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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17408, 20 March 1922, Page 8

A debtor in 1914, America, is now tli© greatest creditor nation Tn history, and her banking power has increased by nearly fio per cent, in the past seven years. Golcl has poured into the United States since before the war, and her present holdings represent approximately a third of the world s supply. The total money in the United St;aea on January Ist was 8,027,390,000 dollars, or 53.44 dollars per capita, compared with. 34.53 per capita in 1914.

Young John D. Rockefeller is probably one of the loneliest men m America, lonely in tbo senso that b© hag few closer-than-a'brother friends. For two reasons: —High grade men hesitate to seek to ingratiate themselves witn young Rockefeller lest * lo i t hmk they have ulterior motives; thai, they want Uj lead up to requesting him to do something for them- -"p" Rockefeller, in common with othera similarly situated, hesitates to become extremely i n _ timato with anyone lest this rvery thing dsevelqp. In other words, m en Rockefeller have learned from repeated experiences that their friendship j s lUore often sought fr? m 6 " motives than from any genum® feeling of comrade-j aW#, 1