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HENRY THE FIRST

ENRY FORI, who who once sald: "History is more Ol less bunk," is still making history almost a decade after his death,

Within the lost few weeks the public has been buying Ford shares something that Henry the First would never allow,

ous

and

At last after all the tremend

sometimes gerious years the barriers are down and the Ford finances are revealed to an astonished people. This is the decision of Henry Ford the Second, the grandson of the who put the world on man wheeks and the saviour of the Ford empire when it was near collapse.

Henry Ford and eleven part. ners started with a total capital dollars £10,000 at the current rate of exchange..

of 28,000

Today the Ford Company,

with Its factories and Its foundation, is worth more than $2,500,000,000.

How did it happen? How did Ford begin and where will the Ford family end?

Fabulous

IS THE STORY THAT „BEGINS HERE TODAY OF THE LAST BILLIONAIRE AND THE EMPIRE HE PASSED ON TO ANOTHER OF THE

Fords

HENRY THE SECOND

The Great Tinker Put

The World On Wheels

All his long lic plenty to my. (he was 3 when he died) he gave forth with views-some wise, some foolish, some violent, some gentle. He became the great American sage, the cracker. barrel philosopher, the 20th- century Aristotle..

of men

arid

1 must have read more than half a million words in preparn- tion for this series and seen u hundred different people and ow of ne story more absorb ing.

It is a story money and machines, of a mas- ter mechanie trying to lecture the world and make it over in his own own image, Ford scaled the peaks and descended to the depths. All his life be feared personal ridicule.

| This series on the fabulous

Fords is an attempt to answer Crowd tittered those questions and tell the whole detalle story of the last billionaire, one of the great moguls of cur time, the tycoon who helped to change the face of the globe,

As

THINK of him in the court-

By DON IDDON

unclasped A jack-knife and sharpened it on the edge of his shee. He said: "Land, I guess," The newspaper's lawyers had scored, but the simple answer touched some thought they thing in the hearts of the people

in the courtroom country.

and

the

HORD 'was awarded six coats damages after, a sult which cost him $1,000,000 and the Tribune about the same amount. At least. he had proved that he was not an "anarchist." During

his life Ford was to be called a Communit

a

made

troubles could be solved "by higher wages and lower prices.” He said: "The right price is not what the traffle will bear. The right wage isn't the lowest sum a man wir work for. The right price is the lowest price nin articic can steadily be sold for and the right wage is the highest wage the employer can atcadily pay.

ז.

. Ford summoned 'his execu- tives, went to a blackboard and

All his life he was supersti- wrote figures on the black- tious. He rarely moved from board-$3 a day, $3.00, $3.76. the house on Friday the 13th, His directors, anid: '' never walked under ladders, ruin us."

This will.

up

the aguro

Was worried he spilled salt, Ford laughed, chalked and feared black cats.

oul, $4.70 crossed

"That'a So the Ford Company, with 12 wrote $5, and said: stockholders, was formed with it Henry Ford as vice-president There was, indeed one tragie and chief engineer receiving a sequel to Ford's audacious quarter of the stock. He was a move. master mechanic.

31,000,000 motor vehicles. He

more then

15,000,000 Model Ts, the wonderful Tin Lizzle, alone,*.

In the bitter weather, But how did it all begin?

within 48 hours of Ford's on- In 1803 in lamplit ofloc of in Detroit 12

Ford was the son of an Irish nouncement, 10,000 men gather- a coal merchant

immigrant farmer, William ed around the Ford factory. 10

from distant men gathered discuss how Ford, and a woman of Dutch Some had come they could make cars and how

His States. There were women and Mary Litogot. ancestry, they could make money. They parents wanted him to be a children pleading for jobs for didn't know that they were to farmer, but it was machinery their men. The crowd grew

that

make history also.

Horseless carriages had been his youth he got a

attracted Henry, and in to 13,000 and began to

series of restive. on sale in the US. cince 1898 Jobs in machine shops and and the fast-money boys were factories in Detroit already betting millions on

the When making a killing.

She had faith

Ford Company

I was formed Henry Was

The company had its struggles at the beginning. Several times it looked as

His great idea

TIS

panic

ket

here to have a Ford was going to founder. It THEY were

look at Utopia; this was tho with eight

of various promised land. But the weather models number of contraptions different room in Mount Clemens,

FORD himself had put together experimented

men got Fascist, anti-

within five years got colder and the Michigan, when he was suing

and had driven through the design and the Chicago Tribune, which had Jewish, anti-Catholic, a rogue streets of Detroit with his ap- was turning out 100 cars a day, hungrier.

The police, who had been called him an

robber, an idealist, and an anarchist, Ford a

Clarn

arn at

a meeting and prehensive wife

Ford called his

called out, and the company was one of the world's richest evangelist,

side. Clara was known as "The said: "This is too slow. My aim Cards told the crowd to move men and considered himself as

Bellover," All men are mixed up, but

She had faith and it is 1,000 cars a day."

on and scuffies broke out. one of its most public-spirited. Ford was a richer, more in-

was not even a surprise to her

Stones were buried through Counsel

the Chicago

volved mixture than most. The

when her husband announced

factory windows and the moh Tribuno snapped

out 0

of most accurate description years later: "I guess we havo

charged the gates, There was brokers And

was Benedict Ford was never an inventor in $1,000,000,000, mother." buyers question: "Who

and pandemonium Ford nt

The first could the strict sense. He didn't In- manoeuvred for position to Arnold?"

met in the

fan guards and police turned men who the internal combustion buy the precious Ford

coal merchant's office hat little

men and the Americans were asking: what not place the man ark! then vent

That confused hlm

Arnold engine and he didn't invent the with

capital and limited experience, HS colleagues accused him offre hosts on the

getting beyond himself. Five people who had sought Utopia assembly line. Right Bernett,

but they had would old Henry say?"

energy and zeal "When was the United States What he did was to put the Wing commentators suggest that

and they had Henry Ford. At of Ford's original partners sald were routed.

they wanted to get out and Ford used to tour the factory' the first Ford would be revely formed?" Ford licked his lips Internal combustion engine into the raceting one of the men Ford gladly bought their stock, and watch the assembly line Ing furiously in his grave" now and offered the date 1812. The a car for the masses" Any suggested that a doctor with a

of them made a million move by. Eath of

It had to be tast that Ford is no longer a closed crew in the courtroom fittered. colour as long as it's black." He little capital be brought into the or two, but when they walked. (men were not allowed to go!

Ther the corporation.

Tribune

the lawyer produced

Brst

Bald "There People's group, Ford IVUS the Car, and before his death he would be 13 of us then. I don't out of Ford's office each threw to the toilet and weaklings were sited softly: "What

away at least $100,000,000.

weeded out) and it had to be United States originally?" Ferd had manufactured more then want that."

was at this time that waist high the men wouldn't! Ford got his great idea have to bend and waste energy to make a cheap, reliable, and time and money.

What is certain is that Henry have Ford the First would

T

Can The Future Be Foretold?

I'M HALF-AND-HALF

SIR COMPTON MacKENZIE'S CANDID OPINION

What I belleve

Σ bellevo astrology In no single horoscope

about

It Henry

sturdy motorcar that millions Once Ford fold an executive: would buy. He would scrap. "Sometimes the men look at: the range of models and build me as if they hate me." So ho on automoible that would cost had packages of plek-me-up little more

than a horse and tablets put in the plants. They cart, and that coukl be repair- were salt tablets and in Ford's ed with a screwdriver end a opinion worked wonders, Ford piece of bent wire.

was always a great believer in Ford announced with a touch raft. He used to comb his hair of grandeur: "I'll build a in

In salt. water to prevent bald- motor-car for the great multi- nos,

tude," and added that overy- He was suspicious of sugar. one and his family could "en- One day he called in his doctor, joy the blessings of hours of put some grains of sugar under pleasure in God's great open a magnifying-gins and said: about spaces."

"Look at those jagged piecesmet sugar will cut your stomach to pieces,"

HERE are at least 50 Printed Books at the British born under Scorpio with his

ways of forecasting Museum, I decided that there liver.

I ever cast did I find that the palmistry, which the Chinese was something in it. the future. from

Instead of patience or cross- physical weaknessca therein practised 6,000 years ago, dropping melted wax into word puzzles Dr Garnett used indicated were contradicted by water to looking at tea to cast the horocopes

I cannot accept a predestined of the the robustness of them in the

cortainty from a Cross or n dend whose lives were known' subject of 'the horoscope. leaves in a cup.

and he came to the conclusion Astrology is laughed at today triangle or some particular part Only three, however, are that the constitution, disposi- as charlatanism, and rightly so of my hand. I do accept, how- still practised generally all tion, and abilities of a subject indoed J any student of, it is ever. Indications from the shape could be deduced from the expected to take seriously the of the hand of a subject's con- over the world-astrology,

disposition, and places occupied in his horoscope rubbish forked out every work stitution, palmistry, and

by the sun, moon, and planets, by some of our astrological abilities.

He did not believe that any newspaper columnista.

I have never known spatulate person's future could bd fore-

in (spade-shaped) angers completely unpractical person.

crystal

gazing.

The last depends on the clair- voyance of the gazer and belief

told beyond the Influence upon

THIS WAS

Food faddist

tho birth on HE doctor poured water over nouncement of the famous the sugar crystals, dissloving and said: "They are Model T. At first it was priced them,

Ford didn't nt a litle under $1,000 but harmices enough,"

the doctor's services ang eventually it sold for as little us

the more. D& $295-£100. "Watch Fords go by," became the most Ho was a faddist about food.

and once

"If you eat said: famous slogan in America. ence. It seems to be closely and physical make-up. This is THEY have their Ca-

I have never known those There were hundreds of jokes crackers and milk you'll never Unked with telepathy and, of To accept the conjunction or Sagittarians

He was dead against beller, my

pricornians and their conical pads on the other aide about the Lizzle.

They have die," course, many predictions

must

and what

not, of the nails upon the fingers of become worn, but in their day liquor and against cigarettes. have been accidental; the rare opposition of two planets at the barn between certain speci- anybody completely devoid of they helped to sell Ford care, Smoking in his factorice dream which comes true is re- moment of one's birth a A fled dates, for whom

is a matter of personal experl that future of his own

mental

Indications

THE

membered when myriads which decisive factor in one's destiny they prophesy help from week the slightest artistic bent.

do not are forgotten.

would be to deny free-will with the disastrous moral result of' any form of fatalism.

We still preserve in opithets like "jovial." "saturnine," "mercurial," and "lunale” the forefathers in Our

or

friends

was Soon two out of every three strickly forbidden for years.

Meanwhile the money grew the American roads

grow, but he wasn't a On the other hand I have not cars on or caution in business matters

Model 18. By 1014 Ford and

money-lover - found that the brocelote round were

hoander or a the likelihood of a lotter.

the wrist have the least bearing had sold a quarter of a million Once his wife found an uncash Such trivialities would be

and the public were for Tin Lizzies nor on the length of life, impossible to prophesy even for that matter that the quality of clamouring for more.

od cheque for $75,000 in a pair of trousory he hadn't used for somebody whose time and

place

It was in 1014 also that Henry month, Ford had forgolten of birth was known cod there the line of it is a safe guide do not belief of

American JEVERTHELESS

the Ford staggered N

about It. think personally that the planetary influence.

dore what sign of the zodiac was either to longevity

the announcement Ford used to say: "I want possibility of clairvoyance --- I remember W. B. Yeats in his scendant at that mo- reverse (The skilful palmit dustry with

can undoubtedly assess the char that he had decided to pay his to live a life,

Money możn particularly the kind known as telling me ho was born at an

acter of his client and often by workers, even the floor sweep- second-girl--can be denied. I exact sext between the planets To my that somebody is" a intuition he can make

a day, shrewders, a minimum of 15

A science?

1

mont...

or

In-

zof it for the time of it

am never surprised by tales of Vernis and Mercury,' an aspect Capricornian merely ments that guesses about future behny lotir.). and, moreover, the Ford work- a to me - neither tig

+

taken me,*.

Ing

so

And yot.... I have the conviction that almistry should not be scoffed at,

its succes.

which indicated the birth of a he was born when the sun was Now the believers in astrology major poet. (A sext means that in Capricorn and has no bearing and palmistry claim for them two planets are 80 degrees apart whatever on his horoscope, almost the status of an exact in the 360 degrees that make up far as my investigation have science. Any Justification?

the zodiac.) Forty-five years ago I en-

Dr Garnett would, bave › sald gared an astrologer to teach me that Yents' had in him the the elements of his science, but makings of a major poet; ho though I car still cast a would not. have believed thet horowoope I lacked the mathe- Yeals was inevitably destined molical ability to perform the to become a major post. calculations and ao. I never Somebody bom when the became an expert/de

zodiacal miga Places is in the However, Thak De Richwedecendent de likely to have

I KNOW that William Zully who had, a considerable repulation as an astrologer in the serenitenth century foretold in 1851. that the Fire of London would happen in ime,

The authorities soure so mnofs impressed that the astrologer 'was gestioned before a committes of the loses of Commonia to find on 1. he had an inkling beforehand of anybody's intention to art" fire to London,

El

and 1 know that Nostrodarius 'had foretold the year of the Wire of: Evencion as early as ikiwek, ut: 2+monid hesitate to call the Pro- stivolan...mory, than happy, meeldents for both seara,

Anday

eight, not so far as I'm

If BirWillam

personally con- day would be

I'm in a peculiar nine, hours long.

No one can give me There's nothing This as Rootes

announced a £10- carmot, have, but I do not want. n-day working wags, for his the things that money, can buy, offee cleaners.

want to live a life.NGS All America rocked at the Ford did live a life, one of the announcement. Five dollars a most Incredible of this or any day, then was twice as much as other time, ***

the highest common, labourer's

wage. Millions of men' worked,

nino hours, forr. 82% MUTTA

TOMORROW

Ford; ebabe: to the cou-, Henry the First' a bad as

clusion that most of the war

*Law First Wo