Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2982

Carbon of letter from Heath to Ludwig von Mises

February 8, 1960

 

 

Dear Margit and Ludwig:

Your telegram of best wishes was very kind indeed and did help to make my last birthday the happiest I have had. For I seem able, here in the West, to attract quite ready attention to the cultural and spiritual developments that are profoundly inherent in our free-enterprise economy.

 Out here I have found presidents and faculties of colleges and heads of business and religious organizations and newspapers in some ways far more hospitable than I could have thought. Among others, President Benson of Claremont Men’s College has scheduled me for this month to lead four two-hour seminars attended by him and a group of faculty members of his personal selection. Plans of a similar character are under discussion among other of the associated Colleges in Claremont and some of the smaller colleges near here, especially Chapman, at Orange where President John L. Davis is most enthusiastic.

 The topics in all cases are pertinent to the printed purposes for which my modest and hopefully tax-free Corporation was formed. But it seems necessary for me to come East next month for a hearing on April 5 in Washington on my tax exemption application once denied. It seems they want statements from recognized authority on the worthiness of the work done and being done — such as the free-enterprise Suez solution, book and pamphlet publications and my own personal presentations to organizations and key individuals. Could you possibly help? Enlargement of activities and personnel depends somewhat on tax-free status.

 My wonderful friend here, H.C. Hoiles, Sr., publisher of The Register and all the chain of Hoiles papers is a bulwark of libertarian thought. Besides quoting your work extensively on his editorial pages, he keeps on a table in the entrance lobby of his huge new publishing plant, I am happy to say, a fine collection of your smaller writings for free distribution to all.

 Besides my place in the country near Baltimore and Washington, I still keep my apartment at 11 Waverly Place in New York. But it does seem that many of my coming days are going to be spent in Southern California, not only because of the seemingly wider opportunities for me here but the favorable winter climate.

 Many, many thanks again to both of you, for your kind wishes, and with continued admiration for your mighty works in the Libertarian Cause, I am,

Cordially yours,

 

 

Encl:

   “Claremont Trustees Reject Federal Aid,” Register, 2-4-60

   Editorial: “Not on social Security Taxation” Register 2-3-60

   Birthday party clippings (To follow)

   Purposes of Foundation

   Report on weekly series by S.H. on

 Free Enterprise station KWIZ (To follow)