New Britain herald., 1928-01-18
JOHN ). HAS FOUND KEY TO HAPPINESS
Enjoys Trying to Make World
 Better Place for Living
Copyright 1928, by United Prcse)

Copyright 1928, by United Prcss)
 Ormond Beach, Fla, Jan. IS (UP) John D. Rockefeller, father of big business, has found the secret of happiness.
 Whatever he once was in the use and accumulation of his wealth. he is now benign, gentle, courteous. ap- proachable by anyone, tho worlds first and greatest captain of indus try seems to have no thought but to make the world q happier place to live in. lr
 Here. in idyllicalry beautiful sur- roundings, "John D." spends roughly one-fourth of his life. He is here now. for the winter months.
 Life Is simple
 His life is one of complete sim piicity and peace-a sort of sunny late afternoon to his eventful career rather than the twilight usually asso- ciated with years so advanced as his. for he is approaching S9.
 Six holes of golf q day, all his doctol will allow him: visit on Sunday mornings to the little Union church across the broad Halifax river that his home faces: an arm chair at the Sunday evening concert at the hotel. chat with one of the cronies who visit him from various parts of the country; little read- ing: a little tinkering with his radio.
 That is a bald and perhaps not too incomplete outline of his pro- gram. It might bs that of any man of his years who retained, or who had found, the joy of life. But it is in the way that Rockefeller leads his life that its own apparent idyllic beauty is revealed.
 As much as any man can, he people here. Twenty years ago he was the octupus: the business jug gernaut, the ruthless monopolist who crushed those that did not move aside for him. Cartoonists made their livings by portraying him in unfavorable aspect. Politicians sought office by denouncing him and his Standard Oil. his one man com pany that almost ended one-man compa nies as a factor in industry.
 Rockefeller may have enemies in the world today. implacable foes of 04 days, whom he has not outlived. But not here.
 In Ormond. John D." is loved. Those who look at him as he passes hs, IA Suh4 meet him on equal plane. those who come giggling to see a curiosity. have nothing but good 10 say of this once much hated. and easily hateable man.
 Is old. Old Man
 He is really just an old. old man. But there is nothing of grabbed age about him. Where others have laughed through life to pessimistic senility. Rockefeller seems only to have reached the full bloom of life since his retirement from business.
 He has been coming here for 1c years. and people who have known him all that time say he has not aged a day. This year. they insist. he Is looking younger.
 Rockefelier's shoulder are stopped now. His long, prehensile arms drop forward. His hair is dead white. His face is scanned with countless tiny wrinkles. But his skin is tanned and clear. His hand is steady. His voice is firm. His hearing seems acute. His sight seems keen. And he seems as happy as man could te-just in liking people and being liked.
 In selecting Ormond Beach as one of his yearly ports of call. "John D." seems to have shown the acu- men that placed him at the head of the fist of great industrialists. It is a tourist town that tourists have not spoiled. Just now. as the sea- son is opening. 1t looks q town of the old south that has had a minor boom. The boom is exemplified by row of concrete one-story shops just back of Rockefeller's modest homo. along the street on which the north i side of the Rockefeller home abuts. 1
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