SECRET OF YOUTH

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 330, 17 September 1932, Page 6

SECRET OF YOUTH

IIENRY FOIID'S FORMULA FOR DEF15ATIN(i OLI) AGE. "DON'T.EVER BE BOREI)." Ilenry Ford's formula for a "youthful old ago," given on his sixty-ninth birthday, whieh was celebrated in I)etroit, is "Don't ever be bored." Hc said he "never was bored with anything" in his lil'e, and to prove it he talked about many subjects, from Ihe economic situation to hair shampooFirst of all, he said, the country l;ax passed the "rodcing-chair period" foi old ace. "OP cnnvso wa

like to have people thinlc we get better as we grow older," he continued, and I thinlc that is more true than ev u to-day. As long as people ar^ vitally interested in many things, they have not time to grow old. I have never been bored with anything. I almost got bored once when I went to an amatieur theatrical, but I found somebody to tallc to." The biggest work, he helieves, is the tying together of factories and farming. For several years he has been developing means whereby men may work part time on farms and part time in factories, thus linlcing the two industries. "There ax-e too many cities," he said. "Some of the people lxave to get back to the small towns, That is what we want to do with our factories. Already we have ,6000 shops scattered around the United States in smaller places. The soil is always there. People can always work it, and the soil is good for us."