Remarks

As it was before, so it was last week, only perhaps more so. Again, the most memorable remarks of the week came neither from apostle nor statesman but from a Detroit manufacturer. Henry Ford first remarked that he did not know how rich he was, that he did not care a damn. "I don't give a damn," he shouted to the eager U. S. as represented by honest newsmen. "No, not a damn." Then he remarked, casually, pontifically, that Hoover was the man (see p. 7). Then he remarked that he and son Edsel expected to fly to South America this summer in a Ford-Stout plane. Again, that he and Thomas A. Edison were working on rubber raising (he had said this before, but the public forgets). Then he said "we are building a new Diesel engine--burning crude oil instead of gasoline--and we hope it will deliver one horsepower for each pound it weighs. I am personally laying it out although a crowd of us, Edsel and others, are working on it." (See AERONAUTICS.) All these and other remarks were made sublime by Edsel Ford's remarking that 727,000 orders had already -- within a month--been placed for the new Ford car, of which 537,000 are for immediate delivery, $25 each having been received as down payment. (The most Ford cars ever made in one year were somewhat more than two million.) The promise of Mr. Ford was simply that he would make, make, make, make, neither heaven nor money, but good things for good people and bad. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Edsel Ford had come by special train to Manhattan to attend the Ford Industrial Exhibition of which Edsel Ford said: "the New York show is built around this one idea--a visual demonstration of the operation of the Ford industries, from the raw materials to the finished product. We have stated frequently that we do not charge a profit on the materials from our iron mines, coal mines, gas plants, blast furnaces, rolling mills and other operations which enter into the construction of our automobiles, trucks, airplanes and other manufactured products."

The Ford's New York stopping place: the Ritz-Carlton.