Vernon Parish Democrat., 1921-06-02

US that the writer fears he and his
family cannot live on the small cash
allowance we pay ourselves. Now,
Comrades. we are living on it, and at
the end of each year we have a sur
plus left over, not in an individual
fund, but in the cooperative fund. IF
you still wish to work for money and
make a pvivete saving, you do not be4
long in this Colony. We are living
with the smallest expense possible.
therefore saving the greatest possible
surplus to our organization, with the
hope that all will soon be enjoying
more happiness than any community
on earth. IF you> are wasteful. you
must learn to save; if you are selfish,
you must educate yourself to consider
others the same as yourself; if you
are jealous or suspicious. it will de-
stroy you here, unless you can school
yourself away from it. Don't come, if
you cant live as we live; for we are
doing our best to create a new civil
ization, in which dollar-chasing has
no place. Do we want wealth, Yes.
In the form of necessities and the lux
uries that labor can create, and we
want them for all those who work here.
and on the same equal terms. Come
to serve and you will receive a great
reward; while, if you come to take,
you will only wreck your own future
To you comrades who bought land and
have not received your deeds, don't Be
impatient: this Colony is doing more.
hard work than you are conscious of. |
and it will take little extra time, be-
cause our office force is doing double, |
work at all times and our only steno-
graphers are our school girls and they
have but few hours to devote to this
work. My desk is filled with unans-
wered letters, legal papers to make out.
certain writings like the Diary that
must be done. large family of nearly |
80 children to look after, and yet some
wonder Why am baId-headed! Well. |
Comrades, you have been patient and !
good, and we appreciate it, and if we
appear careless or negligent, just re-
member we are human and have many
lessons to learn as well as duties to
perform. The Esperanto classes were
on as usual tonight and the large at
tendance at these meetings speaks for
the popularity of this language at our
place.
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Tuesday. May 3l-Are we lucky,
or do we just naturally work to good
advantage? We had dandy rain las;
night and it came at the time when we
needed it, in order to get our sweet
potatoes planted. So a considerable
number Of colonists are to-day setting
out new plants at the Ford place. Now,
please remember, we raised crop of
Irish potatoes on this Ford place, and
as we dig the spuds we will plant it
with sweet potatoes and get double
crop from the same ground. The fell
lows at the brick kiln will finish ther
roof over the kiln today or tomorrow
unless it rains-and it looks like rain.
Our crops are looking fine, and we are
equipped to handle our farm work bst-
ter than we ever have been before.
Say, do you want some Of our peanut
butterp 1t is pure and good; all the
natural oil is left in and it sells for 25c
per pound. Our garden is in excellent
shape and most of our living comes out
of it at the present time. We are
looking forward to the arrival of Mrs.
Lindsey and Robert; the Willhides,
and some other school "marms that
are expected soon: then we will lay
cut our school course for the summer.
Well, the rain is here,-arrived at =
30 pm. and the building crew is off
the roof into the saw mill; not an hour
is being lost. | suspect the bunch is
saving out a goat house 10 be built.
at the dairy in a day or two. When
fortune begins to smile upon you, 9TH
ers do too, and to-day | had an offer
lof another $4,000 acre fourteen
thousand acre) tract of land for an
other colony, with great opportunities
for success and beautiful place to
live, about 200 miles from here. Say!
can't you get enough people interested
lin this came to start another colony be-
fore this year is over? II will take
cash and good sense to turn the trick.
Do you know of any comrades with
money to put into a safe investment
first class timber land, at $500 an
acre?
: Nothing is so distasteful to a man
as to have the morality of his particu-