Evening star., 1932-11-27


on The platform when the President
made a campaign speech at Olympia
Arena here.
MIR. and Mrs. Ford accompanied the
President on his special train back to
Washington, and later the motor mag
nate spent some time in the East.
While illness came as q new expert
ence to Henry Ford, there are few
divisions of human activity in which
| he has not had part, and, there are
few dreams which come to the aver
age man which have not come true
: for him.
Starting with nothing much more
than mechanical ability and an idea
| that automobile ownership could be
opened to the general public, he rose
| to dominate a vast industrial empire.
| Not only industrially, however, did
he succeed. Numerous other dreams
came true. He became the owner OF
thousands of acres around his BIRTH
place and put into practice his own
| theories Of economics on them. He
has a museum in which he has col
lected Americana from all parts OF
! the world, as well as comprehensive
exhibit Of the history Of transporta-
tion over thousands Of years.
Owns Far-Flung Enterprises.
The Ford enterprises include every
thing that enters into the making and
selling of autombiles-coal and iron
mines, timber lands, farms, steamship
lines, and until recently railroad.
In all of these and many other ac-
| tivities he has stuck to the principles
which created of his motorcar man
ufacturing a history-making under
taking.
Ford believes that industry cannot
operate unless it makes money and
| that 1t cannot make money unless
somebody buys Since the buyer must
have money, high wages go with big
profits. This simple formula was be-
hind the growth Of his power and Of
his fame.
OF recent years he has turned his at
! tention more and more to the mother
Of all industries -agriculture-and has
been operating farms which furnished
employment to considerable number
Of men. Complete combination Of in
dustrial employment with farming is
one Of his dearest dreams.
In recent press interviews and in
other utterances Mr.. Ford has talked
more of farming than Of automobiles,
although the close competition for
rather skimpy business in the low priced
motorcar field undoubtedly was heavy
on his mind.
Under business pressure, as under
other conditions, however, Mr.. Ford
remained always a smiling easy-going
man in his personal contacts-contacts
which have been limited to an increas-
ingly smaller circle as his fame grew
and brought an even larger number OF
unwelcome demands.
Two Projects Fail.
The failure of his peace ship plan
during the World War and the outcome
of his Dearborn Independent" enter
prise-events which brought unfavor-
able publicity In many places-left him
smiling, his intimates said.
The present illness and the precau-
tons taken to keep it from the public
recalled the fact that several years age
Mr.. Ford insisted on secrecy after being
injured IN an automobile accident News
of the accident leaked out, but it was
not the fault of Mr.. Ford or his close
associates. The immense advertising
value III the accident, in the fact that
the man called the richest individual
in the world still drove one of his own
cars, appeared not to interest Mr.. Ford
The accident occurred at night as he
was driving home from work"
!, MIR. Ford did not discuss the accident
II afterward publicly, and apparently ex.
cluded 1t from the classification o1
illnesses, as he boasted often that hs
never had been sick.