Business: Mr. Ford's Week

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¶ With Mrs. Ford, Henry Ford boarded his private railroad car, Fair Play, at Detroit last week, ordered it despatched to Washington.

¶ In Washington he fared well at Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work's dinner to President Coolidge.

¶ Next day he traveled about the city in his Lincoln motorcar, without overcoat; spent five minutes with the President; routed Michigan Senator Couzens from the Senate to sign a joint telegram to Michigan Governor Fred W. Green, protesting against capital punishment; avoided the Ford stock income tax hearings, which concerned nine of his onetime stockholders, not him..

¶ Next day in Philadelphia he complimented an audacious reporter on elbowing his way past awed police guards; called President Coolidge a "capable man, a very good man, one who seems to know what he is talking about."

¶ Eventually he reached his week's goal— Inventor Thomas Alva Edison's 80th birthday party at West Orange, N. J. Mr. Ford, genial, amiable, yelled newspapermen's questions into Mr. Edison's ear. Mr. Edison is quite deaf. Harvey S. Firestone, Akron rubberman, watched.

¶ And then homeward, in the Fair Play, to Detroit. Said Mr. Ford, talking freely: "I am too busy to make a will. . . . Any business, if it is built on proper lines, is not dependent on any one individual. . . ."