Show Labor And Mentality l By L. L A. A Hollenbeck Two farmers with well Watered watered watered wa wa- acres of equal fertility adjoining adjoining adjoining ad ad- joining joining- and on a good road start farming their respective lands in condition equal condition being being ed We Ve will suppose too that their families are equally economical cal and industrious with practically practical practical- ly the same expense in living And also we will suppose their lands are worth 40 an acre or for each farm But there is a difference between between between be be- tween the two farmers in ability to handle a farm While one may maybe maybe maybe be better in handling a farm the theother theother theother other might be better in handling some other business or perhaps one will be no good anywhere Anyway we will suppose that one is full of Ideas and inventions in handling and managing the farm while the other just plods along and works but with no especial ideas driving him to experimental work One Is making windbreaks by setting out trees to protect his stock and crops as well and while making his place profitable ashe as ashe ashe he gaes goes along is also making it attractive attractive attractive at at- convenient beautiful and valuable I Well say 20 years pass by and anda I a purchaser comes along and wants to bu buy one of these farms He looks them over and the one that is not so well developed he offers 50 per acre for or The other he offers an acre for or and buys It Possibly the better improved has had 2000 extra labor and expense on it for the larger development development de de- de- de but even then It Is worth above what the other farm is worth Now what makes the one farmworth farm farmworth farmworth worth more than the other J I It certainly was not the work that JI I did it It was something else and and that something else was the mentality The big element of I production by y mental processes processes- I thinking when the other ollier fellow I lis Is sleeping or having a big time I I have read many socialists' socialists books bools and I have never seen a single J one ore that gave full credit to mental production Karl Marx claims to toI todo todo do it but analysis of his I sms shows that he doesn't doesn t do It |