IN the modern world there is no such thing as an absolute individualist, or an absolute co?perationist. The most rabid enemy of socialistic and co?perative movements sends his children to a co?perative school, puts his mail in a co?perative post office, and pays the co?perative preachers; he drinks co?perative water and uses the co?perative sewage system and drives his automobile on a co?perative road. On the other hand, the most enthusiastic socialist wants to write his own books and paint his own pictures and sign his name to them and get the glory. Why, then, should the poultry breeder, or the skilled bookbinder cast the individuality of his labor into the melting pot of co?perative production?  
In Roadtown the lamb of socialism shall lie117 down with the leopard of individuality and a child of the common good shall lead them.
 
A Mecca for the Individualist.
 
The Roadtown corporation will stand ready to sell the product of the individuals or that of the co?perative producers, but it will not prohibit them from selling individually if they so desire. If, for illustration, a man should wish to complete the making of a glove, though he accomplished but one-fifth of the combined work of four men, yet if this man prefers to take less pay or work longer hours in order to have the satisfaction of working for himself and seeing one piece of work completely through to the finish, the community would have no complaint—he would pay his own way and would get his pleasure from the independence in his work. In so doing he may develop in himself or in his child the latent qualities of art that machine-like application would blot out forever. In like manner, men with strong social temperaments, to carry out their ideal would sometimes attempt to conduct agriculture, or artistic work together that could be run118 at greater total productiveness individually. If the difference were greater than the lessening of consumption, the venture would fail. But if the difference were slight both types of workmen would produce better when doing the thing they wish to do and the community would get better work, and what is more important, better men.
 
The Roadtown by opening up the highways of exchange to all, and preventing the development of huge privately owned corporations, gives opportunity for the free play in both individual and co?perative production. The trust system of industry we have to-day allows only such forms of privately owned industries to exist as cater to its own need. Co?perative retail stores are commonly boycotted by the wholesalers, a notable example of which was the co?perative store organized by the federal employés at Washington. On the other hand, wholesalers commonly dictate the retail prices at which their goods may be sold by so-called competitive retailers. The retailer who cuts his price is boycotted. There is no individualism,119 all are tools and puppets of the trusts.
 
The Roadtown Department Store.
 
The Roadtown will supply the wants of the people through co?perative stores. This does not mean that Roadtowners will be prohibited from buying outside of Roadtown or from selling his own product inside or o............