Show FLIVVER KING WAS A SIMPLE MECHANIC PIM is so short so swift in pass- pass passing passing Ting TIM ing we should never be at loss for Cor how o o 0 use it The question should not be How can 1 kill this evening but rather Do I need to take this valuable time tim for fun or is there something important I Ican Ican Ican can do with it it Consider the life of Henry Ford He was born on a farm near Dear Dear- Dearborn Dearborn Dearborn born Mich in 1863 Th oldest of five children Henry helped his fa father fa- fa father ther with the plowing shucked corn mowed hay cut grain dug pota pota- potatoes potatoes potatoes toes and milked sows rows Time nev nev- never never never er hung heavily on his hands Me Me- Mechanically Mechanically Mechanically inclined he rigged rig ed up a small machine shop hop on the farm farmand farmand arm armand and repaired watches at night for forthe forthe forthe the village jeweler After finishing the local public schools the farmer boy left for the city to seek his for for- fortune fortune fortune tune In Detroit he a job as a b mechanics mechanic's apprentice and the theN N 1 4 r Irr I I fortune he received was per week When he was twenty-four twenty he h returned to the farm and ran a sawmill experimenting in Us Hs spare time with a steam car There was never a question in his mind about what to do with time His father was not In sympathy with Henry Folds Fold's experiments so he again wen to Detroit and worked for a power and light com com- company company pany at ac an engineer on the night shift During the lle seven years that he was there he became general manager and night after night at home he worked tar lar into the morn morn- morning morning morning ing hours in I developing B a gasoline motor car Success came from his experiments at last and in order to popularize the new vehicle Hen- Hen Henry Hent Henry ry t Ford built racing cars and drove them himself in race after race You know where Henry Ford stands today His Ills life b is the story of time well used It is an on example worth re re- remembering remembering the next time you ou are wondering how to kill time tima tim O 0 C Service |