and important in the worlds
eyes, differ from you; the courage TO
hold up your head and tell the truth
when everybody else about you dis
sembles; to be genuine, sincere, and,
above board when others are lying and
camouflaging.
If you have the courage to stand
alone; to shoulder responsibilities; to
meet trouble without whining or com
Iplaining; to act on your own judg-
ment, make your own decisions and
stand by them instead of running to
every Tom, Dick and Harry for advice
| If you have the courage to live with
in your means; to dress as you can
afford to, not as you would like, and
to insist that your family do the same;
not to be ashamed to live in the sim
pie modest style in keeping with your
income, instead of straining and run
ming in debt to compete with your
richer neighbors in an effort to make
people think that you are better off
than you really are.
If you have the courage to be true
to your best self; to stand erect and in
dependent when others bow and cringe
and lie for place and power; if you
manfuIly do your duty in silence and
Iobscurity when men all about you are
scrapping honor and neglecting sacred
obligations in their mad scramble for
wealth and public office.
If you can stand unmerited disgrace,
and failure of all your plans and hopes,
the loss of friends and fortune, with
out complaint or murmur; if you hold
fast to your ideals when all men have
gone back on you; still struggle on
with faith undimmed and your belief
in mans high destiny intact, then you
are more than man-you are SUI
perman Then you can be of service
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-07
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Along about the year 1875 murder
trial was being held in one Of the south
of Arkansas. AT that time
ern countries were drawn on the juries
as frequently as white men.
A custom that is put to all prospec-
tive jurors was put to one of the Jurors
by the district attorney. He asked the
merge if he was conscientiously oppos-
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-07

The right to work at will, that Pres
ident Harding says inheres in every
man and woman, doesn't amount to
much unless an unobstructed opportun-
ity is also conceded and guaranteed
that cannot be denied by any private
individual, corporation, or any depart
ment of government.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-07

ia I'd capital punishment s
answered Yes Sir Boss
The attorney for the defense wanted
The man on che jury To ask Him i hs
knew what was meant BY Capital pm
ishment. " He answered Yes SH.
learnt that when lived down ii LOUIS
lana. well sir, " asked the attorney
what does it mean. The negro replied.
Working for The white folks Saturday
evenings.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-07

A man asked an Irishman, Have
you lived here all your life?'' mot
yet Sir" he replied.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-10-07

One enemy is one toe many; thou
sand friends are none too many.-Tal-
mud.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-08-25
THE NIFANEST MAN

Human mranureS takes strange
forms sometimes, but for sheer bru-
tality nothing mcarcr has ever hcen
known than the Joke" played upon Il
little boy in VA hington, II. G.. the
other day by a man who, fortunately
for himself, is unknown.
Passing the child on Il road in the
suburbs, he halted the car he was
driving, and. accostin" the youngstcr.
handed him "a niece of candy and told
him to bite it and he would get moro.
The trusting little fellow did as he
was told and the thing exploded in his
mouth, inflicting shocking wound
and probably imNairing his speech
permanently, The "jokcr," with a
laugh. drove away.
This conduct is beyond any under
standing. 1t may be accounted for
only on the ground of some sort of in
sanity, perhaps temporary and induc-
ed by drink, possibly chronic and TAX
ing the form of active cruelty.
At any rate, such n man should moi
be at liberty, for he will probably dc
other things of the same nature in the
, future if he gets the chance. No pun
i5hmcnt is quite adequate for such ar
atrocity as this.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-08-25
THE MORONS

a brutal crime frequently attracts
is an atrocious murder of fiendish
assault You find it hard to under
stand this sort of crime, for it is the
work of fiend. You conclude that a
madman did it.
Later the criminal is arrested. and
you read that he is moron.
A moron is person whose intellec-
tual development proceeds normally
up to about the age of eight or nine
years. and then stops and never ex-
ceeds that a child of l2 years.
Check back over the past and you
realize that you have met many mo-
rons-grownups with the mentality Of
children-who have been going along
placidly through life without commit
ting crime.
There is an old saying that every
man is a fool outside of his own busi-
ness.
You meet great success. He is a
genius, a super-intellect. in his line.
Talk to him about important outside
matters which are not connected with
his own vocation. and you find that
he is genius on one thing and a
moron on others.
This is natural, for we live in an
age of specialization. A man finds
time to master only one thing. To
become succesSful man usually has
to become II monomanic on one sub
ject.
You Sc, the reverse of this in the
man who is Observation-Disclosures and
master Of none. He is not a moron
in any particular branch Of mentality
He knows n smattcrirg of many
| things hut he doe not know very
much about any one thing.
/ Frequently We become 80 hypnoti2'
/ I'd with Il mans success in hiS work
tha. we imagine he would he a mira
clr man in anything that he turned
his hand to.
occasionally that might he true
But. rs a general rule the individual
ha only one song and can play il OF
only one instruments.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-08-25
ARABS ON STRIKE

A strike of Arabs throughout Pal
estine and the countries about the
River Jordan is reported, in protest
against the terms of the British man
date over Palestine. According to
press dispatches. the strike is gener-
al, and although order has been main
tanned thus far, "the merest spark
may set the country ablaze."
1t is easy to visualize the Arabs on
the warpath, as the saying goes, but
not easy to "see" them on strike.
Arabs and work don't seem to go to-
gether.
What will the Arabs quit doing /?
Their main occupation is traversing
the desert on camels.
For that matter. how will the beg
gars' union enforce its demands?
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-08-25


\ prominent official of one of the
principal systems operating in OK
lahoma han recently declared that
hey cannot and will not come down
tu any con dcrabl" extent. Other
railroad experts have taken the |ame
att itudc. They maintain that the
railroads must go bankrupt if rate,
are fore, Il down much lower than they
are now.
1t is well known that Oklahoma
suffers from badly adjusted railroad
rates. Shipping both into and out
Of the state is Disseminated against
to the advantage of ncighboring
states. These unjust conditions will
probably bee corrected some day. But
how much difference will this mako?
Will it solve the problem Of excessive
railroad charges? Many think not.
The causes lie deeper.
1t is question whether rates can
ever be put where they will justify
the reckless system under which our
industries have developed. which re-
quires shipping raw stuff long dis
tances, and then shipping the finished
manufactures back over the same
routes to the consumers. Industries
must be re-organized to do away with
these long and wasteful hauls. Some
industries must he decentralized, so as
to bring the factories nearer the
source of raw material and the ulti-
mate market. Each state must be-
come both a producing and manufac-
turing center for its own market in
commodities for which it supplies the
raw materials.
Thus the natural laws of transpor-
tation are joining with other con-
siderations in demanding the develop
ment of industries in Oklahoma towns
and cities. The product from the
farms must be put up in more valua-
BILE and less bulky form before it is
turned over the railroads for ship
ment. Otherwise transportation
costs will eat up all the profits of
production. This is the business of
the towns. 1t is a part OF their job
of providing the most advantageous
market for the farmers product.
What should be our towns next
move?
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-08-25
MORE COOPERATION

All livestock men will welcome the
new Cooperative Livestock Associa-
ton now being organized. This
movement should have been launched
long ago, but coming now as it does
on the heels of the wheat and cotton
growers cooperative organizations,
which already have proved their
worth, the livestock associations stand
to jump into successful operation from
the start and be of much help to mem
bers in numerous ways.
If the new stockmcn'~ organ2a-
tion does nothing more than to cstab-
lish cooperative commission finn at
the Oklahoma City -t"ckyard-, whor"
the shippers car cun-ign their >tocn
and be as urcd Of getting the real
market price and Il square deal all
around, it will be worth while in a
big way. But the association plans to
60 farther than that, It viii serve
as a clearing houac @ for al kind If
livestock information. 1t will strive
to obtain the be possible railroad
service for the members, avoiding q
shortage of cars when the shippers
need cars. 1t will take up and settle
claims Of member again the rail
road. 1t will watch the feeding AN,
yardagc charges and see that thes'
items are fair. II will act a. ago.
in buying serums, vaccinrs, and othel
thin. : from manufacturers so tha
members can get them at actual 60 t
And it will do numerous other thing
for ts members.
Some fl the best and bcat-knowl
stockmcn and business men in Okla
homa are behind the new organiza
tion. The movement deserves to sue
coed. Better cooperation is necdc
in the livestock industry in the mar
keting end and all other ends. TIL
success Of the cooperative association
will mean advancement Of the indus
try in every way. The same plan ha
been put over in several other state
Iowa, Illinois Indiana, Minnesot;
Ohio, and others-and now Oklahom
is getting in line.
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-08-25
COTTON GROWERS ASSOCIATION


With announcement of the cleanup
membership campaign to be staged by
the Oklahoma Cotton Growers asso-
citation next week we are reminded
that the 1929 cotton season is now
upon us. Cotton is already beginning
to move. How is it going to be mar
keted? That is the question that is
Of the greatest Importance to the cot
ton farmers of our community now.
It seems to be up to the growers of
cotton to select one of two methods.
One is the speculative plan under
which cotton has been sold in Ok
lahoma since the first acre was plant
ed in the state. That it has not been
satisfactory is evidenced by the fail
ure Of many Of our cotton farmers to
improve their condition from year to
year. The other plan is that offered
by the Oklahoma Cotton Growers AS
sociation. 1t proved in actual opera
tion during last season to be sound,
practical and sane. It survived the
strongest kind of opposition. and OPP
Grated successfully, selling nearly
100000 bales of cotton at an average
basis middling price above the aver
age for the country. in spite Of the
fact that the country's average was
raised because of the Associations
influence. The organization has es-
tablished a sound credit both with the
war finance corporation and local
banks. We understand that money
will be borrowed by it this year from
some of the largest financial institu-
tions in the country. The associa-
tion has demonstrated that cotton
farmers can and will stick together
that they can market their cotton in
an orderly and businesslike manner
and that they can gain and command
the respect and confidence of those
with whom they do business. The
Forthcoming membership campaign
deserves to succeed. Every cotton
farmer should become a member of
the association, since through it ap-
pears to lie his only hope for improv-
ed living conditions and an oppOrtuni-
ty to "get ahead"
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1922-08-25
TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS

A yacht steams into Florida water.
From it, Cyrus H. X. Curtis comes
ashore to visit Ed Howe. country
town philosopher who became famous
with his newspaper in Atchison, Kan
sas.
Howe, writing in his monthly ma
gazine about the visit, understand"
that Curtis originally bought the Sat
urday Evening Post for $4,000.
The difference between that $4,000
and the immensely valuable Saturday
Evening Post of today is Curtis abili-
ty. reinforced by the ability Of the
able men with whom Curtis was wise
enough to surround himself.
Success depends largely upon our
wisdom in selecting associates.