Eastman to Stockholm

George Eastman, Kodak maker, has given more than $75,000,000 to philanthropies. Preceding each of his gifts went a long period of secret investigation and discussion. His announcements have always struck the staff of his Eastman Kodak Co. "as unexpectedly as lightning." Last week Eastman lightning struck again, this time in Sweden. Mr. Eastman gave Stockholm $1,000,000 to build a model dental dispensary and clinic.

The Stockholm dental clinic will be Mr. Eastman's fourth institution of the sort. First and model for the others is at Rochester, N. Y., his hometown, recipient of more than half his philanthropies. The Rochester Dental Dispensary was started in 1917 under direction of Dr. Harvey Jacob Burkhart, 69, onetime (1899) president of the National Dental Association, two-time (1902-04, 1915-16) mayor of Batavia, N. Y. Dr. Burkhart, who has Mr. Eastman's unqualified trust, arranged the organization of the other two Eastman dental institutions--at London and Rome. He is to buy all their equipment, approve the appointments of their directors, superintend their regimen. Last week he sailed with his wife and stepdaughter to attend the dedication of London's Eastman Dental Clinic, perhaps also the groundbreaking for the Rome dispensary.

At Rochester last week it was said--Mr. Eastman's philanthropic secretiveness pre-vented authentic announcement--that Mr. Eastman has in mind the creation of similar dental institutions in other parts of the world. If Dr. Burkhart goes from Rome to any of the Balkan countries or to Russia, human teeth in those regions are likely to benefit by $1,000,000 or so.

Tycoon Eastman's public gifts all have had a peculiarly personal touch. For example, the London dental dispensary was the result of Mr. Eastman and Dr. Burkhart talking with Sir Albert Levy, English tobacconist, and Lord George Allardice Riddell, newspaperman. Signor Giacomo De Martini. Italian Ambassador at Washington, and Professor Amadeo Perna, foremost Italian dentist and a deputy in the Italian Parliament, interested the Rochester man in the needs of Romans. Two years ago two sons of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Prince Gustaf Adolf and Prince Sigvard, visited Mr. Eastman in Rochester. A few months later Mr. Eastman instructed Nils Bouveng, Eastman Kodak Co. representative in Europe and a native of Stockholm, to escort Dr. Burkhart on an inspection of dental facilities in Sweden, Norway, Denmark.

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