Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-07-21
HENRY ASKS
FOR POSITION
PHILLIPS SEES TIN CAN KING
ASKING HIS FRIEND, ED"
FOR A JOB.


which are given to every person who
seeks employment with him, and he
visualizes Henry Ford, "tin can king"
and friend of Edisons asking for a
position. Phillips puts it this way:
Scene: Edison plant.
Time: Plenty.
Mr.. Ford enters and asks Edison
for a position.
Edison: "Well, Hen, what can do
for you?"
Ford: "I'm looking for work"
Edison: Looking for work! Why,
Hen, | thought you had the biggest
paying business in the country"
Ford: "Well, it's like this: I'm sick
of it; there's too much detail-too
many little things to look after
Edison: "Why don't you make a
larger carr"
Ford: mo, | wanta get into new
game, something more Illuminating
and with a brighter future in it,"
Edison: Watcher gunter do with
the flivver business ?"
Ford: "Oh, know couple of nice
young Jewish boys, and Pm gunter
let 'em have it.
Edison: "Well, Hen, you're a friend
of mine and all that, but | can't give
any one job here who doesn't pass
my N.Y. test. It's the rules, you
know Do you think you could an
swer a hundred questions on history,
geography, etc."
i. | trtaH' II |
made an awful mess of it. Couldn't
you lay off the history stuff-just as
a favor?"
Edison NO; history is very inn
portant in the electric light business.
A man who doesn't know, for in
stance, how long Cleopatra was sick
could never string a telephone wire
properly; and just fancy employing a
man to charge a battery if he couldn't
tell offhand what colored vests Henry
VIII. wore!"
Ford "Well, shoot your questions,
but | don't like the idea"
Edison: "Who was Paul Revere ?"
Ford "A jockey or something like
that, wasn't he?"
Edison: Correct. Who wrote The
Star-Spangled Banner?"
Ford: George c. Francis Cohan,
wasn't it,"
Edison: Fright! Now, who was
John Quincy Adams ?"
Ford Hes the Teller that writes
The Coming Tower in the New York
Tribune"
Edison: Gosh, Hen, you know ev-
erything!"
Ford: "Well, I've studied bit in
my spare parts-I should say, my
spare hours"
Edison: "Who was Moses ?"
Ford: Lets not get into any racial
dispute
Edison: "Now, Hen, tell me, who
was Hendrix Hudson"
Ford: He invented The Hudson mo-
tor car"
Edison: "Who wrote The Barber of
Seville p"
Ford: q dunno, unless it was Gill
lctte'
Edison: Correct, Hen. Tell me
something about Mephistopheles."
Ford: "MephistopheIes are young
mosquitoes, amt they"
Edison: Its impossible to stick
you. What Latin motto was on the
original American flag"
Ford: "F o. B. Detroit"
Edison: what is the capital Of So
cony?"
Ford: "About S1O,OOO,OOO."
Edison: where is Sedan?"
Ford: 81 dunno; came in a coupe"
Edison: name a famous general"
Ford: General Motors"
Edison: "Where are the greatest tin
mines located?"
Ford: Detroit"
Edison: "Who discovered carbon -
Ford "Do you know any car owner
who didn't"
Edison: "How many miles to gal
lon"
Ford Eighteen or your money
back"
Edison "What does the Monroe
doctrine guarantee
Ford: Ninety days service at any
of our service stations"
Edison: "Who killed Ben Hur?"
Ford: probably a garage bill FOL
chariot repairs
Edison: "Where do all the Goldfish
come FROM"
Ford: 81 dunno. just keep adver.
tisin' the car and they just flock ir
from all sides to buy it,"
Edison: ooh, there's no sense going
any further; you answer them as wei
as | could. Take off your coat ant
hat and go to work."
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT
The death on February 9th, 1921
of Mrs. William Anderson, the Hon