Show ELYSIUM I A the Virginia subsistence i tence project described for Telegram readers readers read read- ers by the time authors of Washington Merry Merry-Go- Round in three enlightening articles suggests more Cre than anything else an advance model of a modernized Elysium paved Elysium paved streets to date plumbing electric refrigerators and all aU else technological l progress has brought into the World to m make it a a. happier or a sadder place in which to live But in the tIC El Elysian lian fields the poets had only to meander hither and you yon strumming their l lyres and singing their la lays in ill theres there's work to do and much Ve v fa face be or e eventide Y reward t ct to with a good home cooked meal comfort comfort com com- fort and Ind the crooners of the networks In a time of new and strange philosophies brave social experimentation venturesome political political political po po- po- po excursions an and economic departures the challenge of the lOur is to be nonchalant under under un un- der any circumstances An n old hymn lymn comes to mind Let Nothing You Dismay Also the wisecrackers wisecracker's Dont let anything get you Jou down Nevertheless very ery sober sobe-r and er very thoughtful thought thought- ful individuals are arc drawing some very cry serious implications from the project Portent Portent Portent Por Por- tent of great economic change chang is there outgrowth of the self-help self colonies set up under under un nn- un- un der government paternalism Arthurdale may maybe maybe maybe be the forerunner of many communities cut to the same pattern Out of them ma may emerge a anew anew anew new R system stem of national economic life dividing into two distinct orders As the they look into the he future thc they can see sec no likelihood that the theold old competitive order is to return to pit the thc weak against the strong What they do see though is a group comprising a preponderant majority of the American people striving in the theold theold theold old competitive system with Hh its it incentives of profits advancements and luxuries and find a second second sec see ond group vastl vastly different The second group m millions in it detached from this mass of strivers would live and work in a giant cooperative system distributed in widely scattered communities in which they are arc guaranteed comfortable subsistence in exchange exchange exchange ex ex- ex- ex change for their labors in production df r goods for mutual exchange under federal or state stat sup supervision Individuals in both groups would have complete complete com corn freedom to change their status Ambition Ambition Ambi Ambi- tion and opportunity could join to tt transfer the co cooperator into the the- competitive group and find anda finda a striver who lost out nt in his group would find finda a haven bayou awaiting him in n the other Who Vho can sa say what is on the other side of th the tho threshold 1 F I PER E B R A now lists unemployed and on relief rolls It Itis Itis is paying out a month for relief and plenty of people wonder how long this can cango cango cango go on It ic is not surf sufficient to say that any such plan cannot come into being The Tho realist must be prepared to say what plan if not Dot this It is no DO use to wonder how long Uncle Sa Sam can keep up what he lie is doing Reason says it cannot be much longer an and amid reason more pertinently says that it cannot stop until untila a better and a permanent plan comes forth r We c shall gain nothing by quitting one experiment to undertake under take another temporary expedient We Ve must have a n. plan to end plans perplexing and challenging chal as the thing may be he |