Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-02-14

! Henry Ford, who has establish
| cd $4,000, 900 foundation out OF
| automobile business. for benefit
! Of his employees.
to live right. No one ever shall know
anything about it,"
The young man was crying when he
left Mr. FCrd!s office, and Mr. Ford
was very happy. 1t was one of his
| forms Of pleasure to help, a young
man like that
| We're All Selfish.
He expressed a quaint and exceed,
| ingly pleasing philosophy TO a maya
zine writer who interviewed him one
day regarding what the proposed to
accomplish in the motoring world IN
the future His chief aim in life ever
since he established his factory has
been to make it possible for the or
binary everyday man to own a motor
car That is why he has so deter,
minedly sought ways to, reduce cost,
and why?
Every time | see a Ford car going
along street II gratifies my personal
pleasure" he said. Il made it posi-,
BILE for that party to ride in an auto
mobile. want to make it possible for
everybody to ride in an automobile. 1t
viii mean that much more pleasure
for me. It's just q matter Of selfish.
ness on my part.
"SelfishneSs rules the world in eV.
cry respect Even acts which we deem
great sacrifices actually are matters
of selfishness. The man who performs
them finds his pleasure in the sacr-
fee or In the public opinion which his
sacrifice will arouse. One man will
give up his fortune to satisfy his Gre
ditors. He doesn't want any man on
earth to think he would defraud a fel-
low being. His pleasure is in the es'
TEEN of others.
Another man might do just the re-
verse. His pleasure lies in his per-
sonal. worldly profit. One man will
give his life for another: his pleasure
lies in heroic deeds. Another would
evade the danger, his pleasure being in
personal safety regardless of duty or
public opinion. Whatever a man does
of his own volition is for his own
pleasure in some way Or other.
1--WE always could have charged
twice as much for cur automobiles as
we have charged, but the man in
ordinary circumstances could not have
become motorist. l don't appropriate
any credit to myself for the policy.
II was just my way of being selfish.
But for this policy 7 would not see 50
many people riding in Ford cars and
would lose the pleasure | derive
from it."
Such words, snoken two years ago,
throw considerable light on Mr.. Fords
beneficence of last Monday. He has
given his employees $10000000 and es-
tablfshed"a s. per day wage minimum
for the pleasure he takes in doing
good to others.
A $1,000 Zip"
All the shrewdness engraved upon
his features by his early battle with
adversely can not hide the indefnablG
golden heart within another. He re-
members even the wild creatures Of
the woods. On Detroit river. about 10
miles below the city, he has purchased
an immense tract CT woodland and
meadow and fitted it up as a birds
paradise instead Of as a game pre-
serve. Experts in natural history are
in charge Of it, with unlimited funds
at their disposal with which to build
shelters and provide food for birds and
and make them comfortable
and Contented.
Mr.. Ford has not the least hesitancy
in rewarding employees whom he can
trust with cash, sometimes on the i'm
rulSe Of a moment. One day a new
Ford motor was being tested on a De-
tToit race track. The driver had long |
been in his employ He was dare |
devil" as much so as Ford himself
was when he raced his own early
cars. The new motor was put around /
the mile track in surprisingly fast
time and in perfect style. Ford was
" aitinC ct the finish to greet his dri-t
vers AS the Young man diSmOunted I
from the car Mr. Ford handed him a |
$1,000 bill with the remark: 81 guess, !
you've done we'll enough for one day, !
Jack" !
Mr.. Ford has a plant over in Wind |
sOr, Ontario. One day the boOkkeep- !
ing department. found a discrepancy J
OF $6S. 900 in the bank balance All !
the arithmet;cal sleuths in the office
we're put al work. After much work /
they ran it down.
Next day Henry Ford received a !
note, Would lie kindly deposit that !
dividend check mailed him last month?
M Ford Illuminated moment, then
stepped TO his wardr0he and thrust