Show AMERICAS AMERICA'S FROZEN WEALTH If It the size of a nations nation's heart can be judged by the amount of money which its departed citizens leave behind them for humanitarian humanitarian human I- I purposes then America is the biggest hearted nation in the world For each year when the wills of the deceased are read between two and three billion dollars dollars dol dol- lars lana are arc added to the enormous wealth which already stands set aside for lor the endowment of ot the various educational and charitable charitable char char- works which appealed most to the donors O Of course all of these bequests are commendable in purpose Many of them are so carefully devised that they will probably withstand all the changing conditions conditions conditions con con- of the years to come But others are committed so definitely to the dogmatic notions of the donors that within a short time they too are destined to die and the millions of ot dollars they represent will be added to the na na tlona staggering pile of frozen wealth Many of the obsolete bequests date back to the early days of ot the republic when the owners owner of the nations nation's first wealth fashioned their posthumous charities In the spirit lt of the times in which they lived confident that things would always alway be pretty much as a. they were then But the frozen wealth which has been piled up in the past still confronts us with its greenish- greenish golden stare What will become of it One guess gue is as good a. a as another These Theo billions lie He in th the boneyard of American philanthropy py an object lesson for the neo neo- 0 pie who have money to give away James Monahan in Cosmopoli Cosmopoli- tan |