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...Pacific Coast where last winter he founded the Utopian Society. His Utopia was virtually what Edward Bellamy had described.† but he went about gaining proselytes in a different way. A Blue Lodge Mason, he made his Utopian Society, Inc. a secret order, which, enlisting ''pilgrims." puts them through four cycles and turns them out ''hermits." Initiation fees were $3 a head, dues 10? a month. As the "pilgrim" progressed through the four cycles, he was given short lectures and allegorical pantomimes on economics. Each ''hermit" had to sign a form letter to President...
...Pilgrim Church Cleveland, Ohio...
Last Sunday Preacher Shorter no longer was pastor of Pilgrim Church. The congregation which called him there eight years ago, chiefly at the behest of President Alfred Helmer Lundin of Seattle's Chamber of Commerce, had voted him out. Chief reason was that "Fred" Shorter, 39, Australian-born graduate of Missouri State University and Yale Divinity School, had. like many another thoughtful U. S. minister, turned Socialist. He believed that "Christianity and Capitalism as they now exist are not compatible"; that Christianity itself is "historic Communism." a peaceful force to transform the social order. Pastor Shorter promoted a "Consumers...
Last week conservatives found an issue on which to battle their pastor to a finish. In Pilgrim Church's study room, given four years ago by Founder-Board Chairman Elbridge Amos Stuart of Carnation Co. (milk products), there had appeared seven murals done by a young people's art class under the supervision of Ross Gill. Subjects of the murals...
Stoutly defended by Socialist Shorter, these murals brought 298 members of Pilgrim Church together one night last week. The pastor's supporters noted many a one who had not entered the church in years. When a vote was taken it was 177 to oust, 121 to retain...