MR. HENRY FORD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20171, 4 February 1929, Page 10

MR. HENRY FORD.

QUARREL WITH BOY SCOUTS

ADVICE REGARDING MONEY.

[FROM O Ufi OWN COIUIESrONDENT.] NEW YORK, .Tun. 0

Henry Ford has fallen out with the Boy Scouts of America by his recent advice lo boys to "spend for leadership," and they have not hesitated tQ "toll him off" for thus urging them to defy their traditions, constitution and plcdgo.

Mr. Ford's statement, which has aroused the Boy Scouts from sea to sea, is as follows:—

"A . boy's job is not to accumulate dollars, but to uso them to prepare himself with the training, knowledge and experience which every loader needs. If a boy saves, it should be with some-such expenditure in view. The last thing a boy needs is tho idea of hoarding money. The one great thing ho. does need is to learn how to spend money—all tho money he can got—for self-improvement. "To know how to spend money is. one of the qualifications of any business man. 1 don't see how any ono can learn how to spend money wisely except by spending it. No man ever built a productive institution of any kind by saving money. That is done by, knowing the way to spend money wisely. * Invest in yourself until ?oir are' 46/ It is timo endiigh to save when you command more than you can spend wisely, but ypu will never get to that point by saving.? Mr. Ford's pronouncements usually havo a tremendous inlluenco on boys, and the national leaders of tho Boy Scouts are therefore greatly concerned lost by his present one their famous pledge, which urges boys, in and out of the < organisation, to shepherd every penny, may lose much of its traditional inspiration.