The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1914-05-05
OIL KINGS Cash
IN EVIDENCE
ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION is
PAYING $25o,ooo A-YEAR IN
RURAL EDUCATION.
PARTNERSHIP is EXPLAINED
Instructors in Kentucky Are Paid BY
Rockefeller Under a Partnership Ar
ranuement With the Department of
Agriculture.
Especial Frankfort correspondence.)

(Special Frankfort Correspondence
Frankfort, Ky.-John D. Rockefel-
ler's Standard Oil cash, which some
persons hold to be tainted, is very
much in evidence in educating the
rural people of Kentucky and other
southern states, according to report
made in the senate at Washington re-
Gently by Secretary OF Agriculture
Houston. The report was called for
in a resolution adopted by the senate
some time ago, of which Senator Ken
yon, of Iowa, was the author. The
response from Secretary Houston
shows that the Rockefeller Foundation
is paying out for this purpose $25O,OOO
a year.
"A part of this appropriation" says
the report, 'has been used for general
demonstration work in the states OF
West Virginia and Kentucky. About
$4,000 of the amount is devoted to
girls canning and poultry club work
in the Southern States.
The Kentuckians sent out to do farm
demonstration work under this part
nership arrangement are c. G. Ander-
son, j. C. Baldwin, Paul D. Brown, o.
B. Burrell, P. w. Bushong, A. M.
Casey, E. H. Faulkner, A. Y. Finley,
o. F. Floyd, ]. c. Gentry, M. o.
Hughes, E. S, Kegley, E. ]. Fitzpatrick,
F. E. Merriman, Frank Montgomery,
Godfrey Morgan, Fred Butcher, ]. E.
Nichol, W. H. Rogers, S. j. Smock. c.
L. Taylor and W. G. Wilson.
Of these, c. c.. Anderson is paid $25
per month by Rockefeller's foundation
and S25 by the state. The others get
varying amounts from the Rockefeller
concern, ranging as high as $3.50 per
month in the case of Fred Futchler,
down to $50 per month in a number of
others, none receiving less than the
latter amount. The sums paid by
county and local authorities vary from
$25 per month to 1888 per month.
The Kentuckians engaged in girls
club work, paid jointly by Rockefeller,
the state and the county and local au-
thorities are Miss E. c. Carson, Miss
E. NJ. Condit, Mrs. B. D. Elan, Mrs. E.
N. Graves, Miss NJ. l. Morton, Miss
Rhoda Siler, Mrs. c. L. Vogel, Mrs. H.
B. Wolcott and Miss NJ. Worthington.
All of these except Mrs. Worthington
receive $25 from Rockefeller per month.
$25 from the state, $25 from county or
local authorities and 81 per year from
the department of agriculture.
Slot Machine Faces Turned To Wall.
Goodbye to the day when the slot
machine check was legal tender in
Frankfort. Also, goodbye to the days
when it has been possible for man
to get chaser" after II o'clock at
night. The day of the slot machine
and the II o'clock bar is dead 1t
died at midnight, when the face of
every slot machine in the ci y was
turned to the wall and each bartender
in the city told his family to expect
him home earlier in the future at
night. The time when one could with
one lone nickel speedily become the
pOssessor of some shiny checks, or
where one could just as speedily lose
the nickel, has gone, never to return
in Frankfort. No longer will the god
dess of chance rule over the saloons
and poolroOms of the capital city
ConVicts Get Back Pay.
Judge R. L. Stout, of the state fiscal
court, has entered judgment in the
case of Louis Spencer, a convict,
against the State prison Commission,
giving all the convicts pay for time
from June Is, 1910, to August 1, 1912.
The order provides that the commits
sion shall place to the credit of each
of the convicts the earnings to which
they are entitled. There are 1000 con-
victs interested in the suit. The
amount involved will reach $180,000.
Lawrence County First.
R. G. Terrell, Public Roads Commits
sioner, has received notice from the
fiscal court of Lawrence county asking
the state fer $4,000 for roads. The re-
quest is made under the recent law
providing that the state shall furnish
an amount equal to the sum appro.
priated for roads by the county. This
county is the first in the state to &C
cept the provisions of the new law.
Will Bid For Contract.
]. S. M. Goodloe, expert accountant
of New York, and brother of T. M
Goodloe, insurance expert for the state
rating board, will bid for the contract
OF installing the uniform accounting
system in Kentucky. He is native
of Louisville
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