Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-07-28

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fact there are opportunities for thous-
ands of people, provided they are viii
ling to live the teachings Of the Gold
en- Rule. Think, Comrades. what a
load of worry is lifted from you when
you JOIN our community; but also YOU
owe something to the community fol
lifting this burden-a new responsible
Iity-that of educating yourself away
from suspicion, greed, and jealousy
You should attend our meetings, learn
all the facts about our community life
and above all things, learn to conduct
yourself as a brother to all with whom
you come in contact. Don't join the
Colony to EAT and solve your own
problems, but to help US solve the
great WORLD problem Of brother
hood This morning Comrade Krech-
ner from New Jersey arrived on the
early morning train and we were
Ipleased to see him with us. He is
only on a visit and is taking in the
whole place as rapidly as he can. The
industrial and farm operators were
halted at noon today by good. help
full rain and most of the men went
to carpentering jobs. We are tearing
down the old laundry building in
front Of the hospital, and also the big
shed near the railroad. Comrade Emil
Carlson of Washington, arrived today,
and expressed himself as ready for
work at once, but we wanted him to
take day to look around and see
just what part of the nest he wants to
work in. He is a farmer and carpen-
ter. He wants to do farm work un-
| til we start building the permanent
buildings and who can blame him fo-
wanting to help build the first coop
erative city in the world. At the psy-
Geological meeting a general discus
sion of colony affairs was held and
those who were not present will have
| to gain the knowledge of these things
secondhand. These meetings arc held
to get the colonists in closer touch
with each other and the general af-
fairs Of our operations. No one can
act or even talk intelligently upon Vi
tai colony questions when they do not
know all the facts. All colonists ought
to attend the Thursday night meetings
and acquaint themselves with all pos
sible information upon our workings
and plans for the future work.
Friday.-The farm teams are all
out on the orchard forty, blowing UNI
der a crop of COW peas, preparatory
to planting a crop Of fall potatoes,
and we expect to raise our winter
Irish potatoes off this field. The
brick machine is going every day at
good speed as we want to get another
kiln of brick ready to burn at once.
We will have several buildings to put
up as soon as the plans are made and !
more help comes to do the bricklay- |
ing. The roof garden will probably
come first, as it will give housing
room for several small industries and
a larger dance and amusement hall;
then the hotel, through necessity, and
as soon as the state road is built we
VIII build our store building, build
ing to house the garage. machineshop
shop and foundry. Add
to this the school and dormitory and
you can see an expensive program
with lots of work attached. But see
what it will mean to our community
when the job is done. Comrade Schad
is helping at the brick plant AS the
increases It's capacity, Ole
grabs more help and we get more
bricks. The garden is now furnishing
a good supply of vegetables such as
beets. carrots. corn, okra, tomatoes,
cucumbers, and melons. By all means
don't let me forget to tell you that Dr..
Thurman is the vine king; he has
coming out of that garden
by the bushels each day, and Mrs. Ro-
bertson and the children have put up
several barrels of pickles for winter
use, and every day a load of cante-
loupes come in. These melons are
Docs pets, and he has counted over
1000 that he has delivered to the ho-
tel. and it is whispered around that
Doc gets out of bed of nights and
goes out to sleep among the cante-
loupes. 1t is hard to tell just what
these "grown-up" kids won't do.
** So
Saturday. July 23.-The ground is
about prepared for the fall potatoes
and the potatoes arrived by express
his nm # # does not rain thew will