The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-17
n~ seyvell Haggard. .


 ,r.-. york Feb. 1e,-John Davison pockefeller has set a new pace m ~Ns3.rthropy--a pace that is almost serrifvinr. His recent gift Of $Sz.ooo,, son to the General Educaton bosru makes him the holder of the "oriu record for giving away money lump. ,,,.. the sf1 o0o 900 he has already given tns anard s43O0O 900 in all, IS larger sran the annual cost of the State ana city governments of the whole soutni or the States west of the Mississ.ppi.s fl is as large as the annual cost oL sh. rynitea States government in the nioneer days, and Is greater than tne total revenue of the State of New fork < In any one year.
 MT Rockefeller's gift is intrusted fo inc General Education Board With instructions to study the whole nelo nerts and to put the money where II uiu do the most good" The press { ma inc country at large have receiv- .a tbe announcement of the oil King contribution to the cause or eouca tion. with satisfaction. Ihe .sa comment may be summed UP m co,,s words Of a paper which said ne com r,ned rood judgment with unexam- nied generosity" Of course there Rave been some critics among 'Ae newspapers. One paper said'
 .rt makes the onlooker uao,a whether the race toward a s aur poverty will not end wltn tns ,ns.s,utions snart and a few charitable lnsti,utioN' s,, ,,ossession of all the funds
 Another paper says; rou be- ljeves that restitution in some sor ~tc,,1d be made to the community to. the wealth which he has amssseu ., VI overcharging the commu ts thus.
 Another critic comments thus na
 sgrna nrfce in exchange for tnis anu -<h.~ Rnckefeller gifts Is the in { sss1.s rf the free American. the hpeIty ..s tha neonIe and the livelihood ol ,he ..ao..Is All of these Mir. RockeIeiiei +acitly demands in return TOT .ne the sa~s which he has taken rom ne saLs sss.a,s neonIe while he held them ssse tns throat--and which he Will asaIh ( tsra hack from the people witn III III %a~s.f along with their mannooo, np sstsr ana Livelihood if he can plina ,s them by throwing his plundereu e'AN dust in their eyes.
 Fyovv He Made His Money
 .. ..sa,,ia ha useless repetition again .o ~,va inc story of Mir. RockereIier ,,sa He began making money as Sov and he has kept it up. N nss \ hs.v, aaid of him that he nas .ns ,sov,av making instinct wnlcn -haue - fnevitable for him 10 grow .S
 rarly in his career his shreWo Jeus rent led him to concentrate ms ener m . .,sson 'the petroleum industry. Tso,1ntIess if he had turned to minlng, ., Inuher .ar to railroads, the resuL' would have been the same: Dexe,vS sa under the guidance of Rockefeiier ,vtth his wonderful money makAns unefhods, almost anything couio De sasaa to yield a golden harvest.
 ststisticians have figured that today ,.t,a million families in the Unitea atafes use kerosene, averaging aoout =. f1ftv-gaiIon barrel year 10 the Sanflv. From this it will be seen that she money l1r. Rockefeller mas gwen to education through the Generat Eou- . cation Board alone, is eaulvaleht ~ W. o cents a gallon on this consu"peroT tor more @ five years. OF free kerosene tor n1r than one year The great gift is equlV- a1ent 10 the,year's earnings of one nun sred fhouhand farmers. more than wears earning of all the lawyers @ ahe doctors in New York, and about equs to all the years saving-pahk ih'eios in the Empire State. s.o,, After the public has recovered Iron tba shock caused by the immensity ol egr FockefeIler's gift, public interes svlli center upon the disposal or the Tn rome accruing from these tnHly-t"' millions.
 eve mass our funds on endowments securing in this work the largest pos sible focal cooperation
 Briefly stated, MT. Rockefellers plai for higher education is: < 4 college in every city of 100000 ol more population; forty such cities II inc United States have no facilities 10 higher education.
 A college in every 100 miles square O populous territory, and one in ever! fifty miles square of the densely lnhan tted area. I----------
 T.arrely increased facilities for high AT aducation of women; enlargement O inc leading women's colleges if practi cable, or founding of new womens col N 1eres.,