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midst of plenty. He is one of the great mass of people 

 who are huddled into apartment flats, innocently as- 

 suming that 'you can't eat honey if you don't have 

 money !' ' 



The art of living well from a little land that shall 

 be worthy of Abraham Lincoln's prophecy must include 

 not only the systematic production of all the elements 

 of the bill-of-fare, but also the art of utilizing these 

 materials by means of the best cooking, and the art 

 of serving them on the daintiest of tables. The whole 

 scheme of luxurious living must hang together, for we 

 are going to boost our common standard of living to 

 the level of the millionaire! God must have intended 

 we should do so when He made the green earth. He 

 provided a land of plenty. If we have lost the way 

 perhaps we shall rediscover it in time to avert the 

 worst consequences of our folly and ignorance. 



I can not leave that garden city among the hills 

 without quoting its most distinguished citizen concern- 

 ing the new way of life. John S. McGroarty, Cal- 

 ifornia's poet laureate, and author of the classic 

 "Mission Play," writes of the only Millionaires' Club 

 in the world that prides itself on its broad in- 

 clusiveness. 



"The club holds its meetings at least once a day on 

 the steps of the postoffice," he tells us. "The only 

 qualification for membership is that you must be a 

 millionaire. 



"When the neighbors told us about it first we said 

 it couldn't be, because there are no millionaires in these 

 hills. And the neighbors answered back and said yes, 

 there are lots of them here. They said they were mil- 



