DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
OFFICE OF THE NATURALIST
HANOVER -NEW HAMPSHIRE
December 2, 1948
Dear Joe et al:
I am very interested in gathering commentaries on
William Vogtts ROAD TO SURVIVAL and the Nov. 8 TIME magazine
article. Already I have a letter which was written by two
of my former studeths now at Cornell doing graduate work,
those letters which appeared in this weeks TIME, several
verbal comments by professors here on the campus, and my
own letter to TIME. I have several reviews (NYTILES, NY Herald-
Tribune, TIME, NEWYSW EEK, and several others appearing in
various periodicals). But I need more ammunition because
sometime in January I hope to conduct a forum on Vogt's
book with the aid of several profs. here at Dartmouth.
Hope to have an economist, a sociologist (cultural anthropologist),
a botany-soils man, and one person from the humanities.
I shall probably chairman the forum.
Out of some of this material, I am hoping to make a start
on a study pamphlet for adult groups and high school groups.
I also need some comments from soil scientists and
would appreciate it greatly if you and some of the other
fellows in Madison would gather together some specific
written comments from some of the soil scientists on the
campus. In all fairness, they ought to have read ROAD TO
SURVIVAL and also the TIME article.
I gained a comment the other day that I shall not be
able to check too carefully, so take it with a grain of
salt. It is to the effect that the TIHE article was inspired
(adl  ossibly writtei by Charles E. Kellogg of the
USDA4 I understand that there is case of jealously going
back to the early days of the SCS when H.H. Bennett was
selected to head up the work. Kellogg apparently wanted
this position. I have tried to get the editors of TIME
to give me their "motives" for the Nov. 8, "Eat Hearty"
article. So far, no response.
President Jordan of Radcliffe College dropped his
subscription to TIME because of the "Eat Hearty" article,
so I am told. I am checking with him for his comments.
The Great Issues course (for seniors, 'here) stwering
committee did a neat job on ad variorum comments on the
article. I am making a copy of this, and will add to it
any additI~nal comments picked up in meanwhile~and hope
to b-ring the kthole works to 7fildlife Conference for an
exhibit. So, pass along anything you can.      not a
seminar on it in M4adison for your 7ang??