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YOUNG GARLAND EXPLAINS STAND | . I Refuses to Accept Million Dollar Leg acy?Many People Have Writ ten Telling Him of Good He Could Do. Buzzard's Bay, Mass., Nov. 30.? Charles Garland, the young man who has renounced his right to a milion dollar legacy left him by his father, James A. Garland, who was a wealthy clubman and yachtman of Boston, today made a formal state ment of his reasons for rejecting the money. His statement, he said, was due to the fact that many re ports of his failure to accept the leg acy have failed properly to present his positon. "I refuse to accept the money be cause it is not mine," . was young Garland's summary of his action. * * - ** OA "A system wmcn starves uiuu?uuo while hundreds are stuffled con demns itself. A system which leaves ? a sick woman helpless and offers its services to a healthy man condemns itself. It is such a system that offers me a milKon dollars," he continued. "It's blind to the simplest truth known to every child ,the truth that the hungry should be fed . and the .naked clothed. I have had to choose between the loss of private property and the law which is written in every human heart. I choose the one which I believe to be true," .. .. Garland, who has stated that he renounced his claim to the million dollars because he thought Christ wotua nave aone tne stunw, wumi ued: , "I believe I could do no good with the money. It is the man who gives food to the hungry who does good, not the dollars given in exchange for the food. I would be happy to be the man if I had the food to give, but I can not lend myself to hand ling the money that is not mine even though the good that might be done is possibly great," Mapy people have written to' tell him what could be done with the money, he said. ."They seem almost proud to point out the power that I have in my hands, but it is the most pitiful thing they could point to. 'You can't serve God and mammon.' So many people ready to serve the dollar means so many less to . serve God. There are great oppor tunities to do good 'but they are iiV men's hearts not in my check book. A preacher in the name of Christ said this million should have been , turned to good. He thinks that good God's work is paid for in dollars. God's work will never be done until : men see that this theory is untrue.' ' Mr. Garland's statement was made 5 from has home here, a former inn of stage coach days. The young man, 1 who is 22 years of age, is livng at 1 the house with his wife and infant daughter as the guest of his mother, Mrs. Marie Tudor Green, who -sup plies them with a maid and keeps J their larder full. He plans to go to work eventually, he said, but a year ' at Harvard colleg* which he left to get married and preparatory school ing in this country and in England fitted him for no work ready at hand, and he said he thought it < would be spring before he found s anything. His wife joined with him < in his renunciation of the million. 1 His mother, although not holding 1 the same view, has told him to do \ what he thought right. i In another house on the estate 1 lives James A. Garland, 3rd, a < brother of Charles Garland, who has accepted his share of his father's ; estate, made larger by tTie fact that the mother of the boys abandoned her rights in order to marry Francis C. Green after the death of her first husband. At Harvard college is Hamilton Garland, a third son, who lacks several months of reaching his majority. His brother, Charles, said today that he understood Hamilton also was considering refusal to take his share when he became of age. Their ideas on the subject were somewhat similar, he said, althbugh the influences of education and en vironment were not identical. Garland indicated that his refusal to take the money was not based on any question attached to the origin of the Garland fortune, saying he did not Wnow from what source it ived, but he believed it came down from his grandfather. Arab physicians discovered the dis tilation of alcohol from the lees of wine through experiments with mus tard. Legal Blanks for Sale Here.? ?he Press and Banner Company. TREATY WITH MEXICO LOOMS ON HORIZON Colby Makes Formal Proposal That Commissioners Be Appointed to Discuss Basis Upon Which Relations May Be Re sumed With South Washington, Dec. 1.?A formal proposal from Secretary Colby that commissioners be appointed by the United States and Mexico to draft a treaty upon which can be based re-ji sumption of full diplomatic relations between the two governments has been taken to Mexico City by Ro- j berto V. Pesqueira, Mexican confiden- i tial agent in Washington. This was disclosed tonight when the state department made public Mr. : Colby's answer to Mr. Pesqueira's re-1 ] cent letter urging recognition by the J United States of the new government j 1 of Mexico. It was handed to the Mex- u ican agent before his departure j Thanksgiving day to attend the in- ' auguration of President-elect Ohre- i gon of Mexico Derember 1. Referring to his conversations with Mr. Pesqueira, Secretary Colby in his ' letter said they served to leave no 1 reasonable doubt "of the high and en- ^ lightened purposes that actuate the present government of Mexico."' 1 As to Article 27 of the Mexican con stitution, long a stumbling block to complete understanding between the two governments, Mr. Colby said the ' statement in Mr. Pesqueira's letter ' that it "is not and must not be in- ; terpreted as retroactive or violative ! if valid property rights," should "al- ^ lay the fears of those who have ac- 1 quired valid titles'' in Mexico,- adding 1 'I can conceive of nothing better calculated to-correct this misunder- 1 standing." . , . "It only remains," Mr. Colby con tinued, "to give , these understand ngs a form which is usual in deal ngs between friendly' states, and I 1 have the honor to suggest that com nissioners be promptly designated jy both Mexico and the United Stat- ^ es to formulate a treaty, embodying ^ :he agreements which have been reach ed as the result of your successful . nission." CAMP SEVIER SOLDIER PATIErffS HAVfe CLOSE CALL FROM FIRE GJreenville, Dec. 1.?Sixty-eight soldiers patients from all parts of the country in" the United States public Health service hospital at Camp Sevier, had a narrow escape about midnight, when fiTe practical ly destroyed Wards 16 and 17." The patients aided by nurses and Red Cross workers, were removed with out confusion in 'record time and no one wjas reported injured. ; Men and women who fail to vote n Czecho-Sloxakia are sentenced to jail. SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. - STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA County of Greenwood. By virtue of a mortgage given un ^ rt MKWtE, NVftN t C.ON- , GUKtVJVME NOO OH "XHt MCRN ' f-\NE PAPtB. NOV) GETtmOr OOf. fWE VM0R5** "TM\KJO fcfcOUTj tWOSE ttt.\PS "fo tRKNCi. WK?> 1 / X TUt\NNH t ; / / WS&EOfHE | RfcV>EW.\* | ier date Feb. 9, 1920, to the under signed by Ben Aiken, I will sell for :ash to the highest bidder at Abbe ville Court House in the Town of Ab beville, at 11 o'clock, on the 15th day )f December A. D., 1920, the follow ng described personal property to wit: One Black Mare Mule, six years >ld. S. 0. HARVEY, L-12-3t.c Greenwood, S. C. SEEKING COMPROMISE IN JAPANESE TREATY Washington, Nov. 30.?Represen tative Albert Johnson of Washington chairman of the house committee on immigration, now drafting a bill com pletely excluding all Japanese from the United States today conferred at the state department with Roland S. Morris, ambassador to Japan. This is the first of a series of con ferences between the members of congress and state department of ficials made necessary by the fact that the United States and Japan are unable to agree upon the terms of a new treaty under negotiations for the past three months. It has been reported' that Japan is now demanding full citizenship for her nationals now in this country. While it is understood that Mr. Col by fully realizes the impossibility of granting any such demand he is anxious to ascertain how far congress would be willing to go in affecting a compromise. The largest forest in the world is in the Labrador and Hudson Bay iistrict, and is, roughly, 1000 by 1700 miles. PRESIDENTS GREETINGS TO YOUNG DEMOCRATS New York, Nov. 30.?A call to >ptimism and progress was sounded today by President Wilson. In a letter to Thomas F. Compton, j secretary of the Young Americans Democratic league of New York, meeting in White Plains, the presi ient wrote: "Will you not convey my cordial greetings to the first annual New fork state convention of the Young Americans league? "It is the young men of the coun- I ;ry who must correct the reaction i and pessimism of some of the older I nen and push forward toward a re- | ilizatioh of the genuine ideals which j :annot be lived up to without cour- j ige and a constant' renewal of fidelity j o the purest conceptions of democra- j :y and of international responSibil- j ty\ . ... . . . . " .. 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