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THAT SECOND MILE
What did Henry Ford mean, one
spring morning, when he tipped
a kitchen chair back against the
whitewashed wall of his tractor
plant and talked about his career?
“Have you ever noticed that the
man who starts out in life with
a determination to make money,
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never makes
much?” he asked.
It was rather a
startling' ques
tion; and with
out waiting for
my comment he
went on to an
swer it: “He may
gather together a
competence, of
course, a few
tens of thousands
or even hundreds
of thousands, but he’ll never mass
a really great fortune. But let a
man start out in life to build
something better than it has evei
been built before—let him have
that determination; and give his
•whole self to it—and the money
will roll in so fast that it will bury
him if he doesn’t look out.
“When we were building our
original model do you suppose that
it was money we were thinking a
bout? Of course, we expected that
it would be profitable, if it suc
ceeded, but that wasn’t in the
front of our minds. We wanted to
make a car so cheap that every
family m the United States coul l
afford to have one. So we worked
morning, noon and night, until oui
muscles ached and our nerves were
so ragged that it seemed as if we
couldn’t stand it to hear any one
mention the word automobile a
gain. One night, when we were
almost at the breaking point I
said to the boys, ‘Well, there’s one
consolation,” I said. ‘Nobody can
take this business away from us
unless he’s willing to work hard
er than we’ve worked.’ And so
far”, he concluded with a whimsi
cal smile, “nobody has been will
ing to do that.”
What did Theodore N. Vail mean
when he said that only once in his
life did he set out with the delib
erate intention of making money
—that all the rest of his fortune
had come from work which so
gripped him that he forgot about
money ? The one occasion to which
he referred was his trip to South
America where he found a mine
that did prove profitable, and
doubtless still is. He made that
trip because he had lost all his
money in an effort to establish
a big central heating plant in
Boston—to give people better
warmth, as he had already helped
to give them better communica
tion. The heating plant failed, and
he paid its debts with the South
American mine. But the bulk of
his fortune came from the achi
evement for which he will always
be remembered—the establishment
of the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company. To that great
enterprise he gave everything he
had—“threw his life into it,” as
we say—“lost his life in it,” as
Jesus said. And it gave him back
larger and richer life, and a for
tune and immortality.
“Whosoever shall compel thee
to go a mile,” said Jesus, “go with
him twain.”
To celebrate the thirteenth birth
day of her big collie dog, Possum,
Mrs. Mary Ayres Harris of Ma
con, Ga., recently entertained
more than 25 children at her
liome. |
Arrested for refusing to sup
port his wife. Michael Conner of
Workington, Eng., who married a
widow with four grown sons, de
clared that his home was like a
“den of lions.”
TOWN
TALK
Miss Dolly King spent Sun
day in Rocky Mount.
Mrs. J. K. Kirk ana sons have
returned from Albemarle.
Miss Helen Brown has returned
from a visit to Miss Agnes Har
hell in Red Oak.
Mrs. Waverly Davis, Misses Lu
cille and Edith Davis, Elmo and
Ervin Davis, spl-nt Sunday i
Ocean View.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Davis and
son, William Henry, spent Sun
day at Seaboard.
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Fuir, of
Norfolk, were the week-end vis
itors of Mrs. Mary Sadler.
Mrs. Maywood Hudgins, who
has been visiting her mother,
Mrs. Mary Sadler, has returned
to her home in New Port News,
Va.
Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Brown and
children spent Sunday afternoon
in Red Oak.
_
Miss Dorothy Daughtry has re
turned after spending a week in
Norfolk, Va.
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Eubank and
family were called to Starrnont,
Va., because of the death of her
sister-in-law, Mrs. H. W. Kerr.
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IN ANSWER TO A LADY'S LETTER
A lady writes to say that she does not understand why an 8-cylinder
car does not cost more to run than a car with fewer cylinders. She
refers to my statement that our Ford V-8 develops more power on a gallon
of gas than any car we have made.
The use of 8—cylinders does not mean the addition of two or four
extra fuel consumers. It is not, for example, a 4-cylinder engine
multiplied by two. Our 8-cylinder engine takes the fuel suppiy of an
ordinary 4-cylinder engine and divides it eight ways. And why?
By reducing four larger explosions into eight smaller ones, we get
engine smoothness and quietness. Eight-cylinders indicate the way the
gas is used, not the amount. It is just the difference between going
upstairs in four long jumps or in eight ordinary steps.
Two things use up gas—bad engine design and useless car weight.
Besides having an engine that gets a high percentage of power out of the
fuel, the Ford V-8 has a light, strong body and chassis so that no power
is wasted in moving excess weight. ‘ v
The only extravagance about the new Ford V-8 engine is in the building
of it. The extravagance is ours—the economy is jours.
The whole question of car economy needs clearing up. An economical
car gives economy all round. Price, operation, upkeep, all play their
part. If what you save on gas you lose elsewhere, that is not economy.
As to upkeep, our dealers say that in recent years the improved
quality of Ford cars has cut down their repair business 50 per cent.
As to price with quality,—judge for yourself.
As to economy, here is the record of a stock car three weeks out of
shop in Oklahoma:
On a run of 10,054 miles at the rate of 1,000 miles a day the Ford
V-8 gave 18.8 miles per gallon of gas. Not a drop of water was added
to the radiator. The oil was changed once in 1,000 miles.
That should answer a lot of questions.
July 24th, 1933
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