his trade. The co-operative community
will have its own carpenters, smiths, mechanics, employed in its
workshop at repairs or in making those things which can profitably be
made locally. There may be a laundry where the washing--a heavy burden
for the women--will be done: for we may be sure that every scrap of
power generated will be utilized. One happy invention after another will
come to lighten the labor of life. There will be, of course, a village
hall with a library and gymnasium, where the boys and girls will be made
straight, athletic, and graceful. In the evenings, when the work of
the day is done, if we went into the village hall we would find a dance
going on or perhaps a concert. There might be a village choir or band.
There would be a committee-room where the council of the community
would meet once a week; for their enterprises would have grown, and the
business of such a parish community might easily be over one hundred
thousand pounds, and would require constant thought. There would be
no slackness on the part of the council in attending, because their
fortunes would depend on their communal enterprises, and they would
have to consider reports from the managers and officials of the various
departments. The co-operative community would be a busy place. In years
when the society was exceptionally prosperous, and earned larger profits
than usual on its trade, we should expect to find discussions in which
all the members would join as to the use to be made of these profits:
whether they should be altogether divided or what portion of them should
be devoted to some public purpose. We may be certain that there would
be animated discussions, because a real solidarity of feeling would have
arisen and a pride in the work of the community engendered, and they
would like to be able to outdo the good work done by the neighboring
communities.

One might like to endow the village school with a chemical laboratory,
another might want to decorate the village hall with reproductions
of famous pictures, another might suggest removing all the hedges and
planting the roadsides and lanes with gooseberry bushes, currant bushes,
and fruit trees, as they do in some German communes today. There would
be eloquent pleadings for this or that, for an intellectual heat would
be engendered in this human hive, and there would be no more illiterates
or ignoramuses. The teaching in the village school would be altered to
suit the new soci