Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-06-10
If You Had Nine Hundred
Million DOllarS---What
Would You Do?
Are You Sure That with
Hundred Millions?

spepd country cricisng others and
little time in anayzing and criticsng ourselves
The other day government investigation enabled financial
sbarps that John Rockefeller
only about hundred millions Of dollars This disappointing
Perhaps he has been saving gentleman and has saved the other
hundred millions of his income and perhaps he really has the
billion that public Imagination gave him
However may many citizens ready cricise
Rockefeller and to tell without urging, what THEY would do if
THEY had nine hundred millions
They say they would abolish forgetting that
hundred millions would only buy ONE tendolar Of clothes
for each They would take of the old
and feeble and free from anxetforgetng that Rockee
would pay the annual tobacco bill of the aged
They that they would give children in public schools good
and sufficient food and milk babesforgettng that
focNeeS anderoS Asors ana Morgans combined have not
money enough for such task forgetting that the only thing that
gencc of ALL OF THE PEOPLE.
We are brilliant and ready in our rcsing of others Every
the old soldiers describe Napoeons mistakes
What would YOU do f you had nine hundred millions The
question is worth hough-for all thought is useful and thinking
you WOULD do helps You shape your
that YOU CAN do
After haze thought the mater and planned Just
YOU DON DO NOW ON SMALL SCALE THE THINGS THAT
Do You say with hundred millions you would provide
without waiting for the nine hundred Millions
Do think how You would making happy the life
cid father mother Why net do that very thing now You
do that without hundred million dollars hundred
er BONG TIIFIR BIST Yor need NOT Take yonr o,l @ u
ninety horsepower machine with cylinders proud
chauffeur and cloud Of dust make her happy Take her through
country trolley you rather
with HER than with any other human being and she will be
happy though you half hundred million
and haPur
II each oau would think Of the things that he would
hundred millions and then do the onemlionh part the
work without waiting this would be a very fine world
Each Of merely working machine is worth least
HI NDRED dollars and would public auction Nine
hundred dollars onemionh of the fortune of Rockefeller
Let each do The onemiionh part Of what he thinks he
would be Rockefeller problems will be
For IS onls The combined wealth and intelligence Of MI the
people that really accomplish big things And each did
the best things possible With the in his hands all things would
be done
many u.s. do YOU suppose would do better than Rookie
fer th much criticised if We had his weath9 How many of
would do IS ve? Few indeed
He established and
drive from the earth His millions fighting
and mnt paralysis and sleeping sickness and dreadful
humanity nder the shadow of his wealth and intelligent gen
erosity the scientists work
everything That great institute planned RockefelerS
will millions Of lives lives at for
Could de better than fight man WITH kNOW
EDGE in the making every dollar and perhaps every
misery.
No 10 cure bo to PREVENT is the task that Rockefeller has
set for himself and his money Could there be greater task
l fights disease his magnificent institute lie fights
TO prevent ignorance and superstition with the millions
70 education AT that has been said Of RocbeeeS actions
CUMlLATNG may be true and what is probable
his money FOR ALL THE PEOPLE doing as am individual
what the nation whole has Intelligence
up from me golden stream OF opportunity And humanity will be
better off because Of his work when he shall
thousand years his d99 asn diseases mans enemies and
man fought wolves bears. "'tamomts and redskins
Few hoyy ten what they would do If they had nine
hundred millions compare magimr} with the
ACTUAL usefulness OF RocketrIr who HAS tine hundred
And there Sc how wisdom rules us all for our good
TO him mat hal ais improved day given the power
spend well what he hath There spending accumulated
wealth to save the u1motant tle soul of the