Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-03-24

The death Of George Eastman, self
inflicted. has shocked the Nation, but
| only sympathy has been aroused by his
| act, while a realization of his great
! benefactions, adding to the happiness Of
others, makes especially to be regretted
, the fact that life at the end went
stale" for him.
Speaking of the death of the city's
! famous citizen, the Rochester Times
Union says, For so many years the
name and fame of George Eastman
have been linked with Rochester. for
so many years his outstanding per-
Sonality, achievements and benefactions
have redounded to the credit and ad-
! vantage Of the city, that 1t seems hard
| to realize that his amazingly successful,
/ fruitful and helpful career has come to
| a close. In a very real and true sense
! it has not closed" continues this paper
Just as the great industrial enterprise
| he founded will continue to add to
! TIE wealth of Rochester and to give
employment to thousands of Rochester
workers, so the civic aims he set before
| him should be increasingly realized. He
lent not only his purse, but his in
domitable spirit Dsd far-sighted intelli-
gence to the civ advancement" And
! the ASbury P<rk Evening Press adds its
of Rochester stands as great stone,
inscribed with his genius. Its musical
! certer and, in fact, the entire culture
of the community, are indebted to Mr.
| Eastman for his contributions and his
enthusiasm for civic progress. He called
himself a musical moron and he died
having done more for music perhaps
than any other living man."
+ n
OF his suicide, the Springfield Mass
Daily Republican declares: THE tragedy
of Eastmans self-destruction is that
after having added so greatly to the
interest and variety of life for others,
he should have found it, as disease ap-
parently affected him, of too little
appeal for further experience" And
the Birmingham Age-Herald remarks:
He had attained great fame; he was
one of the worlds conspicuously sue
cessful men: he was, more than that,
one of the worlds conspicuously gener-
Gus men. But nothing he had done
seemed to him more than a good reason
for shutting off this mortal coil before
he was deprived Of the activity which
he cherished The Omaha World
Herald finds 1t profoundly pathetic
that man who had done SO much had
lived so fully, had helped Others SO
generously, should come upon a time
when he could find nothing in life worth
while" The Miami Daily News prob
ably expresses general opinion when it
says: mo man may have the right to
take away the life that was given him.
but there will be no harshnesS in the
memory Of George Eastman. There will
be only sorrow that he did not find, to
the very end of life, the greatest of
human joys, which is the anticipation
of pleasure" To the Salt Lake Deseret
News both Mr.. Eastman and Ivar
Kreuger missed something in not believ-
ing that the great adventure of life"
may be sometimes more interesting in
pain than in pleasure"
Calling attention to the fact that
George Eastman did not invent the
camera, as many suppose" the Jersey
Journal says: He perfected it, made
it practical, and popularized it the world
over. by inventing the film which could
be developed by the photographer as
soon as the pictures were taken. 1t was
Eastman's invention of motion picture
film that led Edison, his lifelong friend,
to perfect the kaleidoscope, granddaddy
of the motion picture protector of to-
day" And of Eastman's more recent
work, this paper adds: He turned his
attention to making home motion pic
lures within the reach of the average