Show by albeit it ft lyman whether this old tattler settler stuff is better or worse than our critical friend adjudged it to be is not a point pint on which our pride arid and shame hangs in painful suspense our oui great objective is better a san safi juan county if nothing Is offered beyond the frontier of popular practice the beaten baten path oft of today will be the beaten path for cent centuries uiles to come yet whai we have offered s g so reachable there are scores of places at t which we could t take a ke a step onto it from ta the beaten path it is A so near we could keep one foot in the leaten beaten pat path till rill we feel fee the other foot on solid earth it would I 1 call for nothing hasty nor abrupt and no danger of pluna plunging plu neing ing into something biorn which we would have 1 to 0 withdraw take our suggestion i for or a rooper active community it could begin on such a small scale and develop so gradually that it would fm feel out every step and avoid danger dangerous cU ground it could begin with one family under ari an arrangement by which each member would assume responsibility for providing certain essentials and ELUS have full right to share in sll all that the other ir embers produced As this family system begin to work smoothly y and successfully as it haz has every right to do it can include another family widening its possibilities of production and anci br bringing ng the community effort to 1 its ideal of independence getting safely on its feet chii movement includes a third and a fourth family rt it adapts to the real needs and fortifies against the real rea difficulties and becoming a safe working plan it grows to include the whole community not that anyone is compelled com hlo join everybody but bW wants obe bf in ints r it k it becomes tk th special especial assignment of one manto man to supply one certain necessity for foi ai th A om and he be or orals I 1 jr graup aup are ale mot inot cumbered cambered cumb ered with anything else they are ii free rig to concentrate cen and ana do their best as the I 1 v were never neve frei free before under the old system where every man worked selfishly for himself adf andrad had worry I 1 of fin finding ding the whole round of hangs hlis 1 necessary to the life and well being 4 of his big family the life and we of his family under the cooperative system the turn sum of the community le needs pre are tabulated and the business of meeting those needs divided di aman t the able i men of the place each nan man is relieved ot of the multitude of worries I 1 which otherwise prevent him from becoming a specialist I 1 an old story relates that the th e baa loes on the plains after suffering much from attacks by wol wolves xer learned to collect and stand in a birc ci acla with wilh their horns 0 the outside thus etch one or had hut but a litte litt sace ace to guard he was protected on each aide and behind arid and 21 his s problem becarra iasa easy Natu reir kend ed min men to live I 1 in ume united communities J fighting groups tobe tob built un by constructive cooperation instead of 0 einar impoverished by h ostile hostile competition the popular idea is that expressed in the schoolboys school boys boyls theme human beings live on communities io so they can mke skinning each other we a living livin by insist that men should live in corn communities muni ties for the tremendous iio 1 us advantages I 1 lg to be ba enjoyed from sensible cooperation |