"The Lost Car"

1924 Hayden, James J. “The Lost Car.” By Bert Hay [pseud.]. In his Odds and Ends (Miscellaneous Writings) ([Norwood, MA]: Privately ptd. [Plimpton Press], 1924), 3-68. In his “Note The Lost Car” (xvii-xxi) the author says that the story was originally published in “over a dozen installments” in the “Journal”, previously the Sewanee Banner (presumably Sewanee, OH). No such paper appears to survive.

Detailed eutopia of New Hellas (later just Hellas), a society of four million square miles in the Southern Hemisphere descended from classical Greece, which has chosen to remain isolated until the rest of the world becomes peaceful The story includes both a description of the eutopia by an outsider and a history of the eutopia by a resident. No poverty because land cannot be privately owned, and everyone works. Taxation based on the use of the land, which covers all costs. A brief vignette at the end set in 3003 AD shows contact between the Hellenes and future, peaceful humanity with wings but no legs.