Education: Schock's Gift

Clarence Schock is short, stocky and devout, looks like a Pennsylvania Dutch Dr. Dafoe. Fifty-three years ago he started an oil business with his father in Mt. Joy, near Lancaster, Pa. Now Schock Independent Oil Co. has 14 wholesale plants and a dozen gasoline service stations, is valued at $1,000,000.

Recently Mr. Schock, 75, became concerned about the future of 1) his business, 2) his money. Though married, he is childless. Moreover, he believes that the system of inheritance is unChristian. "If we abolish all inheritance of property and if we fixed a limit...

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