Life — March 7, 1907 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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Thoughtful Millions NCLE JOHN ROCK LLER has unloaded $32,000,000 at one swoop on the General Education Board. He had already given the board $11,- 000,000, so that his total investment in it is $43,000,c00. We congratulate Mr. JouN Dd, Rockefeller on this considerable measure of relief which he has afforded himself, and we beg to express our prayerful sym- pathy for the board. For truly, the boa duties and responsibi ‘d is committed to ics which seem at first sight to be pretty staggering. It is composed of sixteen members, selected with excellent judgment, and its purpose is to promote education in the United States without distinction of race, sex or creed. From the income of the fund, of which it is trustee, it will have nearly two million dollars a year to disp Anybody who thinks that it is easy to give away large chunks of money so that they may do some good, and won’t do harm, is invited to go to Uncle John, or to Uncle Andrew Camegie, and get a stake and try it for himself. It is not a bit easy. Neither, to our mind, is it very much fun. To give away a million or two is pleasant enough, but when you have hundreds of millions to give it is burden- some. “ducation is also a good thing. It isa ified, public-spirited, responsive en- terprise in which to invest. And Mr, Rockefeller has never been suspected of being thoughtless or overhasty in his benefactions. But we hear no rumors of his distributing another thirty-two mil- lions among the men he is reported to have ruined and driven out of business during his absorbent career. ‘That also would be nice. Libelous O NOT believe everything you read in the papers. Do not believe, for example, the Wall Street rumor that President Roosevelt is looking around for a divorce with the expectation of ulti- mately marrying Emma Goldman. Lire tigated this story and ‘an give positive assurance that there is nota particle of truth in it. The President is thoroughly conservative on his domes tic side. O VREELAND is without honor, save in his own surface car. OO PLD The Right Way Out George C. Cox, of Cincin- the Episcopal minister who thought very much as Dr. Crapsey did, and wanted his Bishop to advise him what he ought to do about it. He was presented for heresy, but his diocese fused to try him. But when the I said he ought to have been tried, Mr. Cox resigned his pulpit. That was right, and vindicates the discretion of his dio- Marie Corelli TERICA may have the W. C. T. U. nd Dowie, but it has been spared Marie Corelli. This enchanting young thing has a comic-opera name, a passion for publication, a pen that does as much wronging as writing, the tact and temper. of an irritated wasp and the modesty and reticence of a vaudeville headlin Were Bernard Shaw pasteurized, sterilized and feminized, his name would be Corelli. Marie loathes America, lectures and lashes England, and has appointed herself censor of morals and incenser of persons. in the British Empire. She is interpreter for Satan, the supervisor of Providence and is convinced that Jove, Minerva and Bellona were boiled and distilled to se- cure the spirit and afilatus animating Maric. Her literary output rivals Hall Caine’s in volume and violence; she is the idol of the British chamber- maid, and were she pos- sed of her amiability, invention and English, might be termed the Laura Jean Libbey of Albion. Marie Corelli’s portrait is found on British pennies, disguised as Britannia. comicbooks.com \ Se