The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-12-03
YOUNG GARLAND
EXPLAINS STAND
REFUSES TO ACCEPT MILLION
DOLLAR LEGACY.
Many People Have Written Telling
Him Of Good He Could

Buzzard's Bay, Mass, Nov. 20 (By
The Associated Press).-Charles
Garland, the young man who has re-
nounced His right to a million dollar
legacy left him by his father, James
A. Garland, who was wealthy club
man and yachtman of Boston, today
made formal statement of his rea-
sons for rejecting the money. His
statement, he said, was due to the
fact that the many reports of his
failure to accept the legacy have.
failed properly to present his posi-
ton.
81 refuse to accept the money be-
cause it is not mine,',, twas young
Garland's summary of his action. "A
system which starves thousands while
hundreds are stuffed condemns it
self. A system which leaves sick
woman helpless and offers its serv-
ices to a healthy man condemns It.
self. It is such system that offers
me million dollars" he continued.
Hungry Should Be Fed.
ats blind to the simplest truth
known to every child, the truth that
the hungry should be fed and the
naked clothed. j have had to choose
between the loss of private property
and the law which is written in every
human heart, / choose the one which
I;believe to be true"
. Garland, who has stated that ne
renoupced his claSiH the million
dollars because he thought Christ
would have done the same, contln-
ned: y, - 25-.;;,4
..I believe. / could do no good with
the-uaoney. tt d. thatnAn who gives
food 10 tie hungry who does good,
not The dSflsrs given In exchange for
the food. 1 would be happyto be
the man 4. if 1shad thsa FOOD to give,
but I can not lend dsmyself to handling
the money that Ii not mine even
though the good that might. be done
is possibly great
Many; people have written. to tell
him what could be done with the
money, be said. "They seem almost
proud to point out the power that I
have in my hands, but it is the most
pitiful thing they could point to.
You can't serve God and mammon.i
$50 many people ready to serve the
dollar means so many less to serve
God. There are great opportunities
to do good but they are in mems
hearts not in my check book. A
preacher in the name of Christ said
this million should have been turned
to good. He thinks that good Coos
work is paid for in dollars. Gods
work will never be done until men
see that this theory is untrue"
Not Ready for Work.
Mr.. Garland's statement was made
from his home here, former inn OF
stage coach days. The young man,
who is % years Of age, is living at
the house with his wife and infant
daughter as the guest Of his mother'
Mrs. Marie Tudor Green, who sup
plies them with maid and keeps
their larder full. He plans to go to
work eventually, he said, but year
at Harvard college which he left to
get married and preparatory school
ing in this country and in England
fitted him for no work ready at hand,
and he said he thought it would be
spring before he found anything.
His wife Joined with him in his re-
nunciation of the million, Garland
said. His mother, although not hold
ing the same view, has told him to 90
what he thought right.
In another house on the estate
lives. James A. Garland, 3rd, a
brother of Charles Garland, who has
accepted his share of his fathers es-
tate, made larger by the fact that the
mother of the boys abandoned her
rights in order to marry Francis C..
Green after the death of her first
husband. At Harvard college is
Hamilton Garland, a third son, who
lacks several months of reaching his
majority. His brother, Charles, said
today that he understood Hamilton
also was considering refusal to take
his share when he became of age.
Their ideas on the subject were
somewhat similar, he said, although
the influences of education and en-
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