The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-03-03
This Bad, Bad World

'WHAT a rotten old world this Isl"
wv exclaimed the Oldster as thru the
window of his club he watched cop drag
tottering drug victim TO the corner patrol
box and call the wagon.
This is n good old world" said the
NoungSter looking up from his paper.
Listen 10 this: Simon Guggenheim,
mining magnate. has given as a memorial
20 his son, the sum of S3,OO0.000 as a
preliminary endowment for so fellowships
for study abroad
whats that" growled the oldster.
Zone man does a good deed while thou
sands of others are turning the world
into hell-hoe. What can one man do
against the tendency of the whole world?"
Zone mani exclaimed the Youngster.
did you know that % people, in the last
II months, each gave 100000 or more
to help this old world mend It's ways?'
twenty-five nothing" the Oldster chal-
lenged. "Ill bet you can't name five"
You're on. Check 'em while | enumer-
ate: James b. Duke. North Carolina,
S6,000.000, eventually to be increased to
Si0.000,000, for education. George East
man. Syracuse, Sl5,000,000 for education.
Elizabeth b. Frasch, Sl0.000,000 for
chemical research. George +. Baker, New
York. S5,000.O00 for education. Lolita
Crabtree, the actress. Si,000,000 for vari-
Gus charities. Mrs Mary Couts Burnett,
Fort Worth, 100000 for education.
Andrew w. Preston. Boston, S6.000000
for charity. Col w. b. Thompson, Yon-
kers, S5.000,000 for plant research. Henry
X. Towne, New York, S2,220000 TO vari-
Gus schools Mrs. Montgomery Ward, Chi
cago, SS000000 for education. Miss
Josephine Williams estate. Hartford,
S1.200,000 TO hospitals. John ID. Rookie
Teller. Jr. various gifts totaling $4,000
600. Laura Spellman Rockefeller Me
mortal foundation, $l,l75000 various
purposes. James A. Patten. Chicago,
Sl,500,000 in lands for Community Trust
funds. ]. p. Morgan library valued at
SS,500,000. p. A. Ewert, Kansas City.
81 900 900 for Y. NJ. c. A. Andrew Freed
man estate, 100000 to Bronx charity.
Mrs. Jack" Gardner, Boston, property
worth millions and an income of $1,000
600 TO maintain 1t. Edward S. Hardness
New York, Sl,000000 for education. Miss
Mary Friend Bennett, New York, 81 ,000,-
600 for education. James Brown, Boston,
81 ,000. 900 to 20 institutions, and William
w. Cook. New Haven 100000 for edu-
cation. Total: About $3.50, 100000. There,
do VIM"
well. what does that proven"
THAT every year this old world Is get
ting better and better. Some of these
endowments, opening the way TO study and
research as they do, may give the world
another Pasteur, or a Locke, or Des-
cartes, or Watts, or n Newton, or
Long. the discoverer of anaesthetics. They
may find the way TO md the world of cam
Ger and tuberculosis and other scourges of
men. Or they may lead us to world peace
and to such higher type of civilization
generally that ultimately the very rotten
rottenness of which you complain will
almost completely. and of itself, disappear.
Do VIM"
Twenty-Five such gifts are not so
many"
II did not have time to mention the
10S gifts, averaging about $4,000, and
totaling between S15,000000 and $4,000
900, made in 1924. Hundreds of others
gave without our knowing anything about
it large gifts, too while hundreds of
people of lesser means donated literally to
make this a better world to live in. Yes.
this is good old world-if you'll only
look at it the right way. Now, come
across"
"Bahl You he-pollyannas make me
tiredw