Evening star., 1925-10-26

James Buchanan Duke of North
Carolina, millionaire leader in the
American tobacco industry. successful
organizer in other branches of indus
try and great philanthropist, who re-
Gently died, is lauded by the American
press as a model for youth. He is also
hailed as a benefactor OF youth
through the $40 10000 Duke Founda-
ton and his gifts to the university that
bears his name. His rise to wealth,
ability TO develop great industrial en-
terprises and his generous public gifts
combine to give his career an unusual
character.
The one thing that would have
pleased Mr.. Duke most" declares the
Charlotte Observer, was the student
lined funeral route from church to
cemetery-a double line of the finest
Young men in the Nation, standing
with barred heads, for five blocks.
Thence to within three blocks of the
cemetery were similar lines of woman
students. These young people stood
there and were recognized by those
| who may have reflected the mind of
the dead benefactor as the hope of
the Nation. 1t was to the perpetual
development of this hope that he had
I
young men and young women were
Mr.. Dukes guard of honor. and no
man ever had greater. His final escort
was the most magnificent feature of
the most impressive funeral spectacle
ever known in North Carolina"
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In similar vein, referring to Mr..
| Dukes gifts for education and charity
as the biggest in the history of the
South and among the largest in the
records of the country, the Greenville
Piedmont continues: 1.-The finest mon
| ument to James Buchanan Duke Will
not be built of bronze or marble, but
will be far more enduring, for it will
! be the gratitude of numberleSs multi
| tudes from generation to generation
for the good they will receive because
J he had the heart to conceive and the
| will to carry out such a colossal gift
| for the common veal and for the
service of humanity"
$50 long as great fortunes fall into
| the hands of men Of his type" de-
clares the Harrisburg Telegraph.
there will be no socialistic movement
| to amount to anything in this country.
Duke regarded himself more as the
steward than the owner of the money
that came to him in such vast sums"
The greatness of Mr.. Duke in many
respects is lauded by the Danville
| Register, which says that as he built
well "his work will continue" and che
| will live on in the industries he
founded, In the schools he aided, in
the philanthropies he encouraged and
| in the ambitions he enkindled."
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"The closing act of a busy life"
states the Durham Sun, was to make
financial provision for the education Of
thousands of North Carolina boys,
| who, though they may never make
such q towering success in business
as he made, will start without the
handicap he ever labored under, and
| who will always owe deep and last
| ing gratitude to James Buchanan
Duke" Although he made money
after he had once started the money
| making machine" says the Utica OBJ
erver-Dispatch, "he was not grabber
or a hoarder." The Observer-Dispatch
remarks that in conducting one of the
| largest local enterprises ''it was al
| ways with benefit to the community"
and that as IAN intense patriot for his
native State he has turned back
large share of his great wealth in pro-
| viding means through which trained
leaders In professions and Industries
| may be secured
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Duke never forgot his nativity"
| the Hickory Daily Record remarks.
| land he was ever doing for 1t. A
great university is indebted to his
generosity. Hospitals have known his
kindness. He has left his stamp and
his name upon this State. ever to be
remembered" With ever broader
credit the New York World rates him
as zone of the builders of the new
South, and especially of the new
North Carolina" That fortune did
| not make him lose interest In his ma
tive section" impresses the Spartan