The Washington times., 1923-03-04
FORD PLANNING
WITHOUT FEAR
FOR TOMORROW
Confident of Conditions and
Believes General Prosperity
8 Is Coming to All America
WOULD NOT AID
Old Order Should Be Allowed
to Pass, He Says, Before
the United States Slips in
BY REV. VIM. L. STRDER.
Pastor Of st. Marks ~etlOdist Epis-
cOpal Church. Detroit.

Pastor Of st. Marks ~etEOdist Epis-
copaI Church, Detroit.
DETROIT, March 3.-"I'm an
Optimist,1 said Henry Ford when Z
asked him about business conditions
: In the immediate future. why are
you an optimist?1
''Why shouldn't I be optimistic?"
he questioned with smile. "They
tell me there are already 100000
Ford cars ordered for March and
we can only manufacture 156,6O0."
1900 CARS FOR EUROPE.
Are these cars all for American
Consumption I asked, remember
Ing some missionary boards that
were planning to buy some Ford
cars in March for China and India.
"Of these 900 cars that we
shall manufacture in March, al
ready 5000 are ordered and prom.
ised TO Europe. That viii mean a
shortage Of $1,000 in America for
March alone" he said.
But does your prosperity mean
that others win also prosper? Is it
20 be general?''
ut certainly does mean general
prosperity. No business can prosper
alone. Conditions were never more
hopeful Put that down as strong
as you can make it."
Do you think that American
business generally is entering d
period OF expansion"
EXPANSION RIGHT.
Yes. I think expansion is neces-
sary in useful lines. It is a mis-
take, to my way Of thinking. when
Q man or firm or country has
ability or power or money to ex-
pand and fails to do 1t. That is
the wayI feel about America at this
particular time"
What do you mean by saying
that you feel that way about
American
II mean that we have money. we
have raw products, we have room,
We have men, we have ideas, we
have the people. Let us expand.
Distrust Of our destiny: fear of our
future should have no place in our
minds. Fear should be chucked
overheard"
1.-THE Ford Motor Company is
planning the largest chemical re-
search plant In the world up at
Iron Mountain. That is where you
are getting much Of your iron ore
Tor your blast furnaces is 1t not?"
=
are planning to buy more coal
mines. They are building more fac
tories at st. Louis. Boston, New
Orleans. Chicago everywhere, ]
guess. They have just bought a
thousand coal cars for our own use.
They are planning to build a bridge
over the Ohio river. And our activi-
ties are just beginning: for our most
intensive period Of expansion is Just
before u.s.
NORMALLY MORE BACKWARD.
$50 you are one of those Ameri-
can business men who hope that we
will never get back to normalcy?" I
asked the great manufacturer.
hope to goodness we won't get
back to what you call 'normalcy::'
that would be going backwards, and
America will never go backwards"
he replied.
what do you mean by going
backwards" asked him. I wanted
20 get just what was in the back
ground OF his shrewd mind.
81 mean that America is not like.
~ to go back to horse cars or any
thing Ike that. What do you
mean by normally any way?"
"I guess they mean getting back
10 prS-WdT OASIS, repl1eQ.
His reply was significant. 1--WE
are never going back to that. We
are going forward. We can't help
ourselves"
"Mr. Ford. what do you think
about France going into the Ruhr?
you are q coal man and have some
ideas about the practical side Of
getting coal out"
"Oh, don't want to go into the
political side OF that. will say,
however, that 1t is pretty hard to
mine. coal with bayonets and fancy
uniforms. You have to use picks
and not bayonets. Workers have
TO be happy. Work must produce
happiness. That is an old law that
has been too much forgotten"
AID FOR EUROPE IN TINE.
do you believe that we ought
20 get mixed up in Europe's mud
dle?"
mo, not in the way that we are
advised to. There is a way to help,
but no one has asked for that way
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