Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-19
GIVES SUM OF s6,842,841
FOR VARIOUS WAR works
Rockefeller Foundation Makes An
nouncement for Appropriations
During This Year.
PART OF PRINCIPAL USED
Largest Amounts Expended at Train
ing Camps, In Research and DEM
o%nstratiops OF Surgery and Modi-
cine and Other Efforts.

NEW YORK. August 18th. sum
Of s6,S42,S41 for various war purposes
has been appropriated by the. Rookie
Teller Foundation since the beginning
Of this year, it was announced to-day,
the sums granted being devoted to the
following principal objects:
Provisions for making the American
for good IN the lives OF the men in
training.
Provisions for research and demon
STATIONS in the field Of war surgery
and medicine.
Humanitarian work In the United
States and abroad.
The largest gift was an uncondition-
al one TO the American Red Cross OF
$1,000, 900 for humanitarian work. and
the international committee Of the Y.
n. G. A. received $1,000 0 for foreign
military and prisoners OF war work.
The Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research received Il like sum for tho
building. equipping and running OF q
hospital under DR.. Alexis Carrel to
teach new methods OF war survey, and
$1,000 was given to the Commission
for Relief in Belgium for rations to
the Belgian children.
The sum of 500. 600 was appropriate
ed to the international health board
Of tho Rockefeller Foundation. which
is controlled in France in cooperation
with the French government.
The Rockefeller Foundation" to-
days announcement said, has during
recent months devoted a large part
of its u to work in connection
with the emergency growing out OF
the war. The trustees have decided to
use not only the income, but a part of
the principal OF the foundation funds
as we'll"
PART or PRINCIPAL
ALREADY APPROPRIATED
The trustees had voted to use 3lo.-
o00. 900 from time to time. and 1t Ia
announced that part OF this principal
fund now has been used in making
the appropriations to date.
The foundation war relief commits
sion in Europe maintained for two
years has been withdrawn, and the
contributions to war relief are being
made to unafhliated organisations al
work in several fields.
Prior to the appropriations now an
nounced the foundation had expended
in war relief up to the end of last year
the sum Of 32,b6s.62O.ls. this being the
moun actually paid out.
Others OF the new appropriations an
nounced to-day are:
For agencies working In and about
the training m for America SOL
diers' Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton 100000, and the Young Woman's
Christian Association 800. 900.
To the Rockefeller Institute for
Medical Research for special research
in war medicines and surgery $25. 900
and a like amount for tho preparations
of serums for war relief. Yale, mi
versity received $4,000 for a mobile
hospital in France. In which clinical
instruction to medical students will be
continued. The national committe for
mental hygiene got $4,000 for build
ings for a naval psychiatric unit. The
payment of Red Cross dividends
amounted to $44.372. Fifty Thousand
dollars is devoted to the relief work Of
tho American Committee for Armen'
ian and Syrian Relief.
II is known that tho survey OF tn.
berculosis conditions In France cos
10000, and that the administration
expenses in this country and abroad
amounted to $4,000.
The total Of tho foundation appro
priations for all imposes In the frs
six months Of this year amounted L
S11,351. 2S6.02.