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time when that idea was very common in American life. It was moving everywhere, following the Owenites. It was philosophical, rather than religious. It was also an experiment in eugenics. Not all of the communist settlements had the eugenics features in their experiment.

Pierrepont Noyes was a true descendant of old Father John Noyes, who was the founder. Smith, Noyes and the Allens - Grosvenor Allen and his wife, Christine Allen - all became great friends. They were very progressive people. The Oneida silver works and the Oneida trap factory by this time had become very modern industries with the most consciously good labor policy that you ever ran into. That sprang directly from their origin in the Oneida Community. Although the Oneida Community had ceased to exist as a philosophical settlement, some things still remained. The old mansion house is still there and is used as a club. I had a letter from Grosvenor Allen only this week (December 1952). His wife Christine died this summer (1952) and he said, “I have given our house to Henry, our oldest boy. He has a big family and needs it, and we were going to leave it to him anyhow. I am moving over to the mansion house where I was born. They've given me a very nice suite of rooms. I shall live there and shall be taken care of at the mansion house.”

That's what happens up there. The Oneida Community