The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-25
EDITORIAL NOTES

ll EDAAUM1AL NUlEO John Davison Rockefeller has a pri- Vate personal holiday all his own. He calls it Job Day. and it commence rates his entrance into the business world on Sept. 25, just fftJ% eight years ago today.
 The worlds richest man did not find it easy to land his first job. The want ad," a shortcut between the job less ando a job, had not then been in vented. The future oil king tramped the streets of Cleveland for days and weeks, wearing out much shoe leather, in search of work He interviewed hundreds of merchants and business men in all lines of trade. He announc- ed his willingness to do any sort of work, at almost any wage. Boys seemed to be g., glut on the market in Cleveland at that time, but patience and persistence finally won out, and little Johnnie 'connected'' at last with the elusive job he long had sought.
 Young Rockefeller was sixteen, 'ago- ing on'' seventeen, when he made his premiere in the world of commerce, in the humble capacity of office boy in the commission house of Hewitt & Tut tie. In a little while he became a clerk, then a cashier and bookkeeper. At nineteen he entered business for himself as the junior partner in the commission firm of Clark & Rocke- feIler. The young merchant saw great possibilities in oil, and in 1862 he and his partner became associated with Samuel Andrews, an expert oil refiner, under the firm name of Andrews, Clark & Company. Although the name of Rockefeller did not appear on the sign, he soon made himself the '"boss'' of the business. John interested his brother William in the industry, and a new company, William Rockefeller & Company, was formed. In 1865 the company built at Cleveland a large refinery, which was named the Stand ard Oil Refinery. This was the nu- cleus Of the Standard Oil Company, which was organized in 1870. In this opera ton John D. Rockefeller soon be- came the controlling power, and, by methods which have been explained by Ida Tarbe1l and other investiga- tors, he built up what was practically a monopoly of the American oil busi- ness. Save the pennies is the often quoted Rockefeller recipe for success. Although he entered the business world at sixteen he had made and saved money much earlier than that. When still living a farm, at the age of ten, heaplied a hoe and waged war on the weeds in a neighbours potato field at a wage of about forty cents a, day. What he did with his earnings MT. Rockefeller has himself explained:
 When I was ten years old I had succeeded in earning some money. It was $50. loaned it to a neighbor at seven per cent. interest. In a. year the money earned me $3.50. From that time onward I determined to make money work for me-
 He also made other peoples money work for him. He was a borrower as we'll as a lender. He got his start in the petroleum refining business on bor- rowed money. At thirty he had less than a thousand dollars of his own, but he had several thousands of other peoples dollars at his command.
 Although he had a special holiday for himself, MT. Rockefeller doesn't ployes on his estate were refused a holiday last Labor Day. Instead of spending money on worthless amuse- ments, my employees were given an opportunity to add to their savings explained the worlds richest man. Had they been given, a holiday their money would have been spent foolish 1y.'' MT. Rockefeller spent the day motoring alboutthe country and play ing golf.
 Samuel selwyn Chamberlain, one of a number of men who have had the title of Father of yellow journalism wished on'' them, was born in Wal worth, N. r., stxty-two years ago to- day. MT. Chamberlain is formally known as IS. S." and informally as sam to the newspaper men of two generations and two continents. Dur ing his forty years in journalism he has held important positions on news papers from Paris and London to San Francisco. For nearly quarter of a century he has been connected witb the newspapers of William Randolph Hearst, and his latest assignment was as editor of MT. .Hearst's London paper. the Sunday Budget. In that capacity he has made life for the English read CTS of the Budget just one thrill after