The Cordova daily times., 1921-07-25
Ry International News Service


 he is happier as a barefooted, com fortable country farmer than he pos sibly could be if he owned the Bank of England.
 Barefooted, his feet tanned almost black by sun and exposure, he divid- ed his time between wedging bold in handmade rowboat and Cranking the engine of a 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 farmer and idealiat. expounded his reasons why he has turned down two for tunes. 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 Car. land says she is a perfect compaa- ion" When he wishes to work, he says. she dons brooches and overaiis and helps him saw wood and hammer nails. When he wants to talk she listens. She is content he asserts. to be a "poor mans wife and not han dicap her freedom by stolen goods.
 STOLEN GOODS, HE SAYS
 "If | accept fortune I'm stealing something that doesn't belong to me, And if I give money away I'm help ing someone receive stolen goods that will do him harm. Money never did anyone any good. I 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 fessing Christian.
 If I have something others need I'll give it to them. And if they have something l need I'll take it; but not on a money basis. If I want to eat I'll plant my foodstuffs and build an engine to reap them. Then I'm producing what I need and not robbing anyone.
 DAUGHTER MAY DECIDE
 When my little three-year-Old daughter grows up she may accept a fortune if she wishes. And she may go through the farce of a college edu- cation if she chooses. But l sha'n't force her, and l hope her self-educa- wealth. sha'n't contaminate my self 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 thinks.
 MOTHER SUPPORTS HIM
 While he declines to accept the for tune left him by his father he is living on the bounty -of his mother, now Mrs. Swinburne Hale. He frank ly admitted to his interviewer that with his wife and infant daughter he had depended all winter on his mother for support.
 All the while the money which Gar Hand refused is guarded by the trus- ees-accumulating for the benefit of the baby daughter, who might now, but for her fathers ideas, have many nurses. many toys and a rich nursery instead of simple farm house crib.
 My present desires are simple" he added. q haven't any money in my pocket and don't want any"
 Do you believe that your labor on the farm has repaid your mother for what she has spent on you?" Garland was asked.
 This is his reply:
 HAS PRODUCED HIS SHARE
 No, don't figure anything of the kind, I feel sure my productive ef- forts for my mother havn't been equal to what my family and l have consumed. l have worked some of the time on a farm which a man leases from my mother. That labor hasn't brought her anything. T do believe, though, that my ef- forts toward society as whole have