Show pleases cornell president sees good in big philanthropy scheme believes congress Con gresi should grant request for national charter would change only one small detail ithaca N Y in an before tho the council congress on friday night president jacob gould schurman of cornell commended the scheme for the rockefeller foundation for which congress has been naked asked for a national charter president schurman devoted hla his entire speech of several beveral thousand words word 6 to t this it I 1 a subject and in fit summing up tip lie he said 1 I recognize that section no 2 of tho the bill which defines the object of tho the rockefeller foundation authorizes and empowers that foundation to do anything and everything which may promote and advance human civilization that Is to say morals and religion art and science manners and social intercourse and all that concerns chopo the political li economic find and material well being of individuals and communities this Is a vast held field for the exercise of philanthropy nut but mr rockefeller has conceived a vast scheme of philanthropy for the benefit of his fellow citizens and mankind n ills 8 c character ar acter ability and organizing gan izing skill are adequate guarantees that ho he will carry out tits hla scheme wisely and successfully with incalculable benefit and blessing to mankind it Is in the interest of the nation that he be given a frel free e hand in the exercise of his colossal beneal beneficence so long as ho he Is 18 active or his influence remains it would be wise and safe to give the foundation the tort eort of organization he desires neither now nor hereafter does it seem necessary to limit the scope of his bis beneficence which Is coextensive with the efforts of mankind to attain a higher civilization the only change I 1 would desire to see in the proposed bill Is the total or partial elimination of the method of selecting tru trustees by operation cooperation co the organization might well be left a close corporation if mr rockefeller so desires for a generation but after that time I 1 am confident that it would inure both to the effi efficiency clency of the foundation and to the public welfare to say nothing indof of the satisfaction of the sentiment of a democracy it if the majority of the tha trustees were appointed by the president of 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 as representing the people of the united states whose welfare Is the primary object of the immense and glorious benefaction |