The Washington times., 1931-06-03

on succeeding and succeed
ing
The ideas, which it seemed
to Rarick now. must have beer
slowly congealing in his sub
conscious mind for years ano
years before a chance dissefta
tion from Gerkes had jellied
them, so to speak. had reached
these months since the death
of Avery, a sudden consistency.
It was when Avery had been
dead a Six-month that the
slowly congealing major idea
became determination.
An Idea Grows
Day after day, ir the mael-
strom of his affairs, in confer
ence, in trips of coast-to-coast
inspection, on tours through the
raw scaffolding of the partially
erected Rarick Building; night
after night, sitting in his IL
brary in discussion with GerkeS,
poring over his amulets Of his
orchids, the idea, gathering
specks from all corners Of his
mind, was slowly swimming
into pattern.
, 1.-The wealth which man draws
from his fellow creatures as
clouds draw moisture from
poisonous and sweet waters
alike, must be made to descend
again in productive rains, or
what availeth it?"
Or what availeth it? Avery
had answered that. His death
had simultaneously seemed to
promulgate and answer that
question. without progeny OF
son, Rarick sat in. his Gothic
aisle, pondering his responsible
tiles of disposing of wealth that
up to now had chiefly accrued
interest and objects.
According to the charts of
the companies that carried his
enormous insurance, his span
of life was two-thirds spent.
Even with long-life expectancy.
and somehow in Rarick that
expectancy had never run high,
the time had come when man
whose share in the wealth Of
the world, if you figured it per
capita, was several millions of
human heads, must prepare to
put his house in order.
Personal Matter
THE wealth which man
draws from his fellow creatures
as clouds draw rain from poi
sonous and sweet water alike.
must be made to ascend again
in productive rains or what
availeth it?"
The disposition of over one
hundred million dollars accord
ing to a mans temperament,
family, dependents, hobbies,
preferences, philanthropies, al
truismS, VISIONS, principles.
and conscientious convictions.
was a highly personal and com
plex matter, to say nothing of
the responsibilities. ethical and
sentimental, for which there
was no proviSo in the erudite
volumes of economics, sociology
philanthropy, or wealth in re,
lation to peoples, land, cities,
industry and countries.
The time had come, it seemed
to Rarick, to formulate into
words of legal document, the
cropping conviction of years,
which, aided and abetted by
what he regarded as certain
brilliant thinking of Gerkes,
the death of his son had solidi-
fled his mind.
A Great Crusade
The time had come when
Rarick contemplated with OBJ
session the turning of his capi.
tai into wealth, wisely minted,
into the largest crusade Of pre-
ventive scientific and Sociolog-
ical research ever launched as
either group or individual en-
terprise.
The wealth which man draws
from his fellow-creatures was
not to descend in a crushing,
golden mantle upon such shoul-
ders as Jenny's, to whom those
follow-creatureS by now had be-
come so many millions of mag.
gots eating away the impedi.
menta of life to her, that she
might walk in glory.
It was thus out of the
freighted solitudes Of the long
evenings of the long months
following the death of Avery,
that Rarick began writing the
document that was to be his
last will and testament.
The day the last steel beam
was laid across the seventy
ninth story of the skeleton of
the Rarick Building, Hellman
arranged a ceremonial: a lunch.
con to take place under gay