The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-07
You have planned the building of a

You have planned the building of a
 .Yes, we have purchased 4oo acres out right and soon will have controi or ow more adjoining Swope park on the north and lying along the east bank or brusn n Creek seven miles southeast or hansas City There we shall establish lactories which will supply our cooperative stores; For instance. we will put up canned goods. preserves, etc.; we will make vine gar, we will make candy. we VIII sSaI ssas out woodenwa-e: l have np1 ss, aeGiasu .s. tablisn first We will have coa. s mire npc the banks of the stream; The brwsn r.,si, Greek mines have supplied Kansas Sa.y with coal for years, This VII, me ~ sneap assep iIe at hand sns y Three rairosas pass through or near the property ana street railroad is building by us on Ins way to Swope park. The street sns,.af and then the active work of construcs- irg the village will be pushed. We nave made arrangements to have our tumps' and other freight hauled at nigns, SaHs .hs scheme and within year the model Vii- iage will be a reality"
 But children are to be the chief end and aim of the settlement. MT; r,o- xtco are too often fed upon inteliectua! rare- bits, that they are pushed beyond tneT years and held too strictly to school ois- cipline; that their bodies are ,, zoe murn suma. mer with Professor Dewey in Chicago and was greatly impressed with that mans good work in behalf or nature ing. in his model village and children's paradise MT vrooman will endeavor 10 carry out some of the ideas and ideals of Professor Dewey. The children VII streams that they. may grow to love. appreciate and understand nature; they will be given gymnasium where Lnes may develop their bodies. they VIII nave text-books only as incidentals toward the attainment of general and practical
 They will do shop work, they will learn to cook. and to sew, nothing that IS not useful will be permitted They will go hack to the time of primitive man ana follow him to the modern ages, repro ducing inventions by their own nanui- work, They will weave fabrics and they will study the arts and trades. But car nentry. cooking and sewing and weaving will be the principal lines or work TOT the children, because they represent sonae .t,s of the most important activities or lns every day outside world; the question oi living under shelter of daily food. or clothing of the home. of personal move, ment and the exchange or gooos. A anu U out of this school is expected to come new generation of men ana women.
 Patriotism will be inculcated in every youthful mind, and along Witn IL goou citizenship and appreciation Of the r1gnt of free speech. Of course, the settlement being socialistic. the teachings VIII pc somewhat socialistic also.
 Mir Vrooman has engaged a civil en, sineer to draw the plans for his model yilIage and children's paradise.
 So far the United states has compara- lively few organized cooperative so- cieties. In 1896 the labor bureau report ed 69 distributive societies known 10 the department of which 40 reported total rembership of 16,S07 and 41 reported total trade of $2,500,000. Since that date the number has materially increased.
 California. it seems. leads the rest or the United States in the number or coz operative societies. Stores are located at San Francisco: Sacramento. santa Rarbara. Vellejo, Ventura. Berkley. Fres- no, Kincsbury. Merced. Redlands. Grass Valley. Oakland and Petaiuma- Tn leSo' at the demand of advocates Of co-opera- tion' q comprehensive and most effective co-operation law, the best, perhaps, or any State in the union, was enacted, and under its benefcent influence the coop erative development has been rapid. Ne vada has recently adopted similar law.
 There are at present about fifty farm- ers' cooperative soeiecies Tn iowa; ohe with headquarters at isfs RoeSWeii sos st uno sx. business last year or Solo'Ssi at dh eA- pense of only A,0o0.
 Co-operation is steadily increasing m the New England States. The move, ment started at Lewiston, Me. several months ago. is spreading. and the iars, eat departnent store in the state or Maine lately went into the ranks or the "co-ops'' without requiring dollar or purchase money.