The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-28
ROCKEFELLER SAYS 1T Is
DIFFICULT TO GET RICH
IN LATEST ARTICLE
HE TELLS OF HIS
ATTEMPTS.
Thanks Father for Much
and Glad of His Mod
est Beginning.

NEW YORK. Jan as lily u. p
John ID. Rockefeller IN out today
with statement that II IL hard To
set rich His latest article Is en-.
titled The Difficult Art Of Getting
and appears Ia the Worlds Work
magazine for February.
John y. tells how be began bust.
ness In hts home. He promises 10
tell later 81 his Early Experiences
IN the Oll business
The first thing MI Rockefeller
does II to act az rights his father.
VIM. avery Rockefeller Who has
been pictured By ida Tarheli a. no
better than a close dealing. nomadlc
horse trader.
Tribute 70 Father.
To my father" says John u. Il
owe q great debt In that he him
SELF trained me Ia practical ways.
tie Was engaged In different enter.
priscsi he used To teil me an about
these things. explaining their sis.
nlficance. and be taught me the
principles and methods OF business.
From early hOyhood kept little
book which. ! remember. called
Ledger A., writes Rockefeller.
Mr. Rockefeller counts ID bless.
ing that he came % family of
modest means. Ia which there was
a close family life
Mr.. Rockefeller enjoys the sight
OF a flock % turkeys and never
misscs an opportunity Of studying
them, because his first hnnIncas en-
terpriae. which began when he was
\ years old. consisted IN selling
turkeys which he had fed ON eurds
Of milk presented 10 him for the
purpose ty bis mother.
His Mother's Switch.
His mother. says Mr.. Rockefeller.
kept a switch handy Once his
mother began % whip him Tor an
offanae he had not committed lie
pleaded Innocence Never mind.
said my mother. writer Mr. Rscke.
TELLER We have started In on
this whipping. and Il will do 'of
next time
Once John and bis brother WIN
lam disoheyed by going skating In
the moonlight. They found a
neighbor drowning aud saved hts
life b. ihrustlng a pole 10 hlm
Inis deed u herulsm didn't
make any difference 90 Mfu
Rockefeller With her stick
lilgh school and bookkeeping
in q commercial college lu Glove.
land made up Rockefeilers edaca
ton
Z trampcd the streets for aavu
and weeks. asking merchants II
they didn't SAINT boy, bat the
offer ~ my services met with little
appreciation. be says
Lands Job.
Rockefeller. on Sept. 70 fgaE.
got sob wfth the firm Of Heuitt
4 futile. Cleveland o lie didnt
ask what the vases would bo. bot
after three months Mr.. Tuttio
gave him SO. and u Vas entire
- satisfactory
The salary the uext year wms
SIS month. Rockefeller aeryine
a. auditing CLERK IN the whole.
sale produce commission and for.
warding business Of the firm. The
firm rented houses and Rookie.
Teller had charge of that business.
ton The next year. when the
g.. 900 n year bookkeepcr left.
Rockefeller took his work At
salary of $500 a year
The third year the firn Offered
Rockefeller t7e0. bat he wanted
$500 Hc didn't get II. 20 ~.
signed to SO into business for him.
self with a younE EngiishmAn. N.
~ Clark Rockefeller had saved
$500 The Engiiahman had 81 600
John D'a father lent him 81 600 az
10 per cent interest. with the un.
derstandiag that at II The money
should be a Kift 90 John.
We AZ once began TO do a large