Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2834

Some materials for submission to Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Washington, D.C., re: RE: T: EO: 4 HHC, applying for tax exempt status for the Science of Society Foundation at 1502 Montgomery Road, Baltimore 27, MD.

February 22, 1960

 

 

 

 

Statement of Spencer Heath

 

Dear Sir:

 

I was the founder and for some ten years directed the Science

of Society Foundation (not incorporated) which, in 1956 became incorporated as the Science of Society Foundation, Incorporated. I am at the present time the President of that Corporation.

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 This Foundation was formed solely for research, and not to disparage or oppose any existing institution, policy or set of beliefs, but solely to seek more thorough understanding of our Western institutions in general and especially of the system of free economic enterprise — in particular and with all its possibilities and implications — on which the increasing revenue needed for all purposes depends.

 

This Foundation was formed mainly for research and report on the origins and operations and capacities of the voluntary systems of society, and not to propagandize for any program of political action or set of beliefs, but rather to seek more thorough understanding of our free and voluntary institutions in general, and especially of the system of free economic enterprise on which the increasing revenue required for all purposes, both public and private, necessarily depends.

 

 My background for this research contained Bachelor’s and

Master’s degrees from the National University School of Law in

Washington, D.C. (Now George Washington) followed by successful

practice there until 1913. From that time until 1930 I was engaged in engineering work, chiefly aeronautical and, during the period of World War 1, largely as a supplier to the United States Government, for which war work both Army and Navy awarded certificates of merit and appreciation to me.

 

 In 1920 I purchased and greatly improved the 110-acre place in Elkridge, Maryland which is now my home and that of the Foundation. For landscaping this place I built a greenhouse that was specially designed and equipped for the propagating of evergreens from cuttings. In connection with this work I sent two young persons, one of them a relative by marriage, to the University of Maryland to study landscape gardening while carrying on plant propagation under advice and direction of the University. In my semi-retirement from engineering during the years 1930-1939 I did extensive systematic reading in virtually all the natural sciences as method and groundwork for research and understanding of the social phenomenon.

 

 

 

Extracts from Letters re: Proposal for Suez

 Referring to the above application for tax exemption, we are transmitting herewith for your consideration at the conference on May 9th, the following papers:

1. Statement by Spencer Heath.
2. Biographic sketch.
3. Reading sources in Foundation research.
4. Letters to Commissioner of Internal Revenue from:

1. Dr. George C.S. Benson, president, Claremont Men’s College, Claremont, California. (Photostat)
2. Dr. John L. Davis, President, Chapman College,

Orange, California. (Second original)

(c)  Dr. F. A. Harper, economist, William Volker

Fund, Burlingame, California. (Photostat)

5. Letter from Dr. F.A. Harper to Mr. Frank Keith, Keith School, Rockford, Illinois. (Photostat)
6. Dr. F. A. Harper, biographical sketch.
7. Letter from Dr. James A. Campbell, Chairman, Dept. of Chemistry, El Camino College, California.
8. Descriptive matter, Citadel, Market and Altar.

1. Extracts from letters.
2. “Sampling the Reviews”

5. Proposed solution for the Suez.

 

5. Extracts from letters/re: proposal for Suez.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

Spencer Heath, Director