El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-19

United States by aiding technical
schools, institutions of higher learning
Libraries, scientific research, hero
funds. useful publications, and by such
other agencies and means as shall from
time to time be found to deserve such
help. 1t now has a fund of $4,000, 900,
and il is intended that the corporation
shall take over the business of found
ing and aiding Libraries and educational
institutions which has been carried on
by Mr.. Carnegie as an individual
What the ultimate size of the fund
of the Carnegie corporation will be
no one can forecast, and 1t is doubtful
if even Mr.. Carnegie himself knows
except in a general way But authori-
tatiVe rumor has il that he intends
that ultimately it will get the bulk of
his property, and will manage the vast
millions of his fortune after his death.
In other words. Mr.. Carnegie wants to
put his property in such shape that
generations after he Is dead and gone,
good wise men may manage It for the
benefit of mankind along the lines of
the peculiar needs of their respective
generations. If he made will giving
il for specific purposes, or disposed OF
il for specific purposes before his
death. the needs that now seem most
urgent and the causes most worthy
might be met, while needs unrecog-
nized today might be foremost then
Therefore, he has decided to establish
a board of trustees and trust 10 the
wisdom of each generation to use the
fund to meet its peculiar needs
Differs From Other EndOWments.
The Carnegie corporation differs from
any other Carnegie endowment in that
Mr. Carnegie himself is a member OF
the board of trustees. In all of his
other endowments he has selected other
men to act as managers of the reSpec-
tive foundations, and left matters en-
tirely in their disposal, within the
limits of the terms Of the endOwmentS-
But he retains a place in the manage
ment of the affairs of the Carnegie
corporation. Here again he gives some
evidence of what he purposes to do
through the corporation He expects
to remain its directing head as long
as he lives; in other words, he intends
that there shall be a gradual merging
of Carnegie the individual into Car
negie the corporation, and as the acttY-
tiles of the individual wane those OF
the corpora ton will increase. He wants
the work Of establishing Libraries. pro-
noting church music, and hundred
kindred activities to continue through ,
as many generations to come as is
possible, and he has chosen the Car
negie corporation as the instrument by !
which these things shall be done
If his present purpose is carried out !
the Carnegie corporation viii be the /
aster-philanthropy of all his benefac- /
tons 1t will stand behind the numer- /
Gus foundations and institutions he !
has established, and when any one OF 1
them has a particularly important Work 4
to do for which its ordinary income i
does not suffice, the Carnegie corpor- /
alton viii do what Mr.. Carnegie him
self now so frequently does. For in !
stance, when he found that a great /
many worthy teachers were denied 4
pensions under his foundation for the !
of teaching, he immedi- ]
ately came to their rescue with an ad-
dition TO the original gift so that pro-
vision could be made for them. Like
wise when he found that the work OF I
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needed an extra $4,000. 900 endowment ]
it soon was forthcoming, and when he j
found that it could advantageously I
spend the income of an additional &c. 4
600. 600, that amount also was quickly 4
Carnegie an Outright Giver.
A member Of one Of the big founda-
tions esta blished by Mr.. Carnegie !
talked Interestingly recently upon the
of the gifts of MI. Carnegie 4
He said that the little Scot is the most \
outright giver he ever knew, that he 1
does not even pretend to exercise the
least influence over the trustees OF d
foundation after il Is established IN
giving he considers only two things;
the worthiness Of the cause and the
selection of the men who will admin
lister the gift. He neither attempts to
Law out a program nor TO plan the &C
tivities of a foundation; the terms OF
the charters are always broad, and yet
they are the only limit or restriction
he puts on his trustees. For instance,
becoming convinced that 100000 as
an endowment for a crusade in behalf
Of international peace would go Tar
toward the abolition of war. Mr.. Car
negie simply picked his men and left
entirely TO them the working out OF
the details of the crusade.
While George Peabody was the first
American to give a large fund to phil
anthrophy, a fund which has proved
the path blazing gift OF American ben
sfactors. it remained for Andrew Car
negie to begin a system of philan-
Lhropy which had for its end the CIV
ing of hundreds of millions OF dollars
10 the cause of humanity. He and John
D. Rockefeller are the worlds great
est givers, and it remains for the tu-
lure to tell which Of them Will go
Town in history as having been the !
more lavish donor Of the two. Down
Rockefeller foundation is taken into |
he reckoning. Mr.. Rockefeller prob
bly, has the advantage. On the other
land, if the Carnegie corporation is to
{ will, the honOrs will be with Mr..
Gifts Cover Wide Range.
The gifts Of Mr.. Carnegie have COW
red a very wide range. One of the
most interesting of all his philanthro-
lies, though little heard of. is that of
church music. To that end |
lie has given money toward the pur-
,ndSG OF thousands OF CnurGn organs Z
n America and Europe. He has not
,nly established hero funds" in the 4
United States and England, but in
countries of continental Europe as !
veil In most of his giving, Mr.. Car
legie has made gifts outright while
IT. Rockefeller usually makes his con-
inEent upon the raising of additional {
unds. Some of the dispensers Of these
differ widely as to the
elative merits of the two systems OF |
giving. There are those who think [
he Rockefeller gifts entail undue hard ,
hip on the schOOls-fOr instance, which ,
eceive them. On the other hand the
Jew of those who look at the ques-
ion from the Rockefeller viewpoint {
S that the most valuable part of a gift
s the spirit of self help it develops, |
nd that this cannot be realized to the [
ullest in an outright, unconditional :
lift. 1t will be seen that even in such ;
sweet work as the dispensing OF
money for the benefit of humanity, I
here is an honest difference of opin- t
on as to how to make it accomplish ;
Is best results.
There is one notable difference in /
he plan of the Carnegie corporation
nd the giving of the founder him :
elf. Today his gifts go to the ends
4 the earth He has aided humani- |
arian work on every continent. His [
ibraries stand as monuments to the Z