Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2511

Typed news release to real-estate media by Frances Alice Norton (later Frances Norton Manning), acting as publicist for Heath. (Signed in pencil by Heath across the bottom right corner)

January 25, 1945

 

 

 

^“We can outgrow taxation” was what Spencer Heath said during a recent luncheon interview. “Just as we have outgrown many antiquated measures of mal-adjusted values, taxation is the chain around the elephant’s foot. Take off the chain and the elephant still thinks he is chained and doesn’t lift his foot!”

 “By outgrowing taxation I do not mean to hold an election or make a sudden law and presto, no taxation. I mean by a series of study and research, experiment and coordination we can outgrow it. Eventually even all of it!”

 Spencer Heath declared there will be a new field in the study of the subject to open up new thoughts and introduce new ideas. “The men coming home will not accept old methods of Government Rules and Regulations unless these Rules make an awful lot of sense.” Mr. Heath talked about his new book “Socionomy” which interpreted means The Science of Society.

 Mr. Heath is a retired Research engineer. During the last War he was the largest propeller manufacturer we had and his “crack-pot” propeller ideas then were so good that he was the biggest Government contractor and made the best propellers. Eventually the Bendix Company bought his factories and patents and even his services. As consulting engineer for Bendix he travelled in America and Europe. However, the activities of engineering held less interest as aeronautics progressed and grew. He then wrote the book on Socionomy, and held small informal meetings where he discussed the various phases of Socionomy.

 Even in 1942 at a dinner meeting of the Economic Club in N.Y. when Spencer Heath was a guest of Honor with Henry Morgenthau, Newcomb Carlton, Ralph Gallagher, Hon. Harold Ickes, Hon. Herbert Lehman, William Jeffers, David Sarnoff, and Gilbert Hodges, Mr. Heath discussed his subject of Human Relationship and its services, rather than its greed.

Frances Alice Norton

10 Montague Terrace

Brooklyn Heights, N.Y.

 

Released with the personal permission of Spencer Heath.

 

Spencer Heath

11 Waverly Place

New York, N. Y.

 

 

NOTE to the Editor: —

Spencer Heath during the last War was the Henry Kaiser of the Propeller manufacturing business. Mr. Heath is a research engineer of national importance and became an outstanding designer and manufacturer in Aeronautics.

 The Bendix Corporation bought the five factories and all of Spencer Heath’s designs and patents and even Spencer Heath. He acted as a consulting engineer for Bendix and their interests.

 Today Spencer Heath is interested only in one thing. The plan of setting forth a brand-new set of parts by which we can make a little sense out of this confusion and the Post-War adjustments.

 Just as he pioneered aeronautics, his work now is the study and research of absolutely new angles on taxation, human relationship and the key principle by which we make all the advances in civilization.

 He has worked out, just as he worked out his “crackpot” propeller ideas and held large Government contracts, a new set of rules by which man may find those things “nearer to his heart’s desire” and just as with the early Aviation experiments, Mr. Heath is producing this advanced plan.

 Under the title of “Socionomy” his book has been written. Socionomy is a Webster word which means “Science of Society” and although not in any sense is Mr. Heath a “reformer” he is a discoverer and his discoveries disclose amazing proof of the need for such discoveries and our blindness in having been blind so long.

 Things always seem so simple when revealed, in this case Mr. Heath is revealing them and they unfold before us with all the precision and balance of a high geared machine conceived by an Engineering mind… “We can outgrow taxation. We can’t pass a Law or hold an election and immediately leave our old cocoon. Nothing can appear at once. New cells have to take the place of old in the same structure. This is progress”