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...California. All three had taken up residence in Greenwich Village with a small table, some wicker chairs, a few cots. Thus did Utopia move East. Three years ago Mr. Reed left his brokerage business in Denver and went to the 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...
Naturally in the recent California campaign many Utopian "hermits" rallied readily to Upton Sinclair, no mean borrower from Edward Bellamy himself. Sinclair's defeat was not the only grief they suffered. Quarrels broke out within the order. Founder Reed and some of his lieutenants fell out. Month ago, Founder Reed appeared in the East, took out incorporation papers in New York for the Utopian Society of America (East...
...Utopian Reed began his Eastern adventure by announcing an advisory committee, consisting of Esther Strachey (divorced wife of British Journalist John Strachey), Alfred Bingham, editor of Common Sense, Felix J. Frazer and Harold Loeb. Messrs, Loeb and Frazer were handy associates of Mr. Reed. Last spring they were employed under the auspices of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration to make a National Survey of Potential Product Capacity in the U.S. When FERA gave up supporting the survey, New York City's Public Welfare Department saw it through. Three months ago one researcher, Robert R. Doane, caused a sensation...
This was so much raw meat for Utopian Reed. Instead of the $20,000 a year income promised two years ago by Technocrats, and the $10,000 a year income promised by Utopians in California, he took Mr. Loeb's figure. $4,370. "These." he said, "are virtually Government figures. Their accuracy is unquestionable...
...Utopian Reed insists he did not know about Utopian Bellamy until much later...