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Stuart, ; wondered how + been completed, and it sat back to How Henry Ford Weathered The Storm As a manufacturer, Henry Ford is one of the wonders of the world; and richly* qualified to address the as- sembled nations on business prob- lems. Recently he went through the sternest test in his career and emerg- ed triumphant. He owed $60,000,000 and had only about $20,000,000 witb which to pay it, but at a time when business seemed almost stagnant he sold enough cars and put into prac- tice sufficient economies in his great plants to raise $67,000,000 and thus pay off his debts without borr@wing a cent. He showed himself worthy of the great position he occupies, for it is in hard times that business men are really tried. As one shamelessly frank Canadian manufacturer we anyone who couldn't make mon in| war time was a fool. It will not be everybody ‘who made money in war | time and established flourishing in-! dustries, who will be able to adjust | himself to new conditions. The larg- | er the industry the greater the dit: | ficulty of weathering the storm. The) largest manufacturing business in the, world, which the Ford business is’ taken to ees has turned sea corner. | vaiting the Sto Mr. Ford says that the aired indi- cation of approaching trouble came to him early in 1920, when a_ few concerns manufacturing luxuries or| ‘staple commodities began to fail. He: long it would be be-| fore people refrained from buying} Ford cars. When the time came, _it did shortly, he was not taken un- nwares. By June sales were falling off at an alarming rate. Yet in the’ face of the buying strike, as it was! called, the firms that supplied him! with raw materials showed no_ in- tention of cutting prices. In Detroit, firm after firm shut down, but the Ford plant continued to run at full blast to everybody's astonishment. In September came the sensational announcement that the price of the cars had been reduced. It was an- nounced that the company made the cut in anticipation of lowered prices for raw Materials, an that for a time it would manufacture at a l6ss {in order to hasten a return to the basic prices of peace time. It figur- ed it had to take a Joss some time, and! chose to take it then, the loss being one of Ht 000,000. g Up Stock Business rn as kh result of the reduced prices, and some other manufacturers also cut prices, but Soon sales fell off again. The public had evidently come to the conclusion that the process of deflation had not wait. Nevertheless, Ford continued to operate the plant, but he was buying mighty little raw material. What he was doing was turning into finished cars every scrap of material he had on hand, and to turn this into am was the next thing to turning it in money. Then the factory closed down.’ j ae i It was expected to reopen in two, weeks, but as a matter of fact it the! not open for six weeks. This was the time that rumors flew all over the| country. {t was said that the people were in financial difficulties, | and that they would never reopen, or that if they did it would be under a new directorship. It was more than hinted that Henry Ford had been going about Wall street hat in hand. but that because of the attacks of his paper, the Dearborn Independent, up- on the Jews, the latter had been able to keep him from getting money. all Street's Bid It Was true enongh that Wall street was keenly interested in Ford, but instead of him asking for money, Wall street offered it. The agént of one big Wall street firm visited Mr. Ford and tried to force money on him “T don't need a loan,” said the manu- facturer. The broker insisted that he did and showed an intimate know- ledge of the financial obligations and the resources of the company. He out- lined the plan, to which Mr. Ford listened out of courtesy. The read- ing went on for some minutes, and then the reader suddenly broke off to ask: “Who's going to be the new treasurer of your company?" ‘That makes no difference to you, does it?” asked the manufacturer. “Oh, yes, it does. We'll have to have some say as to who the new treasurer will be.’ j is produced to @how that the people Ford | tebdebey PELEEEEEEEEEE TEE ETS +. IS THE BIBLE NEGLECTED? + | bbe bh ye Te a Oe ee a at St ae ae ae Se oar ae ae a Oe Da Every now and then some evidence of the present generation, particu- larly the younger people, are living ee a nies of lamentable ignorance of le. Do we no longer appreci- ro in Good Book as our fathers and mothers did? Do we no longer read it and study it as they did? How is it‘that so many of us appear to know so little about it in comparison with what our fathers and mothers knew? A questionnaire was recently put before the third and fourth classes of five representative public schools in Toronto, and the results appear to have been very disappointing. are some of the outstanding | given as the result of the examina- tion and answers of nearly 1,000 pupfis: Not one pupil quoted the Ten Commandments correct y. Not one pupil could give the list of the 12 apostels correctly. About 50 per «ent quoted the Lord’s prayer fairly but not ab- solutely correct. Not more than 50 per cent. could quote three things that Christ .sai 7 Very few could quote a state- ment from St. 1. About one per cent. knew that the oldest man mentioned in the Bible was Methuselah, but only one got his ase correctly, 969 years. Not _— than 20 per cent. This ended the interview. Mr. Ford , handed the eo Le hat and hur-! ried him to the do Raising the Money Then Mr. Ford ‘proceeded to raise the money himself. Between Jan. 1 and April 1 he turned into cash stock worth $24,700,000. By virtue of his) recent purchase of the Detroit, Tol-| edo and.Ironton raikway, which mov-| ed most of his raw material, he was | able to effect a saving of $28,000.- 000. He calculated that he had $83.-| 000,000 tied up in moving and res-! erve stocks which it required three weeks to turn into the finished prod- uct. By cutting the time to 14 days,’ he figured that he released nearly a| third of this amount. It came to the Same thing, for he had ‘that much} more cash to pay ‘his debts. He also) sold $7,900,000 of libergy bonds. By! applying pressure to his Ggents in for-! eign countries, he collected $3,000,- 000 outstanding. He went through, the Ford plant making economies.: cutting out ‘processes and @customs) that had become established in the) war, sending three-quarters of his) foremen back to their machines and! ordering superfluous clerks to the, factory. In this way he was able to! cut his overhead from $146 to $93 a! car. This hejwas able to achieve with) no hardship to anyotie except the em-} ployees who had to remain idle for, six’ weeks. They received their usual; bonus and now the prospects for con-| tinued profitable employment are a4 cellent. could compiete correctly three out of seven fairly familiar Bible quotations, of Bie the first hrase was giv Perhaps some ef our Bible atud- ents may be interested in the list of questions submitted. Here it is: 1. Quote the first statement of each of the Ten Command- ments, to show that you know what each is about 2. What was the ark? “Who built it? What did it contain? o was the oldest man mentioned in the Bible, and tell how old was when he died. 4. Quote the Lord's prayer. } 5. Nume three of the prophets of Israel. | | | 6. Write short notes on any three of the following: Joseph, Daniel, David, Noah, Lot’s wife, Solomon. 7. For what were the follow- ing mountains noted in Bible his- j { j j tory: Sinai, Ararat. Calvary, Mount of Olives. | 8. Quote three things that Christ said. 9. Is.there any record of rep- | tiles or other animals -speaking to man or woman in the Bible? | Give the instances. 10. Name the twelve apostles. | igs Which of them betrayed Christ? 1. Name one of St. jPauls | epistles and quote one’ of, his statements. 1 12. Complete at least three of | the following quotations: . i so strenuous and “AS Moses lifted u “God so loved the oid. “Come unto Me, all ye. “In my Father’s house. a hath beieved our re- “What doth the Lord thy God require of thee It is not what could be properly called a difficult paper. There are no eatch questions. Any ordinary stud- ent of the Bible ought to be able to pass a fairly good ‘examination. The showing made by the Toronto schol- ars may therefore be regarded as dis- appointing. What is the explanation? Perhaps there is no one explanation but many. Perhaps we are less inter- ested in religion than our parents. were; but it may be that we are less interested in religious disputes. There was.a time when the Bible was re- garded as a sortof armory for supply- ing ammunition for use in sect warfare—it was unsafe to even Zo. into your neighbor’s house without a supply of texts—chapter and verse— with which to defend yourself or con- found your jopponent, [Then, too, we are all aware that it is possible ‘to know a great deal about the Bible and yet not know the Bible. Some people seem to have ‘learned every- thing about the Bible but Wi spirit of its teachings. And it may be that the sativa of the present generation who are weak in their knowledge of the Bible are strong in their knowledge of other things. Many of the boys who show- ed such a lamentable ignorance when questioned as to the age of Methusel- could name at ajglance, perhaps the make of an automobile or could astonish their teachers and examiners by their know eg of ee trans- mission, We ar ot to assume too hastily that the roan pepitte of this age are growing ‘up in elt eee ignor- ance. If they fail at times to meet the tests applied by their examiners, it may be that they know a iot of things of which these same examiners are ignorant. However, fohe studyfof the Bible should not be n tted. —RBxchange A Disastrous Policy— Walkerton Times—The universal adoption of an eight hour day would result in greatly decreased produc- | tion of most lines. There are callings nerve-exhausting | that eight hours’ work per day is too much. There are others with more variety and less strain where it is too little. Sweden, which adopted the eight hour day a year. ago, now making a gletermined effort to have the law it enacted repealeil. When the bill was passed it waa claimed that the ‘eight hour day would mean greater efficiency dur- the shorter hours of f@abor and” MF cusatte as great production as in a nine or ten hour day. “The. re- sult_there has been disastrous, and it is estimated that Sweden és losing about $200,000,000 annually as a re- sult of the shorter day adopted.