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...Townsend Plan is not to be confused with other California products. Except for the support of individual Utopians it has no connection with the Utopian Society, a mystic mixture of Technocracy, Communism and Ku Klux Klannishness which sprouted in Los Angeles and is now burgeoning throughout the West. It does not even have the sympathy of Upton Sinclair, whose EPIC plan would pension all oldsters at a mere $50 per month. Candidate Sinclair has said of it: "It would only take money away from able-bodied young people and give it to a group of old persons. It would impose...
Several times during the past month I have been approached by persons who claim to be members of the Utopian Society of America, wanting me to join their organization, which, they claim, will dictate the policy of the U. S. Government within 60 days. Their claim...
Organized in Los Angeles last January. The Utopian Society purports "to give people economic education." Its aims include: 1) Tax reform, with heavier burden on the rich. 2) All persons to be educated until they are 25, work from 25 to 45, then retire. 3) Workers to be paid in nontransferable "units of buying power." Membership is highly secret, members being designated by number. Headquarters claims 200,000 members in 15 major cities and 400 towns. Initiation fee is $3; dues of 10? a month are expected if the member can pay. Neophytes pass through a series of mysterious "cycles...
Twenty-five years ago Herbert George Wells was a youngster of 42. His name stood for exuberant modernity, trailblazing science and a freely roving intelligence always starting up some new species of Utopian hare. But most of all it stood for exciting tales-plausible narrations of improbable happenings. Last week readers who had encountered Author Wells only as a compiler of outlines-of-knowledge or a pamphleteering old World Conspirator, had a good chance to make his acquaintance as a young man. And every faithful and once-faithful Wellsian was glad that these early tales (The Time Machine, The Island...
...just this respect that the weakness of the Western powers is most evident where China is concerned. That Japan will submit tamely to the closing or restriction of her markets in the British Empire is a Utopian dream. Retaliation will occur which may well take the form of an intensified effort to cultivate Chine still more assiduously than in the past as Japan's special province for her overflow of goods. The existence of Japan, like England, depends absolutely on the maintenance of here expert market; but whereas England has the Empire in which to trade advantageously, Japan's markets...