The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-09-16

il - 49, liz iilESt experience D.
that KIND in America. Josiah Warren
about hundred years AGO. declare
that the cost Of production and III
change 1.-THE least necessary time ex
lpended in the operationsl should be Il,
limit Of price. In 1928 he carried q
Ohio. i@''.l's''
ne Mormons in their early DAYS car
ried on most IF their business n III
same way. Stephen Pearl Andrews Il
ms Science Of Society devoted quite !
large part Of his book to Equitable
Commerce, 7 which meant as direct ane
inexpensive an exchange of product.
and services as possible.
In 1921, was connected with The
bureau Of Equitable Commerce start.
failed in enlisting the public interest
In 1894, after the A. r. u. strike.
started theLabor Exchange movement
i'm San Francisco, Calf, and for three
years advocated it by voice, CORE
Ispondence and publication Of weekly
paper IN San Francisco and San lose,
lend organized number of Exchanges
that demonstrated fully that through
a suitable center, all the necessaries
and comforts Of life can Be effectively
exchanged at minimum cost or ex-
penditure of human effort.
A deposit certificate was issued for
every deposit made. that combined the
character of receipt and a credit
account, redeemable at the Exchange
in goods on services Of any kind that
the Exchange could supply. Every
member Of the Exchange obligated him
self not to demand legal tender mon
ey for any deposit Or labor performed
for the Exchange. 1t was at that time
decisively demonstrated that the free
and unobstructed exchange of products
and services are the very life currents
OF human intercourse, and our present
monetary symtem instead of being the
monetary system instead, as it is false
" claimed TO be, in its very nature is re-
sponsible for all the distractions, vari-
ability in prices. infIations and defla-
tons that have cursed the world during
the ages.
A system Of accounting based direct
ly on all useful products and services,
using checking and clearinghouse me-
thods, can efficiently serve all ecenom-
ic and political administration and fin
anciaI requirements, and eliminates in |
terest and usury forever from human I
affairs. Direct relief can be readily
thru associated mutual self
help and constructive cooperative ac-
tivlty in every line of production and
provided the people have
arisen into the cooperative conscious
ness.
"A Mutual Service Center or Coop
erative Exchange, under charge Of re-
liable and capable people can be
great leevr for relief Of distress, uplift,
and human advancement. 1t is time
for people to begin to act thoughtfully
and inteIligently, and when they do,
they will be doing things not because
they have done things in that way in
the past, or because upon a spur of the
emotions, but because, in the light Of
analysis. that way will bring about the
most desirable results.
Mental science or spiritual science
does not consist in parrot like repetition
Of so-called affirmations or denials, but
in an ability to remain alive to wide
variety Of stimuli. AS Irwin Edman
points out in Human Traits" The
aim of reflective thinking is to discover
the genuine consequences of things,
and to eliminate and riscount those pre-
JUDGES and preferences. bred by early
education and training. which might
impair our discovery Of those conse-
4uences.
Let us begin to do dependable and cor
rect thinking and follow it up with ac-
ton that will give us satisfactory and
desirable results.
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