UNITED STATES WILL NOT ENTER WAR
"I was never more confident/' Henry Ford said recently in an interview in Detroit on his 77th anniversary, "than I am that the future will bring happiness, contentment, and prosperity to our people" The noted industrialist whose philosophy of life centres largely upon the idea that "there never has been produced too much of-any useful commodity," had no formal cele iration of his birthday. "Whe,n you get to lie 77 years old," Ford said, "you're more or less used to birthdays, you're years them selves don't count any way; iJ/'-s what you have done with them that adds up to success or failure." Ford repeated his conviction that the United States would not <be drawn into the Avar, "despite certain selfish interests that would like to see all our enormous resources devoted to the production of the machinery of destruction." The extent of the prosperity ho. [ sees ahead, Ford said, "depends of course upon our youth and what we teach them. We must teach them to Work and to be self-reliant. Tho sooner Ave all learn that 'life is earnest and real,' and that there is no short cut to economic or social security, the sooner will be achieved the purposes for which avp were put on this Earth.'" Ford, A\'ho pioneered in mass production and the mechanisation of industry and agriculture, believes that "once the two are definitely tied together, both, arc safe." His chief aim in developing the so-call-ed "Machine Age," lias been to make normal labour easier., and ho is positiA r e in his belief that the machine does not replace the individual wage earner, "The machine' age, so-called, " he said, "has made the normal life span longer." The present war in Europe, Ford said, could not have developed "if the peoples of all the nations involved had gone earnestly back to work after the World War. Instead, too many of them Avere content to 'coast along' taking things as they came and, knowingly or otherwise, developing a philosophy of carelessness and indifference." Ford, who has held a life-long hatred of Avar, said he Avas convinced the present conflict would not be of long duration.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 214, 18 September 1940, Page 2
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