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Show Ford at threescore ,---.. ; ' . e ' ' "' 1 4 Observes Birthday Qiiietly Poor 20 Years Ago HAS BIRTHDAY ) mi DETROIT, Mich. July SS (By V. P. ) Henry Ford, maker of automo. bllea and tho world's richest jan, la SS yeara of age today. Twenty years ago, on his fortieth birthday, ho was a poor man. Ha had Just quit a Job with th Detroit Edison company, where ht had worked for seven years to organise or-ganise the Ford Motor company, While he waa working aa a master mas-ter mechenie In tha Sdleon Electrical Elec-trical power plant, carrying hla dinner din-ner perl to work, and drawing a aalary of I Hi a month. Ford waa spending hla nlghta and holldaya working oa hla "horaeleaa carriers." car-riers." . Thus he established tho foundation founda-tion of hla' oucceee la hciemlng tho werld'e Hcheat man with a personal per-sonal fortune of fTM.OOS.eoS and head ot tha world's largest automobile auto-mobile Induetry which la capitalised capital-ised at loO.oev.tOe. . Ford alwaya forceook tha "pleas-urea "pleas-urea of life to work over hla "carriage," "car-riage," which now la the Ford auto mobile, and hla work. Ford acknowl edgea, that had It aot been for tho Ideal and spiritual devotion and faith of hla wife ho could not have succeeded. Although today marks Ford's paaetng of tha "three score years-mark. years-mark. It waa observed only aa ether dnya In hla life eana oereenony. Ford waa bom la Oreenfleld, Mich, July SS, 1SSS. Hla parents were moderately prosperous, but not wealthy.. Hla entire boyhood waa spent on tho farm, but farm work waa never to his liking. Ha had toole and pieces of sna-cfflnery sna-cfflnery for playthlnga. Ha first aspired to build a "haras leea carriage" when at tha age ot IS he met a cumbaraonm road ateam engine propelled under Its own power, pow-er, on the road near hla fathef a farm. Mrs. Ford has ' alwaya shared Ford's ambltloca and helped him toward to-ward hla goal Bat today aho refueed ta see or talk with newspaper men. 8he la proud ot her hueband, but dteUkee the great amount of publicity pub-licity aeoompaaying "greatness. Vord has a pnagtilflcent residence en the henk ef fSe Hirer etove-e. onvthe etifettfnn rf Detroit and to-oar to-oar retired to hla homo. He oould not bo reached fey In-tervfewere. In-tervfewere. Tba homo ta la contrast con-trast to that which ha occupied twenty yearn aero. He lived In a amafl bouse a ear the bustneee eectlon of Detroit, ea-lected ea-lected beoauee It had a workshop In the rear. It waa In thla shop tbat tha Ford motor car waa developed. devel-oped. When FUcd drive himself ha usually uses a Ford oar. In which soma aew appliance la being tested. test-ed. , |