Martinsburg statesman. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1869-1906, 1906-02-16
a SpIencIt Type OF Young Busi
ness Man.

Mr.. John ID. Rockefeller, -Jr., ha
disclosed the secret Of the marvellous
SUCCESS in life of the Rockefeller FAM
ly. sit pays TO do right" young Mr.
Rockefeller told his Bible class las
Sunday. and, doubtless, by doing righi
the young gentleman's father has be
come one of the richest men in thu
| world. This well-to-do young SUNDAY
school teacher directed the attention o.
his class TO Joseph, who, he declared
is splendid type Of the young busi-
ness man, advising his class to emu.
late his example and adopt his meth
tation. In the latter quality the son o.
Jacob is entitled 10 one of the high
est and most prominent inches in the
temple Of fame. AS shrewd and
thrifty and sagacious man of business
he was entitled at the early age OF 81
wears, to rank in the same claes OF
which the elder Rockefeller has 50
long been a conspicuous ornament.
The business methods of the two men,
Joseph and John d., ST., are not en-
tirely dIssimilar. In point of fact, Jo-
seph may be the model which the oil
king adopted at the beginning of his
remarkable career. In one transaction,
however, there is a difference. There is
no record that this modern Joseph ever
put anybody's bundle OF money back
into the spout of his oil can.
Let us examine some of Joseph s
business methods. Through Pharaoh s
dream he got tip on the wheat mar
ket, and then proceeded to work it to
the limit. In the seven.good-crop years
he kept his own counsel and bought
wheat. He knew what the market was
going to do. "And Joseph gathered
corn THAT is to say, wheat as the
sand of the sea, very much, until he
left numbering it, for it was without
number And then the seven yeors Of
short crop. began to come. All the
available surplus was in possession Of
Joseph, who, as we have said, was the
John ID. Rockefeller of his day. The
stock in the hands of the farmers, in
the hands of dsalers-in short, the
visible suppIy-was soon exhausted,
and then the opportunity of this
thrifty young business man came. And
when all the land of Egypt was fam
ished the people cried to Pharoah for
bread, and Pharaoh sent them to the
thrifty young business man, who did
them strictly according to Standard
Oil methods. And Joseph opened all
the store houses and sold unto the
Egyptians, while the famine wax
ed sore in the land of Egypt and
all countries came ito buy corn III
Egypt because that the famine was
sore in all lands. "And Joseph gath
cred up all the money that was fount =
in the land of Egypt and in the land
of Canaan for the corn which they
bought" And when money failed in
the land of Egypt and in the land of
Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto
Joseph and said, Give us bread, for
why should we die in thy presence?
for the money faileth. 'AndJ oseph said,
GIVE me your cattle and | will give
you bread for your cattle, if money fail.
And they brought their cattle unto
Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread
in exchange for horses and for the
flocks and for the cattle of their herds
and for the asses" The cattle bought
enough corn for year, and then the
people came to Joseph again and told
them they wanted more bread, but
the money was gone and the cattle
were gone. Then Joseph took their land
and gave them bread for another year.
Finally, this thrifty young business
man made the people sell themselves
and become servants to Pharaoh in
exchange for wheat. That was a bus'-
ness transaction calculated to make
the mouths of all the Rockefellers wa
ter. No wonder they take Joseph for a
model and declare that he was.a fine
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