Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2837

Fragmentary penciling by Heath on back of a printed Town Hall Club sheet dated November 22, 1938, drafting a letter to an unidentified businessman.

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… conducted is bound to be large, and far more profitable to its owners and administrators than any other business in the world. Incidentally, government, now based on compulsion and therefore anti-social, will become based on voluntary exchange like the sale of community services to the occupants of a hotel or supplying services in any other sound and proper business.

 When, notwithstanding imperfections of form, you have been indulgent enough to go on and reflect upon the ideas themselves I shall be much interested in your reaction to them. It is seldom that originators are also good expositors, but sound ideas are always at a premium with those who can utilize them, despite literary handicaps.

 It has seemed to me that a person of your reflective mentality and of your judgment in the administration of capital in private enterprises for the benefit of a wide public might find some delight in the discovery that these same methods are no less applicable to, and certainly not less profitable in, the supplying of community services through owner administration of the public capital.

 Again appreciating your interest, I am

 

                                 Sincerely