New Britain herald., 1929-07-20
CO|LECTS , 7ONS
 OF PENNIES DAILY
Inventor of Weighing Machine
 Gets SS,000,00O a Year
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 Now York. July 2o.-looAIn7 after the pennies has made the i''' ,;ons lake care of themselves an" arso of Archie T. Andrews. f:e inc daddy of these trick scales tn"' weigh vou and tell your fortune TOT thn expenditure of one copper
 Relieve it or not, these machll'es .orner five tons of pennies a day and in one year theJ made SN'"0,'- ooo for Andrews. who now IS "oiN- ing on a new type Of machine "li'VH he believes will make even more
 "-rhe smaller the unit of sale the greater the profits he "$pia'n' "That's where the five and ten ceh' stores have been so smart. No one missc. & penny nowadays, and we ,re a weight conscious pooplt- Getting on the scales daily IS habit like eating or sleeping. l thlhh the craze for dieting has somelhln@ to do with it. but from check-up we made, we found that men are +Sjst as Interested in weieht as women, though ti1ev~rrstts ''ti et-47t' intent on changing it
 Operates on Large S"ale.
 Scales are only one Of the nlf"E activities of Andrews who IS one o' inc most colorful and adventurous minded multi -millionaires Tn the country. He is president of three big corporations including one 1hal is manufacturing a new. front-Wheel drive for automobiles. soon to ne placed on the market. He IS a dl- rector in five other powerful or ganizations.
 If is Andrews boast that he never has had salary. and that be never had any help from anybody rH' always worked for himself, and his rule for success is this;
 Not of Retiring Nature
 'Get something vou know about and believe in, and then built It up." That has been his system to take over small companies and build them into Iarge and profitable organizations. In life of con- spicuous industrial successes. An drcws has made just one failure that was when he tried to retire.
 "I couldn't seem to make sue cess of that. so I'm back at the ramc." he said. IT went 10 work asa kid of IA and l set as my goal that I wanted to be able 10 retire at 4n
 From tho time I was f. until ! was 4n I was in the stock and security business. with my broker age firm. had made 8 fortune and I thought I coHd spend thc rest Of nay time taking care Of my various interests. and retir" from active business life.
 WHnts L"iSu"" for Children
 'Tncidcntally. had hecn married late. at 37. ard thought I should like to settle down and watch my children grow up and have thc leisure I had been denied in my owr youth
 "Rut I was fish or+ of water couldn't stay out whom 'HeTc wNr' such opportunities and when tA( business world vas so full of mHr vels. I came out, gradually by mlT ing some hotels in California. W''+C' sold four years a"O, and cam", ba' and baggage. 10 tho "ast-to "d venture and work The ueN tj0' retire, will be when thcy bury mo
 Andrews is not good enbiort fo portrait of tho tired husi0"ss man no" does his life Nr toil la"l5 glano"
 He has six children. hcmcs + fhe cast. wnGt and eouth &Vd CT indulge all he ~him7 a"a fa9r5e@.
 He commutca fro" Nis e@'aln il Cfeeenwich. Conn. t0 Now Nori- II ,, yacht that once bo!or2rd to tFo0r Ford and i5 tho f0rs1 I13" s=t Orj vato1y owned ono in thr country His breakfast is served on hoard while he watches the scenery 7lon thc sound.
 He's Bi. of ~"iinr
 At o'cloc'-. hr and usually rro1p of his business friends se back to the country with ter am canes on board On tNn wo-1 roGs where lac spendr "oneiiorah'a tirnl 1,o has somo sailin" boats tlo u's has another smaller yacht fo second hest wcar.
 Speculation does rot iNt""r't '' frows T never sch anTfhj'" b e~fd in m1ttcr- tone. l.nv outri~h+ ~nd hold. 1NcntuIiI if becomes valuable"