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Mr. Rockefeller's donations to education and welfare 

 organizations amount to more than half a billion dol- 

 lars. From this source about $10,000,000 a year is 

 dispensed, largely for medical education and public 

 sanitation. Last year two millions were promised to 

 Harvard for a school of health, a million to Columbia, 

 three and one half millions for rebuilding the medical 

 schools of Brussels. A complete modern medical school 

 has been established in Peking and twenty-five other 

 .medical centres in China have been helped. Consider 

 what it means for the four hundred million people of 

 China to have scientific research established there at 

 this critical period in their history. Nineteen coun- 

 tries besides our southern states have been helped in 

 unhooking the hookworm. Campaigns against yellow 

 fever and malaria have been instigated the world over. 

 How much does that mean for the increase of human 

 health and energy? Notice that these donations, large 

 as they are, do not compare with what the communities 

 concerned will themselves spend in the work thus 

 started. Who can estimate the influence of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago and of the other universities which its 

 founding has effected? Here are profound and far- 

 reaching sociological effects resulting from the almost 

 accidental accumulation of this wealth in the hands of 

 one particular man. Any other man or group of men 

 would have spent it differently, worse or more wisely, 

 as you choose to think. 



How HAS GASOLENE AFFECTED Us? I must not 

 close without mention of the psychological effects of the 

 introduction of gasolene, its influence on the mind of 



