The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-07-29
HENRY FORD

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price OF wheat at 81 or better. The
average price for more than 50
years has been sl02. And they
know the value and function OF com
petition. They recognize IL as the
one thing that will keep a business
from getting slovenly.'
Besides being more tolerant,
how else win the new world be diff
ferent?"
at will hold opportunities in kind
and number such as the world has
never seen before. What's happen
ing In the world right now is like
the spring breaking up the winters
Ice. The new world is surging up
from below. And 1t will be filled
with opportunity for everybody
who can stop looking backward.
face about and go forward. Why. a
person even 80 years old. II he or
she will face forward, can start at
scratch and make a great success. I"
Along what lines?" the news
paperman asked.
Teach Lessons
We'll, for one thing-and l hate
to say it," Mr.. Ford replied, "it
seems that wars are necessary to
teach us lessons we seem unable
to learn any other way. With so
much OF our metals being wasted
in war. industry everywhere is
forced to seek other materials for
production OF non.war commodities.
One OF the greatest changes in
the new world will be the turning
OF industry, in its search for ma.
terials. from the forest and the
mine TO the farm. Literally tens OF
thousands OF articles and manufac.
turing parts now made from metals
will be made plastically from ma
terials grown On the farm. This new
plastics industry will, literally, give
employment to millions OF people
on farms and In factories.
Wheat Burning Wrong
For years we've been making
things out OF soybean plastic.
We'll soon have a complete plastic
automobile body. But we wish to
go a great deal farther in develop
ing an industrial market for the
products OF the American farm.
Now we're developing plastic
based on wheat. Most every farmer
in the United States grows some
wheat. It's wrong to burn It as some
are now doing. Every particle OF 1t
can be used in industry.
We've found more than 20 differ.
ent elements in wheat. all Of which
can be used industrially. For exam
pie, wheat contains starch. We use
30 tons OF starch a day in making
cores for castings.
Aviation To Expand
Another field that will see ire
mendous expansion in the new
world" Mr.. Ford continued, lis
aviation. All that We see today is
but a beginning. The sirplane fac
tories Of the future will alone give
employment to millions. The air
ports and accessory industries will
employ millions more
Then you don't believe the COM
pletion Of the national defense pro
gram will be followed by a depres-
sion?" Mr.. Ford was asked.
mo! Not II competition remains
active. There are a lot OF people in
the United States who are trying
to throttle competition. They'll stop
at nothing to accomplish their ends
-foment strikes, urge restrictive
laws or anything else calculated to
wreck competition. But America
should never forget that competi-
lion is the Tife-blood OF industry.
trade, and social and commercial
progress. For monopoly means stag
nation, stagnation means unemploy-
ment and mass unemployment
means industrial, commercial and
social decay. Americas strength
and power in the world today was
built on competition and a throt-
Ting of competition will just as
surely bring its decline"