Henry Geiger

{{Short description|American editor and author (1908–1989)}} thumb|381x381px '''Henry Geiger''' (August 10, 1908 – 15 February 1989) was the editor, publisher, and chief writer of ''MANAS Journal'' which was published from 1948–1988.

He “had been variously a chorus boy on Broadway, a journalist, a conscientious objector in World War II, a commercial printer, and a lecturer at The United Lodge of Theosophists in Los Angeles.”<ref name="Grossman">{{cite journal|last=Grossman|first=Richard|title=A Man and His 'Paper,'|journal=Utne Reader|date=May 1989}}</ref> Geiger began work as an actor when he was sixteen and spent three years working with the Theater Guild before becoming a journalist.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Geiger |first=Henry |date=December 1943 |title=Test of Democracy |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_motive_1943-12_4/page/16/mode/2up? |journal=Motive |volume=4 |pages=16}}</ref> While working as an actor, he had a small role in the original production of ''The Garrick Gaieties'' in 1925.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rodgers |first=Richard |title=Fact Book with Supplement |publisher=The Lynn Farnol Group |year=1968 |location=New York |pages=23}}</ref> During World War II, Geiger was a conscientious objector and was a member of the Civilian Public Service program. He worked at the CO Camp 76 at Glendora, where he helped found the pacifist newspaper ''Pacifica Views''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Doyle |first=Michael |title=Radical Chapters: Pacifist Bookseller Roy Kepler and the Paperback Revolution |publisher=Syracuse University Press |year=2012 |isbn=9780815650836 |pages=117}}</ref> The four-page weekly provided pacifists with "a forum for discussing pacifist ideas and methods of applying non-violent action to social reform".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bennett |first=Scott H. |title=Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1963 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |year=2003 |isbn=9780815630036 |pages=77}}</ref>

Geiger published the first issue of his journal ''Manas'' in January 1948, while he living in Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Land |first=Jeff |title=Active Radio: Pacifica's Brash Experiment |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |year=1999 |isbn=9780816631575 |pages=54}}</ref> Abraham Maslow called him “the only small ‘p’ philosopher America has produced in this century.”<ref name="Grossman" /> Geiger was also an advocate of Edward Bellamy's type of socialism.<ref name="ml">{{cite book | last=Lasar | first=Matthew | title=Pacifica Radio 2E | publisher=Temple University Press | date=April 14, 2000 | isbn=1-56639-777-4|pages=30–31}}</ref> Some of Geiger's associates, such as Lewis Hill, would later be involved in the creation of Pacifica Radio.<ref name="ml" />

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==External links== * [https://manasjournal.org/ MANAS Journal]

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