Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2737

Letter to Heath at 312 Halesworth, Santa Ana, California, from Robert Vernon Andelson, Executive Director, Henry George School of Social Science, San Diego Extension, 5111 College Avenue, San Diego 15, California, April 5, 1960, and carbon of Heath’s reply of May 1, 1960.

 

 

 

Dear Mr. Heath:                                 April 5, 1960

 

Last week I spent an evening with Dr. Ake Sandler, Professor of Government at Los Angeles State College. He had heard about you from Bob Scanland, and expressed a desire to meet you.

 

 I am wondering if Mrs. Manning and yourself could arrange to get together with the Sandlers and the Andelsons some Thursday evening at my mother’s apartment in Los Angeles. If so, let me know the date and we will take it from there.

 

Cordially,

 

(signed) R.V.A.

Robert Vernon Andelson

Executive Director

 

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Dear Mr. Andelson:                               May 1, 1960

 

I was indeed sorry that I could not have a visit with Dr. Ake Sandler. After receiving your letter, I telephoned him, but he was away at Sacramento, I believe. However, his wife had him call me as soon as he returned, which happened to be just the day before I was leaving for the East. We had a very pleasant visit by telephone, with arrangements to see each other as soon as I returned to California some time later in the year.

 

 I have been wondering if the article you wrote concerning my serious critique on the practical technology of Henry George (while admiring his fundamental discovery concerning ground rent as the authentic public revenue) was ever published. In this connection, it comes to my mind that Mildred J. Loomis, at Lane’s End Homestead, in Brookville, Ohio, published a very thoughtful review of my Citadel, Market and Altar in her publication, BALANCED LIVING (March, 1958, p.44), from which review I quote as follows:

 

Those who say “Georgism is socialism,” or Georgists who are troubled by the need (in their system) to turn to a coercive agent (government) to allocate land sites and collect rent, will welcome Mr. Heath’s book. … Almost any reader will find it a test of his openness of mind.

 

 It is fortunate that there are at least a few people devoted to the philosophy of Henry George who are open-minded as to the precise application of the “general principles” which he referred to at the end of one of his prefaces to Progress and Poverty.

 

 Mrs. Manning and I planned to make another visit to San Diego and have again the pleasure of seeing you and Mrs. Andelson, but will now have to look forward to another time.

 

With many best wishes,

                            Cordially yours,

 

 

SH/m