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Presently Mr. Ford came in—a lean man, of good height, wearing a
rather shabby brown suit. Without being powerfully built, Mr. Ford
looks sinewy, wiry. His gait is loose-jointed—almost boyish. His
manner, too, has something boyish about it. I got the feeling that he
was a little bit embarrassed at being interviewed. That made me
sorry for him—I had been interviewed, myself, the day before. When
he sat he hunched down in his chair, resting on the small of his
back, with his legs crossed and propped upon a large wooden
waste-basket—the attitude of a lanky boy. And, despite his gray hair
and the netted wrinkles about his eyes, his face is comparatively
youthful, too. His mouth is wide and determined, and it is capable of
an exceedingly dry grin, in which the eyes collaborate. They are fine,
keen eyes, set high under the brows, wide apart, and they seem to
express shrewdness, kindliness, humor, and a distinct wistfulness.
Also, like every other item in Mr. Ford's physical make-up, they
indicate a high degree of honesty. There never was a man more
genuine than Mr. Ford. He hasn't the faintest sign of that veneer so
common to distinguished men, which is most eloquently described
by the slang term "front." Nor is he, on the other hand, one of those
men who (like so many politicians) try to simulate a simple manner.
He is just exactly Henry Ford, no more, no less; take it or leave it. If
you are any judge at all of character, you know immediately that
Henry Ford is a man whom you can trust. I would trust him with
anything. He didn't ask me to, but I would. I would trust him with all
my money. And, considering that I say that, I think he ought to be
willing, in common courtesy, to reciprocate.
He told us about the Ford business. "We've done two hundred and
five millions of business to date," he said. "Our profits have
amounted to about fifty-nine millions. About twenty-five per cent.
has been put back into the business—into the plant and the
branches. All the actual cash that was ever put in was twenty-eight
thousand dollars. The rest has been built up out of profits. Yes—it
has happened in a pretty short time; the big growth has come in the
last six years."
I asked if the rapid increase had surprised him.
"Oh, in a way," he said. "Of course we couldn't be just sure what she
was going to do. But we figured we had the right idea."
"What is the idea?" I questioned.
Then with deep sincerity, with the conviction of a man who states
the very foundation of all that he believes, Mr. Ford told us his idea.
His statement did not have the awful majesty of an utterance by Mr.
Freer. He did not flame, although his eyes did seem to glow with his
conviction.
"It is one model!" he said. "That's the secret of the whole doggone
thing!" (That is exactly what he said. I noted it immediately for
"character.")
Having revealed the "secret," Mr. Ford directed our attention to the
little toy Ford in the glass case.
"There she is," he said. "She's always the same. I tell everybody
that's the way to make a success. Every manufacturer ought to do it.
The thing is to find out something that everybody is after and then
make that one thing and nothing else. Shoemakers ought to do it.
They ought to get one kind of shoe that will suit everybody, instead
of making all kinds. Stove men ought to do it, too. I told a stove
man that just the other day."
That, I believe, is, briefly, the business philosophy of Henry Ford.
"It just amounts to specializing," he continued. "I like a good
specialist. I like Harry Lauder—he's a great specialist. So is Edison.
Edison has done more for people than any other living man. You
can't look anywhere without seeing something he has invented.
Edison doesn't care anything about money. I don't either. You've got
to have money to use, that's all. I haven't got any job here, you
know. I just go around and keep the fellows lined up."
I don't know how I came by the idea, but I was conscious of the
thought that Mr. Ford's money worried him. He looks somehow as
though it did. And it must, coming in such a deluge and so suddenly.
I asked if wealth had not compelled material changes in his mode of
life.
"Do you mean the way we live at home?" he asked.
"Yes; that kind of thing."
"Oh, that hasn't changed to any great extent," he said. "I've got a
little house over here a ways. It's nothing very much—just
comfortable. It's all we need. You can have the man drive you
around there on your way back if you want. You'll see." (Later I did
see; it is a very pleasant, very simple type of brick suburban
residence.)
"Do you get up early?" I ventured, having, as I have already
intimated, my own ideas as to what I should do if I were a Henry
Ford.
"Well, I was up at quarter of seven this morning," he declared. "I
went for a long ride in my car. I usually get down to the plant
around eight-thirty or nine o'clock."
Then I asked if the change had not forced him to do a deal of
entertaining.
"No," he said. "We know the same people we knew twenty years
ago. They are our friends to-day. They come to our house. The main
difference is that Mrs. Ford used to do the cooking. Lately we've kept
a cook. Cooks try to give me fancy food, but I won't stand for it.
They can't cook as well as Mrs. Ford either—none of them can."
I wish you could have heard him say that! It was one of his deep
convictions, like the "one model" idea.
"What are your hobbies outside your business?" I asked him.
It seemed to me that Mr. Ford looked a little doubtful about that.
Certainly his manner, in replying, lacked that animation which you
expect of a golfer or a yachtsman or an art collector—or, for the
matter of that, a postage-stamp collector.
"Oh, I have my farm out at Dearborn—the place where I was born,"
he replied. "I'm building a house out there—not as much of a house
as they try to make out, though. And I'm interested in birds, too."
Then, thinking of Mr. Freer, I inquired: "Do you care for art?"
The answer, like all the rest, was definite enough.
"I wouldn't give five cents for all the art in the world," said Mr. Ford
without a moment's hesitation.
I admired him enormously for saying that. So many people feel as
he does in their hearts, yet would not dare to say so. So many
people have the air of posturing before a work of art, trying to look
intelligent, trying to "say the right thing" before the right painting—
the right painting as prescribed by Baedeker. True, I think the man
who declares he would not give five cents for all the art in the world
thereby declares himself a barbarian of sorts. But a good, honest,
open-hearted barbarian is a fine creature. For one thing, there is
nothing false about him. And there is nothing soft about him either.
It is the poseur who is soft—soft at the very top, where Henry Ford
is hard.
I saw from his manner that he was becoming restless. Perhaps we
had stayed too long. Or perhaps he was bored because I spoke
about an abstract thing like art.
I asked but one more question.
"Mr. Ford," I said, "I should think that when a man is very rich he
might hardly know, sometimes, whether people are really his friends
or whether they are cultivating him because of his money. Isn't that
so?"
Mr. Ford's dry grin spread across his face. He replied with a question:
"When people come after you because they want to get something
out of you, don't you get their number?"
"I think I do," I answered.
"Well, so do I," said Mr. Ford.
CHAPTER VIII
THE CURIOUS CITY OF BATTLE CREEK
It was on a chilly morning, not much after eight o'clock, that we left
Detroit. I recall that, driving trainward, I closed the window of the
taxicab; that the marble waiting room of the new station looked
uncomfortably half awake, like a sleeper who has kicked the
bedclothes off, and that the concrete platform outside was a
playground for cold, boisterous gusts of wind.
Our train had come from somewhere else. Entering the Pullman car,
we found it in its night-time aspect. The narrow aisle, made
narrower by its shroud of long green curtains, and by shoes and suit
cases standing beside the berths, looked cavernous and gloomy,
reminding me of a great rock fissure, the entrance to a cave I had
once seen. Like a cave, too, it was cold with a musty and oppressive
cold; a cold which embalmed the mingling smells of sleep and
sleeping car—an odor as of Russia leather and banana peel ground
into a damp pulp.
Silently, gloomily, without removing our overcoats or gloves, we
seated ourselves, gingerly, upon the bright green plush of the
section nearest to the door, and tried to read our morning papers.
Presently the train started. A thin, sick-looking Pullman conductor
came and took our tickets, saying as few words as possible. A porter,
in his sooty canvas coat, sagged miserably down the aisle. Also a
waiter from the dining car, announcing breakfast in a cheerless tone.
Breakfast! Who could think of breakfast in a place like that? For a
long time, we sat in somber silence, without interest in each other or
in life.
To appreciate the full horror of a Pullman sleeping car it is not
necessary to pass the night upon it; indeed, it is necessary not to. If
you have slept in the car, or tried to sleep, you arise with blunted
faculties—the night has mercifully anesthetized you against the
scenes and smells of morning. But if you board the car as we did,
coming into it awake and fresh from out of doors, while it is yet
asleep—then, and then only, do you realize its enormous ghastliness.
Our first diversion—the faintest shadow of a speculative interest—
came with a slight stirring of the curtains of the berth across the
way. For, even in the most dismal sleeping car, there is always the
remote chance, when those green curtains stir, that the Queen of
Sheba is all radiant within, and that she will presently appear, like
sunrise.
Over our newspapers we watched, and even now and then our
curiosity was piqued by further gentle stirrings of the curtains. And,
of course, the longer we were forced to wait, the more hopeful we
became. In a low voice I murmured to my companion the story of
the glorious creature I had seen in a Pullman one morning long ago:
how the curtains had stirred at first, even as these were stirring
now; how they had at last been parted by a pair of rosy finger tips;
how I had seen a lovely face emerge; how her two braids were
wrapped about her classic head; how she had floated forth into the
aisle, transforming the whole car; how she had wafted past me, a
soft, sweet cloud of pink; how she—Then, just as I was getting to
the interesting part of it, I stopped and caught my breath. The
curtains were in final, violent commotion! They were parting at the
bottom! Ah! Slowly, from between the long green folds, there
appeared a foot. No filmy silken stocking covered it. It was a foot.
There was an ankle, too—a small ankle. Indeed, it was so small as
to be a misfit, for the foot was of stupendous size, and very knobby.
Also it was cold; I knew that it was cold, just as I knew that it was
attached to the body of a man, and that I did not wish to see the
rest of him. I turned my head and, gazing from the window, tried to
concentrate my thoughts upon the larger aspects of the world
outside, but the picture of that foot remained with me, dwarfing all
other things.
I did not mean to look again; I was determined not to look. But at
the sound of more activity across the way, my head was turned as
by some outside force, and I did look, as one looks, against one's
will, at some horror which has happened in the street.
He had come out. He was sitting upon the edge of his berth,
bending over and snorting as he fumbled for his shoes upon the
floor. Having secured them, he pulled them on with great
contortions, emitting stertorous sounds. Then, in all the glory of his
brown balbriggan undershirt, he stood up in the aisle. His face was
fat and heavy, his eyes half closed, his hair in tussled disarray. His
trousers sagged dismally about his hips, and his suspenders dangled
down behind him like two feeble and insensate tails. After rolling his
collar, necktie, shirt, and waistcoat into a mournful little bundle, he
produced from inner recesses a few unpleasant toilet articles, and
made off down the car—a spectacle compared with which a homely
woman, her face anointed with cold cream, her hair done in kid
curlers, her robe a Canton-flannel nightgown, would appear alluring!
Never, since then, have I heard men jeering over women as they
look in dishabille, without wondering if those same men have ever
seen themselves clearly in the mirrored washroom of a sleeping car.