The Daily Bulletin

WHITES AND NEGROES LIVE TOGETHER ON GEORGIA FARM PROJECT

AMERICUS, GA., Nov. 14, (ANP)—Two white and two Negro farm families live peaceably together on the 440-acre Koinonia farms near here as a Christian experiment that taboos the South's race theories.

Determined to experiment with the ideal of Christianity, Dr. Clarence L. Jordan, a 33-year-old white Baptist clergyman, started the model farm near here three years ago. Dr. Jordan, who received his B.A. in Agriculture from the University of Georgia in 1933 and his Ph. D. in Louisville in 1939, said "the four families live together on the principle of love as one large family. None owns any private property but all pool their resources into a common fund and expenditures are made on the basis of need." He answered criticism that his farm project resembled communism by explaining that it is basically different from communism of the Russian type in that its underlying theme was love and not force.

"A lot of what the Russians are accomplishing by force should have been done by Christians long ago," he said. He pointed out that it "takes two or three centuries to know whether or not an experiment in religion is a success or failure. "Like Edison," he continued, "we may discover that this first attempt is merely one of the ways that won't work, but we are determined to experiment always toward the Christian ideal."

Explaining that the experiment is in its embryonic stage, independent and not affiliated with any religious organization, he revealed that no cotton is grown on the 440 acres.