Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1916 — FORD TO MAKE AUTO FOR POOR MEN [ARTICLE]

FORD TO MAKE AUTO FOR POOR MEN

Cars That Will Generate Own Power to Be Most Modern Ford Product.

“X expect by Christmas to put on the market an electric auto that will generate its own electricity at a moderate price.” This was the statement of Henry Ford, millionaire auto manufacturer and pacifist, during a recent visit to Seattle and the Pacific coast. He added, “I am not worried about the price of gas.” Continuing, Ford said: “It is my ambition to supply every working man in the United States with an automobile—one he can buy without sacrifice and operahtwiuumi duuixir

“The reason the Ford Motor company does not sell automobiles for less than the present price is that the demand would greatly exceed the supply. Today the factory is 200,(M)0 orders behind. When facilities for inming nut cars increases there- Is a possibility that the price will decrease.” Results in the past year of the r'ord profit-sharing plan, he asserted, had more than justified the course under which every employe ge«.s $5 minimum a day and a share in the growth of thq business. “The earnings of the company last year were $60,000,000,” Ford stated. “Every man, being interested in the success of tee concern, works with all his heart and soul. Results are wonderful. Last year’s earnings will be unvoted to increasing the wprking force this year, and the same program will be followed until profits decline. The working forces will be doubled. The men make the machines and sell and it is to their credit and profit that the earnings will be de-voted.”——-—j I -■