Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-02-23
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OF WORK DONE
BY ROCKEFELLER
Millions Expended for Char
table, Educational and Other
AItruistic Purposes, Says
Report,

| commission on industrial relations TO.
day. OF this sum sS,31s.750-oi
practically ne-half-represen the
/ personal charities OF John D. Rookie
| Teller, ST.. the author of the founda-
don having reserved in his letter OF
Gift the right to disburse $4,000, 900 a
year from the corporations income
according to the dictates Of his own
/ will.
The war in Europe brought contri-
buttons of S1,029,613.06 from the cof-
/ fers of the foundation. the principal
item being S975.707.93 expended tor
food supplies for starving Belgians.
! Colleges, i. NJ. c. 4. projects, medical
research and investigations, the Red
| Cross, organized charities and well
/ fare work of various kinds were other
! beneficiaries.
/ The statement was drawn up In re-
| spouse to a request made by the III
! dustrial relations commission at its
/ recent investigation In New York OF
| he Rockefeller, Carnegie and other
| foundations. The document was
made public by the Rockefeller foun-
/ dation office at 81 Broadway The
statement divided the contributions
| into three classes, the first compris-
| ing activities conducted under its
| own immediate supervision, the sec
ond "other gifts and pledges. and the
third founders acquisitions" under
which heading are listed the personal
| disbursements of the founder, ranging
| from $50, to the Working Women's
| Protective union. up to s2,556, 600 for
| buildings. equipment and endowment
80 the Rockefeller Institute for Medi-
cal Research
The foundations own activities in
/ cluded these items: War relief, ST.
| 009, 613.06, the other 100000 of this
| item having been expended by the
! American Red Cross or DIR. Alexis
! Carrel. in his capacity of volunteer
surgeon in France; hook worm work
/ in Central America, British Guinea,
| British West Indies and Egypt, S142,-
/ 1915; investigation of industrial re-
lations, S5.292.13; investigating medi-
cal work in China, $39,270.92, and
purchase Of the Grand Chenier, Lou
/ isiana, bird refuge, $223.574.77.
/ The largest single item in the sec
| ond section Of statement was $780,
/ 900 pledged to Wellesley college on
I condition that the institution raise the
! balance of a fund of 100000 for
/ buildings and endowments. Next in
rank was a gift Of s450,000 to the an
/ nual foreign missions conference of
! North America for use in carrying out
/ plan TO coordinate the work of the
( principal American mission boards.
/ The widows pension movement of the
| New York association for improving
/ the condition of the poor was given
+ 100000 a year for ten years, the Am
/ erican academy in Rome half that
amount and the American Red Cross
! $1,000 towards the District of CO.
/ lumbia memorial TO the work of wom-
/ en- in the civil war.
/ The bureau of municipal research
Of New York City was twice present
ed with funds, receiving $4,000 in
I May toward its current expenses and
/ $4,000 in October to provide for
studies preparatory TO the state con-
| stitutiOnal convention in 1915"
| Public and private charity organi-
cations of New York City were given
/ SS3, $40 for various objects and Sf0.-
! 600 each was presented to the Red
Cross relief work in Bulgaria and re-
lief of restitution caused by the ca
lamities in northeastern Japan in
January, 1914.
The third section of the statement
carried this explanation:
1.-THE foundation was in general n
development into corporate and inn
personal form of the personal chari-
I ties and miscellaneous phiianthropic
work i'm which Mr.. Rockefeller had
been Interested for many years. Mr..
| Rockefeller, through this office, had
been giving 10 large number of
charities which appealed TO him
personally by virtue of his citizen
ship in New York and his previous
residence in Cleveland, o.
1T was for these reasons that it
was planned that during Mr.. Rookie
feller's lifetime he should have the
privilege OF personally designating
the use to be made of S2,000,0 600 an
lnually Of the income of the founda-
ton"
The first batch or these personal
gifts was recorded May 4. 1914 and
totalled SG4,400. This sum included
Ia conditional contribution of $4,000
towards the foreign work of the Y.
| ~ c. A.: $4,000 TO the Baptist
Union of Western Canada, with
headquarters in Winnipeg $4,000 to
the Boy Scouts and n number of do
nations to associations and TO chart
ties of New York City and vicinity In
addition there was a gift OF $1,000 for
the dependents of sailors lost on the
lscahng steamers Southern Cross and
! Newfoundland. in the north ATTAIN
| tic
The last of the May 4 gifts was an
item OF 5000 for THE expenses OF
an additional eugenic investigator in
lWestchester county. The next day
I Mt Rockefeller ordered six times as
much to be paid for six field work
ers in eugenics, the work TO be done
( IN state Institutions.
! The public education association
was the next recipient of Mr.. Rookie
] ieller's bounty, receiving a cOndi-
tional gift OF $4,000 on May IL. The
| laymen's missionary movement was
given $4,000 May L. and the nation
! al child labor committee 81, 500 and
/ the Cleveland School of Art 500 the
next day. There were no other con-
/ uioutions in May
The big gift to the Rockefeller In
stitute for Medical Research, came on
June "a. Other donations that month
4 Included $4,000 to the George Junior
republic, S30o to the girls branch of
the Public school Athletic league of
New York and S9.500 TO church and
lchafity projects
duly was marked by tive gifts. one
being $4,000 toward the relief of
I tire sufferers at salem. Mass. and
the other $1,000 To the Honest Ballot
association OF New York City.
| On August II, Mr.. Rockefeller
I pfaHtrnf $50 oQu tosss.~ss a. t..*sae..1.