Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1907-03-09
MIR. ROCKEFELLER'S MIGHTY
GIFT TO EDUCATION.

John D. Rockefeller appears in all
the comment on his gift of $4,000
600 to the General Education Board
not even a suspicion that he is trying
to increase the burning OF midnight
oil. Even Mr.. Hearst's New York
American owns up that "the most
appropriate time for considering the
social perils of such a fortune as
John D. Rockefeller's is hardly when
he is parting with it for the promotion
of knowledge" This gift, added to
previous ones, brings Mr.. Rockefel-
ler's total benefactions to education
up to a sum reckoned by various pap
ers at from $So,ooo,ooo to 81 Sc, 100000.
One friend of the oil magnatc says
that Mr.. Rockefeller himself does
not know how much lie has given, and
it would take a long search through
the books to find out. One import
ant feature of the present gift is the
fact that o%ne-third of it is to be added
to the permanent endowment of the
board, and is likely to be used large
ly for secondary schools. The other
two-thirds will be given from time
to time for specific objects. 1t is in
tended that the gifts will be so condi-
toned upon the raising of other sums
by each institution that will eventual
" mean the addition of from $780,
100000 to $25o,ooo,ooo to the edu-
cational funds of the needy schools
and colleges. The board said in
their reply to MIR. Rockefeller
"This is the largest sum ever given
by a man in the history of the race
for any social or phiianthropic pur-
pose. The board co%ngratulates you
upon the high and wise impulse which
moved you to this deed and desires
to thank you in behalf of all educa-
tional interests, whose development
it will advance; in behalf of our
country, whose civilization for all
time it should be made to strengthen
and elevate, and in behalf Of mankind
everywhere, in whose interest it has
been given and for whose use it is
dedicated.
"The administration of this fund
entails upon the General Education
Board of the most far-reaching re-
sonsibility ever placed upon any cdu-
cational organization in the world.
AS members of the board we accept
of its difficulties and its opportunities.
We will use our best wisdom to
transmute your gift into intellectual
and moral power, counting it a SUI
preme privilege to dedicate whatever
strength we have to its just use in
the service of men,"
Most of the newspaper editorials
are devoted to expressions of admir-
alton and goodwill. The New York
World, however, presents i'll its COM
ment the following interesting lnfor-
nation:
Five allotments made by the
board at the special meeting which re-
ceived the notice of Mr.. Rockefeller's
endowment gave some idea of the
extent of it's activities. The money
goes to strengthen small colleges in
Ohio, IT, LANA, Iowa, Wisconsin, and
Pennsylvania-just the kind of col
leges whose work, modest i'll the i'll
dividual case but vast in the aggre-
gate, the new British Ambassador,
Mr.. Bryce, highly praises in his great
work on the American democracy.
THE contrast between the wealth
of the cities and states of the NORTH
and the frontier conditions of the
South and West gives such a boaro
its opportunity. The enrolment o