The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-14
OFFICERS FOR SAGE FUND. MISS GOULD A TRUSTEE Object is to Eradicate Cause of Poverty and Ig-
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New York, May 1s.-The Russell Sage foundation, to which Mrs. Sage recent ly gave $1O,0OO,00O and which has been formally organized with Mrs. Sage as president and John M. Glenn, of Bal timore secretary and director.
 The following were elected trustees:
 Mrs. Russell Sage, Robert w. De- forest, Cleveland H. Dodge, Daniel c, Gilman, John M. Glenn, Helen M. Gould, Gertrude s. Rice, Louis Lee Schuyler and Robert C. Ogden.
 At a meeting of the trustees, these officers were elected:
 President, Mrs. Russell Sage; vice president, Robert w. Deforest; secre- tary and director John M. Glenn.
 MT. Deforest, after the meeting, made public the following statement in re- ference to MT. Glenn's selection as sec- retary and director of the foundation
 "He has long been conspicuous and most useful leader in the public and private charities of Baltimore. He has been independent in his. means and at leisure to choose his pursuits. He has consequently been called into service of the public for the discharge of impor- tant trusts. Among others, he has been president of the board of super visors of city charities of Baltimore, president of the national conference of charities and correction, president of the state conference of charities, lec- turer in the Johns Hopkins university, chairman of the joint executive com mittee of the Federated Charities of Baltimore, and president of the St. PauIs child house, a neighborhood set clement. He is not far from fifty years of age and is 8 graduate of Washing ton and Lee university in Virginia"
 Temporary offices of the foundation have been established at 30 Broad street, New York
 In regard to the scope of the founda- ton MT. Deforest said:
 Mrs. sage's purpose, as stated in the organization charter, is: The improve ment of social and living conditions in the United States. Her desire is that the foundation shall preferably not un- dertake to do that which is now being or is likely to be effectively done by other individuals or by other agencies. It should be the foundations aim to take up the larger and more difficult problems and to take them up in such manner as to secure so far as possi- ( ble their satisfactory solution"
 The following limitations of scope have also been unanimously adopted bx the trustees:
 'A''-The foundation will not attempt to relieve individuals or family need. The function is to eradicate so far as possible, the causes Of poverty and ig- torrance, rather than to relieve the suf- ferings of those who are poor or ignor- ant The relief of individual need is not one of the larger and more difficult problems. It is duty which every one of us owes to our less prosperous neigh Dor. Every brotherhood should relieve its own cases of individual need for it's own sake, and every neighborhood is measurably meeting this obligation.
 sB"-The sphere of higher education, that served by our universities and col leges. will not be within the scope of the Sage foundation. That is the sphere ot hectha ;in1C CatbadehH; ;,f?r hrddidi sphere of the general educational board.