South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-02-03
MILLIONAIRE now
DEFENDS IDEAL
OF LOVE CLINIC
Staid New England + in d :
Heart Experiments OF
Youth Shocking.
Ev EDWARD VI. THHERBN
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special 20 The Nevvs-Times1
VUDDLEBORO Mas. Feb. o.
The lives Of five persOUs-and an
unborn baby-are entaugIed i'm the
revolutionary experiments OF Charles
Garlaud's "Iove clinic
|. Life and happiness for them hang
upou the fragile thread OF his whims
and theories.
The man who spurned million
dollars. who now has focused upon
him the eyes OF a world shocked by
h.z acts and theories-snd who daily
receives food Of letters from
women all over the country begging
either money or chance 10 join
him IN founding a love colony
calmly goes on with his unprecedeh.-
81 love experiments.
Actors In Drama.
one Of the persons involved u
Ifre. Wrenu Garland, who has fed
from - husbands shack in the
woods Mrs Garland took with her
fr-.~ vear-old daughter. Margaret-
she has gone 10 Dedhum, TO the
home or her father. Philip w. Wrenn,
former president Of the Boston stock
exchange. She is soon TO become
D. other again
The other three actors I'm tine
dana are Garland himself and two
suuHg women.
one il Miss Lillian Conrad, Phil
a5eIphia art student and former sec
re.ary 20 Garland's mother.
The other is Miss Doris Benson,
adopted b. the eld4- Mrs. Garland
six years ago when she was 8. Car
H I'd
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Quartet Separated
GarIaud-peasaut millionaire. ann
ateur philosopher, eccentric farmel
and visionary lives alone in a
crude shack 10 miles from here.
Ills wife has left him.
His 'sou. twin'-as he calls Miss
Conrad-has gone back to her
parents i'm Philadelphia.
His adopted sister is attending
classes I'm vegetable farming and
home canning at Massa chusetts Ag-
riculturaI college ia Amherst where
Parents OF other students have de-
manded her dismissal because she
announced that the ideals of Charles
and Lillian are my ideals and that
sine is going back 10 live with them
a the farm.
What's going TO happen?" ] asked
Garland.
ListIess Appearance.
He got up from his chair I'm front
Of the kitchen table and wiped his
razor. He had been shaving with
hot water In a dishpan and a small
mirror prOpped up against a bowl
OF cold beans.
I'm sure I don't know" ne said.
bored.
He is a cry long. lean man-6 feet
inches-and mis- head OF black hair
scraped the ceiling timbers OF the
snack. He looks listless and his gray
ewes melancholy until he laughs.
Then ne strokes his tiny mUstache
and shows his teeth
Eager for My Money"
Garland thinks it odd that people
should talk about him. Re laughs
at the growing stacks OF letters
most Of which remain unopened.
They damn me and they praise
me-" ne said. "but most of them
want 10 help me spend that million
especially the women who want to
Join love colony. / want to say
definitely that I have no intention
OF spending the money that way
with a love colony or any other KIND
cc colony"
April Farm Is the sort Of place
where YOU might be willing to camI
for a couple Of weeks in the sum
mer. You can't imagine a man Will
nearly a million dollars enduring d
five consecutive minutes.
i've been misunderstood" h'
aid. MY views have been wrong,
Interpreted Everything's all miXeC
up.
NO. I haven't changed my views
do not say the marriage ceremony
ought TO be abolished. It's all rish
for those who believe i0 &c. I don
It is hypocrisy 90 promise TO love
when you don't know whether yo'
viii love permanently or not. Yes
suppose that means a belief I'm oil
vorce. Trial marriage Well per
naps-T don't know
Yes I'm conducting am expert
Iuent Life is series of experiments
1se know So little about everything
don't know whether I'm going t
ind out anything or not.
Free love. some call it. I can
ssv whether it's that or not Il de
neuds on what you mean by FREE
love. II NAV imply promiscuity-
and 7 don't believe I'm that"
Middieboro police have threatenet
ra arrest Ga7-and II any women 81
.-t 20 April Farm to I've. TT
laughed and said 81 didn't worry him
Garland has settled $500. 600 o.
t-ar-c.1 daughter HIS fortune
left him hy his grandfather, wa
aat.y increased hy accumulated in
terest when he accepted it recently
nd DE s-ll has close 90 a million