The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-05-24

OBrien, as Boone, the farsighted courageous frontiersman, is seen il nearly constant conflict with Girty in this screen epic of the settlement of Kentucky.
 The cast of Daniel Boon" in- cludes Heather Angel George Re- gas, Ralph Forbes. Huntley Gordon Crawford Kent and others. wood from the men who sold it It was good training for me" First Business Deal
 John completed his first business transaction when he was 8 years old on the farm near Moravia A turkey hen had wandered away and hidden her nest. The boys mother told him he could have the brood of little turkeys if he could find them. He found the nest, raised the turkeys and sold them.
 After several frugal years he ac- cumulated $50, which he loaned out at ' per cent. At the age of IA he dug potatoes for a neighbor for three days of 10 hours each and received SLIP for his labor. This made him think. The pay for three days of hot, back-breaking toll was less than third of a years in- terest on his $50 He resolved to make more savings work for him. The family moved to Cleveland, O., in 1853. John spent a year and a half in high school, only to ] find that he could not afford to go to college. So he paid for a three months course in a commer- cial school and managed to absorb in SIX weeks all that they could teach about bookkeeping and busi- ness theory.
 Looks for Work Tn the middle of August. 1855, he began to look for work. From 8 I'm. until pm. every day for a week he tramped the hot streets. The only answer he got was mo" but Ee began the same round the next Monday morning and kept at | it for six weeks.
 On September 26 Hewitt and Futile hired him to be assistant bookkeeeper in their produce ware house on the lake front. He cele- brated the anniversary all the rest of his life.
 He did not know what his pay would be when he took the job. At the end of the year he was handed $50 for a little more than three months work. The next year he drew $25 month, and the fol- lowing year $50.
 From the day he drew his first pay he kept an exact record of every cent received and paid out. The famous Rockefeller ledger A." an account book kept by the future multimillionaire at abou t that time, revealed his early habit to distribute wealth as well as to accumulate wealth. Entries showed such items as "50 cents to a poor woman and "25 cents to a poor man."
 Hard Worker
 For his employers he worked hard, audited scrupulously every bill that was paid or collected and succeeded in collecting some old balances that had been regarded as hopeless.
 When he was Is years old his pay was raised to S700 a year. He asked for $500, but could not get it. He had saved nearly $1 1000, so, after a careful look around, he invested his savings, plus $1,00O borrowed from his father. in a partnership with Maurice B. Clark, an Englishman 10 years his senior, and they opened commission business.
 We were prosperous from the beginning" MT. Rockefeller said later. We did a business of $45,- GOO the first year. Our profit was not large-I think $4,400.'
 Although he was the junior part ner and under age, he thoroughly organized the business. He prac- ticed the most rigid economy, drove close bargains and lived as frugally as ever, putting most of his profits back into the business, to grow"
 Mister" Before 2I
 Young Rockefeller daringly as- sumed large financial obligations to carry the firm through business deals. He borrowed all his father could lend, needed more and, sum- morning up all his courage, asked banker for loan of $2,000. The banker let him have it on his own warehouse receipts. The lad of l9 walked out of the bank elated. He felt that he was a man, full grown. Indeed, his fellow mer- chants called him Mister Rocke-