The Washington times., 1923-12-21
OPENS
No KEGFOR
ABLE
No One Greets KabibbIe on His
Arrival, But He Gets His
Man, Nevertheless.

DETROIT, Dec. 21.-As the trair
pulled into the thriving city the POI
ter came and brushed Is cents
worth of dust off Able Kabibble's
natty new overCoat, wh1sked his
weekend bag and suitcase out on
the platform, and left him there in
the company Of his thoughts.
AS the train had sped swiftly
across the lovely farm lands OF
Michigan, Able, gazing with half
shut eyes out Of the window OF the
stateroom which the International
and Bronx Association of Statesmen
of the World had paid for out Of its
emergency fund to the end that Able
might arrive rested and refreshed in
the city of Henry Ford, the flivvec.
maker candidate, had gone over
phrase by phrase the witty I'M
promptu speech he expected to make
when q deputation Of grateful clt1-
zens welcomed him at Henry Fords
city.
Had Expected Welcome.
He had assumed there would be Il
deputation of eager citizens, because,
at Buffalo, when his train stopped
there, a deputation of the local
branch of the International ana
Bronx Association of Statesmen or
the World had crowded about the
train and given him small ovation:
But there was nobody on hand
here to see whether he arrived or
went on to Chicago with the train.
He realized that he was there on MS
own resources, with the board of
governors Of the International and
Bronx Association of Statesmen OF
+1xo Pcra ]F didn't make
good on his assignment to see Henry
Ford and put a list of burning Ques-
tons up to him.
A Job For Hard-BOiIed.
Anybody who has ever endeav-
ored to see Ford during business
hours at his Detroit factory will real.
ize that Able was up against
proposition to test the faculties of
the acutest salesman, but Able, who,
having been born a salesman, has
lived all his life a salesman and
will die a salesman, went right to it.
Statesmen of various stripes have
different methods of achieving per-
sonaI contact with the prospect and
clinching the sale. Since the day
when his first case of samples and
piece of expense money were placed
in his hands, Able has pinned his
faith 10 the frontal attack, Now he
called a taxicab.
Goes Right To 1t.
"To MIR. Ford" he said, as the
wolf at the wheel set the works of
his clock at s-before-you-
begin and stepped on the gas.
From the railroad station the
drive is typical of half the cities
in our thriving middle west. First
you take a taxicab. then you drive
through the business district of
the city, then you pass the city hall,
then the miles of streets given over
to the abodes of salaried and work.
ing classes. Finally, close to where
the city stops, you come to the
city's leading industry-in the case
of Detroit the famous factory group
from which flivvers emanate at the
rate Of a fliv a minute.
Stirred but not Awed.
Able got out Of his taxi. paid
the taximan his blood tribute, and
for a moment, before making his
way to the outer portals Of Henry's
personal office, gave himself over
as a business man to vast aG
miration of man who could create
so vastly paying a concern out Of
L give Henry Ford credit" said
Able, ''if l had his money | should
worry how many knockers came to
my door asking me those burning
and overshadowing questions while
| was drawing down my $4,000 an
hour as the Country's Wisest bust
ness guy. However, that is Henry
Ford's business, while my bust
ness il to ask Henry burning ques-
tlons. Well, Able, now to business"
Gets His Man.
So saying he marched boldly up
the front steps with his business
card in one hand and his list of
burning questions in the other.
What he and Henry talked about
will be duly set forth in Abie's
master series of Ford interviews be-
ginning in this newspaper In the near
future. Get the first one and you'll
De sure TO get all Of the others If
ford never runs for the Presidency
your know more about him than
you ever knew before by the time
Abie's series is ended. And if he
does run you'll know all the reasons
why you should vote for or against
nm, and will understand that Won
nave 10 thank Able for the knoWl-
edge.