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A long-term private venture is the 2,100-acre farm at Hillhouse, Miss., bought at $5 an acre by Reformer Sherwood Eddy, established as a colony last spring. On it, already farming 400 acres of cotton, are 24 "cropper"' families. Free to organize if they choose, they will receive "model contracts" for "furnish" at 5% interest per annum, will draw up their own self-government regulations, child labor laws. First half of the net return on the crop will go toward retiring the capital investment. The other half will be apportioned to the workers on the quality and quantity of their labor. Ardently Founder Eddy sums up his venture: ". . . The whole movement is a nonviolent, Christian, co-operative endeavor to provide a more abundant life. . . . And, God helping, we shall do it."