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Show MILLIONAIRE AT FACTORY LATHE "I'm Worker By Choice," Says Heir to Dogde Motor Fortune BY MORRIS QUINN. DKTROIT, Feb. Is. Found the most remarkable multimillionaire In the world' ll.- f Horace Elgin Dodge. 2T-year-ol1 heir to the lurgv Interest in the I;odge Brothei V Motor company here. Dodge ie remarkable because he doesn't follow any of the rules movl producer! have laid down for young mll-llonolree. mll-llonolree. He doesn t stay In bed until noon j and gt up with a adai hi He doesn't snend the afternoon look-' look-' ins out of the windows of an exclusive club. Or the evening at the latest musical comedy. He doesn t "laugh hl way through Ufa " as t'ie subline writers put It UP EVERY DAY AT 0. Instead h i up eVerj morning at 6. And at work by 7. And spends the day toiling at a machine ma-chine as a common worker In the nv- tor plant his father founded! That's not because a stern parent Is keeping the ycung man busy to keep h!m out Of rnlachlef. The rliior !odge recently re-cently died His heir's hard work Is sclf-lmicsed. After hln graduation from military academy and a course in college, Dodga married Miss virclnla. Knowlson, ie-I ie-I troll oclety girl, last June. As they left f'r Europe on a honcy-mon:i honcy-mon:i Dodge announced tHat on his return re-turn he'd start In as a laborer In tin-Dodge tin-Dodge f'rtcry to learn tlie auto business busi-ness from the bottcm ur. GOES INTO FACTORY. When ho came back In October he made good on ms promise, tic s oeen rklng ever rlnce. Every morning Dodge's alarm clock ring al 6 And Dodg- responds H eats a hasty breakfast at his residence resi-dence in i '.rosso l'olnte. exclusive Detroit suburb. j He jump Into hir. touring car and hurries to the automobile plant hurries hur-ries because the plretit opens at 7 a. in. Ha punchea a lime clock at the cm-ployea' cm-ployea' o-ntrance of tho foel and metal p:i 1 1 crn 'i ' art ment . Ha puts on a workman's rouch aprci.i j They wear aprons instead fjf overalls In Ids deportment Then he works until the whistle blow -I for lunch. He lunches In the plant I cafeteria. PUTS IN PULL DAYS 'When the t.'.-mlnute lunch period 1 ...r. ho goes back to his machine and I stays there until the whistle blows I 4.4S . m. When Dodge started work officials of ; the plant put i desk out In the wood and metal jattern department en their apprentice could sit there quietly and watch what was going on. But DodgO wasn't there to watch Ho took a place at one r.f the machines and Insisted on operating tt "I've always loved machinery ' Pori-. says. "I can't learn too much about ft "l 11 never sit at an executive desk until I've learned all mechanical operations oper-ations b actual contact. Thus f.ir they've only let mo work on n few modi mo-di In es, because my boss is afraid I 1 mlcht gej hurt vv lainer ictimi i 1 1 ii .t ii j, m.l nine in I this plant as well as any workman MOybe I've Inherited some mechanical ability from him I hone so." WILL MAKE ROUNDS I When Dodge has learned all he can about the wood and metal pattern department, de-partment, ho'll move on to another department. de-partment. For the present the nunc millionaire s "boss? K, C. Baho. head of the pattern department. Babn occasionally has to "bawl out' the millionaire workman hut only because be-cause of the ounr mans desire to work op machines that are forbidden to hhn to do more than his allotted share But In point of efficiency and promptness prompt-ness Dodge Is the best workman In the department. Baho testified. "Ho'a got the right stuff In him there a no denying that ." Rabo says. "The patterns he's turned Out are unusually un-usually good. CONSCIENTIOUS. TOO "And he's one of the most conRclen- tlous workmen In my department. He won't even lay off when bo's 111 ho ! nnco even dlsr.heyed his doctor's orders to Kt to work"' Dodge draws paychecks regularly H , soya he s going to hevo the first one frnmod. "The hardost Job of all Is rolling out of bed In the morning." Dodge smiles, I "hut I mnr.ago to do It somehow, I "I've found my life work It'll take I a lifetime to man'er everything there Is to learn about this plant You know It covers 100 acres of floor spao. 'Tm beginning to look on my work ' as play nowadays and T have lots nior-1 fun than I would If I tried to pull through life doing nothing." |