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Show Two Tragedies of Great Riches Recent self-imposed deaths of Ivan Kreuger, the Swedish Swed-ish match multi-millionaire, and George Eastman, the American Amer-ican kodak multi-millionaireshould teach people, once more, the lesson that money usually means unhappiness. Worry drove Kreuger and Eastman to their graves, by their own hands, iach had more money than he could possibly pos-sibly use; the memory of each should be held sympathetically. sympathetic-ally. Both, mainly, were creatures of chance, as all wealthy men are. Why do people foolishly strive for great fortunes, well-knowing well-knowing if they read or think at all that such great hoards of gold always bring distress, misery and often untimely un-timely death ? When one man has too much of this world's goods, others by the hundred must get along without enough. These hundreds, too, arc miserable. Before we can have more happiness and less unnecessary grief on earth, we must work out some way to level off wealth, so that all may have enough. Thus, we shall do away, at one stroke, with the misery of poverty and the sometimes even greater misery of wealts. |