Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-12-02
IDEAS
CAUSE MAN TO
REFUSE FORTUNE

| BUZZARDS BAY, Mass, Nov. 80
| (By the Associated Press. )-Charles
| Garland, the young man who has
| renowned his right to a million
| dollar legacy left him by his father
James A. Garland, who was a wealthy
1 statement of his reasons for reject
! ing the money. His statement, he
said, was due to the fact that the
| the legacy had failed properly to pre-
sent his position.
II refuse to accept the money be-
| cause it is not mine" was young
Garlands summary of his action.
"a system which starved thousands
| while hundreds are stuffed condemns
itself. A system which leaves a
sick woman helpless and offers it
services to healthy man condemns
itself. 1t is such system that Of
fers me million dollars, he con-
tinued.
Hungry Should BE Fed
at is 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 the loss of private prop
erty and the law which is written in
every human heart 1 chose the one
which I 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:
II believe I could do no good
with the money. 1t is the man who
gives food to the hungry who does
good, not the dollars given in ex-
change for the food. l would be
happy to be the man if had the
food to give, but I cannot lend my
self to handling 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
pitiful thing they could point to.
mon 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 checkbook.
A preacher in the name Of Christ
said this million should have been
turned to good. He thinks that Gods
work is paid for. in dollars. Gods
work will never be done until men
see that this. theory is untrue"
Staying with Mother
Mr. Garland'S statement was made
from his home here, a former i'm
of the stage coach days. The young
man, who is twenty-five years old, is
living at the house with his wife and
infant daughter as the guests of his
mother, Mrs. Marie Tudor Green,
who supplies them with a maid and
keeps their larder full He plans to
go to work eventually, he said, but a.
year at Harvard college, which he
left to get married, and preparatory
schooling in this country and in Eng
land fitted him for no work ready at
hand, and he said he thought it
would be spring before he found any
thing. His wife joined with him in
said. His mother. although not hold
ing the same views, has told him to
do what he thought right.
In another house on tho estate
lives James A. Garland, III, a broth
err of Charles Garland, who has &C
cepted his share of his fathers es-
tate. made larger by the fact that the
rights in order to marry Francis c.
Green after the death of her first
husband. At Harvard college is HAM
ilton Garland, a third son who lacks
several months of reaching his ma
jority. His brother Charles said to-
day that he understood Hamilton
also was considering refusal to take
Their ideas on the subject were some
what similar, he said. although the
influences of education and environ
ment We're not identical.
Garland indicated that his refusal
to take the money was not based on
any question attached to the origin
of the Garland fortune, saying he did
not know from what source it was
derived, but he believed it came down
from his grandfather