Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1922, Page 78

- H_enry Ford Believes in the Hunch ancl Always Fonows It Through ¢ WY S, S. MARQUIS, D.D. d from last Sunday.) »f Henry Ford that he is ional things— + foolish; that he sclt-advertiser of the age: ifted fast m out of ft. Henry tional things. In frequently makes to do things to do. And from the point of viaw, @ (tempt Iy almost alway: for immediate purpos ement. proposes to ride in u barrel has sev wecks before the event In which publicity that will bel and to exhibit the barrel | 18 Le survives 1 undertaking the Le of still greater value he should not chance to his spectacular wus a tastq of noto- (Contin T is said not e rd wddition does do sens to that he ttempts cnsation who ide sens arrel will i him, after it \ riety craved, he had what he| wanted foe a brief time and. pre- ! sumably. died happy The man who attempts to do sen- tional thir entirely out of his! vond his power will, u the public’'s con- judgment. Henry widely admired His carcer the descent. rant sincere in trying to fitted to do, that it men mingling pity | admiration. frequently oused. turning into a sphere and notine his c t i yeurs has man he o is in mild con- i ! i if he fails to use wisely and with THE DO T T O self-restraint, may prove his undoing, as it has proved the undoing of | others. ¢ I The man who proceeds on the ! theory people wh they s 5004 and worthwhile things doing and saying. Publicity of the kind Mr. Ford cnjoys is a public franchise, and public franchises are sometimes withdrawn when not prop- erly used. CHAPTER IIIL M THAT CAME TRUE. HAVE said that we are Interested in Heary Ford because of his phe- nomenal s in the field of indus- try. Rut there is another reason, and that is that he ha< in him all the makings of a popular hero. A boy on arm with a humble parentage back of him; never saw the inside of a col- A DRI 1y terested in what went on inside a country schoolhouse; interested as a boy in steam engines and threshing machines; also in what is inside a watch and a clock; always dreaming a self-propelled vehicle, and draw- ing pictures of the same; builds “furm locomotive” befure he is twen- 1y by mountin eam engt the cast-off wheels of 4 mowing ma chine; Lecomes the engineer of a steam threshing machine when a boy on And pliy,|of seventeen; leavey the farm and, gets a job in a power house in the vity: works after hours cn a gasoline engine, making the cylinder out of Ford maie a spe end the world war. The brought a flood of pub- or notoriety—just as it. I questioned his tacular mpt <hip ity —tame 1 at idgment at the time, but not hi notiv And 1 still belleve nis | 'k of that undertaking a Jle one. If all the facts were known, I think it would be he dia t dm\l'r\‘e' « that was heaped upon him me during the carl months of the war he was a pa-| h misunderstood fig- ) avored to persuade him gaspipe, and the flxwheel out of wood; puts the engine on a vehicle of his own construction that looks like i baby carriage: adds a few pulleys, | a lever or two, and a leather belt, and the “darned thing ran.” “gasoline buggy” is still in existence, and the “darned thing” still runs. It is kept in a room adjoining his of- tice at Dearborn. I have heard from him and Mrs. Ford the story of the last forty-eight hours that he worked on that first car. Forty-eight hours without sleep. The second night Mrs. waiting the outcome HENRY FORD IN ONE OF HIS GREENHOUSES. peace-ship project, | or at least to modify his plans. His old friend, Mr. William Livingstone, nd myself spent the most of the| ht before the expedition sailed ing to prevail upon him to an- to abandon the 1t was no use. His reply was, “It is right, is it not, stop war?® To that I could Ye: “Wel he vou have told me is right cannot fail.” And| the answer to that, that right things | in the wrong way had no of had no effect. was following what he calls a artempte assu i success, hunch,” and when he gets af hunch” he generally goes through | with it, be it wise or foolish, right or wrong. But to the credit of Henry Ford it must be sald that he has done sen- sational things of a higher and| .aner order. He has done a num-| er of things in industry because he hought them ht and just, and the world has labeled them sensa- tional. But it was not the thing in tself that was s but the fact that he had the courage to do| it. It ought not to he counted a| ansational thing that a man loves his wife, but in a community where is supposed no man cares for his! it might create more or less | , find one who does. | nsational, v of a sensation \nd surely such a man should not: charged with Lidding for notorle- | 'v. Henry Ford has done many, ‘hings in the handling of labor vhich, if all emplovers were doing by labor as they shouid, would not be counted sensational at all. 1 Ford agreed with Mr . in view of the earn- N 1914 Mr Couzens t of the company, the men in their employ should be given an in- rease in pay. Mr. Couzens dared te make the minimum pay 35 a and Mr. Ford agreed. It was \othing more than & company in he financial position the Ford com- sany was then in should do. Few, owever, do it. Hence the sensa- -ion when Henry Ford did it. and at the nim Tle increases wages sume time reduces the cost of the var. Sensational! But why should be considered a sensational thing o do to give the customer some of he benefits which the fncreasing perity of a company makes It ible to bestow? Why—except nat few do i1? Shrewd business? iood advertising? Certainly, it is .11 that, and more. There can be » greater shrewdness In business -han to follow the laws of honest .nd just dedling—provided you ex- heet to remain any length of time in husiness. 1f Henry Ford is the master of the rt of self-advertising—and he i ‘hat—much of it has been done in a nanner to his credit. Some is not \bove criticism. He has discovered ‘hat he can compel the world to give nim publicity the value of which .annot he estimated. But In that ere is 2 danger which I think he Is to appreciate—not to the world, but to him. It is"a franchise which, The machine was nearing compleiton. Would it run? It was about 2 a.m. when he came in from the little shop that stood in the rear of the house. The car was finished and ready for a try-out. It was raining. Mrs. Ford threw a cloak over her shoulders and followed him to the shop. He rolled the little car out into the alley, start- ed it, mounted the seat-and drove off. The car went a short distance and stopped. The trouble was a minor { one. The nut of a bolt had come off. It seems that there was some vibra- tion in that first machine which has been handed down to its 6,000,000 off spring. The car was put back in the shop. It had run. One of the foot- hills at the base of the mountain of success had been topped. But there were other hills to climb, ' with valleys of discouragement be- tween. People laughed at the strang: device and at the man who created it. The noise it made resembled that of a machine gun in action. Instine- tively, so it seemed, horses recognized tn it the arch enemy of their race, took fright and ran away. Rumor has it that the police ordered him to keep the thing off the streets. Mr. Ford says this rumor is without foundatfon. Perhaps the wish of the neople was father to tho thought. Whenever he drove this odd-look- ing contrivance a curlous crowd fol- lowed on bicycles. making uncompli- mentary remarks. It was a “craz: thing,” the outcome of a “crazy idea. born of a “half-cracked brain.” It never would amount to anything. As a plaything—yes, it might be made to £0 on a hard, level road. Bat it never would prove of practical value as a means of travel. the East Grand boulevard, in Detroit, there is a bridge over the Grand Trunk railroad tracks. The ap- proach is up a fairly stiff grade. It was here the crowd was wont to as- semble to see if Henry could make the grade. He made it. And he has been climbing ever since. That little car, with its gas-pipe cylinders, wooden flywheel and leather belt transmission, had all the mechani- cal principles in its make-up that en- ter into the present Ford car. It was on this car that he rested and won his famous Selden patent suit. That first car was a crude affafr. It certainly did not look like a million dollars. Those who looked at it thought a pile of money could be sunk in it, but they could not see how any ever could be gotten out of it. Money to develop and perfect his idea came in small sums, and for the most part from men of small means. Those who financed his genius and had the cour- age to stick came out with millfons. Mr. Ford does not believe in stock com- panies now. They aren’t necessary after you have made the grade. One meets around Detroit now and then a man who, with hands in empty pockets, tells you with a sad, far- away look in his eyes how he had a chance to put some money into the Ford company at the time it was be- ing organized, “and just came within that it is a good thing to keep talking about him, no ‘matter y, will sooner or later wake up to the fact that the public is no longer interested even in the he is lege, and never was particularly ‘In-: That first | Ford sat up| of his efforts. ! é: So Short a Time. | | | ! T T A O T R SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON; D. C., DECEMBER TS T TS T TS A A A v, Spectacular Attempt to End World War Brought Flood of Publicity—Established Minimum § ) Through Courage and Persistencc—Writer_ Doubts If Any Other Man Made So Large a Fortune 1922—PART 4. s TS THE FORD HOSPITAL, ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHARITIES OF THE BILLIONAIRE. —whatever that means. Henry Ford was, and still is, al dreamer. But as far back as the days of Joseph—and the greatest dream- ers of the world by the way, have been of Hebrew extraction—dreamers have not been held In high esteem by some of their brethren, especially in the days before thelr dreams cam: true. As a rule taey climb alone a steep and stony path across which {men delight in raising barriers. Dreamers upset the rules of prophecy. According to the faws of logic and the rules of men who walk by sight, these men who dream and move as fn ! a sleep, should come to grief—and do not. I suppose the reason is that men who dream walk by faith, not sight, and faith laughs at mountains He who sees thinks he must remove the mountains that bar his way. He who dreams does not attempt to re- move the mountains. He climbs them ,And that, after all, is perhaps the best way to dispose of mountai Joseph lived to see his dream come true and to recelve the homage of the men who ridiculed and hated him ; Wil Henry Ford pardon me for df overing this striking resemb! between himself and a man of in ‘which he seems able to sece virtues and so many faults? s fow CHAPTER 1V. THE FORD FORTUNE DO not knowhow much Henry Ford !5 worth. 1 am under ti that. if he s desired, he could « i his business into ck company pay very satisfactory dividends on a bil- i lion capitalization. 1 doubt whether any | other man ever made so large a for- !tune in so short a time. [ believe it i to be one of tha cleanest, if not the timpression t cleanest, fortune of its size ever made. § | As a rule great wealth is quick {made by a gamble of some sort, or by Investments in a highly favored monopoly of some natural resource, 'HAT’S the matter with mar- | riage? The same thing that's the matter with a | guinea pig's tail. Do you know what's the matter | | | with a guinea pig's tail? No; of course, you don’t. Why? Because a gulnea pig has no tail. That's what is the matter with mar. {rlage. We have no marriage. No, !we havin't. We have matings—im- | passioned matings, indifferent mat- | ings, highly idealistic matings, basely | sordid matings, and, in some few in- | dividual instances, matings whero in- telligenco and purpose make the ! union beautiful and enduring; but, in | any sense worthy of human evolution in this year 1922, we have no such | ! civilized institution as marriage. | This business which we call mar- {rlage combines two strongly differ- | entiated and at times highly antagon- |1stic jobs. The first is the founding and-care of families. We did not invent that | Job. Nature did. She invented the family job in order to preserve the | highest form of life, the mammal. It was her pre-eminent idea in the day: [when the mammal first came into its own. It's her pre-eminent idea now. { There is nothing as fmportant in the 'wholo range of human activity as that , basic job which we include under the | title of marriage. Also, there is noth- | ing more tiresome or more restrictive | of individual liberty than that same job. But marriage does not mean fami- lies only. Marriage means another idea with which nature has little or | nothing to do and which we have not yet harmonized with her plan. Mar- riage, to us, implies the partnership | of men and women for the purpose of individual happiness. Love part- nerships. Lk % ¥ % 'W, nature said nothing about love when she told the first little | therfomorph mammal how to take | care of its baby. Love is entirely a “civilized” scheme, and a mighty silly, selfish mess we make of most of it. We’don’t want it to be a silly mess. We want it to be supremely beauti- ful. We feel that it is, indeed, the next great step and one which will lead ue infinitely far beyond our mere mammal development. And so, be- cause we believe these wonderful things, we insist that marrlage shall be based on love. But there we stop. We dream. We insist. And then we sit right down and twiddle our thumbs and weep large wet salt tears when marriage fails. For marriage has failed and will continue to fail until we get to work competition. Henry Ford has made his money in a free, open, unprotected and com- petitive fleld. The one possible blot on his record In this connection is the charge that he has sometimes dealt ruthlessly with smaller independent concerns which were making some parts of his car for him; that while he was paying his own labor a minimum wage of $5 and $6 a day he was demanding of others that they sell him their product at a price that made it im- possible for them to pay their labor a fair wage; that he has encouraged men to make large Investments In order to furnish him with materials, REV. S. S. MARQUIS, THOR OF THESI THE ARTICLES. AU- HE IS HENRY FORD'S PASTOR, INTL | fortunes go, is clean. And it has been | :and protected field, or by acquiring a MATE FRIEND AND FORMER BUSI- handled in a way that has caused|That it would do so is, in my opinion, N 5SS ASSOCIATE. [Listen World! & THE WOODCHUCKS TRAISE THEIR CHILDREN | an ace of dotn’ it, too.” Alas! the ace | or by business methods which crush |and then has suddenly ceased to place {orders with them and left them with an idle Investment and a deserted fac- tory on their hands. Perhaps his answer to this charge, if there s any truth in it, would be i that even so they made good money left them better off than when he found them; and as for the low wages paid their men, that was not due to the price he set for their out- put, but to poor management and production methods; for later he was able to make the thing they were making for him at a cost less than he was paying them, and at the same time to pay §5 and $6 minimum wage for the labor that went into it. 1 have listened to many discussions on this point and am well aware that there Is a sharp division of opinion in regard to it. The view one takes of it will depend almost entirely on what he considers fair in business, and on that mien are a long way from agreement % % x ENRY FORD does not gambie. 1 once saw him win § cents on a Let. I took It away from him and put it into a charity fund, so T know that tainted nickel is not mixed up with the other 20,600,000, more or less, now in his po: ion. T once ran him a foot race on which iwe and our friends risked small stake. Henry won. And I may say right here for the henefit of others more than fifty ars of a and forty-two inches in circumference that you are not in Mr. Ford's class a ,unless you have Kkept in excellent physical condition. And I may add also Ly way of finishing this story that Mr. Ford took the money from those who won {on this race and gave it to an old | gatskeeper at a railroad crossing. But this is aside. What I started to =ay was that the Ford fortune, as neither criticism nor hatred on the IN PEACE & HARMONY, THE RABRITS AND THE UTTLE MICE, THO MATED, ALL AGREE. EACH FURRY WOODLAND MRS. UPHOLDS HER WHISKERED MATE, TIS ONLY HUMAN COUPLES WHO ABIDE IN WEDDED HATE & 9 AND SO I'M MOVED TO WONDER IF SORELY TROUBLED MAQ, MIGHT NOT ENJOY LIFE DETTER IF HE USED THE WOODCHUCK PLANY ! s and amalgamate our man idea of love with the nature idea of family. The family idea persists because it has reasons and roots and because it is mapped out on a sensible program. The love idea may also have reasons and roots, but we haven't studied them and we haven't begun-to try to make a program. To return to my We have matings because nature plans and perpetuates matings. But we have no real marriage because we are still too stupld and sentimental to work them out. ‘We have splendld schools and laws which make attendance on these chools compulsory. We constantly insist on more elaborate preparation and a higher grade of service from our teachers. We have religious freedom. We have a healthy, pro- gressive legislative system. We have sanely developing city governments, good roads, libraries, hospitals, play- grounds, linoleum, alumnium and 1,347 varieties of tooth paste. We have all these dlvilized insti- tutions and conveniences. And we look with contempt on the people who do not have them. But when it comes to loving alliances between men and women—in short. to that first contention. theory called marriage—we follow a program that hardly deviates from that in vogue when John Henry was a cave man and ate his mastodon raw. ‘We have poetry and platitudes and taboos; we have sentiment gooed all over the landscape. But we have no serious platform for matrimony. We | teach cement mixing with the great- | est of care, but where may we learn the profession of wedlock? ! Nowhere is marriage handled as a | vital, civilized institution. One thing lonly do we hold essential for true marital success—love. But love fisn't a reason or a preparation or a proper program for marriage.- At its lowest, the thing we call love is no better than the urge which sends the salmon leaping. Puget sound In springtime. At its best, it's a beautiful reaction which for long periods is imper- ceptible in the grinding of the work which gives it birth. That work is the vital thing, not the reaction. At no time can love, be it great or small, insure the permanence of marriage. And that's why we have divorce—be- cause we have thought that love was enough. = * * ¥ % F you want to have happy mar- riages, let's study what mareiage while they were going. and that he. WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY ELSIE ROBINSON ) part of the working classes. If there |are any who would like to see Mr. ! Ford lose out, they are not the |ranks of labor. | He has been generous toward his {employes. On this point T think I {can speak with some authority, as I was in a position to know for a pe- riod of several years. Durlug the time T was with the company he gave to his employes addition to a hun- profits, could have retained which the average put his own in a generous wage, more than dred million dollars out of hi all of which he as his own, man and would have Lis profit-sharing plan was a crafty scheme for getting more work out of Lis men; that it actually returned more dollars to him than he gave out It was unques- tlonably o shrewd und stroke. To the credit of Mr it said 1 tained th WeTe @ med 1 have often profit-sharing plan before groups of employers of labor. Seldom, if ever, have I d > that some n has not risen to ask. “Didn't plan pay? And didn’t Mr. Ford b, e that it would pay? ited it if he had not believed it would bring more dollars to him?” And the answer was: “Certainly the plan pa T is just the point 1 And I would fur- it clear that the am trying to make ther like to make plan 18 not copyrighted. Any em- ployer is at liberty to try Both for the sake of the employer and the em- ployes, ike to sec others try it out. Labor in this country is said to be about 40 per cent efficient. 1f a more liberal grant of the carnings of la bor were made to labor, possibly it would draw out enough of the unused 60 per cent to make the cxperiment profitable to both labor and capital. a fact that Henry Ford Has proved is about. Let's see why it is impor- | permanent—namely, eminence. Promi- | faci tant and why It's worth sticking to after it has begun to bore us and age us. Let's see what it all means and where it is tending. And after we have found out these things, let's be- gin to teach the children about them | from the very start. Teach them defi- [ mitely. Teach the whole business of the marrlage estate—the economics, |the technique, the psychology and | ethics of souls and sex. | Ana after we have taught these things, let’s check up on the results. You'd expect a clerk to be able to pass an examination in elementaty grithmetic before you considered him qualified to sell beans, wouldn’t you? You’d make a chauffeur pass a test before you licensed him to drive cars. And yet you let youngsters go forth to people and protect the world with no more preparation than a grass- hopper has for the job. Stop blaming the devil for the di- vorces and imploring God to quicken us to His mysteries. Stop writing poetry and preaching slush. Let's get down to common sense and act as 1L our skulld were filled with something besides peach melba. Until then, remember the guinea plgisieail. (Copyrigh, 1922.) Would hLe have insti-. to the industrial world. A man works best when he s working for his own interest. If Henry Ford from self- interest appeals to the self-interest !In others, he human nature, and is doing a better, fairer and more rational thing than | if, for purely selfish purposes, he ex- ploited his workers. Since becoming rich Henry Ford has acquired no expensive tastes, formed no costly habits. {play. As compared with the manner {in which he might live, he may be |sald to live very plainly and simply. | He has often said to me: ‘Wealth does not change men. The possession of it | does not spoll them, as is so often | claimed. Wealth slmply reveals what i there is in a man. Jt lifts the 1id and i gives what is in him a chance to come out. If the bad comes to the surface, it is because it was there \and was only waiting for a chance to | express itself. * ¥ | JJE enloys the quiet and scclusion | of his home and family. He first | built a home on Edison avenue, About the same time other men who had got into the automobile game, and | were making far less money out of It than he, were buildinug ho might have been taken for the of Rhine castles— th spawned. once said to him th appea far as the Ford com- cver T judging from homes were concerne ance so pany could not Le making as muc money as some others, “Well," hie replied, “you knuw, if 1 | were going to live in a hotel, I would . want some one else to run it. I pre fer o Lomie.” And then after « pause, ,and with a chuckle, ke added, “I still like boiled potatoes with the skins on, and I do not want a man stand- +ing back of my chalr at table laugh- ing up his sleeve at me whilo T am taking the potatoes’ Jackets off.” He still likes what he always liked. His personal habits and pleasures | remain very much as they were in the days of his obscurity. Wealth has simply i is at least working' ‘along and In accordance with laws of | He makes no dis- | ted the lid, and that| ibe better for my having lived in § has t |He has had tie vision. He ability and the cpportunity. tha manifested the same sus terest in the work pdert half of Lis employes that he ba shown_in her matters. 1 some things he reveals au indomitahl will, an unfailing fntercst. In o things the will wes 1 the terest dies. He s 1eE ~pr things with startiing suddonr then he drops them as s took them up. It requires will to be than to do. In 1911 he entered wit thusiasm a new path in t soctal Just The work 1 stituted ggve promise of & to hu Itnes. smscience of the ed hope in the ranks o restoration b great ficia enntribution along indus the it empl al modern industry which would prove the greates any man could reetore to it, n 3 4 personal relation between employer and employe. That pha: of the w with some other distinguishi feu tures of It. are for the present i eclipgs—only in eclip: o ¥ hoped As to Henr: dustry, it is n cannot £ay that that i man Tisiir tid lated the time the tf has buit Lis boat w! caught aud car Mr. d antici of the autemob be given credit fur that 18 due hIm for the way ed o take the delibe uld have k and ail e 1 1s = 0 \made on on cording to o It would v pa add to the beauty of greatly reduce the When it came t Ford decided 1o m EDSEL FORD DRIVING HIS POWER BOAT ON THE DETROIT RIVER. HIS FATHER ST. :which is coming out, according his own theory, was always there. CHAPTER V. SOME ELE“&:'I‘S OF SUCCESS. E industry; he has amassed a great 'fortune; he has pald labor a liberal wage; he has built’ a hospital; he has set in operation agencies which have in their day done a great deal ,of good. To human thought, to poli- tics, to science, the arts, education, i religion, his contribution—directly or | Indirectly—is vet to be made. | What he has done for others has ! been along lines that have as a rule to |brought a liberal return to himself.| | Serlously and to his credit I would !say that his most valuable contri- butfon to humanity thus far has been | his discovery of some very profitable !kinds of philanthropy. A good thing done for reward is good. Noble and I better things however, are possible. 1 wish Henry Ford had more good to hiscredit that had cost him something. In actual service to humanity and in | unselfish use of his wealth his old running mate, Couzens, has done so far more that will live. Henry Ford plays a spectacular game. He pulls some wonderful stunts. Heo is a pinch hitter In fin- ance, and the idol of the bleachers. | | But there are better all around men in the game. He 15 as temperamental {as an artist, and as erratic. He has | been known to fan out. And he cer- | tainly muffed a couple of balls in the {case of the peace ship and his Jewish NRY FORD has built up a great ' ! paid. DS BEHIND HIM. and of a size that greatest number of largest number of your eve on the That was his siogan. people can buy what they want vast majority bur what ih ford. him in Dis de the best of its hind th would it vot 1 1 Keth for the money, suited t roll of the greatest numb, ple. standardized so us to quantity production, and therefors ¢ manufacture at minimum cost. Once he got going he discovers. and put ints practice so voi profitable ways of being generous his division of profits with lis en ployes pald in dollars and cemis That fact made it none the less i boog to lubor. His polier of sharinx some of his profits with the consu by cutting the price of the car al 1t widened his market won the confidence and good w the public. He did what no other mar has ever been able to do—touched the hearts of the people through their pocketbooks. He never went to coliege, but knows all the psychology there know in so far as it has to do w dollar. ) n % % - \ OST conspicuous among the thing AVE which have entered into his suc lcess are those of courage and te |nacity. His courage has rot alwax | been guided by the best of judzment ibut, on the whole, it has won more than it has lost. Ilis | borders at times on obstina coupled with a cool patience tiat diatribes. He is not a team man. He.geems to render him indifferent to th- |must play the game alono and for {himself. He has advanced a good ! many men on the basis of the financial diamond, but T do not recall that he |ever did so by a sacrifice hit. Henry Ford has attained a remark- ,able prominence, but he has not at- | tained that which makes prominence |nence may be gained by saying things and doing things; eminence Is achiev- ed by being. The essence of eminence is 2 man—in his mind and squl Henry Ford is an unusual, a most remarkable man, but not a great man—not yet. There aro In him neither that breadth nor depth of mind, nor that moral grandeur, which are the distinguishing marks of the truly great. Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, but no man ever had greatness thrust upon him, Shakespeare to the con- trary. He may be thrust into promi- nence, but not into eminence; for emi- nence s reached by climbing an in- ward spiritual ascent. If Henry Ford would quit watching the popular winds, take down his political lightning rod and devote himself to the solution of those hu- man problems which press upon him for solution as an Industrial leader, 1 think he could attain a great and enviable reputation. Tt ix in that di- rection, T believe, that he will find the fulfillment of the wish which he expressed to me when he said: “I do not want the things which can be bought with money. I want to live a life—to live so that the world will | passing of time. | He seems to shrini from encoun [ ters in which it will be necessary fo {him to say unpleasant things. 1 | other words, he hates a quarrel. b | he loves a good fight. Ho is of I | descent. He keeps his eye on hi- | opponent—many eves on him, —and is master in the art of wait ing. This is one of the reasons wis I think he enjoys lawsuits, of whi he has had his share—they usually so long drawn out. S0 many courts of appeal, more the merrier. At times he wearied of the Selde patent trial, but when the bell raune for a new round Le always came ba smiling and full of fight. The Dodi. trial dragged a weary length; tiu Tribune trial was long drawn ou the Newberry fight is still on. Thes: are illustrations of his bulldog grip, once'khe takes hold. He may consun so much time in the accomplishment of a thing that you think he has for- gotten all about it, and he may travel in so many devious ways to reach hix end that you think he has turned aside to other things, but he mnever forgets. The long vears of struggic against poverty and ridicule in the development of his car is the evidence of the presence in him of a quality to be admired by his friends, but to be most seriously and fearfully con- templated by his enemies. sright, 1622, by North American News- 10 vaper Alliance.) i ar. ‘There ar. and the (To” be continued In next Sunday's Star.) | l ! |