HENRY FORD’S MILLIONS

Evening Star, Issue 19272, 10 June 1926, Page 5

HENRY FORD’S MILLIONS

“ Once a year I must needs read of Mr Henry Ford and his doings. There is a day" when the Ford Motor Company files its report—that, I think, is the right word—and then, out to the listening world goes the news of the millions and millions earned in one year by tho three shareholders, whose names are Mr Ford, Mrs Ford, and young Mr Ford. Tho head hues of the newspaper blaze with tho golden lights of the Ford millions,” writes “Tho Londoner,” in the ‘Evening News.’ “ I road tho head lines. There is nothing more to read. Some brother journalist of mine has written a few words to swell out the news. But what can he add to a history of twentythree millions of money won in twelve months by a manufacturer, his wife, and his son?

“ Ho should make a sign of wonder, signifying his amazement with some such word as Oh Golly! and leave it at that. Wearily he tells mo that ‘Mr Henry Ford’s fortune is one of the romances of industry.’ . . . “But here is a Mr Ford, who, with his wife and his son. have found twenty-throe million pounds since last April. By next April they may find thirty-three millions or forty-three millions'. Like me, they do not know what to buy with a million, unless it bo another "million. They have set going a machine that grinds out millions every week. ~ , li If I ttcto Mr Ford I would steal fourteen thousand pounds of my fantastic wealth, and, taking Mrs Ford by the hand, leave that terrible machine behind me. If I were young Mr Ford I would run away to sea. For life is naught without a flavor of _ romance to it: romance canot deal with three and twenty millions a year.”