Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-03-22 | Page 12 | The Humanizing of Wealth

I The Humanizing of Wealth 1 j o By DR FRANK CRANE We Ve still lIng linger 1 under the Influence of t ideas that thai were cro formed long ago under different nt conditions We have institutions which have long since lost Jost their theil usefulness and still sUII hold sway Most lost churches th are are 1 based upon issues that we wo havo have given up long since One of or these notions Is that wealth of or Any kind especially great wealth Is necessarily criminal Christ warned earned us that it is as as- ashard hard for a rid rich richman richman 1 man to get Into the kingdom of ot heaven as for a L camel top ass through the tho eye 0 of or a needle and the tin saying flayIng w was s often oUen heard In those times Umes ot of Woe V unto the rich But somehow by tho the slow influence nce 01 of ot r the teachings of Christ or for some somo other reason the nature of ot wealth has changed Time was nhen wealth was simply poverty 0 of ot t which other people were were- deprived and by b which we wi S were vero benefited It was apparently Impossible t to conceive of ot a man being rich unless he had r robbed robbe I someone else Even nowadays s 's a n rich man is often orten 1 looked upon as one who has profited in Iii some Mine way by tho misfortunes of or his fellows felloes as there cannot t be bo a man of ot great wealth unless there are many man V men greatly poor But the character of the modern modem 1 wealth unit is different from that in former Cormer day das 1 Then the basis of ot wealth might have been r robber V Vor or thievery or special privilege of ot some kind but bu t nowadays few people c can n become very wealthy unless unies S it is by benefiting others Henry Ford is not begrudged his great fort fortune fortUn nc C for Cor for the reason that in making it he has helped th the e general public and also employed labor Jabor at good wages It is 15 significant that men of great wealth Instead of ot founding fortunes and giving of ot their poss possessions S Sto to dissipated heirs are seeking to benefit the Hie public C by their fortunes i A. A P. P Gianinni the head bead of ot one of the largest larges t I aggregations ns pt of f capital In the world the Bank 0 of f i Italy 1131 has recently donated over to his native na native I tive state for the tho benefit of ot agriculture II lie ha j S said that ho Is determined not to die rich He lie evidently evi dently does not want to perpetuate an enormous unit uni t of ot wealth but butIn in some somo way to benefit bf the people by it ii L' L Rockefeller is devoting his huge fortune to medIcal med med- ical and scientific as ns well as religious purposes an and rI the benefactions of ot Andrew Carnegie are well known knowl I. I Evidently E tho the teachings of ot the Redeemer have hay e found deep root in modern civilization and indirectly indi Indi- if It not directly wealth la th feeling the obligation obliga lion tion to help along the world workS Copyright I 1928 McClure l Newspaper Syndicate A. A