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Show LARGE CAPITAL IOW HEEDED FOR BUSINESS i Many Poor Mapliinisls Become Millionaires in Automobile Pursuit. "Time 'war., ,-inl not so very Ions aso. whpn any man ."iiilpjiod wilh moclumlcal genius and FiifTiolcrjit enplinl lo tide him over the experimental stage, could embark em-bark In the aiiloniobile business," sayB Waller K. Flaiulcrj!. prpsident and son-ornl son-ornl lnanoKor t, u)0 TO-JI-F company. Df-trolt. ""i'lioTO v.oro linleyon lay.j wondorful days, as Jnok Pack; upon them. And they vMll never return. Given i ho enthusiasm, jiftrsons not concerned In the now-tangled typo of vHildo called It by a hss pleasant name than "enthusiasm" "enthu-siasm" the necessary mechanical henL and surrielent rimds to pay for inatnrials and living exin.-incs whili "whiitllng out" an experliiiontal car. Hie man who eould miiltp one that would run at all found hip way I boron ft or- strewn with rosoH. us it wero. (le could ' llnauco tho projoct on tlie liberal doposlts doalei-s were glatl to pay nown for the privilege of handling his rnr toiritorlal rights. Ilo ronld. on the ptrenglh of hl.s onh-iv, rontraoi with various i-oncerns lo furnish fur-nish tho i-ar piecemeal one pari, such ap-motor made hope; another, axlo. peir-haps. peir-haps. mado thero; steerlngSiear in still another shop: frame in anolhor city; body, sprlnrn and other ports all made by diiTorent: coiioeninw Of course there were pitfalls a-plenty f.irthor on Inability to finance the project proj-ect over a poor so.-ison. or to carry the burden whon delayed 'lellvory of some imporlnut part inado the completn auto-moljilo auto-moljilo an impoeidliility. In short, lack of businoj-s nianaginir atillity resnltod In this as it doos in all lines, in failures many times. Kill thai is aimther story. We are eon-Bzcniod eon-Bzcniod In this story only with those, who survived, aiul while IIioro are small in comparison n-Itli the trreat .nuinbe.r who failed thy aro so re.iua'rkahle as to be almost unparalleled In commercial history his-tory previous lo the advent of the. aiiloniobile. aiilo-niobile. Detroit folks can name many men today to-day mUlioiiulrofi or nearly so who ten years ago wore 'poor -machinists' cxtrnlng $3 a day and pom" of them glad to get a steady Job even at that. It Is a wonderful won-derful condition that promotes man so so rapidly as that, and not in a mining camp, but In an old-established commu-lly. commu-lly. But those days have passed. Tho Industries In-dustries founded by those same, men have grown to such proportions, their factories have become so highly specialised special-ised as lo equipment, their operations so great, that the man who would hope-to hope-to start today where these pioneers did five ortou years ago to compete with them faces a hopeless tasU. |