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YOUNG GARLAND
EXPLAINS STAND
Refuses to Accept Million Dollar Leg.
acy-Many People Have Writ
ten Telling Him Of Good
He Could Do.

million dollar legacy left him by hi
father, James A. Garland, who was
wealthy clubman and yachtman Of
Boston, today made formal state
ment of his reasons for rejecting
the money. His statement, he said
was due to the fact that many re
ports of his failure to accept the leg
acy have failed properly to present
his position.
tI refuse to accept the money be-
cause it is not mine" was young
Garland's summary of his action
"a system which starves thousands
while hundreds are Stuffed con
denns itself. A system which leaves
a sick woman helpless and offers its
services to a healthy man condemns
itself. It is such a system that offers
me a million dollars" he continued.
'It's blind to the simplest truth
known to every child the truth that
the hungry should be fed and the
naked clothed. I have had, to choose
between tAe loss Of private property
and the law: which is written in
every human heart. I choose the one
which believe to be true .>, -.
Garland, who has stated that he
renowned his claim to the million
dollars because he thought Christ
would have done the same, contin-
ued: -.
"I believe could do no good with
the money. It is the man who gives
food to the hungry who does good,
not the dollars given in exchange for
the food. ! would be happy to be
the man if l had the food to give,
but I can not lend myself to hand
ling the money that is 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. he said. "They seem almost
proud to point out the power that !
have in my hands, but it is the most
pitful thing they could point to.
You can't serve God and mammon.'
So many people ready TO serve
the dollar means so many less to
serve God. There are great oppor--
tunities 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
Gods work is paid for in dollars.
Gods work will never be done until
men see that this theory is untrue
Mr.. Garland's statement was made
from his home here, a former inn Of
stage coach days. The young man,
who is 22 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 remuneration Of the million.
His mother, although not holding
the same view, has told him to do
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
estate, 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-
vironment were not identical.
Garland indicated that his refusal