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Show "lie bought lhat hoiiHe and Joiner! the haled landlord clans. Home yearn later when U wa reported Hint a hand of HlrlkerH were advancing to Hhnt all the factories Olio riifchcd Into my ofllce at the. dead of an excited ex-cited Kioup of men from the ah op yelliriK : " 'Ct t us a lot of shotguns and we'll keep those fe!loVH out of here! Those fool expect a mtn to work and mvn and then walk In here and take what ho )ian KOt without paying for It!' "And that," Farquhar concludes, "I think, is always the way to develop a conservative." HOW A RIP-ROARING RADICAL WAS TAMED By JOHN OAKWOOO The hoht i lory of Uio laming of a radical I have ever read Ih told by A. II. Farquhar In his book "The First Million the Hardest." It throws more light on tho meaning Qf capitalism and the futility of socialism than a II-hrnry II-hrnry full of books on sociology, economics eco-nomics and politics. Here it la as Farrpihar tells It: "The best anlldofe for acute economic eco-nomic Insanity Is ownership of property. prop-erty. My favorite example in Otto Stelnlner. He was one of my (Irat employees and was a rip-roaring anarchist. an-archist. He Insisted that all wealth came from the workers and therefore ahould go hack to the workers. He was particularly bitter against his' landlord and hardly a week went by that he did not announce that he had definitely decided that he would like to shoot the landlord the next time he came around for the rent. Finally I asked Mm smilingly after one of these outbursts: Buy, Don't Shoot " 'Why don't you buy your own house InBlta. of shooting your landlord? land-lord? Then you would not have to pay any rent. If you do thoot him you may get Into trouble.' "He did not think much of the Idea apparently but In a day or two he asked me how he could buy the house. 1 answered: 'That house can be bought for $S00. You are getting good wages. I will buy that house for you, take $4 a week out of your wages, and In less than four years you will have It paid for.' "He went off again. The next time he came back It was with his wife. He said: 'We are going to buy that house but since we have no children you can take $10 instead of $4 a week out of my pay envelope.' "I bought tl.e house and then Otto's chief concern was to get !t paid for, which he did in a little more than a year. There was another house neL. door to him. In a short while after he had paid for his first house, he sidled up to me and said: "'I can buy that house next door for a thousand do lus. N'ow that wi have no rnt to pay we are going along good. What jiiid you think about me buy ? |