Show d 0 A Ay y I SG l 5 jM j How Its Young Folks Keep Getting Into the I t Papers No Matter What It Costs Them I Mr- Mr I I r b J J JI I y yv g t v dr r S y CJ c l ly d i aT f fr t ss y s sS sSi f r 4 a vR i l r f ay A AL L q w fY A V d S Sw Sy J y i K wl q r wr 4 5 s t 4 W t ta w Sr a 1 7 A a 4 tl I w 4 vw F i C 4 v Gee x t 4 y va f r races aces c jY ta tati ti r d dr r t- t teed a S a vak ti i S neM neMi b y f a aneM i a b bd d Ff 4 try s r v vA if A n 2 P a s Ar s aw w 6 t 1 aa l lAr r f v t ff d rt H t agta t t a t l w 3 e a r- r nC t a a f A b il y 1 v i y l r c Ca il sA va v 1 wa G r dW r e i f Tc ww re r na u T TI I ll y yr yx yz r t y Ft g v vy y V x z s st sr st r t Y 7 4 f r 4 7 d yr t L v n r r A 3 4 y Ar fd t Ft t v a e 6 d a a e s o 1 E n s f 4 r y k 7 r v i k d s sv 1 r k ks s h w M l lz z f I er f h 2 a rM t ir f e L l C 7 r I ar 2 F Fa a n s z i ri r L e sV p ik i t t t v Z F G eft F 41 Y waA Tr r fr it Kr aNa The senior John D Rockefeller aged v w Sv a a g gy ry d founder of the billions y family's z ids r r ALL Americas America's immensely Or fl wealthy Healthy families the Rockefeller family is the tho one that has at- at aias al as been most sternly opposed to s neres- news newspaper paper publicity Of course the Rockefellers lers have received an abundance of It through the attacks on the Standard Oil Ott J 11 trust and their gifts to education and charity and old John D and hIs brother the late William WIlham Rockefeller the founders of the family fortune doubtless thought this quite enough At any rate they taught their chIl- chIl chIldren children chil children dren to shun reporters and photographers photographers as they would smallpox or typhoId and more important stilt still to conduct their lives so that reporters and photographers photographers photographers raphers would hive hate hl e 1 I tHe muse luse for eagerness to follow them This teaching worked ou out t very well through one generation The children of John D and William Rockefeller for forthe forthe forthe the most part managed to keep theIr lives nicely screened from the public gaze The one exception e came when hen John JohnD's Ds D's daughter Edith late in middle life V If was dJ divorced from Harold McCormick l Not only her dl divorce orce but many ci i circum-i cum cum- stances connected with her life since gore Ja her more publicity than her ber shrink shrink- shrinking shrinking ing mg billionaire father relished But regarding the third generatIon of Rockefellers the grandchildren and gran grand nephews and nieces grand of John JohnD JohnD D and William there is a different erent story to tell They are proving no better re- re resIsters resisters sIsters of the spirit of this jazz age in inv which v youth does docs just about as it Jolly joll well pleases than the descendants of I many less wealthy and distinguished men For several everal years ears ears they have been showing bo a 0 growing liveliness that is in marked contrast to the sedateness of o their parents and grandparents Moro More and more frequently their adventures In Inloe lose lo and other fields have been getting them into the limelight of the publIcs publIc's attentIon All this has come about in spite of othe the best efforts to the contrary of the tho loathing publicity loathing elder generations of Rockefellers Their pleadings and threats and punishments have thus far proved of little avail in keeping the name from appearing in the ne newspapers In what hat they think highly undesirable ways Even Iven the custom of cutting off oIT a share sharo of the child ens en's spending money every time they get into the Die newspapers ne has hanot not been enough to prevent these the e youn oung g folks from fallin falen in love lose and getting married and breaking traffic laws s and an d trying to earn their 11 living fining ing in m ways nays t I cant can't ant help bring a lot of publicity Perhaps naturally enough the chIldren I I t y r Miss Isabel Rockefeller who has gone to work but wont won't tell the pursuing reporters how a million heiress likes teaching school vt rn of Mrs Edith Rockefeller McCormick were the first of the family's younger set setto setto to dl display play a liveliness that made them eagerly sought taigas tal gets foi for reporters and photographers and ond cause caused many of the tho Rockefeller old folks folls serious sellous dismay Their mother is thus far the only one of her ber generation to outside the beaten paths of conservative e life but buther buther buther her pioneering daughters s and did not long remain the tho only one cne of theirs Then example has been and still is being bang followed by numerous of their cousins both bo boys boyst s sand and gills gals t Only tile the othel day it was as revealed re that ery Arery only son of A Rockefeller and the only male hee he heto to the tho huge fortune left leCt his father by William Wilham Rockefeller is the hero helo of a romantic elopement and secret mar mar mar- marriage an an affair that has been kept ept from the public foi fot more than a year icar ear and untIl months after they the oung couple had become the parents of a sonA son A Avery Cry according to the statement now V issued by his patents pal was as attending II a Western university Also a II student there thero was pretty Anna Mark daught r of Clayton Clavton Mark a formet formel of the Board of Education of Chicago They fell In 10 love lose e listening to lectures together and quickly became en- en engaged engaged en engaged But Dut since Avery Cry was then only eIghteen and Anna nearl nearly two o ye yeTis ell younger the parents of both urged the lovers to postpone their IDge until theIr school davs da s were el e 0 over el For months the young people cid then best to meet their parents parents wishes but in September 1921 1923 just as another college year ear was wok al beginning they decided it nas as not humanly to postpone po then marriage a minute longer and they eloped A Y l Rockefeller had no doubt tha that t the parental forgiveness would be forthcoming forth forth- forthcoming coming just as jt It t was What him most was the teal feat of the Iho ne none neS S papers finding out about the romance Well IVell he knew what nhat hat capital they make of such a love match maleh If the details of bow the prospective hento hen hell hento to one of or the largest chunks of or tIn tbs Rockefeller billions had bad run n away nay ay from R x t Y r ru u v t Ng t yda it w c cs s K Ky y y a 9 P Y 74 Y The formet formel s Jc Cormick the granddaughter of John JohnD D Rockefeller who married a Swiss riding master old enough to be her father Ills his school books Ith the girl of his Ius choice and how they hid been In an obscure vIllage parson ge as un- un unostentatiously ostentatiously as though he el e only a young oung workingman they would he be spread oner o the front pages Horn one end d of the World 1 to the other Y like hi h four SIS iIi J- J T i a T I f I A The pretty heroine of the runaway marriage which A Avery very Rockefeller shrewdly managed to keep secret so long that it didn't cost him a penny tees and many of his Rockefeller COUSinS as under an agreement with his par par- parents parents par parents to suffer a deduction from flom his year year- yearly v ear ear- ear early ly Iy allo allowance ance e every cry time he got into the thene ne newspapers The amount of the deduc deduc- deduction deduction deduc- deduc deduction tion was to vary according to the char char- character chai-acter chai acter and amount of the publicity reo re- reamed re received cel amed ed edlIe lie shuddered to think low how much ho he might have bave to lose for the he columns arty arM columns that would be pi punted about nis nb ni runaway I Una ay marriage And if he was wis IS to have a wife to support t he needed every penny of his allow allo ane anc- anc mOl p thin evil With Rockefeller shrewd shrewd- shrewdness ness ness he set about solving the problem Before Defore the time came for him to flee wIth his sweetheart from from the university campus he had perfected plan which he be honed would I keep his Ills hidden from flom the reporters i foe toi at least a few peeks vv But Mr Rockefeller had young suc- suc succeeded succeeded suc succeeded far better belter than he had any Idea It was nas months more than a year ear before ire tre story of his runaway runn marriage retched I the public Long e that tune he had attained his lua majority and seas as no longer dependent on the allow allow- allowance allowance ance anee from his Ius pal patents The facts about how the tho Rockefeller chIldren have their spending money cut Bonn n when hen they are ale unfortunate enough to get their names into the newspapers were Iele revealed recently when hin CI A A s 's sis sister 51 en- en enter ter I Isabel abel took a 0 position on the thc teach teach- teaching sag ing stall of Teachers s College a LI branch of Columbia University U in m New Nw YOI York Yolk k Miss Isabel showed an extraordinary It cad of oC the thc I reporters q who pursued her eager to find out how a hell million mill ion hen ess lIkes a humble leachet's job of hers explained this by telling how bow her pocketbook would suffer if she allowed herself hel self elf to be inveigled into ei ClIme ine an in- in intel in inlet tel let lew n v Poor Miss Abby Rockefellers Rockefeller's spending money must have been cut into udo j s a 4 sy y by the columns of ot SS newspaper ne space l lt that t hat h n t resulted from flom her breaking j 8 of the New York r laws lawn speed v V Miss Abby is th the daughter of Mr and t Mrs John D Rocke- Rocke Rocke fellet ji jt She is u it good driver but hei het parents do not allow I her her a car ear of her perhaps own own perhaps because they know now how fond she is of stepping on the gas when she thinks theres there's no cop in sight One afternoon noon she v s as 1111 a 0 friends friend's car along New Yolks Yolk's Riverside Dune Dine A watchful motorcycle police police- policeman policeman man decided she was nos as h altogether too hurriedly He lIe stepped on the gas too and handed her a summons So many of these summonses are set sel ved vedin m in New York every day that little Miss llIs Mis Rockefeller didn't think these thele was as the slightest chance of hers attracting any anymore anymore anymore more attention than it had the first time she had been sen cd with one To make it doubly certain that her name would not get into the tho papers and cause a reduction in her ber spending money she did not go to the Traffic Court her her- herself herself her herself self but hut sent a yel h to represent her Everything would ha have hae e come out Just Justas justas justas as Miss Mi s hoped and ond If some inquisitive e person had not dis- dis discovered dis discovered CO covered ered that the court dJ did 1 not treat her heras heras heras as the se second ond offender she really was as When the lid hd vs was as lifted on these facts there was nas as nn an explosion that shook the hole city gO government and that must It Itis itis itis is believed have created a lamentable lick of ready reo cash jn n Miss Abby's pocket pocket- pocketbook pocketbook pocket book book for a long time Police officers and COUI t officials r te le e- e sIgned and wese wele transferred The judge over the Traffic Court was as se severely se- se verely criticized In in investigations el ere e threatened eaten ed to to see whether malefactors of glent gleat wealth health ele con con- constantly con constantly being treated with Ith more leniency than the poor or only well ell to-do to The account of what from that little buist burst of speed on Duve took weeks necks to tell and the name featured in m the he headlines and ond repeated frequently in III the t teat te t below was always that of Abby Rockefeller Quite probably this plains explainS the panic Into winch l pI elty Miss Isabel Rockefeller c a s I Is t f ft l y l wr N a tC t i It t a R Rr r tr tra a r 4 K f e a e eY ee ea Y ur Miss Abby Rockefeller who dis dismayed lis- lis maye t her family by the flood of publicity she let loose when she stepped on the gas for just a minute is thrown every time she he steps out of o oher her classroom at Columbia University and finds a 0 squad of repol reporters and photographers pho pho- photographers photographers lying in m wait alt If the same rule of making the tho chil hll chil- chil children children dren pay for any unwelcome publicity was enforced ced b by Mrs Edith Rockefeller McCormIck Jt it t must mut have cost her daugh daugh- daughter ter a pretty penny Before Defore she succeeded jn In n overcoming her family's objections and ond marrying the aged aged coddle riding master with whom hom the he had fallen in love 10 e she was featured day after diy day foi lot many weeks 1 This hIs was not at all surprising for the spectacle of such a 0 young oung oung heiress s heiress romere mere schoolgirl schoolgirl wanting to marry a aman aman man so much than herself andone and one so far beneath her in wealth health and socIal positIOn was nas something to stir e dmary extraordinary interest Little Mathilde had her way howe er In spite of all aJI her parents and her aged grandfather and the rest of the famIly could say And up to date she has been so happy m in her marked man led life that she sho probably thinks it worth orth every ry it rt penny may Inay have havo cost her in fines for getting her Into print Mathildes Mathilde's older sister is an other another of the Rockefeller younger gen el elation who ho has received more newspaper space pace thin some of her family faintly think at atall atell all fitting In her ller case cose it was nas as not no a 0 love romAnce but the ambition to go into the mOVIes or grand opera or on the tho speak speak- speaking ing stage that resulted in her breaking the family I rule lulo ule regarding publicity Nothing has cos come cor ie of this ambitIon eve ho hoeve except eve except the publicity art k it 4 If I |