The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 14, 1922, Page 11

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SECTION TWO | ee TEACHES HIS YOUNGSTERS — should do the Multi - Millionaire wholesome Wants His Boys|_ thins his father had to to Appreciate do, in so far Habits of Work) as is possitie. It will teach him what qualities made his father successful. T am sorry I did not have that sort of Repu a chance, Prohibited Anywhere in World.) I want my NEW YORK, July 14—John D. Rockefeller, Jr, regards bringing up boys to start his children as one of his most en grossing and important tasks. work at the “I regret the passing of the ol4- fashioned woodpile,” he “Tha a face *0 tien teetire equivalent or} DOCtott. the woodpile of my father's boy- John D. hood.” Th the first interview Mr. Phoned grat er given on this Rockefeller, human subject. He discussed for Jr. NEA Service his ideas on family fimance and the problem of chikiren. He did not pretend to be telling what other people should do with their children: he simply agreed, at my re quest, to discuss some of the princi- ples he felt he was duty-bound to put Into effect in training bis ownf 4 children. “TOO MUCH WEALTH | “Wealth,” he said, “hurts children when they’get too much of It. Just decause a man can afford to hire People to wait on his children is no feason why he should do it. I don't. “They ought to be helped to form the habit of doing things for them. | selven—things that need to be done— whether they like to do them or not. ~tor benevolence—and 10 for spend ing. | ms CHILDREN KEEP ACCOUNTS “I explained the tmportance of I, think many modern children are , Keeping accounts. At the end of the | Rot developing the will power and|Week I audited the accounts. A few self tery that are esmential in the | Year later they were getting a dol: | olution of life's problema. “That's what I mean about the| keeping accounts rewards and demer woodpile. My father had to chop|'ts were given. If the account book wood and do the milking. He prob.|¥@# correct the child got $1.05 the ably didn’t Iike doing the chores any | following week, $1.10 the next, and better than most boys, but he ac. | *0 0M; tf incorrect, only 95 cents, then 90 and 85." quired the habit of doing things he/ @idn’t lke to do; his Will was trained,| There allowances never exceeded most, until the age of 15. Mr. By then. difficulties. ehild Rockefeller consklers, « Mr, Rockefeller hae six children, | fi", )ocketel ni been properly trained ought five of them boys. In age they are . from $ to 18. They are being taught | °° >* Sble to handie his own finances. So the allowance ts increased to cover all expenses outside of keep, educa tion and medical service. It includes clothes, fares, if traveling alone, en tertainment, candy, sodas and the lke. “1 believe,” Mr. Rockefefier said, “that children should know what to spend, how to spend, what» things cost, whether a thing te worth buying—in short, thrift and the value of money. “Everybody knows that one of the things which ts wrong with the world is extravagance,” he says. “Extravagance hurts char- acter. It is a man's duty to civ. ilization to be thrifty. Whether aman can afford lavish spending tan’t the point; it is wrong not to spend wisely whatever is spent, waters man ean pero the the value of money. money or not, : Families and individuals—children, | “This, and keeping accounts, ts tm- too--should keep accounts of the |Portant because of the principle un- money they receive and spend, says |4etlying. It ts of value to my chil Mr. Rockefeller. He told me his dren—to any child—to hold to the father himself kept account of his|Tixid fundamental principle of eco- personal expenditures until he was | Somics.” past 50. And he himself did so until| Mr. Rockefeller smiled over an ex a few years ago, Mr. Rockefeller, | periment he tried. Jr, is 48. | “I was brought up to do thing» “At seven or eight my children| that needed to be done, whether I each received an allowance of 30|liked them or not,” he eaid. “At conte a week,” he explained. “The| seven years of age I began playing understanding was that out of it they | the violin, and I used to get five were to save and to give, as well as|cents an hour for practising. But to spend. Ten cents was to be saved, | that sort of thing doesn’t work these days—or at least the standards are 10 was for church and Sunday school Visit Home Folks Take advantage of our low round-trip summer travel fares. $72.00 To St. Paul and Minneapolis. $86.00 To Chicago. Northern Pacific Ry. All-Steel Trains $L7> Kr > Write for other rates and full summer travel Information cy, +y ic 1 E. L. CAREY, General Agent, Seattle Telephone Elliott 5580 L, ©, Smith Building CONSOLIDATED TICKET OFFICE Telephom Elliott 5830 1010 Second Ave. nd it helped him‘ cope with other | ® dollar or two dollars a week at the | | lar @ week, and to teach accuracy in| — ~The Seattle Star SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1922. PAGES 11 TO 20 —— | “MONEY HARMS CHILDREN!” SAYS ROCKEFELLER, JR. | Ho-Hum, a Busy DayOFFIClALs DENY Extension Favored | Favorable recommendation given Thursday by the ¢ tes committes to the p dinance providing for a tension of the Ravenna car It ve. N. EB. to ath ave, N. ©. wan JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR._|/Ravenna CarLine | YOUTH BARS | job, Yeu, the scale ts higher than 15 centat" Schools do not teach thrift and habits of work, Mr. Rockefeller finds. “Education used to mean cram ming the mind,” he said. “Educa tional really is learning how to use the mind. The tendency with many children of today is to follow the east: ext way, the line of least resistance You see it reflected tn studies, in so- cia} tife, and tn business. “The modern theory of many peo- ple seems to be to let a child decide} what he wants to do and then let him do tt. Of course, we all do best the things we Itke doing, But life cannot be lived wholly that way, How can a child later learn how to avold the things he should not do? A dis orderly mind ts an untrained one.” | Mr, Rockefeller hasn't much eym pathy with parents who, having ac quired means, ny they hope their boys will never have to work as hard fas they did. “It is a falne idea to change stand lards lke that and go with the tide,” he said, |Law School at Little Rock, Zonola Longstreth, 18,| graduates from the Arkansas the youngest qualified attor- ney in the state, yet she can't “A boy should do the whole some things his father had to do In so far as is possible, It will teach him what qualities made his father suceessful. I am sorry I did not have that sort of chance. I want my boys to start work at the bottom.” practice, she's too young. juring 11 The state code says PHILADELPHIA.—City bufiding, undergoing reconstruction, | collapses, killing two workers and in o © oe Pa ae A ap Ogg gm ote cd 3 eee é oe a* Oe higher! Even with children. Five ig Oe cents an hour ian't an inducement se oe” any more! oes ey “Bot I do pay wages for errands and chores. and unload, and I pay them for the If © child honestly — works, he earns such pay, Tt’wtirity! Lnproved lates the desire to work. I used to get 16 cents an hour sawing wood. Yy-) bs But these days it's different. Down — 1 e in the country we have wood hauled to the house. My boys and I load and up TURRELL’S MID-SUMMER |CLEARANCE SALE is now in progress and offers Wonderful Values in America’s Finest Footwear Women’s Men’s Children’s 15 18.50 $15 33.” Reduced to.. $12.95 12 to $14.50 50 to $11 Bene ~Reduced to... $7.95 Included in this sale are such famous makes as Laird, Schober & Co. and I. Miller & Sons Shoes for Women, and Nettleton, Johnston & Mur- phy, Forbush and Bostonians for Men, and equally well-known brands in Children’s Oxfords and Pumps. All Main Floor Departments Both Stores reonsipeh tHe YO ALL WOMEN’S SILK HOS- IERY, regularly $4.50, $4.75 and $5.00. During this sale $3.95 You thousands who know TURRELL Quality and Style—this is your op- portunity to secure footwear of high- est dependability at very consider- able savings. UALITY Both Stores No Refunds or Exchanges Third at Pine center —— Down at BY THE CITY HALL REPORTER Ho-hum! Two Ho-humal ‘Things are quiet today around this dump. Mayor Brown has had hi morning clash; Phil Tindall did good deed for the day by giving & five-cent cigar; O. L. Bhrader, st tistical terrier of the eclty counell, told us the best joke of 1896; and Tom Patterson solemnly confided to us that Legate committed suicide. eee Be that as tt may, Doo Brown was in receipt this a, m. of a letter trom the Welcome Stranger committee of New York, signed by L. M. Boomer, We wish Boomer would come to Seattle, eee The city counctl ts made responst for the High Cost of Silk Stock in a claim filed with City Clerk Hamley, 1217 29th ave. that she stepped on a loose spike at 39th ave. and Lee puneturing the sole of her shoe a’ cutting a hole in her silk stockings. She wants $15 damages. cee Ol Man Diogenes, who went! around Athens with a lantern look. ing for an honest man, had a cinch City Hall compared to the hopeful soul who lnought Mayor Brown's assistance to day. “Could you tell me,” he asked, “where I could locate a good, clean, honest, conscientious, non-smoking, non-drinking, Christian attorney?” . Bill Dixon, who lends a helping |during {te busier hours, was @ visitor at the city hall. “I am afraid that the Vowstead act oes not receive the enthustastic co joperation of the citizens that it de nerves,” he said. , It seems that Bill called upon a friend at 12:20 o'clock. The door was tightly bolted, and Bill rapped loudly upon the door. “Who's there?” called a frightened |volce. “Have you got @ search war | rant? eee Tempus figits. Brown, the candi | date, is now Brown, mayor, “I wish to devote yself to city business in the mornings,” the mayor [stated today. “I will request visitors to call in the afternoon.” Remember when Candidate Brown announced that if elected he would take the hinges off the doors of the mayor's office? jhand to the Seattle port commission | INFRINGEMENT, | Decide Bridge Company Has Not Been Damaged Strauss Bo decision reached Thursday at & 6ome ference between Mayor Brown, Cor poration Qounsel Walter F. Meter and City Engineer A. H. Dimock. The city officials held that the oity | owes no royalty to the Strauss Co, for alleged use of their patents in bullding the superstructure of the Ballard, Fremont and University bridges. 4 The company has offered to drop its $250,000 law suit for infringement of patents if the city would pay them 10 per cent of the cost of the super. structures of the bridges. ‘The Strauss interests have threat ened to enjoin the construction of the W. Spokane St. bridge, if the elty does not compromise with them, ~ WALLA WALLA—Slipping bsg from home to visit grandparents in Antelope, Ore. Gienn Durman, with his sister Nadine, 9, on h bars of his bicycle, rides 43 miles te Pendleton before being picked ‘Mp by police. TODCO (Rubbing Alcohol) medicated so that it erage. Splendid “Turknit* for the purpose. value. B5¢. RUB-COHOL Rub-Cohol is 92 per cent pure grain alcohol, unfit for use as a bev- It is the accepted sub- stitute for pure grain alcohol as a bathing and massage lotion — be- cause the medication does not in any way in- terfere with its value. Items That Make Bathing a Luxury: Face Cloths at 10c Clothe—woven especially Large size, with edges proper ly finished to prevent fraying. Other numbers—heavy quality—prices up to ~y LX A Splendid Massage Lotion Which Is Produced in the Owl Drug Company Laboratory ‘ is Pate ee ee ee A plain, An excellent end colors. 16-Ounce Bottles antiseptic for cuts, wounds, — insect bites, ete. sterilization of surgical in- e : struments. tals for rubbing purposes, down, and men like it as an after-shaving lotion, The “Todco” label is your guarantee of quality. 6-Ounce Bottles 25¢ 16-Ounce Bottles 500 Shower Caps 25c close-fitting Cap which ts made of | extra heavy fresh live rubber. Beach Caps, 15¢ to $1.00. Many styles New live rubber, Rubber Sponges 50c } It is a reliable external Physicians use it for the ~ It is in demand in hospi- Athletes use it as a rub- Bath Brushes $1.00 With or without detachable handles. A dath accessory that is almost a necessity. Others up to $4.60, Bath Thermometers Not a needless luxury, but a real necessity particularly for infants, elderly people and convalescents. Prices 50¢ to $2.50. A particular floating model for infants at 90¢. Shower Bath Red Feather cate odor of fresh violets. Destroys “ ® Ny The final touch of a perfect bath. Fragrant and refreshing. Three odors: Cologne, rose and verbena. Large glass jars ...........006 You can buy them as low as 10c, Many prefer them to the eea sponge. They last indefinitely and are certainly not expensive, Sea Sponges Prices start at 100 and range up to $2.00. The assortment includes all kinds and sizes, Hand Brushes Prices range from 10c up to $2.50—and every Price is a full value price. A varied assortment to choose from, Sprays $1.00 This small investment will give you a greater use of your bath tub and all the pleasure of an expensive shower bath equipment. These Bath Sprays can be attached to any mod- ern faucet. Others up to $5.00. Bath Crystals 65c Violet Ammonia Contains the medicinal virtues of medicinal ammonia with the deli- 40c body odors. A bottle...

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