A School to Teach the Political Economy
of Henry George

Oscar H. Geiger

[Reprinted from Land and Freedom, March-April, 1932]

Classes in social science and the philosophy of Henry George are now being organized both at the Youth House and on the lower east side of the city near the Henry Street Settlement. The latter is a spontaneous outgrowth of two of Mr. Geiger's lectures at the Young Israel Synagogue, 229 East Broadway. Many of the young folks who heard these lectures (mainly college and high school students, and some older than college and high school age) expressed their interest in the subject and a desire to learn it thoroughly and to be able to teach it to others. The interest and enthusiasm displayed was so great that Mr. Geiger consented to start classes for these students in their own section of the city.

Mr. Geiger plans that at all his classes a small fee shall be charged (25 cents a lesson), but that in return for this fee, when four classes have been attended, the student be given, first a copy of Progress and Poverty, then after the next four classes, a copy of Protection or Free Trade, and so on until all the essential books have been read and discussed. As the books will represent in value about the same amount as Mr. Geiger will receive in fees, we asked him what he expects to have left to run his "school." His answer was characteristic: "If the work I am doing is the work that should be done, if it is God's work as I believe it is, support for the school will come somehow from somewhere. "