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Show OO GARLAND GIVES FORTUNE AWAY One Million Dollars to Endow En-dow Organization of Theorists NEW YORK, July 19 -Charles Garlands Gar-lands famous $1,000,000 fortune Is to endow "unfavorable causes," according accord-ing to announcement today by Walter Nelles, an attorney representing the American Fund For Public Service, Just incorporated in Delaware. According to Hb Incorporators, tbV new organization "is analogous to various va-rious community trusts now in sue cossful operation in a number of the larger cities." They explained, however, how-ever, that the governing bodies of these existing organizations are "too conservative" and that the American Fund For Public Service was designed to establish "a fund controlled bv per sons who will not be conventional in their ecucepllon of public service and who will give preference to new and experimental agencies " The incorporators were announced as Norman M. Thomas and Lewis Gannett, of this clt , associated editors edit-ors of the Notion; Professor Robert M. Lovett, of the University of Chicago, Chi-cago, and Roger N. Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties un-! Ion. In 1919 Garland achieved "wide no- w l LJg lice when he refused to accept $1,000,-000 $1,000,-000 as his share In tho estate of hia father, James A. Garland of Boston, declaring ho would not. accept monov he had not earned. Some time later, he explained that ho had changed his mind and would accept the legacy be cause he wished to settle $200,000 on his wife and dispose of the remainder as he saw fit More notoriety came to him a year BgO vvhn he introduced Miss Lillian Conrad, a Boston art student, into his home near North Carver. Mass, Whereupon his wffe took their daughter daugh-ter and went to live with her family in Boston Miss Conrad later returned re-turned to her home and last April Garland and his wife were reported rnunlted. after the birth of a son. but it is now said that their reconciliation Id Id not last. NOT PERMANENT FUND. It was said today at the American Civil Liberties union that it is the present intention to dispose entirely : of the prospective fund by giving it to the caufe8 which tho directors fa-i fa-i vor and that ther are opposed to establishing es-tablishing a permanent endowment. Establishment of (he American Fund For Public Service was an- nounced by tho incorporators on July , 9. The purpos of the organization at that time were announced as beinc "the establishment or a national funi to promote experimental agencies for public welfare." |