Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1922-01-27
Brother of Flivver Magnate Just
AS Happy, He Says---Was
Town Cop.
BY NORRIS QUINN.
lConYright. l022.D

DEARBOhNi Men, Jan. 27.---Did
you ever hear of William Ford?
No, you never did. For every
where Williams becnovershadowed
by the greatness of his brother, Hen
ry Ford, multimillionaire auto manu-
faeturer.
Everywhere--except in Williams
home town, Dearborn.
Here William--or "Bill" or Gun
Gle Bill" as they call him--ie the
biggest man in town and the best
liked.
Not because he's big business man
or an industrial promoter or a philan-
trhopist, like his brother
But because he's the best village
president and chief of police Dear
born ever had!
Because he's good mixer and a
member of every lodge in town.
Because he know every one. of the
1000 people in Dearborn and calls
everybody by his first name and new
er gets puffed up over his brothers
riches.
Runs Little Shop.
Brother Bill'' sells tractor Access
sories and appliances in hi slitte red
brick shop ON side street here.
And he lives with his wife and
three children in modest but COM
Portable red brick house on another
side street
aBill' doesn't envy his brother,
, Henry, the publicity he gets.
Il try to keep my name out of
the papers--and my face, too,7 Bill
says.
/ Yes, business is mighty good. You
see, I've got belt of territory in
cluding part Of Michigan, part Of In
diana and part of Ohio for these ap-
pliances,
They're things to use with a trac-
tor-plows, hay presses. and things
Hike that-19 in all.
| No, Henry doesn't make them.
I'm not connected in business with
lmy brother at all.
II was village president one term
two years. didn'trun for re-elec.
Ition--rnixing in politics takes mans
mind off his business even if the
village hall is just across the road.
II like to do a good days work
and then go home and spend the eve
ming with the wife and kids or go to
lodge and mix with my Dearborn
friends.
! Il enjoy life Just as much as my
brother with all his money.
Youngest Of Family.
''Do | remember Eenry as a boy?
Well, I ought to; I was brought ur
with him on a farm four miles from
here. I'm the youngest in the fam.
| ily."
When Brother Bil7 became vii.
| lage president and police chief-bott
Iof them are one man here-Dearborr
was rated as tough town.
1t was gathering place for Detroi
crooks. And the only function the
law exercised was Fleeing autoists
on the Detroit-Ann Arbor. highway
"This won't do said BILL"
He organized a smallrtown police
I department every subarb is trying tc
copy. And Dearborn passed through
the "erime wave without hold-up
Then President Ford put in opera
I tion modern >S'affic system with
safety zones that gained the writer
approval of several automobile clubs
Then he started an improved sys.
TEN Of volunteer fire protection that
brought fire losses away down and
| lessened insurance rates.
Folks here say Bile has consid.
cradle influence over his multimillion.
aire brother, Henry calls at the vii
liam Ford home at least once week
Likes Horticulture
"Bill's" inventive ability runs along
lines different from Henry "Bill'
! dabbles in horticulture as a side line
He's developing what he calls
multi-headed wheat. That's wheat
with several heads on, one stalk in.
stead of only one.
Here's what "Bill's" neighbors
think Of him
| Hes got heart like gold mine