New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 17, 1929, Page 18

ROCKEFRLER I TRAINED 0 FIGHT Has Been Bronght Up in Spartan Ways New York, Jan. 17 (UP)—John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has a fighting face and has been trained in Spar- tan ways, and Wall Street is learn- ing now for the first time just how ich of a fighter he is as he at-| tempts to oust Col. Robert W. Stew- art from the chairmanship of the Standard Oil company of Indiana. Tt is the greatest struggle in th story of that corporation and on been accormpanied by a andard oil stock to a high on the New York Curb Exchange. Stewart or Rockefeller or both are generally reported pur- chasing stock on the open market n their battie for control of the lirectors’ meeting at Whiting, Ind, March 7. Opens Active The market on the Indiana st opened active and higher this morn- ing. Opening sales were reported as 6,500 with the price at 100, up from Wednesday’ ter the stock sained 2 $ of u point on an (aditional 1.000 shares Born to Millions Rockefeller, born to miilions, was e to work hard so he might ap- eciate their true value, His fath- who now watches his son’s first major flancial battle from his winte home at Florida, had a strict cod tor children. Honesty was one the policies the elder Rockefe taught to his son The younger Rockefeller hias been Jdispleased with Stewart because of he latter's from sena on his receip ng company Rockefeller, ‘all, with. penetr: <quare cut jaw. W h i8 at his office by 8:30 a. m. Worked on In his youth, Rockefeller worked on the family estate at Cleveland, (nd swam daily with his father. He \ad a vigorous life, and wages for such work as stone, and splitting wood. His pay was 15 cents an hour for labor and ive cents an hour for practicing o violin. One biographer tells of his being profits, is brawn permitted to control his own actions | when he became old enough. His father mever interfered. He chose Brown university, because he wanted to attend a small school. This biog- rapher says that when college end- ed he had three choices: 1—A world cruise. 2—Further study in law to enable him to enter any business. 3—Starting in with the Standard 0il Co. Choses Latter He chose the latter because his father was aging and he deemed it advisable to learn the business, An- other biographer says of the young- Rockefeller: “He firmly believes that he was brought into the world to perpetu- ite the mental, moral and spiritual qualities of his father and he is do- ing his level best to fulfill that destiny. “Twice daily he sinks to his kne ind beseeches the Heavenly Fath to bless the carthly father, John D. Se Since leaving Brown university in 1897, Rockefeller has devoted him selt to renoving the “octopus ma from the names of Rockfeller and Standard Oil. Only once before has Rockefeller come into the open to show h lighting side on behalf of business. Signal Success ils first big test came in adjust- ing single handed the violent labor troubles, which involved bloodshed, in Colorado in 1913- Rockefeller controlied properties of el Born in 1866 914 on the | |tho Colorado Fuela and Iron com- pany. It was after he had made such a signal success of this task that the elder Rockefeller, with- drew in favor of his son. John D. Jr., is abroad as he fights this battle for control. He and his wife' went to Egypt with a renown- !ed Egyptologist from Chicago. He | said before departing that he was |starting a vacation. | Blacksmith's Son Chicago, Jan. 17 (UP)—The son of a country blacksmith has chal- lenged the financial dominance of the Rockefellers in their own King- dom of oil. Robert Wright Stewart, a physi- cal giant of the western plains, left | a law office in Pierre, South Dakota, 1o rise to leadership among great: business executives. Behind his refusal to yield {John D. Rockefeller jr.’s demand | that he resign the chairmanship of | the $750,000,000 Standard Oil com- | pany of Indiana for the sake of the | company's reputation, is the grim determination of a self-made d; namic man who finds the same ex- hiliration in combat today that he | found as a Rough Rider with Roose- | velt 30 years ago. | i | | | Stewart was born in 1866 in Ce- | dar Rapids, Ia., attended Coe col lege there, studied law at Yale, read | law in the offices of Simeon Bald- win in New Haven, Conn., and cventually hung out his shingle in Pierre, . D. | In two vears the young lawyer | attained a notable reputation as at- torney and politician. He served o ively as state's attorney, | state senator and supreme court re- porter. When the Spanish-American war broke out he joined Colonel | Roosevelt’s Rough Riders and was commissioned a major. | Returning to South Dakota, Ma-| jor Stewart became a colonel in the} national guards and that title has remained with him ever since. | In 1907, before the old Standard 0Oil company had been dissolved as Stewart won a case for the | at Pierre and attracted the | notice of President Cowan. The lat- | lishman or an American he is mere- | ter brought him on to Chicago and ||y one of God's creations originally | made him general attorney. In 1918 | elected chairman of the | | he was board. Rules Company From then on Colonel Stewart ruled the company with an {ron ind and Standard of Indiana pros- | pered. Stewart's six feet two tnhces | height and his 250 pounds gave him | the physical power to work longer | hours than anyone on his staff. He | arrived at work at 7:30 a. m., read all his own mail, rarely took more |is the amount of goodness that's in | than 30 minutes for lunch and sel- dom played. | Prize fights were his one diver- sion. He would travel across the | country to see a good fight, although he wouldn't leave his office for &/ game of golf. Later golf became his | hobby. | Standard of Indiana zrowing and the genlal circle of friends continued to ex- | pand. The company had only 4,600 | stockholders when Stewart betame | chairman in 1918, Now it has more | than 58,000, i kept on | Stewart’s | MISSING FOR THREE WEEKS Orange Street Man Disappears and Brother Asks Police to Try to Find Him, Carmine Mastrangioli, boarder at 109 Orange strect |been missing for three weeks and 1o trace of his whercabouts can be found, according to report to Captain | Kelly at police headquarters today ¢ his brother, Dominick Mastran- ioll of the New Departure Mfg. Co., Bristol. He is 5 feet 6 inches fn Deight and weighs about 140 pounds. He was employed by the Aberthaw ‘tion company of Boston, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, J SAYS PEACE IS UP TO MOTHERS Lady Astor in Interview Dis- cnsses Many Things By HENRY T. RUSSELL United Press Staff Correspondent United Press.) London, Jan. 17 (UP)—DMothers hold one of the ki peage of the world, in the opinior of Lady Astor. Britain's first woman member of during a conversation with th United Press correspondent in w! she explained spme of tentions regarding international re- lations, including the following: 1. That international discord would be considerably reduced if men were judged more by the quali- ty of their thoughts than by their nationality. 2. That Anglo-American rela- tions of a friendly nature are essen- tial to the future peace of the world. Preach Gospel “If instead of allowing their chil- dren to ‘play soldiers, mothers and teachers would teach them St Paul's saying: ‘Ged made of one blood all nations,’ they would h: helping the nations of the world to get together,” she began. In that manner, she explained, the world's mothers have it in thelr power to control to a large extent the future trend of peace. “After all,” she added, “what dif- ference docs it make whether a man is an American, a Frenchman, a German or an Englishman? What does it matter whether or not he i rich or poor? It is not nationality or position in life which count, it is quality of thought! “To me a human being is not Jjust a Catholic or a Jew, or an Eng- intended to resemble God. God 15 Good ow God fs good, and, regard- less of nationality or religion, or so- cial or financial position in life the better a man and his thoughts are then the nearer he comes to Leing the image of his Creator. That is why, personally, I don't care who a man is, T don't care what his posi- tion in life may be. I don't respect a man for his position. All T respect him!" She paused twinkling eyes confided: “That's just what makes the con- servatives 5o angry with me at times:" “You see it's this way,” she con- tinued, “the way we think of peo- ple makes all the difference in the world in the way we treat them. And If that is not always the case —well then it should be. ‘I feel sure that if the politicians who attended international confer- ences were to take into considera- tion their respective qualities of thought rather than to dwell a: much as they usually do upon | their differences of opinion as na- tionals of their respective countries, greater mutual respect would pre- | !vail and result in more successful | work. “I say that quality of thought | knows no nationality. What it really ., a|3mounts to is that I think Interna- | posibility loom as quite . has | tional discord would be considerably | abily | reduced If men were judged more hy | the quality of their thought than by their nationality. | “Personally T know what to think | of a visitor a very short time after | he has entered the room. It is in- | stinctive with me. Perhaps it is be- | cause I am a woman and woman {8 usually quick to scnse character. Because 1 am quick in ! this way, some people have said that a moment, then Wflh‘ that a | !instance the carnal instinct, 18 real- ly the only thing which _differen- tiates man from beast. Men are taught from childhood to control the |carnal instinct. Those who do are | good men. Those who don't, do evil. And there is no pleasure in doing evil. Ask any man who has done it. Ask any man who has committed adulte it was worth it in the end.” Try to picture an extraordinarily |attractive and vivacious Englis] peeress with an American accent, standing on the floor of the house {of commons here hurling a succes- { (Copyright, 1929, in all countries bY gion of machine-gun-like epithets at half a thousand austere politicians. Then, while retaining this mental eys to the future picture of Lady Astor, substitute the ‘ | political background for a cozy. |feminine, gray-carpeted room in | Mayfair and imagine Lady Astor to| parliament made the observation | kneeling on the floor with her bac to the fire. Thus it was that she re- hich |ceived the United Press correspon- her con-|dent and chatted with him for || ohationers but now are accepted {short time. | With few exceptions, she replied | [in her usually brief and “snappy” | |style to the questions which were put to her. “How does it feel to have | countries?” she was asked. | The answer came swiftly and was {an indirect one: | “I have been referred to over here |as ‘an American.’ I, an American? | They don’ seem to realize that T am |a Virginian: Discount Adage “You know, of course,” she added | | with a significant smile, “that one of | |the outstanding traits of character |of Virginians is their fighting spirit. |However,” she concluded hastily, | “although I am both a Virginian | land a fighter I don't believe in ‘my | | country right or wrong.’ I want my | country to fight wrong ... and to be right every time.” | What, she was then asked, is the | to obtain permanent peace two |best way {on earth? | “If the nations of the world want, peace,” was the typical Astorian re- | ply, “they must not encourage bom- | bastic politicians.” | Asked whether or not she believ- ¢d that Anglo-American friendship | was advisable in the interests of world peace she asnwered even more | briefly “Yes. Essential.” Lady Astor was reluctant to talk | {about herself. She is described Dby |some of her friends as “undoubtedly | |the busiest woman in England.” Be- | sides attending parliament with per- istent regularity in the afternoons and staying until late at night, she works at home from carly mornings. |1t is then she keeps a staft of secre- {mrlea busy answering literally hun- dreds of letters a week. Devoted Mother Yet despite all this which takes up | {from 12 to {8 hours of her time every day in the year, she manages |to be (in the words of one of her {most intimate friends) “an admi 'ably devoted mother” to her six | children. During the conversation she ex- | plained that it was “sheer lack of |time in which to make lengthy | speeches or to prepare complicatc replies” which caused her to culti- | | vate the habit of making those quick | repartees for which she is famed the | world over. | | The following was the challenging | |reply to the correspondent’s last question which, in effect, asked how | | the disarmament problem would be | solved: Women Wi ! | #I don't know,” she snapped, “but! | what I do-know is that if men don't ! do something about it, women will!" Then, as though to make the! a prob- “Electricity,” she added,. “has iexisted ever since the world began, | yet it was only discovered compara- |tively recently. Woman, too, has ‘rxish‘d from the beginning, vet man is only just beginning to realize that | the world needs her!” “Ladyastorisms™ : 1. fevil. There is no pleasure in doing Ask any man who has done for instance, to tell you if | | Bacla | (Copyright 1929 by United Press) NUARY 17, 1929, | | only discovered comparatively re- | cently. | Woman too, has existed from the | beginning, yet man is only beginning [to realize that the world needs her! 4. 1don't believe in “my country |vight or wrong—I want my country to fight wrong — and to be right ‘l‘\ ery time! 1 have been referred to over | here as “an American.” I, an Amer- {ican? They don’'t seem to realize | that T am a Virginian! 6. It the nations of the world want peace—-they must not encour- |age bombastic politician: |Student Nurses Capped At Hospital Ceremony | Seventeen student nurses at the {New Britain General hospital were !officially accepted into the training school last eevning when a capping ceremony was held in the school. This means that they no longer are Istudents. Miss Dorothy Andrews spoke on “What it Means to. Me to Be a iss Ruth Zicgler spoke of Social Side of a Nurse's Life” and Dr. T. Eben Reeks spoke on| “The Psychology of a & Miss Maude E. charge of the ceremony, spoke on the significance of the capping cere- mony. The following girls were cap- ped: Suzanne Brouilette, Dorothy Johnson, Esther Helming, Mary Blogoslowskl, ~ Genevieve Grecki, Florence Bengston, Sophie Flis, Iithel Kalin, Gertrude Gibney, Helen Alice Chadsey, Lena Chag- not, Theo Bezurzy therine Lee, Imelda Macey, Lois Morse and Irene Q'Connor. McALL AUXILIARY MEETING Miss Ellen Earle Flagg, president of the Hartford Auxiliary of the American McAll association, has ex- tended an invitation to the New Britain Auxiliary through Miss Cor- nelia Chamberlain, president of the local chapter, to attend a Founders | Day meeting at the Asylum avenue, Congregational church parish house on Monday, January 31, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The speaker will be Rev. George T. Berry, who will speak on “Present Developments in the McAll Mission” illustrated with § TOR H. o8 The regular meeting of the Junior College club of the Senior high school was held this afternoon after school. Tickets for the mid-year scnior class prom are now on sale for oth- s than the graduates. The prom will be held in the auditorium of the Walnut Hill school on the night of January 2§ from 9 to 1. The tickets may be purchased from Mrs. Amy Guilford, Miss Irene Smith, Mr. Re- cano, Mr. Hallin and Mr. Mullin, CIVIL SUITS RECORDED Claiming non-payment of a bill, the New Britain Lumber Co. has brought suit for $500 against Gladys Wood of Newington, administratrix of an estate. Attorney Mortimer Camp . represents the plaintiff and Deputy Sheriff Martin Horwitz made service. Property in Newington, was | attached. According to a writ issued 4n & suit brought against John Sjorgren of Hartford by Hjalmer Abraham- son of this city for $100, the pisin- {iff claims the defendant refused to pay a debt. Attorney Bernard L. Alpert is acting for Mr. Sjorgren and Deputy Sheriff Martin Horwitz attached property of the defendant | in Newington. READ HERALD Snecial The Daughters | hold a card party club rooms, 166 at 8:15.—advt, of Isabella will and social at the | Main St., tonight | NEA Miami Bureau America’s first venture into reg- ular international air service now links the United States with Cuba, the Bahamas and the West Indes. The first plane to take oft from the can airport at Miami, Il Havana, with mail and pas- sengers, is pietured above. 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