Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-29
Rockefeller Donations Tend
to Give Foundations
Control
INFLUENCE IS GOO
BELIEVES DIR. s.OT
President Emeritus Of $ ard Uni>
versity Tells Of Pr 3 I'd Gift es
100000 by Oil .s.ate-Tsstisiss
That General Education Board Has
Given $2oo, 100000 to Educational In.
stitutions Since 1902.

New York, Jan. 29.-Rockefeller do.
nations to educational institutions
have Influenced the policies OF univer-
stiles and colleges In many Instances,
but the influence has always been good,
said Charles w. Eliot. president emeri-
tus of Harvard University. today. at
quiry into philanthropic foundations
and the cause OF labor unrest
The donations he referred TO were
those OF the general educational board,
he said. AS an instance. he cited John
d. Rockefeller's offer to furnish $1.000.-
900 to Harvard, IL the university would
| raise $S76,00O additional. This was be.
fore DR.. Eliot became Il member Of
the board OF directors Of the general
educational board. He said he applied
to Rockefeller for aid in maintaining
new medical buildings expected for
Harvard.
Promised University 100000. (.
Starr J. Murphy. OF Rockefelier's
personal stan. made an investigation
of the buildings and the financial con-
dition Of the university. Afterward Mr..
Eliot called on John D. Rockefeller. Jr..
and was told the elder Rockefeller
would donate $1,000, 900 on condition
the university raised $3.50 Dr.. Eliot
said he had not hoped to received such
a large sum.
DR.. Eliot said he was q member Of
boards of foundations founded by An
drew Carnegie and Mr.. Rockefeller. He
| thought the plan OF interlocking the
dtrectorates OF such foundations was .
good one.
Give oo,ooo.o 900 For Schools.
| board had given 5000. 900 900 70 educas
! tion since 1902.
Stockholders in q corporation. d.
Eliot testified, were not SesDonsi1So
for labor conditions, he thought. unless
| their attention was called fofcibly 10
| some particular wrong.
He said legislation providing for uni.
! form minimum wage schedules was q
| bad thing.
What would be good for one body OF
workers. he said. would be bad for
another
| One reason why workers found it
hard to make wages go as far as they
should. he said. was because they
bought and ate too much meat.
Greatest System Ever Devised.
To be possessed of s1O0.000,0 900 was q
grave misfortune" DR.. Eliot said. He
added that if he possessed that sum he
| would try to get rid of it. He did not
believe with DR.. John H. Holmes, that
| the government could best turn the
money back to the people.
| Governments We're not always wise
he said. 'ana foundations, such as the
| Rockefeller foundation. could best take
care of the money by giving the people
education"
! He did not think the great founda-
| tons menace, but on the contrary he
believed they We're of great benefit to
| mankind The Rockefeller foundations,
he thought, constituted the greatest
, system OF beneftting mankind the
world has ever known.
Industrial peace can not come. he
! said, as long as both capital and labor
/ employ the methods of fight they nov
! employ. The panacea was industrial
democracy and publicity"
No Support For Theology.
! In no case where the general educa-
ton board had made donation, so Ear
as the witness knew. had the board in
! sity, college or school. There was only
one condition attached to the boards $
endowments: that condition was that
no part of the money should be spent
in teaching theology. The board made
this condition, DIR. Eliot said, because
it did not care to be placed In the tight
of assisting or supporting any sect.
DR.. Eliot said he believed in organized
labor bu. did not beiieH in the closed
shop.