The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-19
EDITORIAL NOTES

The first of the Rothschilds, founder
| of the great financial firm, was Mayer
Anselm, who died in the ghetto of
| Frankfort Main, Germany, 101
years ago today. He was the Eon Of
Anselm Moses Bauer, a small Jewish
merchant of Frankfort. His father
wished Mayer Anseln to become a rab-
hi, but he preferred business, and set
up as a money lender in the Frankfort
Judengasse. His business sign was
''rothschild'' or, red shield and this in
the course of time became his legal
name. He negotiated several great
government loans, and left a consid-
cradle fortune at his death to be df-
vided between his ten children, five
sons and five daughters. One of the
others established branches of the
house of Rothschild in London, Wen
ma, Paris and Naples. On his death
bed old Mayer Anse1m admonished his
! five staIwart sons to continue faith
full to the religion of Israel; to remain
united to the end; "to intermarry with
members of their own family, and to
obey their mother in all things. COB
serve these rules he whispered, with
his dying breath, land you will be-
erfuI of men, and the world will Pc
long to you His and their
descendants have, with rare excep-
lions, followed this advice, and the
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dane valedictory has been more than
fulfilled.
Sir William Lever, the famous Eng
| lish manufacturer of soap who lately
bought Stafford House from the Duke
of Sutherland and presented the his
| toric edifice to the nation as a mu-
scum, will celebrate his sixty second
birthday today. Soap grease and
printers ink were the ingredients used
| by Sir William in working Gut his for
mula for success. He was born in
Lancashire and at sixteen began his
business career in his fathers shop at
Bolton. Ten years later he laid the
| foundation of the great business which
| is now known all over the world, and
which has made its proprietor a null
| ti-mil1ionaire and a baronet. The
great soap works at Port Sunlight, Sir
| Williams model mandatory are
numbered among his sights Of Eng
land. T.
Sir William attributes his success
| to making good soap and advertising
it effectively. His firm was among
the first to realize the possibilities of
newspapers in securing general public
Hy. He is also firm believer In
the cooperative and proft-sharing
principles, and has put his theories
into effect at Port Sunlight, Where the
employees of his firm live in the hap
piest conditions. This model town"
is the most successful cooperative in
dustrial community in the world. De-
spite this division of profits with his
worImen, Sir William has managed to
accumulate a fortune estimated at not
| less than 5000, 600, 900, which gives him
a place tmong the worlds richest men.
'"The first requisite of successful CO.
OPERATION said Sir William recent
Iy, sis a hfgh-class management, and
this must not be fettered in any way.
The policy of the business must be
| free from any interference of the rank
and file. In schemes of this kind
there must be no maud1in sentiment.
No faddist ideas must be allowed to
govern the business
Sir William has spent several years
in the House of Commons as a Liber-
al He is interested in many scientific
and charitable organizations, and is
| School of Medicine. He has factor
| les in Africa well as in England.
Lady Lever, whom he married in 1874,
died about two months ago.
| Louis Joseph Vance, author of THE
Black Bag 1.-THE Bronze Bel,'' ''The
| Brass Bell" and other double-Bd ro-
mances, is still a young man with
| long career of serial rights and roy
aIties ahead of him. He was born
| in Washington thirty-four years ago
today, and was educated in Brooklyn.
| His first ambition was to become an
illustrator, and it was while studying
art in New York that he met, loved
and married the lady who is now Mrs.
! Vance. Soon after their marriage,
! in 1898, Mr.. Vance abandoned art to
work as a clerk in the office of a, pub
| lie service corporation at a salary of
$40 per week. In 1900 a son was born
to the happy but poor couple t'It
/ was, saps Mr.. Vance, "a very innpor-
| tant event, not only in my life but in
the history of American letters. No