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those who are looking for it, and they always get paid for it. The "trouble is so many people want to

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Mr. Ford then showed the inter- viewer á steel and gold penknife studded with mother of pear]]. with the initiale "C.D." worked on

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Mr. Henry Ford, the motor-car magnate, recently arrived on the it. "My wife gave me this four giant, with a wing spread of white Star liner "Majestic" at years ago," he said, "and the nearly 30 yards, in which aix Southampton from New York. initials belong to Charles Dickens,, French airmen will make a Trans- Mr. Ford, who was in Britain on of course. It was given to him by Atlantic attempt some time in a three weeks' visit, said in an 'one of his publishers. I have May is now ready for its final interview that his plans had yet always considered it as the great-tests. Comfort and speed have to be rade.

est acntimental bond I have with been combined in its construction. "Is this a business as well as a England." pleasure trip?" Mr. Ford was asked. Smilingly he parried the question with, I shall see what turns up."

don.

Another remark was: "No man can succeed without the influence of a good woman.

It possesses three Hispano- Suiza motors of 180 h.p. each, any one of which is capable of propelling the machine alone Mr. Ford added that he was should the other two break down. "This is my first visit to Epg 64 and was not taking things In addition all three motors can land since 1912," he added. When more easily.. He could not con-be reached with ease should any he was asked; "Will you use a celye any set of circumstances repairs be necessary, the "Morn- Ford car to travel through the under which he would retire. ing Post" is informed. country?" he replied, "Well, last Just before he went aboard, he "To fly across over 3,000 miles time I ran a Rolls-Royce and took said he met Edison, who is 81, of water with a single motor," It back with me to America and and Edison told him that he was said M. Couzinet, the young kept it for eight years.

working harder than he ever Fronch engineer, only 24 years of Mr. Ford said that among other did, and finding the pleasure in age, who has designed the ma places he would visit were Strat-life by so doing.

|chine, "is an act of courage, but ford-on-Avon and Manchester. Old English Dance Musle. also of foolhardiness, almost an He would stay a few days in Lon- Mr. Ford after the first two attempt at suicide. My aim has days was the life and soul of the been to design a machine which is Asked his views on the League liner. Mr. and Mrs, Ford boarded I sure to reach Its goal.” “ 1 öf Nations he said: “I don't know (at New York by the parcel gang-1. The body of the machine is anything about it, and I don't way as Mr. and Mrs. Robinson, divided into three large cabins, think anybody else does. It is a 'and the liner had been at sea two one in front for the pilot and nice thing to talk about." days before the 600 first-class mechanic, another in the rear, Questioned about reports that passengers were aware that the fitted with tables and instruments there were four million men un-millionaire and his wife were for the observer, and a "rest employed in America, he said, aboard.

.. room" in the centre, where the re- There may be fifty millions, but In the ballroom one evening lief can sleep stretched at full they would be men who don't "Mr. Robinson" stood on a settee length upon a comfortable mat- want to work. This morning and announced "I am Henry Ford;| tresa. heard that there were bread lines let me show you how to amusel Three petrol tanks capable of everywhere, but I guarantee there yourselves." The news spread holding 6,200 litres are carried in was not one."

through the ship, and the ball- the wings. All the body work of Mra, Ford accompanied her hus-room, which previously contained the machine is in wood. M. band,

only about a dozen couples danc- Maurice Drouhin will be the pilot, More Enterprising Englishmen. ing to jazz, was soon crowded. and the crew, in addition to the To another interviewer he Mr. and Mrs. Ford took the jazz inventor, will include a Naval offi- music away from the band and cer; a navigator, a mechanic, a old English dance music was pro- wireless operator, and possibly a duced. It came out that Mr. reserve pilot. M. Drouhin was Ford'a luggage included two originally selected by Mr. Levine, huge crates of this, which he ex- prior to Captain Hinchliffe, for plained was the best manufacture the return flight to America which of England 170 years ago.

did not come off, and later to pilot

said:-

"I have visits from at least a hundred Englishmen every week in the States, and in this way I have always been able to keep in touch with your country. In the last five years I have noticed that a different generation of Britons The band struck up the old the Oiseau Bleu across the Allan- is appearing. They are just as tunes, but for a time Mr. Ford tic. This flight also did not take law-abiding but they are more and his wife were the only danc-place. progressive. They are different ers; no one but they knew the because they are more enterpris-steps, but the passengers proved

May 26, 1928.

ing. They are brighter, and in-apt pupils and foxtrots were re- HONG KONG HOTEL-VISITORS. stead of presenting their goods placed by the dancers, the polka. with the attitude of "take it or Sir Roger de Coverley, and the leave it' they now find a hundred mazurka. reasons for your taking them. .Of course that is the right spirit in business. The pioneer spirit has returned to. Britain.

"Great Britain and the whole of Europe must réalise that the sure way to recover lost prosper- ity is to divide the profits more by paying higher wages, and by using more machinery. It is a fallacy to think machinery means unemployment. The unemployed are absorbed in making the mu chinery and the higher wage gives the people a better spending capa- city, and that creates a better market."

Mr. Ford then told how he managed to control his vast busi- ness and undertakings and yet remain as young as ever.. "I keep dancing," he said. "I love danc- ing, but only the old-fashioned English dances. I think they keep you young, and one of my first objects when I reach Eng. land will be to investigate all your wonderful old dances. They in- terest me no end.

"I never lay out anything for the day. Nothing is arranged, When I rise in the morning my day is carte blanche. If you keep your mind open and do what you feel like doing you are bound to get along well. That is why nothing has been arranged for my visit to England. I shall be stay- ing about three weeks, but I don't know where I shall go. I don't ex- THE HONG KONG OPTICAL CO. peet I shall go further north than

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Jazz did not get a look in for the night. Mr. and Mrs. Ford led the couples. "Manchester Guardian."

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