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ROCKEFELLER’S SHINING DIMES
John 1). Rockefeller, long credited
with being the wealthiest man in the
world, although there is doubt now
that he is entitled to that distinc
tion, has followed a custom for sev
eral years of tossing out bright,
shining nickels and dimes to young
sters of his neighborhood in celebra
tion of his birthday anniversaries.
Not more than a dime, and not
always as much as a dime—that is
the Rockefeller code. Perhaps, if he
is feeling particularly expansive, it
is a dime instead of a nickel.
We think, therefore, that Mr.
Rockefeller is something of a tight
wad, not to say a skinflint. But we
may be mistaken about that. The
venerable oil king got his start amid
inhospitable surroundings. He was
not always one of the world’s rich
est men. He once was one of the
“four million’’ instead of among the
first in the “four hundred” in finan
cial power. He learned the value
of thrift then, and perhaps he learn
ed, too, that to be poor, though not
poverty-stricken, has its advantages
over affluence as well as its disad
vantages. He got his tremendous
wealth, not by bequest or gift, but
by taking care of his oil pennies.
It appears that the oil king has
very decided ideas on the subject
of showering largess on young peo
ple. A trust deed daughter, which
appears in papers filed in a New
York supreme court case, sets out
his views. He gave his daughter
the power to leave the fund to char
itable institutions instead of to her
children if she saw fit to do so. He
expressed the “earnest hope” that
his daughter would bear in mind his
“belief that it would be prejudicial
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to the welfare of her children and
their descendants for them to come
into possession and enjoyment of
large amounts of property before and
unless they have attained sufficient
wisdom and character to use same
wisely, and in order to prevent such
injury to them I am more concerned
lest they receive too much rather:
than too little.”
It is an old saying that in the
United States it is four generations j
from overalls to overalls. That is
not literally true, but the evil influ
ence of permitting children of wealth
to become useless snobs and wastrels
is evident. The aged multi-million
aire who rose from something like
poverty to fortune that makes Croe
sus apnear in the role of piker knows
the dangei and he wants to save his
own heir* from it.
Viewed from that angle, his prac
tice of limiting his birthday gifts
to shiny nickels, or dimes on occa
sion, can be the more readily un
derstood and appreciated.
PANNING THE PRINCE WITH
IMPUNITY.
Should the heir to the British
throne traipse about the world “as
commercial bagman, seeking trade?”
That is what a labor members of
I the British parliament demanded to
know in the house of commons. He j
wanted to reduce by 15,000 pounds j
sterling the proposed expense allow
ance for the Prince of Wales, on the
ground that it was wrong to spend
the nation’s resources on princely
junkets, while thousands suffered at
home; that the prince—who had
failed to visit certain English slums
—might better see England first, and |
that if the prince wanted to have a j
good time in South America, to which
taken on a costly British battleship,
section of the globe he was to be
he should shave his expenses. The
protesting member lost his fight by
a vote of about three to one, but j
possibly that is not the most inter- j
esting phase of the flurry. It is j
related that the incident created j
more amusement than indignation, j
and apparently it created no ripple !
outside of the house of commons. |
Only a few centuries ago the churl I
who dared to criticise royalty would
have fared not so well. Without ado
and with dispatch, he would have
lost his head at dawning, and that
would have been the end of him.
Now he can live, without running
away, to create amusement another
day.
Mil
THE PRESIDENT'S SECRETARY
The expected twist time often
works finds Everett Sanders, of Ter
re Haute, Indiana, taking up the du
ties of secretary to President Cool
idge at a time when, but for a trick
of fate, he might have been enter
ing upon the office of vice-president.
When Mr. Sanders’ name was brot
! forward at the Cleveland convention
as vice-presidential candidate, it was
generally understood that his choice
wrould have met with the whole
hearted approval of Mr. Coolidge and
most of the convention, had not the
Indiana delegation itself blocked the
way by clinging determinedly to the
candidacy of Senator Watson. Nowr
Mr. Sanders takes a place measure
ably nearer the conduct of adminis
tration affairs than is the vice-pres
idency.
The new secretary, like his prede
cessor, C. Bascom Slemp, enters the
White House offices after a thoro
schooling on Capitol Hill. As a rep
I resentative from the Fifth Indiana
district for eight years, he adhered
closely to Republican leadership, and
retires from his Congressional ac
tivities holding high positions on the
Republican steering committee and
the House commerce committee.
Mr. Sanders wras considered also
one of the best parlimentarians in
the majority party’s membership, and
frequently wras called upon by Speak
er Gillett to preside over the House
! in his absence. Among many pieces
of legislation in which he has been
interested, Mr. Sanders perhaps
w’orked harder for the Esch-Cum
mings transportation act than any
other. Railroad legislation in gen
eral alwrays interested him and he
wras recognized by his colleagues as
among the best informed House
members on this subject. He was not
a candidate for reelection to the new
congress, having decided to forsake
public life to resume the practice of
law.
LIBERTY T
One Show Tonight, at 8 O’Clock Sharp
The Law Forbids
A GRIPPING DRAMA OF BROADWAY VERSUS THE HOME!
CAN LOVE DEFY THE LAW?
A picture of Mad Love and the Unyielding power of the Law
A Thrilling Photoplay
LAW VERSUS LOVE! This is the
underlying theme of Baby Peggy’s lat
est starring vehicle, in which, sur
rounded by a great cast of standard
screen artists, the diminutive starlet
solves a problem greater than life
itself. This occurs in “The Law For
bids,” her new Universal-Jewel star
ring vehicle. It is an astounding tale
of infatuation and divorce, staged on
a spectacular scale. Robert Ellis,
Elinor Fair, Winifred Bryson, Joseph
Dowling, Eva Thatcher and William
E. Lawrence are in the cast, which
Jess Robbins directed.
An All-Star Cast with
BABY PEGGY
at its head.
PLENTY OF DELIGHTFUL
HUMOR
EXIT CEASAR
is an unusually good 2-reel comedy
—and—
“FIB FIFTEEN”
is a fable
A TIP TOP PROGRAMME
Mr. Sanders was born in a log
cabin near Coalmont, Indiana, March
8, 1882. His father was a minister
whose small salary would not per
mit him to afford the bey a college
education, but three years as a
school teacher, a farm laborer, and
a clerk in a shoe store, enabled him
to attend the Indiana State Normal
School, where he supplemented his
meager capital by working in the
school library and soliciting mem
bers for his college boarding club.
In 1903 he married Miss Ella Neal
and a year later entered the Univer
sity of Indiana from which he was
graduated in 1907 with the degree
of LL.B. In his senior year at the
University he was captain of the
basketball team.
Mr. Sanders took up the practice
of law in Terre Haute shortly after
leaving school. He was elected to
the 65th Congress, being the first
Republican chosen from that district
for several years. His service in
Congress has been continuous up to
the present time.
Uncle Sam has 325 wooden ships
on Lake Union that he wants to
sell. They have been idle since the
war. The shipping board wants $50,
000 apiece for them, minus a sum
estimated to be necessary for recon
ditioning them for service. Evident
ly the government foresees no con
certed rush to buy, for it plans to
launch a “campaign” to dispose of
them.
Mrs. William Laimbeer has been
placed in entire charge of the wo
men’s department of the National
City Bank of New York, the largest
bank in America.
A siphon for transferring gaso
line from one automobile to another,
using rubber tubing and a suction
bulb, has been invented.
Chris’ ss?
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Birthplace of Last King
of Hawaii to Be Restored
(Bv Associated Press)
j HONOLULU,' Mar. 13.—The birth
j place of Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalan
I ianaole, last titular member of the
former monarchy of Hawaii, who
served the territory as its delegate
to Congress for more than 20 years,
is to be restored to the condition in
which it was 50 years ago. Also it
will be made a week-end and vaca
tion spot for members of the Order
of Kamehameha, according to an
nouncement by United States Mar
shal Oscar Cox, who has returned
from a visit to the historical spot at
Kuwalu, Koloa, island of Kaui.
Marshal Cox, who is an official of
the order, said that the society plan
ned to have the rehabilitation com
pleted for the annual meeting in
June, 1926, when it is expected that
. all members of the order will gather
there for a huge luau (native feast)
and celebration.
Despite the fact that the spot now
is overgrown with vegetation, Mar
shal Cox said that raised places still
are visible where it will be possible
to erect grass huts. A wide stone
seating place about 80 feet long,
from which the kings and chiefs
watched the hula dances and games
in past years, remains and will be
i
utilized by the society.
“The common cooking place where
the residents of the village prepared
their food is in the same condition
as it was in the olden days,” Mar
shal Cox said, adding that it car.
be used today.
Duchess of York Idea
Creates Work for Artists
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Mar. 13.—Hand painted
slippers for evening wear, which are
the vogue just now, have created
work for numerous artists who had
never thought of doing anything of
the kind before but who have found
that this kind of painting pays them
better than turning out pictures.
The novelty was introduced in
London by the popular Duchess of
York who is one of the smartest or
the smartly attired young women
i The idea spread like wild fire, and
! was quickly taken up by other so
1 ciety women.
The foundation of these shoes is
satin, mostly in delicate shades, al
though there have been some ex
quisite models in old gold, bronze
and black. On the toe cap, and ta
pering off along each side, neat
designs are painted in delicate
shades to match the color of the
satin.
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