The Nevada County picayune., 1922-04-13

1 while We were dL It. DcNdu'' 'AOA |
 nothing but misery.
 l When the war came to and end, the
 man who had been making our gar ! menfs came and told me his mothor
 and sisters were ia Austria during the entire war and he wanted to go over and try to find them. It was because I had gotten something of the brotherhood that Jesus taught, be- cause I had gotten something 0i the Golden Rule, that I bought his shop and let him go and see if he could find his mother, beca use l knew that is what I would have wanted to do if I had been in his place. didn't know what I was going to do with it. He left the pay roll, in that l found I had the best example of not living the Golden Rule right under my own roof As began to wrestie wiht these problems I realized in the teachings of Jesus alone could l find the solution.
 During this early struggle, l waded through Henry Georges works, l had Karl Marks works, I had hunted everywhere for something to stand on but now. when l saw that the only hope was in the philosophy of Jesus, the question came, Can you live that under our present system?' The an sewering charge of all shese great men was no. They said the system had to be changed, that we had to have something different before we could live it.
 I went home with the pay roll, and said to my oldest boy. Che was con valescing at that time1 T can't go into the shop and pay those wages and ever look myself in the face again. .
 He said, How are you going to pay any more? You ran al loss last year.
 II was fact. Only fifty-siX thou sand dollars of our investment was intact at our inventory in 1918. That is the way they talked and reasoned. I didn't know any answer to if. That night. wife and I sat way into the small hours of the morning. We talk ed over the past, when I had refused to preach what did not believe, when I went out and tramped be cause I didn't know how to make T living. Now. things seemed 10 have come into my soul but l couldn't keep the business too. My daughter was ready to enter college, ny sons had come home, and there were prob lens to be met.
 That noble companion maid, Well, husband. whatever We have to to, don give up your inealism. We will go on the farm anr live if it is necessary.
 said, It is necessary. There iS no other place that We can be Christ ians that I know of.
 Ii was real to us. IL was more real than it would have been if we hadn't been through the experience We had Then. believing and felling that the new wage scale that we put tn or shop would bankrupt Us before We could close up our industry, Chat is how much faith We had we went into that little shop and we asked all the workers to come together. There were twenty-nine of them. some Italians Austr'aus. Germans, Irish, every na. tionality, almost and all the religions except the Adventuists. and got some of those later. We asked them tu come together When we stopped the machines none of them moved. We talked with them about brotherhood and the Golden Rule, told them Sd long as We ran that shop tthat didn mean much more than four or five months to them them the Golden Rule would be the only governing law. Then after raising their wages from fifty per cent to three hundred per cent-for those only getting fouI dollars a week, We raised them t
 twelve; and the shop had run at T
 loss the year before-we hurried ont
 As matter of fact I had intended
 to raise their wages double, but whef
 I got there and looked into their wan
 tired faces, lost my head, and t. | en sn my cnnscience l raiSed some 0.