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part Of the working classes. II there
Ford lose out. they are not in the
ranks of labor.
He has been generous toward his
employees. On this point I think I
can speak with some authority, as l
was In a position to know for a pc
riod Of several years. During the
time I was with the company he
gave to his employees. In addition to
a generous wage. more than a hun
dred million dollars out of his profits,
all of which he could have retained
as his own. and which the average
man would have put into his own
pocket.
1t is said that his rofitsharing
plan was crafty scheme for getting
more work out of his men: that it
actually returned more dollars to him
than he gave out II was uEGues-
tionably Il shrewd and profitable
stroke. To the credit of Mr.. Ford be
it said tfat he personally never main
tained that his profit and bonus schemes
We're I. means Of distributing charity.
/ have often discussed the Ford
profit sharing plan before groups of
employers of labor. Seldom. if ever,
have / done SO that some man has
not risen to ask. Didn't the plan
pay? And didn't Mr. Ford believe that
1t would pay? Would he have insti-
tuted it ii he had not believed it
would bring more dollars to him.
And the answer was: Certainly the
plan pays. That is just the point /
am trying to make. And l would fur
Their like to make II clear that the
plan is not copyrighted. Any en-
ployer is at liberty 10 Try it. Both for
the sake Of the employer and the en-
pIoyes. we would like to see others
try it out
Labor in this country is said 10 be
about 40 per cent efficient. If q more
liberal grant of the earnings OF Ia
Dor were made to labor. possibly it
would draw out enough of the unused
so per cent to make the experiment
profitable to both labor and capital.
That 1t would do so is, in my opinion.
fact that Henry Ford has proved
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or by business methods which crush
competition.
Henry Ford has made his money
In a free. open, unprotected and COM
petitive field
The one possible blot on his record
In this connection is tho charge that
he has sometimes dealt ruthlessly
with smaller Independent concerns
which were making some parts of his
car for him; that while he was paying
his own labor a minimum wage of
s. and SC Il day he was demanding
of others that they sell him their
product at a price that made 1t i'm
possible for them to pay their labor
a fair wage; that he has encouraged
men to make large investments in
order TO furnish him with materials.
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to the industrial world A man works
best when he is working for his own
interest. If Henry Ford from self
interest appeals to the self-interest
In others. he is at least working
along and in accordance with laws OF
human nature. and is doing a better.
fairer and more rational thing than
If. for purely selfish purposes. he ex-
plotted his workers.
Since becoming rich Henry Ford has
acquired no expensive tastes, formed
no costly habits. He makes no dis
play. AS compared with the manner
in which he might live, he may be
said to live very plainly and simply.
He has often said to me: Wealth does
not change men. The possession Of ii
does not spoil them, as is SO often
there is in a man. it lifts the lid and
gives what is in him a chance to
come out. If the bad comes to the
surface. it is because II was there
and was only waiting for chance to
express itself"
LIE enjoys the quiet and seclusion
i i of his home and family. He first
built a home on Edison avenue. About
the same time other men who had
got into the automobile game, and
were making far less money out Of it
than he. were building houses that
might have been taken for the spawn
OF Rhine castles-if ever they had
spawned once said to him that.
judging from appearance 50 far as
homes We're concerned. the Ford com
pany could not be making as much
money as some others.
We'll" he replied. you know, Il
were going to live in a. hotel, would
want some one else to run il. 1 pre-
fer a. home And then after d pause.
and with a chuckle, he added. II still
like boiled potatoes with the skins
on, and do not want a man stand
ing back of my chair at table laugh
ing up his sleeve at me while I am
taking the potatoes Jackets off"
He still likes what he always liked.
His personal habits and pleasures
remain very much as they were In
the days of his obscurity. Wealth
has simply lifted the lid. and that
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CHAPTER III.
4 DREAM THAT CAME TRUE.


HAVE said that we are interested
L in He,ry Ford because of his phe-
nomenal success in the field of indus
try.
But there is another reason, and
that is that he has in him all the
makings of L popular hero. \ boy on
a farm with Il humble parentage back
OF him; never saw the inside of a col
lege. and never was particularly In
terested in what went on inside a
country schoolhouse; Interested as a
boy in steam engines and fhreshing
machines; also in what is inside a
watch and Il clock: always dreaming
of self-propelled vehicle. and draw
ing pictures of the same; builds a
farm locomotive" before he is twen-
~ by mounting = steam engine on
the caSt-of wheels of a moving ma
chine; becomes the engineer OF a
steam threshing machine when a boy
of seventeen; leaves the farm and
gets a job in power house in the
city: works after hours on a gasoline
engine, making the cylinder out OF
gaspipe, and the flywheel out of
wood: puts the engine on n vehicle of
his own construction that looks like
!. baby carriage: adds a few pulleys.
u lever or two, and a leather belt. and
the "darned thing ran" That first
gasoline buggy" is still In existence.
and the "darned thing" still runs. 1t
is kept in a room adjoining his Of
flee at Dearborn.
have heard from him and Mrs.
Ford the story Of the last forty-eight
hours that he worked on that first
car. Forty -eight hours without sleep.
The second night Mrs. Ford sat up
waiting the outcome Of his efforts.
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CHAPTER Nv.
THE FORD FORTUNE.

7 Do not knowhow much Henry Ford IS
l. worth / am under the impression
that. if he so desired. he could convert
his business into Il stock company and
pay very satisfactory dividends on bill
lion capitalization. l doubt whether any
other man ever made so large 4 for
tune in so short a time. I believe it
to be one of the cleanest. if not the
cleanest. fortune Of It's size ever
made.
AS rule great wealth is quickly
made by a gamble of some sort, or
by investments in a highly favored
and protected field. or by acquiring a
monopoly of some natural resource.
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w YHAT'S the matter with mar
M riage? The same thing
" that's the matter with 4
r,fipea f,icr'c tail


guinea pigs tail.
Do you know what's the matter
with a guinea pigs tail?
No; of course, You don't.
Why?
Because a guinea pig has no tail.
That's what is the matter with mar
riage. We have no marriage. No.
we haven't. We have matings-im-
passioned matings, Indifferent mat
ings, highly idealistic rnatings. basely
sordid matings, and, In some few in
dividual instances, matings where in
telligence and purpose make the
union beautiful and enduring; but, in
any sense worthy of human evolution
in this year 1922. We have no such
civilized institution as marriage.
This business which we call mar
riage combines two strongly differ
entiated and at times highly antagon-
istio jobs.
The first is the founding and care
of families. We did not invent that
Job. Nature did. She invented the
family job in order to preserve the
highest form Of life. the mammal. 1t
was her pre-eminent idea in the days
when the mammal first came into its
own. It's. her pre-eminent idea now
There is nothing as important in the
whole range of human activity as that
basic job which we include under the
title of marriage. Also, there is moth
ing more tiresome or more restrictive
Of individual liberty than that same
job.
But marriage does not mean fami-
lies only. Marriage means another
idea with which nature has little or
nothing to do and which we have not
yet harmonized with her plan. Mar
riage. to US, implies the partnership
of men and women for the purpose
Of Individual happiness. Love part
nerships.
|NIOW. nature said nothing about
II Y love when she told the first little
theriomorph mammal how to take
care of its baby. Love is entirely a
civilized" scheme. and a mighty silly
selfish mess We make Of most Of it.
We don't want 1t to be a silly mess
We want it to be supremely beauti-
full. We feel that it Is, indeed, the
next great step and one which will
lead US infinitely far beyond our mere
mammal development. And SO, be-
cause we believe these wonderful
things, we insist that marriage shall
be based on love.
But there we stop. We dream. We
insist. And then We sit right down
and twiddle our thumbs and weep
large wet salt tears when marriage
fails.
For marriage has failed ana will
continue to fail until we get to work
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ID Believes In the Hunch and Always Follows It THROUGH

il he fails to use wisely and with
self-restraint, may prove his undoing.
as it has proved the undoing of
others.
The man who proceeds on the
theory that it is a good thing to keep
people talking about him. no matter
what they say. will sooner or later
wake up to the fact that the public
is no longer interested even In the
good and worthwhile things he is
doing and saying. Publicity of the
kind Mr.. Ford enjoys Is a public
franchise, and public franchises are
sometimes withdrawn when not prop
erly used.
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to abandon the peace-ship project.
or at least to modify his plans. His
old friend. Mr.. William Livingstone.
and myself spent the most of the
! ;Sht before the expedition sailed
trsing to prevail upon him to aban-
ion il. 1t was no use. His reply
- me was, 1T Is right. is it not,
t., try To stop war;" To that l could
.nly answer. Yes. We'll" he
would go on. "you have told me
that what is right cannot fail" And
the answer to that. that right things
attempted in the wrong way had no
assurance of success, had no effect.
lie was following what he calls a
'hunch,'' and when he gets
"hunch" he generally goes through
with it, be IT wise or foolish, right
or wrong
But TO the credit of Henry Ford it
must be said that he has done SEN
sational things of 4 higher and
saner order He has done num-
ler of things in industry because he
thought them right and just, and
the world has labeled them sensa-
rional But it was not the thing In
itself that was sensational. but the
fact that he had the courage to do
it, 1t ought not to be counted n
sensational thing that a man loves
his wife, but in a community where
il is supposed no man cares for his
Wife it might create more or less
vi a sensation to find one who does.
And surely such man should not
lie charged with bidding for notorie-
". Henry Ford has done many
things in the handling of labor
which, if all employers were doing
Ivy labor as they should. would not be
counted sensational at all.
* K = ::
IN 1914 Mr.. Ford agreed with MI
i 6ouzens that. in view of the earn
,ncs OF the company. the men III
,heir employ should be given an IN
.rease in pay. Mr.. CouZenS dared
,,i,n to make the minimum pay so a
,Iax and Mr.. Ford agreed. 1t was
,,othine more than q company In
rhe financial position the Ford COM
,.nv was then in should do. Few,
toweyer, do it. Hence the sensa-
lion when Henry Ford did it.
He increases wages and at the
S.,me time reduces the cost OF the
ar Sensational. But why should
+, he considered a sensational thing
~ do to give the customer some or
Tho benefits which the increasing
prosperity of a company makes II
,,ossible to bestow? Why-except
hat few do it" Shrewd business?
.;ood advertising: Certainly. it is
All that, and more. There can be
40 greater shrewdness In business
han to follow the laws of honest
md lust dealing-provided you ex-
meet TO remain any length of time in
business.
If Henry Ford is the master of the
art Of seIf-advertising-and he is
;I,at-much of it has been done In a
manner to his credit. Some is not
above criticism. He has discovered
hat he can compel the world to give
him publicity the value Of which
..annot be estimated. But In that
here is a danger which I think he
fails to appreciate-nott to the world,
but to him It is a franchise which,
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be better for my having lived in j..
He has had the vision. He has Tho
ability and the opportunity.
!; X ):
IT is unfortunate that he has l".
L manifested the same sustained IN
terest in the work undertaken in Il.
half Of his employees that he has
shown in some other matters. IL
some things he reveals an indomitab;t
will. an unfailing interest. In o:h.r
things the will wcakens and the in-
terest dies. He sometimes springs ;,t
things with startling suddenncss anu
then he drops them as suddenly rs IL
took them up. 1t requires a strong
will to be than to do.
In 1914 he entered with great ~
thusiasm n new path in the field "f
social Justice. The work he then in.
stituted gave promise Of q notai
contribution to human pr"pr.--
along industrial lines. IL quic!,en. g.
the conscience OF the employers. l.
reused hope in the ranks Of labor. /
promised the restoration of th.i
which modern Industry had lost an'!
which would prove the greatest boon
any man could restore to il. namely
a personal relation between employer
and employe. That phase of the WORK.
with some other distingui shing fea
lures Of 1t, are for the present il
eclipse-only in eclipse, il is to h.
hoped.
AS to Henry Ford's success in in
dustry, it is no mere accident. You
cannot say that il is a matter Of luci.
that a mans boat Is foated by III.
rising tide if he has carefully ealcli-
lated the time the tide comes in an
has built his boat where X would h
caught and carried out Ia s.a.
Mr.. Ford anticipated the rising IT,.
Of tie automobile industry. He ml:s
be given credit for that. Credit all
is due him for the way in which IL
deliberately planned to take the full
est possible advantage Of the tii'
when it came il. S:anda -dizatlol
his hobby. He would have all shoe
made on one block and all coats ac-
cording 70 one pattern. 1t would no
add to the beauty Of life. but it wou!a
greatly reduce the cost Of living.
When 1t came to automobiles HcurF
Ford decided to make them all alik"
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and of a size that would lit TOT tNr
greatest number of people. but tho
largest number of pccketbcnhs. kceu
your eye on the average pocketbool.
That was his slogan. only a few
people can buy what they want. TIL,
vast majority buy what they can af-
ford. No one was ever able to shak"
him in his decision To make one car.
the best of its kind that can be mad.
for the money. suited to the bank
roll of the greatest number Of peo-
pie. standardized SO as Ia admit 81
quantity production. and therefore o:
manufacture at minimum cost.
Once he got going he discovere.l
and put into practice some very
profitable ways of being generous
his division Of profits with his en-
ployes paid in dollars and cents
That fact made it none the less a
boop to labor His policy of sharing
some of his profits with the consumer
by cutting the price of the car also
paid. 1t widened his market AMI
won the confidence and good will 81
the public. He did what no other man
has ever been able TO do-touched tho
hearts of the people through their
pocketbooks.
He never went to college, but ho
knows all the psychology there is {"
know in so far as it has 10 do with the
dollar
MOST conspicuous among the things
WI which have entered into his suc
cess are those of courage and te
nacity. His courage has rot AWAY
been guided by the best OF judgment.
but. on the whole. it has won him
more than it has lost. His tenacity
| borders at times on obstiuacy and is
coupled with 4 cool patience that
! seems to render him Indifferent to the
passing of time.
| He seems to shrink from encoun-
ters in which it will be necessary for
him to say unpleasant things. Jn
other words. he hates a quarrel. but
he loves a good fight. He is of Irish
descent. He keeps his eye on his
opponent-many eyes on him, in
fact-and is master in the art of wait
/ ing. This is one OF the reasons why
, ! think he enjoys lawsuits, of which
he has had his share-they ar.
I usually SO long drawn out. There az.
| so many courts Of appeal, and the
more the merrier.
At times he wearied Of the Seldei
patent trial, but when the bell rang
| for new round he always came back
smiling and full of fight The Dodg.
/ trial dragged L weary length; the
Tribune trial was long drawn out;
the Newberry fight is still on. These
are illustrations of his bulldog grin,
once he takes hold. He may consume
| so much time in the accomplishment
Of thing that you think he has for
gotten all about 1t, and he may travel
, in so many devious ways TO reach his
end that YOU think he has turned
aside to other things. but he never
forgets. The long years Of struggle
against poverty and ridicule in the
development of his car is the evidence
| of the presence in him of Il qualit Y
| TO be admired by his friends. but 10
| be most seriously and fearfully CON
! templated by his enemies.
| Copyright, 1922, by North American News
| paper Alliance.)
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THE wooDcAUckS
RAISE THEIR CHILDREN
~ PEACE X HARMONY,
THE RABBITS AND THE
LITTLE NICE,
THO MATED. ALI AGREE.
@
EACH FURRY JooDLaND
MRS.
UPHOCDS AeR
LJAlskeReD MATE.
IT'S ONLY AUMAN
COUPLES uHo
ABIDE IN OeDDeD HATE
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AND so I'm MOVED
TO UonDeR
iF soReuY TROUBLED
Man.
MIGHT NOT ENJOY
LIFE DETER IF
Ae USED THE
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Of
nnSo ShortaT
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EDSEL POWER THE DETROIT RIVER.
FATHER STANDS BEHIND

which is coming out, according t
his own theory, was always there.
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W QUIZ IL run IL was ABOUT = am.
when he came in from the little shop
that stood in the rear of the house.
The car was finished and ready for a
try-out. Il was raining. Mrs. Ford
threw 4 cloak over her shoulders and
followed him to the shop. He rolled
the little car out into the alley, start
ed it. mounted the seat and drove off.
The car went a short distance and
stopped. The trouble was a minor
one. The nut of bolt had come off.
1t seems that there was some vibra-
tion in that first machine which has
been handed down to It's 100000 Of
spring. The car was put back in The
shop. 1t had run. One of the foot
hills at the base of the mountain OF
success had been topped.
But there were other hills to climb,
with valleys Of disbursement be-
tween. People laughed at the strange
device and at the man who created it.
The noise 1t made resembled that Of
a machine gun in action. lnstinc-
in it the arch enemy of their race.
took fright and ran away. Rumor
has it that the police ordered him to
keep the thing off the streets. Mr..
Ford says this rumor is without
foundation. Perhaps the wish of the
people was father to the thought.
Whenever he drove this odd-look-
lowed on bicycles. making uncompli-
mentary remarks. 1t was a "crazy
thing" the outcome of crazy idea"
born of "half-cracked BRAIN" It
never would amount to anything. AS
a plaything-yes.i 1t might be made 10
go on a hard, level road. Bat it never
would prove of practical value as a
means Of travel.
x I; y <
0N the East Grand boulevard, in
" Detroit. there is bridge over the
Grand Trunk railroad tracks. The ap-
proach Is up fairly stiff grade. It
was here the crowd was wont to as
semble to see If Henry could make the
grade. He made it. And he has been
climbing ever since.
That little car. with its gas-pipe
cylinders. wooden hywheel and leather
belt transmission, had all the mechani-
cal principles in its makeup that en-
ter into the present Ford car. 1t was
on this car that he rested and won his
famous Selden patent suit.
That first car was crude affair. It
certainly did not look like million
dollars. Those who looked at it
thought a pile Of money could be sunk
in 1t, but they could not see how any
ever could be gotten out Of 1t. Money
to develop and perfect his idea came
in small sums. and for the most part
from men Of small means. Those who
financed his genius and had the cour-
age to stick came out with millions
Mr.. Ford does not believe in stock COM
panies now. They aren't necessary
after you have made the grade.
One meets around Detroit now and
then a man who. with hands in empty
pockets, tells you with sad, far
away look in his eyes how he had a
chance to put some money into the
Ford company at tho time it was be-
ing organized. and just came within
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TT you want to have happy ma--
i riages, let's study what marriage
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-13
MISS BERNEY CILLEN A TAI &U A " N Correspondent EA1 VoA1A H Messages ms be phoned
 Jewery Co.,. En.ev 367.

Mrs. B. P. Thompson, age B years. died yesterday morning at local in- firmary as the result of burns which she received on December 6.
 Funeral services will be held this morning at 10:S0 o'clock from the parlors of Echols & Angwin under taking establishment, Rev. David M Gardner, pastor of the First Baptis; church, officiating. Interment will be at oakland cemetery.
 The deceased is survived by two sons, Howard McGlathy and Marcus McGlathy; her mother. Mrs. J. Holmes; a brother, J. H. Turner. and one sister, Mrs. Ella Togue of Mont gomery.
 IL will be recalled that on the morning of December 26 Mrs. 'rhomp- son was severely burned when, as she was standing in front of an open grate with her back to the fire, her dressing gown became ignited Be- fore assistance could be rendered she had suffered severe burns. The ac- eident occurred at her home, 151O Avenue E.
 E. B. Camper. who is alleged to have taken two-ounce bottle of poison Monday in an attempt at sui eide. is reported as resting we'll at the Employees hospital at Fairfield. It is thought that Mir. Camper will recover.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-13
.EAT LESS MEAT
 + BACK HURTS
Take a glass of Salts to Flush Kidneys if bladder
 bothers you

Eating meat regularly eventually produces kidney trouble in some form or other. says a well-known author ity. because the uric acid in meat ex- cites the kidneys, they become over- worked; get sluggish: clog up and cause all sorts of distress, particular ly backache and misery in the kidney region: rheumatie1 twinges. severe headaches. acid stomach. eonstipa- tion. torpid liver, sleeplessness. blad- der and urinary irritation.
 The moment your back hurts or kidneys aren't acting right. or If Bladder bothers you. get about four ounces of lad Salts from any good pharmacy; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts Is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice. combined with lthia. and has been used for generations to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal activity; also to neutralize the acids in the urine so 1t no longer irritates. thus ending bladder dis orders.
 lad Salts cannot injure anyone, makes delightful effervescen, lithia- water drink which millions oi men and women take now and then to keep the kidneys and urinary or gans clean, thus avoiding serious kidney diseases.--Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-13
CHAUFFEUR MUST
 HAVE NEW LICENSE
Instructions Given to Officers
  to Make Arrest of
  DeIinquentS

Today will truly be "hoo-doo" day for all chauffeurs who have rot all ready purchased their 1922 licenses, according to an announcement made yesterday afternoon by Arthur Ellis. in charge of chauffeur licenses. Off, ficers have been instructed to begin arresting all men who have not ob- tained their licenses. This fee is s3 year.
 Chauffeurs have been very slow in making their applications for this license. -4r Ellis stated. and only 95 have gttten them up to the present time. Last year between $500 and 4,O00 chauffeurs obtained city li- censes, it is stated, and an effort will be made to round all delinquents up before February l.
 Since the new city commission took office new regulations have been in augurated and all chauffeurs of jit- neys, taxicabs and trucks must stand an examination to obtain a license. This Is done for the purpose of sec ing that all chauffeurs know the traffic regulations and how to stop their cars at the shortest notice, de- clared Commissioner W. B. Cloe of public safety.