The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1919-12-31
ROCKEFELLER'S
CHRISTMAS GIFT
Gives $1Oo,oOo,Ooo To Aid
Humanity. College Professors.
To Be Benehciaries

The man who was too poor to have
his picture taken by a country photog-
rapher some sixty-hve years ago and
whose total earnings from September
20, 1855 to January /, 1856, were only
S100OO0,OOO to humanity yesterday,
$50 made a Christmas present of
He is the elder John d. Rockefeller.
Il believe it is a religious duty to
get all the money you can, fairly and
honestly; to keep all you can, and to
give away all you can" John d.
Rockefeller told the young mems
Bible class of the Fifth Avenue Bap-
fist Church years ago, and il was
indicated yesterday that he maintains
the conviction. In the fifties his largest
benefacor amounted to 1 cent a week
to a Sunday-schooL Since 1915 he
has given $162, 100000 away and this
vast sum added to the $50, 100000 he
had distributed previously makes the
known total of his gifts $412, 100000
Nor does this quite cover the food
of gold that has poured steadily from
the Golfers of the monarch of oil, as
The Sun learned yesterday; for mil
lions contributed to this cause or
other to the welfare of the Baptist
church among them, do not figure in
the staggering sum of his gifts to the
three great Rockefeller institutions
the Rockefeller Foundation, the Cen
eral Education Board and the Rookie
Teller Institute. The best estimate of
these unrecorded philanthropies as
obtained yesterday from an individual
in close touch with the Rockefeller
activities, is that they may have a
mounted to $1O,0OO,O00 possibly more
and if this is accurate Mr. Rockefeller
has given away no less than $425, 0OO,-
900 and ranks far and away the most
stupendous giver in authentic history.
The Christmas gift of an even hun
dred millions with which he amazed
the world on the eve of the great holi-
day is divided into two parts-$5O,-
100000 to General Education Board
and $5O,O0O,OOO to the Rockefeller
Foundation. The former gift, as Mr..
Rockefeller directly states, is to as
sist in Immediately providing for the
urgent need of more adequate salar-
les for college professors and instruc-
tors. Therefore, he directs the General
Education Board, trustees of the sum,
to employ principal as we'll as in
come for the purpose of cooperating
with the higher institutions of learn
ing in raising sums specifically devot-
ed to increase of teachers salaries.
Mr.. Rockefeller makes it plain in the
statement issued that swift distribu-
ton is necessary. To accomplish his
desire, therefore, certain officers of
the General Education Board will
start soon upon a tour in which they
will study the necessities of colleges
in the salary.
There are about 600 colleges of
prominence in the United States and
many, if not most, of them are now
conducting campaigns for eudow-
ments' to permit them to pay better
salaries to their teachers. 1t is assum-
ed that the Rockefeller gift will be
probated according to the importance
size and necessities of the various in
situations 1t is not expected that the
gift will have the effect of causing
colleges to abandon or even slacken
their individual campaigns for salary
fund endowments. That has never
been Mr.. Rockefeller's style of giving