Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-19
Fifty Years Acc
I'm The Star

From time 10 time "communitieS" havt
/ been started in this country by people
nj, with peculiar ideas Of
/ Inc Vneloa social relationship. IL
Community I Rss s oas 81 'ne 81
Oneida. N. Y. known by the name OF
| that place. 1t was founded upon tbs
principals Of common ownership OF prop
erty. mutual labor and free love. II
| lasted longer than did many of theSt
| social organizations In The Star Of AL
gust H. 1878. 80 years after the found
ing, is the following:
The Oneida Community is going III,
way of all socialistic societies. The
vigor and remarkable influence Of john
II. Moves, its founder, have made this
community the most successful expert
ment of practical communism ever at.
tempted In this country. 1t has lasted
about so years and has collected proper
ty 10 the value of more than million
dollars. But age has weakened the pow
erful will that has held the band sc
long together and there are signs of ap.
preaching disintegration. Numerou:
Withdrawals have recently taken place
and the younger members of the com'
nunity have become diSaffected with
the rules and customs, and Skeptical as
to the claims OF a divine revelation te
ing public sentiment is also beginning
TO be felt with greater force and many
members of the community have be-
come disguised with the immortality
which is part Of this system II tbs
Oneida Community fails 1t viii be .
severe blow To the advocates OF eom-
mun;Sm, who will be compelled To ado
another name to the long list OF un-
successful sociallstic experiments
Yellow fever was prevalent in LouisiA
ana at this time so years ago. the cpl
v.,,o deinic spreading rapidly anc
1ei4oW involving large numbers OF
Fever people. Great anxiety pre-
Wv" vailed In adjacent region,
and even in parts OF the country con-
siderably distant lest the disease should
reach out from the center and become
widespread The Star OF August L. 1878
says:
The early outbreak OF yellow fever
this year la the districts liable 60 tbs
disease gave threat OF severe ravagC>
oy this plague before the frost CAME,
which unfortunately Is being fllnlled
The fever Is sweeping from city 10 city
IN spite Of stringent quarantine FesUsa-
tons and precautionary sanitary meas
INV. ENA 09aAnltsS hut1oCi oA tstS~S
are fatal, considering the medical atten-
ton which the terror OF an epidemic
causes them 90 receive. Two months
or more must pass before the most
VIII bring relief ana there is no pre-
dieting how far the plague may spread
or what loss Of life It may cause within
that period"
This was about 20 years before the
demonstration that yellow fever was cor
yeyed by mosquitoes and that the sure
way 60 check It's spread was to pre-
vent the breeding Of the particular spe-
eseS serving as the host" Of the Spe-
etfie bacillus
II was stili In 1878 believed that bad
air and direct contact were the causes o.
tha spread of the disease. GuaranttneS
we're cruelty severe, kumsgation was ene
Of this chief methods OK aghting the
epidemic, In the eenrSs OF THE stars
news stories ON the subject at THIS
period It Is noted that the Post once
Department asked one OF the ehlet
medical of{icerS Of the Governments to
suggest means Of fumigatIng the malls,