Show A communistic COLLEGE an odd educational EaCer prise in northern the are small city of own labor emary part of the ex they are making a communistic educational cat ional experiment near the little town of st annehill An neIlL some 00 miles south of chicago that has already attracted a good deal of quention aUen tion and is sure to be talked of the world over if anything like success is accomplished this ex pediment peri ment is known as the peopled People 6 university ver sity st anne is jar removed from the railroad in a region that is strictly rural and the university owns an entire section of land acres upon this tract stands not only the university buildings but also the homes for the time being of all the students and teachers the land is cultivated cooperatively by all the proceeds are sold far the benefit of all the property of the community in a common storehouse the community started with a capital of invested in tools machinery and live stock the school has asked for no gifts does not expect to secure any endowments and will appeal neither to the charity nor the beneficence of the public in any way abo students and teachers who are on the ground are working with their own fiands at the construction of the buildings and arc carrying on the agricultural work of the school all of which is done without compensation kneir labor is employed directly in producing the food clothing fuel and shelter necessary for their own comfortable for table existence when this labor has provided these necessities the balance of their time is devoted to study the educational workers are build ingup their own city including houses school and farm the dwellings are cottages feet on the ground and a story and a half high with first class cedar roofs they have built five miles of fences planted fruit trees and grape binef have fact out an immense garden v about 1 ucros have fields contain j sweet potato plants 21 acres ol 01 irish potatoes 80 acres of oats acres of corn 40 acres of sorghum 20 acres of millet and 30 acres of buckwheat all of which are in very fine condition it is the unanimous verdict of the largo number of visitors that no finer crop nor better farming is to be found anywhere than there the contag cs ire built in a sort of semicircle semi circle following n plight rise of ground which is everywhere overgrown with bluegrass it would be difficult to find or to produce even with a considerable expenditure of money a more beautiful location for the horns than this little grove has furnished ready made the form in which the buildings are constructed is that of a small village but ihor is no subdivision of land and no sale cf lots the school will hold in its 0 i and for its own use all land bucs cu cs shops end implements of every there is no way in which any person can secure a speculative or even business interest in any of the work of this school is no plan for admitting for residence in th s vicc anyone vho aho does not come solely for an educational purpose the school simply provides an op pr study for those who acs willing by their own toil to take advantage of such opportunity and the only return offered for labor is mental training the man who does not want to study has no reason for going there nil will not be admitted or if admitted by mistake will not be permitted to return all gsg are not willing to labor with their own hands at tag s necessary to comfortable existence aie excluded in fact this unique community combines the elements of socialism and communism and it is to be hoped without any of their evils the aim of the students of the peoples university ia to rink individualism and hoccom the greatest good for all here is the order of the days work the rising bell rings at 4 breakfast is at 6 chapel at and all hands attend this morning service in their working clothes they go direct from this service to their work in the field at a quarter to 12 the bell rings a call to dinner dinner is at ten past 12 and the classes bedini at at the work is over supper is at C from to 8 tha time is spent spen t IP rest and play and from 8 to 9 in study after which the day is done and all retire sunday forenoon is ones own for and rest and at 3 in the afternoon a of public worship is held the use of tobacco intoxicants anc opiates is not permitted within the uni precincts the work of building this community was undertaken by walter thomas lills who as field secretary for ahr org is entirely responsible for ita management the appointment of teachers securing of students di of discipline in fact the complete management of the school in its industrial classroom work is lor ohp present in his hands it is an old idea of his mr mills is known as n lecturer on temperance and other social and economical topics the wonderful growth of the corps of ihei little colony and the very satisfactory returns which the immediate future promises are held io justify the expectation pec tation that in a very short time the fruits of its own toil will entirely provide for its purport pun port N Y herald |