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Show NEW SCHEME FOR CO-OPERATIVE COLONIES fJn ' r 1 fel l.,., After seventy years of more or Ies profound slumber the co-operative colony idea has reawakened in this country. Groups of men and women, believers in the mission of co-operation to help solve the economic and social problems of our time, have been established in the suburbs oi New York, Boston, Reading, Penn., and Los Angeles, and other groups are being established elsewhere. One of the colonies, at Westwood, Mass., is six years old and thriving mightily. The others have been in exlstenca for two years or less, and might ba considered still in the experimental stage. The New York enterprise was launched quite recently, and is obtaining ob-taining a site' in New Jersey within commuting distance of the m?trop oils. All these groups are organized on the same general principles and by a band of enthusiasts who call themselves the Fellowship Farms Founders' Association. The vres" dent of the association is George Elmer Littlefield, a small, ruddy faced, snowy haired man, with a poetic temperament, much energy and a talking style that is extremely magnetic. Ke is the founder of the Westwood colony, col-ony, is a Harvard graduate, a practical printer and farmer, and was a minister min-ister of the gospel for fpurteen years. |