Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-30
ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION Civ.
EN- FREE HAND IN DisPoslNG
OF FUNDS.
MORE THAN s11,ooo,ooo FOR
WAR WORK SINCE JAN.
Relief Efforts Provide For Moral Bet.
termsnts at Training Camps, Re-
search Work in War Surgery and
Humanitarian Efforts in Both Amer
lea and Abroad.

world''-quoting. the charter object
the Rockefeller Foundation expended
in war relief from the beginning of the
war TO jan last the total Of $685.
$40. That Is $4,000 more than Chicago
spent last year in the operation of its
enormous water system.
For war relief this year the foun-
dation has already appropriated
s6.49s,S72. That is twice as much as
Chicago has expended in twenty years
for the curb of tuberculosis.
The foundations total appropria-
tons during the first half of the year
are s11,S51, 2S6. Add TO this the $685.
$50 spent previously on war relief and
the total, s13,919,906, exceeds by more
than s450,000 all the taxes paid last
year for the corporate operation Of the
city OF Chicago.
Eats Into Principal.
The semi-annual statement which
was distributed in Chicago yesterday,
shows that the foundation is eating
into its principal Of 500, 100000. The
war emergency not only takes all of
the income, but s10,ooO.000 of the orig
inal fund has been set aside to meet
urgent demands. Besides John D.
Rockefeller has waived the right he
reserved when the foundation was
started that he should designate the
way Of expending 100000 OF the
income annually.
The war relief of S6,49S,S72 has the
following announced objects:
~ f1y he
lean army training camps positive
factors for good in the lives OF the men
in training.
e.-Provlsion for research and dem
onstration in the field of war
surgery and medicine.
3.-Humanitarian work in this coun-
try and abroad.
$4,000 For Camps.
The items making up the total show
what the foundation ts anxious to do
for the soldiers and sailors. For the
training camps alone $4,000 is appro-
prtated. OF this the Young Mems
Christian Association gets 100000
outright and $4,000 additional for
sex education; 100000 goes to the
Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton, $4,000 to the playground and
recreation association, like amount
TO the American Social Hygiene As
ISOLATION and $1,000 to the COMMITTEES
of Fourteen Of New York City.
For the medical work $402,50o has
been appropriated, Of which the larg-
est item, 100000, is to build, equip
and run hospital under the control
OF Dr. Alexis Carrel to teach new meth
DDS of war surgery" Twenty five
thousand dollars goes to special re-
search in war surgery and medicine,
the same amount to the preparation
Of serums for war relief, a second du-
plicate Of the amount ito Yale Univer-
sity for mobile hospital in France
IN which clinical instruction to meSi-
cal students will be continued" 3d.
500 to the national committee on men
tai hygiene and $4,000 for equip
ment for teaching military and naval
surgeons in preparation for war work"
Red Cross Gets $500, 600.
Under the designation Of humani-
tartan we.l $4,000 600 Is given the Red
Cross without any conditions, s4,372
is added in Red Cross dividends, $780,
900 goes to the Y. NJ. c. A. interna-
tional committee, 100000 for the e
lief of Belgians. $4,000 for tubercu-
iosis work in France, $4,000 for Syr-
ian relief and like amount for the
war relief commission in the admin
stration Of It's affairs.
To affiliated organizations the foun-
dation has set aside $1,sS4,1ss. OF tbs
the China medical board will get $S14,-
S37, the international health board
1851, 15O, the industrial relations $4,000,
the administrative bureaus $95,501 for
operation and s2,7o0 for added equip
ment.
To unaffiliated organizations 1924
-46 has been appropriated. Under
this heading the Rockefeller Institute
for Medical Research will obtain
s2,0s7,15s, and Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity will get sS5,290. Other items are
$4,000 or less.
Rest Goes Here.
From the fund which Mr.. Rookie
Teller previously disbursed, an en-
dowment Of 100000 has been set to
the credit of the national board of the
Y. w. C. A.. sS7, 500 has been set aside
for the International committee Of the
Y. VI. C. A, $4,000 for the American
Baptist Foreign Mission Society, $751;
600 for the American Baptist Home
Mission Society. The other items are
small, only one reaching $4,000, which
Is for z. NJ. c. A. building at the
University Of Minnesota. The total APP
propriations from this fund are $780,
800.
Probably $1,soo.ooo more will be ap-
propriated before the end CO the year.