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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-03-07

ling the amount Mr.. Rockefeller could
render Norway financially free and
perhaps win the Nobel peace prize.
Mr.. Carnegie believes that books af-
ford the best education The best
books that were ever written, those
of the kind that are found in Sir John
Lubbock's list of one hundred best
books, can be published and sold to-
day for 25 cents each. Eight of such
volumes would cost two dollars. Mr..
Rockefeller's gift would place such a
nucleus of an education in the hands
of every child of school age in the
United States, or it would place them
as library in possession of every fam
lily in the country.
1t costs about 500 year to educate
child in the public schools of small
communities. The interest alone on
the Rockefeller donation amounts, at
five per cent, to $1,e00,O00 a year.
That sum would give education each
year to 10000 children 1t would more
than pay the entire cost of teaching
New York City's 100000 children for
year.
Turning aside from educational fig
ures, subject on which Mr.. Rookie
feller's general education board has
all manner of statistics, there are
some essential practical things that
his thirty-two millions would do. For
example, it costs, even at present high
prices, about $4,000 to build house
in Brooklyn with all modern convent
ences and of sufficient size to contain
two families of five persons each.
Technically these are known as two
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-03-07
ROckefeIler's $32,OOO,OOO
Gift to Education

in the United States in 1905, the lat
est year for which statistics are avail
able, was approximately 140,00O,0 900
barrels. A trifiing difference of %
cents per barrel, cor about one-half
cent per gallon, on this output would
make up the gift in a single year.
The Standard is not so much pro-
ducer of petroleum as 1t is a refiner
and seller. 1t buys from oil-well own
ers most of its raw product and fixes
the price, which f1uctuates coHsidera-
bly,. Therefore so slight a reduction
as one-half cent per gallon in the
amount the Standard pays to produc-
ers would quickly sum up to the edu-
.cational gift figures.
Would Pay Interest on National Debt.
Some of the things that $32, ,000, 900
would do in making history illustrate
strikingly the power of individual
wealth. That much money would pay
for the running of the governments of
Denmark and Greece combined for a
year. countries that maintain royal
families that are related to nearly all
the thrones of Europe. 1t is several
millions more than the annual rev.
enue of either Norway or Mexico, and
far exceeds the income of lot of
second-rate nations. With it he could
pay the interest for year on the ma
1856 this gift would have liquidated
the nations entire national debt.
Even now by little more than doub.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-03-07

One-half cent per gallon on the five and
half billion gallons of crude petroleum
produced last year would nearly equal the
$32, ,0OO,0 900 gift.
the truth that men who dare teach
the truth as they see it may find their
chairs in colleges vacated.
Should that money be given to hos:
pitfalls, you ask? l should say no. |
would have the hospitals supported
by the state. Disease is the result
of conditions created by man. And
to have the individual turn around
and give back to society part of the
money he has wrung from it to allevi-
ate the conditions he himself has Gre
ated is incongruous. That is the
function of the state.
Education is the only hope for the
relief of the conditions of the poor.
Until man is taught the rights of his
fellow-man and learns to respect
them, conditions will continue as they
are. Under present social conditions,
gifts to education are the best way of
disposing of these vast accumulations
of wealth.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-03-07

the American people have had their
financial sense of proportion unduly
expanded by talk of millions tossed
about to various institutions.
1t is worth while to look first into
the enormous amount of labor requir,
ed to produce this sum which Mr..
Rockefeller is able to give away, says
the New York World. The United
States census report for 1900 contains
some statistics upon oil refineries.
The Standard Oil company, of which
Mr.. Rockefeller is titular president
and from which he made his wealth,
owns or controls nearly all the re.
tineries in the country.
What Gift Means In Labor.
The census report says that the av.
erage wages paid in oil refineries
to able-bodied men over 16 years of
age in 1899 was $557 year, or trjt1e
over $40 a week. Dealing with the
matter of labor alone, in the accumu-
lation of these thirty-two millions it
would require the unremitting work
of an army Of 57,45O men giving all
their wages to Mr.. Rockefeller for
one whole year at the average rate
Standard Oil men were paid to make
up his gift.
That would be equivalent to all the
workingmen in Providence or Kan.
sas City or Rochester turning over
their wages for year to Mr.. Rookie.
feller-a whole city working for him
so that this gift might be accumu-
lated.
The production of crude petroleum
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-03-07

Find 200 acres of good land almost
anywhere that is 20 miles from town
and you can buy it for $25 an acre.
The same land within ten miles will
bring $35, within five miles its value
is $50, within two miles $S5 an acre.
Thus that town has increased the
land within a radius of ten miles an
average of $35 dollars an acre. AS
that is about the age of country towns
generally, you may figure that town,
as long as it is fairly prosperous, in
creases the land around it an average
of one dollar an acre every year.
Not considering staple articles like
cattle, hogs and grain which can be
shipped and sold anyway, the town as
a local market is worth at least SIS
a year to the ordinary farmer.
For example: This year the peach
markets were so glutted no ordinary
fruit would pay Inc express. Around
the little town in which the writer
lives most farmers have few peach
trees. The 1000 inhabitants bought
nearly every bushel in the vicinity at
from 40 cents to a dollar a bushel.
More than $4,000 was paid for peaches
within three weeks.
That was clear gain which must be
set over to the credit of the town.
Plums, cherries, early vegetables,
scores of little odds and ends, perish
able stuff that the farmer could not or
would not ship he turns into cash at
the home town.
So If a man owns 200 acres within
reach of town, he will receive $275 a
year direct cash value from that
town, none of which he would receive
from the mail order house.
To be sure, the town does not do
nate him that amount, the town was
not built for the purpose of philan-
thropy, yet he receives an actual cash
benefit because the town is there; and
he is under actual financial obliga-
tions to return that benefit by spend
ing his money at home.
1t is not an obligation that the law
would recognize, but it is one that ap-
peals to those independent, clean
hearted men of high honor who feel
that perfect honesty demands that
when benefits are received from
stranger or brother, friend or foe,
benefits should be returned.
1t is sometimes argued that the
town has forfeited its right to the
farmers patronage by selling too high.
But a careful investigation will not
bear out that contention. Your town
is unusually prosperous if you can
count more than four merchants who
have cleared $4,000 in the past ten
years. That is thousand dollars a
year for time and interest on capital.
You can count FIVE or six others who
have failed during that time, lost
everything. The January invoice will
not show a net gain of $500 per
business man. That means the or
binary merchant and his capital are
not clearing $50 month. This does
not indicate an unreasonable profit on
goods sold.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-03-07

under great strain, tending her moth
er and earning her living at the sew
ing machine. After the old lady's
death the girl tried to revive the body,
lifting it to sitting position and ap.
pealing to it. She now has the singu-
lar habit of acting these scenes over
again while in somnambulistic state.
No actress could rehearse these lug
ubrious scenes with such perfection" !"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-03-07

Bishop Warren tells of father OF
a large family who was a drunkard.
All his children except one died of the
inherited curse. This one, though an
abstainer, had an obstinate form of
dyspepsia, attributed by physicians to
hereditary influences. His children
suffered from the sins of their grand
father. A daughter died of consump-
ton, a son of delirium tremens, an
other son shot himself on the verge
of delirium tremenS.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-03-07
Railways and Temperance.

The director general of the rail-
ways in Alsace-Lc rraine, Germany,
has forbidden employees to drink
while on duty. The rule extends to
all grades of employees and to all
hours of the day. 1t includes the 2.OOG
employees of the shops at Montigny.
The first offense is punishable by
lacing the offender In a more subor-
lirate position; the second ofense by
dismissal
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-03-07
Cynical,

Permit me to ask you, madam VI
said the lawyer, who was friend OF
the family, your real reason for want
ing a divorce from your husband?"
"He isn't the man l thought l was
marrying" explained the fair caller.
My dear madam" rejoined the law.
yer, "the application nf that principle
would break up every home in the
country. Chicago Tribune.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-03-07

The town is the center OF your com
munity. From 1t radiates your rural
mail service; IN it center your tele
phone systems. On the streets ct the
town you meet your neighbors Satur
day afternoons and exchange news
and experience. You &C to it for a day
of recreation when the snow comes,
the fair, or on HOLIDAYS.
There during the %winter lecture
course you hear great orators and ex.
cellent musicians. The political rallies,
the church conference or association
are held there
By and by in the pretty little vii
lage church, whose spire you can see
from your farm, you son will preach
the gospel In the brick building two
will open law office, and in the little
frame two blocks away another son
of the soil, just back from college, will
begin the practice of medicine.
There is the high school to which
you send your children, and there
after awhile your daughter will teach.
And some day when you find the
farm work too heavy for your age, and
want to get near the children, you will
build on that grassy corner lot two
doors from the Methodist church and
move to town.
Yes, the town is a mighty good
thing to have, a pleasant thing: and
the more you put into it the more you
get out of it. For it grows according
to the trade it gets and the more it
grows the more it can buy and the
higher will go your land.
A good town, you know, where there
is plenty of work for carpenters and
bricklayers, and masOns and smiths,
work for everybody at good wages, is
worth ten times as much to the sur
rounding country as the little sun.
burned village where the carpenter
and the "storekeeper" play marbles in
the streets.
The Moral Obligation.
But the last and strongest reason
why it is right that the country peo-
pie spend their money at home is the
moral obligation.
The town is yours, yours to ruin or
prosper. The same sense of obliga-
ton should prompt you to support it,
as prompted our old Teutonic ances.
tors in the forests of Germany to
stand elbow to elbow in protection Of
their village. The same spirit of loyal
| ty should inspire you as fired the
Highland Scot to spend his blood for
the welfare of his clan.
The country town with all it's faults
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-03-07
The Most Appropriate.

Bridget-Should l say Dinner Is
ready or Dinner is served?"
Mistress-Well, if it's like yester-
day, think you had better say, Din
ner is spoiled"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-03-07

Prof. Pierre Janet, of the Paris Sor.
bonne in Mccoy hall of the Johns
Hopkins university recently delivered
a lecture on Mind and Medicine" and
dealt with hysteria, particularly that
form of hysteria which evidences
itself in somnambulism.
Il will ask you to consider one OF
the most typical and characteristic
symptoms of hysteria, and that is
somnambulism," he said. ITO under.
stand it we'll is, believe, to under.
,estand all hysterical phases that are
more or less constructed on the saue
model ~'~
What is somDambulism?8 Popular
ly, somnambulist is an individual
who thinks and acts while he is asleep,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-03-07

Would give every one of the $1,000, 900
families in the United States eight best
books.
G. Phelps Stokes, one of the party
leaders, said:
J. G. Phelps Stokes Ideas.
while l am not prepared to dis
cuss off-hand how | would dispose of
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-03-07

That Sum Could Support in Com
fort 304, ZOE Persons for Ono
Year Could Build Homes for
100. 600, Could Pay One Years
Interest on the National Debt,
and Could Provide for All the
Yearly Expenses of the Gov
ernments of Denmark and
Greece Combined.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-03-07
SPONTANEOUSLY A
FORM OF HYSTERLA

Popular Understanding of This Attic
ton Far from Clear, According to
Eminent French Professor-MarVeI.
Gus Cases That Have Come Under
His Observation - Frequently the
Result Of Long-continued Mental
Strain.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-03-07
Social Obligations.

1t is right for the country to spend
its money with the home town because
of the social obligations between
them.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-03-07
Tom Johnson's Opinion.


On the other hand, the motives
prompting such a gift are questioned
by many people of advanced ideas.
Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland
himself man of wealth, speaking of
Mr.. Rockefellers gift, said: 1T is an
anchor to the windward against the
time when an aroused people will
curtail the privileges of public'service
corporations. The gift was not in
cash. Most likely it was railway Sc
curities. Every one of these is a
mortgage against the future. Some
day it will develop, perhaps that the
special privileges which these rail
roads enjoy will be threatened.
1T will result in sudden squeeZ-
ing of the water out of these stocks.
Then there will go up cry that these
great educational interests, dependent
upon the returns from these securi-
ties, are being threatened. There will
be talk, also, of what the widows and
orphans are in dangeraof losing. A
condition will be presented that may
have a protective effect for the cor
porations involved"
Gift Is Discussed in Europe.
Discussion over the gift has spread
to Europe The Worlds Paris cores
pondent in a special cable despatch
said:
THE Rockefeller gift has excited
astonishment in the French press.
Several studies of his temperament
have been published in which the
writer's seek for reasons which
prompted the giving away of such an
enormous sum. One editor suggests
piety as the cause and another sug-
gests that all American millionaires
tremble in dread of laws that may
rob them of their wealth.
The American temperament, so
the article continues, is restive
against great accumulations, and this
enormous bequest is intended to stave
off public action or the individual act
of murderous jealousy and envy.
Still another writer says that Mr..
Rockefeller wants to be talked about
for other than financial distinction.
He cannot do anything great for lack
of cultivation. He has no art collec-
tions or intellectual pursuits about
which the public hear, therefore he
makes his money talk.
"The Petit Parisien, however, takes
more generous view, believing that
Mr.. Rockefeller, unlike French mil
lionaires, feels deeply that great
wealth imposes duties upon its pos
SCISSOR and in pure justice is doing
his best to acquit himself"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-03-07

Socialism Views the Great Gift
With Only Partial approval;
Mayor Tom l.. johnson Says
It's An Anchor Cast to Wind
ward Against the Time that
People Will Become Aroused:
the French Press, Astonished
at Its Sire, Differ as to tho
Motives for 1t.
New York-Thirty-two million dol
lars for education! This latest gift
of John D. Rockefeller so overtops
anything ever known in the line OF
philanthropic giving that it requires
some analyzing to comprehend the
Vastness of the sum. In recent years
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-08-03
RockefcIIer Rnps Uniyersity.

The faculty and students of the Uni
versity of Chicago have been much stir
red up by the reported criticism made
by John d. Rockefeller while he was in
Chicago to attend court as a witness. In
reply to a question as TO what he thought
of the uniyersity's work, the oil king is
reported as saying: The only regret |
have concerning the university is that
there are not as many men as successful
as | hoped there would be after their
schooling there. But | am advised by
some of my friends that the future may
show better results than the present. IL
the future will show that it was wise
undertaking, | shall be satisfied" In
reply to these remarks, the members OF
the faculty are disposed TO question the
Interpretation which Mr.. Rockefeller
makes of the word success. If he means
the ability to make money, they admit
that not so many of the graduates have
been successful as might be desired. But
they maintain that making money does
not necessarily mean success. The i'm
preston prevails among the student body
that the founder and benefactOr of the
great institution has been displeased Big
numerous radical doctrines preached by
certain members of the faculty, it being
recalled that frequently monopolies like
the Standard Oil Company have been as
sailed with impunity in the class rooms.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-08-03

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The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1907-08-03
S Pe-ru-na Useful
for CatarFh?

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