The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-05-11

gle's entrance into the Board is strik-
1nsIy suggestive both as to the idea
underlying The General Education
Board" which is ndowe with the
oil magnate's gifts amounting to $40
100000, and the expected alliance and
cooperation Of the Carnegie Foun-
oatlon which rests on some $4,000
600 of Mr.. Carnegie's money. Mr..
rockefeller said, IF a combination TO
90 business is effective in saving waste
ana IN getting better results, why is
not a combination for more import
ant IN philanthropic work? The gem
eral idea OF cooperation in giving for
EDUCATION, | have felt scored a real
step IN when Mr.. Andrew
Carnegie consented to become a mem
Der Of the General Education Board
The country knows what MI. Rookie
Teller means by "a combination to do
~business.' In the STANDARD Oil Com
pany's dialect that phrase has meant
to destroy all others engaged in the
oil business, and then do as you please
with the oil market. Shall we have
that sort Of method in educations? DR..
Washington GLADDEN. considers Stand
ard Oil money tainted. Shall we have
tainted education also?
"The General Education Board re-
fuses to make gifts to State education
al institutions except in the matter of
professors OF secondary in
certain State universities, the main
function Of such professors being not
so much with the State universities
as with high schools in various parts
Of the several States. This fact suf-
ficiently evinces the aim and clearly
foreshadows the ultimate results of
the efforts Of the General Education
Board in so far as State universities
are concerned. The Board also con-
ducts its system Of agricultural lee
lures in some sort Of cuasi-relation to
State schools. Beyond these two small
items. no gifts Of the General Educa-
ton Board" are intended to be given
to State educational Institutions"
But they do not expect to be limit
ed to the millions of these two mag
mates of the steel and Oil trusts. They
expect millions more. Did not Mr..
Rockefeller invite others to join them
when he said. The general idea of
cooperation in giving for education
scores q real step in advance when
Mr.. Andrew Carnegie consented to
becom a membe of the General Ed
ucation Boards Was there not here
a sly hint to philanthropists? The
hint might be expressed thus, Mr..
work Of giving to education. Now if
anybody else in the United States is
disposed to give to education. insti-
buttons and wishes to put his money
where it will do the most good, let all
such persons join our educational
continuation What is the expressed
object OF the General Education
POard"" Is it not for the receipt and
disbursement OF one for education-
al p~urpOses?" Mr.. Robert c. Ogden,
in May, 1902, discussing the Confer
ence for Education in the South. the
southern Education Board and the
General Education Board,' together
said HR,1f q million dollar PC for that
purpose, Why. it is a mere trifle, A
hundred millions could be used. and
d hundred millions will be used be
fore the work is done" Whether he
just prOphesying in genera, or
speaking concerning then in
the formative n unpublished con-
dition. but of which he had knowl-
edge, [ do not surmise. [ am sure,
however, that Mr.. Rockefeller and his
Board expect to influence other gifts
to higher education, as well as to eX-
pend where they may choose the in
come from the huge fund which is
now in their own control. In 1904
Mr.. Ogden said, lit is already quite
important to every worthy institution
seeking private aid to be registered in
the office Of the General Education
Board" The natural inference from
this is that the Boards little coiored
pins will determine even "Drivate
aid as we'll as it's own gifts to col
lege, according as that college may or
may not be Registered in the office
of the Board" Can any one oVer-state
the significance of such a menacing
And let us recall again what the
Outlook said about the ability Of the
to control college funds which
have been given by others in the past.
Outlook said, THE funds it holds
only a fraction of the
amounts which it will really control;
giving a sum to an institution on
condition tina the institution raise an
or greater amount, it will be
able to direct much larger amounts
it possesses"
Think of what is evidently propos-