The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-01-29
NEVER
EXERCISED POWER
BUT FOR GOOD
President Emeritus Eliot of
Harvard Tells Industrial
Relations Committee Rookie
Teller Fund Only Helped.

Teller Fund Only Helped.
New York, Jan. 29.-Rockefellcr
donations TO educational Institutions
have influenced the policies OF presi-
dents Of universities ana COLLEGES In
many instances, but the influence has
always been good, said Charles w.
eliot. president emeritus Of Harvard
university today az the federal indus
trial commissions Inquiry Into phil
anthropic foundations and the causes
OF social unrest.
The donations to which he referred
we're made By the general education
board. Or. Eliot said. As an Instance
ne cited John d. Rockefellcr's oncr
In 1905 TO furnish one million dollars
To Harvard university IL the university
would raise $4,000 additional.
Dr. Eliot said that he was connect
ed with the general education board
and other philuntiVopic foundations
established by Andrew Carnegie aud
Mr.. Rockefeller. He thought the
practice of interlocking the director
ates Of such foundations was q good
one. lie thought hat the general ed
ucatlon board had given {200, y0O, O00
To education since 1899.
one reason why workers found II
SO hard TO make their wages so as
far az they should. Dr. Eliot declared
was because they bought and ate too
| much meat.
Ia no case where the general edu-
cation board had made a donation, SO
far as the witness knew, had the
board investigated the methods OF a
~unlvcrsitj. college or school, or il
curriculum. There "a only n con
| dition attached TO the boards cnd0w-
ment: hat condition was that no
part 81 the money should bee spent In
reaching theology. The board made
/ this condition DIT. Eliot said, because
il ala not care 90 be placed in the
4 light II assisting or supporting any
scct or religion.
Dr. Eliot said he believed in organ
lied labor. but did not believe In the
! closed shop. Personally he favored
placing lanor representatives on
( boards Of directors.
To be possessed Of 500, 600, 600
was "A grave misfortune Dr. Eliot
: said. lie added that 10 he possessed
I that sum he would try 20 got rid Of
IL. lie did not believe with Or John
/ Holmes that the government could
best turn the money back to The poo
pie. Governments were not always
wise, he asserted, and foundations
such as the Rockefeller foundation
| could best take care Of the money Jy
giving the people education and bet
toring their condition. He did not
hink the great foundations O mtnncc
! on the contrary he believed that thcl
Noro OF benefit To- all mau"ind. The
/ Rockefeller boards and foundations.
he thought. constituted the most nd-
mirahlo system of honchtting human
! us the world has over known.
Industrial peace can never come
! he declared 80 long as Doth labor and
/ capital employ the methods OF fight.
they arc Isinr nov. The panacen
was industrial democracy and pub
/ Hcity."
John Hays Hammond. the next wit
ness. read q statement contaiuins
answers to questions submitted 20 him
by tho commission. In part he said
The stockholders Of large corpor
! ationa arc only remotely responsible
for the LABOR conditions shat exist 10
! them and Tor the social conditions
which are produced, since the stock
holders delegate their responsibility
| to the directors. In urn the dirc7tors
/ arc responsible for the general Iolicl
Of tho corporation aud FOR the oXecu'
tiyes whom they elect, The response
biity fails directly upon the man
agcr.'
MIR. Hammond In discussing the
question OF unemployment, declared
that the underlying causes were econ
omic. but that there are other factors
such as supply and demand, the
"brienoss lawyer. who. despite q
| lack OF experiences In business az
| fairs, Is selected 90 lcgislatc on aeon
omir problems OF national importance
and tho failure OF the business mar
10 take n proper Interest in civic and
political affairs.
John Lawson Of Denver, president
| Of District 40. - Of the United Mine
Workers OF America, the next witness
announced that he appeared neior,
the commission 90 his " request
when tho. miners heard that The
1 Rockefeller foundation VAS to he ~
vesigatcd, he said, they thought theS
should let the publ. know that 'c'erS
deduction from their pay envelopes
everything they lost, went unto th'
treasury OF the Rockefeller founda.
| ton"
Mr.. Lawson then read a statement
containing criticisms OF some Of th'
Z testimony OF John ID. Rockefeller, Jr
MIR. Lawson's statement Mas a re-.
hearsnI of the testimony OF John u
I Vookefelier. Jr.. ana n vigorous ar
rnienmcnt OF Mr.. Rockefeller FOR no
having inycstigatod Inc colorado sil
uatlon in moro detail than Mr. Law
son said he appeared TO have done.
II selby, CHIEF special agent of th'