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Show ' ' -COOPERATIVE PROJECT HAVEN OF HOPE FOR HOMELESS FARM FAMILIES in . i , rip i f y fe J ' A- . - , . t r "? ! 1i - i ii lf -i -i'- tMi A -HbVMI j', - - i I s: K v i-ih-f J. ; . ; z.: First fruiU of the pionerlnj cooperative venture are proudly ahown by William Mr-Kse, Mr-Kse, akove, who is weifhint- cotton which his wile, Lorene, has picked oa their section of , the cooperative farm ventare. More than SUM it ready for distribution to the member. . . ,, The first year of Delta Cooperative Farm at Hillhouse, Miss, Sherwood Eddy's effort to solve the sharecropper problem, finds 20 new homes in the community. Plain though they seem, they are a treat improvement over the farmers' former dwellings. dwell-ings. The community house,' lower picture, provides small class and ruest rooms and a large hall for meetings, school and church. A whole new world is opened up for father and son together., W. J. White, Delta cooperative co-operative farmer, and his son, 7, study- the same book, for both are learning to write. The father is in the farm's night school, the son in the Bolivar county public school. V- si After the year's work comes the reward. Here J. H. Moody, carpenter at the cooperative coopera-tive farm, receives his first cash dividend from Blaine Treadway, assistant jnanager, after the cotton crop is sold. Each member receives a , share, minus deductions for advances made. . A year age Mrs. J. H. Moody and her grand- -son, Dsvid McKee, were on government relief, re-lief, living in a makeshift cabin. Now they have a new home in the cooperative community, com-munity, and the guitar on the wall testifies that there is not only happiness and hope, but music, In their lives. |