The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-01

AS there are numerous customers not
members of the community, every article in
one in United States money Thus, a
broom may be marked So cents on one side
and 121a hours on the other
THE REQUIREMENTS.
RuskIn is not the right place for persons
who do not like this sort OF thing. Several
men have tried it and gone away more in
love with the grand old institutions of the
time honored past than before; but persons
who like it, or think they would like it, and
who want to get in, have to pay $500 for a
share in the communitys property and to
pass an examination which contains ques>
lions like these:
when there is nothing for you to do in your
Do you believe that all members should
have the same pay for the same hours Of
labor if they do the best they can?
What works on social problems have you
read?
Define socialism.
Define communism.
Define competition.
What is your object In seeking to become
a member of this association?
If admitted to membership to which
would you attach the most Importance
your own individual interests or the per-
petuity Of the association?
How long have you entertained these
views of the cooperative mode of life?
of socialism?
What are your religious convictions?
If you should be admitted, can you pay
for a share of stock?
VIII you agree to receive the same COM
pensation as the other members and abide
by the laws of the community?
Once in, man finds himself and family
guaranteed work for every day he is able
to work and adequate support when he is
sick. His children are to be educated at
the communitys expense, his wife is to be
cared for in case he should die and pen
siOnS are to be provided for the supeTan-
nuated. His house and lot cost nothing
The family washing costs nothing; medical
attendance and medicines are free to AL
The women and children may all work be-
sides caring for the household and going to
school. and family may without difficulty
if Industrious, earn labor certificates rep
resenting 1852 hours a week.
LAZY MEN BARRED.
Men who shirk are suspended from the
settlement. They have a library of about
one thousand books. and. as might be ex-
pected, Ruskin is a great place for discus
sion. Their weekly paper has thirty thou
sand subscribers. The colony owns five
pianos, seven organs. nine violins, five gui-
tars. one bass viol and several other in
struments. There is no church in the COM
munity, and it is not likely to have any
for the leaders believe that one would kill
the settlement. But religious worship is
not prohibited and the churchmen ride off
to meeting on Sunday at some neighbour
ing village.
The great majority of the people who
live in Ruskin came from the 'submerged''
class; but there is one member who can
not be described in just that way Prof
Isaac Broome once studied art in Italy and
has made statuary for the national capital
Philadelphia galleries and New York parks
but now he and his wife are contentedly
living in Ruskin An interviewer found
him there recently and into his mouth he
has put several interesting sayings made
while the professor was working on a bust
of John Ruskin. For example:
1T is beyond any doubt in my mind that
Ruskin has passed the stage of an expert
ment.
L confess that I wrote a book about So
all about 1t. I do not think so any more
1t is vastly different-the writing out of
plans and the living out the plans
1T has been my lot to travel all over thN
world. / know of no settlement under the
sun that is more contented than Ruskin
The men who are here are here for pur-
pose. They are going 10 stay here until
the theory which they have proposed as
the solution of the social problem shall
have succeeded or failed. They are men
who have learned to think for themselves
men from the trades-common men
Tho change is apparent from day to day
The women become gentler. as they have
more time for things outside the life of
drudgery of the worlkingman's home. The
children get manners and graces from our
kindergarten and they take them to the
of Improvement We challenge any man
who does not think we have found the key
to the release OF the bondage OF the poor