Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1905-12-09
TO LIVE A SIMPLE LIFE
Two Pennsylvanians Plan For.
nation Of New Society.
MODERN LIVING TOO STRENUOUS

MODERN LIVING TOO STRENUOUS
The Founders, Who Have Been Ne
gotiatinS For a Tract of Land Near
Fredericksburg, Md, Feel Conf
dent of Success - All Must Work
Even Children-No Lagsards to b
Tolerated.
Believing that life as it is lived il
this twentieth century is too strenuous
for the good we ought to get out of il
and that the majority Of US are exist
ing rather than living with any degree
of enjoyment, two well known men
James Hazlewood of Pittsburg anC
William Schlingmann of Grafton, Pa.
have conceived the idea of forming q
community where the residents will
eat, sleep and work in perfect peace
says the Pittsburg Press. Every one
connected with the community will
work to get his or her food, clothes and
lodgings, and no laggards will be tol.
Grated
The proposed association will be
known as the Providence community
and will be governed by board of
trustees elected by the members. It
is said that the two founders have OPP
tions on large tract Of land near
Fredericksburg, Md, where the pro
posed community will be located, al
though as yet no deeds have been sign
ed nor has any money been paid to
bind the transaction. When the land
is secured and the proselytes to the
new school have migrated laws will be
formulated calculated to regulate the
actions of the simple livers. The basis
for the rules governing the residents is
the New Testament.
The new community will be planned
after the one which for many years
thrived at Economy, Pa, but it is pro-
posed to manage it in an entirely diff
ferent and more modern way. The
promoters believe that modern meth
ods applied to the scheme will make it
entirely feasible and that it will be
possible to carry it on, without the loss
of either time or money, to the best
advantage to the. members, and, they
say, it may be made SO strong inan-
cially that nothing out of the ordinary
will be able to injure it to any consid-
erabIe extent It will differ materially
from other societies formed along sim
liar lines and for the same purpose in
that the members will not be made to
adopt any strange or peculiar beliefs
or to wear any certain kind of uniform
dress. Each member will work to the
utmost of his ability and will live as
he thinks most beneficial to himself,
conforming always to the laws govern:
ing the residents Of the community.
There will be NO accumulation of prop
erty or amassing of riches.
Immediately after coneeiving the
possibility of a successful community
of co-workers preliminary regulations
were drawn up which govern the en-
trance of new residents. According to
these rules, life in the community will
not be so very much different from
that outside, although no laggards will
be allowed, and no wonderfully rich
men will be seen there. There will
be no membership right in the COM
munity property, no division Of COM
munity property among members, no
right of survivorship. Particular
stress is laid upon those clauses which
pertain to the actions of the male resi-
dents Of the community All must
work. The third clause in the set of
rules drawn up reads as follows:
Every member residing in the COM
nunity must work and labor diligently
for the community in such tasks or labor
Is shall from time to time be assigned to
such member, SO long as such member
ives with the community and is physic-
ally able to labor. Such labor is a neces-
sary condition of maintenance and resi-
lence in the community. There shall be
40 liability in the community for COM
oensation for such labor.
The fourth section relates to the chill
lren, and, according to this, they will
not escape their share Of the work
very easily:
Every child maintained by the COM
nunity must work and labor diligently
.or the community in such task or labor
Is shall from time to time be assigned to
such child, and as long as such child
ives with the community, while physic-
lily able to labor, such labor is a neces-
'ary condition to the maintenance of such
,hild There shall be no liability in the
for compensation for such
abor.
Every member Of the community
shall be entitled to the proper food and