ENGLISHWOMEN AS PIONEERS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19851, 12 February 1930, Page 2

ENGLISHWOMEN AS PIONEERS.

HENRY FORD'S TRIBUTE. I*bok a Sfsclu. Cosns*oir»»*. NEW YORK, December ?3. "Look at what Englishwomen do as pioneers," remarked Henry Ford, in the course of a recent interview on woman's destiny in this industrial age. "Young women and old, from the best homes, go out and colonise the far places of the Empire, right by the side of their men, sharing the dangers and privations of a pioneering life with a smile on their lips. "If the English are the only people who can colonise and pioneer, it is because their wives go with them," he added. "They are brighter and more spry than most women, their idea of life is to be a helpmate, not only that, but real partners of their men, to build a life, with them. "I know this from my own experience, because my wife was one of ten children of an Englishwoman who came to America when she was only 15 years old. We have been partners for 41 years. "If women are wise, they are a coming Dower—but a power in the home, not in industry. Homes are the motives of men. Industry exists only because in the end it ministers to the home. Women are a diminishing, rather than an oncoming force in industry. Women and men are not competitors but complements. I get along better, and always have done, T>y working together with Mrs Ford. We always work together in everything we do—we walked together, -read together, played together, made:- the most of our opportunities together. "I believe a woman's good thoughts and a man's, good thoughts, ..united together, are a great power—a new and special kind of power—in the world. We don't quite realise"that all thoughts are independent entities. They are substantial; these thoughts or ours. They are our-way;back to-*eli--gion, in which lies actual power to ennoble people. We .are now on our way back to. a world that we knew when humanity was young." :,„,