Evening star., 1922-08-02
Garland's Money Distribution
Arouses Varying Emotions.


Admittedly eight hundred thousand
dollars isn't a great deal OF money
in these days OF national debts. in
Identities and thirty-two-cent saso-
line. But properly utilized it can
draw q lot of interest--not from the
bank, but from the press and the
public. At any rate. that Is true OF
tho 100000 that Charles Garland
l has proved he didn't want by giving
1t away. .,
Garland's money has had Its day IN
American editorial columns on three
different occasions-first. when ne re-
fused the legacy Of . million dollars
from his fathers estate because ne
hadn't earned: Second. when ne
changed his mind, and third when ne
turned over four-fifths OF tnat mi
lion 'for the estaolfshmshs5i. VI service
"which are 50 new or experimentai
that they do not command genera
n"hiic support." And interesting as
the irst two occasions proved 70 ths hs
newsuapers, the third mas nreo -
editorial Imagination even NOR ,,, the
Editorial writers point out. .ne
ae,d 10 40 wide and so vaguely Out
iined and, further, the radical ano
centric Mr.. Garland has once i'o'S
stood by his convictions. ~
Judged by some OF the nam nalms for
those interestea: IN In Har,ford tns cour-
art uD's concludes that 1.-The Distribution
an,ong new and Experimental ass
ains, will be for the benefit OF "hse e.
90 called radical movements. u
radical indeed does IT pes appesr in the
the list Of trustees annoua'eeTIl a,ou ua eIll1 y Ar
press .sas the fund administered oy
se see',n ~ Greenwich Villagers anu
s.Se poninion Of the paper the au ~,
rmn,n;stration m ,i OF s1.o00,Ooo luno cS y
1reenwich Villagers TOT ,n clan
Villagers looks IKE iI1 n1ai have but
trap PuTce PuTnence on the intellectual: !:
ntti n.is,,. or moral life of the nat.oi;
s,nne "little in the way OF w;ch puJ;h
snrvice has come out OF and IN
Wniase except bobbed ar.a na,r % some
mystorious fire tnat
OF .ne many people. the ProVioe1ee
rr;hnne suggests. are laporlnk X. t" the
n;r.9,ar false impression tnas tns ts
Gland fortune is to be useu I'D I'D
the purpose of MAKING onre crazv
faky Greenwich n;h,1el xliiasef as a matter Of
s:. iast: for granting that "the incor,
Gus. +ors' list contains the names OF
sS~rne pretty doubtful men, sucl1
Scott Nearing and Wiiiismh IAN men as
pcr 1er. Robert Morse Lovett. Proi
Harry ward of the Union TheoiGsiGal 2ehal
a.r,inarv and James Weldon Jonn-
81 nf the National Association TOT
The Advancement Of Colored Feopie:
The New York Post also le's sor. ~
n'ctvre nH Of a washington Square orgy
~ "modernity" financed by the Gar.
2. noney. "It would be. hard,
tha ' POST says, "to At all the fund
ofiicials into the type-molds OF eitheI
Greenwich Village or the aaiEai fau inl
s+once. = she is a Methodist and alb
hors iazx. She wouldn't bob her hair
FOR all Garland's money. or course,
Miss Mcdowell does not see Things
eve to eve, with grating contractors
gang politicians or reactionary capi. capt.
Village sort of radical in the least"
Rather. the personnel OF the new
Foundation is not such as Will stir
New York's imagination az pro-
foundly as the fiappers ana bNdqing
geniuses Of the traditiona! iona! Mnase.
to do something interesting with the
funds intrusted to their care" In
deed. the directors of the fund ''in-
spfre the hope" in the South Bend
(Ind.) Tribune. that 1t will be used
in a way which will react to the
public welfare.
ain its essential character" as the
Boston Traveller sees it. there is
little to distinguish Garland's act
from the act Of a Rockefeller or a
Carnegie. The only difference is that
Garland has put his money where 1t
NAV be applied to the shocking and
disturbing Of society. while most
other bestowers Of large gifts see
to IL that the world shall be helpal'
aIonr without. being too severely
jogsed onI its axis" But even that
difference need notsof necessity. con-
demn the new venture. the Provf-
dence Tribune thinks, for America
is receptive to new ideas that are
sane. and II the 1evel-headed among
the incorporatcrs do take a step in.
.ersdicetine some Of the social evils
and stamping out injustices where
they see them, the Garland fortune
viii be q real benefit to this coun-
Everybody, the Brooklyn. Eagle
says, ais supposed to benefit from
the money" hence "the task imposed
on the directors of the fund 10 tres
complex, and few people agree on.
what 10 best for society as q whole =.