OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF PERTH.
ESTABLISHED 1874. 'PHONE B6950 450 Flay Street, Perth.
Registered at the G.P.O,, Perth, for transmission by post as a newspaper.
PERTH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27,
Box A35, G.P.O.. Perth
1946.
Ownership of Property Develops Character
woods, rides over obstacles that different morale reigns in the would use up the best team of woods This is typical of what is horses. But who drives the trac- happening quite generally in North tor? Probably not the teamster, America though newer ideals may hut a new kind of acrobat with a arise to replace the old'. new variety of seat holding and It is true that most of flee chansteering, will knowledge of his ges that have swept over farm life mount its powers and limits of per- in North America in the last quarformance, its anatomy ,and the pos- ter century have come because they sibly of repair. His courage, were wanted. New vole have hardihood and skill are of differ- made their way because they were ent sort from those of the team- improvements. I have neighbours ster, but they are not less, Sym- who still 'remember when my farm pathy with the animal is trans- was ploughed by oxen and the hay formed into sympathy with the ma- mowed by hand. Nobody banished chine and an understanding of the the oxen from New England farms: beast into mechanical intelligence. that was done by the fact that the l/ndurance is called for in both horse with ,lesser strength. was a cases; the rigors of winter are cer- nimbler beast. And nobody ban-
licepiribed in the management of property; and generosity ceases to Property develops bo a virtue. character because it allows the free expression of personal traits and invites the social judgment which follows mistakes in its place The institution justifies itself, because Bor the most part meet learn through this social judgment to avoid the chief abuses and to make a respectIt is able use of their freedom. only on this condition that the state can continue to recognise the right tainly not abated for the tractor ishes the horse except where the of property in its full extent. driver, nor is his seat softened, tractor can more than take his No improvement, to be Response to Social and Economic and he with his machine hers often place. to take a kind of punishment the sure, is quite ell an improvement; Chaos, about. old woodsman nothing knew it mind, are still things the horse (.171 in thane things these With that the change in do which the tractor cannot do, and The point seems evident that the full meaning Property is to -day's breed and learning about him. They can tell of property is hardly anywhere re the man which follows change tin there are still oxen 'to be found in Improvements are btrtter and if you have enough of by the appearance of his horse or presented so well as in the owner- technique runs less deep than we odd dormers. fear, far less deep than only on the whole and with some is the promise that there will be his barn floor, the condition of his ship of farms. This ownership is sometimes of history loss, Admitting this, we miry bread and butter to-morrow. Most tools, his harness, his silo, whether not alone raising craps; it is mak- the economic theory The prim. say that most recent changes affect Any radical change nould have us suppose. mem consider the accu.mniation of a he is slack or one who loves his ing citizens. ing farming have come with the small property chiefly in the light of farmer's approval and are to the a protection for the years of degood. For these pur. clining strengsh. But individual changes have enposes it makes very little difference nnilative effects not foreseen by whether it is in the form of land, anybody. We can now see certain personal effects money or securities, massive changes in the spirit of the But property lies other purposes, American farm: the vast middle of for which it makes a great deal area of fertile land no longer pre For difference what kind it' ie. Rents anything like the traditional 'these purposes property in landfarm. American picture of the real estate-is fax more personal full the is Nowhere Even in the marginal farms of New or tokens than property in money England the alteration runs deep. of money which go by the name of meaning of property so Do these changes make the Ampersonal. evident as in the ownerican farmer less independent in ership of land. his character, less a person, less Property that one can handle, stable, lees the rock he has hitheruse, take care of, does a great deal A child to been in the maintenance of our to educate its possessor. i nStitutions ? who owns a soy learns in time to as The most conspicuous of tbeee take care of toys (more or less) changes may be labelled the trim& the price of having them; and the Ration of the country and the inboy who has made a whistle cares (and i capitaileing dustrialising more for it than for a better whisthem) of the farm. Let us look ti, bought on the market. Tanmore closely at each of them. gible and durable property like a farm responds to treatment and so carries on through the years a ail. ALEX owner, cent conversation with its telling him what kind of man be is Commission Agent Turf and whet sort of hoard he has. Most 802 HAY STREET men have much to Seam from this quiet and unanswerable instruction; AGENT FOR W.A. CHARITIES' and most men make a fair start at Ring 118841 and learning it.
Invaluable Experience for a Democracy in Forming Citizens
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Whatever a man completely owns, whether it be a whole farm or 'a single tool or animalrt is that bit of property which most eompletely reflects the kind of man he is. For The ownership of a this bit of property can be regardfarm offers the fullest ed as a small domain in which he is king. For whatever happens in opportunity for the dethat domain be i.e. 'responsible; and velopment of responaito convereels, whaIeVe. r he wants billty and a real sense If do there, he is at liberty to do. DUKE OF YORK HOTEL he wants to neglect, abuse, or even of authority. NARROGIN destroy his property, he is within New Lounge, Dining Rooms, his right, so long a-s he causes no and Commercial Rooms. suffering or nuisance by doting so. ARTHUR BOYLAN, Proprietor. If he wants to experiment with it, Pederick Continual Hot Water be may. If he has an idea for in. installed throughout. creasing its value, he may put it into effect. In brief, he' enjoys the privileges of rulership, and learns by experience what kind bf ruler This is an invalnhe would make! FREMANTLE abie kind of experience for a deOverlooking the Ocean. is a democracy mocracy. For work and his stock. If you want the form or extent of farm own- ivy principles of initiative, competi- Superior Accommodation workable only if its citizens are ac- to know about a man, you can often ership becomes a matter of im- tive skill, M. BYRNE (Late of Grand and customed to command and to rule tell more by 'seeing his place than portance for the etate as a whole. and loyaltyteam play, iedividualism, Shamrock Hotels, Boulder.) are not by the changed Moderate Charges. and know from experience ;he by seeing the man himself. This This 'is the basis of the economic simple course of technical advance. meaning, tile difficulties and burdens is a very important social meaning theory of history, according to of authority. Democracy does not of property. which changes in technique and in Bur there is a side of this change away consist in taking authority Let us put 'it this way: Property the accompanying forms of ownerfrom everybody, but in giving every- makes the man visible and acces- ship are the major factors in social that, does not affect character, That ia, the change in the position of body a bit of authority. And every - sible. I cannot see a man's mind change. ownership. The operator of our man's bit of property be it large or his sharacter. see But when I Living as we do in an era of logging tractor as not usually the or mai., is his special field for what he has chosen and what he gaining experience in the use of au- does with it, I know what he likes, rapid economic development, it is owner-the machine may belong to Logging has become It furnishes apprentice- and quite a good deal about his important for us to inquire how the company_ thority. far this theory is true, It seems a mare impersonal affair than it It is for principles. ship in responsibility, obvious that changes tin tools and used to be; large bodies of capital this reason that the farm as an acThe moral importance of property tual domain, has been so significant lies in the fact that the owner is methods must alter the habit of are involved, and the work is done by contract. As a 'result, men no a training ground for our demo- not compelled to do well with it; he man; but does this change in habit carry a change In character? Take longer risk 'their lives in the jams (W.A.O.A.) cracy. may be meen foolish, dissipated, an example: of the Androscoggin narrows for SIGHT -TESTING OPTICIAN. The beauty of being 'hosIt is significant also in another sailfish. the sake of theft local name and for that it is a free act; one Time was when logs bad to be the delivery of goods to an unway. If the farmer through this ex- pitable 12 ATWELL ARCADE. Try to com- yarded out by men and horses; mow known purchaser, perience kerns something about does not, have to be. Heroism and FREMANTLE 1.1582. are pel citizens to be generous and pub - the tractor invades the himself, his neighbours also winter greatness leak out of a business; a
Randolph Knapp
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