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THE CHINA MAIL," SATURDAY, NOVEMBER § 1959.
BEGINNING AN EXCLUSIVE CHINA MAIL SERIES ON THE RICHEST MEN IN
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The Fabulous
some people money means all the luxury it can buy. To others it means power. But to tho scions of the fabulous Rockefellos fortune it means a duty. This is the first of a series portraying the
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Rockfeller dynasty as it is today. -
Family
PASHFUL or gregarious, enterprising, impulsive or tenacious, the brothers Rocke- feller have one obligation in common. Each morning of their lives they answer the golden bugle call.
It is a reveille reminding them they are both more and less than possessors of tremendous wealth. They are stewards of it. A steward is a manager--and a servant. This is their summons; first to manage their wealth well, second to use it, each according to the interests, in the service of mankind.
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There must be times when they would rather not be reminded. There are probably times when they wish, they were not Rockefellers. For to be a Rockefeller is not merely to be immensely rich. It is also to have an implacable conscience. It is impossible to mute that golden bugle.
It may be that Jalin's smile would not be se d'Mdontly tetila- tive if he could convince him- self people were ready to accept tim as a human being.
Or that Nelson, ulnost cortuln Repcblkan choice for Governor of New York. feels muscio bound by the Rockefeller muran in the slugging game of polities, altough he chesn't walk twity from a ght.
By JOHN WATSON
background, like John, the brothers are prisoners of the Rockefeller wealth and The Rockefeller name,
They are separated from other fruman beings by a fence, simi- in to the one that girds thew Poconleo his 3,000-acre state in
Westchester Hills in
County.
Or that Laurance, kiroming down the Hudson River
office in his PT bunt, envies the creative scientists agid engineers They will talk across the Trove who are his special interests,
with smiling friendliness- but the fence is always there. It
Fall Apart
Or that Winthrop, watching his marriage to Bobo fall apart, wendered whether it zy could have made it if he had been only very rich and Rockefeller rich.
not
Or That banker David necasionally reflects how much with esser i IN to commune figures than with his fellows,
Jp Is interesting that the vident and youngest of the brothers, John and David, have The moal dimcully breaking rough the Rockefeller reserve in their relations with others. It and unless
ulso inexplicable
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So
John and David suddenly tak
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writing true confusions,
A unlikely as the disintegration
of the Rockefellor ampiro.
All uboni
the
brothers
a good question whether the public has not had a part in erecting it, too.
Thore le an upt smile about the brothers Rockefeller. 11 comes from John K. Lockwood, their legal adviser.
Nolor
practico he continued: nearly to the day of his death, at the age of 97, on
1937, May 23,
in Ormond Beach, Ph.
The first entries in Ledger A contain auch items as the93:
claimed, using oxengeration for Clothing, $9.00 to Mr Downey
emphasis
respect save Sunday
'Sane in every noc, he is money mud."*
Hanna did not speak for spite, or at least he had no reason. 1o. As political boss of Ohio and
Aani Gulf States Senator, was beholden to the Standard Oil Tract that John D. Preated.
(a minister of the Erle Street Church) 10 cents; pew rent. $1; School, 5 cents; Five Points Mission. New York, 12 vents. And so on.
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But John D. did not think in
business. lettos of penales in Even in his twenties he looking for the main chance. He was thinking in terms of coldly reckoned risk and coolly No, John D. was hot mad, not perquired riches When he was out a 20, he was able to buy sense. een in the figura live But he
ог was possessed
partner for $72,500. And when singleness of purpose that tran- all was struck in Pennsylvanis, spended in intensity and dura- John D. could smell the main ton most human enterprise. It chance. We want to east about for 話 Cause, based on assumption and non fagi, It did not lie in John D. never was
"The family is like a
The once remarked, poverty,
grindingly pour, Yalem." "There is a
Interest. comion presented by Junior (Jolin D. Jay and the brothers are like planets revolving around R
"kch has his own orbit, with n separate distance and pull, but the pull is always there and it off. from Bying keeps Winthrop's
the distante But he's still part of greatest. the system."
them
Money
If we play around with this-
D
To The Penny could
Perhaps some Incidents of his upbringing had something to do father, Big Bul with it. Hls Rockefeller,
* booming cx thevert, used to cheat his son deliberately in such matters as
Every-
the
Rockefeller
THE SCIONS... With fatherly pride, John D. Rockefeller Jr., in this rare photo, looks at his five sons, (left to right) David, Nelson, Winthrop, Laurence, and John. The brothers. often feel that the tremendous Rockefeller wealth is not: unmixed blessing,
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No one had a keener scent for money than he and he fol- lowed its trail unit in 1913 it was known he had a fortune of
$300,000,000. more than
This was one of the few times, maybe the only time, when his wealth be fairly accurately estimated, but it is pathable his
Ho learned. The only rule sults from 'n completely cynical get. total fetime take was a billion Supreme Court found that John financial titans.
motive and cor was win or perish. He was for molive, for
deed thoroughly as he learned: shrewd and a hair.
D., six associates and "a porate machine have conspired from being alone in his are parts of the same thing. dealing from his father. There is a price for
No doubu the: motive
So years before the hurricane knew better against their fellow citizens. For methods. He merely used them thing, as no one
safety of the repubile wo better.
there. since it is human to want of 1911. John D. began to ex- goed than John D. His price was to
now decree that this dangerous Nor should we embrace the to be liked, but there must have tend the tow pennies to become the most hated ad re- conspiracy must be ended." prejudice that John D. began ban also less personal come causes noted in Ledger A Into allowance in order to sharpen viled man in the United States.
his mammot]: pillmthroples pulsions the maxima of his hundreds of thousands and mil- his wits and repare him for a Ho was called such
dollars. The great. things as
hia duty to give Bons of an attempt to buy mother that life that Big Bill appeared to ino Octogu," thic
Before we leap to a blosed solely in "now
(Contd. on page 7, cat. 1) regard
conclusion we need to consider favour. A good deed never re- was inherent in his privilege to as a perpetual shell Moloch," the "Anaconda." geme..
that John, D.,could "not have buil that enormous pyramid of Kredili siithout the tacit consent of Axociety that made it passi- ble. Historian Allan Nevinia has termed it a "historical accident." Another phrase could be that it was the temper of the times. There were no laws to prevent the creation of gigantle mor polles except the laws of the Jungle..
for a moment, without worrying His mother, an austerely fr Jungle Law
surmises of this nature it to pleces, we can extend the deroat woman,pollod' little must be simile to another galaxy. For John D. the other way, toward hypothetical. They are in in John D. Junior, in his, time, was thrift and Godliness and an in- ared of conjecture the brothers held m a much more rigorous. flexible ende of morality.
probably orbit by another sun, his father, would never disciss, not even among deniselves and John D. Rockefeller. By intel- emphatically not with anyone ligence, thrift,
cle.
They are amicable and polite. They are intimate, never. Whe ther they seek public siller with dis unavoidable human enUlstons and contacts, ke Nelson. strive to
become or with
от
and wil
In 1907 Federai Judge Keno- saw Mountain Landis, later to
baseball's become
edonant orbitat, jolled John D. and his associates by fining Standard of Indian $20,240,000, the greatest ine in the country's history. It did not stand up but it indicated which way the ill wind wad blowing.
Precisely how this tog cunning ruth- puli were resolved ww lesence and incredible conpen- never know, but there are some It In "Ledger A." tration on one objective-money hints of
John D. amassed the greatest Ledger A was John D.'s first fortune ever put together by an personal account book, begun American.
when he got his first job as office boy in Cleveland at 16 and in which he toted up to the pen- The ill wind became a hur ny
It night,
rienne in 1911 when the
So inexumble was that pur- the pose that Mark Hanna once ex-
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I'M PUZZLER MRS. TURNER MAKES A CURIOUS COMPLAINT ABOUT
THAT AGENCY ACROSS THE
STREAT.
JOHNNY HAZARD
WE DISPERSE AROUND THE
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AND I WON'T HAVE TO PAY OFF ON MY BUT AGAINST GULLET O'HARA WINNIN' TEN STRAIGHT GAMES!
By Mik
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The period of the latter 1800's when John D. was operating at his peak was an era of the and savage bottles of railroad
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FUTURE DUKE
NEW boys at Eton include a future Duke of Wellington. He is Arthur Charles Valerian Wellesloy, 13, Earl of Mornington, heir of the Marquis of Douro,, who in turn is heir to the Deventh Duke of Wellington. There are also the sons of 23 milltary offers joining the school. Among them: Miles Templer, 13-year-old son of Tel-Murshal Sir Gerald Templer, who retired as Chief of the Imperial General Staff last month,
ANNUAL OVERHAUL
ONE
NE of the world's biggest cleaning operations begins this month when work Begins on the annust overhaul of the Cunard passenger Beet. Eleven ships, totulilng 376,000 tons and Including the two "Queens" will undergo over- haul' at Southampton and Liverpool until March 1. The 35,655-ton Mauretania, opened the pro
First to set the fashion was Daisy Howard and Jim Mulchy. They met when Daisy was on stage und Jimmy bark-stage. Another back- stage worker, Miss Eileen Moore, met actor. Barry Huliett; and they were soon married. Weeks later (wo actors Bill Fielder and Pauline Wills, were married; At the end of last month n former guild' pecretary, Tom Ellis, married' actress and former beauty queen of Horton Kirby, Marlon Brooks.
MAGNA CHARTA PAGEANT
'MERICAN airmen stationed in Suffolk are A to take part in a Magna Charla pageant at Bury St Edmunds next Juge. They will also make shields and swords for the pageant In their "Hobbies" stiop. The town council, witar expect a flood of visitors when the pageant! is held, is appening to local householders to offer
bed and breakfast" accommodation.
gramme with her arrival at Southampton on SNOW FIGHTERS
November 6. Also to be operhauled, at Southampton are the Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mary, the Saxonia, anti the Ivernis, Ships belog, overhaultd, at Liverpool are the Caronia the Britannic, Sylvania, Carinthio, Parthia, and Media.
| SEA-GOING GIRL
ISS Helen Craig,, who' has just retired' atfer
M years
In 1924 by signing on as a stenographer aboard.
coming winter in dasteri England. Plans ELICOPTERS will help beat snowdrifts this
“have been made by the Eastern Electricity. Board to call upont KAF. and privately owned helicopters to toke engineers to places: cut off by snow or flooding, Co-operating with the helicoptors will be a fleet of four-wheel driva vehicles to force a way through the drifts. Thơ measures also include an improved short-wave communication system in case telephone lines collapse under the weight of snow.
a liner. She was one of the first to be employed "WILBERFORCE OAK”
by the Canadian Pacife Line. After three years sailing across the Atlantia she went on a world cruise: On later tripe she visited Alaska and Mexico. During the war she served in`troop ships Now ski has mado ker last voyage - fram Canada to Liverpool aboard the liner Empress of England. -
"CHRISTIAN” NAMES
HEOPLE buying dividend bonds, have how got christian area. Until now, purchasers, according to the forms they filled. in has "fore names, but new application farms have been. printed with, a space for the buyer, to fit Pehristian names on forenames? When the scheme 'began nearly Iwo years ago, there wero
Noute sapling, just planted, marks the spot A A in Holwood „Park, Keston, Kant, where William Wliberforce decided to begin his fight for the ubolition of slavery: Wilberforce records in, his diary that after a conversation with' Mr' Fitt sitting undur an oak tree at Hol- wood, "I resolved to giver noffea in' the Huuto of Cominions of my intention to Bring: forward the allosition of the aliye, trade.” The cak known since 1783 na "Wilberforce Oak,” which was more than 500 years old when it dimi a your ago. The sapling had· Bear' planted in the hollow hole of the old tree, by Kent County Council. au collaboration' with the Anti-Slavery Society.
proteste about the use of the word "forename "DOWN WITH GOOD SHOT? on the fotits, Omciate painted out that not all ilte buyers were chriallärile, and it this wood would cover (évoryánk. It was stated in thờ House of Cochinohe Mal "forendation" was tided na the norint ponsible oxpression applicable to all members of the community,
|PLATFORM OF LOVE
the young men of Eriti Kont, want a wid 1 they have to do is join, the town's amatour theatre. Within a year eight members of Theatre Guild, Haw, een marriet.
ITIL a thunderous roar, throwing up a cloud ot dust, 110sft, high briele chimney has raileri, just on wonted at Mitchell. Main Colllery. Wobei Yorick The shinney, standing Between the South Yorkshire conal and n bury tion of British Ilallways, fell within a few felds of the plačo nimed for by, a Bnal shot with explosiven. Mitchell: Main Colliery, sunk in 1875, war diesel downs two year ago, and the employees izanaferted toʻileat-by: Darnett Maine Colliery, dl, which the:, jamg, sexmms are worked: The dumney has aloud since 1800.
The whole pit-head in being dismantled.