New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-29
First $4,000 of
Garland T und
Goes TO Miners
Pennsylvania Workers Ben
eft by Gift of Public Serv-
ice Organization Which
Opens Its Activities Here
Norman Thomas Is Head
Editor to Lead Group Admin
istering 100000 Gift;
Prof. LOvett on Committee

Directors of the newly organized
American Fund for Public Service held
their first meeting in this city yester-
day and discussed methods of spending
the income from Charles Garland's s
$S00,000 inheritance, which he dedicated
"to the benefit of mankind" They
elected officers, appointed committees
to survey fields of usefulness and
authorized the appropriation of $4,000
for the relief of striking miners in
western Pennsylvania.
Norman M. Thomas, associate editor
of "The Nation" was elected president;
the Rev. Harry F. Ward, of Union Theo-
logical Seminary, vice-president; Roger
N. Baldwin, director of the American
Civil Liberties Union, secretary, and
Albert De Silver, an attorney, treas
urer, Sidney Hillman, president of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and
Frank P. Walsh, attorney, were added
to the board of directors
Members of the committee which is
to make recommendations as to appro-
priations are Professor Robert Morse
Lovett, of the University of Chicago;
James Weldon Johnson, secretary of
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement Of Colored People, and Sid
ney Hillman. Four sub committees
whose members are not directors, are
to make surveys of fields of useful
ness, one examining publications, one
educational campaigns for new ideas,
one experimental educational institu-
tions and one research, particularly in
industry and economics.
The committees are to present re-
ports giving the results of their in
vestigations early in the fall, when
there will be accrued income for distri-
button. Thereafter distributions will
be made quarterly. For the present, at
least, only the income is to be drawn
upon. An emergency fund is to be
maintained for worthy causes called to
the attention of the board between
quarterly meetings.
In addition to the emergency fund
to meet sudden demands, it was de-
c;ded to maintain fund to be used
for loans to enterprises which are
able to furnish receivable accounts or
satisfactory Endorsements as security,
but are unable to obtain credit from
banks.
For six months at least the prin-
cipal is not to be drawn upon.
The board of directors made public
the following statement from Mr..
Garland as illustrative of the spirit in
which the money will be spent:
"It is my desire that through the
fund the money be turned over to in
dividuals and to groups Of individuals.
These shall be trusted to use it to the
benefit Of mankind--to the benefit of
roor as much as rich, of black as much
as white, of foreigners as much as
citizens, of so-called criminals as much
as the uncondemned. They snail be
trusted not to use it to the advantage
OF one individual as opposed to another,
of one group as opposed to another, Of
one class or one nation as opposed to
another"
"The members of the fund shall de-
eide what individuals and what groups
to trust with this commission and they
shall decide the amount of principal or
interest to be intrusted to each lndi-
vidual or each group. They shall not
attempt by promise or by the setting
forth of conditions or by any other
means to control the policy of any
group or individual intrusted with this
money or part of this money.
~ make this outline not so much to
limit the use of the money as to ex-
press the purpose which we, including
all the members of the board, have at
heart -