South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-06-26
CLAIMS SOCIETY
BASED ON MONEY
Is WRONG KIND
Harvard Graduate, Who Re
fuses Second Million, Scorns
Thoughts of Riches.

BUZZARD'S BAY, Mass. June
25.-"Heaven forbid that I be Of
fered third mElioni" said Charles
Garland. Harvard graduate, who
has just rejected a second fortune
Of 100000 from the estate OF an
uncle. "But II I am will turn II
down Just as emphatically 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
100000 from his fathers estate
"All the evils OF the world spring
from the greed of private posses
sion-from the desire OF one man
20 have more than another. The
real things, the ideals and ideas,
cannot be bought and paid for"
Happy as Farmer.
Garland today told in detail why
he is happier as a barefootel. COM
Portable country farmer than he
possibly could be II he owned the
bank Of England.
Barefooted. his feet tanned al
most black by sun and exposure, he
divided his time between wedging n
bolt in a handmade rowboat and
cranking the engine of a handmade
traction machine on his mothers
magnificent country estate here.
And as he manipulated various
lever OF the traction engine with his
naked feet. Garland. simple farmer
and idealist, expounded his reasons
why he has turned down two for
tunes The first was left TO 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 ov-
erals and helps him saw wood or
hammer nails When he wants 10
talk she listens. She is content, he
asserts. TO be a poor mans" wife,
and not handicap her freedom by
stolen goods" For. he says:
Stolen Goods. He Says.
"If I accept a fortune I'm steal
ing something that doesn't belong
10 me. And if 1 give money away
I'm helping someone receive stolen
goods that will do him harm. Mon
ey 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 ideal
ism. Christ preached this. l am a
processing Christian.
IF have something others need
I'll give 1t to them. And if they
have something 1 need I'll take it;
but not on a money basis. II | want
to eat I'll Llant my foodstuffs and
build an engine to reap them. Then
I'm producing what 1 need and not
robbing anyone.
Daughter May Decide
when my little three-year-o
daughter grows up she may accept
n fortune if she wishes. And she
may go through the farce OF a col
lege education If she chooses. But
sha'n't force her, and 1 hope her
self education will show her the flu
tility of wealth. I sha'n't contain
mate 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
thinks.
Mother Supports Him.
While he declines to accept the
fortune 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 depended all winter on his moth
er for support.
All the while the money which
Garland refused is guarded by the
trustee-accumulat for the ben
eft of the baby daughter who
might not, but for her fathers
ideas, have many nurses, many
toys and a rich nursery instead OF
a simple farmhouse crib.
MY present desires are simple. 4"
he added. "I haven't any money in
my pocket and don't want any"
do you believe that your labor
on the farm has reraid your mother
for what she has spent on you?"
Garland was asked.
This is his reply:
Has Produced His Share.
mo. I don't figure anything OF
the kind. feel sure my product
i've efforts for my mother haven't
been equal to what my family and
I have consumed. 1 have worked
some OF the time on n farm which
a man leases from my mother. That
labor hasn't brought her anything
II do believe, though, that my eff
forts toward society as a whole
have equalled what I have consum-
e1 of the products of society.
If I went out and hustled and
pro 1uced more things for a world
whith already has more things than
il ne eds and are good for It I would
be II Turing society There are al
ready enough food and clothing for
every9ne--if everything were eQuit-
ably distributed. That is why the
present system Is futile. When a
man who has made as much as he
wants is wished a fortune of a mill
lion the system by which the sit
uation comes to pass should be
a 1otfshad