The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-02-08
US. SENATE HITS
ROCKEFELLER'S
DOLLAR AGENTS
Senator Declares Corporation In
fIuence Could Change Nations
Ideals in Two Years

WASHINGTON. - Senator Cham
berlain caused sensation in the Sen
ate by charging that the Rockefeller
and Carnegie foundations are in a
conspiracy to dominate the education
al system of the United States
through their emissaries in the Unit
ed States bureau of education.
The Oregon senator presented an
amendment to the legislative bill pro-
hibiting, under penalty of 81 900 or
one year in Jail, or both, the expendi-
ture of any government money for
the payment of salaries to persons
connected with the Rockefeller foun-
dation, the Carnegie foundation, or
any other corporation or private in
dividual.
1877 Emissaries on Payroll
The senator submitted report
from the secretary of the interior
showing that 157 men and women are
carried on the salary list of the United
States bureau of education at the
nominal salary of 81 per year, their
actual salaries being paid by organi-
cations and individuals separate from
the government.
He charged Commissioner of Edu-
cation Claxton with having concealed
part of the truth relative to the ex-
tent of the corporation 81 privilege,
which accords them the right to have
their educational" matter franked
through the mails, and gives them,
moreover, the benefit of having their
pamphlets go out with the stamp of
governmental approval.
Could Change Ideals of Whole Nation
"This Carnegie-Rockefeller influ-
ence is bad" said Senator Chamber
lain. ''These people are trying to get
control of the educational system of
the country. In two generations they
can change the minds of the people
to make them conform to the cult of
Rockefeller or the cult of Carnegie,
rather than to the fundamental prin-
ciples of American democracy"
He said the Washington and Lee
University of Virginia had been placed
in low grade by the Rockefeller
foundation reports because the univer-
sity authorities refused to change
their curriculum to meet the standards
imposed by the foundation.
Colleges Must Be Good to Get Money
Senator Kenyon of Iowa was more
emphatic in his condemnation of the
methods pursued by the Rockefeller
foundation in its determination to
control the educational system. "The
agents of the Rockefeller foundation"
said Kenyon, ito my personal knowl-
edge have examined the curriculums
of colleges and refused to endow those
colleges unless certain courses were
stricken from the list"
$4,000 Dollar Is on Dollar List
In substantiation of his charges,
Senator Chamberlain presented COM
munication from William H. Allen,
director of the institute of public SER
vice, City Hall square, New York.
Mr.. Allen asserts that the general
education board of the Rockefeller
foundation have their representatives
on the bureau of education's $1-per-
year salary list, and cited Prof. Chas.
H. Judd, $4,000 professor in Rookie
feller's University of Chicago, as an
other Rockefeller foundation emissary
at 81 year.
Upon the facts presented by Cham
berlain, the Senate passed the amend
ment wiping the Rockefeller Carnegie
contingent out of the bureau of edu-
cation.
The action of the Senate will be
followed by an investigation, Senator
Chamberlain announced, into the ex-
| tent to which the bureau of educa-