Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1929, Page 20

20 NEW ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION FORMS Two Philanthropic Institu- tions Worth $223,000,- 000 Merged. By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, January 4—Two phi- lanthropic institutions founded by John D. Rockefeller “to promote the well- being of mankind throughout the world.” which have property with a listed value of more than $223,000,000, were consolidated yesterday by permis- sion of the Supreme Court The institutions are the Rockefeller Foundation, organized in 1913, and the Iman Rockefeller Memorial, 1918 in memory of the oil | e’s wife. The combined organ- | n will be known as the Rockefeller Foundation, More Effective Work Desired. Consolidation was desired because the two institutions were organized for kin- dred purposes and it was believed their work could be cerried out more effec- were organized the foun- he memorial have given | s to educational and s in this and several the first annual meeting of the | organization in May the following | e appointed as directors and trus- James R. Angell, Trevor Arnett, W. Davis, David L. Edsall, Simon Raymond B. Fosdick, Jerome D. Greene, Ernest M. Hopkins, Charles P. Howland, Vernon Kellogg, John D. Rockefeller, jr., Julius Rosenwald, An- Phelps Stokes, Frederick Strauss, tus Trowbridge, George E. Vin- cent, George H Whipple, William Allen White, Ray Lyman Wilbur, Arthur ‘Woods and Owen D. Young. Spelman Fund Created. The application for consolidation set | the value of the foundation's property at $158,090,543.04 and the memorial’s at $65,127,535.42. i The Rockefeller Foundation an- nounced creation of a new corporation, the Spelman Fund of New York, to carry- on the work done by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial in the advancement and diffusion of knowledge concerning child life, the improvement of interracial relations and co-opera- tion with public agencies. Paris holds the record of any city of its size_in having over 5000 beggars, who collect from the public £250,000 & | tonsil _operations in 10 day | enoids than by malaria, Dr. Atkinson | through with what he regarded as a THE EVENING Physician Returns to Old North Carolina Home to Aid Children. 205 Tonsil Operations Per- formed in 10 Days hy Him Free. Repaying a debt of gratitude after four decades to a little backwoods county in North Carolina where he born, Dr. Wade H. Atkinson, street, recently undertook a examination of all school children in Johnston County and performed 205 it was learned here tcday. Using an ironing board for an im- provised operating table and other oper- ating room accessories loaned by Sibley Hospital, Dr. Atkinson, with the : sistance of two nurses and physicians of Johnston County, performed the operations in the office of the superin- tendent of schools. Believing from casual inspection that | backward mental and physical condi- tions in Johnston County are ca more by bad tonsils and diseased ad- took a fortnight away from his prac- tice in Washington last October o go decp debt for an appointment to the State university back in the days when he was a young man needing help. All | his patients recovered within a few days | and are reported to be in much better health than they were prior to the operation. The work was done by Dr. Atkinson without cost to the patients for the operation, although a fce of $5 was charged to those who could pay for the necessary post-operation care. This money was paid the nurses, and the amount that was left over was distributed to the county charities. Dr. Atkinson's accomplishment has recaived more than passing notice, however, for he has been asked by several medical magazines for the details, and has been urged particularly to describe the im- provised operating table and other ap- paratus with which he performed the operations. Homestead Destroyed in War. Dr. Atkinson was born near Prince- ion, Johnston County, N. C., November 4, 1866, 18 months after the close of the Civil War. Before the war the family had been wealthy and prosper- ous, but the family homestead lay in the path of the fighting through the South, and iike many other Southern WASHINGTON DOCTOR PAYS DEBT TO COUNTY THAT AIDED HIS RISE places, the farm was laid waste and the manor house burned. Dr. Atkinson was born in the old dairy of the home- stead, used as a temporary home by the family after the war., Growing up in the post-bellum days of poverty and financial stress, as a young man he taught school during part of the year and was rewarded by the county with an appointment to the University of North Carolina. He taught in the county school while attending college, and after graduation at the State Uni- versity, atiended the College of Physi- clans and Surgeons in Chicago, later winning his M. D. degree at George- town Universit; In 1891, he became resident physician at Emergency Hos- pital here and took up the private practice of medicine the following year. Long Wanted to Pay His Debt. During the nearly four decades in which he was growing up as a young physician in the National Capital Dr. Atkinson looked forward to the day when he could repay the county “back home” for the debt he had incurred in the years when he needed help. He paid periodical visits to his home, where his brother lives on the old estate. and noted the backward condi- tion of the people of the county. Two years ago he was visiting one of the schools, and, conferring with the teachers, he found that three or four young men were far beyond their usual class age, but were exceptionally back- ward mentally. He examined them and found that all were suffering from dis- eased tonsils and adenoids in bad con- dition. There was born the germ of the idea STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1929. with which hé struggled for two years before bringing it to fruition. Last Summer he had it worked out, and he wrote the county school commissioner a letter, offering his services free for 100 tonsil operations on backward children of Johnston County. The matter was taken up with the over- worked county doctors, and they agreed it would be a fine thing for the county. Hospital Co-operates. sibley Hospital gave him full co- operation, furnishing him with oper- ating gowns, instruments and some of the necessary anesthetizing materia An emergency operating table was i provised and Dr. Atkinson fastened to the edge of the table his instrument racks and necessary equipment. With these materials he went back to John- ston County, prepared to defeat the evils of bad throat trouble. His first act on arriving was to gather all the patients and to give them a solution of calcium lactate, which causes blood coagulation and acts as a preventive of hemorrhage. But he found on arriving that the number of patients was far greater thar he had expected, and that vir- tually the entire school population of the county needed the operation. On his improvised table, using an adjacent schoolroorh as a ward, and with the aid of two nurses, one a student, he set to work, performing from 10 to 18 opera- tions a day. On the last day, he did 36 operations. As he was about ready to stop, a bus came from a place near- by, bearing 13 school children. He took care of them too. Sterilization of his instruments was only one of the problems with which the physician struggled, for complete sterilization processes were not available. He made no restrictions such as usually cover an operation, and any one was free to watch the job, Dr. Atkinson only de- manding that onlookers remain as far away from the patient as possible, Aid of Husky Men Enlisted. “We worked out quite an efficient system after we got started,” Dr. At- kinson said.’ “We enlisted the aid of several husky men, and as fast as they took one unconscious patient from the operating room and laid him in the ward, they picked up another and brought him in. The stream was al- most continuous and little time was lost.” Dr. Atkinson used a general anesthetic in all the cases. ‘The operations were performed in the office of Superintendent of Schools P. M. Waters of Selma, N. C,, and Dr. Atkinson was aided by Dr. C. C. Mas sey, county health officer, and D X D. Vick, J. B. Person and 1. W. Mayer- berg. Nurses who aided in the work were Mrs. E. L. Woodall, a graduate nurse, and Miss Edna Cate, a student. 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Another battery of facts regarding pensions more liberal than now paid by the United States Government was turned today upon House leaders in an effort to get early action upon the Dale bill to liberalize the civil service retire- ment law, which has already passed the Senate and on which House leaders have promised a vote as soon as possible. Data compiled by advocates of the measure and supplied to all members of the House includes a statement showing how rapidly the retirement fund is growing, an analysis by a Gov- ernment statistician in the Pension Bu- reau showing that this fund would not be weakened by more liberal provisions, a statement by Government Actuary McCoy that real economy is promcted by a liberal retirement system, and a compilation of the more liberal sys- tems in other countries and in many States and municipalities. Today Robert H. Alcorn, as president HIS DESK GOV. FRANKLIN D. 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Harbord, president of the board of directors of the memorial. said half of a desired fund of $2,000,000 had been obtain and that Mr. Phil- lips’ donation was the first large sub- scription toward the final million dol- lars. | "'The leprosy campaign was inaugu- | rated by the late Leonard Wood, governor general of the Philippines, where a large part of the fight against the disease is being carried on. SPAIN HAS SURPLUS. Budget Indicates Prosperity Under Rivera Regime. MADRID, January 4 (4).—Continued prosperity in_Spain_under the admin- istration of Primo De Rivera was re~ flected in estimates for the national budget of 1929, made public vesterday. The estimates showed a surplus o 100,000,000 pesetas (about $16.000.000). The government announced that 60.- 000,000 from this surplus would be used | fantry, Organized Reserves of the Army. and Wool show smartness in careful phasizes the importance o, to cover extraordinary expenses of vari- ous departments. 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