Show way Back When oy By JEANNE MOTOR EXECUTIVE WAS A DAY DAV LABORER WILLIAM W ILLIAM S vice president ot of general motors hardly gave promise to the casual observer ot of being executive material 30 years ago born in denmark in IBM he came to the united states at the age of twenty with 30 in his pocket ills his first job was as a reamer and riveter in a new york shipyard and later he worked in the railroad shops at salamanca N Y repairing locomotive boller boilers S knudsen had worked in a bicycle plant in denmark and he finally obtained n job as a bench hand in a similar factory in buffalo Bul lalo N Y the result in live five years knud sen on was manager of the bicycle factory the kelm mills which henry ford bought in 1911 during the tha V next toa tc years he worked closely with ford in the development of mass production of automobiles in 1021 he joined general motors where he steadily advanced to his bis present position as one of the most prominent men in the whole automobile industry there Is so BO much in liking the work you do that even if offered more money at something I 1 did not like I 1 think I 1 would stick with tho the thing that appealed to me more and I 1 would be thinking of my rn y owr own success in doing that for when we are working on things we like we can put in more e extra tra hours we take more extra pax pains ns we can do a better job doing the things we like we tire less lesa easily we are inspired toward finding anding better waymand ways way sand and we are able to contribute so much more than we may be actually paid for at the moment that advancement cannot fall to be rapid a FLIVVER it KING HING WAS A SIMPLE MECHANIC t TIME rime Is so short so swift in passing passi I 1 we should never be at losa tor for how to use it the question should not be how can I 1 kill this evening but rather do I 1 need to take this valuable time tor for fun or Is there something important I 1 can do with it consider the life ol of henry ford he was born on a farm near dearborn mich in 1803 thi the oldest of five children henry helped his tather father with the plowing shucked chucked corn mowed hay cut grain dug potatoes and milked cows time nevor never hung heavily on his hands mechanically chani cally inclined incline d he rigged d up a small machine shop on we tile farm and repaired watches at night tor for the village jeweler after finishing I 1 C z 5 the local public schools tile the farmer boy left lor for the city to seek his fortune in Det detroit rolt he obtained a job as a mechanics ap apprentice prene and tho the fortune he ha received was per W week eek when he was waa twenty tour four he ba returned to the farm and ran a sawmill experimenting in his spare time with a steam car there was never a question in his mind about what to do with time his father was not tn in sympathy with henry fords experiments so he again went to detroit and worked for a power and light corn com pany as an engineer on the pe night shift during the seven years that he was there ho he became general mai manager lager and night after night at home he worked tar far into thi the m morning orn hours in developing a gasoline g motor car success came from his experiments at last and in order to popularize tae me new naw vehicle henry ford built racing cars and drova drove them himself in race after race you vou know where henry ford stands today ills his life Is the sto story ry of time well used it Is an example worth remembering mem bering the next time lime you are how to kilt kill time S service |