New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 20, 1928, Page 13

commented James Thompeon, golf professional, when asked about it “He's never been s0 well since I've seen him. His golf is geting better, and his shots are becoming more and more aceurate. He has done the second hole in ‘hree. Ho didn't miss a day last season, and on cold days he was the first out on the course. “He's always good humored, and wall ,talk to anyone—except when he's actually playing. then all con- versation except about the game is out. It takes & good natured man to g0 through with it. He don't know 11, but when too many of them come around the course we try to keep them off him. A dosen or so is all right, e likes to see people. But one day last season, for ex- ample, there were 150 of them, Imostly out of three sightseeing busses. They took it for granted he had 150 dimes In his pocket for | them.* Greets Everyone As Friend 1t is not necessary for “John D.'s” | friends to make conversation when they meet him, or for people he ROCKEFELLER EATS WELL AND SMILES Once Thonght to Have Weak Stomach—Fools All (Copyright 1928 by United Press) Ormond Beagh, Fla., Jan. 20 (UP) —Voluntarily out ‘of the welter of world affairs, and happy in a lttle peaceful sphere of his own choice, John D. Rockefeller smiles half to himself occasionally, , and his eyes sparkle, as it he had played a joke on fate, Twenty years ago he waa con- demned in the popular mind to & life diet of soda crackers and wa- ter. Then he was a billlonaire. Now: most of his fortync is out of his hands, though he still is tremend- ously wealthy. At 82 1-2 he is hab- |meets and likes. Usually he starts and D eats hedrdly, things. Only recently he greeted ev- Gives But Littlo Money Away | .rvong he saw, for & week, whist. He used to give away millions of | dollars at a time—more than $500, 100,000 altogether—and his dona tions were broadcast throughout the world by newspapers. He can not give so much now, and most of his gifts are more personal, but he still makes them, an inquirer finds, i “Yes, he'll be down here through the winter,” said one of his friends | in the village. “He usually leaves | around April 1. He always waits to | attend the spring fair of the Village | Improvement Association in March. | He does a lot of things around here, | tor the town and for people, he asks | people mot to mention them." It was a servant at the how! across from the home who, out of many, best told the story of “John‘ famous dimea, “What are they kicking about? he asked. “We know down here why | he gives people dimes—as souvenirs. | What do they want him to do, give | them a $100 bill every time they go | up and talk to him? He wants to give them something to remember him by, a momento. He meets a dozen or two of them every time he | goes out. He can’t carry a pocket- tul of bauquets with him everywhere he goes. | He never gives dimes to ser- | vants unless he meets them as ordt- | nary people, when they go out like the tourists to sec him on the golf | course or something like that, Then ' e treats them as'he does other pes- | vle, and gives them dimes as souven- | irs, and he always poses for them when they want to photograph him. | I'm going out myself this week to sce hin). “Ho tips liberally—he never gives any dimes as tips. But he doesn’t make a fool of himself. Why should he? He doesn’t have to do anything to call attention to himself. We all know him.” | Helps Ormond Beach ; | “You don’t hear much any more ! about Mr. Rockefeller's gifta” sald | #nother. “But we de. There are peo- | ple in this hotel who could tell you. Whenever anyone gets sick and the | village doctors don’t know what to do, he sems to hcar about it. He sends them to his own doctor. It it's too. much for him, Mr. Rocke- feller sends them up north to a New York hospital. When the hospital has fixed them up, they go to re- cuperate on a farm up state. Some of them don't come back for a year or two, when they're cured, and peo- ple ask where they've been. That's the kind of guy he is.” No one calls him “John D.” down here. They all speak of him as Mr. Rockefeller, and with affection. Rockefeller nas not missed a church service on Sunday morning in the last five years of his ygarly visits here. On only one Sunday was he absent. from the Little Unlon church across the river from his home. Then the pastor—Dr. Rich- mond, now succeeded by Rev. Guy Stanton Boyer—went to Seabridge to preach and Rockefeller went | along too. Grows No Older People generally agree that “John D.” has somed to grow no older dur- ing the last 12 years, “He's even younger this yea NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY =0, 128, ling & tune that was running iIn his mind, and asking them to identify it. No one could and he mever found out what it was. ‘There. are many bits of informa- tion like that every day even when not seeking them. All of them seem favorable, and all of them seem to tell a story of a man, once hard- boiled and hated, who bas found ‘himselt. COMMUNICATED Wherein Our Oity Gets Much of Fraieo and a Fow Digs Editor of the New Britain Herald, New Britain, Conn. Dear 8ir: As you are a leading civic organ, allow me to express my views, or better said, my reactions, on my visiting your fair city for the first time. A few weeks ago was the first time I had visited a city or New Britain’s size. When I stepped from the train, the first thing that!the traffic light on Main street said | place to a stranger. greeted my eyes was the station, a ramshackle edifice sadly in need of a coat of paint. ‘“Surely”, thought I, “this can’'t be much of a town EWS ENTIRE STOCK *COLONI UPHOLSTERING - COVERED ALL OVER IN A REGULAR $119 SUITE— Upholstered in pressed velours. Pure Held from the first impression it gi one”, However, I was due to be decelved. Nevertheless, my concep- tion of the city recelved another blow when I saw the railroad cut Main street in twain. “Could & really * progressive town tolerate such a hindrance to its business and expansion”. Buch was the nature of my next question. As yet ,it has not been answered. Among the incidents that created favorable impressions, I can cite the clearliness of your streets, your school system, the obedience of the New Britainites to law and the po- littness of the people in New Britain, I noted with pleasure that your public schools compared favorably with our city schools both in cur- riculum and in buildings. T also isaw the Normal school, a building that in itself is a monument to the educational system of New Britain. It was with amazement that I noticed the people’s obedience to the {trafic law. I observed that while | “Go™ not a person | cross the street, situation on Fifth | York. attempted to Imagine such a avenue, New in New Britain. While walking on West Main street, T saw an clderly gray-haired woman alighting from the car, dragging an apparently heavy valise after her. At the same time, & young man and a young woman were coming down street. 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