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Periodical: The Federator

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Federator.
Devoted to the cause of the Promotion of the Federation of Nations.
1918 Monthly
Los Angeles, CA. Language: English.
Publisher: Society for the Promotion of the Federation of Nations. Editor: Nellie Wheelwright. Succeeded by: The Sun Worshiper / Mazdaznan (January 1919)
1/1, February 22, 1918. 50 cents a year, 16 pp. (varies).

Although the impetus of the journal was Mazdaznan, it was devoted specifically to the promotion of the Society for the Promotion of the Federation of Nations. This was "the only one of its kind expounding the science of geneological [sic] ties of the Twelve Tribes of the Aryan, or White Race, defining the gradations of Progress, leading to final emancipation." It studied the wonders of the White or Aryan Race, the sixth great race of mankind, and the dangers of miscegenation with other, lesser races. Its anthem, "Federation of Nations," with words and music by “O.Z.H.” -- Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish, Otto Hanisch -- was printed in the first issue. At the beginning of 1919 the journal was merged into Mazdaznan, the principal organ of the movement in the United States.

Other Sources:
Issues:Federator 1918
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Federator was a short-lived American mind-culture miscellany that mixed New Thought success and prosperity teaching with the older tradition of phrenological character-reading, running admiring 'character of great men' sketches (Alexander Hamilton among them) that weighed ambition and firmness as if reading a cranium. Around this core it gathered health-reform notes on breathing, diet and hygiene, a thin thread of spiritualist reportage, and a comparative-religion interest in the world's faiths tied to its hopeful 'Federation of Nations' internationalism. It belongs to the broad American self-improvement press rather than to any single occult school. The surviving run is slight, so its emphases are sketched rather than settled.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
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