The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-11-19
REASON GIVEN FOR
INCREASING GIFTS
Rockefeller Expects to Do a
Lasting Good in This
Manner.
THE IDEA IS PRACTICAL
Medical Research Work Not
Well Understood by the
Average Resident.

New York. Nov. 19.-John ID. Rookie
Teller has some very peculiar ideas of
what 10 practical philanthropy. 80 pc
culiar. in fact, that when. recently, he
Increased his donations to the Rookie
Teller Institute OF Medical Research to
. total Of nearly 100000 the an
nounccmcnt meant little. II anything.
To tho average New Yorker. It was
given BY him little more than passing
notice. OF course. the reason II meant
nothing to the average New Yorker
was because the average New Yorker
could not sec just where he was going
TO get his Angers on any Of those So
0OO. 900. and It 10 just there where Mr..
Nockefeller's peculiar ideas of practi-
cal philanthropy come in. says q
writer In the Sun.
Mr.. Rockefeller does not believe in
eiving money where II will benefit
only one person or one group Of per-
sons, NO matter how deserving the
terson or the charity may be. There
are plenty Of others to do that. But
there are not plenty Of others. he be-
lleves. who have the foresight or the
grasp OF intellect necessary to give
their millions only where they will
beneflt the human race AZ q whole. and
hy the human race a. q whole. Mr.
Rockefeller means not only humanity
- whole today, but all the humanity
that II to follow in generations to
come. That II. Mr.. Rockefeller's field
Of philanthropy and that 10 where he
delights 70 shine.
u perhaps II nothing more than q
natural corollary, that the mind that
vas big enough to conceive and then
to execute an industry that has cover
ID the entire world. would. when Il
turned to philanthropy. be satisfied
with nothing less than . field that
covers the whole human race. born
and unborn. BE that - It may. It was
because Mr. Rockefeller In nine years
o. careful experimenting and slop
progress M bseome convinced that
HE institute for medical rese4rch can
do the greatest asnount Of good for the
human race 40 Q whole. both Of today
apd % the fsr1eri. that he decided the
laSt week TO Increase his donations to
that philanthropy 10 nearly $4,000. 900
mating Il the most highly endowed
Institute for medical research in the
world.
Work Not Underwood.
Unfortunately. however, the aver.
ago New Yorker has just about %
much idea Of what medical research
really 10 ~ he has Of the peculiar
ideas underlying Mr.. BOOKSELLERS
philanthropy. What Information con-
corning the work OF the Rockefeller
Institute Of Medical Research that has
Altered through the columns Of the
newspapers the last few years to the
public 1T large has consisted entirely
Of attacks ON the work Of vivisection
that has been carried ON there. The
average New York. therefore. IL in
clined to believe that the institute
merely 10 . place where animals are
cut up alive for the pure delight Of the
surgeons doing the worn. or worse yet,
where unfortunate human beings are
operated upon with no other particular
end In view except 70 give Joy to the
highly specialized surgeon whose one
great delight In life 10 In seeing what
. beautiful operation he can make Of
H."