| Show Y Y OPERATIVE COOPERATIVE CO COMMUNITIES IN THE UNTO UNITED STATES I In the last Bulletin of ot the Depart Department Department ment of Labor the Hev nev Alexander Kent J jives Jiles an on account of at the communities of ot the United States The Shakers report seventeen Mattered through nine Lebanon and New IW York Hancock Harvard Shirley In Massachusetts In Connecticut Canterbury ant In New Hamp sire Alfred and New e Gloucester In Maine Union Village Whitewater water and In Ohio 11 and aad South Union In in Georgia and In At 1 one time the had mem IMm member bert ber but now no the number less than 1500 They T e hold about 1 OM acres aCrI of land most of ot It In a slate of ot cul cuI cultivation th Uon The Amana tr or Community ty of True owns 00 acres In Iowa and In e o Each has hu man Industries Indu as well ns os farm farmIng I Ing and the conducts Its own stores They Th h hILVI v aw mills tit mills tanneries lOa J and ond starch fac factories tories as RI well wn as lIS shoemaker tailor and shop ll Prom Irom 7 to II H each child chilli Is compelled col to attend school the rear jear round Krom rom II H to SO they thoy attend In the season on Childrens dis dispositions positions are studied theIr heir natural trend of or mind U II assisted They believe In the unity unIt of ut God oppose war ostentatious display a nd hold property In common The latter feature was adopted to tu bind the Ih members to 10 their the society has haa steadily In Increased creased In tn numbers and wealth Mr fr Kent next aks of the Zoar Zear so 10 society whose dissolution was WU recorded In the papers August 1 Passing on to the Harmon society we find that It has hu teen been reduced to a II member thin of or nine who ho pay out year yearly ly If for the support of ot their VII 11 lace which Mch Is II on the Ohio riv river er ot near and Is called Economy my residents are outsiders 1 who ho conduct the business of the com community but nine members form torm the governing bod The reduction of ih the original III OM I members to o nine is III due to the practice of celibacy lIb c The Woman I Commonwealth fn the tho District I of or it the only one ene of Its It kind In the world It was at founded years rs ago aNO by Martha In Tex The Th origins members ad vanel Ideas In religion and were W 11 then n n debarred from the Itt Inter they I demanded from their hus hua husbands Land bands with the result that heir I hUll hus husbands bands Landi frowned frown upon th t Noth Nothing ing daunted daunt they turned their alt n to money and nd ll leaned lea a hotel In Waco WI CD and It 1 M well In September for I they removed N to Washington wit h re tny tM IIII a line fine linert residence rt In Mount Pleasant PI They do their own work raise vegetables for dale aale and keep k I cows Jt One of ot them Is a alI shoemaker lI and another They Th lire lite Independently seam to hue have money mont enough for tor their needs and travel at nt their There are members cy Is II practiced Pub Ho Opinion |
