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HIS is the greatest Community Enterprise There are several hundred hares in the rabbitry T ever launched in America. and the manager of the department says the ar- rivals are in startling numbers. The colony was founded by Job Harriman and is situated in the beautiful Antelope Valley, Los There are about 11,000 grape cuttings in the Angeles County, California, a few hours' ride ground and thousands of deciduous fruit and from Los Angeles. The community is solving the shade trees in the colony nursery.. This depart- problem of disemployment and business failure, ment is being steadily extended. and offers a way to provide for the future wel- fare of the workers and their families. The community owns several hundred colonies of bees which are producing honey. This depart- Here is an example of co-operation in action. ment will be increased to several thousands. Llano del Rio Colony is an enterprise unique in Several tons of honey are on hand. the history of community groups. Among other industries the colony owns a It was established in an attempt to solve the steam laundry, a planing mill, large modern saw- problem of unemployment by providing steady mill, a printing plant, a machine shop, a tannery, employment for the workers ; to assure safety and a rug and carpet weaving plant, and a number of comfort for the future and for old age ; to guar- other productive plants are contemplated, among antee education for the children in the best school them a cannery, an ice plant, a shoe factory, knit- under personal supervision, and to provide a so- ting and weaving plant, a motion picture com- cial life surroundings can be amid better than pany and factory. All of this machinery is not found in the competitive world. yet set up owing to the stress of handling the crops. There are about 700 persons living at the new tow!n of Llano. There are now more than 200 The colonists are farming on a large scale with pupils in the schools, and several hundred are the use of modern machinery, using scientific sys- expected to be enrolled before a year shall have tem and tried methods. passed. Plans are under way for a school build- ing, which will cost several thousand dollars. The About 120 acres of garden was planted last bonds have been voted and sold and there is year. The results have been most gratifying. nothing to delay the building. Social life in the colony is most delightful. Schools have opened with classes ranging from Entertainments and dances are regularly estab- the Jlontessori and kindergarten grades through lished functions. Baseball, basket-ball, tennis, the intermediate, which includes the first year in swimming, fishing, hunting and all other sportS' high school. This gives the pupils an opportu- and pastimes are popular with all ages. nity to take advanced subjects, including lan- Several hundred acres are now in alfalfa, which guages in the colony school. is expected to run six cuttings of heavy hay this The colony owns a fine herd of 105 head of season. There are two producing- orchards and Jersey and Holstein dairy cattle and is turning about one hundred acres of young pear trees. out a large amount of dairy products. There is Several hundred acres will be planted in pears steady demand for our output. and apples next year.

There are over 200 hogs in the pens, and among Six hundred and forty acres have been set aside them a large number of good brood sows. This for a site for a city. The building department is department will be given special attention and making bricks for the construction of hundreds ranks high in importance. of homes. The city will be the only one of its kind in the world. It will be built witli the end of The colony has seventy-five work horses, two being beautiful and utilitarian. large tractors, three trucks and a number of au- tomobiles. The poultry department has 2000 egg- There are 1000 memberships in the colony and making birds, some of them blue ribbon prize most of them are subscribed for. It is believed winners. This department, as all others, is in the that the remainder will be taken within the next charge of an expert and it will expand rapidly. few months. CONTENTS r^>; -<^ Page Editorials ...... 5 By Frank E. Wolfe. Blessings of Ignorance ..... 9 By Emanuel Julius.

A ^Millionaire's Vision (Poem) . . . . .11 By Wilby Heard. Jolting the Jingoes ...... 12 By Edmund R. Brumbaugh.

The Man Without a Country 12 By A. F. Gannon.

of Tomorrow 13 i:'j\ Through Eyes ..... By Ernest S. Wooster.

Enthusiasm Rules Llano ...... 18 By R. K. Williams. r-r\. Hi ^f "^, Montessorians ...... 22 A. C. A. By t- 1 1^ il On Big Rock Creek ...... 23

. . . -24 Il Llano Musings . . . . By John Dequer.

Wedding Bells 25 By Clara R. Cushman. /•3 The Preparers (Poem) . ., . . . -26 ^^ By A. F. Gannon. m C tp^ ILLUSTRATIONS A> Peeping Into Paradise .... Frontispiece L^ncle Samuels .....••• ^ n • • ^ V Buying Labor . . . . . ^v Some Day ...... •• 8 The New "Sick Man" 11

• • -16 Out of the Trenches . . . . Peeping Into Paradise

-Drawn tor the Western Comrade by M. A. Kempt The Western Comrade Devoted to the Cause of the Workers

Political Action Co-operation Direct Action

VOL. Ill LOS ANGELES, CAL., FEBRUARY. 1916 NUMBER 10

Big Rock Basin Looking South From the Dam Site

E D I T O R I A

RAISING the price of gasoline By Frank E. Wolfe of regulation it will first be neces- \ras the greatest blunder ever sary to prove gasoline is a public made by the oil trust. It ran squarely against the utility. That should be easy, but it isn't. If gaso- great middle class—that strong buhvark of capital- line is a public utility, so is lubricating oil; so is ism which has steadfastly withstood the arguments hard grease and spark plugs. Gasoline regulation is of the Socialists. a ghastly joke. In the East the price is much higher. In California action has been started that indi- \\"hile AVashington is paying twenty-three cents or

cates that an arousement would be easy if a leader more a gallon, the United States has not paid more would but spring up in the midst of the outraged than eleven cents. At eleven cents there are sev- mass of automobile owners who have seen the price eral cents a gallon profit. of their motive fluid nearly doubled within a few In California there is greater production of crude weeks. oil than ever before in the history of the industry. First a little municipal board of public utilities By the new process, low gravity oil can be refined was appealed to. Then the mayor of Los Angeles. and gasoline produced at a lo^Ver rate than before. Then committees were appointed. An appeal was There has always been several hundred percent made to the State Eailwaj' Commission (state board profit in gasoline. The oil lands of California were of public utilities'). In order to carry out the farce almost all stolen from the people. The Standard :

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Oil is brazenly drilling wells on lands that are in the state. The previous occasion was when a special litigation and again they are showing their contempt commissioner of the Governor discovered them dur- for the "sovereign people." ing the San Diego free-speech fight. That this is

To the Socialist reader the solution is obvious. the chorus of the French National anthem has not But in hope that we catch the eye of the unawak- soaked through the brain of any policeman or spe- ened, we give the solution : RESTORATION TO THE cial investigator. This situation almost parallels PEOPLE OF THAT WHICH HAS BEEN CONFIS- the discovery made by the brightest cub re- CATED. THE COLLECTIVE OWNERSHIP OF porter on a Sacramento newspaper who discovered THIS AND ALL OTHER SOURCES OF LIFE. a plot on the part of five desperate characters T T T who were about to march UXTRA! Uxtra! Hor- on Rock Island and seize rors of war and an the arsenal, if there be one invasion of a peaceful la- there ; thence march tri- boring republic ! The I. umphantly to the capture

W. W. agitators are going of Chicago ; thence on to descend from the nail and on, all five of them, to keg and do something. the overthrow of the Gov- We have the assurance of ernment at Washington. the capitalist press that God bless the daily this is the case. press. Tis not only the The industrial workers palladium and bulwark of are to invade Lower Cali- our freedom, but it adds fornia, a land populated greatly to the gaiety of by fierce banditti, helo- nations in the dull-drab dermas and horned toads. depths of a dismal season. <• The plan was for the I. W. * <• W. to marshal a great HE Socialist Party as army of blanket stiffs and T organized in Califor- scizzorbills, armed with nia is a wonderful institu- the deadly bindlestick, tion. It has a state execu- marching with flat-wheel tive board, a state office, a goosestep, into a seething Uncle Samuels state secretary and a state maelstrom of de facto and mimeograph. Combined, The Passing Show, London other kinds of jefe po- — this is a mighty piece of liticos of Tijuana Baja. enginerj' and presently,

Federal officers have been ransacking the rooms when it gets ready to move, it will spiflieate the cap- of these embryonic invaders in Los Angeles and italist system and send the decentralized fragments among the other deadly and damning evidence has scattering through space. been found a red-backed songbook containing these Just at present, however, its mimeograph-seere- fateful words tary is busy in much weightier matters. Having

cleared the decks, if not the atmosphere, by conduct- "To arms! To arms! Ye brave! The avenging sword unsheath. ing opera boutfe heresy trials, the inky-blinky in- March on, march on, all hearts resolve stitution reels out monthly if not weekly circular On victory or death." letters "to the Locals and Branches." Most of these These turrible words once more officially alarm are prefaced by the stereotyped phrases, "we are The Western Comrade

c-oustaiitly receiving inquiries concerning tlie Llano derful success that it is achieving and re.joices that colony." This is the straw-man method and smacks it has not "the remotest connection either directly of the system of writing letters to oneself and ans- or indirectly" with a morbund group centered wering them in the weekly organ. around a mimeograph. To quote one line: "The Socialist Party lias not 4> ^ 41 now nor never has had the remotest connection, either THIS magazine recently published an appeal for directly or indirectly, with this colony." To this one of the leading anarchist writers of America we always say heartily, "Amen and amenl" to write a book which would orient students who seek

The Socialist Party of California under the guid- knowledge on .just what the philosophy of anarchy ance of the S. E. B. and may be. One is reminded its mimeographer has of the necessity of some wrought in so masterly a such work where they con- manner that the dwindling sider the diverse attitudes membership is at the van- of William C. Owen and ishing point. The largest, Alex. Berkman. Owen has most thriving and wide- been raging about the in- awake local in the state is vasion of Belgium and de- located at t he colony. claring that workers of all There are a number of nations should ever stand locals where our comrades, ready to repel invaders. with splendid spirit, are Berkman. in his new mag- striving to be constructive azine, the Blast, bitterly in building up membership assails Congressman Meyer and spreading propa- London because he said ganda. In this their suc- that Socialists would de- cess is measured by their fend the country if it were independence of assistance invaded. from the state headquar- Whatever the criticism ters. There are more So- may be, London unciues- cialists in California at tionably spoke the truth. this hour than ever before No matter how high-flown Lloyd George: "Haven't you any patriotism?" in the history of the move- our sentiments or declara- Britisli Labor: "Aye, I sells it." ment, "^'e have on the tions may be, history and platform now more great New York E\-ening Pun the facts are with London. speakers than we have We maj' say to capitalism. ever had before. Greater interest is taken state "Why should we defend your country?" But in wide than at any time since the movement began the stress of invasion, where the homes of the work- To grow on the Pacific Coast. This is not by aid ers, their wives and children in jeopardy. Socialists of the state management, but in spite of its piffling of America would find themselves in the same at- and childish methods. titude as Socialists of Belgium and Prance. The Llano del Rio Colony, with its 700 members, Capitalism pi-oduces the burglar; but does not is proud of the fact that its founder is a man who prevent the worker from defending his family and has spent a long life in the service of the Socialist his possessions. Our much criticised, scientific

Movement. The commimity is glad that its mem- analysis, and our interpretation of motives do not bership is solidly Socialists. It is proud of the won- prevent us from being human. It may be true that : —

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Ob S^&c^fr~y^m the so-called danger of invasion is a nightmare of ferocious prayers for victory. For big manu- facturers—business profits. For 'Thou Shalt Not jingo imagination, "but that is beside the question. Kill'—boisterous laughter. For Christ—contempt." London's answer was correct. What the Social- I saw that my companion was deeply moved. "It's all true—what they say, isn't it?" she ists aim to do and what they must do is mur- to so educate mured. the workers of all countries to the point Avhere there "Yes, it's true, but—we can't change the world, we can't give up our country, our independence." can be no invasion; and where there is no invasion there can be no war. This is splendid propaganda, and it will reach * * myriad of the desirable ones, as not all McClure's CLEVELAND MofEett in writing a senseless serial readers are of the Bourgeoise. for McClure's, illuminates a dull-drab page by * * * a happy selection of a Socialist pledge. The article PORK—and more pork! Los Angeles wants her purports to describe a war in 1922 during which hams and bacon^from the National barrel. The America is invaded. credit is to Kirk- No given method is througli the old gag of establishing a patrick, but the writer indicates his belief that navy, away back up in the mud fiats. There is no American. Socialists will not all be reconciled to the reason in the world why Los Angeles, which has suppositious war. See what the readers of 's McClure no harbor, should not have a navy yard at its Magazine get harbor.

"It's some big coup they are planning for to- We respectfully submit that our bottom soil, night," said. wait here." she "We must and the bottom is near the top, in the inner harbor So we waited and, presently, along Wabash avenue, with crashing bands and a roar of angry is just as suitable for a navy yard as the slimy voices, came an anti-militarist Socialist parade with ooze that surrounds the Mare Island institution floats and banners presenting firebrand sentiments that called forth jeers and hisses from crowds along where no battleship can ever wend its way. the sidewalks or again enthusiastic cheers from other Our city council is reported as having voted crowds of contrary mind. "You see there's going to be trouble," trembled unanimously in favor of a resolution for the estab- the girl, clutching my arm. "Read that!" lishment of this navy yard. We are for pork, whether A huge float was rolling past bearing this pledge it is for a Nigger Slough naval base, or for dredging in great red letters: "I refuse to kill your father. I refuse to slay a navigable channel in Mescal Creek. your mother's son. I refuse to plunge a bayonet into * * * the breast of your sweetheart's brother. I refuse to assassinate you and then hide my stained fists in the are setting the stage again. Newspapers hell's THEY folds of any fiag. I refuse to be flattered into nightmare by a class of well-fed snobs, crooks and are preparing the public for their daily thrill cowards who despise our between oats and eggs class socially, rob our they detail horrible class economically and be- when tray our class politically." acts and deeds of Dave At this the hostile Caplan. The deputy dis- crowds roared their ap- proval and disapproval. trict attorney, who attends Also at another float that to the building of barriers paraded these words: "What is war? For and setting the guards, has working-class wive s let it leak to the court heartache. For working- class mothers—loneliness. house reporters that he ex- For working-class chil- pects dangerous characters dren — orphanage. For peace—defeat. For death to crowd the courtroom. Some Day When They Beat Their —a harvest. For nations — Spears Into Pruning Hooks Of course there will be no —debts. For bankers bonds, interest. For effort to create an atmos- —Chicago Daily News preachers on both sides— phere. ^mM^, — '

The Western Comrade Blessings of Ignorance ERSOXS who read By EMANUEL JULIUS This boy started to unlearn what goes by the too soon. This dramatic critic name of criticism in the ne'^vspapers aud did something quite unprofessional. He began magazines will certainly agree with to study the drama, its history, its philosophy, its

Goldsmith that '"error is ever talkative." technique. He read many plays and much good critic- AVhile it is true that a little knowledge ism. Instead of slamming Shaw, he began to discuss

is a risky thing, it also is true that much Shaw's philosophy. "Androcles and the Lion," when knowledge Ls still more dangerous. produced by Granville Barker last winter, was reviewed I have in mind a young man who got a job as dra- with something that approximated intelligence. Eman- matic editor on one of the afternoon papers. He was a uel Reicher's interpretation of Ibsen's "John Gabriel nice chap, with all the ignorance that one could gather Borknian" received sincere commendation. Lord iu a small Pennsylvania city. He was not a thinker, Dusany's one-act "The Glittering Gate" was given but he was a delightful dancer. He was not a high- high praise. And he held his job, too, which was con- brow, but he was an expert on high-brow drinks. sidered quite remarkable. After six months of cub reporting in New York, Then he went up to Forty-second street to see a he suddenly found himself in charge of the dramatic foolish war play—and he wrote a review that must column. It happened that he knew nothing of the have embarrassed its author. "The White Feather,"

stage, of plays, of acting. Little did he dream that it "The Fallen Idol," "Experience," "It Pays to Ad- was because of his ignorance that he was given what vertise," and other typical Broadway productions were many people consider an important position. treated with passionate scorn. "Wliat was the result? He was a hard worker, however, and could write I could put it gently by saying he was "requested to columns a day. when necessary. This young man had resign," or he was "let out." I won't. He was fired. a few vague impressions. One was that Shaw was in- He was bounced. He was canned. This boy had made sincere. Another was that Shaw is not a creator of a great mistake. He had tried to be intelligent, to show plays, but a clever writer of conversation. He often some knowledge while working on an afternoon paper.

' ' remarkable that ' Shaw mistakes talk for drama. ' Fre- Not that he was fired for praising the good. No ; even quently, he referred to Shaw as "the inimitable." that can be endured. The trouble with young men is In other words, he had all the requisites of a writer that when they enthuse over the meritorious there is of dramatic reviews. Aud he made good. By con- danger that they will frowin on the meritricious. The sistently ridiculing the good and praising the bad, he managers, the press agents, the advertising men—all got himself a reputation. Ibsen was pessimistic. poured down one fine afternoon and demanded the Strindberg was misanthropic. Hauptmann was de- young man's discharge. He was told that he wasn't pressing. ' ! ' Maeterlinck was not a clear thinker. Brieux constructive. ' Destructive critisicm has had its day was a propagandist. Gorki lacked humor. Andreyev he was informed. was sardonic. And so on, with many eteetras. On the The moral, of course, is obvious—^knowledge is a other hand, Charles Klein was a thinker who possessed dangerous thing. Had that yoiith remained ignorant the dramatic instinct. George Cohan would someday and continued to look on mediocre persons as the great write the great American play. Margaret Mayo was artists of the drama, he would not have been separated a great humorist who could hand Eabelais cards and from a good-paying position. Knowledge is a dis- spades. Charles Rann Kennedy was a profound philo- tressing thing. It is not easy for an intelligent person

sopher. Belasco was a siiperman. And so on, ^^-\\\\ to write; but ignorance, as already mentioned, is talk- many eteetras. ative—and gets the bacon. This fascinating youth had a genius for being When a man has a desire for facts, he is hampered, wrong. Being very busy and always hopping about thus making it difficult for him to keep the pace. "He now at the theater, now at the office—he had no time that increaseth loiowledge increaseth sorrow," We. to think—which was a fortunate thing. But, youth is learn from the Book of Ecclesiastes. This takes on a erratic and will always do strange things—and this new meaning when applied by my young friend who youth was no exception. Shelley, somewhere in his made good as a dramatic critic because he was delight- Letters, says "that all of us, who are worth anything, fully ignorant and lost out when he became interested spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or ex- in that tnith which, as Berkeley exclaimed, is the cry

piating the mistakes of our youth." of all. but the game of few. Truth is a torch, but I must : ' "

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not fail to add that a torch can burn one's fingers. he could devise. It is an exquisite piece of painting, Men write best who know least. but if you look at it long enough to get into its atmos-

"A man," Schopenhauer tells us in his Counsels phere I think you will be glad to escape from its in- and Maxims, "must be still a greenhorn in the ways of fluence." Is that not a feast of piffle? the world, if he imagines that he can make himself Reporters are not supposed to be interested in popular in society by exhibiting intelligence and dis- news. They must search for "features." A dog may cernment. With the immense majority of people-, such bite a man—possibly it will get two lines. A wise re- qualities excite hatred and resentment, which are porter takes that story, gives it a twist and has the rendered all the to bear the harder by fact that people man retaliate by biting the dog—and it gets a column. are obliged to suppress—even to themselves—the real The noted lover of animals. Miss Lind-af Hageby, was reason of their anger.'' interviewed by a number of New York reporters. She It is very easy for the master minds of the news- answered their questions to the best of her ability, but papers—dramatic, literary and art writers—to give later claimed that the reporters paid little attention to the impression that there is profound knowledge be- her answers. "Have dogs souls?" she was asked. The hind their vaporings. One of the best tricks is to re- woman said she believed they have souls ; and here is sort to names and titles—piling them on thick. For what the papers printed: "Miss Lind-af Hageby says instance, let lis suppose a reviewpr is speaking of a kippered herrings have souls and warns the American novel. Let me show, somewhat extravagantly, how he people not to eat them in case the herrings' souls come strings things out back to haunt people." All of which makes an un- "Mr. Humpetty Klinketty's novel, which is after happy combination of poor English and a weak and

the manner of August Stringberg's 'Confession of a wobbly lie. Pool,' at times suggests George Moore's 'Memoirs of Only the other day, I m,et a woman who writes My Dead Life' and Max Stirner's 'The Ego and His "feature" articles six times a week. She supplies a

Own. ' For psychological insight, he ranks with Fyodor daily interview with the great and the near great. If Dostoevsky. The characterization is equal to that of she works hard for about 20 years more, she may be- Gustave Flaubert in his justly famed 'Madame Bov- come as famous as Dorothy Dix. She is always on the

' ary. ' yet, the simplicity of Turgenef's 'Smoke' is And alert for copy and greets everyone with ' What 's startl- there. He has the humor (minus the vulgarisms) of ing?" an 0. Henry. In all, Mr. Humpetty Klinketty seems " 'Others,' " I averred, "ought to make a good Twain, to be a composite of Lafcadio Hearn, Mark article. Here is a magazine of interesting freaks—they Benjamin De Casseres, Maxim Gorki, Victor Hugo, write the new verse—imagist stuff." Huneker, Maurice Maeterlinck, George Gissing, — James "I don't know a thing about it—> Walt Whitman, Frederick Nietzsche, Henry George, "Tut!" I interrupted; "all the more reason why Richard Wagner, Karl Marx, Peter Kropotkin, Elisee you will write a readable story."

Reclus, Remy de Gourmont, Emma Goldman and "I will need to know something about it in order

' Anthony Comstock. to get through the introductory paragraphs."

This trick never fails. Resort to it three or four "Very little. Don't overtax yourself by studying times and you get a reputation for being a critic of the subject." profound knowledge and wide reading. She agreed. So much for the dramatic and literary critics. Now "Facts do hamper me," said the woman. a moment with the art critics. Readers will, of course, She spent a long time studying her subject—oh, at remember the awful how-do-you-do when the Mona least two hours, and wrote her story. Lisa was discovered. AVe patient sufferers had to en- When I met her again, she said: dure an awful amount of senseless piffle about Leonardo "I didn't like my story. All the interesting things da Vinci's picture. Really, Mona Lisa just bores me. I had planned to say I found out, afterwards, to be

Her face, to me, is plainly stupid. To think of all the untrue, so I had to stick to facts. If I hadn't spent so years the painter spent in "getting" that smile! And much time on that story I'd have done better work,

Avhen he got it, lo and behold, what a smirk ! And yet, even though a few would have thought it foolish. I this woman has caused art critics to rid themselves of shall certainly profit by that mistake. In the future heaps of bunk. I sincerely believe the following by I shall place more reliance on mj^ own ability." Kane S. Smith, of the University of London, takes the And there you are. We'll close the services with bacon: "The painting is one of the most actively evil this little hymn: pictures ever painted, the embodiment of all evil the "From ignorance our comfort flows; painter could imagine put into the most attractive form The only wretched are the wise." ; — ; —

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The New '*Sick Man" Soon "V\'ill Follow His Victims

-Drawn for the ~U"estern Comrade by M. A. Kempf

A Millionaire V 1 s 1 o n

God I "tis false, yes, every But bosh—All this is nothing but MY By W I L B Y HEARD thing I see a dream,

"Tis false, my God, it dare, it cannot be I, too, am part of Life's e'er gushing stream.

And still, alas, I know too well 'tis true, 'Twas ever thus, and thus 'twill ever be, These are but part of all the souls I slew. A thousand slaves that one at least be free. These arms, these legs, these skulls about me here, If these must die then so it was decreed. These crippled forms and faces pale and sere. God's will be done—be it to sport or bleed. These babies with little mouths agape for air; 'Tis not for me to mourn or mope their lot. These girls who stroll the streets a public ware. No more than they to envy what I've got. These all are but the fritits of my demands, Good God, be this all false, or be it true,

These ruins all are the blightiugs of my hands. I leave it all, I leave it all to you. For me and mine have each of these been slain. I know but this, be things as e 'er they may. That I might LIVE these all have died in pain. If one but robs enough he need not pay. The blood and marrow of each nerve and bone, Away—such scenes I will henceforth decline Each heart throb, sorrow, agony and groan; Thank God for what he does for me and mine Thev all have gone to form mv mighty throne. Waiter—bring here another flask of wine. ; ; ; ;

12 The Western Comrade I Jolting the Jingoes

N editor 's brain By EDMUND R. BRUMBAUGH fists," "mollycoddles," or is an amazing any other name that reae-' organ. It may be the source of mucli tionary malice may devise, the active, real peace-loving' wisdom, a teacher of truth unparalleled, people of the nation propose to persist in their propa- and again it may be a queer, distorted, ganda until men Avho dare to speak for war or the helpless thing, performing antics enough means of war will be universally regarded as the to make men and angels weep and laugh mental prostitutes that they are, and those who don by turns. The latter sad state is illus- military uniforms and offer themselves for murder trated by a recent editorial in Senator Hitchcock's in the name of patriotism will be considered the scum Omaha World-Herald. of the earth, undeserving of association with decent, According to the editorial in question, ideas and not intelligent people. armaments are the cause of war. The trouble is in the The working, producing- masses have no real in- minds of the people. Therefore, the pernicious propa- terest in war except to keep out of it, and no interest ganda of the "pacifists" must cease, and every man in preparation for war except to oppose it and pre- throw up his hat for "prepared- vent it if possible. In the first place, ness," AVliile the ladies wave their this country is no more in danger of handkerchiefs. invasion than it is of a collision with Of course, I have taken consid- The Man Without Halley's comet. Furthermore, the erable liberty with the language of large part of the people would lose a Country the editorial, but in no particular has very little if some other nation its meaning been misrepresented. By A. F. GANNON would come over and swallow us up. The editorial was evidently intended It makes no difference to them what TTB holds all equal; as an answer to arguments of the piece of bunting floats over their -*- -*- Truth, raw mate- "pacifists," yet it was no answer. rial; heads or what the band plays on the Ideas are all-important as makers of Reason, a tool Fourth of July. Flags fire no substi- good or evil; the most ardent "paci- War, insanity; tute for food, and patriotic songs fail Crime, an effect fist" will admit that; and, in fact, to remove for a fraction of a second Ignorance, eradicable; the entire peace propaganda is con- the sting and blight of the poverty Hunger, unnecessary; ducted with a view to counteracting Wealth, an exeresenee; to which the masses are doomed the subtile, ingenious, extremely Health, natural; every day of their lives. In this false ideas with which professed Art, expression stage of the world's development a fruition; peace-loving militarists are poisoning Culture, country that cannot keep out of war Labor, requisite; the minds of the people. is unfit to save. Co-operation, the way It were a waste of time to argue Love, paramount. The triumph of peace is sure, but whether ideas or armaments were the it may be postponed, and war pre- cause of war. If A puts strychnine cede it, even in our own land. If it =5111 in B's soup, and B dies, what causes does, and the workers are forced to

B's death ? Is it the strychnine in the soup or the mur- fight, those who are wise will turn their guns against derous intent in the mind of A? Obviously, neither is the corrupters of public sentiment instead of against the sole cause. Both are contributing factors. In the their brother workers who have accidently been born same way, if universal miseducation leads to increased across an imaginary boundary line. armaments, and increased armaments lead to war, as The .jingoes will squirm if they chance to read this.

they always do, what is the cause of the war? It is Some I know would be jolted into hysterics. But jolt- miseducation or increased armaments? Obviously, ing the jingoes these days is a very pleasant occupa- neither is the sole cause. Both are contributing fac- tion. It is only a small part of what is coming to tors. them.

This is no time for jingoes to smile and sneer at the In this day of awakening no sane person would opposition. They had better be preparing to sur- dream of trying to incite war and to pursuade work-

render gracefully. Their position is as hideous as the ers of one land to join in collective, wholesale murder

hell it would make, and earnest, enlightened public of other workers. These truths are finding greater

opinion will never tolerate it. Whether dubbed "paci- acceptance among the workers each day. The Western Comrade 13

Large Tractor "Railing" Land. This Crew of Two Clear Fifteen Acres a Day by This Method

Through Eyes of Tomorrow

one HE mid-forenoon ]\Iay By ERNEST S. WOOSTER day a lusty young man, trudg- sun shone with an ing on foot as he had done for ardor that make even native Californians many days. He came demanding that he be permitted

seek the shadows, and it glistened from to work for his education. And he would accept no the solid sandstone and granite sides of refusal as final nor did any rebuff dampen his ardor the great cluster of buildings of the or thwart his determination. Universal University with dazzling His success inspired others; within a year twenty brightness. It was the year 1965. young men and women had applied and been accepted, The U. U. (commonly called the "Double You") oc- with scores of applications on file. It became a prob- cupied a low promontory in a little sheltered cove that lem requiring immediate solution. The problem was cuddled up against the gaunt reaches of the snow- solved by establishing industries which employed the capped Sierra Madres in the extreme southern part of students at useful work and paid their expenses with the Antelope Valley. Stretching in three directions are something to spare. It was the only school of this kind fertile fields and fruitful orchards, but there are many in the world. who tell of days when it was all a yucca-studded waste. It must be mentioned here that the U. U. was first In its inception the U. U. was just an advanced established as an educational institution solely for the high school, teaching as best it could the "higher educa- youth of the Llano del Rio Colony, the pioneer of those tion." In 1917 it occupied one tiny room with just co-operative enterprises that were the phenomenon of one instructor and less than half a dozen students. the decade from 1920 to 1930 and which allied them- How it grew till it became the greatest university of selves under the name of The Associated Colonies dur- the west is a story as unique and refreshing as any ing the thirties and became a power in the political that ever waited for historian to narrate. As much by and industrial movements of this country for many accident as design its course was shaped. When it years. Of course the U. U. became the source of edu- had not yet outgrown its first single room, there came cation for the ambitious persons of all the colonies, but 14 The Western Comrade this was not to happen for ten years after the system tions propounded by the instructors in English brought of admitting industrial students was introduced, and answers in Esperanto ; its use came as naturally to these after student-industries had become a part of the U. U. young men and women as English. Her remark was, providing work for all. "I know not the year."

But on this particular invigorating morning the "The date is immaterial," resumed Prof. Warren. history classes were in session. This was a morning "We need not definitely say which year it was. This study; in the afternoon these students would be seen point is not so important—history is concerned by in the various industries, though but a few hours amply epochs and events, not bounded by precise years. sufficed to satisfy all needs. In the lecture room of "It will be difficult for you to conceive of the ap- Prof. Warren, instructor in Economic History, a class palling chaos of those times, even before the war be- of young men and women listened with absorbed in- gan. While your motion picture history course has terest. Nor was it the forced attention simulated by shown you the people of the times, their way of living, classes of a generation previous in schools throughout etc., yet you can not get the psychology of it all by the world. And neither were the attentive stu- means of films. Imagine each little independent nation dents of that type formerly associated with stu- with its army, its president or potentates, its law-mak- diousness — the pale, spectacled anemic speci- ing bodies, its functionaries of all kinds, but most of mens who shut themselves off from all but them useless. Each country was a world unto itself; study. Prof. "Warren had the physique of an it cared nothing for the rest of the Earth except to athletic director, while the young men and women profit from it in some manner. Nationalism was taught might have been chosen for physical perfection. This instead of patriotism as you know it. Of course, you physical perfection was due to the system of the U. U. can look back now and say, 'How absurd not to have first established wiith the Slontessori school in 1915. a world senate,' but it must be remembered that indi- The instructor was speaking. vidualism was the trait that ruled the actions and "We now take up the most interesting develop- thoughts of our grandfathers. Co-operation was the ments of the Commercial period. You remember how dream food of cranks; practical men dominated. the wage system superseded the slave and self system. "So enamored of this theory were they, so ego-

Now it, too, began to present acute problems, and tistical, so cocksure, that the most significant incidents early in the present century they began to be more made not the slightest dent in their self-esteem. This or less generally recognized, though but few persons is best illustrated by the awakening of China. After were able to trace them from cause to effect. Clearly lying dormant for centuries, outstripped by the up- Capitalism was breaking down and radical measures start nations of the west, it had, almost at a bound, were necessary to save it. You recall that we have al- leaped from a despotic government to that of a repub- ready learned how this became one of the ever-menac- lic. China seemed to have gathered strength from this ing problems and how it thousand-year nap and the reached its first generally stored-up energy of her critical stage in 1914 when people transformed her the first world war broke from a slumberland to a out. Possibly many of you land teeming with activity can remember when the and industry. It's half-bil- Peace Pact was signed." lion people made the chry- "Mi ne scias la jaron," salis emerge a great giant spoke a youthful student. whose resourcefulness She used the universal amazed the world. tongue, Esperanto. This "But this happened had been a feature of the mostly while the European Colony Schools everywhere nations were slaughtering from the very first, and their best men, and when was usually preferred by they had adjusted their the younger people be- quarrels after twenty mil- cause of the greater lucid- lion men were killed, China ity with which ideas were was a new menace. Fol- expressed; it was a sort of lowing in the path of com- shorthand of language to mercial enterprise hewed A Colony Surveying Crew at Work them. Frequently ques- by tire western world, for- ;

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eign trade became the that an aggressive move Chinese ambition and would be made to capture

Chinese - marked goods the world's markets,backing ^vere to be seen in every this up with army and navy. market; the Chinese flag It means that Europe must was in every port. arm again, and this time

'Now this was one of on a vaster scale ; as teach- the most potent factors in er for the East she had but healing the hates engender- herself to blame that the ed by the war. The spectre lesson had been so well of the Yellow man haunted learned.

them all. German tolerated "In the United States Briton, Frenchman planned whether to arm or not to with Austria, Russian con- arm became the all-absorb- versed with Bulgar. The ing question. The Paci- common danger was a fists had grown in bludgeon forcing them to- strength, drawing lessons gether. The Chinese flag from the European con- followed Chinese goods flict. But, on the otlier An Irrigation Ditch Near the Townsite the Chinese army was h a n d the Preparedists

drilled to protect the Chin- pointed out that it was an ese flag. Though at first dominated by the Japanese, age when war was almost iinavoidable, and must, there- the Chinese soon shook loose and took the initiative. fore, be prepared for. The idea of an Oriental Confederacy grew—India, Siam, "Now again I must direct your attention to the Japan, the Philippines—with China the whip hand. Profiteers who ruled every nation. Many were kind- This was the first form of the new Asiatic association. hearted men who abhorred war, yet they were fore-

Soon envious eyes were cast on Siberia, and it became most in competing for foreign trade; they stole the Russia's constant dread that a new "scourge of God" markets of the fighting nations of Europe, thus tread- should lead a Yellow Horde from the East. ing the road that led directly to trouble. In the election "All Europe felt this fear of the newi-born East. of 1916 the question was fought along the lines of Russia, Germany, France, England, Italy, Austria, the Shall We Prepare? Being better organized and with Balkans—impotent alone, mutually jealous, each hiding a greater incentive—here again you will note the work- her weakness—forgot their grievances in the face of ing of the law of Economic Determinism—the Pre- this hideous wraith and hurried to form the Union of Preparedists were able to win, and the neueleus of the Europe. No nation could long remain neutral. Turkey Pan-American Armada was established. and Egypt joined with Persia in the short-lived Asiatic "Note that the seeds of war were sown side by side Entente, but it soon broke up, with Egypt a member with the seeds of peace. The worn-out nations of Eu- of the Union of Europe and the others aligning them- rope had learned their bitter lesson. They were ready selves with the East. for lasting peace. But with the tliree great World As-

"Even before this, fear had begun to gnaw at the sociations formed to compete for trade it meant that

Americas. Brazil had become a competitor of the war must eventually ensue ; such gigantic preparations United States. During the war Canada had entered coidd not be left idle long. The world lay divided into largely into the world's trade, and the Dominion was three armed camps, and the best energies of all were being exploited as a commercial nation. Mexico had turned to the building of newer and more hideous become an export country. But their jealousy of one death-dealing devices. Huge fortunes were constantly another was overshadowed by fear of the Orient. Out offered as prizes to stimulate inventive genius. The of this timorousness grew the Pan-American Union, ingenuity of the greatest constructive minds were, taking in the AVestern Hemisphere. grimly enoitgh, turned to building destructive engines. "Australia and New Zealand, with Africa, joined But before dismissing you I want to pmnhasize this

the Union of Europe. The latter became the joint point : While it was an age of individualism, the co- property of all the nations of this combination. operative spirit was already infiltrating everywhere. "Now the growth of the Oriental Confederation Yet the people of those days failed to see it; it must necessarily lead to certain sequences. Applying was another significant phase of the Evolution they so

the law of evolution, which you know so well, it meant little understood, and refused to heed." —Drawn for the Western Comrade by M. A. Kempf The next tren be abandoned 18 The Western Comrade

Plowing Lines for Tree Planting

TALWART workers at the Llano del Rio Colony are showing greater activity, en- Enthusiasm thusiasm and hope than ever before since the inception of the enterprise. At- have been warm and the nights gy r_ ^ tacks on us by capitalist newspapers and pleasantly cool and so propitious disturbers have drawn, the comrades has been the weather that vegetation has begun to closer together and their solidarity bud and carpet the hills and valleys hereabout. The makes for still better co-operation. big tractor is stea<3ily clearing land. Everj'body has a shoulder to the wheel of progress. The caterpiller engine has been doing yeoman ser- The colonists laugh through assembly meetings and vice almost twenty-four hours of the day. During the there has been no bickerings of late. Men and women day leveling and clearing the land has been going on are singing at their work. With the spirit that prevails and when the night falls plows are put behind it and there is nothing that can prevent the colony making work is continued throughout the night with three unbounded success. shifts of men. It is surprising what enormous amount The splcLiid showing in the annual financial re- of Avork this little thing will do, M'hich, by the way, is port has put. heart into the weakest. Letters of en- a 30-horsepow;er affair. It does the work of at least couragement and appreciation come from absent mem- twelve horses and has the advantage of consuming bers all over iije country. The progress of the enter- nothing when standing still. Its diet consists mainly prise in all depiirtments is at the highest mark. of distillate and oil.

The spring-rplanting season is here. Preparations The plowing and leveling on the Hubbard place,

are being madft? and work is being done to take ad- which is south of the ditch, is almost completed. But vantage of the season's call. Every one here realizes little remains to be done to make it ready for seeding. that in order to make Llano grow and the desert to Seeding has been going on for some time and that bloom as the rose, a vast amount of labor must be ex- work will be continued until the whole of the laud pended. lying between the upper and lower ditches is one solid The weather has been unusually M|ild for the past mass of alfalfa and barley. three weeks, or practically since the first of February. One hundred and sixty acres is now being prepared Indeed, it is hard to realize that it is winter. The days under direction of 0. W. Luton, of the agricultural de- The Western Comrade 19

Digging Holes lor Pear Orcliard

prospect. Complete order prevails and the session is Rules Llano over in an hour or less and the notes made by the stenographer graphically tell the story of the doings WILLIAMS partment, just back of the Tighl- day by day on the ranch. man ranch and north of the lower It may be interesting to know that the managers' diteh. This will be put into barley and alfalfa. This meeting of the Llano farm is unique in a way. Every piece of land is very near the intake and irrigation, successful organization in the country has adopted and therefore, vaW be very easy. is using some such method of keeping its men in touch

To the north of the land in question, P. A. Knobbs, with the affairs of the ranch, work is arranged, teams of the garden department, is plowing and preparuig apportioned, men assigned and maehinerj^ disposed of for a big garden. It is not quite certain just how many for the next da.y"s work. All matters pertaining to the acres at this time, but the land being worked on now ranch is brought up at these meetings and usually set- is fully forty acres. The location of the garden tract tled very quickly. The thing that is unusual is the is in a most favored locality. fact that it is not a parliamentary body, no motions The high line ditch, meaning that a new survey being made, hence nothing to reconsider and no red has been made in order to see how far up the hillside, tape to dispense with. Every day sees the utility of back of the permanent townsite the water can be car- the managers' meeting and as the days go jy its effec- ried, is being widened at the bottom to five feet. The tiveness will grow. upper and lower ditches will prove quite an advantage Llano is now connected -with the outf le world by as can be seen at a glance. telephone. F. 0. Harper is completing ar ingements to

Organization is better than ever before. There is connect by phones the dairy, horse co ral and the less confusion and the managers' meetings, which are Tighlman ranch. Much travel about the r .nch has been held nightly, are being solidly attended and much in- eliminated and Los Angeles is but a mimite away now. terest is manifested. Twenty-five managers and fore- For the week ending February 19, Copley's poultry men take seats about the long table in the new office department turned into the commissary 128 dozen building, and the room is already grown too small. At eggs. The work of enlarging the chicken ranch is least 75 to 100 interested onlookers attend the meet- under way. ings to see how things are being done and what is in Five thousand holes have been dug under Horti- 2(hi The Western Comrade

CTilteFist Dawson on the east quarter section. The cleared 73 acres of land last week and burned the wbrk of hole digging will soon be over, and the work brush. This acreage has been railed twice.

o:^ inserting the trees started. F. J. Wright, the expert rug maker from Fresno,

i Joseph Bowers of the dairy department reports for has completed up to Feb. 19, seven rag rugs and one!. thfe week ending Feb. 19, that he is receiving 135 gal- burlap rug. He is using but one of his looms, as he!) lons of milk daily and that there is no sickness in the has not sufficient space. Much interest is being mani- herd. fested by all the colonists as immediate returns from C. H. Scott of the building department reports that rags can be seen. As soon as the laundry building is work has started on the industrial building at the enlarged this manufactory will be placed therein and new town site. Materials are being hauled there now. greater efficiency will be shown. The roof on the laundry building is completed. Much The managers of the various departments hand repair work has been done by this department during weekly a report to be read Sunday evenings, which the past three weeks. AVork has been caught up and proves of great interest. This innovation has proved from now on efforts will be directed on the new town- a success and now everyone that cares to hear and

site, which is located about two miles from the present know what has been done has this opportunity. These ji

site of Llano. reports have opened the eyes of many people, as it is '!' The hog department has grown somewhat and now impossible for one person to keep fully informed on

more than twenty pens are available for the little and what is taking place at all times over such a vast ' big porkers. acreage. It takes quite a number of men to run the Tanning is regularly going forward and the leather ranch at Llano. quality. turned out is of exceptional All rabbit hides ,. One of the most delightful and instructive visits are being tanned now and the finished product is as tlhit the writer had in a long time was to the Monte- pliable as cloth. A good quality of razor strops are SQrri school, conducted by Mrs. Prudence Stokes being made at the tannery. One hundred and seventy- Brown, with able assistants, recently. He happened in sis rabbit hides were turned into the tannery last just as dinner Avas being served and watched with week. The' tannery is providing all the leather used great interest the little tots line up in Cafeteria style at the new shoe shop and the harness shop. for their portions. It was amusing and pleasing to Hay Proebstel, the surveyor, is continuing work on see with what care they tiptoed to their seats at the the townsite and has two blocks wholly completed, as little low tables and then sat back waiting for all to well as the new industrial site. It won't be long now be served. Thirty-three children of tender age ranged ; until a substantial building will command a view of themselves about the tables with as much or more the great valley to the north. Architect "William Braun decorum than grown people. The way they helped is busily engaged in making drawings for the city each other was truly a delight. "With all possible and he has completed dozens of different designs for courtesy little boys helped little girls to this thing or the interiors of the new homes. The lines he has so that and the solicitude shown was truly affecting. far drawn are very beautiful. Not a loud or boisterous word was spoken, and the A drying house has been constructed at the brick- table manners displayed by the little guests were amaz- yard and only the roof is lacking to have the brick- ing. The table was set and the chairs were arranged making machines busy at work. "When the covering is by the children, and, too, without a word of instruc- made weather will have no effect on the brick in- tion. Everything was in perfect order. Each plate

dustry. had the cutlery neatly laid beside it, with not the Ending February 19, the rabbitry turned in some slightest variation in distance. The spoons in a box interesting figures. There were weaned 168 rabbits; were all laid one within the other. The knives and 64 litters were born; 255 pounds of rabbits killed and forks were arranged in the same manner by the child- 176 hides turned to the tannery. Summer shades are ren assigned to this work. Mrs. Brown said that child- being made for the corral and the land about the rab- ren loved order and that given proper incentive they

bitry is being fenced preparatory to planting vege- were as dainty and as particular as the most fastidious tables for the rabbits. housewife. The lime kiln at Bobs Gap is progressing well. The mothers and fathers of these children are proud March 1 will see the kiln in active operation and prob- of this Montessori school. Children are being taught ably will be second to none as a burner of lime rock. manners, relationship and social ethics that will be a, Lime is badly needed and as a matter of fact is the only living standard and by the time they graduate from thing required to make work on the new townsite rush. this delightful home they will be ready to take their

J. J. Leslie with a crew of two men and a tractor. place in new environments with perfect aplomb. The Western Comrade 21

Part of the Colony's Garden Ready for Planting

EVERY big movement to emancipate suffering man- they think a thing and learn to believe it. It does not kind has had to bear with persecutions, villifica- matter what the truth is. They will act as quickly on tions and misrepresentations. This can be explained an untruth and be as earnest about it as if they were on two grounds: ignorance, which begets intolerance, truly following on the paths of rectitude. One will and on the patent thing called Economic Determinism. find people that take a man's word and then act as A few weeks ago the State Corporation Commis- though the man should not be investigated. Many sioner made a report, if not taken from a disgruntled persons do not think for themselves. They are wait- member, at least echoed the sentiments once heard on ing for a leader and when that leader comes they listen the floor of the Assembly hall. The report caused attentively for awhile and thinking they have absorbed some consternation in the heai'ts of people who are all of the leader's thought, begin to form a new cult, a friendly to the cooperative idea and of this greatest new religion or a new colony, as the ease may be. of all cooperative efforts. Persons who were not able There is one essential difference between Llano and to discriminate were stampeded. the rest of the world. In Llano a new psychology is

There was a great deal in the report that was lit- in the making. People as a rule change twice and erally true and that, of course, will not hurt anyone. later a third time—sometimes wrong, mostly to the There was more than a generous amount of innuendo right way of thinking. To make this clear, an example of things gone wrong that indeed does put in an im- will be cited of a man, a seemingly sensible, capable, proper light the true situation at Llano. There is no money-making man and a Socialist. objection to the financial situation of the colony being For weeks and months this man dreamed of the made public. There is no mystery and never has been colony at Llano del Bio. He was living in the northern about this phase of the company. If a person did not part of the state of California. His business was good, understand, it was because he did not go to the proper but he had no heart in it. He wanted to get to place in which to tind out. that "dream city" and help lay the marble slabs and The principal difficulty with most people is that (Continued on Page 27) Montessorian22 The Western Comrade VISIT to the Montessori By A. C. A that dragging inconvenience had been re- school at Llano, California. duced to accurates compactness, and put It had been raining for a week or in its place—like the Guide, who stood back smiling. more, and the roads were as bad as By this time most of the children had provided desert roads can be, though that is not themselves with a toy. Sometimes half a dozen would bad at all from the point of view of a occupy themselves with one engaging problem. They \sfe7 dweller in a elay district; still as I would even let a Guide play it with them, discovering looked around the immaculate school thus many strange things. I sat down by a boy who and watched the crowd of children trooping towards had a box of cylinders he was pondering over. He the door, I sighed with a housekeeper's prevision of took one up solemnly and demonstrated to me that disaster. it had something which might have been sand inside. But the crowd was intercepted and diverted ; some- "Soft,"' he said. Then he shook another cylinder: it thing happened at the back door, and when they filed sounded like small stones. "Loud," he said. It was in from that direction the "real estate" had been a test of hearing. He was going to try to put them eliminated, and each showed, as they passed, in the box in the order of their gradation of a clean sound. The ! handkerchief. When school opened some of these variation I soon discovered was quite minute. children had not made acquaintance with that import- But the Guide to Wisdom was beckoning me, "Just ant article. In those cases the handkerchiefs were lent see how beautifully Cecil plays this game," she said. them, but they must be brought to school clean each I sat down by Cecil. He had a frame with two pieces morning. Ultimately they all acquired both the hand- of cloth tacked to it, each of which had six strings at-

kerchiefs and the habit of using them. tached to its edge ; the game being to tie six bows, this On day the usual routine had been altered. right. Ah ! there was the rub. Can you tell me out of The Guide to Wisdom had been absent at story telling hand howi many motions are involved in tying a bow? time, so the more energetic kiddies attacked the piled Cecil kuows. tables and benches and unpacking them according to Bu there was a more interesting feature to this some law which had previously been impressed upon ease. No child in this, his own house, is obliged to do them, set them carefully in their places. It was de- anything. He just falls naturally into doing something lightful to see very little tots studying the angle be- because there are so many interesting things to do. tween the bench and the tal)le A^ath an eye to correct But Cecil had stood around idle and aimless for three alignment and an inner conviction to its importance; months. With all the others busy around him he alone just the expression that I had seen on the face of an had stood aloof, until this toy had claimed him for its artist stepping back from his easel to get the effect own. The day before he had tied those bows steadily of the whole. for two houi's. Today he appeared inclined to repeat Then some of them began taking off the chintz cov- the feat. He had learned to do one thing perfectly; ers which had been wrapped around the stands of how entrancing! Soon he would make new concpiests. shelves on which their toys were stored. These cov- I had to go away for a little while. When I came ers had been adjusted carefully by them the night be- back the table had been set, still by the children. One fore, the angles laid smooth and pinned tight, and now little tot was filling all the glasses with water. The

they were to be taken off in just the right way. It pitcher was small, but still he had to hold it with both took two children to handle the cloth, possibly 10x6, hands, and he was filling each glass just full enough, and one boy of six found himself alone and called a not too full, and not a drop fell on the table. In the companion to his aid. Billie's attention, however, was kitchen four babies were standing on a bench by the attracted elsewhere, and seeing the child's dilemma table (their heads would have been about on a level

an assistant Guide took a hand. But Billie, looking with it if they had been on the floor), buttering toast, around suddenly, observed what was going on, and which other tots were toasting on the stove. It took took the end of the cloth from the assistant with digni- a great deal of toast for twenty or thirty children, but fied and repressed indignation. Was not this the they did it all themselves. children's house? Were not they alone responsible for There are great things planned for the Llano its management? What business had the assistant schools, but it is not difficult to have faith in their

Guide with his shelf cover ? In so many movements the realization after even a brief investigation of this reason for which they had been trained to understand. Great Beginning. The Western Comrade 23

On B Rock Creek

This stream, which is the main source of supply for the Llano del Rio Community, reaches torrential proportions during the winter months. It is the plan to conserve all this immense run off and use it to irrigate additional vast tracts of the colony lands.

Big Rock Canyon is ever popular with the colonists and many impormptu pic- nics are enjoyed by them. ! ; Llano24 The WesternMusingsComrade HEER up, brave hearts By JOHN DEQUER not interfere with your efficient co- of the Llano, and fear operation while you are on the job. not though the storms of the desert shake We are organized for useful deeds—not to advance your tents, or the ignorance of the men- certain creeds. There are people whose minds are so tally misnourished cause you discomfort, metaphysical that they will live on faith six hours or if petty tyranny by a more petty offi- between each meal, but at meal time they are on earth cial endeavors to destroy you—for you four square. Now I have no quarrel with their met- shall Tvin aphysics, because "meta" means "beyond," "physic," Persecutions, calumnies, criticisms and opposition we all understand, and when we are beyond that, gen- are powerless in the face of loyal co-operative effort. erally speaking, we are ciuite useless to ourselves and The sneer and the criticism of the vicious, and the everyone else. ignorant without and within your ranks will strength- Llano is not a dream world of fairy rose gardens and en your resolve to succeed. It will act as fuel for the Arcadian ideals. It is a job of reclaiming the Mojave fire of your ideal. desert and making it a fit habitation. The Mojave is If co-operation is wrong in principle, you will fail; real. The job is real, and requires loyal red blooded and the better you co-operate the quicker you will fall. co-operators to raise it to its highest possibilities, and

But if it is right, then the storms ^^'ill only cull oiit the we have them; great, noble, wholehearted souls A^ath chaff and reveal the real and golden grain. This is faith in the land and each other. These are the bearers true in every walk of life ; in art, in politics, in science. of the new ideal and idea to combine their small re- Every new idea will rouse against itself an inevitable sources into a corporation for mutual benefit. They storm of opposition by those who are unaccustomed or will succeed though they have to fight all the forces of unadapted to such a new idea. Bruno, Voltaire, Galileo, ignorant scepticism from without and all the chimerical Paine, Ingersoll and Marx, all great minds in science idealism from within. The realists face reality in a and philosophy, have had the venomous arrows of ig- real way, meeting conditions in a practical way, and norance and bigotry driven at their hearts by those who sticking with determined energy to tlie course they in logic ought to have been their friends. We must have chosen. They will reap a reward of plenty and -"' expect to get it from within as well as from without. peace, and that at no distant day.

But that which comes from Avithin is the more pain- To plow and to sow, to reap and to mow, to quary ful and bitter. Still we must eject it from our system and to build, to eat and to dress, to laugh and to sing, if we would be well. Against that which assails us to learn and to love ; all this is being done more fully from without we can be on our guard. The collectivity as the days go by. must defend itself against all foes. Does not the Socialist party aim at all these things ?

The problem of the Llano is and will be primarily Yes, on a greater and grander scale. Socialism is a problem of collective production for collective use. building the great temple of humanity in which some To do that we need collective, harmonious action be- day the race shall dwell. But while the temple is being cause upon the harmonious action of the individuals i^i builded why should we sit naked under the stars when the organization depends the efficiency of the work;, we can organize with our comrades and build a house and upon the efficiency with which the work is- done and have our needs supplied ? Llano cares for the now depends the results. All that is needed is men and Socialism builds for the morrow. women who are interested in- causing their enterprise The, fact is that many people are not adaptable to to grow and develop, as a source of communal wealth. anything new. They stray upon th,e stage of life suf- And those who want to make, it anything else than a fering mental photophobia. They fear the light, hence source of wealth and comfort are seeing spooks. they endeavor to stay in darkness. These cannot be Llano is run by the living and for the living, and saved and, like an inflamed vermiform appendix, must when the dead arrive We will find them a resting be eliminated or they destroy the body. This is cruel place. We care not whether, a man worships the as Jaweh, but needful as bread. ghosts of the past or of the future. We are neither a These people are not bad ; they are often very sin- church or a seance room. We only band together to cere. - But sincerity means little. No one ever dis- produce and enjoy material things in a material world, putes the sincerity of a rattle snake—only do not get in a material way, and you can have your spirits in a friendly with him on that account. Sincerity is fine bottle, in the skv or in a cabinet, so long as thev do (Continued on Page 31) : ! " WeddingThe Western ComradeBells25 T is the custom in By CLARA R. CUSHMAN she had gone over the bed with a 1— Millville to prefix rake, she sat down in the spring 1 the names of the married ladies with the sunshine on the warm, moist sod to read the directions 11 oeenpations on Socialist 1 of their respective husbands, the paper packets of vegetable seeds. Mrs. ilrs. Judge T. M. Parker, whose husband Bricklayer Barnes might know how the little reptile ^^^ is Justice of the Peace, city undertaker, of her recent experience happened to be her steenth stationer and furniture dealer, once ex- cousin ; she might know something of how world bodies

plained it in this way met, united and propagated ; and why, when a laborer "Wlien you say Mrs. Martin, or ilrs. Perkijis, or has worked four hours he ought to begin looking for Mrs. Hawkins, or Mrs. Barnes, you don"t tell much; his hat and coat; but she distinctly did not know but when you say ilrs. Banker Martin or Mrs. Drug- whether you planted lettuce and radish seeds a half gist Perkins or Reverend ilrs. Hawkins, or Mrs. Brick- inch in the ground or two feet. But she meant to find layer Barnes, you tell a lot." Then she added: out.

' "And if I had my way we'd all say Mrs. Episcopal ' Cover with one-fourth inch fine soil firmly pressed Banker Martin and Mrs. Presbyterian Druggist Perk- down," she read, and rose to obey directions. ins, and Mrs. Reverend Methodist Hawkins, and Mrs. Her hand touched the dark, moist clods. It gave Socialist Bricklayer Barnes. In that way we'd tell her a delicious sensation. Never in all her life before everything right away and save our breaths." Mrs. had she felt new turned sod. Suddenly she sat up Baptist Judge Parker prided herself on being prac- alertly, her eyes blazing. Almost, almost she felt the tical. warm earth throb But this isn't a story of ilrs. Baptist Judge Parker. "I belive it's true!" she whispered. "True! It's

It's a story of her eighteen-year-old daughter Nellie, alive. All matter lives and breathes ! There's no such who with great pomp and rejoicing had just become a thing as dead matter ! Mrs. Beetgrower Preston and was living in her brand She got down on her knees and laid her ear close new cottage just at the edge of town, adjoining the to the sod. Breathless, she listened. Did she only old Thornton place upon which the Bricklaj^er So- imagine it, that soft stirring, like her sleeping baby's cialist Barneses had recently moved. Mrs. Bricklayer breath, or did she really hear it! It was spring! Socialist Barnes also figures in the story as villainness She forgot where she was, forgot her nearness to the or good fairy, depending upon your point of view. road until a figure came between the horizon and her Mrs. Bricklayer Socialist Barnes was running a lit- rapt eyes. It was Mrs. Baptist Judge Parker on her tle one-wheeled hand plow over the east section of her way to visit her newly married daughter. back yard. Her face was very red and upon it was Mrs. Socialist Bricklayer Barnes again had cause an expression of mingled joy and despair. It was her to giggle sheepishly, as she assumed a position in keep- first experience at backyard, intensified ranching, or ing with the scheme of the universe and the usages any other kind for that matter. But not for a moment of polite society. did she falter. "Good morning, Mrs. Parker," she called cheer- "Five feet one in her stockings and every inch a fully. fighter," her husband often said of her proudly. "Good morning," Mrs. Parker replied, not paus- She thought of that, and gripped the plow handle ing for a moment, but even hastening her steps. anew. She hated a coward or a quitter! Then she u\Irs. S. B. looked after her thoughtfully. "I don't dropped the handle, turned quite pale, screamed and seem to get acquainted very fast. I suppose she thinks tried to climb a peach tree. "Oh, I almost stepped I'm crazy, standing on my head like that." on it." Mrs. B. J. hurried pantingly on, not being built on "It" was a very large, very horny, horned toad. It hurrying lines. She was musing, too, or cogitating, scuttled across the plowed ground and disappeared in let us say, as the word seemed to suit better her pro- a friendly bush. portions. Five-Feet-One returned to her plow, giggling sheep- "I must write to the Los Angeles Times and find ishly. "I guess it's because the nasty thing's big, what it means when Socialists stand on their ears. fierce ancestors used to chase mine," she mused. "How Some free love ceremony, I'll be bound. I'm seared some instincts do stick." to have Nellie live down here by such people." "When the plowing was at length accomplished and Not realizing that she was a menace, J\Irs. Brick- ' " ; ; "

26 The Western Comrade layer Barnes M'ent on with her planting. She was that she had when she was talking about the weather, commencing with the radishes when she heard the soft "^^ery low the little bride began. thud of running steps behind her, and turning saw Nel- "I thought I loved him, but I don't now. I hate lie, the new bride. She had on a little blue cap and him." kimona, daintily embroidered wStli a thousand careful "Why?" stitches and who knows how many thousand girlish "I know the secret."' dreams. Her eyes were red and swollen and she spoke "'\Yhat secret?" in short gasps. She must have run all the way across "The married woman's secret." Lower and lower. the beet field. "Yes? What's that?"

' ! ' Oh hide me, hide me ! Don 't let mamma find me "You know,'' she whispered. "It's that men are Mrs. Socialist Bricklayer Barnes cast aside her beasts." seeds. Mrs. S. B. frowned and clinched her hands. Five "Of course I will. I'd like to rescue a good many feet one she was, and every inch a fighter. "Has your young girls from their mammas. Come in quick." liusband abused you?'' She seized the girl's hand and led her into the Nellie shook her head. "No, biit I know." house. "Now," she said, sitting down in front of the "Yes? How do you know, my dear?" little bride, quite like a doctor in consultation, "tell "After mamma and every one had left, he said: me all about it." 'Thank God they've gone at last! Now you're all "Oh I knew you'd help me. ]\Iamma says j^ou mine!' Then he kissed me and—and—oh, I can't tell don't believe in marriage, and I don't either. Oh, how the rest ! He never kissed me like that before. And I hate it." then I knew. And whenever he comes near me I begin

Mrs. S. B. 's eyes grew big. "I not believe in mar- to shake. I can't help it. He has moved out into

' riage ! the tank house. "Yes, she says it's true because you keep your "Why, the poor boy!'' certificate in a book on chickens. She found out tlie The girl rose, wringing her hands. "Oh, what day she came to see you." shall I do? I can't go back! I can't! And I can't tell "Oh," said Mrs. S. B., smiling at some recollection, mamma. She'd say, '"WHiom God hath joined together

' ' The scrap of paper—Let 's not talk about me, let 's talk let no man put asunder.' And she'd make me go back. about you. You don't want to be married. Tell me And she knew, too ! Knew and wouldn't tell me! Just

' why. let me walk right into a trap. That's the Avay they Crimson floods swept the girl's face. "I can't,'' treat girls—they set traps for girls—the men do—and she whispered. the women sit back and let us walk right into them! "Oh yes you can. Come! Don't you love your Even your own mother." husband? I'm sure you did before you married him. She poured out all her disillusion, her pent-\ip grief I used to watch you go by together." and fear.

Nellie stole a look at her face. She did not seem in "And I know why they do it, too. Oli, I figured the least horrified. She had the same kind of a smile fContimied on Page 30) T h par

THEY grace the velvet depths of By A. F. GANNON And slyly gild the gory art of slay- Profit's pulpits ing And bid the burdened meekly bear their yoke Till each child spurns the native gold of ruth. Denouncing those brave spirits as "low culprits"

Who tiount the masters and the slaves provoke. They glibly dwell upon tiu-' nation's "mission." And cry: "To arms!'' on the pretext of peace. They plj' perfervid pens in prostitution Until the stupid mass, swayed by attrition, (Without the spur that speeds the strumpet's shame). Conceives the thouglit bred in it's brain obese. Whose genius could enkindle revolution

In souls yet stranger to the sacred flame. And ye who sit supine amid the splendor Of high ideals or a love of self. They prate of "peace'' and, in the guise of playing. Betimes shall waken or be forced to render Inculcate murder in tlie mind of yoiith Your blood and manhood to these pimps of pelf! ! !

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jEnthusiasm Rules Llano I( you think the war -in Europe has shattered Socialism, read L. B. Boudin's famous book, (Continued from Page 21)

bring to fruitiou the hope of tlie light from a giant searchlight "Socialism lages. Plato sa-\v it aud described it placed upon the dream tower hun- [well ; St. Simou sa^v it also aud dreds of feet in height. Los An- and War" it ried ; Robert Owen lived it for geles ninety miles away must be and let this eminent author, who is |ai time ; Oneida was the mecca for startled and entertained nightly by one of the foremost in the Socialist ears; Ruskin saw devotees pour the weird reflections in the heavens ranks, put you right. Socialism is East builded great NOT shattered. It is NOT even ; Aurora and of the wonders of Llano. These dented. lolid; Ziou City contained zealots simple things were to be but a few As a matter of fact, it is only upon |of an idea. These and other great of the achievements that he had applying the magic touch of Socialist interpretation that the Jemancipatory efforts tilled the mind war reveals its come to the colony to perform. fundamental causes, meaning and con- of the man in question. Nothing For a couple of Weeks he sequences. Instead of destroying So- cialist theory, the war has vindicat- Ibut auroras, tinted and alluring, "lazed" around awaiting some ed it. held his attention. He would talk sort of move in this direction and In the course of a very suggestive to none that were not in sympathy was immeasurably pained to see historical analysis, Boudin divides the life history of capitalist society into with him and his ideas. He con- none. He, however, noticed men three epochs—two of them warlike and one peaceful. In the era when capital- structed homes, cities, palaces, es- being taken in autos to work at the ism is just emerging out of feudalism it tates—in fact air castles, and lime kiln, to the Hubbard place, to wages a series of bloody wars for the extension of territory. The for these second strange to say, dreams he the Tighlman ranch and to the land epoch is the pacific period of capitalist internal development. ever got ready and receptive audi- at Having secured Mescal. He observed men with access to the sea, having formed the ences too. picks and shovels and hoes going nation and secured its own dominance within the nation, the capitalist class At last fortune favored him and into the fields and orchards. He enters upon an era of peace in order to he got away from business long develop its resources and power at saw men driving wagons filled with home. enough to run to the colony and lumber, bags, and hay. He noticed The third epoch, the present one in look it over," as the saying goes. the dairj' cows turned into this which imperialism plays a dominant The only thing that charmed him field and into that and later saw part, is essentially warlike; and its essential economic characteristic is the was the homes of next year, the them driven to the long barn and exportation of capital, principally in views of the towering, sky-piercing the form of iron and steel. The lead- he saw the ugly sight of milkers ing industrial nations of the world, no crests, snow covered and bewilder- milking the cows and yet later, he longer having a market at home which can be industrialized by the purchase ing in sun and moonshine, the fast saw the butter on the tables and and introduction of industrial means of automobile ride, the redolent odors production, the nations strive to se- milk there too, and he saw the cure control of undeveloped countries of exhaling spring, the drizzle of churn at work and wrappers busy which can be "developed" in the sense of being industrially revolutionized. the night, all of which were invig- putting it up in pound packages. orating. He did not see a thing After the general consideration of He went to the comissary and saw the economics and ideology of the war. that he came to see. The great men and women buying things and Boudin, in the chapter on the "Imme- diate Causes of the War and the plain to the north and east with taking them home, ilost astonish- Stakes Involved," goes deep into the complicated mass of international re- its long undulations dissolving in all, preparations ing of he heard lations that brought about the war. the distance; changing colors, lights for work here and there. ^York After thisi very interesting analysis and shadows. These were the Work! What a shock. This city of the war. Boudin takes up the at- of the Socialists. things he saw and appreciated. of his was not to be built by work titude The things the man did not see, but by genii hands. He also applies the class struggle theory to the race problem, and show^s nor could he see if he had tried, This man wandered about in a how truly reactionary are the race was the land, water, adobe houses, theories of imperialism, and how pro- daze for a month and finally made gressive the Socialist theory of the little, not palaces ; tents, ungainly the discovery that work is the basis same subject is. Boudin develops a barns, long short horn cattle; theory of nationalism, internationalism, and of everything; that if a dream city war and peace, which is truly Marxian in conception and Socialistic in outlook. plebeian rabbits ; fluft'y chickens is to be built the masons must be and the season's dependability. He $1.10 to The Western Comrade. [ there ; big wagons must haul the Send S20 California Building, Los Angeles. joined. lime. i brick and stone and sand and Cal., and we will promptly have the book forwarded to you, postpaid. The man in question later re- The carpenters must saw and ham- I ' turned bag and baggage. He was mer and the landscape man must '- filled with enthusiasm at first. He bend his back and sweat over every was going to have that city whether flower or bush ; that aching muscles or no. The electric lights must must be the reward of this thing to Llano Rug Works bloom on each yucca tree and a be. Astonishing discovery Rugs from old carpets. Rag rugs long line of lights would adorn the With the discovery came a new a specialty. Room size rugs as ^Madre hills from the Big Rock to incentive to work at something well as small sizes at Los Angeles the ifeseal, a distance of twelve like a worth while. The dreams, prices. We pay freight both ways. miles. The Santa Fe, thirty-five shimmering drapery, dropped off Write for information or ship di- miles winding its away, way and lay in the distant land of fox rect to Rug Department, Llano del through hills the jagged to the fire. A new psychology had l)een Rio Colony, Llano, Calif. south, must run into a shaft of (Continued on Page 29) ——; ———!••

28 The Western Comrade THE WESTERN COMRADE t a t 1 Entered as second-class matter at the post ofBce at Los Angeles, Cal. Sorrow ripens the soul- AU- Oh, our women, they are sublime 526 California Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. — GUST RODIN. —GEN. JOFFRE. Subscription Price Fifty Cents a Year In Clubs of Four Twenty-five Cents All that eats think is evil. Call me anything but Colonel. HILLAIRE BELLOC. WM. HOWARD TAPT. Job Harriman, Managing Editor Frank E. Wolfe, Editor My reputation will take care of I know positively that a food Frank H. Ware, Associate Editor itself.—WOODROW WILSON. trust is being organized.—GIP- PORD PINCHOT. Vol. Ill February, 1916 No. 10 Our navy is too weak to be a bully.—REAR ADMIRAL STAN- Ignorance is the only soil in FORD. which tyranny can fatten. TyASHINGTON sends out a THOMAS DIXON. telegram that Germany has The greatest bonehead T ever offered Nicaragua more money saw accused me of being one. I would be sorry to see an im- than the United States for the GEORGE PICKETT. mense standing army organized in Nicaraguan canal route, this country.—CARDINAL GIB- which, ac- I promise the House at some fu- cording- to some senators, BONS. is an ar- ture time to be a great deal better. gument in favor of an immediate —MEYER LONDON. This war began in secret diplo- ratification of the pending treaty, macy. It will end in secret confer- and to others Firm refusal unavailing, I have believe there is an ences by diplomatists. been forced to submit to the peo- — JANE ulterior purpose behind it. "Watch ADDAMS. for the wave of preparedness talk ple's will.—YUAN SHIH-KAI. Don't elect me T^sembly chair- now. I don't believe in Woman Suf- # # * man for life. Make it a shorter frage and I haven't any respect for term you may want to can rae.— A USTRALIA is in a state of un- women who dabble in such trash. — A. A. STEWART. rest. The Socialist party there HETTY GREEN. has taken a position against Doping soldiers with ether, rum the war Be not dumb driven slaves in the and has vigorously or other spirits before the attack fought enlist- army of destruction, be heroes in ment. Miss Pankhurst, has been largely resorted to.— who recent- the army of reconstruction. ly spoke at Melbourne on "Shall HELEN KELLER. JOHN GALSWORTHY. Men Enlist?" was interrupted by If we have war you'll see that soldiers who were sent Any man who will sabotage when to the meet- young fighting officers of the army ing for the purpose he's working for himself hasn't got of breaking it want to be in my command. sense enough to be an I. W. W. up. They almost succeeded in pre- THEODORE ROOSEVELT. cipitating a riot, but finally Miss GEORGE GIBBONS. Means of communication between Pankhurst concluded her speech. In marriage man finds not his * # # this country and England continue mate but his housemate. It is for- bad. The king's advisors believed INDUSTRIAL affairs tunate for the system that the mar- in Australia that making W. W. Astor a peer are in turmoil. At ried man soOn loses all desire for Broken Hill would be pleasing to Americans. in his mate in captivity. MARION New South Wales thousands of — HOAVARD BRUBAKER. miners are on strike. In the same COX. In IMexico there has been no ease state coke workers are also on strike We know that hundreds of com- of wanton looting of American for higher wages. The effect of the rades have joined the Llano Colony property by Mexicans in compari- strike will probably be far-reaching and we would not knowingly do as New son with the wanton looting of Castle steel works in Eng- aught to in any sense jeopardize land depend on this supply. Re- Mexican property by Americans. their interests.' — THOMAS W. TURNER. ports say that other industries are WILLIAMS. JOHN KENNETH affected and great signs of general Great artists paint for money. The mind will not develop unless uneasiness. Conscription may be re- Great authors are ehauied to the the brain is rested with enjoyment sorted to. publisher's ideals of best sellers. 4- ^^ ^ and relief from all care, and enjoys Physicians must bow to the prejii- an intense excitement when such "GANGLAND has called again for dices of their patients. Surgeons excitement results only in pleasure. her single men to join the —JOB HARRIMAN. but too often operate for the gold army. This proclamation will have that is found in the appendix. The the effect of enrolling all single men I have no country to fight for legal mind becomes the trickster of military age who have not been my country is the earth ; I am a for nefarious business. The legis- exempted. This really means con- citizen of the world. I would not lator attaches himself to interests scription. Eighteen-year-old boys violate my principles for God, much needing protection. The minister are now being pressed into the ser- less for a crazy kaiser, a savage of Christ avoids offensive allusion vice. The value of murder train- czar, a degenerate king, or a gang to the business crimes which his ing of the Boy Scouts will now be of pot-bellied parasites^—EUGENE parishioners are committing. demonstrated. V. DEBS. JOHN BRISBEN WALKER. ! —

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lEnthusiasm at Llano (Continued from Page 27) Sicreated: a new point of view ap- Ignorance is the Great peared and now that man is strong for practical tilings, things of solid- ity, things made to stand. Concrete Curse ideas take the place of the dreamy you know, for instance, the scientific difference between love and iabstract. He does not entirely Do passion? labandon dreams, however. But Human life is full of hideous exhibits of wretchedness due to Ignor- dreams are secondary now with ance of sexual normality. Jam. Stupid, pernicious prudery long has blinded us to sexual truth. Science Llano is no city, dream but with was slow in entering this vital field. In recent years commercialists aitive, willing cooperation on the eyeing profits have unloaded many unscientific and dangerous sex books. part of the men and women and Now, the world's great scientific minds are dealing with this subject ui)on which human happiness often depends. No longer is the subject taboo children too, the ideal of the an- among intelligent people. <:ients and the hope of the present

i\ ill be realized. Cooperation We take pleasure in offering to the American public

11 the work of one of the world's greatest authorities upon 1 cans working together; to realize the question of sexual life. is Forel, D., ail identity of interest, and when a He August M. Ph. D., LL. D., of Zurich, Switzerland. His book will jii-rson is assigned to a job, for in- open your eyes to yourself and explain many mysteries. stance the building a tent, imagine You will be better for this knowledge. tlie tent is to be yours and build it as if for yourself. Realize that Every professional man and woman, those dealing with social, medical, •winds blow, that rain falls, that criminal, legal, religious and educational matters will find this book of ofiicials, heads public institutions, SHOW quietly and softly falls, but immediate value. Nurses, police of writers, judges, clergymen and teachers are urged to get this book at once. lays heavy. The tent is the prop- is of view. chapter on "love I'lty of the builder. With this idea The subject treated from every point The and other irradiations of the sexual appetite" is a profound exposition ill mind, the cows will be stripped of sex emotions—Contraceptive means discussed—Degeneracy exposed (dean, the butter will be made A guide to all in domestic relations—A great book by a great man. sweet and sanitary, the horses shod properly and the machine with which the workman is engaged will ^^The Sexual Question^^ ]>' kept in a high state of repair. ethics, Fortunes, leisure, ideals, Heretofore sold by subscription, only to physicians. Now offered to morals flow from the recognition of the public. Written in plain terms. Former price $5.50. Now sent pre- thi- identity of interest. Work, paid for $1.60. This is the revised and enlarged Marshall English transla- tion. Send check, order or stamps. ii.nseientious and loved, wrought money the wonders of the world, builded the monuments that have come ihiwn through corroding time, Gotham Book Society, Dept. 387 liainted the canvas with heaven- General Dealers in Books, Sent on Mail Order inspiring images and carved the Parian marble into word-begging 142 West 23rd St., New York, N. Y.

, forms. The Llano that lays at the feet of the Sierra IMadre is as fertile as any land can be desired. The wa- ters that tumble down from a 6500- A TEMPTING OFFER foot evelatiou run summer and Hundreds of subscriptions are pouring into the circulation department of the the thirsty winter and can feed Western Comrade through combination offers. This month we have several new soil and build innumerable crops. ones added to the Hst. Would you like to get The land is here. The water is here. From a practical level- THE NATIONAL RIP-SAW headed point of view, from the with the V^^estern Comrade at a reduction? Just send seventy-five cents to the circulation department of the WESTERN COMRADE, 526 California Building, Los viewpoint of a class-conscious man Angeles, Cal., and be placed on the mailing list of both magazines for one year. or woman, who continually talk of the soil and the water as being the requisites of life and deplore the Telephone Home A-4533 fact that it is now 75 per cent con- Home A-2003 Main 619 trolled by the lords of capital, HARRIMAN & RYCKMAN A. J. STEVENS ought to fare magnificently here Attorneys at Law Dentist and enjoy the new world in the 921 Higgins Building 306 South Broadway making. Los Angeles, Cal. Room 514 Los Angeles, Cal. " ! ! ' ' "

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Women's Magazines Wedding Bells (Continued from Page 26) 'M The Western Comrade has ar- ranged several good combina- the whole thing out while I sat over You misunderstood him, that's tion offers for the benefit of-its there wishing I could die. Nobody all." women readers. Among them jiiii would tell me, so I figured it out. "You mean I got the seerel

are: ' They won't tell because if girls wrong ? Today's magazine and Mc- 1 tiili knew what beasts men are they "Ridiculously wrong.' Call's, both with the Western would never marry and then there "Won't you tell me?" Comrade for one year for $1.25. wouldn't be any babies born into Mrs. S. B. reflected. Could she This includes free a May Man- the world." undo years of perverted teachings ton pattern and a free MeCall Here was a situation! What a in a few minutes? No, her task lay pattern. with the He, at least, knew perfectly ghastly idea boy. Tl Another tempting offer is "They won't even tell us about himself. The girl knew neither Today's and Housewife and the liK the babies for fear v/'e'd be afraid herself nor him. Western Comrade. These three to get married. But we have some "No, I shan't tell you. A girl' can be had in combination for sense and we find out better for who has thought such evil things one year for $1.00. Bill ourselves. When mamma told me of her husband ought to be pun- Still another offer includes she found me in the river bed I ished, don't you think so?" several magazines. It is To- — knew it was a lie. I think she "I—I suppose so. But "timid day's, Woman's World, Home — M might have told me the truth about ly "do I need to be so afraid?' Life, People's Popular Monthly that. It's so wo-onderful. And it "Not at all, only as we tremble and the Western Comrade all never would have stopped me. I'd before all of nature's secrets. It's! for one year for $1.50. Bet suffer anything to to it isn't a secret, yes—a mystery deep and — — fdli All checks or money orders the pain—it's the " She cov- delicate and lovely, but it's a good should be made to the ered her face. secret—a bringer of joy when two WESTERN COMRADE "The wjiat, then?" persons love each other and treat "The shame," she whispered. it as the fragile thing it is. So 526 |m California Building don't worry any more about it, my "Oh, if the secret had been any- "J Los Angeles, Cal. ' thing dear. but that—anything—any- iJei Nellie's face grew radiant. thing ; I could have stood it ! And I thought Jimmie was so good. If "Why, it must have something to he is bad, how horrible other men do with my dream. must be ! "Maybe it has. What was your Our Mrs. S. B. smiled at that. She dream?" began to see her way more clearly. "I used to try to dream of Jim- Greatest Offer! "Mamma did try to warn me. I mie, but I never could. But when ought to give her credit for that. I 'd try and try, sometimes I 'd have Here Is a combination offer of The She told me I'd find Jimmie wasn't another dream almost as lovely. American Socialist, official organ of the angel I thought him, but But it's a hard dream to tell. At the National Socialist Party, the wo- that knew side their first it seemed to be a color but not famous "1914 National Campaign men which a color I had ever seen, then it Book" and The Western Comrade bread was buttered on learned to put up with men. And while Mrs. would turn to hundreds of dream that not one reader of The Western jMartin was pinning on my veil she colors that would seem to wrap all Comrade can afford to let slip by. whispered, 'If Jimmie gets stingy about me. And I would try to tell The American Socialist with you, girlie, you come to me. them they were smothering me. I 1< for one year is $ .50 I'll teach you how to coax open his couldn 't stand their brightness, and r " The 1914 Campaign Book. .50 pocket book.' I would wake all breathless and The Western Comrade for Five-Peet-One fairly shrunk in trembling. Has that something to one year is 50 her chair. So that was what mar- do with the secret?" riage meant to them Mrs. S. B. smiled. Total $1.50 "I didn't know what they meant "Yes, a great many stainless We will make you a then. But I do now. I'd starve girls like you only dream of the combination of the first." secret at first. By and by you may Five-Feet-One plunged into her dream while you're awake. Now above for just $1.00 task. She shook her head doubt- I'm going to find Jimmie and ask Take advantage of this offer now! fully. him to forgive you. You wait "I'm very much afraid Jimmie here. '

Address : Circulation Manager won't forgive you." She found him at the barn en- !" THE WESTERN COMRADE "Forgive me trance pretending to mend a set of 526 California BIdg. "Yes, for your cruelty. How harness, but the harness had drop- Los Angeles. Cal. could you make such a stupid mis- ped to the ground and his hand was take ? He is nothing like you think. under his dejected, sullen lips. ! '

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She walked up to him and the groaned. It was all too clear that ;eene that followed was in plain that Socialist woman was busy at liew of the horrified eyes of ilrs. the festive free-love pastime so PEARSONS Baptist Judge Parker who sat at popular with all Socialists. She :he window fretting over the inex- was trying to break up Nellie's is the only Magazine olioable absence of her daughter. home. AVhere's XellieT" she had asked '"Poor, poor Nellie! Oh, you of its kind ic-r new son-in-law, and he had sul- wretch!" The last was for Jim- — lenly answered, "I dunno," and not mie. He had taken Mrs. S. B. 's This is why: another word could she get out of hand and after pumping it \\p and Three years ago Pearson's decided to him. down was holding it and squeezing be a free magazine.

"What business has that wo- it. Such goings on ! And him only This is what it did:— man vntli Jimmie?" This to her- married two days I It was at this 5elf as she peeped through the cur- point that she considered looking ABANDONED FANCY COVERS tains. for Nellie's dead remains in the CUT OUT COLORED PICTURES "That Woman" was evidently cellar. ADOPTED PLAIN PAPER L'ing all the talking. Jimmie She saw them start across the This was the purpose:— lilt- rely registered emotions. First beet field, saw Mrs. Socialist Barnes iilifference, then surprise, then stop in her new plowed patch, saw A plain form would enable the mag- live its from sub- infusion, then horror, then a de- Jimmie take the three bottom azine to on income scriptions and monthly sales. It siiv to run. At this point "that steps at a .jump, only to stop on would not have to consider the effect Avoman" laid a detaining hand on the fourth and mop his forehead on advertisers when it wanted to print irix arm. before making a final dash for the the truth about any public question. "Oh, the creature." groaned door.

^hs. Judge, "and her ten years And the Jlenace ? What did she This was the result:— M'ler if she's a dav! Oh, where "s do? Did she start planting vege- Pearson's now prints the truth about \.-llie?" tables like a sensible, respectable some question which affects your wel- •limmie reached for a handker- woman ? No. She stood absolute- fare in every issue. Jt printsfacts i^f and mopped his forehead and ly idle for a few minutes, then which no magazine that de- ?; down again. Mrs. S. B. sat knelt down and placed her ear il'iV\-n beside him talking very fast against the earth as if to listen. pends on advertising could free-love rite ' and smiling a great deal. This one- "Oh, oh! It's a "afford ' to print. si l-^d conversation proceeded while just like I thought. She's waitin' still prints 1 nmie mopped his forehead. for the devil to tell her what to do And, with all this, Pearsons iiction and entertainment iTjadually he lost his self-eonscious- next!'' as much articles as other magazines. If you 11- -s and absorbed her words with With a loud groan she began her want plain facts instead of pretty a: eager anxiety. Mrs. Baptist search for Nellie. And she looked pictures buy a copy on the news T ilge Parker sat by the window first in the emptv trunk in the cel- stand for 15 cents, or subscribe by 1 looked and wheezed and lar. the year for $1.50.

By special arrangement with Pear- son's we are able to make you the Llano Musings follo-n-ing clubbing offer. You can get both PEAR- (Continued from Page 24) SON'S MAGAZINE and THE WESTERN COM- when it tends to preserve the ganizable I say, "Combine to serve RADE for one year by whole ; when it does not, beware yourself." And to the unadapt- sending $1.00 to A sincere enemy is a dangerous able to organization I say, "Good- one. and anything organized for bye. ' The Western Comrade the advantage of the poor will get Take heart, comrades of the 526 CALIFORNIA BLDG. LOS CALIF. sincere opposition, even from the Llano. You are on the right track ANGELES, poor themselves, who too often are for self-preservation through your not ready to fight with nature, but organized efforts. You can afford seek either alms from the rich or to be patient—to eliminate that advantage over each other. That which you can not consolidate, and lamentable large element uncon- you need not worry about your Your Combings sciously seeks to destroy itself waste. It is sad that not all will made into switches for through their unorganizable nature join heartily, but we may be glad dollar, and from my experience with them that so many of us are able and one postpaid. I rejoice in their success, for that willing to combine. We may re- Worfc guaranteed. "which is unorganizable is useless joice in the work so far accom- to the further progress of man. plished and it Avill cheer us on to MRS. E. TURNWALL That which Avill organize is the greater efforts for our collective Llano, Cal. yeast of the new age. To the or- good. ELKSKIN BOOTS and SHOES

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