Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-08-17
The Custom Of Giving Largely
To Education and Charity
- HE growing tendency of persons Of


large means to give literally, both by
E legacies and during their lifetime, to
educational and humanitarian interests is
strikingly illustrated in list OF the great
| benefactions of the past year, ranging in
amount from thousands to millions of dol
lars Some seventy of these have been
publicly announced and others there doubt
! less are shining amid what Shakespeare
| calls the unpublished virtues Of the earth. "
Colleges and hospitals were bequeathed an
| aggregate of twenty million dollars by Ed
mund G. Converse, of New York, while to
| the Metropolitan Art Museum he left price
less collections. Wellesley College received
| five hundred thousand dollars and the Mas
sachusetts Institute Of Technology one mil
| lion dollars from Francis Appleton Foster,
of Weston, Massachusetts, Norwich Unlver-
sity, Brown University, and the University or
Vermont were left six hundred thousand dol
lars by General Rush G. Hawkins, who also
remembered the Actors Fund with two nun
dred thousand dollars and the Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals with
one hundred thousand. Mrs. Elizabeth Mil
bank Anderson bequeathed five million dol
lars for charity and education. Mrs. Annie
Hurt of Washington, widow OF Henry Hurt,
provided five hundred thousand dollars for
the erection and maintenance OF home for
the blind, and an additional five hundred
thousand to be divided equally among the
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Home for Incurables, the House of Mercy,
and the Washington City Orphan Asylum.
Mrs. w. w. Kimball, of Chicago, gave to the
Art Institute Of that city a collection valued
at one million dollars, and established trust
fund of one hundred thousand dollars for
newsboys. A farmer of Wayland, Massachu-
sets, Jonathan M. Parmenter, donated two
hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars for
a water supply system for Wayland and two
hundred thousand for a hospital there. Philip
Waldheim gave Hoboken, New Jersey, sew
enty-five thousand dollars for public To-
rum. To the University of Pittsburg plot
Of fourteen acres valued at one and a half
million dollars was donated by A. w. Mellon,
secretary of the treasury, and his brother r.
B. Mellon The larger part of the million
dollar estate of r. M. Judson, of New Canaan,
Connecticut, was left to Yale University for
building purposes. AS a memorial to her
husband, Mrs. Jacob HI. Schiff made dona-
tion OF three hundred thousand dollars to
establish visiting nurse service. George
F. Baker, of New York, gave one million
dollars to Cornell University for new chem
ical laboratory.
These are but types among scores of ex-
amples of that worthy stewardship which
makes of great wealth not merely a possess
sion, but an honor and benefaction. The
time is coming in the South, as it already
has in Weather regions, when it will be a
rare exception for wills disposing of large
estates not to make liberal requests to edu-
cational and humanitarian causes. Nor will
gifts of this character come from the very
rich alone, but from the rank and file of the
well-to-do, from all indeed whose incomes
allow a surplus above personal and family
needs and obligations. J The chief glory of
Atlanta has been her peoples unfailingly
generous response to undertakings for the
common veal, such as the building of the au-
ditoriuM, the establishment of grand opera,
the founding of Emory and Oglethorpe uni
versities and of the Georgia Tech, the endow-
ment of Agnes Scott College, the construc-
tion of great Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation plant, the support of divers humane
| endeavors- vision and the heart that
never weary in we'll doing. This same spirit
| it is that lends lustre to the individual life
and the ring of sterling success. To have
some part, how modest soever, in building
higher the beacons of education and in les
SEEMING the heartache of humankind is the
noblest of ambitions, the surest and most
abiding of memorials; for we keep only that
which we give, and to give to the best is to
lay hold on Immortality.