New Endowments

Lawyer Frank Billings Kellogg of St. Paul, Minn. thought he had erected his everlasting monument when, as U. S. Secretary of State (1925-1929), he fathered the anti-war pact which bore his name with that of France's late great Aristide Briand, and which was duly signed in Paris by 15 leading nations, including Japan, Italy and Germany. Ever since Mr. Kellogg's successor Henry Lewis Stimson made his abortive attempt to invoke the Pact against Japan in 1931, Mr. Kellogg's monument has seemed increasingly hollow. Last week, not as a Government official but as a trustee and benefactor of Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., 80-year-old Frank Kellogg created one niche at least where his Pact can survive.

Announced by Carleton's President Donald John Cowling was a $500,000 gift from Trustee Kellogg, the income from which will be spent to support at Carleton the "Frank B. Kellogg Foundation for Education in International Relations." For the two full professors and one half-time visiting professor who will lecture on the Foundation, Mr. Kellogg stipulated that "the Pact of Paris is frankly accepted as embodying the basic principle in accordance with which the relations of all nations must ultimately be organized." The Foundation, completely budgeted by cautious Oldster Kellogg, also provides for six scholarships, two to send Carleton students abroad, four to bring foreign students to Carleton.

Carleton's President Cowling, a bouncing Yaleman who in 28 years has transformed a small Congregationalist school (alma mater of Pierce Butler and the late Economist Thorstein Veblen) into a prosperous, top-ranking college, should have no trouble recruiting two facultymen of suitable calibre. A perambulating president who likes the world better than his Northfield office, Carleton's Cowling has six onetime college presidents on his faculty, a high-powered board of trustees including, besides Lawyer Kellogg, Lumberman Frederic Somers Bell and Surgeon Charles Horace Mayo.

University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins also announced a notable gift last week. With an anonymous donor promising $275,000 for "research in American institutions" if someone would match it two for one, President Hutchins finally found a man willing to give him $550,000. He was Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen, who two years ago was so shocked by his niece Lucille Norton's breakfast-table talk about communism that he not only withdrew her from the University but provoked a sensational legislative investigation (TIME, April 22, 1935). Of the resulting Charles R. Walgreen Foundation for the Study of American Institutions its donor observed: "If our students study and are acquainted with our own Bill of Rights, there is no danger that they will be led astray by foreign 'isms'--and that includes communism."

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