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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1936"
ROCKEFELLER IS 97
TO-DAY
{Continued from Page 6).
When the final edict came: "No golf at all he smilingly agreed and, with iron will, refused even to have a putting green laid out in the grounds.
"Golf is not good for me; away with golf for ever," he said.
Breakfast Alone
Life to him is now merely a question of spreading his remain- ing stamina over as many years as possible. Some of the finest medical minds in the world have suggested to him that complete isolation is his severeign remedy for further life. Scarcely his; oldest friends are allowed to see: him now. His only visitors are his sons and grandsons.
He rises at ten o'clock, and eats.
woman breakfat alone. Then a secretary reads to him a summary of the world's news and the mar-1 ket reports.
After this, if the weather is fine,! he descends by lift from the first) Soor to the ground floor, where he sits in the sunshine, or potters about his little flower garden, his eyes shaded from the sun's glarej by dark glasses.
Before luncheon he conducts a few necessary market operations. for his brain is still extraordinari- ly active on finance.
Patsy, an Irish setter owned by Mrs. William E. Erb, of Egypt, Massachusetts, gave birth to à litter of 17 puppies last month. All the pups are well-formed and getting along nicely. Mix. Erb claims #recoal for Patsy.
Lunch is followed by a short nap, and then a slow ride in a closed car round a specially built of people will not even drive within the grounds.
To Bed At 9
1
think of the parchment-skinned, frail, querulous old man in connection with their own material well-
Before dinner John D. has ex-being. cerpts read to him from reviews!
No Gange Of Stature and magazines. The only people (who come into daily contact with
And so that is no very, satis- him are a woman reader, two male factory way of measuring the sta- nurses, and his secretary. After ture of John the Old in the field of dinner there is a little more read-world attainments. No one cani Wed, 15th Julying, and then bed at nine sharp. estimate the numbers of people!
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His slight tendency to bronchial who are alive to-day only because, trouble causes his doctors some of his endowments of science or anxiety-and John D. is just as his benefactions to charity. Health aatioas, too. When he has a slight services, research organisations cold, and his temperature is taken, and active armies combatting he insists on knowing what it is. Plazue spots and epidemics owe And when medicine is prescribed, their inception and life to the for- again he must know just what it is tune he founded and his judgment and what it will do. Then he takes spending it, It like a child.
Sat.
1st Aug. lion.
Wed,
8th July Mon, 20th July
INHIBITED VICAR
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Discharge from bankruptcy was applied for last month by Dr. S. Shannon, the inhibited vicar of St Luke's Leicester, at Leicester County Court
His public examination, which was closed, was on May S.
Dr. Shannon was prohibited by the Bishop of Leicester, Dr. Cyril Bardsley, from officiating in his
following
release church,
months' im-
after serving nine prisonment for refusing to attend his public examination in bank- ruptcy.
Education, sociological research most of the grants made independ So lives this man of millions. and crime prevention all arejently by the Rockefellers Senior who is certainly a man in a mil-causes immeasureably advanced and Junior.
by Rockefeller millicas.
Nobody knows exactly the pro- Huge Philanthropies
The amounts of money he has cess by which certain schools, cer In China, a desperately ailing given away would make one sort tain libraries, particular museume young mother is received in a mo- of yard-stick, but probably not and such are selected for benefac- dern hospital, and her life is even the Rockefeller family knows tions out of the thousands that saved. In France, people worship the sum. From 1910 through would like to have a slice of the in a magnificent old cathedral, re-1931 it is certain that Rockefeller oil fortune. But "prevention" is constructed since the war. In philanthropies totalled more than the key word. in most Rockefeller Africa, black children study dili-$600,000,000. Since then it has charities--prevention of disease, gently in a mission school. In Chi-been a custom of the donor to poverty, crime and cago, a delinquent boy is
ignorance remake no announcements of gifts, Ignorance" doesn't mean habilitated for useful citizenship. leaving the public acknowledgilliteracy: it covers any lack of mere In an observatory, an astronomer ments, if any, to the recipients culture from the arts to history. looks through a telescope and Scores of "small" donations, finds new worlds. In New York, ranging
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A list of donations would in- excitement as he examines a slide el, and are recorded only by the clude hundreds of items, ranging that foretells the conquering of a Rockefeller bookkeepers, and may from food relief to the restoration
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Isoleted amidst Lakewood, NJ., pines sits John Davison Rocke- feller, receiving from all over the John the Old and John the Second fication.
It is estimated, though, that in Poland to funds for the beauti-
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parks. congratulations on his by now have dispensed some $800,- Most spectacular enterprise is the ninety-seventh birthday. But there 008,000. This makes them by far $250,000.000 development in mid- wouldn't be facilities enough for the greatest philanthropists in his Manhattan called Rockefeller Cen- transmitting to him the gratitude tory, for Andrew Carnegie, who tre. It is essentially commercial, all the people who have been ranks second, gave away a mere but was carried forward through benefited by his philanthropies. $350,000,000.
the depths of the depression. Indeed, on this birthday, millions;
Four major organisations disposé All these things have been risen of the money. John D. Rockefeller from the bounty of one who 35 began his retirement in 1896, and years ago was called the most made it absolute in 1911. Then, hated man in the world. He was with the same shrewdness he had pictured as greedy, cruel, unscru- demonstrated in business, he be pulous, piratical-an ogre who gan to demonstrate that the art of squeezed the life out of everyone giving is just as difficult and diver-who opposed him. Ent competi- sified as the art of getting.
tors who accepted stock instead of He gathered around him a group cash when he sought to buy them of experienced advisers and estab-jout rode along with Rockefeller to lished a group of benevolent cor-fabulous fortunes. porations. First of these is the Trust Broken In 1902 Rockefeller Foundation, chartered The Standard Oil Trust was "to promote the welfare of man broken in 1902, but the master and | To kind in all parts of the world," and his men carried right on in control | ints which about $300,000,000 has of the component companies. In gone thus far.. Second is the Gen- 1907 Judge Kenesaw Mountain eral Education Board,, which has Landis fined Rockefeller $23,240-1 cost more than $130,000,000 to 000 on a conviction on 1,462 date. Third is the Laura Spelman counts for accepting, illegal re- Rockefeller Memorial, with some hates from rail-roads, but the |$75,000,000 for organisations fines later were declared invalid. which had the support of Mrs. That was in 1911, when he retired Rockefeller while she lived, and from active business.
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