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Show Rockefeller 87 ! On July S, John D. Rockefeller, a little old man in Tarry-t Tarry-t town, N. Y., passed his 87th milestone. Rockefeller has I made millions. He has known the struggle of poverty, the thrill of success, and has watched his money mount into uncountable un-countable piles. , But he has a human chord in him that responds quickly to the touch of progress or of need. The same hand that gives little children shiny dimes also has passed out $600,000,000 in donations to help make a better world. Rockefeller has moved some of his mountains of gold to the tasks of increasing in-creasing human knowledge about food supply, clothing, shelter, shelt-er, sanitation, public health, commerce and manufacture. He has given part of his millions to help the onward march of government and law so that the hand of justice may reach farther. He has set aside sums for advancing language and literature, science and philosophy, art and refinement, re-finement, morality and religion. Thf Rockefeller Foundation, the Laura Spellman Foundation Foun-dation ar-d his various medical gifts offer a way to people to attain higher happiness in life. The basis of his charity is: Progress toward Happiness. He has held out to the world a clnnce for better things. The people must help themselves to realize it. |