| Show PLEASES SCHUMAN cornell president sees good in big philanthropy scheme believes believe congress Con gresi should grant request for national charter would change only one small detail It haeft M N Y in an address before the council congress on friday night president jacob gould schurman nn of cornell commended the scheme schema for the rockefeller foundation for or which congress has been naked asked tor for a national charter president sch schurman n aman dev demoted 0 ted his bis entire speech of several thou thousand sand words to this sub eject and in summing up he said 1 I recognize that section no 2 of bf the bill which defines the object of the rockefeller foundation authorizes and empowers that foundation to do anything and everything which may promote and advance human civilization that is IB to say morals and religion art and science manners and social intercourse and all that concerns the political li ll economic and material well being of individuals and communities this Is a vast field beld for the exercise of philanthropy but mr rockefeller has conceived a vast scheme of philanthropy f for or the benefit of his fellow citizens and mankind ills his character ability and ani or that he be will carry out his bla scheme wisely a and nd successfully with incalculable benefit and blessing to mankind I 1 it t Is in the interest of the nation that he be given a free hand in the exercise of his colossal beneal cence so long as he Is active or his bis influence remains it would be wise and safe to give the foundation the sort of organization he desires neither now nor hereafter does it seem necessary to limit the scope of his beneat cence which to Is coextensive with the efforts of mankind to attain a higher civill ration the tha only change I 1 would desire to see in the proposed bill is the total or partial elimination of the method of selecting trustees by mope operation cooperation co ration the organization might well be left a close corporation if mr rockefeller so desires for a geneya generation tion but after that time I 1 am confident that it would inure both to tho the efficiency of the foundation and to the public welfare to say nothing of the satisfaction of the sentiment of a de democracy if the majority of the 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 ded as representing the people of the united states whose we welfare Is the primary object of the immense and glorious benefaction |
