A MORMON UTOPIA

Evening Star, Issue 20054, 20 December 1928, Page 5

A MORMON UTOPIA

110 SURPLUS PROFITS A new type of Utopia, in which «wry worker will bo taxed all of his earnings above the amount necessary to provide a living for his family, is to bo established on a tract of 11,000 acres recently purchased in the Ozark Mountains by,the_Reorganised Church of Latter Hay Saints, according to a special Consolidated Press Association despatch from Springfield, Missouri (states the ‘Literary Digest'). Tba colony, although operated along communistic lines (writes the correspondent, J. it. Wright), will depend upon the religious standards of the members rather than on economic laws for success. Announcement of the project, we are told, came from Ur Frederick M. Smith, president of the Latter Day Saints’ Church. Dr Smith, we read, i* a direct descendant of Joseph M. Smith, one of the founders of the Mormon Church, and the Saints’ organisation is an offshoot from the Mormons. The Smith branch has headquarters iu Independence, Missouri, where a million-dollar temple is being completed on a site chosen almost 100 years ago by the Mormon leader, when he and his followers stopped there during J their migrations from Illinois to Utah. As to the hew settlement, wo read further: “In the Ozark &ion every member will be protected with life insurance and financed by the colony. Members of tha colony will own their own _ houses, but schools, churches, public utilities, and public enterprises will be owned by boards trustees."