The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-23
Institute for Government Re.
search. Backed by Rookie
Teller. to Do Work
DR.. ALDERMAN IS
BOARDS SECRETARY
Proposal of Private Body to
Investigate Public Business
Not Well Received in Off
cial Circles

New York, July ga searching
investigation into every department OF
the United States government is to be
made by the Institute for Government
Research. 1t was revealed today that
this new bureau for Federal inquiry
was formed and is backed by John
d, Rockefeller
The director and, memb ers of the
I board Of trustees are men prominent
~ identified with the Rockefeller phil
antroptcs. The institute for govern
ment research was organized last
March. The scope and extent of its
work in the planned Federal govern
ment investigation have not been re-
vealed.
William Franklin willoughby, pro-
fessor OF Jurisprudence and politics at
Princeton University. is director OF
the institute He viii be In charge
of the investigation. Prof Willough-
by recently visited the Municipal Arch.
after which the institute is modelled,
and asked for investigators or the
STAFF best suited for governmental in
Quiries.
Personnel of Trustees.
The board Of trustees Is com posed
OF the following iaen. all OF whom
are prominently identified with Rookie
Teller activities:
Frank J Goodnow. president OF
Johns Hopkins University, chairman;
/ Edwin A. Alderman, secretary OF the
Institute for Government Research;
Frederick Strauss, treasurer OF the
institute board; Robert s Brookiins..
OF 81, Louis: Charles w Eliot. former
professor OF Harvard University and
Ralph r. Fosdick. The following men
have been asked to cooperate: James
F. Curtis OF the Federal Reserve
Bank New York City r. Fulton Cut
ting who ranks next TO Rockefeller
in supporting the bureau OF munich
palities, Felix Frankfurter. of Har-
] ward Arthur T. Hadley, professor at
Yale: Mrs F. II Hartman. who has
contributed largely 10 the Municipal
Arch, Samuel Nather, an iron master
at Cleveland Martin A, Rierson, OF
Chicago, Rockefeller institution
man; Theodore y. Vail. Of the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany.
To Make Complete Probe.
The institute intends 10 examine
into the inside business of all Federal
departments and bureaus just as the
Bureau OF Municipal Research has
been digging into New York city's
government The close connection
esta hlished between the Washington
and New York city institutions does
not surprise Wall Street It was
pointed out yesterday ~ one promin-
ent financier that Rockefeller is one
OF the largest contributors TO the New
York city bureau
The last report of the Bureau OF
| Municipal Research shows that up to
December 81, 1914, John u. Rookie
felier led all other contributors with
( a total of $4,000. Next came r.
Fulton Cutting. with sl16,7s5 Since
January /. 1918, Rockefeller has fur
nished an even greater portion OF the
bureaus funds. In the report of the
Rockefeller Foundation. made public
December. 1918, for example, there
is a record of the following donation:
Bureau OF Municipal Research SAC
600" How much more the bureau
obtained from other Rockefeller
sources could not be learned, Infor-
nation was refused at the bureaus
offices, No. 26l Broadway.