Omaha daily bee., 1918-06-15
HUNS PARIS RUSH STOPPED
SON OF OIL KING CHEERS
WITHBOYSATH. OMAHA
Addresses Soldiers at "Y" Hut
and Florence 7ieId; "Mixes"
With Men and Comes Down
Town to- a Soda.

LedHllS against tSHt polS, Will Ills
coat off and his soft collar slightly
wilted from perspiration, the son and
heir of the richest man in the world
last night delivered to two large audi
ences of soldiers at Fort Omaha and
Florence field two simple and straight
forward talks on applied Christianity.
"Would it be a violation of army
etiquet for me to take off my coat?"
asked short and stocky John D. Rock
efeller, jr., member of the Rockefeller
foundation, member of the interna-
tional health commission and director
in half a score of leading American
corporations.
Go ahead shouted Young Mems
Christian Association Camp Secre-
tary Taylor and the mob of sweating
soldiers, who had crowded the large
tent at Florence field to listen to Mr.
Rockefeller when they might just as
we'll have been lying out in the cool,
open air enjoying the night breezes.
SO Mr.. Rockefeller dotfed his coat
and gripping a tent pole in his right
hand and clutching in his Left hand a
bunch of notes to which he hardly re-
>ferred, waded in.
Cheer From John D. Jr.
"Three cheers and tiger for John
D. Rockefeller" shouted some one i'll
the Young Mems Christian assoeia-
ton hut at Fort Omaha at the con-
clusion Of the talk. And they were
given, again and again, with a right
good will.
And then Dean Ringer, commission
er of police;~called for another cheer
for Mr. Rockefeller. When it was
given, whats the matter with Dean
Ringer?"' called the slightly hoarse
voice Of the visiting speaker. He was
sweating also, ina~the middle OF a
crowd of khaki-clad soldiers, and
waving his arms.
Mr.. Rockefeller was once manager
of a foot ball team at Brown univer-
sty and he knows how to cheer, so
the honors for the police commits.
sioner came with a will. :, >ty j
y Visits Balloon School. III
Mr.. Rockefeller arrived in the city
late Friday afternoon and was taken
at once to the Hotel Fontenelle. After
a short rest at his suite at the hotel,
he and Mrs. Rockefeller were taken
on an automobile trip about the city
in the automobile of Dr. Palmer Find
ley, newly-elected member of the
board OF directors of the Omaha
Young Mems Christian association.
The party stopped at Fort Omaha and
Mr.. Rockefeller was shown through
out the camp and was given frst-hard
information as to how Uncle Sam is
training the balloon section of the
signal corps.
At SIS o'clock he addressed a
crowd of soldiers which packed the
Young Mems Christian association
hut at Fort Omaha almost to suffo-
cation. But every man listened at
tentively.
"We civilians want you men in
khaki to understand that we look up
to you fellows. You soldiers must
never forget that you are represent
ing l00,000000 Americans. You tow
er head and shoulders above the rest
of us. We may be giving up much,
good part of Cur time, some of us,
but you men are giving up all your
time.
Make Great Risk.
1--WE may be giving up our jobs for
two or three days a week to aid in
the work, but you fellows have CIV
ell up your jobs for the duration of
the war. And when you have done
that you are just at the beginning
of your sacrifice, for you are going
abroad to risk your lives. so | am
proud to be able to look up to a man
who wears the khaki"
Mr.. Rockefeller then spoke of the
great crisis which arises in "a SOL
dier's life when he goes abroad away
from the home ties which have kept
him straight morally. He spoke of
the new spirit which has come over
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