Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-11
FORD GIVES APHOR|sMs
IN NEW MAGAZINE
says Chief End OF Business Should
Not BE Accumulation OF
Wealth.
NEW OPENINGS WILL BEcxoN Us
Thinks That "NOnesscntial" Indus
tries Should Not BE Permitted to
Rcsumc-Would Save Materials
for Essential Projects.

DETROIT. MICH. January 10
That we are only in the dawn OF things
~ an Industrial way. that opportuni-
numerous than ever before. that there
is more science behind Il bolt and a
nut than any professor ever knew. are
or Henry Ford in the first issue of
the dearborn independent. the motor
iin ina sini,f, new weekly, which makes
urday. Discussing the present day in
dustrial conditions. Mr.. Ford says in
AS long as we have nature and
humanity all around US with great
,uiffloGkGd treasures Of brain and power.
ire VIII never be stale. New openings
I'VE who MAKE up pS' this organiza-
openings. and we want to tell our
readers what they are The best and
, Mi practical engineers IN the world
them so that their application may be
eie a5To ara rro,.
ind MaT we t9ond many leaks in our
scr.bed as noncssential' They WIRE
wasting good labor and material in
Pa r,,n things We should have been
1T Is bad thing 20 make business
oy making articles that serve no use.
waste food. i, is even worse. for we
raise food every year. But who can
create iron or coal? And. it takes
generation TO develop forest
WOULD CREATE NEW
AND USEFUL INDUSTRIES
We'll. we finally placed many OF
the ,noncsscntials' under control. Some
The only way TO prevent it is to Gre
ate so many new and useful indus
tries that the other Kind will have no
"A business that makes nothing but
money Is a poor kind OF business.
the daily progress OF the world
would rather. hear that man
made million dollars
MONEY REVEALS TRUE
CHARACTER OF MAN
When money ceases 10 be. tho sign
OF mans usefulness to his fellow
usefulness 10 come. there is mighty
little satisfaction in it. no matter how
large the amount may be. Money
make them over But it aof saT no. ,hem
free to reveal what they really are.
has made fool of him. No. it only
gave him opportunity, to. prove that
he always had the folly in him.
The great essential is to do some
,inis gseiui. a thing s is ,nonessen-
iunities this paper will point out are
along the lines OF usefulness.
Opportunity often hides in the sim
pie things which are despised by peo-
pie OF high notions.
We are only in the dawn of things
as yet.
There is more science behind 4 bolt
and nut than any professor ever
knew
One OF the benefits which will re-
suit from large development of ne w
industrial ideas will be the decrease
OF absentee ownership. When only !,
few lines are open. the speculative cap
italists are always trying 10 gc, hold
OF what another has built up. They
want il not to make il better and big
ger. but TO exploit it. The only in
terest they have in the business or
the product is the dollars they can
squeeze out.
Their game is not honest. 1t is not
human lrnn, 1t doesn't produce anything.
other men have built up by hard work
and honest dealing.
"A business ought to be something
more than mere source of money. it
ought TO show n worth while product
and healthy profit Blu, it ought to
show something more. The product
as well as articles. for sale"