ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION. In March 1910 Mr. John D. Rockefeller set on foot a scheme to distribute a large amount of his wealth, for the avowed purpose of uplifting humanity all over the world, by organizing his philanthropic work through the United States government. At his request Senator Gallinger introduced a bill in the Senate creating the Foundation,* which, in the lan guage of the bill, was to bromote the well being and advance the civilization of the peo ples of the United States and its territories and possessions, and of foreign lands, in the acquisi tion and dissemination of knowledge, in the pre vention of suffering and in the promotion of any and all the elements of human progress.* The bill failed to pass the United States Sen ate, and the State of New York granted a charter to the Rockefeller Foundation in 1913. Its endowment is $101,324,576.78. The incorpo rators are John D. Rodcefeller, John D. Rocke feller, Jr., Frederick T. Gates, Harry Pratt Judson, Simon Flexner, Starr J. Murphy, Jerome D. Greene, Wickliffe Rose and Charles 0. Heydt. The officers are Chairman of the board of trustees, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; president, George E. 'Vincent ; secretary, Edwin R. Embree; treasurer, L. G. Myers; comptroller, Robert H. Kirk; assistant treasurer, L. M. Dashiell; members, Wallace Buttrick, Simon Flexner, Harry E. Fosdick, Frederick T. Gates, A. Burton Hepburn, Charles E. Hughes, Harry
Pratt Judson, Starr J. Murphy, John D. Rocke feller, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Wickliffe Rose, Julius Rosenwald, Martin A. Ryerson, Fred erick Strauss, George E. Vincent. During the war the flood of gold poured out to relieve the suffering and the necessities of humanity covered pretty much the whole world. To the United War Work Fund went more than $5,000,000, after large appropriations had been made to the seven individual agencies com posing the united service; an equal amount having gone to those previously. Large sums went for medical research, the war work of the Rockefeller Institute, for war research, in cluding the work of Dr. Alexis Carrel, for hygiene and for demonstrations. Great sums were appropriated for relief in the small coun tries devastated— Belgium, $1,498,000; Armenia and Syria, $610,000; Serbia, $163,895. The American Red Cross received the immense con tribution of $8,083,772. The Foundation spent $22,444,815 on war work from 1914 to 1919. Adverse criticism has been expressed at various times in regard to the educational activities of the Foundation, it being alleged that its aim is to further entrench capitalism and to pro mote class education in the United States. Its religious activities have also been under sus picion.