New Britain herald., 1928-01-20
ROCKEFELLER EATS
 WELL AND SMILES
Once Thought to Have Weak
 StomaCh-FooS All


 Ormond Beach, Fla. Jan. 20 (UP) Voluntarily out of the welter ot world affairs. and happy in a little peaceful sphere of his own choice, John D. Rockefeller smiles half to himself occasionally. and his eyes sparkle. as if he had played a joke on fate.
 Twenty years ago he was con demned in the popular mind to 2 life diet of soda crackers and wa ter. Then he was a millionaire. Now most of hts fortune Is out of his hands. though he still is tremend- ously wealthy. At S2 1-2 he is hap. ny, and he eats heartily.
 Gives But Little Money Away
 He used to give away millions of dollars at a time-more than $500,- 100000 altogether-and his dona- tions were broadcast throughout the world by newspapers. He can not give so much now, and most of his gifts are more personal. but he still makes them. an inquirer finds.
 Yes. he'll be down here through the winter" said one of his friends in the village. "He usually leaves around April 1. He always waits to attend the spring fair of tho Village Improvement Association in March. He does q lot of things around here, for the town and for people. he asks people not to mention them"
 r% ok h~ across from the home who, out Of many. best told the story of John D.'s" famous dimeA
 What are they kicking about!" he asked. We know down here why he gives people dimes-as souvenirs. What do they want him to do, give them $100 bill every time they go up and talk to him? He wants to give them something to remember him by. a momento. He meets a dozen or two of them every time he goes out. He can't carry a pocket tul of bouquets with him everywhere he goes.
 He never gives dimes to ser- wants unless he meets them as ordi- nary people, when they go out like the tourists to see him on the golf course or something like that. Then he treats them as he does other pee- ple. and gives them dimes as souven- irs. and he always poses for them when they want to photograph him. I'm going out myself this week to see him.
 He tips liberally-he never gives any dimes as tips. But he doesn't make Q fool of himself. Why should he? He doesn't have to do anything to call attention to himself. We all know him."
 Helps Ormond Beach
 You don't hear much any more about Mir. Rockefeller's gifts" said 4nother. But we dc. There are peo- pie in this hotel who could tell you. Whenever anyone gets sick and the village doctors don't know what to do, he sems to hear about 1t. He sends them to his own doctor. If it's too much for him, Mir. Rocke- feiler sends them up north to a New York hospital. When the hospital has fixed them up, they go to re-. cuperate on . farm up state. Some of them don't come back for a year or two, when they're cured. and peo- pie ask where they've been. That's the kind of guy he is."
 No one calls him John D." down here. They all speak of him as MT. Rockefeller. and with affection.
 Rockefeller nas not missed . church service on Sunday morning in the last five years of his yearly visits here. On only one Sunday was he absent from the Little Union church across the river from his home. Then the pastor-Dr. Rich mond. now succeeded by Rev. Guy Stanton Boyer-went to Seabridge to preach and Rockefeller went along too.
 Grows No Older
 People generally agree that John D." has semed to grow no older dur ing the last 12 years. He's even younger this year."