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Dr; Van Eeden'si Happy Humanity Plan
Selected by EDWIN MARKHAM.
The world la shaped by its dreams. Dr.
Fredcrlk Van Eeden is one of the great
dreamers of this- age yes, one of the
great workers, al io. He believes that all
our labor and capital troubles can be
I settled, and settled right, by a voluntary
i system of co-operative Industry such as
ihe outlines in his new volume, "Happy
; Humanity,"' Just published. He has
j worked on the idea in experiments made
,ln Holland, and now he offers us "the
Ischeme for America" as follows:
I "The new organization will be called
I the Co-Operative Company of America,
or some such name. The title indicates
(that it is' a business concern. No creed
' or political doctrine will be associated
(with It," expect the creed that every
! normal human being holds that of hon
esty and fairness. '
; "We will start with a group of market
, gardeners, and the land selected for
jthat purpose lies in North Carolina, near
': the city of Wilmington.
( "The' opportunity there is .exceptionally
favorable.' Colonization has been tried
i there for several years with much suc
cess. "Italian, Dutch, and German settlers
I have there attained prosperity by truck
.gardening It is a great strawberry rats
ling 'country, and Aie soil is fit for the
culture of the most .varied plants and
f vegetables; The climate is like that , of
! Italy, and the rainfall abundant. Excel
lent fast trains, with refrigeratbr cars,
j place. .the country within easy . reach of
the greatest markets "of the whole" con
: tinent. . ' ' .
"Wehave secured an option oh about
.20,000 aces of land at a price of from $15
to fcffl an acre. After a few years of cul
tivation the value should increase to $200
or $300 an acre, and more.
' "Our intention Is to select a group of
high-class gardeners, expert In intensive
j farming, and let.thenj have the .land as
'tenants. We shajl be able to select twen
' ty-five" families, of the. very best, and
locate them next to one another on plots
of about ten acres each.
"The people sholld be immigrants, as
lyet unspoiled by contact with city life.
Since Hollanders have a high reputation
j as intensive gardeners and generally ex
cellent qualities tor settlers,, it was con-
sidered best to select this advance guard
j f torn my own country. And I know now,
after some months of Investigation in
j Holland, that I can get hundreds of
j families willing and eager to come. In
I fact, a little group of half a dozen first
Irate men have already answered my call
land have settled there at their own ex
Ipense. They will do excellent work as
prospectors and advisers.
'They will pay no more than a fixed
rent, which will never be increasd to
them. The settler will have the full re
ward of his efforts. When, after one or
two years, he proves to be a desirable
member of the new organization, he will
beome a conditional owner and stock
holder of the company.
"Therein lies the essential and vital
point of the whole experiment. This is
the one feature that distinguishes it from
all similar enterprises and Its effect has
to be tried.
"The usual form of colonization is sim
ply to sell the land to the settler, the
price to be paid from his earnings in a
certain number of years. Then the man
becomes a landlord, and is left entirely
to his own devices, his own sense of Jus
tice and responsibility. What this means,
with the raw material of immigrants an
nually let loose on American soil, is
shown clearly and sadly enough by the
Immense waste and reckless spoliation of
the vast resources of this rich country.
"So what we are going to try now is
conditional ownership, under control , of a
co-operatively organized company, In the
following way;
"The tenant will have full freedom In
the cultivation of his farm. He may have
all the rights of practical ownership, with
the exception of selling, renting and neg
lecting the property. He will be able to
leave the property to his heirs, if these
accept the same .conditions.
"If he wants to leave, the company
will pay for his Improvements. He need
never pay more rent than a small sum,
amounting to a percentage of the original
amount paid by the company. This might
be considered as a tax a truly just and
fair single - tax levied by the company
for the benefit of the whole organization.
"We believe that the compensation we
can give for the want of the full title will
prove to be more attractive to the intelli
gent farmer than uncontrolled rights of
possession.
"This compensation will consist In the
right to hold the dividend-paying stock.
The tenant who may become a stock
holder will then not be an ownen of the
land; but In common with the other mem
bers he will own the stock representing
It. And he will profit by all the activities
of the whole company, whether agricul
tural. Industrial or commercial.
"The company will, moreover, act as a
disinterested agent and market his prod
ucts for him, so that he may give all of
his attention to his farm. The company
will also buy for him at wholesale hit
IrA MAWE& MAMS A FOOL ANO
A SN6LEr MAM is A SMR WMAF-S A
BACMEL6RV
PWL' WAS TAKM b HER
PET DUCK FEU FOR A
WALK. FELIX. WAS NOT
FEEUMfo VER( VMELL HE
WAS HAVAJG TROUBLE
)NITH HIS .TEETH AND. c
BESIDES THAT HEt MAD
HAD AN ANlyWlHCt
ACOEMF HAPPEN TO
SMASHED. WITHOUT HIC
CLASSES FEUJf CAM NOT
READ A THING AMD HE
WAS IN AM AVWFOL fUG
ME HAD To TAKE A TAXI
AND GO HOME WITHOUT"
EATTVKd. ME -WAS SO
THAT HE
HIM THE EVE AWN fc BEFORa NCT SLEEP A WlMK
A WAITER HAD SPILLED
SOUP ALL OVER Hit
SOLID SILVER DRESVSlifT
AN IN THE EXCITEMENT"
VMHWH FOLL-OVMED HIS.
CLASSES PROPPED ON
THE FLOOR. AN WERE'
K HrVME A SINCH NOtfl I GP IN THE MOOH 0F "e ; A'lTWEai
VMHO IS ENTERED
N A BEAUTV COAh
TEST i '
Little Bobbie's Pa
Bjr WILLIAM P. KIRK.
way . It
it is a interesting study, I think,
I studying these gang men, sd Pa. I am
I thinking about several of them I know,
Pa sed. Thare is Dip the Duke, &
1 Strong-Arm Silas,
I &: Winkle the Rip,
i &. Santy the
j Claws, & a raft of
: them, Pa sed.
I wish you wud
. git- sum day ; so
j you cud talk &
think about sum
jbody &. sumthlng
; beesides crime &
gangs, sed Ma. I
am afrade . t hat
your in-rvironment
; dosent In-viron the
used to.
dpant you
talk ab o u t the
politlckal altua-
shun, sed Ma. A deer gurl frend of mine
from Jersey was telling, me the other
day that .MIstf r Wilson . was .going . to
be ' elected the next president of ' these
United States, sed Ma. Talk about sum
thing useful, doant talk about gangs.
f dident tell you tht Whitman sent
for me the other day, did I? sed Pa.
No, sed Ma, you dident, .& If you -had
I wuddent have beeleeved you. What did
he send for you for? .
Bobble, sed Pa, isent 'that jest like a
woman? First yure mother says that she"
dosen't beeleeve that Whitman sent for
me, & then she says she wuddent bee
leeve he sent for me if I swore it on'
the farably. album, & thenshe says
"What did h send for you for?" Wim
men la awful hard to ferret out, sed
Pa. I guess-you & I had better give up
trying, Bobbie, sed Pa.
Well, sed Ma, what t)ID Whitman send
for you for?
-Ha wants "me to help him? sed Pa.
He wants me, to go out & see a few of
the real gunmen that I a ln;i-
mate acquaintance wlth, & find out if
..-'X-. . lived neur St..Iam.
I guess1 the best, thing you can do, sed
Ma, is to stay rite hear at hoam. In the
first place, sed Ma, I think you want to
go oaver to the club, & in the second
place, If you doant .want to go oaver to
the club, I doant want you to go around
with them horrid a.p the Blood fellers.
You havent got a very hevvy life insur
ance, Ma sed, remember that.
But Pa sed he waa the boss of the
house, so . he went out. After, he had
wnt Ma asked me to go & follow him &
see that he dident git into any danger. I
knew all the time that thare wasent any
danger of Pa having any danger, but I
went. The first place Pa went was the
place I was sure h was going to go,
oaver to the club. I seen him play three
galms of pool & two galms of bllyards &
three gaims of bowling, and then wen I
seen him' cumming out of the , club I
sneeked hoam ahed of him.
Well, sed Ma, how did you cum out
with the thugs?
, I beat four of them up with my bare
hands, sed Pa. Look at my nuckles.
Ma looked at Pa's nuckles & sure
enuff, they was ; bleeding. I seen him
skin them when he fell .on the bowling
alley, but I dident-want to squeal on Pa.
Ma called Pa her poor boy & her bralv
hero. .
Wen I git big & have a wife I am
going to fall on a bowling alley & skin
my nuckels. ''
Over the Ashtray.
It doesn't take many cigars for the
average man's income to go up In smoke.
What father does is often included in
the after-effects of the first smoke.
You can't smoke Havana cigars on a
stogy income. , . s
Gift cigars are not always the kind the
donor smokes.
There is pleasure In a cigarette, con
tentment in a cigar, and philosophy In a
cob pipe.
A wife's hardest ' task is to convince
her hupband that everything isn't an ami
tray. To many a man life's a loaded cigar
a' momentary ush ond.then ihtoi.,,.
Jnrta TJhrary,
ALL N16HT LONG AMD
A) TRE MORMNfc VMHEAJ
HE WAS TAKJN6,HtS
Bath he snatched
mis cuje FOOT" ON a
RoofeH "Towel,
FUR TAIL- WAS BUILT"
lrV COLLECT IN 6 VtjlTdlMfo AMD fcTEAL.
FOK W( r RIEMD PAPERS fM ALL
hue POORS, OF MY
NEIGHBORS, CUP
rroe Coupons our
X
UKE A PLOW AND HIS
nh inkers vnere trmmeh
LAKE A LAST VEARS
WHEAT ft ELD. HIS EARS
vmere stuffed vmlth
green peppers amd
his watch chain wa
Made of spaghetti.
All of A sodden Phil.
SAID N1T1
A LOOK. OF ANGER, ON
HIS, CLUB FOOT FEL)c
AAISVUERED.
QUACK4.
TO THE" EDITOR.
ANDTWEfl START"
'NTO GET SOME
MOREf i
7i-
CEEYOUkE
A BOOB
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wry
supplies, seeds, fertilizers, Implements,
household goods, etc, and share with him
the benefits of this community of inter
ests. All these advantages' are given In
compensation for a limitation of his
ownership, which is, In fart, nothing but
a control.
"It Is worth trying, and more so than
any social Improvement I know of. If,
well conducted, It should fail, then we
have a reason for giving up our belief
In democracy.
"This sort of co-operation has been
tried In Europe and America, and gen
erally very successfully. The immense
concerns of distributive co-operating In
England and Belgium , show what cw
be done even with average management.
.''The annual -profits tf the Co-operative
Wholesale societies of the United King
dom amount to 120,000,000. These societies,
however, do not undertake agriculture
and real estate ownership, as we propose."
Captains All
By HAL COFFMAX. ,
'Viiliimnin ism n'U.t i mi '-SfL
Look at the captains sailing their ships,
Built out of matches, paper and chips!
You couldn't get greater excitement p
If the race were for the America's cup.
Each watches the course with ah anxious grin,
Till. i la ship sne JlasaiMT,taai aalely in.
We; pause for a moment upon our way
To watch the kids at their earnest play;
The'n turn to the dally moil and strife,
As we captain our barks on the sea of life;
For U lies with each soul to lose or win
If his ship goes down or his ship comes In.
Virginia Dare
B REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
Jim
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Aixait IT. 1S87.
Virginia Dare, tho first child of the
English race born within the limits of
what is now the United States, had her
natal day S25 years ago today-August
17, 1587.
In the light of
present day events
there Is something
thrllllngly signifi
cant In the fact that
the first English
child born In this
country should have
been a girl a mem
ber of the sex which
Is today all over the
earth making con- L
gresses, legislatures
and parliaments "sit
up and listen" to Its
demands for recognition as a factor In
world government
In this land of large hospitalities and
untrammeled opportunity it seems but
right and proper that the sex which Was
first recognized by the Almighty within
th territory of the republic "should be
given all that Is "coming to her." It Is
but putting it mildly to say that In the
country of Virginia Dare women should
have equal rights with men.
The circumstances In the midst of which
little Virginia Dare was ushered Into th?
world were not gt the fairest description.
The gallant knight. Sir WRlter Raleigh,
in 1683 sent his half brother, Sir Hum
phrey Gilbert, to make a settlement In
the new world. Qt. the American coast,
probably that of Newfoundland, Sir
Humphrey lost one of his ships with
nearly all Its crew, and In attempting 4 t
reach home In the other vessel sank lrirti-'S
great storm near Fayal, exclaiming aa lva t
went down, "The way to heaven la '&'
near by sea as by land."
Kalelgh under Amldas and Barlow,-
reached the country now known as Norths)
Carolina, passed into Albemarle and?jr
Pamlico sounds, touched at Roanokom
Island and returned to England. ust
The following year (1585) Raleigh sent '
out a colony of a hundred or more msiat
under Lane to make the beginning of Wf
settlement, ' but nothing came of It, asT!
the remnants of the colony were takemif ,
back to England by the old sea f Ightejvl
Drake, who happened to be sailing i
around those parts looking for Spanlards,,4
Unwilling to abandon the project that,.
was so dear to him, Raleigh, In the apringj
of 1587, made still another attempt, send- J
Ing out soma 160 men and Beventeqivj
women under the governorship of Jolfn
White. Th settler reached Roanoka
Island the last of July, and there, ,913
August 17, was bom Virginia Dare, the
daughter of Ananias and Eleanor Dafo,,
White's settlement perished, beliuf
known in history as the "lost Colony,,!
flays Flake: ,"When the Jamestown set;'
tiers came they were tojd by the Indlaji
that the white people left at RoanoTta
had, mingled with the natives and UvfC
with them for some year en amlcaljla
terms) until., M the Instigation of certaJT
medicine men, they had all been mur-1
dered, ;excepj four men. two boys antTa
young woman, who were spaved 'by. order
of a chief. Whether, this young womuli"
was Vlrglnala Dare, the first American? '
girl, we have no means of '.snowing.'"
Ignore Scandal Mongers
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do, my friends. I
What would, you do if some one told
stories about you-storles that were not
true, atorjes (ha Vhutt you dreadfully
and what If that some ona was an
elderly man whom
you had truted and
thought a sincere
friend? Would you
make him retract
what he said, and
how would you do
ItT How should a '
man like that be
punished?
That what a
woman and . her
daughter want to
know. They have
written me a letter
about it such a
troubled, excited,
hysterical, fright
ened "what shal
we do" letter.
I know what i'd
wouldn't pay the slightest attention in
the world to the tales the elderly person
told about me, for the very good reason
that nobody else will pay any attention
to them, either.
That Isn't the first lie the elderly per
son has told, depend upon that. People
don't begin to He wantonly after 40 years
of age. They get. the habit early In life,
and what you know about him everybody
else knows, and that makes the matter
perfectly simple, don't you see?
That's the beauty of a fibber. He thinks
he's having a lovely time starting trou
ble, and so he Is, but It's all for himself.
The whole world Isn't fooled very long
In the character of any man, or any
woman either tor that matter. Take a
new stenographer Into an office, and
It Isn't a week before every wise boy
In the place knows whether she's what
she tries to make every one believe she
is or not. 1
When the elderly person told his fine
story about you and your daughter, 'my
friend, all those who heard him simply,
smiled and looked at each other and
changed the subject.
After he'd gone they smiled again.
"Same old sixpence, Isn't he?" they said
and that's all the affair' amounted' to,
or ever will amount to.
And then, what do you' care what peo
ple say about you, anyway? The Im
portant thing Is not what they say, but
what Is trlue.
what Is true.
report? Well, then, not all the scandal
mongers In the world can hurt your
standing with any ona in the long run,
and the long run is the only thing ;that
counts. . - .
It Isn't what people say that matters;
It Is what we do. That's important, and
the thing that I should do In this par
ticular case ts to go about mybusjness
and forget all about the old man and his
idiotic stories.
Tha poorest use you can make' of your
time Is ' t? take It up bating' come one
' By WINIFRED BLACK.
or planning how to get oven, Format j
them and thelr..,works, then you'll ? ha
even, and a little over.;
A woman I know said . something; Vefiyi
malicious about me to one whose gool
opinion I value, very highly not long agt.;
The next time I met that Woman I wfs
so sweet to her that I nearly- frightenld
her to. death. .She never aeea me nowj
without wondering If I've heard and what
I will 'do when I do; hear. ' (
She needn't worry. I shan't do. a thing. (
I don't have to. All I have to do la t,
be myself; the res( wlt take care pt
itself. j ; ., .,' I
' Besides, maybe what the woman said
was partly true. I may not Bee myajflC
as she does. Perhaps she reaily half lje
lleves what she said. Why not? Bjie
has the right to dislike, me if she watfta
to. What am I to -inherit the earth .aid
the kingdoms thereof?. ., ' - , . 8
Perhaps she understands me better thjjin
I understand myself, and dislikes me (or
what she sees beneath the . cloak wtt)
which I may have deceived my own s$lf.
Well, what of that? More power jto
her discernment, say I, and more sense
to; my own heart to see myself as othlrs
see me. Maybe she wasn't mlsohievops,
after all only mistaken. j
'Well, If I go .on being the right eortjof
woman she'll see her mistake and Sbe
sorry. What more do I want than than?
Time, time, time what a great h$er
of feuds and mistakes and misunderstacU
Ings the old fellow with , the scythe Jisl
Time and a little healthy forgetting will
heal all the wounds, If we'.ll only &et'
them do it. i 1
; Why not try, and see how It will tnrO'
out? I 1
Nuta to Crack. j t
The girl who ts as pretty aa a plctlre
may have negative qualities.
Many a man makes a speech that , will
never make him. . J '
Even the fellow who blows his opvn
horn . may come out at the little ' tntl
of It. . i
Blessings often coma disguised, put
misfortunes are not so clever as the art
of making up. , .. I
1 It Is easy enough to get along wjth,
some people If you can only conceal y$ur
opinion of them. , !
There would be more happy marriages
if a girl would" only exercise as much,
thought In choosing a husband as fhe
does in choosing a hat ,
A great deal depends on environment
and mental suggestion. Some people
can't tee a pitcher without getting;
thlrsty-New .york Times. ;
Opinion ot an Expert.
Archibald, aged 6, son of a south. side
family, newly arrived from a small town,
is against automobiles first, last and Ul
the tltne. He much prefers wagons. He
explained his point of view to his motser
the other. day. It appeared that he.lfad
found . motor cars useless for "hitcliin'
on ' his little red cart. Said Archie: l
'They ain't no good. They ain't 4io
good place to hitch ou and if you do, httfch
on iney go so iast it puns your nair mir
if you stay on till It pulls yer hair,-
squirt stun on you that makes.
clothes smell ' second " handed." Kaiisiaa
City Journal. , ' "' "' '
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