The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-19
HELLO cENTRALl
By J@huaLong

HelIOl That you, Comrade Clarke
Good | Just wanted to report pro.
gress, Yes. said progressp-r-o-
g-r-e-s-s. Bum line, to be sure-bul
what can you expect while it's being
run for profit instead Of service2 Il
viii be different. Of course. when va
get our OWN system installed here al
Llano and begin to extend ii to oul
branch colonies for SERVICE insteac
Of PROTEIN incentive, then. will
be to make it the BEST instead Of the
WORST but. Of course, you under.
stand all that.
What | was going to say is thai
Comrade Ed Hudson, Of Illinois, an old.
timer, who knows from experience what
we need here, just burnt up the
mails in his haste to boost this fund to
the tune Of five dollars simoleons-
cartwheels-iron men. or whatever you
call EN- over there in "Ole Virginah. .
You see. Ed left the Colony sometime
ago to take one of those ge-lorious va
cations which the recruiting officers
tell us about and, while over in France,
got mixed up in movement to make
the world safe for democracy" which
led to an alteration with some folks
from the Rhine neighborhood and
about all Ed got out of it was 'hunch'
that the thing to do was to treck back
TO America and devote his remaining
energies to the task of making the
world safe for Ed''-and, Of course,
if it is safe for Ed, it will be safe for
all Of US.
Well. Ed is now taking a course of
training in sanitary engineering"
which, if | am not mistaken, is merely
'high-brow'' for plumbing, and ex-
poets TO come back to the Colony soon
to do our plumbing in accordance with
the latest quirks of the trade.
Now, suppose when Ed gets on the
job he should be called to the dairy,
for instance. to repair Baldwin's shin
ny still and should find Gas plumbers
usually do) that he had, from sheer
force of habit, left behind the very
tool needed to properly adjust the
or time the drinkometer;
how much more convenient it would be
if, instead of walking back for the din
dus, he might call up the office (es-
pecially as this is a cooperative col
ony) and ask the General Manager to
fetch it; something similar might hap
pen if he were called to the chicken
ranch to take one Of thise new-fangIed
Rhode Island Red cocks off of roost
and pct it into coop, or vice versa,
Sor Rooney.
You see. Ed realizes the Importance
the necessity-of interdepartmental
ohone service here in the colony and
lastens to assist us in establishing this
needed service at the earliest possible
far be it from me to say that
ID is doing this with scottish motive
lie is bigger man than your Uncle
'osh-besides | have said, and | say
again, that he is all wool and
,about) yard wide" and may be do
ng this because he just naturally likes
he Colony and the home folks.
Anyway, here are two comrades who
ave set a pace for their fellow cooper
tors and confidently expect that 9th
RS, seeing their good works, will join
hem. Who will be next?
Of course. if a sufficient number
hould join the l25-Club to completely
nance our land and building program.
hat would include the telephone sys-
EN-, but we do not know just how soon
hey are going to do this and we need
he phones right now-besides you may
e enc of those who have not the thou
and dollars required to join that club
you may not be one of thousand
Who could put up one hundred dollars
ach for this purpose-but you may
ave ten, or twenty, or fifty dollars
,hich you can spare to be used in the
uilding of the Cooperative Common
,ealth; if So. this is an invitation to
asst it upon the waters Of Colony Co
peration that ii may return an~hun-
red fold.
Remember the story Of the widows
lite" and speed up-the worst is yet
The joy is in the doing and the de- !
ire 10 do-only a parasite can enjoy
omforts and pleasures produced by
he labor Of others.
.Procrastination is the thief of time.
''He who hesitates is lost.
Let's go.
'HELLoWs OF THE PHONE FUND
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