Omaha daily bee., 1921-06-26
Stolen
Asserts Heir Who
Refuses Millions
He's Happy as Barefoot
Farmer-Million He Re.
fused Held in Trust for
His Daughter.

| Buzzard's Bay, Mass, June Is
Heaven forbid that | be offered a
third millionp said Charles Garland,
Harvard graduate, who has just re-
lected second fortune of $1,000,000
from the estate of an uncle. But if
| am | will turn it down just as en-
| phatically as | have the other two
already bequeathed me.
"A society based on money is the
wrong kind" continued the young
man, who first startled a money
mad world by refusing a fortune
of $l,000,000 from his fathers es-
tate. '"All the evils of the world
spring from the greed of private
possession-from the desire of one
man to have more than another.
The real things, the ideals and ideas.
cannot be bought and paid for"
Happy as Barefoot Farmer.
Garland today told in detail why
he is happier as barefooted, COM
Portable country farmer than he
possibly could be if he owned the
Bank of England.
Barefooted, his feet tanned almost
black by sun and exposure, he di-
vided his time between wedging
bolt in a handmade rowboat and
cranking the engine of handmade
traction machine on his mothers
magnificent country estate here.
And as he manipulated various
levers of the traction engine with
his naked feet, Garland, simple farm
er and idealist, expounded his rea
sons why he has turned down two
fortunes. The first was left him by
his clubman father, James A. Gar
land; the second by Charles Tullen
Garland, of England.
His wife shares his ideas, and
Garland says she is a perfect COM
panion.." When he wishes to work. !
he says, she dons breeches and over ,
alls and helps him saw wood or ham,
mer nails. When he wants to talk
she listens. She is content, he as
serts, to be poor mans" wife, and
not handicap her freedom by "stolen
goods" For, he says:
Stolen Goods, He Says.
"If | accept fortune I'm steal
ing something that doesn't belong
to me. And if l give money away
Pm helping someone receive stolen
goods that will do him harm.
Money never did anyone any good.
never could do any good with
money.
Men become great by following
their ideals, not by following the
lure OF wealth. Money kills idealism.
Christ preached this. | am pro-
Tossing Christian. !
IF | have something others need
III give it to them. And if they
have something | need I'll take it;
but not on a money basis. If l
want to eat I'll plant my foodstuffs
and build all engine to reap them.
Then Pm producing what | need and
not robbing anyone.
when my little 3-year-old daugh-
ter grows up she may accept for
tune if she wishes. And she may
go through the farce of college
education if she chooses. But l 7,
shan't force her, and hope her
will show her the fu-
tility of wealth. | shant contami-
nate myself or others by receiving or
giving money"
And Garland is a very busy man.
Sometimes he works all day. Some
times he just sits in his garden and
kinks.
While he declines to accept the for
tine left him by his father he is liv-
ng on the bounty of his mother, now
Mrs. Swinhurn Hale. He frankly
Idmitted to his interviewer that with
lis wife and infant daughter he had
depended all winter on his mother
or support.
All the while the money which S
Garland refused is guarded by the
rustee-accumulating for the benefit S
f the baby daughter, who might S
ow, but for her fathers ideas, have
lany nurses, many toys and rich
ursery instead of a simple farm ]
ouse crib.
"My present desires are simple"
c added. 81 haven't any money in n
,y pocket and | don't want any" p
do you believe that your labor t.
n the farm has repaid your mother e1
or what she has spent on you?" Gar b.
md was asked. -
This is his reply: t,
Has Produced His Share. 2
"No, l don't figure anything OF the K 5
ind. feel sure my productive ef- o
,rts for my mother haven't been N
lual to what my family and l have .e N
onsumed. | have worked some of II
le time on a farm which man
ases from my mother That labor
asn't brought her anything.
81 do, believe, though, that my eff
'rts toward society as whole have
lualled what I have consumed of II
lie products of society. iii
"If l went out and hustled and
reduced more things for a world Il
hich already has more things than
needs and are good for it l would
: injuring society. There are al
ady enough food and clothing for
everything were equit-
,ly distributed. That is why the
resent system is futile. When a