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Show Forced to Communal Living Nearer and nearer comes once proud and aristocratic England to living the cooperative, communal, all-things-in-common life. Millions of her people are driven by necessity into living fully communalized lives, which means that these millions nave been forced into living in a vast number of improvised im-provised cubby holes where they hope they are out of danger. Here the erstwhile wealthy person rubs shoulders with the poor common laborer on equal footing, and the former fashionable ladies sit at tables and do the common work along with the working girls who a while ago where their servants. Here all are equal in all things which go to sustain life. Thus necessity has, in a measure, leveled all ranks and the toiler's spade and saw are more important than the fine ladies' diamonds. And before its over the shepherd's crook may be laid beside the sceptre. ... . ... |