| Show 9 Today rockefellers rockefeller's T To o Words The Red Diamond Tombstone Truth A Die Big Necessary Darn Dam By Dr ARTHUR BRISBANE E Copyright 1927 1827 by the e StAr Star Company Last Lag Friday John D. D Rockefeller on his eighty-eighth eighty birthday played a good game came of golf averaging live Jive strokes to the hole five fhe miles and said In reply to ques ques- questions questions questions I am spending my eighty eighty- eighth birthday in perfect health full of hope gratitude and with good goodwill goodwill will to everybody Mr Rockefeller when he was fifty years younger said the two most moot mo t im im- important important un- un portent words In the language of success s are arc Patience cc and Econ Soon Economy Economy omy orny I Patience and economy applied to lire life and hate hase served him well His health and his wealth I prove he has practiced economy la lii I money and physical strength I The biggest building Is based on stones atones buried burled out of sight The bg- bg biggest gest fortune is based on early dol dol- dollars dollars dol- dol lars Ions saved sa put t away and used as asa asa a R. foundation for the financial structure ture tune Confucius said 2500 years ego ago He who ho will not ot no economize must t agonize In his youth Mr Rockefeller work work- worked worked worked ed hard steadily wisely patiently economizing resources physical and financial No wonder the Coal Oil Johnny type paSsed on and left loft him ruler of a great Industry Seventy Se years scars Cars ago Mr Rockefeller economized end and now he need ned not agonize Young gentlemen and ladies of this day da take Mr Rockefellers Rockefeller's example and his two success words worth to heart And remember In irs connection with his birthday that who has had more snore money mone perhaps than anybody that has ever lived ed has given glyen away In public service five fhe times as much as any man that ever lived And aided by his son his gifts have lave been made mad with extraordinary foresight and wisdom planned to help human beings for centuries to come comeIn comeIn comeIn In fighting disease s and Ignorance I orance A good record for tin the two worth words economy and patience If you OU would like something no- no nobody nobody body else has hll many has many simple minds desire such a possession you possessIon you can buy it from flom Albert Goudvis in New York It Is a carat diamond flaming red the only one In the world ls Goudvis owns an Interest crest In In Int inI I it t not all of oC it It It weighed carats In the thc rough when found In Africa's Kimberly re region re- re region gion glon and was polished down to th its Us present size not sawed or cut in the usual way for fear of hurting the color How much the stone su ne Is worth de- de depends ponds ends on how anxious some rich rl h man manis mans is s to hang on his wife something that no other lady has thus has thus in increasing In- In Increasing increasing creasing his own importance A red Indian would have ha given many acres of land for a piece of red glass as big as that diamond and twice as much land for a keg of whisky Not one ne of the worlds world's richest men Rockefeller Ford Mellon and George F F. Baker would Baker would buy the stone or take the trouble to look hook at It Men care uro little for what they can get easily London Life says that when death certificates tell the thc truth some of them will read Died after thirty years of over over- overeating overeating overeating eating Smothered to death worked and slept in rooms Killed by high living etc A sadder r statement true of 90 PD In 00 is Lived and died without see ace seeing ing ng or knowing the planet on which he was born In youth vc we c plan world travel and anda a life worth while and select a rut of ot money earning in which to gain Independence And we never climb out of the rut hs the th many because they never ne win independence the few because money once nce it comes seems more interest interest- interesting interesting ing than anything any thin else elac Merely going to Europa Europ to watch other Americans drink American cocktails in an style American-style hotel hotels Is s not riot seeing or knowing the world The Lexington n Power Company of South Carolina C with government approval al will build will build a dam m to store water exceeding in cubic content any dam in the world Two hundred feet high a mile and anda a half hlf in length the dam will de develop de- de develop develop horse power and the enterprise Is backed by W. W S. S Er- Er stow I of New York City Such enterprise as this public or private represents work the coun- coun country country try ry needs most and therefore represents represents Santa true public service Power going coing to waste of which we e have ia e endless millions of horsepower Is like throwing wealth out of oC the window With full power development de plus Intensive cultivation this land could feed easily two thousand million hu hu- human human hu- hu human man beings more moro than there are on onearth onearth onearth earth now Texas alone could feed the earths earth's population They could all have comfortable homes with plenty of room on hill bill hilland billand and mountain tops going to and from work or or play la by air machines France and Italy both confront a currency problem The lira itra and the franc fallen since the war to one- one fourth and one-fifth one respectively of ol former value alue present a difficult sit sit- situation To stabilize currency on a gold basis as Britain and Germany have done means to accept now a per per- permanent permanent manent reduction in currency value alue ending the hope of those who have hare believed in ultimate complete finan Linan- financial financIal cial dat recovery The would be bc hard on those whose wh e life lite savings were ere in lot Invested vested in government securities in irs French rentes a for Cor ex ex- ex ample French people have bought those rentes genies sur sun paying only three per cent Interest and never redeemable red as to principal convinced the tho investment inv was as sound as France herself France and Italy are fortunate In possession of populations intensely industrious and economical With time and the cooperation of other nations and freedom from war both countries reducing paper money is issues is- is issues issues sues might fight their way my back to the old parity of 01 franc and lira The difficulty is that nobody really knows anything scientifically about money least of all the high finan finan- ciers des How little they th y know was shown ShO In this country when they violently attacked at the federal reserve system now known to be their finan finan- financial financIal financial cial life preserver |
