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TEN GiiH ID RE? Quaint Amana Colony in lo Mustaches to Men and P Sunday by Barring T I days-Societ i Minneapolis, Minn.-Down in county, Iowa, an old man who born in Germany seventy-one i ago told why 1,600 persons, men, 1 en and children., live a community on 26,000 acres of Iowa's most fi land and are happy. The old man, who munched an t as he talked, is the head of the Ar society. The society is worth at $8,000,000 in lands and improvem Not one member has a cent of pr< ty in his own name. Everything ea in the Amana colony, which cont seven prosperous little towns an more than sixty years old, goes tc common treasury. The old man, George Heinem was asked if it were true that Amana schoolboys who had ph baseball on Sunday in the little < cnunity had been punished by b banned from church for eight we I had heard this about Amana an had resulted in my trip to the col "Yes, it is true," said the old r "They were punished, but that is exaggeration"-he pronounced "e geration" with the "g" hard-"t were only made to stay away f our church for two Sundays, not ei That would be too much." P "Up where I live most boys woul look at that as a punishment." The old man smiled. It was a i tie, tolerant smile, the smile \ which everybody in Amana greets ltors. "Il is different here," he s "Church to us is everything. It 1 so with our fathers. It is so with sons and daughters and it is so v our grandsons and our granddad ters. To bar the children from chus that is the worst punishment." Things That Are "Worldly." Then the old man told something the Amana society, of the commur life in the seven villages, a comm ism not founded on socialistic or ec omic belief, but a communism fount on religion and subordinate to re lon. He told me why the school gi in Amana are not permitted to wi hair ribbons, why the men of Ama wear no mustaches, why the won: wear sunbonnets and not hats, n the tango has never been danced Amana, just as the tango's preced sors, the waltz and the two-step, w< not danced ; why there is no card pl; lng, why baseball and football and competitive sports are banned. It was, he-said, because these thin are "worldly." When I rose to go I asked the ( man for his picture. "You are t head of an unusual organization," said, "probably the most success! community project in America. M I have your picture?" "No," he said, still smiling. "Nc you ask me to do something which worldly. It is not wrong to you, b to me it is. It is not the spirit Amana. We have no newspape here." I thanked him with the feeling th he was a kind of benevolent patriare He smiled and said nothing, but as opened the wooden gate which led the road the old man on the pon still smiling, shouted out a cheei "Willkommen." It sounded like "Yt are welcome," "Come again" ar "Good luck," all combined, and sounded as if the old man on the pore really meant it. The seven villages of the Amana si ciety, grouped within a radius of eigl miles between the bluffs in the rive valley, look like pictures from the Ol World. They are in the valley of th Iowa river, on 20,000 acras of the mos fertile land in the middle West Aman is the largest village. It has abou 450 residents and at Amana are lc cated the wool mills and calico prin factory of the society. Aman* v>co len goods and Amana calico are know: to merchants as far east as New Yorl .and as far west as San Francis?e East village has its church, school store, bakery, dairy, post office an< sawmill. The buildings in all the Amana com munities are on the same plan, quain1 two-story gabled buildings of old Ger man architecture. Some of the build ings, as the stores and hotels, all con ducted by the society, are of red brick and covered with vines. Others are small frame buildings, covered with .vines, but unpainted-paint in Amana is a sign of vanity and prohibited. It is in these small houses that the fami lies live. The houses and other build ings, as everything in the colony, are owned by the society and families are assigned to their homes by the "eld ers," the governing body in each town. In front of the buildings and at the side of the buildings and back of the buildings are flower beds, fruit trees and grapevines. Community Kitchen. In each village are community kitchens and community dining rooms. Here the food, and there is lots of it, is prepared and served under the di rection of the best cooks in the vil lages. The boys and men sit at one table in the dining room. The women and girls sit at another. It is less worldly this way, say the old Amana residents. It was in 1854 that the first Amana S iE THE Cl ?OF GOMM ars Hair Ribbons to Womer es Boys Who Play Baseball c From Church for Two Sun Worth $8,000,000. village was founded by membc the Church of the True Inspirati "Separatists," as they had been i in Germany since the beginning i eighteenth century. The men founded the first village nami Amana, a name taken from the and meaning "remain true." ' men had come to America in the f< [ with their families seeking rel! freedom. They had settled in York, but the community had g faster than land could be acquire) they moved West. The first pun of land in Iowa was 3,300 acres, i ually more land was acquired am other six villages established Amana, South Amana, High Ac East Amana, Middle Amana Homestead. ! In 1863 there were about 1,60()S bers of the Amana society. The ber is about the same today. It was in 1S59 that the society incorporated under the laws of state of Iowa. The men who had < from Germany to the new country determined on community life as best method of holding true to ideals of their religion. The soi was incorporated as a religious benevolent society under the E Amana society. The constitution of the society clares that the foundation of the organization shall "remain for God." "The purpose of our orgai tion," reads the constitution, "is tl fore no worldly or selfish one." I Article II of the constitution sta ; "It is our unanimous will and? res tion that the land purchased here that may hereafter be purchased 8 be and remain a common estate property, with all improvements th upon and all appurtenances thei as also with all the labor, cares, t ble and burdens, of which each m ber shall bear his allotted share T a willing hea^t" And here is the provision in the < stitution which shows how the Am society makes the money to care its people: "Agriculture, manufacti and tradeB shall form the means sustenance, and out of the income these the expenses of the society si be defrayed. If any surplus rems it shall be applied to improvemei to the erection of school and meet houses, care of the old and sick, j foundation of a business and sai fund and to benevolent purposes general." The Aged Cared For. The control and management of society is vested in thirteen trust elected annually from among the ( ers. Death is about the only th that changes the make-up of the bi of trustees. There are no bickerii in Amana and a public examiner 1 never been called in to audit the clety's books. The people of Ama place explicit trust in the trustees a the officers. Every member of the Amana soci< at the time of joining is in duty bou to give his or her personal propel and real property to the trustees 1 the common fund. The member entitled to credit for this property the society books and ls given a : cept signed by the president and si cretary. This property is secured the pledge of the common property the society. If a member either volu tarily leaves the society or is expel! this property is given back, but wit out interest. And when he joins the society, a cording to the constitution, "ea< member is entitled to free board ai dwelling, to support and care in o age, sickness and infirmity, and to ? annual sum of maintenance, tl amount of which is to be fixed by tl trustees. The members release a claims for wages, interest and ar share in the income and of the s ciety separate from the comme stock." "That shows you that communis! here is not practised for temporal c pecuniary purpose," said Presider Heinemann after he had shown th constitution of the society. "It is nc an experiment to solve great socis problems. We care nothing for pol tics, for economics. We have adopte the communistic plan because w think by its means we are better abl to lead true and Christian lives." "Do you vote?" I asked. "Xo," said the head of the society "Sometimes we vote in township elec tions. But not for national issues." "Then you are citizens?" I said. "Yes," he replied. "And we try tc be good citizens. We have no beei because Iowa has gone on recorc against beer. We have even stopped dispensing the wine we make here.' "How are your sympathies in thc war?" I asked. "War is against our religious faith." he said. "We do not believe in war. War is unnecessary. It ls caused by money. Love for gain ls responsible. Here in Amana there is no war, for we have no love for gain." ! It is this spirit. "No love for gain," I that is noticeable throughout the j Amana communities. I Educate Their Doctors. Take, for instance, the physicians, j There i.re three of them, all members of tue society. They were sent by the society to the colleges at which the7 were graduated. All their college ex pense was borne, by the society. One even was sent*' to Europe to study. And when they completed their edu cation they came back to Amana and became community physicians, members of the society their servi^ are free, but outsiders are charged a fee. This fee, however, does not-go to the physician. It goes to the so ciety. The physicians are the envy of Amana, although none of the Amana residents will admit that there is such a thing as envy. When the physicians pass on the road the Amana house wives turn their sunbonneted heads and the Amana boys and girls look with open admiration for the Amana physicians have automobiles. They are the only people in the society who have them. The machines were purchased by the society and they are the only machines in the Amana villages. Work in the Amana villages is par celed out by the elders. If a man likes machinery he may go to the mills as a machinist. If he is fat and cheerful he may be assigned to run one of the Amana hotels. The elders see that the tasks are done and there is little complaint of laziness; There is a rumor that on one occasion years ago a man who refused to work and on whom suspension from church had no effect was expelled from the so ciety. In the Amana villages there are prayer meetings every night In the year. There are no ministers. The elders conduct the services in church, at funerals and at weddings. Marriage is neither encouraged nor discouraged. Mr. Heinemann, the president, is a bachelor. The Ten Commandments are the re ligious and civil laws of Amana. Oaths ar9 forbidden, averments and confirma tions are made by affirmation. No at tempt is made to follow styles ^in dress. Hair ribbons, mustaches, neck ties and other adornments are banned. Games and "all frivolous and worldly amusements are '?ot countenanced. Cards are unknowu. To the outside1 it would seem that life for the Am'.na children must be something of x burden, for school is conducted six days a week, fifty-two weeks in the year, all sports are banned, dancing is unknown and each child must learn sixty-two "rules of conduct for children." The teachers ^are men, members of the society. ' Despite the simple life in Amana the children, most of them, stay in the society. President Heinemann and other officials estimate that 60 per cent of the children stay in Amana. Can Leave If They Wish. "Sometimes they go away," said Mr. Heinemann. "They seek excitement. But many of them come back. We let them go if they wish. There is no compulsion here." Ifrfr Women in Amana villages work in the mills, in the stores, in the fields and dairies. The stores are general merchandise stores, one in each vil lage. They are kept like the Amana houses, absolutely clean, and many people from outside the colony trade in the Amana stores. Four members of the society, includ ing Metz, came to America in 1S42. They were given full power to act for all the member and purchased land where they thought it best. The travelers decided on 5,000 acres of land on the old Seneca Indian reser vation in New York. They sent word back to germany and in three years, from 1843 to 1S46, some SOO persons came across the sea and settled on the society's land. The society was then known as the "Ebenezer" society. Here the community idea was begun, ! says Louis L. 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