ENGLISHWOMEN'S IDEAS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20421, 25 November 1929, Page 12

ENGLISHWOMEN'S IDEAS.

GOOD WORK AS PIONEERS.

TRIBUTE FROM HENRY FORD

NEW YORK, October 30

" 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 tho far places of the Empire, right by the sido of their men, sharing tho dangers and privations of a pioneering life with a smilo on their lips. j

" 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 lifo 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 arc a coming power—but a power in tho home not in industry. Homes are the motives of men. Industry exists only because in the end it ministers to tho homo. Women are a diminishing, rather than an oncoming force in industry. Women and men arc not competitors but complements. I get along better, and always have done, by 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 now and special kind of power—in the world. We don't quite realise that all thoughts aro independent entities. They are substantial, these thoughts of ours. They aro our way back to religion, 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."