New-York tribune., 1921-06-12
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communistic about the Ferrer colony with the
exception of the school,
Ihls colony was started, one might saw, bv
accident" he said. ~ visited the Fellowship
colony after it was started and some
one there suggested to me that l start an
anarchist colony here. did not consider the
matter seriously until later. Then figured
out that it might be done, and that it might
be made the location of the Ferrer School. The
first tract of land was sixty-nine acres. We
bought the land at $75 an acre and sold it at
$l5O an acre. Two-thirds of the profits went to
the school. The other third went for general
improvements Since then we have bought
other land adjoining" w
Mr.. Kelly was asked concerning the school
exercises then about to be held, if flag raising
was included in the ceremonies or if flag rails
ings were ever held
NO." said Mr.. Kelly, "if we taught the chill
dren patriotism and that this country is better
than any other country we would be blanked
hypocrltes. There are millions of people in
other countries being taught just the same
thing"
do you encourage the Boy Scout movement
or anything Of that sort?"
Only so far as it's founders intended-the
study Of nature. But the Boy Scouts have be-
come recruiting field for the army and we
oonC intend to encourage any such thing"
Some OF the Ferrer colonists, like those in
the Fellowship colony, live in shacks while
others have built themselves houses of more or
less pretensions Some have gone in a little
for cultivation or general improvement of their
holdings, others have lavished every care and
much expense on their places, with the inev-
liable results Of cleanliness and attractiveness
Mr.. Kelly says there are several nationalities
and several varieties Of religious beliefs among
the colonists. Most of the heads of the fami
lies commute to New York.
Across the street, in the Fellowship COLONY.
the communlstlc experiments that have been
Launched have been admitted failures
we tried chicken raising and got more
than 1000 White Leghorns," said Manric
Struys, one of the colonists. "Also we tried
cooperative dairying and that failed, and we
Srled to run the store on a cooperative basis,
ouc did not seem to make it go. But in spite
OF such failures We have 162 acres, all paid
or. Coonists get one acre Of land by buyinp
shares Of stock"
Mr. Struys pointed proudly to his own
house, at the far edge Of the colony. It Is a
two-story, attractive home.
Il built 1t myself out Of cement blocks" he
said. made every block with my own hands"
The land outside the acre tracts is held In
common for the corporation, which is run by
a board of five directors.
In the early literature put out by the Fran
cisco Ferrer Association in 1914 the complaint
was made that radicals were too busy making
the revolution to pay any attention to the way
their children were brought up. They left the
youngsters to the care of boards of education
elected by corrupt political machines and wait
ed for them TO grow up in ignorance and super
stitlon before beginning to enlighten them. The
result could not be any other than the one we
have-a very deplorable one The children of
our radicals are so far from radicaiism and
ldeallsm as, and perhaps further than, the chill
dren OF ordinary conservative parents
1t was in order to get away from this sinfs-
ter influence of Ordinary, conservative par
ents"-the kind who approve flag raisings and
the teaching of the supremacy of American
Ideals of government and who even allow their
children to join the Boy Scouts-that the Fer
rerites established their school of "lberalisnon
IN the quiet sector Of New Jersey adioiniry
New Brunswick.