HENRY FORD'S IDEAS

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 134, 3 December 1929, Page 17

HENRY FORD'S IDEAS

"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- the far places of the Empire, right by the side of .their men, sharing the dangers and privations of a pioneering .life with a smile on their lips. "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 life 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. AYe have been partners for 41 years. "If women are wise, they are a coming power—but a power in the home, not in industry. Homes are the motives of men. Industry exists only because in the end it ministers to the home. Women are a diminishing, rather than an oncoming force in industry. Women and men are not competitors but complements. I get along better, and always have done, by working together with Mrs. Ford. We always work together in everything wo do—we walked together, read together, played together, made the most of our opportunities together.

"I believe a woman's good thouel'" and a man's good thoughts, united *r gether, are a great power—a new anspecial kind' of power—in the worh: We don't quite realise that all though' are independent entities. They are sn! • stantial, these thoughts of ours. The arc our way back to religion, in wbi?: lies actual power to ennoble people We ar© now on our way back to a worli that we knew when humanity iv,r young.''