The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-22
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 Somebody once thought of steel And until Henry Ford, nobody has changed 1t. He now startles them by offering to make coaches out of cot ton. And think he will.
 It will be of tremendous advan- tage. this innovation of his Ninety eight per cent of the load of an ordi- nary passenger train today does not pay. Two per cent alone. is profit able, simply because of weight of the heavy cars. Think of the benefit ol cars made of cottonoid.
 It is these unique, courageous Ideas that make Henry Ford what he is. Another man might go on for half century merely adding to oI improving that which he had under his eye. Ford will make an absolute divergence If he thinks it expedient
 He plans, for instance, to estab- lish factories across the agricultura' districts of the country where the farmers may spend their spare time at the work bench and lathe.
 Tn fact, he has already started or this idea, with a factory in New York AAC tOiu litt ne VIII DultQ them so Una their energy may be furnished bS water power In the summer, wher the rivers are dried up or shallow the farmers may put their time in al their farms. In the winter they may work at the factories.
 This, you see, is another departure Most men plan their factories for the cities where they may obtain ready employees. Ford, on the other hand says to himself, why should the farm CT loaf during the winter?
 And he plans to utilize his spare time by building factory right ir the very heart of the agricultural dis tricts as long as he can get water power.
 Ford's Pet Ford Joke
 The thing that was holding the ears of Detroit" said MT. Babson was the air-cooled motor question Air cooling, although noisy, is cheap CT. It burns less gasoline. But il seems that the automobile manufac- turers by general agreement hay, stuck to water cooling, all except the Franklin people.
 Now the General Motors company plans air-cooled engines. The other firms will probably follow suit. Il will mean the scrapping of an enor- nous amount of machinery.
 ''I asked Mir. Ford If he was going to have his products air-cooled. 'Noi just yet he returned. You see have made one change on my radiator already. Haven't you noticed that the new cars are less noisy?'
 T confessed I hadn't and asked him why.
 "Ive taken the brass band of them he grinned."
 Even the loving father jokes about his child.
 MT. Ford new stepped out of th' interview-for a few minutes.
 On his desk MT. Babson keeps thre, sand glasses. The sand puns in on, for three minutes. in another fol eight minutes, and in the third foi 20 minutes.
 When you arrive the sand glass in. dicates the time allowed you. To, may get three. eight or 20 minutes
 While l was there the 20-minut' glass ran out several times. Aftel that MT. Babson forgot to reverse 1t
 Mir. Babson is a statistician. He 1, also a philosopher. And I think like Ford, he is something of a poet.
 He stood as he talked. resting on, foot on the radiator from time tC time. Outside it was cold-about 5t degrees below zero I should say off hand-and a brilliant sun was hay ing glorious fun with the snow. Ont peek through the window would sci the eye a-blinking.
 And MT. Babson talked. For eh, first time I learned that there 1, beauty in statistics, and humor ant strange lessons as well as knowledge
 St. Louis Beats Lynn
 When Mir. Babson was In Soutl America the President of the Argen' tine republic asked him why souti America, with Its superior natura resources. was less prosperous thai North America, though it was set tied earlier. Babson, being a guest did not answer the question. Int President answered 1t himself.
 "The Spaniards came to Soutf America for gold" he said; the Pil' grim Fathers went to North Americ: in quest of God"
 MT. Babson always makes ver' clear distinction between gold ant God. That is why he surprises you al statistician. And that is why he fi extremely entertaining as talker. Perhaps it would not be out 0 place here to list some of his obser vations on his trip west. He found that while our shoe fac tories here In Lynn and Brocktoi were very quiet, shoe factories + the Middle West were running da, and night. He found that St. Loui had passed Lynn as the greatest sho' manufacturing center in the work that 1t now has the largest shoe fac tory in the world.
 L-it f- measure, because St. Louis Is nearel the sources of supply and nearer tn. center of population. And besides the workingmen there show more spirit. more interest in their work.
 q asked a big shoe manufacture in St. Louis why this spirit was better there.
 He replied: Because our men ar, more in sympathy with their product We do not make sumptuous. ex- pensive, fancy shoes. They come from New England. We make sturdy common shoesp
 You can't expect a man with . big family and much trouble to bt interested in the making of stylish boot for millionairesses. You car expect him to be interested in making the sturdy sort of shoes he wear. and his family wears"
 T think that manufacturer was right in good measure. If I were the mayor of Lynn or Brockton would ship a carload of workingmer west, just to let them see how theil fellows are working there.'
 South Turns Corner MT. Babson observed that tn, South has "turned the corner" sans will have a better year in 1922 thai in 1921. The same applies to New England The central west is in SOFT, shape and the outlook is dubious The west, however, is prosperous. usually is when the east is not. Ant vice versa.
 Dairymen and farmers are hit yer, | hard.
 T saw farmers using corn for fuel and not out of viciousness. Countr.