New-York tribune., 1910-03-05
NOT CHARITY ALONE
son ENDS SILENCE.
j. ID. Rockefeller, J. s FIRST
Hint as to Failure Course.

John j.. Rockefeller, Jr-- gave Ees'eiudH
.he first hint OF any sort he has dropped
rs to his future course since the announce
rnent that his fathers fortune was 10 be
Incorporated as a vast institution OF gen
cYal benevolence. Three questions We're
submitted 10 him al his home, No. Is W est
E4,h street
-pc xou expect 10 resign from the
American I.inseed Oh Company and the
Deiauare. I.acl1awanna & Western boards?
Is IL true that your. principal concern
VII be phianthropc study and work?
..ls Z; true that YOU viii take a proml-
non. nart-norhaps the leading 'one-in the
work Of the Rockefeller Foundation?
Z. the first two questions Mr- Roeke-
feIler's answer. transmitted through a
servant: was No IN response 10 the
third the message was, Mr.. Rockefeller
,aa answer no more questions Ihis reply
was similar 10 that returned to reporters
calling at his office at No. 70 Broadway Ior
the last Two days. --,
M Rockefellers announcement lhai ne
would no, withdraw from the governing
boar OF the American Linseed on com
many and the Delaware, Lackawanna Il
Western Railroad was directly contrary 10
the current gossip II had been generally
connection with these two concerns. as ne
had already done from the Standard on
Company, the United States Steel Corpora
fion and other important concerns
The Rev. DR. Wallace Buttrick, secretary
of the General Education Board. speaking
of the possibilities in the exceedingly ho-
eraI charter proposed in the Senate Tor the
Rockefeller Foundation, said:
MANY persons do not realize how many
funds there are that might he doing great
good in the world which still are clutched
g,y the dead hand of some worthy man
who hedged them with hampering clauses
IL his will For Instance. the New YORK
State Colonization Society now holds In
trust about slo0.0}5 TO be used for certain
specified purposes of education IN the re-
public of Liberia Most OF the income must
i.e spent Ipon professorships of theology IN
that country
The incurTlbe of one of these endOW-
1nents must subscribe to the confession OF
faith of the Presbyterian Church, as held
fy the Old School General Assembly OF the
United States of America That creed
was the outgrowth of a theological contro-
yers, which has long since been settled;
ihe Church las been united and the creed
revised and the professor in Liberia is now
which perhaps no other man in the world
,1l-ocIaims as his own. The Liberians are
I'm CRYING need Of industrial education ana
Of practical schools TO teach them the me-
chanical arts. Yet these funds are plIlng
,lp in the hands of their custodians, being
more than sufficient TO supply the needs
Of the objects for which they were given
The giyers were good men, who would
,i,,gI,tleSs wish that their money should be
employed where IL would do the most good
To the people whom they wished 10 benefit.
That is the sort of misdirection Of energy
which the flexible charter Of the Rookie
feIier Foundation will avoid
Another prominent manager Of social
work said that the Rockefeller Foundation.
in the energetic hands which Will undoubt-
.,dly control it, will be able 10 enforce
wholesome housecleaning in the methods Of
,.4ny institutions of worthy purposes and
la~ t,7,cl-scS methods