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Costs. A few dimes for each resident measured the difference between noteworthy communal health and run-of-the-nation conditions. The 38 healthiest cities averaged $1.44 expenditure per capita. Other cities averaged 89? per capita...
...Doukhobors are thrifty, peace-loving. They eat no flesh, drink no wine, use no tobacco. In their communal life, marriages (compulsory for all) are effected simply by taking partners. The Doukhobors are averse to paying taxes and putting their children in provincial schools. Their resentment against schools they sometimes expressed by burning them. Nakedness is a part of the Doukhobors' religious practice, especially in a fanatical inner sect called the "Sons of Freedom." Often, on their own lands, they go about naked even in midwinter, although this is less popular with the younger generation than with strapping Doukhobor matrons...
...State lines would vanish and the President and Congress would be replaced by a national Socialist planning board. The Supreme Court ("nine old men consecrated to the mistakes of their forbears") would be scrapped. The State would enforce birth control. Working mothers would leave their young in a communal nursery in each apartment house...
...Paramount Publix Corp., Parole Director Winthrop D. Lane of the State of New Jersey. John M. Kaplan, proprietor of Hearn's department store in Manhattan, many a New York college professor. Hessian Hills' aim is a socialized group in which the pupils feel a sense of communal enterprise and responsibility. Much of its success has resulted from the intelligence and enthusiasm of the parents. Any feeling of competition is avoided; the child is to compete not against his fellows but against his own previous efforts. Flexible, searching, the Hessian Hills theory (though disclaimed as a theory) was well...
...British officials at the Viceregal Capital, New Delhi, rushed around to Moslem leaders there. Within three days cablegrams from Delhi announced that a committee of the All-India Moslem Conference (which was not in session) repudiated the Allahabad Unity Conference (which had adjourned) and pledged support to the British communal settlement...