Fanner Thinks $200 Check From
Government Agency Is Townsend
Pension Payment So He Spends It
(By The Associated Press)
42W From Resettlement Ad
ministration Takes As
Townsend Check
EVENING SHADE, Ark., Sept.
26, —A slight mix-up involving
4200,
the resettlement administ
ration, the Townsend pension
plan, and a second-hand merry
go-round has just about made
George E. Marlin, Maxville far
mer, an independent business
man.
Marlin applied to the resettle
ment administration for aid and,
when enrolled as a client of the
new deal agency, a team of mul
es was sold to him.
Ah! My $200 Pension
... Subsequently the resettlement
administration’s finance depart
ment arranged to pay (or the
mules but, through a clerical er
ror, sent the check to Marlin.
When Marlin got the check
made out in the even amount ol
$200, he decided it represented
his first monthly old age pension
allotment under the Townsend
plan, about which he had heard
so much.
Recalling that under the Town
send plan the pension was tc
be spent within 30 days, he hur
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ing. The resettlement administra
tion supervisor learned of the er
ror and also hurried to Bates
ville.
He found Marlin who told him
the most he had been able to
spend was $85, all for a patched
and battered merry-go-round.
Advised of the error, Marlin
said that if he were allowed to
keep the merry-go-round he
j would see that the government
loan was repaid.
A political campaign brought
an unusual number of picnics,
barbecues, and pie suppers to this
section, and Marlin and his mer
ry-go-round went to all of them.
Enough cash was accumulated
to repay the government’s $200
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Eastman Start
Gift Donations
Told By Prof.
! Camera Magnate Was Opposed
Higher Schools as He
Started Donations
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(Bv The Associated Press)
Rochester, n. y„ sept. 26, —
| George Eastman, the camera
magnate who gave more than 100
million dollars to colleges and un
iversities, began his munificent
gifts with the statement he was
\ not interested in higher educa
tion, an article published in the
Alumni Review of the University
I of Rochester reveals.
During the years in which he
1 gave away a fortune, the article
reveals, the famous industrialist
! forsook his early indifference and
in 1924 acknowledged that “the
pr >gress of the world depends
almost entirely on education.”
The story of his gradual rever
sal of his point of view over a
30-year period is related in an ar
ticle by Ernest A. Pavious, uni
versity trustee, as told to him by
Dr. Rush Rhees, presidert emeri
tus of tie uninversity end inti
mate fr;end of the late Eastman
f r three decr.das.
First Modest $10,000
The industrialist’s great bene
factions, shared by the University
of Rochester, Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology and Hamp
ton and Tuskegee institute, began
modestly in 1902 with a $10,000
gift to the University of Roch
ester which in total received
mere than half of the $100,000,
000 he gave away.
The first gift, for a science lab
oratory building for which a fund
was being raised, he later increas
ed to $60,000 when he learned sub
setiptions were coming in slow
ly, according to Dr. Rhees. At
the time he was quoted as saying:
“That’s the last dollar I'll give
to the university. I gave it to Dr.
Rhees because he let me alone."
When the building was com
pleted the cost was $78,000, but
without a word Eastman wrote a j
check for the balance.
Sends 5500,000 Check
Another gift a few years later
was contingent on success of a
public drive for $1,000,000. When
Dr. Rhees wrote Eastman that
the latter amount had been rais
ed he Teceived a check for $500,
000 in the next day’s mail with
a simple note: “I like to get such
things off my mind.” |
Eastman’s gifts to Rochester
grew steadily. Proposing a music
school for the university, he ag
reed to give $2,000,000, receiving
an agreement the cost would be
no higher.
Despite the agreement he turn
ed over to the university stock
worth twice that amount and lat
er gave an additional $2,139,000
for endowment of the Eastman
school of music.
When the general education
board, through Dr. Abraham Flex
ner, proposed a $6,000,000 medi
cal school for Rochester, East
man turned solicitor as well as
philanthropist. He offered to give
$4,000,000 if the board would give
$5,000,000, far above its original
plans. The offer was accepted and
the school funded.
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