New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-07-19
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| What John D. Rockefeller, the o
Dagnate, really has in mind % tn
purpose Of the Rockefeller Foundation
= nothing less than practical realiza
ton Of the dream Of the ages-th
abolition of poverty.
Starr J. Murphy. one Of Mr.. Rocke
feller's chief advisers in methods o
benevolence. recently said to a re
porter:
''Mr. Rockefeller In his charitie.
goes to rock bottom. In the genera
education board he has provided aiG
to established institutions for making
men ft to succeed, education, develop
ment and training of a mans powers
being the surest way toward making
one able to do something with oneself
In the Rockefeller Institute For Med
ical Research his purpose is to get
down not merely to remedies for dis
eases, but to eliminate diseases.
Wants an End OF Poverty.
Ellis chief desire now is for the more
equal distribution Of wealth and the
removal of poverty-not, mind you,
the alienation of poverty alone, but
the removal Of poverty"
j Mr.. Murphy's declaration came to-
ward the end of long chat on the
scope of the proposed foundation to
prevent and relieve suffering and the
promotion Of any and all elements Of
human progress"
May !, Mr.. Murphy" asked the re-
porter, write that as authoritative"
"You may" he answered. But be
sure to say that what he wants is
more equal distribution Of wealth, not
Redistribution he does not believe
effective, nor do we who compose his
on benevolence-J.D D. Rock
efeller, Jr., Fred T. Gates, Charles o.
aeydt and myself. 1t is no new thing
70 us, the purpose of this foundation.
We have been studying charities for
Mr.. Rockefeller for years, and he has
oeen interested in getting down to
IF man has 100000 year to
pend in philanthropy he might, under
! plan Of redistribution, give 500 a
'ear to 1000 families. That might
serve to keep 1000 families just this
Tide of the border line Of starvation.
Yet that 100000 annually spent in
support of, say. such benevolence as
he Medical Research institute, those
anne 1000 families would benefit quite
Is much, and then, beyond them, there
would be the benefit bestowed on null
itudes of others. No one, for instance,
an compute the value accomplished
" Mr.. Rockefeller's medical institute
n discovering how to prevent and cure
erebro spinal meningitis.
A Bar on Limitations.
"You say the bill to incorporate the
oundation is indefinite, not specific.
)ne of the most detrimental things in
harities is the control exercised by
he dead hand The bill was drawn so
hat the foundation should not be linz
ted or prescribed in its endeavors to
ro1note we'll being. Emergencies, &C.
asions of sudden distress, new discov-
ries Of the causes Of suffering, might
equire funds Immediately. We have
o provide for the unforeseen, the un-
nown, in creating this corporation for
be application Of money toward good
auses. Socialists and philosophers
ave long written on the causes Of pow
rty. What we need is actual con-
work and be done with the
ries.
while nothing has been determined
egarding the organization Of the staff
t the foundation and will not be till
be bill of incorporation is passed, l
oppose it will operate somewhat on
be lines of the Sage foundation. That,
GU know, financed the survey Of labor
nd sociological conditions in Pitts
urg. 1t finances separate societies
nd institutions for special investiga-
ions and researches. We wish to be
nabled to do that and anything else
hat may come within our purpose.
1T is fifteen years now since Mr..
rockefeller retired from business. His
bilities in business surely are beyond
iscussion. Well. now, give man Of
UGH high competence in organization
nd administration, who has given fif-
cen years to studying how to devote
is riches to permanent beneficial uses.
nd what may not be expected?"
RockefeIIer's Personal Work.
Mr.. Murphy was asked what person
part Mr.. Rockefeller takes in adj
his different charities. His ,
nswer was:
"Out of the S53OOO,OOO he has given ,
} the general education board he re-
aims the absolute direction of only
25,OO0,0O0 or SO. The administration
evelops upon the officers Of the gen {
raj board. The board, by the way,
as about fifteen employees and is an
Of economic administration.
D the new foundation Mr.. Rockefel-
+ will be one of the body corporate &
nd will select other associates besides p