The Washington times., 1923-05-03

9nplnfe d ne0 system of human
relationships. Bat before pre-
septiu0 the new creed for mems
conduct on earth, RABBI BrotVne
WiH first present portrait o. the
colony's personnel.
By RABBI LEWIS BROWNE.
downright, 1898. by Cosmopolitan News
Service.)
NORTH CARVER, Mass, May d.
What few people today know Is
that the stony thirty acre farm no
longer belongs to Barley as
Char les Garland is called by his
friends. He decided it last October
to three friends who now hold II
as trustees of the community.
Barley now is merely one of the
occupants of the place, merely one
of the members of the group that
is trying. to work out in the wastes
of Cape Cod a new system OF
human relationships.
Anybody can come along ana
temporarily dispossess it, or destroy
its work, or rob its pantry. There
would be no resistance offered, save
OF a passive nature, for all in the
community are absolute pacifists.
They will not harm even the mice
that run about the shack.
GiOl.ies in Her Work.
There were seven in the com
munity" when I was there. all OF
them rare souls deserving chapters
of description and Interpretation.
For instance, there was Alice
Edgerton, the girl who first. greeted
me when arrived. She is OF old
Quaker stock, and she still thee
all whom she addresses. She is
bespectacled and serious looking,
and people would call her plain
were it not for the smile that Is
forever lighting up her face. She
seems to glory in work. To hear
hel. singing while she kneads the
coarse dough for bread, to see her
tossing aside her waving bobbed
hair as she works busily in the
strawberry patch or breaks rocks in
the held. is to know unmista kably
that there is real joy for some peo-
pIe in such work. Greater love 1T
would be difficult to imagine than
the love in the heart of Alice
Edgerton She is kindliness and.
thoughtfulness and love persona
fled, creature finding her only.
pleasure i'm serving her fellow men.
Like Early Disciple.
Then there is William Simpson,
whose kinship in life and character
to an early Christian disciple is
30 close that even the dullest must
see il. He looks like laughing,
carefree boy. fair haired and with
a smile that reveals such teeth as
are rarely seen outside of tooth
paste advertisements Three years
ago he was Presbyterian minister
but now he has outgrown the
Presbyterian church and even the
Christian religion. He believes now
that though there be many re-
Egious, there is but one religion,
that taught i'm different accents
though with the same spirit by
the prophets. and Buddha. and
Confuscius and Jesus So now Bill
Simpson is a carpenter and for two
years he has gone up and down
the country toiling with his hands
wherever his toll is wanted, preach
ing on street corners, comforting
the poor and distressed and re-
fusing absolutely TO take any pay
for anything he does. He trusted
his fellowmen to give him what
little food he needed and bed or
Q floor to sleep on--and his trust
was rarely shaken.
Living Life Of Saint
He is now building the windmill
for the community" working half
the day and studying in his cabin
the rest of the time. denying him
self every conceivable luxury and
living the life of a true saint.
young man Of thirty, handsome,
strong. of good stock, intelligent,
profoundly learned. and we'll able
20 put his high ideals into words,
am impressed that William Simp-
son is perhaps the noblest man of
God ! have ever known
Then there is young Bettina. an
Untamed girl Of twenty-five, thor
ough child Of nature. who remem-
bers days in a fashionable boarding
school and hectic nights at Yale
proms. but who now seems super
latively happy famping about bare
foot or in torn sandals. 1t is
strange that she who has had none
Of the religious training of the rest,
vet seems 10 have attained ex-
actiy the same attitude toward life
Finds Her Joy i'm Work.
As she put ii TO me: The only
10Y on earth is 10 be found in work
that is free and creative"
Then there is Frank Hennessy
q conscientious director who went
TO prison rather than serve in
the army, "A young man strikjngly
alert and keen of mind. who puts
in nine or ten hours day in the
field and seems to want no more
Of life. And there is old Charles
Christian, the gray-bearded ex-
musician who came unheralded TO
the community one morning ask
ing TO be taken in as fellow
worker. and who with his honest
toll and flute playing has become
one of the most beloved in the
group. And there are two children
and work in the community
seeming TO find there a joy and
love altogether lacking in their
own home
new community house is soor
70 be built by the group, the Ole
shack threa tening daily to fall &c
the ground. And a windmill is
going up within week or two
The aim of the colony is TO he as
self~sustaining as possible. even the