The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-11-30
WON'T ACCEPT
MILLION GIVEN
BY HIS FATHER
Charles Garland Gives Reasons
Says Christ Would Have
Done Same
ATTACKS THE "SYSTEM''

Buzzards Bay, Mass, Nov. go
Charles Garland, the 22-year-old man
who has renounced his right to ST.
100000 legacy left him by his father,
J. A. Garland, wealthy club man and
yachtsman of Boston. today made a
statement of his reason for reject
ing the money. The statement, he
said, was due to the fact that the
many reports Of his failure to accept
the legacy had failed properly to
present his position.
II refuse to accept the money be-
cause it is not mine he said. "a
system which starved thousands
I while hundreds are stuffed condemns
itself. A system which leaves a sick
woman helpless and offers its serv-
ices to a healthy man condemns it.
self. 1t is such a system that offers
me million dollars.
ut is blind to the simplest truth
that the hungry must be fed and the
naked clothed. l have had to choose
between the loss of private property
and the law written in every human
heart. I choose the one which be-
lieVe true.'
Gets Much Advice
Garland, who has stated he re-
nounced his claim because he thought
Christ would have done the same,
continued:
81 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 exchange for
the food. l would be happy to be
the man if I had the food to give,
but can not lend myself to handling
the money not mine even though
the good that might be done is pos
sibly great"
Many people have written to tell
him what could be done with the
money, he said. But, he added, "you
cannot serve God and mammon' So
many people ready to serve the dol
lar 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 mil
lion should have been turnde to good.
He thinks Gods work is paid for in
dollars. Gods work will never be
done until men see this theory un-
true"
Wife Shares Views
The statement was made from
Garland's home, former inn OF stage
coach days. The young man is liv-
ing at the house with his wife and
infant daughter as the guest of his
mother, Mrs. Marie Tudor Green, who
supplies them with a maid and keeps
their larder full. He plans to 60 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 holding
the same views, has told him to do
what he thought right.
In another house on the estate
lives James A. Garland, III, a brother
of Charles, who has accepted his
share of his fathers estate, made
larger by the fact that the mother
of the boys abandoned her rights to
marry Francis C. Green. At Harvard
college is Hamilton Garland, a third
son. Charles said he understood
Hamilton also was considering re-
fusal to take his share when he be-
came of age.
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 ala
not know from what source it was
derived, but he believed it came down
from, his grandfathers.