Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-02-28

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY2S %, 1922.
Those Idaho robbers whu got
only IL cents found that the safe
wasn't what it was cracked up
to be.
Another chap that you haven t
seen in a long time is the one who
used to .blsck his shoes on the
front porch on Sunday mornings.
1t is claimed that there are 2
million unemployed persons in
: this country not counting those
On the government payroll.
You have noticed, Of course,
that the man who brags about his
honesty has to put up collateral
al the bank when he borrows
money just as the rest of us 10.
A Boston inventor is marketing
machine that strips the skin
from fish and removes all the
bones. 1t is about the size of a
washing machine, handles 25,000
pounds of fish a day and will take
tke place of % workers. These
workers will be released for other
productive occupations. Each ma
chine like this saves labor and in
the long. run raises the standard
of living by permitting an ever.
increasing variety of commodities
for general use.
Roger Babson, eminent econo-
mist and business adviser, spent
few days recently with Henry
Ford at the latter's home in De-
troit. He says that one day dur
ing his visit he heard Mr.. Ford
say 20 his wife, "Do you remem-
ber how II years ago we tramped
"r streets of Detroit irving to
find some one who would credit
Use Tor chicken for our Christ.
mas dinnerg" And then he added,
thcnghtfully, "And last year
paid the United States govern
nent more than 76 million dollars
in taxes. " Aladdm's lamp did
wonders when rubbed, but Ford s
car has the lamp badly beaten.
A few weeks ago he stated in an
Interview that he had about l40
million in bank. probably the larg-
est sum of cash that any individ-
fual ever commanded. 1t used to
be- said that no man could hon
estly make million dollars, but
no thoughtful man would say this
now. Mr.. Ford says his business
could now be capitalized and sold
fOr billion dollars. If that is
true, he is the worlds first bill
liOnaire and the richest man that
ever lived. And yet he has sto-
len nothing from anybody. If he
has created billion for himself
he has created many more billions
for persons living in every coun.
try of the world. Thanks to his
inventive genius, the tenant farm.
er today rides with swiftness
ard comfort far exceeding any
thing kings and emperors could
command SO years ago.
Every once in a while some
head bobs up to boast of its old
family connection. In every com
munity there are people who take
great pride in their ancestry. Old
families are to be respected and
pride Of ancestry is a virtue. But
il sometimes is overdone. One
family is about as old as another,
and necessarily so. All of us have
ancestors TO be proud of and If
the truth We're known, all of us
have other ancestors to be asham-
ed of, some Of those in the latter
category doubtless having found
themselves in the uncomfortable
position of dangling at the end of
rope for pig stealing or shot in
the back for. cattle rustling. In
any event, all of us can trace
our ancestry i'm an unbroken line'
TO Noah and even further back
if the theory of the evolutionists
is to believed, for they tell us we
all came from the original ba-
boon who lived in a tree and
spent his spare time. picking fleas
off himself. The point is that it
is better to be good and useful
citizen spmnng from an obscure
family than it is to be a worthless
descendant Of distinguished
family.