Show LONELY rockefeller I 1 J i i The words ot the phenomenally I 1 wealthy are always news when rockefeller speaks to his sunday school class the aholo country listens when he grants a reporter an interview jt establishes a journalistic epoch iii iris latest sunday class speech in which he seriously inveighs against the good fellow and pleads with the youths of his class to shun good fellowship as a thing of evil mr rockefeller expresses in unmistakable terms what has long been tho popular idea of the rockefeller personality n his talk with a newspaper man he admits that be has secluded himself all its life from associations with bis fel ow man because it wua necessary for liim to do so mr rockefellers Rocke fellers against ae baneful influences ut good ship is almost pathetic says the chicago chronicle dont bo a good fel ow dont be convivial always ready 0 o pitch in and help tho crowd bo moderate bo very moderate dont let good fellowship get tho least hold you it is iny conviction that every lown tall is traceable directly to the victims good fellowship to ills good cheer among his friends we have to apologize every day for this class of men look on them and dont be a fellow had he gone just a little urther air rockefeller mould havo ully expounded a wonderful creed more would be in ils warning had ho added stand aloof from the rest of the world shun yow fellow man and fellow woman dont let t matter to ou that they ire of flesh and blood an you dont 1 i fa im ou ar all of one great family influence you la the least your place is alone it you want to succeed let no suspicion of a fellow feeling for the rest oe mankind taint your character stand aloof regard the rest of the world through cold and critical ayee only of 5 our own immediato aggrandizement then you may get rich considering his experience with the world it would seem that mr rockefeller should be more enlightened as to the uso and abuse of the phrase good fellowship he should know that the good fellowship of the saloon la no more i or real good fellowship than the saloon Is representative of the highest type of club he should know that feln ship with its toleration and sympathy Is of all things what is needed in this age of competitive life but bo s in his interview it has been imperative that I 1 deny myself the associations with people that I 1 have naturally enjoyed I 1 hae never been a club man and have not frequented places where people generally go for company he has never had time to know the feeling of fellowship mr rockefeller han teen a target for critics of all kinds for years much of this criticism has been thoughtful and sincere and therefore justifiable much of it has been cheap and founded in a spirit of envy or desire to attract attention and therefore to be despised one of ho easiest ways for a writer or speaker to attracts moments notoriety is to abuse rockefeller his latest speech probably will bring forth much of this brand of criticism but rather than cavil or anvy the healthy minded observer with no ax to grind will feel moved by a feeling akin to pity for this lonely old man who has been kept so busy all hs life making money that he has never had the time to let his heart absorb lifes greatest lesson that all real goodard goo dand satisfaction in life is found in living as a sympathetic active member of the great human family |