1956-02-25 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1956.

DON IDDON concludes the Ford story

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ON TOP AGAIN AND GIVING AWAY MILLIONS

HEN Henry Ford recommendations. The more he Electricity was cut off. The II took over the studied the extraordinary tangle machines no longer turned, and the more he was fascinated. the man who had put the world vast, sprawling

Breech drove a hard bargain on wheels died by the light of Ford common and

for contract

himself, erosene lamp. wealth it was on the rocks. He told young Ford he would

He had made vlce

careful pre- executive There were no engineer. only become

president if he could have: 1, Aparations for the future. Before ing research or design de contract that would protect him he died he had created the Ford partments in the strict for ten years; 2. A free hand in Foundation, which today is by the development of the policles for the greatest philanthropic achse. Little groups wilful men were battling for and management techniques of organisation in the world,

the firm: 3. Being in three or entire power. The

plice

four key men. was shot through with in- trigue.

interested!

STAL

of

at

die than deal with

One of the elder Ford's rea- sons for establishing the founda- tim was to avoid death duties and taxes. If Ford had not created the foundation his heirs

have would

had to pay $321,000,000 in death duties,

AST

Global scale

Juve

son and now Ford stock has gone

On

to the market.

Henry I and his son, Edsel, left 10 percent

DA their stock to their heirs

sto MIK Henry Ford I. Mrs Edsel Ford, and Edsel Ford's four child-

ren. The remainder of the stock, just OVLT .3,000,000 shares, went to the Foundation, which is non-voting.

The Ford heirs still retain 40 per- cent

voting-power

and polley-making control.

ruptcy Ford has climbed to the fin largest corporation In the United States.

THEY ALWAYS SEEM

TO BE TIRED

:

LOOKED down the Then there is real tiredness, microscope and counted I

mean

the fatigue which work:

the red blood cor- follows hard day's puscles. There were too fow whether the job to that of a of them. "You're a little circus performer or of a mother anaemic," I said. "It could looking after twins. This kind account for your tiredness." of tiredness too, is a gigantic acelal problem, for fatigue lends to She was

dépressionis. Every pale lady ap knows how his wife proaching middle age. I had snappy, simply becouse sho thought from examining Mrs hasn't had enough rest. Harris that

sho

suffer

a

might

man

becomes

from ALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY

anaemia, but I'

know from ex-

perience that by ...... CEDRIC CARNE

pallor does not necessarily in- dicate that.

I

sometimes wonder how many divorces could be avoided Many people look almost

simply by allowing the blcker- white but have plenty of red

ing couple to take a holiday. corpuscles in their blood. Andi to mako

more com- things

On the other hand gome plicated there are those who people feel tired because of haye a good colour but yet are lack of food (augar) or

Inte quite anæmie.

hours. Causes liko These be easily remedied, Mrs Harris's anemia.

I is remarkable how monly anemia is the cause of com-

continued ill-health in middle- aged women,

03

can could

Ford agreed. Today the salary of Breech is approximately a third of a million dollars annual- Young Ford

ly, and he has huge bonuses. was aghast the magnitude of his job.

One of the first things that HU

With his loyal and talented brothers, Benson (left) and knew he could not do it alone. the Ford-Breech leam tackled

William (right), Henry Ford II, is here pictured against the was labour relations. Henry i He hod always adrafred had always hated labour unions.

background of the portraits of Henry I and Edsel. Motors-that

colossus I'd sooner, General which was giving his company a any unkon," he often sold.

Every day strange requests The company has rande astonish- beating. Ho was particularly Curiously and this I be-

pour luto the offlees of the ing strides since Breech joined named love was due to the influence of

the Ford Foundation. Many of the letters Ford.

"So I'd like you to take soma Ernest Breech, But the trouble his wife, who wanted no more

away are from crackpots. People have Ford is lucky to have loyal Ten years ago Ford were

iron tablets," I said to her. was that Brooch, an Implant violence--he signed

probably aks

paketl for millions to melt the and talented brothers. Benson, losing $8,000,000 a year. Lost General

Lassitude is perhaps one of "Oh, I know it's several years Motors executive, wit

with the United Automobile

ice caps of the Arctic, to irri- a vice-prsident who runs the year

ear in the Arst nine months it the most frequent

since you had your baby, but wasn't much Interested in Ford, Workers giving the union far

complaints Rate the Suhara,

a group of

Mercury and special products inade a profit of $312,000,000.

the anamla women asked for $300,000,000 Lo

doctors have to deal with, and the

mla you suffered from more than it had planned to

divisions, is only 36.

Henry Ford Il has done 0 though anemia, or tuberculosis when u woman is

has persisted all the time. ask,

plant a garden strip three mites

thousand things which his Free hand

having a There

or diabetes may be responsible wide along the entire 3,000-mile a brawl

U.S.-Canada border. had been

grandfather would not have ap- for such symptoms, more gener baby-the body demands an 1037 outside the Ford plant,

⚫ proved

physical excessive amount of iron, no during which a young man call

He says: "Before I started my ally he can find

anemia can result. And you, couse at all. new job Grandfather had a

Jike so ed Walter Ruther got a bruised

many other women, Iwad.

Treatise there will be changes, attitude of mind. There is the tiredness is often an

have never minde up, that loss,í bn you're in charge now, ahead and run things your own rise in the morning to

Go man who finds it dimcult

She nodded, then moved to

the door. I bent down, to take work, but if he has, say, a gtri the slide away from the micro- friend to meet he leaps out of scope and suddenly felt terribly bed and is soon singing in the tired myself. bath.

THE younger of two sons of a blacksmith, Breech had risen to considerable wealth and power

He was and on his own. essentially a professional bus Res manager, and today he is chairman of the board, second only to Henly II.

When he met young Ford they got along very well. He realised that the Ford empire was danger of collapse.

in

He knew the motor business from start to finish, and was tho head of Bendix Aviation, un ambate of General Motors, when young Henry first prouched him,

-

Henry II was frank: "I want you to run Ford on the General Motors model. We are in a mess and you are the man to get us out of it.

alone year Fourtition

R will a contract $8,000,000,

give even more this year.

Originally, it was localised in Detroit and Inace grants

to hospitals and schools. Now It a Marshall Plan on a global

is the

Nalay that young man is one of the two, most Raportant union leaders in the U.S.

Strange irony

W executive WHEN Breech assumed the Vice-presidency, old Henry was senile. In his last years the old man devoted must his time to the collection of Americana,

He spent tens of millions col- letting the antique. Ho Cs- tablished at Greenfield Village

ouvenirs and relles, on extraordinary museum full of

Henry Ford 1 died on April

scale.

Young

Henry Ford

and

of

His own way

clairman of the Foundation and projects. There are interminable WIAM Ford 31, is in serious talk with me. He said:

it president is Rowan Gaither, a former California lawyer.

Must of the money expended

educational

progress toes on

schemes, and I'm afraid there is surveys. polls, and research

a good deal of waste.

The Ford factory executives, have ils headquarters in of course, have nothing t do Pasadena, known

"Itching with the Foundation. Their job Palms," but now occupies is to make cars and sell them. opulent office space on Madison Avenue, in midtown.

The Ford Foundation used to

The Foundation is so rich that it could give every single person

in

the U.S.-and there ar

each 105,000,000 of them-$15 without going broke.

of

While the Foundation wag created to prevent the Govern- mem taking a huge chunk the family fortune, it was also to keep the Ford devien Buances privale.

Breech was pollte but firm, 7, 1943, at his home in Dear- and said: "I'm sorry.

I can art. By a strange irony the

Henry I had declared: not take on the job." Later he might he died a tremendous "There will -never be uny agreed to study the problems of storm lashed Detroit and the public stockholders." That policy the Ford Company and make power stations

disabled. has been reversed by his grand-

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PRIVATE ARMY

OF JOHN AMERY

happen even the best regulated families-

a truism never more

By Nigel Gee

discipline. The glossy and the to the seclusion of the moun- bright-eyed anti-Bolshevik boy

tragically illustrated than superficial fascinated him, and tains, in the treachery of John the credit system was made to Amery. He was the son of be abused by such a person. The

From here he took the last one of the most actively dealers in super-sports cars and

and fatal stop. He offered the proprictors of chromium- patriotic men of his genera- plated hotels were bis natural his services as a freelance ad- tion, but in the end he victims.

venturer, first to the Italian, turned on a parricidal im-

who ignored him, and then to the pulse against family and As a driver of cars, for which Flans, who needed help, but not bu had probably not paid, so badly us that. The Germans country.

he achieved 37 unenviable however, found a use for him, them for uffences to which the in luxury in Berlin, the petted record of prosecutions, many of and in 1042 he was established prosale phraseology of the law could not do justice,

pimp, for time, of his new

Amery, unlike Joyce, was not a traitor by conviction. To describe him' as such would be to attribute to him greater talents for sustained BANKRUPT. AT 24 conscious reasoning than he possessed. Hig ultimate crime, the last in a long succession of offences against society, has many of the symptoms of the paychopathic state.

NOT BAD

masters.

A

ידי:

who would continue to convince the world of their lasting hatred of Russia.

Amery

and

to

enemy they were supposed to be lighting.

All the members of Amery's up, convicted, and sentenced army were ultimately rounded

Amery's prestige declined. with his usefulness. and ultimately he was set adrift to do its worst all over Occupied went further than Europe. When peace came, he mere verbal propaganda; he set was washed ashore in Italy, out on a tour of British prisoner where he was captured by of-war camps to rally troops to partisans who handed him over the standard of the Legion of St to the English authorities. George, later to be called the

only against the Russians. British Free Corps, a force to be "I AM GUILTY” recruited in Germany to fight

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TAVEN then Amery refused to The means used to attract face reality., At the end of his followers varied. In some cases statement he reminded his cap- This was the crowning minor offenders against camp tors that the commander of the becility. Had he undertaken regulations, often seduced by a partisans had not fulfilled treachery as a calculated risk, agent provocateur, were offered promise to return his effects. inclinations enticed him into mans when the tide was running if thy joined up; in As a businessman his natural he would have joined the Ger- respite from severe punishment He listed them

pathetically. the fantasy of filmland.

other in They included, he said, two where for them. Now in 1042, when it stances men were shown briefly silver foxes and can of petrol, his activities were supremely ec- was apparent at least that high the delights of peace, which full they should note. the profession. His career was he decided to go in. centric, even by the standards of water mark had been reached, would be made permanent in

return for enlistment.

PLATOON STRENGTH rounds of Spanish citizenship,

the

Before the trial of John short, for when he had reachect

Amery, it was belloved that he the age of 24, his long-suffering

might avoid conviction on the family was content to witness him. The first, to the chagrin The Nazis hat two uses for his bankruptcy.

acquired during his adventures of Joyce, was as a broadcaster. In this role he was ineptly pro~ Tis

during the Civil War. Certainly Soon after that he ceased to duced, for It was hoped that by

Spanish lawyers, representing doubtful whether the perhaps both sides, were present THE psychopath is not easily

defined. Professor Sir David of his fellow countrymen, Forti- Minister public confidence in the raising a force, in

be a burden on the good nature presenting as the son of a British Germans over envisaged in court, but the arguments Henderson has described them fled by an allowance hopefully Government

quality or were never heard. In answer to would be under- quantity, worthy of reinforcing the charge of high as "social mislits. Irrespective designed to keep him out of mis- mined. In fact the reaction was their armies on

treason, of all the efforts which are chief, he withdrew to Spain.

Eastern Amery pleaded guilty on all to intensity made to assist them often from

the belief that front. In that event they were counts." their carliest days they remain

Britain was fighting a just wer not disappointed, for out of the against unspeakable opponents.

hundreds of thousands of British pity. He was surrendering lite Only then did Amery evoko prisoners, Amery recruited itle itself without exercising his last more than a platoon.

right to protect it. The judge Even Fred Karno's army was was voleing the dismay of his never like this. It included men ance that the accused knew

audience when no sought assu perience or punishment.

plunged Into this heaven-sent

Amery's own disability, as the surface they may behave as with a new fervour, and his possible that after his capture unfortunates who were the pro- then had to be done without upheaval of civilised standards Amery's, tronchery, AL is malcontents, petty criminals, what he was doing and under

tarded adolescents and a few stood the consequences. ordinary, likable, attractive energies were for the duration the human beings."

usefully, for General Franco, looked more leniently on his de- duct of mixed German and evidence, They are not mad, in terms of canalised in gun-running. legal responsibility, nor sarily are they bad, though at the extreme they number in their midst several murderers.

at an immature, individualistic troubles of her own. She

At the time, Spain bad greater egocentric level. On this account embrolled in a civil war.

wus She

olus they are fickle, change patience to be too exacting in are unable to appreciate had neither the facilities nor the

able, lack persistence of

RECRUITS POWs.

and are unable to profit by her choice of residents. Amur TAD this been the extent

on

noces-

of. Qf

havo

authorities might

fection. But Amery was also to British marriages. commit the unpardonable offence The outbreak of the larger of hitting men when they were They were trained on wine European war found Amery still down.

and women, to which most of Involved in some dublous Con-

them took kindly, and their tinental Imbroglio, and when Soon after the Germans had uclive service was restricted by Such tendencies were Inani- France was overrun ho moved brought Amery to Berlin, they their condition, The Nazis wero fested by John Amery from south to the unoccupied zone. were anxious to negotiato a content to parade them in small childhood, and not all the ad- But the Vichy Government re separate peace with Russia. It debauched groups, prominently vantages which his position in tained still a vestige of self- was essential that such overtures labelled, in places where they society gave him could overlay respect, for they confined should be kept secret, and po felt civilian moralo might profit them with A civilised self- Amery, now sunic in dissipation, they conceived Amery as the from a sight of 'the kind of

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

I WE'LL TAKE ANOTHER

TURN OVER THE MESA - TO MAKE SURE OF THE RADIATION COUNT. WATCH

THAT DIAL.

THIS CLEAR ∙AS MUD --BUT ME WATCH.

LOOK AT THAT NEEDLE ! THERE MUST BE URANIUM JUST BELOW US? WE'LL GET

BACK TO TOWN AT ONCE.

THEY HAD A SECOND LOOK-- AND ARE HEADING BACK TO TOWN. IT LOOKS SERIOUS, WATCH THEM.

RIGHT!

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

WE'LL GET RIGHT OVER TO THE A.E.C.

OFFICE AND REPORT THIS/

THAT'S THEM.

was.so, said

That-

counsel. Justico

and the motive for Amery's last act of renunciation had to die with him.

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