New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-10
PLAN SINCLAIR COLONY.
Three Committees appointed by As
socidtion Urge Ideals.

Upton Sinclairs Home Colony Association is
going to have TWO meetings in the near future.
and is going to follow them by some more later
on One is to be held at the West Side Young
Mems Christian Association on Sunday evening
and the other at the same place the following
night. These meetings to be held simply
TO discuss matters, and the committee
rangements which is also the executive COM
mittee. evidently expects 10 add literally to the
plentiful supply of calOric now loose in Manhat-
tan. The association has sent out to it's mem
bers a list Of the recommendations on the foun-
dation of the colony prepared by the three COM
mittees recently appointed. and. by some chance.
copies of this list have penetrated to most OF
the newspaper offices of the city.
The committee on organization leads off with
a series of recommendations. one being that the
stock which is to be divided into shares of 81
900 each should pay per cent in dividends.
The first on the list is the following: THE pur-
pose of the home colony is to simplify the do
nestle problem. Upon the physical side the
ideal should be the utmost economy consistent
with beauty, cleanliness and efficiency Of ad-
ministration." 1t is uncertain whether this
economy is intended to include economy in the
matter of clothes. as is the case at Barnarr
MacFadden's colony in New Jersey. The first
committee TO report carefully provides for the
that money should be paid 70 any worker
The hard lot of the unpaid worker is to be all
leviated, however. by a central Office.
AS there are to be servants in the COM
monty accepted sense of the word. in the colony
and all members urged to earn money by
domestic service. It is easy to imagine Upton
Sinclair washing dishes or welding the muck
rake in the hay field. The committee on labor
recognizes the fact that certain stigma applies
to domestic service, and therefore begs all the
members TO take to employ no one who
cannot be admitted fully into the social and in
telectual life of the community. Further 10
insure this end. a special committee Is to intro
view all applicants for work, and those unable
to pass examinations in The Jungle" Browning
and Welt Whitman will be courteously but
firmly turned away.
AS might be expected however the chief at
tention Of the colony is be devoted to chill
dren and the committee children is regarded
as the most important of the three far APP
pointed separate colony is TO be esta Dlshed
for the children. far from the enervating and
debasing influence of mothers care and there
the little ones are to be tenderly nourshed il
the Sinclairian faith. Children under the age
OF three years are to be allowed. at first. Il
remain in the hands Of their parents bur this
is a Temporary measure. soon to be given up
No person of the servant class is under any
circumstances 10 have anything % do with The
care OF the children, the committee evidently
having in mind the terrible effect upon children
Of the Negro ''rnamuies'' Of the South. II is
pleasant to note that children Will still be eX-
pected to play, and it is probable that carefully
MANNED system Of games viii be mapped out toI
them In these games the parents OF the chill
dren are expected 10 join.