Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1918 — Where Time Is Money. [ARTICLE]

Where Time Is Money.

In South America, near Buenos Aires, is a colony where the members make or grow everything they want and import nothing. It is called the Calonia Cosme. The workmen have seven hours’ work a day and earn not money bnt time. Their wages are hours and half-hours. These are sometimes saved up tIU-they have a week in hand. Then they go off on an excursion or spend their savings in some other pleasureproducing manner. If a man wants a chair or table he pays for It in hours of work which are deducted from the balance to his credit