Show PLEASES SCHURMAN Cornell CorneW President Sees Good in Big Philanthropy Scheme Believes Congress Should Grant Request Request Re Re- quest for National Charter Charter- Would Change Only One Small Detail Ithaca N N. Y In an address before the Council congress on I Friday night President Jacob Gould Schurman of ot Cornell Corne commended the scheme for the Rockefeller foundation for which congress has been asked for a national charter President Schurman d devoted doted his entire speech of several ev ral thousand words to this subject sub feet and In summing up he said I 1 recognize that section No 2 of the bill which defines the object of the Rockefeller foundation authorizes and empowers that foundation to do anything anything anything any any- thing and everything which may promote promote promote pro pro- mote and advance human civilization that is to sa say morals and religion art artand artand artand and science manners and anti social Intercourse intercourse Inter Inter- course and all that concerns the political po po- economic and material materia well being of individuals and communities This i ls jy for the exercise of philanthropy pl But nut Mr l Rockefeller has bas conc conceived cl cla a vast scheme of philanthropy for th the benefit of his fellow citizens and mankind man man- kind His character ability an any and organizing organizing organizing or or- skill are adequate guarantees that he will carry out his scheme wisely and successfully with meale Incalculable incalculable benefit and blessing to mankind man man- kind It Is In the interest of the nation nation na tion that he be given a free hand in inthe inthe inthe the exercise of his colossal beneficence benefi benefi- cence So long as he is active or his Influence remains It would be wise and safe to give the foundation the sort of organization he be desires Neither Neith Neith- er now nor hereafter does It seem necessary necessary necessary essary to limit the scope of his beneficence beneficence beneficence benefi benefi- cence which Is coextensive with the efforts of mankind to attain a n higher civilization The only change 1 I would desire to see In the proposed bill is the total or partial elimination of the method of I selecting trustees by co The organization might well be left a close corporation If Mr Rockefeller so desires desires desires de de- de- de sires for a generation But after that time I am confident that it would Inure both to the efficiency of the foundation and to the public welfare welfare welfare-to to say nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing of the satisfaction of the sentiment of a democracy If If the majority of the trustees were appointed by the president president president dent of at the United States with the advice and consent of the senate or selected by some other high abiding governmental agencies that may fairly be regarded as representing the people people peo pea pie of the United States whose welfare welfare welfare wel wel- fare is the primary object of the immense Immense Immense Im Im- mense and glorious benefaction |