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30m m MONEY TAINTS THOSE WHO TAKE IT,
SAYS FRANK WALSH
Julius Rosenwald, the Sears-Roebuck
millionaire, who peddles nickels
to charity while he skins his working
' people out of dollars by paying them
0) less than living wage, will probably be
Called to testify before the federal in
dustrial relations commission next
month. ,.
Part of the Rosenwald millions
have gone to back the Survey maga
zine, official organ of social workers,
" and started by the Chanty Organiza
tion Society of New York. Fierce ac
cusations are passing between Paul
U. KeJIogg, editor of the Survey, and
Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the in
dustrial commission. Walsh says
that Rockefeller money, Russell Sage
money and other tainted money paid
to the Survey magazine has tainted
the brain of Paul U Kellogg so that
Kellogg can't think straight.
George Creel, member of the com
mission's staff, is out in Pearson's
magazine this mouth with a driving
attack pn organized charity in gen
eral and heayy labs at Paul Kelfogg in
particular. Creel says Kellogg is ab
solutely honest when it comes to
mpney. Nobody could buy him. But
he's ah intellectual crpok. His brain
has rusted, been poisoned and por
roded by liying on, money that comes
frpm exploitation of labor. Says
Creel:
"Money paid in hand to Kellogg
could not Influence, bribe him nor in
duce him to. commit an openly trait
" orous.,acfc. It is his intellectual in
W) iegrity that has been tainted with
tained money.
nTt Js nq in decent human nature
$q me the hand that feadVonq. Re
gtofents of tainted nloney. tp saye
pfeir pwn faces, must instantly as
sume an obljgatipn to prove that the
money is really not so very much
tainted after all. Jt is so with every
college president, minister and every
submits to the receipt of donations
from men whose activities are assail
ed by public opinion. Even in the
most honest is bred a mental bias. In
Inventing excuses for their rich pat
rons, they think they are being 'fair,'
when they are only being grateful."
The trouble started some months
ago when Walsh sent a letter to Ed
itor Kellogg and- declared an edi
torial In the Survey was "cunning
and dishonest" The editorial com
pared W. Mackenzie King, head labor
investigator for the Rockefeller
Foundation, with Dr. Charles Mc
Carthy, chief of the investigating
staff of the industrial commission. It
was a strong boost for the man pick
ed by the Rockefellers and said Mac
kenzie King's reports on labor condi
tions "carry public convictiqn and his
work would not he subordinated ta
the preconceived notions of his em
ployers." ' What Walsh and Creel think of
Mackenzie King as an jnvestigator of
strikes, boycotts, blacklists, rotten
politics and everything thai makes
industrial unrest, is told by Creel b
Pearson's:
"How much more damnable is the
thing, then, when it stands as an epi
tome of cunnjng insincerity? At the
Denver hearing of the Commission
on Industrial Relations, J. F. Wel
born, president of the Colorado Fuel
& Iron. Co., made certain sweating ad
missions tha threw sinister light in
deed upon the foundation.
"Welborn confessed he had been
summoned to New York in Septem
ber, 1914, to meet Mackenzie "King,
and that at the first meeting in young
Rockefeller's office-, these gentlemen
were also present: Starr J,. Murphy,
Jerome D. Greene, Fred T. Gates and
Ivy L. Lee. Mr. Murphy -and Mr.
Green? and young Rockefeller were
there is their dual capacities as di
rectors of th& Colorado Fuel & Iron
other possible force for good that 1 Co. and trustees of the Rockefeller
