Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-05-23
Omaha Mans New Book
Gives Us Utopian Vision


imaginative minds for decades and CEN
turiea, but II has remained for Herman
olerich. well known Omaha figure, 10
paint the latest picture Of the land Of
perfection and contentment. Prof. Dell
rich. whose home Is at 22l9 Larimore
avenue, entities his conception. Modern
Paradise" and Incorporates il into a
book Just published, copies Of which he
has sent TO various notables in science,
literature and philosophy. who have In
turn given him words OF commentator.
Modern Paradise" is a graphic pen de-
scription of an ideal mode of living and
working. The author contends that EFF
ficient production, equitable distribution.
wise accumulation, economical consump-
ton and harmonious association may be
attained 10 an ideal degree by a very
simple adjustment, II the right persons
use the right things in the right way"
He claims that under the Modern
Paradise" method of living and working
every man. woman and youth worker
Will produce from s. 70 $40 worth of
wealth In a three or four-hour workday y,
and that every man, woman and child
worker. whether married or single will
personally draw his or her own pay
checks for the labor each performs for
the association whether that labor be in
dustrial, domestic. or maternal; that all
the co-operators will live In elegant man
sons heated and lighted with electricity
and furnished with all other public and
private comforts and conveniences that
refined humanity could wish. Farmnr
and gardening will be done on a large
scale with powerful electric tractors.
Children will be educated by the Mon.
tessori method OF education without ever
combining them In formal schoolhouses:
healthful amusements will be practically
unlimited In variety and scope. Under
this tollless system OF universal PROS
perlty, vice. crime and cruelty will, no
doubt. practically disappear. and beauty
and grace of form and face viii evolve
to ideal perfection. In consequence of
these healthful conditions of living and
working the average span of human life
Is expected 60 double or treble its present
duration.
BY the generous cooperation OF one or
more wealthy persons who desire TO have
this ideal method OF living and working
put TO practical test. Prof olerich
hopes to see the first Modern Para
disc in full operation I'm a comparatively
few years.
Prof. Olerich is, in many ways, an ex-
trnordinary man. He was born in the
little mining town of Hazel Green. Wiz.
In 1851 and spent his boyhood under tho
humblest conditions on nearby farm.
In 1870 he moved with his parents 20
Carroll county, Iowa. where he did the
pioneer work OF farming, breaking the
prairie with pillow drawn by yoke OF
oxen. Poverty still pursued the family
and they contended with the misfor-
tunes OF grasshoppers and excessive
rains. lie became school teacher.
II was then that his Unsuitable hunger
for learning began TO develop
lie wns engaged as professional teacher
| for more than twenty years. most of tina
time as superintendent of various cit,
schools. Az the reader OF Modern Para
| disc will notice. he produced remark
able educational experiment along tn
lllne OF the Montessori method Of teach
Ing years before Madame MontessoIi, wa
known.
Mr.. olerich Is a purely self-made maj
He is a worker and invariably busy Z
some useful Industry.
i His versatility as a competent worke
fearless thinker and able writer extend
over q wide field.
He has a number OF notable achieve
\ ments 20 his credit as a mechanic. a
artist. an architect, an inventor. an ed'
Gator, q machinist. As a writer he col
tributes articles to the worlds foremol
maeaxines and newspapers. This wild
experience fits him for helping TO Intro
duco and develop that ideal democrac
so graphically depicted in his "Moder
Paradise"
| Prof. olerioh is known by his intimRi
associates as systematic and accurai
worker, On the points Of neatness ar
r accuracy OF work, he Just recently astol
: ished the typists OF tho world by typ
writing 2is pages-about 5000 words.
manuscript without n single known typ
graphical error ~ the whole work. Tn
remarkable feat Of neat and accura
= typewritlng Is conceded by competel
judges 20 be the worlds record of erro
less typewriting without taking the tin
= element into account.
Famous men and women OF the wor
who have seen Prof. olerich's book ha,
written letters commencing his ideal al
; the thoroughness and logic with whiC
he has worked II out Prof Ern
9 Haecken OF Jena, Germany. a man
the very first rank OF the worlds grea
: est scientists, wrote that he had read Il
I book with thorough satisfaction ar
fullest agreement"
Luther Burbank Of California. the gre
plant improver, wrote 20 Prof. oleri,
: stating that realization OF the ideas p
: forth In Modern Paradise would 20
{. viate nine-tenths Of human crime al
suffering"
Similar letters have also come fro
Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Dorothy %
, and Thomas A. Edison.