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.others.Now I realized that I had met a commercial genius.I persuadedThe New York Tuberculosis and Health Association was aMr.Gates to become a man of business.(1)classical example.Originally established by a group of physiciansOne of the first foundations established by Rockefeller anddedicated to a crusade against T.B., it soon fell captive to theGates was the General Education Board.The objective of thisfinancial domination of Rockefeller money.Rockefeller put in"philanthropy" was not to raise the general level of education, ascharge of the program a relatively unknown social worker by themany thought at the time, but to convert the American peoplename of Harry Hopkins.(2) Under Hopkin's direction, the T.B.into a docile herd of content and uncomplaining workers.In theAssociation grew to international proportions and, by 1920, wasfirst publication of the General Education Board, Gates wrote:collecting many millions of dollars each year.In our dreams we have limitless resources, and the people yieldRockefeller controlled the operation, but most of the moneythemselves with perfect docility to our molding hands.The presentcame from the public through contributions and the purchase ofeducational conventions fade from our minds, and unhampered byChristmas Seals.One of the great scandals of 1932 centeredtradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful and respon-around the accusation made by New York City Health Commis-sive rural folk.We shall not try to make these people or any of theirsioner Lewis I.Harris, in a letter to the New York Times of June 8,children into philosophers of mental learning or of science.We havenot to raise up from among them authors, editors, poets, or men of and by the subsequent admission of the fund's officers, "that allletters.We shall not search for embryo great artists, painters,its money had been expended on salaries and overhead."musicians, nor lawyers, doctors, preachers, politicians, statesmen ofThe philanthropy formula worked so well that it was decidedwhom we have ample supply.The task we set before ourselves isto expand.A multitude of similar agencies were established tovery simple as well as a very beautiful one: To train these people aswe find them to a perfectly ideal life just where they are.So we will1."Occasional Paper No.I," General Education Board, 1904.organize our children into a community and teach them to do in a2.Hopkins, like most Rockefeller proteges, moved into government work.Hebecame WPA director, U.S.Secretary of Commerce, Lend-Lease Administrator,and personal advisor to FDR.He even took up residency in the White House.1.John K.Winkler, John D.-A Portrait in Oils (New York: Blue Ribbon Books,Later it was learned that he had been a member of the Communist Party.1929), pp.176,177.THE CHARITY PRESCRIPTION 259258 WORLD WITHOUT CANCER: Part Two"The coming to the front of such a princely giver! A man to lead! It isexploit the public's dread of other diseases as well.Within a fewthe Lord's doing.God has kept Chicago for us.I wonder at hisyears there sprang into being such organizations as The Heartpatience."Association, The Social Hygiene Association, The DiabetesOn the following Sabbath throughout the country, sermons ofAssociation, The National Association for the Prevention ofthanksgiving were preached in almost all Baptist pulpits."When aBlindness, The American Cancer Association, and many others.crisis came," entoned one minister, "God had a man to meet it."The American Cancer Society, incidentally, was formed "God," cried out another, "has guided us and provided a leader anda giver and so brought us out into a large place." In scores of pulpitsofficially in May of 1913 at the Harvard Club in New York.In laterthe phrase: "Man of God!" was uttered.A writer to the Independentyears its orientation has been determined by such personagessaid: "No benefaction has ever flowed from a purer Christiansitting on its board of directors as Alfred P.Sloan (Generalsource."(1)Motors), Charles D.Hilles (AT&T), Monroe Rathbone (StandardOil), and Frederich Ecker (Metropolitan Life).The AmericanCancer Society holds half ownership in the patent rights to 5FU(5 flourouracil, one of those drugs considered as an "acceptable"treatment for cancer.(1) The drug is manufactured by Hoffman-LaRoche Laboratories which is within the I.G.-Rockefeller orbit.Many donors to the ACS would be outraged to learn that thisorganization has a vested interest in the sale of drugs and afinancial tie-in with the drug industry.The ACS denies that it has ever received any money for itsshare of the patent.When the author wrote to Hoffman-LaRochesuggesting that this was strange in-as-much as such paymentswould help to fund ACS "humanitarian programs," Mr.SamuelL.Welt, Assistant Vice President and Chief Patent Counselreplied: "We do not feel that we are in a position to comment onwhat payments, if any, the American Cancer Society received onaccount of the patent."(2)Rockefeller's first entry into philanthropy on a grand scalewas in 1890 when, following the formula established by Gates, hepledged $600,000 to the Baptist University of Chicago on condi-tion that the meat packers and dry-goods merchants of the cityalso contribute a minimum of $400,000.Biographer John T.Flynn describes the reaction:When the news of Rockefeller's princely gift was made known,the National Baptist Education Society Convention was being heldin Boston.The announcement of the gift was received with cheers."When the gift was named and the actual sum of money pronounced,the audience rose and sang the Doxology.Men burst out intoexclamations of praise and joy."The man who has given this moneyis a godly man," chanted one leader.Another rose and exclaimed:1.See Jones, Nutrition Rudiments in Cancer, op.cit., p.17.Flynn, God's Gold, op.cit., pp.305, 306.2.Letter to G.Edward Griffin, January 11,1977; Griffin, Private Papers, op.cit.Chapter NineteenHE WHO PAYSTHE PIPERThe low state of medical education in the U.S.prior to 1910; the role of the Flexner Report indramatizing the need for reform; the role playedby the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations inimplementing the Flexner Report; and the useof foundation funding as a means of gainingcontrol over American medical schools [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]