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Show Rockefeller's $32,000,000 i Gift to Education If ' That Sum Could Support hi Com- I fort 304,762 Persons for Onu W Yc.tr, Could Build Homos for W 100, 000, Could Pay Otic Year's I Interest on the National Debt, I and Could Prvvido for All the I' Yearly Hxpciisis of the Gov- I crmncnts of Denmark and j, Greece Combined. - Socialism Views the Great Gift Willi Only Partial Approval; Mayor Tom L. Johnson Says It Is An Anchor Cant to Windward Wind-ward Against the Time that People Will Become Aroused: the French Press, Astonished at Its Sire, Differ as to the Motive for It. New York-Thlrt)-two million dollars dol-lars for cducnilon' This latest girt of John I). Hockcii'llcr no ovcitopb anything uvit known In the lino of philanthropic giving that It requires some anal) zing to comprehend tlm viistiioK.s or the sum. In recent years Ihu American people huvo had their fliiiuicliil sense of proportion unduly expanded liy talk of nillllonH tost-cil iilmnt to various Institutions. It Ib woith while to look first Into , tho cnoi minis utiioitnt of lahor requir ed to produce this mini which Mr. Hockofolloi Ih able to give away, sa)s the New York Woild. Tho lTnlted Htiitt'H census lepoit roe moo contains winio stnllstlcs iiihiii till relluoiios. The Standard Oil company, of which Mr Rockefeller Ih titular piesldent ilili'K'Hl 14 ..1 tlnlly would ok lt--u lllllt-H IOIIK '-'- Illlll-H ft til ill) I .11 to It" ' and 1 1 inn which he made In ue.iiili. owns or contiolH nearly all the ie llnork'H In tho country. ., What Gift Means In Labor. t Tho cenaiiH lopuit hii-h that the u , oragu wages paid In till icIlnorlL's to able-bodied men over If! yearn of . "W 1" 18U9 wan .'iC7 a jear. 01 a trllle over $10 a week Dealing with the tnattor of lahor alone, in the ncciinui-latlon ncciinui-latlon of these thlily-two millions It would requlro tho uiiiomittliig work f mi army of ft7.Ui) men giving all thulr xvugoa to Mr Hocliefeller ror ono whole year at tho average rifto Htundatil Oil men were paid to make up his gift. That would he equivalent to all the worklngmon In Piovldenco or Kan-hub Kan-hub City or Hochcstor turnliiK over . their vvngeH for a ear to Mr Kockc-1 ( feller a whole city woiklng for him I no that thlH gift might be accumii ' . luted. Tho production of crude petroleum In the United States In l'JOri, the hit- ' 0 oat year for which statistics nie avail-' ( ahlo, waa appioxlmatoly 1 10 000.000 1 harroU. A trilling dlfTeionco of 2:1 contB per barrel, or about one-half I f cent pur Kallon. on this output would i mako up tho gift in a bIdkIo year ) The Standard Is not ho much a pio- tlticw of petroleum as It Is u roflner anil aollor. It buH from oil-well owners own-ers most of Its raw pioduot and fixes tho prlco, which fluctuates considerably. considera-bly. Thorcforo so bIIkIU a reduction , two-half cent por gallon In tho uuioimt the Standard pays to uroduc- its would qulckl) sum up to the educational edu-cational gilt figures 1 I Would Pay Interest on National Debt. ! Some of the things that $:i2,00(),ooo i would do in making history lllustiutc 1 strll.fiigly the power, or Individual ( wealth. That much mono) would pa.v I for the running of the governments of Denmark and (iiecee comliluetl for a eur, countilos that maintain nival families that -are lelnled to neatly nil the thioues of Kinope It Is sevvuil nillllntis ninri' than the annual iev-enue iev-enue or oltho.- Vniwiiv or Mexico, and far exceeds the Income of a lot of j Kecond-ratt! miilons Willi It he could pay the IntereHt for a eur on the im-I im-I tltiual tlelil of the t'nlted States. In is.'.li this Klft would have liquidated I the nation's entire national debt. Kveti now b a Utile mine than doubling doub-ling the amount Mr. Itoekeleller could tendi r Norvvn) llnnuclally riee and perhaps win the Nnliel p-ace pile I Mi Cunieglo believes that books af I foul the best education Tint best , books that weie ever written, those or Hit- kind that arc round in Sir John Lubbock's list or one hundred best books, can be published ami sold today to-day lor 25 cciils each Klghl or such volumes would cost two dullais Mr Knckereller's Klft would place such it nucleus of an education In the hands of every child of school age In the I'nlted Stntes. or It would place them I at n library In possesion of every fain-I fain-I lly In the countrv j It costs about $S0 a ear to educate a child In the public schools or small communities Tho Interest alone on the Itokereller donation iimouuts, at I live per cent, to fl.r.oO.ooo a jeur. j That sum would give education each e.ir to S0.00O children It would moie than pay the enlhe cost or teaching New York Cltv's i.iMi.ilim children rtil a veai TuiiiliiK aside tnini o.liu . itlon.il lie III! I IMII ! Ill ' 'Will ! i . ri.-lK tiinun ! tif sil tt( in-n . J2 f lift i ItniiMt- Ml Tut t-.uii iiii-K. a Milileri on whii li Mi llm ki feller's Kfiieral education liu.u 1 tias all manner of stiitlstlcH. there art I some essential piactlcal thliiKs that his Ihlrly-tvvo millions would do. Kur (Mimplp. It costs even lit present IiIkIi ' prices, about RHOl) to build a house In Hiooklyn with all modern conveniences conveni-ences and or Milllcleut size to contain two families ol live pontons each. 1 Tecnnleally these are known as two- , family houses The education kIM would build 10,000 of ' such houso, ' KlviUK hlllp) homes til 100,0011 people i who now met el) exist in cmwded ' teiMiuents. I Alliauy Is a city of lou.nim penpii-All penpii-All of them could be comtortaiil' phi Into homes that mlKht be bulii with Mich a sum The total assessed leal ly valuallon of Albaii) Is $01 one nun -of which moie titan one hair U busi I noes iroiert So that the edut .iMon Klft mlKht puichase the homes ol .in entire capital ell The cohi ol nv Iiik Inst j ear In the Hulled St,iu-. was $105 per person, kIvIiik all the neces sltles of lire At this late 30t.7H:' people could be supported ror a cutout cut-out or the douation Nobod) In such cities as Newaik, WiisIiIiikIoii, Mil-waukno, Mil-waukno, Dutiolt, or New Orleans would have to won about root! or clothltih" The meie Inteiest on the sum would support perpetually the ' entire population or such cities as Ansonln, Conn.; Johnstown, N Y.. or Now Uocholle. Any city or 1.1.000 people could live on the Income or Ihu Klft. In tlm matter of food alonu such a sum wnulfi do wtinflwrs. Its not Inteiest Income, amounting to $4,329 a day. would forever feed n Flclsch-man Flclsch-man blend line of SG.r.SO men, IvlnB one a loaf of bread every night. That line would extend not merelv around Orace church, as at piesent. but 1!2 tulles up llroadwa.v to Tarrlowu. Would Build Another Subway. It could build another subway In New York clt.v llko the present one, I the most marvelous lallwuv In the j win Id. iMrryltiK moie jmsseiiKt'rn In a dn.v than many great lines do In six i months It could constiuct a trunk Ulie rttiui New Yoik 1.2S0 tulles West-i West-i ward in Kansas City, at the uite or I $-T..00(i u mile rthlch Js all that roads cost imdei inn nial conditions The thltiKS that could be dune ror , .lit- material bcnellt ol humanity with j the sum or $".L'.000,ooi) ate or great i number The iniestlon nilses whether , the money mlKht have bet u bettei ap-i ap-i piled to some or them j Mr. W II Mullock, the eminent ! Ihigllsh antagonist or socialism, was I asked how he legatded Mr Hiickefel- lei's bequest ' To pass'anv cotnpetent opinion on j lis etfects on pulillc weKaie and Imp iilui'ks would icipilre c.iiffiil study.' he leplled. Such an enormous gift so overtop- anything we have had In ICnglnnd that I haidly know how to gaiiKe it "In one sense I should sav that tho Individual who liv extiaortllnary ability abil-ity and talent makes a great fortune, would do better not to attempt giving It uvu lilniM'ir, hut pass Hint duty on, to his sons Ills genius has been that of vvtnk and inonej quaking The sons would not uecessaill.v be brought nit In the same line of accumulation. They could devolo their time and tnl-cut tnl-cut Iherefoie. belter to tho question of pioper tllstilbutlnu ".lr. t'aincRle's bequests to libraries librar-ies bavo produccii much criticism In Ihiglutid because of the bunions he Imposes on the taxpayers. In this retipect the kIvIiik railed of due appro-' appro-' elation. Gift Should Dcnen't Labor. Too. ! "You ask me how I should have liked In see this bequest or Mr Uocke-Mb-1 applied illlTcri'iitl.v " I cannot ! aiiswei. as I have not examined It ftll-l.v ftll-l.v To a eiitaiu extent I would luivo I tin- phllanihtopli- girts so made ns to j heuelli labor as well as education. Pin example, a gift thai would enable ibe ev.mitioiiH of llerciilaiieillii and otliei Inn led cities to be uncovered would alTotd not mil) labor but Increase In-crease our mm or knowledge. i ' Whether such enormous donations i will affect I he theory of socialism Is a question ct to he answered. In one foim It certnlnly Is a illsttlhiitlon or wealth The scute on which It Is being conducted In the United States fairly bewilders one." Socialism views the Itockufeller h-quest h-quest with partial approval as a means toward the end it desires, ,1. (1 Phelps Stokes, one or tlm party leaders, said J. G. Phelps Stokes' Ideas. While I am not pri'iKircd to ills tifit otr-haud how 1 would dlsposo or Mist ,i sum. 1 cortnlnly would not ilvt- it t public charity. I would i. mmi ihe doling out or $:tu.ooo.ooo in a iiiik an a calatlilt) I do not ap i mi, ir i xti'tiHive chailt). It ac.com- ImIiis no jH'inaueni results In re- ie viuu pnvi-ii). without lemovlng Its i miio education alone wilt do thai, .uid in i h ulfi to higher education will .itTft t ihe pooi in that It will work lo t-i-ale u keener nppieclatioii of JllS- 1 lll-l-lt is iinfoi innate, however, that the suspicion should attach to this gift fin the pm pose of leading men to the truth that men who dare teach the 1 1 mil as the) see It mil) llnd their 1 chairs In colleges vacated. i Should Hint money he given to hospitals hos-pitals vou ask? I should say no. I would have the hospitals silppottcd lis the state Disease Is the result or toiidltlous created by man. And to have the Individual turn around and give baik to sot let) part of the inoin-v he has wrung from It to alleviate allevi-ate the conditions he himself has clouted clo-uted Ih tncoiiKiuous That Is the 1 function of the state Kducatlon Is the only hopo for tho j lellef of the conditions of tho p. ! t'titll man Is taught the rights of his lellow mini and learns to icHpecl them, conditions will continue us the) ale t'lidei pieseui mt ial conditions. I gills to ediic-ilion ate the best wii) of Would KlN- i, in ef Mil- Ili.KUl (III rmnlllis In tin t'liiiiii KUiti-H hIkIU Ini tmoks ' disposing of these vust aceiiuiulalliins or wealth. " i Tom Johnson's Opinion, On ihu other hand, the motives piomptlng such a gift are questioned by many people of advanced Ideas. Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland, hluMulf a nian of wealth, speaking of r Mr. Itoekefcller'a gift, nald: "U is an anchor to tho windward against the Unio when an amused peoples will curtail tho privileged of public-service corporations The Rut wns not In cash. Most likely It was railway bo curltles, Kverv one of these Is n mortgage against the ruttiro Some day It will develop perhnps that the special prhlli-Ki'i which these rail roads unjo) win M. tluoiitoiicil. "It will lesiiit u sudden squcer. tng or the water out or these stocks Then thorn will w ,,,, n cl ,lmt nirsi great educational Inteiests, dependeiii tliuiit the letnnis rrom these secur" ties, are being Ihienlened Theto will he talk, ilso, or what the widows -inn I vw 1 H58 UnnOinir . in p. Kntlnn tin lln in., inul It lllllf llllllnll KltlmtH r nude Hlroll 11111 Iffiw! BtrV M n.rl ,u..l II orphnnB hii In . .inner of losing. A condition win tie pu'sented that m.iy have n protectlvo effect for the cor poratlonn Involved." Gift Is Dlseutsed In Europe, nisc.UBslnr over tie gift hits spread to Kuropc The World's Paris corns pondent In a speclnl cable despatch Bald: "The Ilocktroller girt has excited astonlshiiHMit In tho l-'iench press Several studies or bin lemperauieni have lieeii published In which tin wiitera seel; ror reasons which prompted the giving awn or such tin (mormons sum One editor nuggi-ity piety as the cmise and another sug Kcsts Hist all American inllllonnlret tremble In dread of Irwh that ma) rob them of their wealtji "The American tempeiainent, sr tho uitlcle continues. Is lestlvo against great accumulations, and this onprmoiis bequest Is Intended to stavt off public action in the Individual act of miirdi'iniis Jealous) and onv. "Still annthor writer snys that Mr Hockefcller wnntH to be talked about for other than ilnnnclal diminution. Ho cannot dniunyihlng great for lack of riiltl virion lie has no tut c.ollec-tloikjllertiial c.ollec-tloikjllertiial pursuits about Ni!jJPHBfefci liear. ho llllllit H lUhlOMV ' t"t Ihe I'etl Pails.tit. however, taken ja moro geniious view, IiellBvIng that Mr Uocktjfi .ler. ti'illlu Krenoh mil- i llon.ilien, fet-hi i'im ply that grout WlUlIll llllpOnl'S lllllles IIIHIII Its K)S- lessor and In pine Justice Is doliu; his howl to Hcpilt himself." |
