Show the old settler 1 my jy dear san Jua Juans ners rs continued from last week he had promised to listen a and nd he held some warm object i tion which came almost to his lips after all the splendid things I 1 you have accomplished and the I 1 wealth you have accumulated there is s a logical thing for you to do now as a fitting f climax to your lifes achievements you have given your time and attention to building up yourself and getting etting cr richer and risher richer you have depreciated the efforts of men who worked to help their fellows and have called them poor investors and yet you and I 1 your children have bene fitted i much by their contributions to your advantage 1 now is your ioime time to do the big generous thing to put yourself on record i not as the self centered person I 1 I 1 you have seemed to ibe but as a man with broad vison for the welfare of mankind in laen general oral something in my flat flattery tery and i my frankness appealed to him I 1 and I 1 went on wow vow is your time to repay in liberal measures the benefits you have re from the men and women who iwho have been th aking ifor for the well being ibeling of others 0 instead I 1 of for themselves and I 1 theres another big teason reason why you should now invest your earnings in helping the many instead of in demoralizing the few esp espe especially e bially when those few are the people you love most you should save your children from the hurtful effect all this money will have on them your children dont need it better off without it when you look back from the other world i at the seventy five years you have lived here and see many the he better for your contribution and see your own children developing velo ve strength and character by making it for themselves as you had to do you will get a satisfaction which can never come from putting all this into their hands and leaving i warded the multitude who have been giving their lives for oth eds in the little interim I 1 allowed for his reaction he groped for something to say oh well il 1 aint dead for twenty years yet betl no youre still very much I 1 alive you still cave have all your faculties es and this is your supreme opportunity to make the very best investment of your life this will be the real long range investment bringing increasing returns for centuries to come if I 1 leave my property to my children break the will on the claim that I 1 had gone insane I 1 with your intention to live twenty years yet have ample time to establish your will just as you want it and be 1 1 come known even while you live as a great benefactor of mankind you could make the I 1 two big ranches into two fine 2 towns where a multitude of men and women could live in their own homes sustain them themselves selve and raise happy children youl you could name each town for yourself start them out as ideal communities build each one of them a school house and give onea one a hospital your soul would thrill over it more than over anything you have ever done yet you would be remembered remember edl continued on editorial page the old S settler ettler continued from pare pape 1 and loved by the multitude for generations to iome come and your posterity would be pointed out as s the eh ch idren of the great benefactor there was a new sparkle in his eye I 1 felt that at last I 1 was on the brink of victory but h n was called to the telephone a long distance call it was a man wanting to talk with him about a bigg big sheep ranch in wyoming a ip ece of property he had been trying for years to get hold of a and nd now it was being offe offered to him ho he dismissed me as courteously as abruptness would permit promising to see me ma again later on I 1 ascertained that he closed the deal for the sheep ranch but whether it was for lack of time or lack of inclination he 1 gave me no invitation or opportunity to talk with him again I 1 gave it up as something so near and yet so far and dropped it from my worries I 1 had almost forgotten it when I 1 heard that the old man had died quite suddenly from a heart ailment whether ne ever did anything at all about the investment I 1 suggested or whether he ever really thought seriously of it I 1 do not know I 1 do know that when he died he was regarded and spoken of as a man w who ho had been interested in his own gain to the crowding out or cons consuming timing of every one who got in his way and I 1 know his children quarreled with and hated each other d dragging agg g their affairs into cou court t and adding to the already undesirable reputation their father had made for himself ALBERT R LYMAN |