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If You Had Nine Hundred
Million Dollars—What
Would You Do?
Are You Sure That You Would Do Better Than Rockefeller with
HIS Nine Hundred Millions?
We spend too much time in this country criticising others, and
too little time in analyzing and criticising ourselves.
The other day a government investigation enabled financial
sharps Io a icarth the sad fact that John D. Rockefeller is worth
only about nine hundred millions id' dollars. This is disappointing
after spending years in the belief that he had one thousand millions.
Perhaps he has been a saving gentleman and has saved up the other
hundre i millions out of his income, and perhaps he really has the
billion that public imagination gave him.
However that may be, many citizens are ready to criticise
Rockefeller and to tell, without urging, what THEY would do if
THEY had nine hundred millions.
They say they would abolish poverty—forgetting that nine
hundred millions would only buy ONE ten-dollar suit of clothes
for each person in our country They would take care of the old
and feeble and free age from anxiety forgetting that Rockefeller’s
income would not pay the annual f<obacco bill of the aged.
They say that they would give children in public schools good
and sufficient food and give pure milk to babies—forgetting that
Rockefellers, Vanderbilts. Astors and Morgans combined have not
mon<y enough for such a task: forgetting that the only thing that
can helo ALL Ob’ THE PEOPLE is tin* combined wealth and intelli
g. nee of ALL Ob’ THE PEOPLE.
We are brilliant and ready in our criticising of others. Every
veteran in the old soldiers’ home can describe Napoleon’s mistakes
at Waterloo. Few arc eipial to Napoleon.
What would YOL do if you had nine hundred millions? The
que-tion is worth thought for all thought is usefid, and thinking
wlu t you WOf'I.D do helps you to shape your efforts in the things
that you CAN do.
\fter you have thought the matter over and planned out just
what von WOI’LD do. if von were Rockefeller, ask vourself WHY
YOL DON’T DO NOW ON A SMALL SCALE THE THINGS THA I'
YOI THINK Y(>C WOI’LD Do.
Do you say that with nine hundred millions you would provide
for a million poor children? Why not provide for ONE NOW,
without waiting for the nine hundred millions?
Do ym think how you would enjoy making happy the life of an
old lather or mother? Why m t do that very thing NOW? Von can
do that, without nine hundred million dollars or nine hundred cents.
What fathers and mothers want is to see their sons and daugh
ters DOING THEIR BEST. You need not take your mother out in
a snorting ninety-horsepower machine with six cylinders, a proud
chauffeur and a cloud of dust Io make her happy. Take her through
the country >ll a trolley and make her feel that you would rather be
with HER than with any other human being, and she will be just as
happy as though you gave her half of nine hundred million dollars
and ha ppi. r.
Il' .;ch man v. .'itid think of the things that he would do with
nine hundred millions, and then do the one-millionth part of the
work without waiting this would he a very fine world.
Each of us, merely as a working machine, is worth at least- nine
HI NDRED dollars ami would sell for that at public auction. Nine
hundred dollars is one-millionth part of the fortune of Rockefeller.
Let each one of iis do the one-millionth part of what he thinks he
would do if he were Rockefeller, and most of our problems will be
solved.
I-’.n tis .ml;, the combined wealth and intelligence of ALL the
people that can really accomplish big things. And if each did now
the best thimis possible with tin- power in his hands, all things would
he ■.
|L..' ii.o.y >t is, do you suppose, would do belter than Rocke
feller. ihe much criticised, if we Imd Ins wealth* How many of us
would do as W ell Eew indeed.
He has established an institute to study disease and fight dis
case, ami drive it from the earth His millions are fighting cancer,
and infar.tili paralysis ami sleeping sickness ami the dreadful
blood diseases that tor ages have been the shame ami scourge of
humanity I'nder the shadow of his wealth and intelligent gen
erosity th- greater scientists ami surgeons work secure. They need
only think of ulding to human knowledge Rockefeller provides
everything That great institute planned in Rockefeller's mind
will save in ages to come millions of livj-s ten lives at least for
every one of the nine hundred million dollars that Rockefeller owns.
Gould any man do better than tight man’s enemies WITH KNOW!.
EDGE in tin- ages to come, making every dollar and perhaps every
cent represent a human life saved ami a human being rescued from
misery
Not to etna- but tn I’RhA I'.N I is the task that Rockefeller has
Set foe himself ami his money. Could there be a greater task ’
If., tights !•> prevent disease in his magnificent institute, he lights
to pr. vent ignorance ami superstition w ith the millions that he gives
to education All that has been said of Rockefeller's actions AC
C| Ml I.XfINC limy be true, and what is more probable nine
tenths of it mav 'he false But this surely is trim- Rockefeller uses
bis money !• OR \I. I. I 111 . I T.OI’LE He is doing as a n indi v idua 1
what tin- nation as a whole has not intelligence to do. He considers
himself a responsible custodian of the millions that he has dipped
lip from the golden stream of opportunity And humanity will be
better off beeans. of his work when Im shall have been dead ten
thousand years His dollars tight diseases, man s enemies, and
ignorance, man s GREATEST em-my. as the bullets of the frontiers
man fought wolves, bears, catamounts and redskins
hew of those vvlm fell what they would do it thev had nine
hundred millions can compare in imaginary usefulness with the
,'vCTI AL usefulness of Rockefeller, who HAS the nine hundred
millions
And there w. s-■■ how wisdom rules us all for our good
To him ’hat hath, in this improved day is given the power to
spend well what he hath. I‘h< re is no more spending of accumulated
wealth to save the unimportant little soul of the owner. No more
leaving of money to bribe divine omnipotence into forgetting or for
giving sin. Money now is spent by all but the superstitious and
ignorant, not for THEIR souls, but for the souls, bodies and intellects
of others -and so the world progresses.
Wise laws should control and restrain thus, that are great and
powerful through wealth. But grateful humanity should recognize
the good that is done. Criticising ourselves more often ami others
Jess often, we should remember how many of us are at heart like the
man who was asked: "What would you do if some one gave voii
two hundred thousand dollars? ’ ami who answered: "I would
Jount it.’’
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NANoooSzXSSNc-t ) X ■SSSSSSSSArS
?vlore Big Work for the Women of America
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
(Copyright, 1912. by Amcrican-Journal-Examlner.)
M’lfßK big work for the Wom
en of America’. Here is
their latest effort along tile
beautiful Highway that leads to
Pea e
No woman had anything to do
with the colossal work of planning
or making the Panama canal.
It is gratifying to think it was.
like ill sin h great achievements, a
wholly masculine undertaking. The
great d is. overei s, the great explor
ers. the builders, tile architects, the
Inventors have all be u men.
The beautitiers and decowiters of
life should bi' women.
So it is tight and appropriate
that women should semi forth this
appeal to the women of the fnited
States:
"The time is tip.- f..r the women
of America to take some concerted
action for pea., The terriMe re
sults of w.. r fall heavily upon' w om
en. They are the great sufferers.
X.i true mother desires to bear and
t.ai sons for the horrors of the bat
tleheid.
i Two Great Apostles of
Peace Have Come.
Recently two great apostles of
peace Count \pponyi of Hungary
and Baron i'el'onstant of Hr-ti. e
have come across the Atlantic
bearing the same no s-ag. to urge
the I’pited Stat.-s government to
take the Initiative in seeming per
manent intern.ll Inna I concord and
peai e.
Count Apponyi said in one of
his addresses: "When you settled
in this country you left behind yuu
all tin traditions of the old World
which ware burdensome. Its ani
mosities. its antagonists, its ha
treds. you carried not with you.
This fortunate situation lays a
great respotisl bil 1• y upon you. We
appro’ to you for assistance to do
away with the hateful legacy of ha
tted between men who fought to be
brethren. This is the object of my
mission to A met ic.i.
"What we need to do. what w •
th. women o’ this count ty. must
‘ ' IS f. el ysiallizi t ' deep and I
strong pence sentiment »i univoisal I
MONDAY. .IFNE 10. 1912.
in our land into a positive, active,
enthusiastic force that will make it
triumph tit and forever put an end
to miliuyism and war.
"Let us. the women of this coun
try. join hands to secure a colossal
statue of peace nt the entrance of
the Panama canal. Forts at tile
entrance of this canal would place
our country in the rear of our
twentieth century civilization, a
liumilial ing denial of our Christian
(crofession, as followers of the
Prince- of Peace, and a disgraceful
contrast to our 'Liberty enlighten
ing die World,' which greets all
who reach oui Eastern shore. Such
a statu-' would be a fitting memo
rial of the world-wide treaty inau
gurated by I lie I'nited States, w hich
we are assured will soon be ratified
l>y England. Japan and the Conti
nental European Powers, and a
propiie, j of the age io be "
AH tile women of America should
unite to make tills movement a
mighty success,
Cur womb-iful "Liberty" in New
York harbor is an inspiration to
ev> r\ one who enters our port.
Although our land does not live
up to 1 !:e highest ideal of liber:;.-, it
is doing more toward making the
attempt titan cuy oilier hind on
earth.
Eve-\ time a thought of liberty
■ lite rs a brain it registe rs just that
amount of mental energy in the
right direction.
«>> F rom Far Away ®
QOKHOW not, Swept Heart, bravely go your wav.
kv let strenuous work absorb you all the day.
But when the evening tails, and skies grow g<av
Then will I come io you from tar away.
And though no voice of mine shall reach your ear,
Yet will you know that I am very near,
For I will bring to yon I hold so dear.
Knowledge of Love that conquers death and tear.
With silent courage work the livelong day.
Nor pause to sorrow, as you go awav.
Knowing, when evening comes and skies grow grav,
J tear, 1 will come to you from far away
Every time a thought of war en
ters a mind just so much energy
goes In the wrong direction.
Forts are out of dale: they keep
the idea of war in mind, but in this
age of airships they afford no pro
tection whatever.
Why not sweep them away and
us.- the precious land on which they
are built for more useful purposes?
A colossal statue of peace would
be an exalting and uplifting ideal
for ttie throng to hold In mind as
they pass through the Panama ca
nal.
It would not bring universal
peace to the world the day it was
placed there. Rut it would aid the
world to think of peace.
Madame Caroline Severance, the
mother of clubs in America, is a fit
ting representative of this idea.
All Hail to Peace Statue
At Entrance to Canal.
She Is past the 90-year mark and
brilliant of mind and magnetic of
personality still.
She has witnessed wonderful
changes in the world since she first
cam- on the scene of action. When
she instituted a club she was re
garded as an unsexed creature, and
it reciuired great courage to go on
with her ideal.
All hail to this latest and best
ideal, the statue of peace, to be
plac ed in the c ntrance of the Pana
ma canal.
THE HOME PAPER
Q
Dorothy Dix
Writes
-OF-
Telling Wives
About Their ‘
Husbands ?■
-AND- Z7; z
How Such Tales T
Bring Only
Misery
By DOROTHY DIX
A CERTAIN woman knows a
married man whom she
sees out, now and again,
at theaters and restaurants tn com
pany with a fiashy-looking girl
wearing many near-diamonris, and
exaggerated clothes, and peroxided
hair.
The married man is always play
ing the devoted to the painted lady
and looks idiotically pleased and
flattered, and as If he had had a lit
tle too much to drink, and his fe
male companion has about her all
of the expression of the cat-that is
about to dine upon the canary.
Now. the married man has at
home a dear little wife and babies,
and the woman who sees him in
dulging In forbidden pleasures
wants to know if it isn’t her duty
to go and tell his wife.
NO A THOUSAND TIMES NO.
Blasted and accursed he the tongue
that bears the tale of a husband's
shortcomings to his wife.
What good could possibly come
of telling a woman that her hus
band Is in love with another wom
an. or Is making himself a fool over
another woman? No woman is so
ignorant of life as to think that
there is anything that the wife can
do to better the situation. There
is no household remedy for un
faithfulness. There is no known
specific for keeping a wandering
husband nailed to his own fireside
if he has a roving disposition.
Whether a wife knows where her
husband is and what he Is doing, or
only suspects it. or is utterly de
ceived about it, has no more effect
on his conduct than the weather
prophecies have on the weather.
We may know it is going to rain
tomorrow, but our knowledge won’t
prevent it from raining.
Wife’s Tears Won’t Keep
Husband From Wrong.
A wife’s knowing that her hus
band is fllrta'tious. and that while
she's walking the baby with the
colic at “fiome he is opening wine
for chorus girls, will not stop him
from doing it.
Neither will her tears nor her re
proaches. because if he considered
her feelings in the matter he would
be treading the strait and narrow
way instead of dallying on the
primrose path.
Neither can the most jealous wife
alive chaperon her husband every
minute of his time, o-r keep him
under lock and key.
So a hat possible good can come
of telling her of conditions that she
can not change, and the knowledge
of which can only bring her mis
ery ?
s Suppose the wife is really igno
rant of her husband's sidestepping.
Suppose she believes him when he
tells her that the reason he didn’t
get home until 2 o'clock in the
morning was because he had to see
a customer from Oshkosh, or there
was some special work at the office
that had to be done that very night.
Suppose the wife is happy and
contented in the faith that her
husband is as true to h> r as she is
to him. and that she is ihe only
woman in the world to him as he is
the only man to lyr
Is not that ignorame tlw bliss of
which the poet wrote.’ l a jt
part of a friend to shake that faith?
Could anything be crueler than to
waken such a woman up out of her
dream of happiness?
Let Her Believe in Him
As Long As She Can.
For heaven's sake, for pity’s sake,
let her stay in her hypnotic trance
as long as she can. Let her believe
in her husband as long as she can.
Let her trust him as long as she
can.
Why, every day I sec a woman
who has made a little tin god of a
miserable little two-by-four, shal
low brained, selfish, conceited coxs
comb of a husband w hom she wor
ships for attributes he never pos
sessed. and I would put my hand in
the fire before I would raise a finger
to tear down her altar.
Love can not live without illu
sion, and there is no greater crime
than to strip the. halo from her
husband’s head and exhibit a man
to his wife as he really is. Nor is
there any other such vandalism as
destroying faith in her husband in
a wife’s heart.
But suppose a woman does know
that her husband is faithless to her.
Suppose she hides the bitter secret
from the world, and puts up a
brave and courageous bluff of ig
norance, why call her hand? Do
you not realize that for her to know
that the world knows her shame,
that her friends pity her, and that
casual acquaintances smile at her
with cynical amusement, adds tne
last drop of wormwood and gall to
her cup of sorrow?
It is a hard thing for a womatt
to bear to know that she has lost
her husband's love, that he is
weary of her, and that ho finds
other women more attractive, but
it is harder still to have it forced
home on her that other p< opie
know it, and for this reason, if
for no other, malice itself might
hesitate to go to a wife with the
story of her husband’s flirtations.
There are many women who have
pride and strength oji.cigh to keep
up a brave face, and to stand with
their backs against the doors of
their skeleton closets defying any
body to guess what rattling bones
are hidden within it. \V e might
well take off our bonmis before
st.ch gallantry, and at least pny
such courage the tribute of our si-
Ipiicp.
Tale-Bearer Becomes
First Aid to Divorce.
'l'll’’ only tangible eff, , t of
t” a woman v itli the evidence of
her husband'.- shortcomings is l 0
precipitate a family row. and to be
a first aid to At..,. Surely no
woman who calls herself the
friend of another woman can want
to do a thing like that. Nor doc s
such a revelation lend to promote
iiffection in the unfortunate wife's
breast, for there are none whom we
hate so thoroughly tb.os. who
tell ns the things we woul,; rather
die than hear.
There is no possible excuse for
anybod.v telling a woman of her
husband's faults, if s | 1e is jpn ,'.
rant of them, what st le doesn't
know doesn't trouble |,,., )r shp
does know it adds to her liumiiia
lion and sorrow to realize that oth
er people scoff at the weaknesses
of the man she loves it is not
a sense of duty, nut malice, and
all tin. haritahleness th,at prompts
anybody to hi ~ t; ( le-im,i le r be
tween husband and wife.