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Show THE CITIZEN DIPPING INTO THE FUTURE (Continued from Page 7.) ing the tools of production. Now that the tools have been made in quantities Psomewliat commensurate with needs a certain percentage of labor should be available once more in the development of the farm and mines. Whether this will be the actual result, or whether unforeseen circumstances will once more interrupt basic production remains to be seen. If we have an era of comparative tranquility, with labor toiling in the mines and on the farms, we shall begin to see a decline in prices. , In the last few years our one clred million people have been trying to transact business on a decreased amount of the raw materials and the Wares of business. All of us have been striving to find ways of making money out of a lessened production. Necessarily there has been an excess of speculation and an unnecessary repli cation of middlemen. The sale and resale of cars of sugar in the Chicago railway yards, with the price mousing at each sale, is symptomatic of the singular situation. As the output of basic materials increases there will be more to work on and there should be less speculation. Already men are turning from speculation and seeking employment in production. This is due in a measure to the fact that the banks are restricting credit formerly granted without much question to speculators and to those engaged in the manufacture ot non-essential- s. It is unnecessary to point out that we have indicated in what we have said some of the causes of high prices and also some of the remedies. The marestored adequacy of chines, the elimination of speculation and profiteering by natural processes and the restriction of credits should have an effect in lowering prices. labor-savin- g But; after all, high prices are a transient phase of social disturbance and discomfort. Either we shall adjust ourselves to high prices or we shall make prices conform to our condition. What we must seek as our ultimate aim is an adjustment between capital and labor or we must eliminate the capital-labo- r system of the pres- ent and accept socialism. It is not difficult to discern in the greater part of the civilized world a disposition to compromise. All of the proposed compromises may be included generally under the one heading This connotes the sur vival of private property and private control under a system of restrictions which is still in the realm of theory and good intentions. Already the world is well informed of the success of for particular purposes. The trusts showed effort in the value of favor of capitalistic development. The labor unions proved the efficiency of in attaining the objects of a class. The war demonstrated what may be achieved by nations working together for a common end. Future development will look to cooperation for the public good. Hither- ve to capital and labor have been brutally striving to show their power. Each concentrated its effort on gain for it- 15 ItllHHIlUUHIIIHIIIIIIIlllHIIIIIIIIIUlHIUllllinilliMlllllllllUlHIIIIUUUIIIIIIIMIIIIUIIIIIIIHHIHim 9IMHIIM yiimiinntmiiiiiiiiniimii WASATCH HHSH self and was absorbed in the ruthless exercise of power. There was no thought of compromise in the interest of the public. Each struggle ended not in peace, but in an armistice. Such is the situation today, and such it, will continue to be until concrete methods are devised. of KISS IDA 5TUDI$ simply means that the products of the earth are to be obtained and fairly distributed by. unity of effort. We lack the economic and social machinery to achieve this object, but there is no reason for discouragement, for we are just at the beginning of the age of It is not the purpose of this article to discuss methods. Thepe will display themselves first in crude form. Then there will be intensive develop- VI1X0X JJALT LAKE CITY jaa haw iiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiii Co-operati- on milllllllllllltftllllllllllllHIIIIIIIUMIIIHiHinilllllllllllHIlUlHIIHillllllltHNUIUIIIIHIHIlIHUlHIUIUIIUHII UUHtlUHlItUUUlHIItlUlllllHIHIIIIIIllllllllMIIIHnilllllllllUK; about this lay their charm'. They were both ex-so quite like a very modish angel, an air of her and Her time. and gave stupidity ungainly, tremely unhealthy the moBt charming innbcence, and her dowdy in their dress that I thought this, like everything else about them, was calvery blue eyes were to the young men of culated, but I dont believe it was. I Iroquois, Ive no doubt, like heaven itthink it was simply that theyd no taste self. All her energy was conserved for the business of attracting, an occupation and no time for clothes. Monica is salhollow she pursued with unfeigned enthuwhich with low, sunken, flashing eyes, cheeks and long neck. She almost always siasm. She was kept in bed until noon wears a cerise or green ribbon round her every day, and there was on her round dark, untidy head, and she talks with her cheeks the oioom of perfect health. She chin far out, like a Rossetti picture. Clem had no need to fatigue her brain, because she had been taught by her mother exis smaller and fair, with very beautiful unstock-inged reveals actly what to think and say and do, on feet, which she always ment at fancy dress balls. They are both every occasion. She knew just whom to snub and how to do it, just what books to uncannily clever; and their clevwill clever, Existing forms of erness is expended in transforming all skim, and ho wto discuss them gracefully. So finished was her education ' that she broaden their scope with capital and the ordinary activities of life Into elaborate and fantastic rites. Going to bed, for pretended an extreme devotion to indelabor sharing in control and manage- Instance, is a simple enough tiling, for pendence of thought and sincerity of I simply tumble in, roll up speech; and the way she energetically least. at ment. Sometimes they will take on me, into a ball, and go to sleep. Not so with nodded her head and emphasized the litsocialistic or nationalistic forms as, Clem and Monica. Monica has a black tle parrot words learned from her motbedroom with , a red jacquer bed in the hers lips was most fetching in its sincerfor example, in the government ownermiddle of it, an extremely high bed. One ity. Enthusiasm was her note, graceful, ownascends by a flight of steps, and enters of the and railroads graded enthusiasm that found expression public ship in dancing eyes, laughing lips, endless of black crepe comber embrace the into ership of utilities. The standard will de chine sheets. Monica wears no nightgestures, and little screams and gasps and ohs and ahs of appreciation be utility and expedience, for no moral gown. Call that smipliclty if you like and delight I repea.., this enthusiasm On the top step she sheds her dressing moth-eate- n issue is involved. Whatever is best gown of very golden stain,, was not feigned. It was natural, a spring, having its source in perfect lays her very beautiful body between for the public welfare' will be the cri- and the black sheets and smokes littie health, carefully guarded by her mother. neither terion by which to judge of a social cigarettes until she finally drops To the end of her life Louise or even drank any kind of wine, off. Only a few chosen friends are supsmoked, or economic reform. posed to know this. Clems room is whtie, tea or coffee. She drank milk and ate no bed at all. She sleeps on a quilt fruit, and she would have outlasted us True, there is a moral issue in- with all. You only had to look at the bushy on the floor, with a Japanese wooden volved in the question of private propunder her head. vigor of her hair. I mean her cheeks would have oeen the last to wither, and love in falls with Joan afdesperately erty, but not of private porperty her teeth the last to decay. A perfect fected with a public interest. Whether Binky. She knows all about his misphysique, no bad habits, and a complete to set of supplies ready-mad- e the government shall own the rail- tresses and his finances, but he is dif- save herattitudes, from the problems of existence, would have kept her for years just, roads is purely a question of utility. ferent, and this is a large factor in these as she was a. Our faith in private initiative, energy love affairs: And then there was Phil, apparentand control is such in this country Once, after three days yachting, durthat we prefer to experiment to the ing which time he spent every afternoon ly consigned to poverty, by the accidown below playing bridge with three dent of birth, but with all the skill of very limit with private ownership men, and the evenings, too, I lost my tema lovely Becky Sharp in extricating rather than invite the deadening ills per. I snubbed him ,to his utter amazement. He was so dejected and mystified that we fear from public ownership. that I grew more and more angry. He herself from the toils of fate. Phil was floored, he was damned. What the More and more all property is behas married the political boss of Irodevil had he done? Eventually he hit coming affected with a public, interest upon the happy idea that I was spoiled. quois, who has become a millinoaire: to him to seemed solve the whole and more and more will systems be That mystery. Of course, I was spoiled, and There was something very attractive worked out to obtain such uses of being angry made me awfully pretty. about his big laugh, his hulking form with to and He all me, it actually explained his storms of its tremendous benof maximum property as will be said my tantrums amused him. It was talk. He was a muscles, tremendous brute with a efit to the public. The idea of trusquite 1hopeless, I could never make him tremendous brain. Men liked see. realized that he had at no time him most men not Binky; he was rathteeship will be developed to the high- the vaguest conception of what was goto swallow. There er too much for ing on in my mind. Possibly at this stage, were his neckties,Binky which were never quite est possible power. things might have taken a different turn, right somehow, though Phyllis probably my brain might even then have begun chose them. They were nice enough, but with in If we may indulge prediction lucidly and disastrously for his he working put the wrong one on with any hope of forecasting what is to be matrimonial plans, had not something the always and It invariably traevl-e- d suit, wrong on the Indian frontier, someone oT his ears. His clothes, toward we shall be justified, in view of the happened thing in the way of an Afghan raid. which were almost too obviously expenan in foreseeing outlined, All at once Binky was a changed man. sive clothes, never seemed to fit. Their theory just see You could cut was good, but his movements were him the sniflfng up fairly economic and social adjustment in so constant and rapid that his coat and smell of powder five thousand miles diswhich private property and initiative tant. He was mad to be off, and under trousers and waistcoat and collars were the pressure of this excitement, he burst forever being pulled up and out in the will survive, subject only to such rein on me one evening. wrong wray. He had, for instance, a habit Would I marry him? Would I promise? of stretching his arms suddenly straight system restrictions as a God. I must promise! If he couldnt comp out, and then he would forget to pull down quires for the public welfare. back for me, would I come out to India? his sleeves, and theyd stick on his biceps Tie adored me. He did so awfully want with the cuffs coming only to within an me. for ever and ever, all for himself. inch of his large, hairy, red wrists. Tie me took crushin Foor Pat! Ills great red paws, with his arms, suddenly BOOKS their wonderfully manicured finger-nailing me, hurting my shoulders and breasts. Ills voice sounded broken and queer. were funny. They would have been paThere were tears in his eyes. thetic if anything about so successful a (Continued from Page 9.) person could be; and his walk was rather like an elephant treading ot eggs. lie Louise Bowers was one of Joan's would Joan meets Binkys uncle, the duke, come into Phils drawing room on who is the most beautiful thing in girlhood friends. Mrs. Bowers, the tiptoe, his boots squeaking. lie would lift his feet and haul one up sudmother, is determined that denly if carefully, decadent and decrepit manhood that anything creaked, as though might go through Into the celever lived. And there wrere Clem Louise shall be desirable, and so slie afraidor he smash a baby unedr his foot. And lar, and Monica, weird, inhuman, and yet polishes her daughter until there is Phyllis would laugh and pull him down to her and straighten his necktie and nothing there but polish: with a fascination of their own: smooth his hair, and sniff at his cheek with her delicate nose to see if he had The secret of was well let the barber perfume him, a weakness Tint there were others besides the duke. understood by Mrs. Bowers. Louises he had of which she strongly disapproved. Not quite so fascinating, but all startling-l- v different from anything I had ever met. clothes were marvels of allurement. They Tf he smelt of perfume, then she would were cut out and silt up in the myst send him up to wash it off. and he would There were, for Instance, Clem and Monalarming manner, and yet somehow, in go, meekly turning an enormous, shamed ica. Clem and Monica were the constant them, she was taught how to behave so back on us, and then in the hall would target for Binkys criticism and conadmired he that the effect was that of an angel or a strt upstairs with a terrific audible bound. I that but gathered tempt, Binky, as I say, didnt appreciate him. them enormously ali' the same. They were very young goddess, decked out knowingbut Jim always said he was a "darned ly In the enticing garments of a in themselves perfectly sustained denials nice fellow. Yes, she must have looked of the actualities of existence. Therein on un-tir- ed per-cio- us Bul-barl- an pil-io- w ve s, re-pella- nt half-revelati- on . demi-mondaln- e. |