Show COSTIiE SOCIALISM A Schism Has Left the Colony With Only 39 Members The little colony or Cosme in faraway far-away Paraguay Is stIll maintaining its principles of communism In the face 1 of many difficulties and much skepticism skepti-cism as to its ultimate success says the Pittsburg Dispatch The population does not increase very rapIdly and many of the men have perforce to remain re-main unmarried for want of some one to wed There has also recently been a serious schism in the little band of 1 pioneers two of the community beini expelled by the administrative committee commit-tee for vIolating the principles of the colony Six others decided to follow the two into exile and Cosme is now left with only 39 men These however are quite sufficient to make the colony now that the ground has been brought into a state of good cultivation selfsuvport lag and the introduction of machinery has enabled the colonists to becom their own tailors and machinIsts Cos me ought to have a future before it lt at least affords a refuge to those who are weary of the old cvilization and want to lead a more natural lIfe says the Westminster Gazette But if they go there they must be prepared to work like farm laborers and the reason that Cosme has not grown more rapidly is that many who go there think themselves them-selves above using a spade or a hoe and haste to get back to the more conventional con-ventional life |