Arizona republican., 1922-01-22
FORD MAY BUILD
CARS OF COTTON
IN NEAR FUTURE
New Composition Will Enable Him To Stamp Them
Out Like Doughnuts Says present Railway Coach
Too Heavy and Destined To Be Junked

was the air-cooled motor question.
Now the General Motors company
plans air. cooled engines.
II asked Mr.. Ford If he was going
to have his products air cooled" Not
just yet, he returned. you see /
have made one change on my radia-
tor already. Haven't you noticed
that the new cars are less noisy?"
Il confessed / hadn't and asked
him why.
i've taken the brass band off
them" he grinned.
Even the loving father pokes about
his child.
Mr.. Ford now stepped out of tho
interview-for a few minutes.
on his desk Mr.. Babson keeps
three sand glasses. The sand runs In
one for minutes. In another for
minutes, and in the third for 20 min
utes.
When you arrive the sand glass
indicates the time allowed you. You
may get three. eight or 20 minutes.
While l was there the Commute
glass ran out several times After
that Mr.. Babson forgot to reverse It.
Mr.. Babson is a statistician He
is also philosopher. And l think
like, Ford, he is something of a poet.
He stood as he talked. resting one
foot on the radiator from time to
time. Outside it was cold--about so
degrees below zero | should say off
hand-and a brilliant sun was hav-
ing glorious fun with the snow. One
peek through the window would set
the eyes ablinking.
And Mr.. Babson talked. For the
first time / learned that there is
In ssfa nj
strange lessons as we'll as knowledge.
When St. Louis Beats Lynn
When Mr.. Babson was in the South
America the president of the Argen-
tine republic asked him why South
America, with its superior natural
resources, was less prosperous than
North America, though it was set
tied earlier. Babson. being a guest,
did not answer the question. The
president answered 1t himself.
"The Spaniards came TO South
America for gold" he said. "the Pill
grim Fathers went to North America
in quest OF God"
Mr.. Babson always makes a very
clear distinction between gold and
God. That is why he surprises you
as a statistician. And TINT is why
he is extremely entertaining as a
talker.
Perhaps II would not he out OF
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 Brockton
We're very quiet, the factories in the
Middle West were running day and
night. He found that st. Louis had
passed Lynn as the greatest shoe
manufacturing center In the world,
that il now has the largest shoe fac
tory in the world.
This is due. believe, in large
measure because st. Louis is nearer
the sources of supply and nearer the
center OF population. And besides,
the worlIingmen there show more
spirit. more interest in their work.
'I asked a big shoe manufacturer
in st. Louis why this spirit was bet
ter there.
"Te replied: Because our men are
more in sympathy with their product.
We do not make sumptuous expen-
sive, fancy shoes. They come from
New England. We make sturdy
common shoes.
You can't expect a man with a
big family and much trouble TO be
interested in the making OF a stylish
boot for millionairesses. You can
expect him to be interested in max
ing the sturdy sort Of shoe he wears
and his family wears"
"Get a Baby" Slogan
II think that manufacturer was
right in good measure. If / were the
mayor Of Lynn or Brocton / would
ship a carload Of workingmen west,
just to let them see how their fellows
are working there"
NJ Ll~I raNn xrrA &lNnA h.
South has turned the corner and
will have better year in 1922 than
in 1921. The same applies to New
England. The central west is in
sorry shape and the outlook is zS-
bious. The west. however, is pros
porous. 1t usually is when the east
is not. And vice versa.
Dairymen and farmers are hit very
hard.
"I saw farmers using corn for fuel,
an /not /lt OF viciousness. Country
stores buy corn for coal. saw n
farmer in Illinois give two bushels OF
corn for IL eggs. 10 bushels for a
pair of rubbers, and % for one bush
ell OF apples.
Farmers and dairymen asked me
what was the trouble. I told them
this: your products are dependent on
DQDuldltOHs AOlNOHs uANt anu
lar products increase in consumption
as the people are more prosperous
and have more money to spend.
man becoming rich does not eat any
more corn or drink any more milk
than when he was in moderate
Population is not on
the increase. The birth rate is not
what II should be. Millions Of immi-
grants have been barred from this
country.
"Once, when cotton was in slump
started the slogan buy
a bale OF cotton" I suggest that you
start a campaign: Get baby"
Mr.. Babson suddenly remembered
the sand glass. That was all, the
was over.
AsI went out into the white world,
cold and brilliant. I heard the rattle
of a Ford impetuously on its way to
Boston.
Go it, old boy, and rattle, rattle
I terminated. "Your day will soon be
over. Cotton is coming!" lt passed
And the disturbed street settled back
to it's peace. Light cottonoid hmou-
sines slide delicately over the thor
oughfares. that the bruised, old roads,
the ratified pavements. the asphait.
and evln the very stones will cry out
for Henry Fordl
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