Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2264

Letter to Heath from Pyrrha Gladys Grodman

January 3, 1942

 

 

 

SOCIETY FOR LONG ISLAND GEORGEISTS

TEMPORARY  HEADQUARTERS  AT

207-12 JAMAICA AVENUE, BELLAIRE, LI  Telephone: HOIlis 5-121 I

January 3rd, 1942. Dear Mr. Heath:

 

For the past few days I had hoped to find time to write you, but we have been short-handed in the hospital and working over-time. On Wednesday, Decem­ber 31st, Mr Lissner dropped in for a visit. He was interested “editorially” in your reply to Mr Woodlock and asked me to make copies of your letter for himself and Dr Geiger for possible publication in the April issue of The American Journal of Economics and Socio­logy. Dr Geiger advises on materials submitted for the Journal that are of a philosophic nature. You may wish to get in touch with Dr Geiger to follow up this opportunity to have your ideas published in the Journal. I am taking it upon myself to make further copies of your letter of December 31st, and sending them on to Mr Lissner. Mr Lissner’s address, for your reference, is 250-20 Thornhill Avenue, Douglaston, Long Island.

 

 The clumsy surgical operation on your letter of the 19th is deplorable, especially so because the most vital germs of your thesis – the very foundation of the Science of Society – have been excised. It would seem that they entirely missed the point of your acknowledgment of Professor Eddington’s realization of the need for an appropriate durational factor in demography.

 

 I am returning to you at this time Mr Woodlock’s article of December 17th and your first letter, but am reserving the second round for a few days. I have been meeting with Cecil Tucker and discussing your magnum opus with him. He is enthusiastic about it, and is making a copy of it for

himself so that he may the better mull over it. Mr Tucker recognizes the significance of the institution of property and looks forward to seeing you when you are again in the city. His present address is 137-20 Franklin Avenue, Flushing.

 

 In case you do not have a subscription to Mr Walker’s Cause and Effect, I am sending you pages 5 and 6 which seem to me to have two articles that par­ticularly require your comments. Mr Walker is prob­ably not informed as to the correlation between fre­quency of reproduction and longevity, and might be interested on the new light it gives to mother Nature’s provisions in the social field.

 

 I wonder whether you have seen the first volume of Mr Beckwith’s “The Answer”. I think that his fight to eliminate the “evil heart” from the field of the social sciences is probably one of the most necessary and difficult tasks with which the sound Georgist propa­gandist is confronted.

 

 Doctor joins me in wishing you inspiration, enlightenment and success in your magnum opus and an ever-increasing and appreciative audience for the new Science of Society throughout the coming year.

 

Cordially yours,

 

/s/ P. Grodman