Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-31
Young al 70,
Ford is LOOKING
70 Years Ahead
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blithely forward. He thinks thi
generation is good one and tha'
the next generation will be ever
better. II he can manage TO live
through still third one he know:
/ it will be the best era this worlc
has yet known.
Clipper and spry and impec
,cably neat in attire~As always, tn,
motor car veteran made il eviden
Immediately that he was in |
chatty mood, almost frivolou!
mood.
GUEST ELECTS CHUCKLE
AS his guests arranged them
selves at the table one of then
observed
II could raise hell with n pan
cake this minute. hope we
won't have any of those weed
sandwiches that Doctor Carver
experiments with"
Henry Ford chuckled.
Martha Barry Tan old friend
of the family and Henry Ford'S
school teacher) had lunch with
us one day right in this very
ROOM" he said. at was about
the time we were starting our
soy bean experiments. guess
maybe there'd been something
In the papers about it,
His eyes twinkled. He knew, in
deed he knew, how he had put
soy beans on the front page 81
virtually every American news
paper and. oddly enough. at {
period when there wasn't much
legitimate automobile news worthy
tof page one.
well, Martha Barry had had
something wFeng with her and
she'd been spending several
weeks Mt Battle Creek where
MIR. Kellogg used TO feed them
cereals and vegetables.
SOY BEANS TABOO
"She said, Henry, please don't
mention soy beans. I'm 80 sick
and tired of soy beans and
cereals that 1 don't ever want to
hear the name again
III didn't say anything till
lunch was over and then asked
her how she liked IL. She said
IL was q real nice lunch. So L
said, Well, Miss Barry. I'm glad
you liked it because every item
on IL was made from soy beans,
Including the coffee"
From down the table Edsel Fore
spoke.
THAT reminds me-" he said,
"of another time when Fred
Zeder and Walter Chrysler were
out here TO lunch. We were ex-
perimenting with carrots at the
time. We didn't know IL but
! Zeder hated carrots. He was
allergic to them or something.
Eve started out with carrot
! juice which, I'm spite OF father,
isn't the most tasty drink OBJ
tainable. Zeder shuddered but
drank his like n man. Then we
had carrot soup. Then we had
mashed carrots. And we ended
with carrot pie.
CALLS FOR ANOTHER
by this time Zeder was a
little wan, but he managed To
gulp down the pie. Father said,
How did you like that, Mr..
Zeder?' Zeder, always the
gentleman, said II was fine. Sc
father said to the waiter, Give
him another piece"
Henry Ford smiled blandly.
"Mr. Zeder's a strong man."
he said.
Somebody inquired how much
sleep he usually got.
Its n set rule In our house
that we retire ut 10 except on
special occasions. / ordinarily
get up Mt Q In the morning. IL
behave, that IL IL I've worked
hard all day, L sleep like q baby.
The only time 1 don't sleep well
IL when 1 act like you fellows
dO--either stay up too late or
sort of loaf during the day"
CONVERSATION INFORMAL
The talk was informal and
sketchy and general. 1t included
quotations from Emerson and
Tennyson, the problem of diStri-
button of goods after the war
c"We're going to carry a lot of
freight by air., the problem of
women in war industry c"They're
good workers, smarter than men
in lots Of ways. But they'll go
back home after the war and the
work they do now won't upset our
national home lifeD, diet 1--WE
eat too much sugar. It's the cause
of most of our ills especially as
we get older'D, the future of the
automobile which he said Will be
made largely of plastics and will
be more economical Of operation
than the present cars.
Obviously Henry Ford was en-
joying the morning of his seventy
ninth birthday. He was COM
pletely relaxed and reveling I'm the
fact. Once he made a casual re-
mark which, because of his posi-
ton, might have caused repercus-
sions IL pubhcized. A member of
the group nervously started to ex-
plain that that particular state
mpnt WAS of the record
Ford interrupted him.