The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-08
MIGHTY IS THE POWER OF THE WUL-CAN JOHN D. LIVE TO BE A HUNDRED AIR PLANES CRASH ONLONDON-PAR- IS R O U T E TW ANS MYS- FERROUS STRAIN GER.

Tho Times is printing g. series of interviews with John D. Rockefeller, the richest man in the world. incluo- ing Henry Ford. and very much the dean of the moderns who have emu lated Croesus. Read carefully these talks with MT. Rockefeller. They will make you better satisfied with your lot. This ancient and success full man has one expressing interest. His great business has a small place in his mind The big business of the world is not very interesting to him. He wants to live to be a hundred. The greater part of his attention is devoted to that aim. He may succeed. MT. Rockefeller has a will, such as few have possessed.
 The will is that peculiar function of the mind by which we bend our selves to near, or distant aims, and never stop until the goal is won. Will is not a generalized function. It may be strong in one place and weak In another. Everybody knows the man who can stop smoking when he chooses. but can't let liquor alone. Or perhaps it will be the other way about. Napoleon conquered the world, but he trembled when he saw a black cat, and he couldn't make his eyes behave when there was a woman about Thus was his down. fall hastened.
 tcan poet and logician. wrote a story called Lygiea, prefaced with a quota ton from De Glanvil1e, which went something like this. Man does not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly. except by the exceeding weakness of his feeble wiIl.''
 If Mir Rockefeller wills hard enough he may reach that century mark. which he wants more than he wants anything else. When it Is sreached it will be all the same thing. SsThe end is the end. When one waS little boy. and the picnic was over. It was just as if there never had been any.
 
 What is the satisfaction Times Readers may find in Rock kefeller's ideal. A Times reader either is in health and happiness with a long life ahead, or he is not. If he is young and happy, let him reflect how read toward 8 hundred would change places. And if our reader be in the other group that looks toward the valley of the shadow, equally may comfort be found in the circumstance that wealth does not delay the com mon end, and that the only riches which pass beyond the grave, are those of a loving heart and a good life, a species of wealth of which the poorest man may have the greatest stock
 
 The Goliath airpIane of the French, Company Grand Express of the Air coIIided with a British mail plane yesterday, in a fog, Passengers and crew of both planes were killed. In- cludins the Americans. MT. and Mrs Bruce Yale, of New York, who were 63ttheir honeymoon. The air is deep and wide. In 1t conveyances pass in three dimensions, and the oppor- tunity for collision is enormously mora limited than oD tba aar+b ha- tween two automobiles. or two rail- road trains. These ships sailed to a certain doom. and this bridal com, pany to & sudden end of joy and life.
 
 So many worlds crash in the great spaces of the universe, for infinity Is So long that in it the most incredible Probability that a particular event will not happen. Is equal to the cer- tainty that some day it will. As for the young married people. who knows what the future held?
 Mark Twain left behind him the who was friend to the young peo- pie. and they, being of kind hearts, often asked the stranger to help some person who was suffering. This the friendly stranger did, but always by procuring his removal, and the chill dren complaing, he would tell them Your friends life, changed by the tourse of a single event, might have taken any one of 8 billion mutations 
 him more miserable than the life from which you wished to rescl1e