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...fugitive's career had been fantastic. Last month, one of the innumerable accounts of the famed Montague v. Crosby golf match finally caught the eye of someone who knew La Verne Moore and was interested in finding him. This was Police Inspector John Cosart of Troop D, Oneida, N. Y., who clipped the article, sent it to Inspector Joseph Lynch at Malone, N. Y. who sent Moore's fingerprints to Los Angeles...
...Like Oneida, this Midwestern community has changed, for recently a capitalistic form of management was inaugurated, and wise are its directors, among them a learned M. D. whose studies took him to the best European clinics, and whose library would do justice to a more widely famed specialist...
Strangest of U. S. social experiments, these communist groups are now vaguely remembered as something between a co-operative and a free-love colony. Most suc cessful, most notorious of all communist experiments was the Oneida Community, scene of the "world's one great experiment in human eugenics." The subject of many a historical sidelight, Oneida Community last week filled the background of an auto biography written by one of its "eugenic" descendants, whose father, John Humphrey Noyes, founded and led the Community for more than 30 years in the light of "scientific propagation and true Christian Communism...
Graduating from Yale Theological Seminary in 1833, redheaded, fanatic John Noyes barnstormed New England preaching "Perfectionism," collected a colony of 38 men and 53 women to start off the Oneida venture, which began in a log house in 1847. Four years later membership had jumped to 205 (peak membership: 300), and the world was cocking an eye at these scandalous "free lovers" who called their goings-on "stirpiculture." Within the Community, eugenically weak males struck at the favoritism shown their betters, got a skim-milk ruling that they could father one child. The favored, select, few "stirps" took the cream...
...Author Noyes's birth Oneida Community, then 22 years old, was a going concern, its ways natural and agreeable to its colonists.' At walking age he was turned over to the communal nursery-the Drawing Room-was matched for signs of improvement over Outside breeds. His childhood he remembers as a happy time, clouded only with infrequent "criticisms." Meals were tasty and generous, the Bible was made a friendly, interesting book; the spacious brick Mansion House, the workshops and farm were rich exploring grounds, the grown-ups gave Gilbert & Sullivan operas, the children felt important doing part-time...