The People's Tycoon: Henry Ford and the American Century (Vintage) (113 page)

29.
For background on Ford and this booklet, see David L. Lewis, “Introduction,”
The Case Against the Little White Slaver
(Detroit, 1992 [1916]). All following citations to this work are from this edition.

30.
Lewis, “Introduction,”
Little White Slaver,
n.p.

31.
Anon.,
Little White Slaver,
pp. 4, 5–6.

32.
Ibid., pp. 11–14, 15–17; HF, statement at end of vol. 4 of ibid., n.p.

33.
Ibid., pp. 13, 17–18, 19, 64, 65.

34.
Ibid., p. 5.

35.
Ibid., pp. 14–15, 48, 21, 49–50.

36.
Ibid., pp. 50, 37–39, 46, 22.

37.
Ibid., pp. 29–36, 51; Lewis, “Introduction.”

38.
Cameron Wilkie, “If You Could Spend an Hour with Henry Ford,”
Christian Herald,
July 20, 1929, p. 5; P. L. Atkinson, “Smooth-Running Henry Ford,”
Physical Culture,
June 1923, p. 126.

39.
HF,
Three Interviews on Prohibition
(Detroit, 1930), pp. 3–4, 5, 16.

40.
Ibid., p. 12.

41.
Ibid., pp. 10, 11, 15, 16.

42.
Ibid., pp. 6, 20, 13.

43.
Ibid., pp. 1–2, 5.

44.
Norman Beasley, “The Commonest Thing We Do We Know Least About: An Interview with Henry Ford,”
Redbook,
May 1935, p. 59.

45.
Frank Parker Stockbridge, “Henry Ford, Amateur,”
World's Work,
Sept. 1918, p. 515; “Mr. Ford Doesn't Care,”
Forbes,
Dec. 1933, p. 134.

46.
Elbert Hubbard, “A Little Journey to the Workshop of Henry Ford,”
Ford Times,
June 1912, p. 243.

47.
John Reed, “Industry's Miracle Maker,”
Metropolitan Magazine,
Oct. 1916, pp. 10, 68.

48.
Ida M. Tarbell, “Every Man a Trade and a Farm,”
McCall's,
July 1927, p. 79. Tarbell quotes at length from her discussions with HF in May 1915.

49.
“Ford Thoughts,” as set down by James Martin Miller,
Success,
May 1923, p. 35. See also Reynolds M. Wik,
Henry Ford and Grass-Roots America
(Ann Arbor, 1973), p. 43.

50.
HF, quoted in Wik,
Henry Ford and Grass-Roots America,
p. 12; “Ford Thoughts,” p. 35; HF, telegram to Branch Manager, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Feb. 22, 1922, in acc. 1, box 3, FA.

51.
Andrew S. Wing, “The Sort of a Man Henry Ford Is When You Meet and Talk with Him,”
Farm and Fireside,
Feb. 1926, pp. 4, 5; Andrew S. Wing, “A Farmer Visits Henry Ford,”
Farm and Fireside,
Sept. 1925, pp. 3, 49.

52.
Ford R. Bryan, “Revival of Old-Fashioned Harvesting,” pp. 1–4, in Vertical File—“Farming,” FA.

53.
N.a., “The Dearborn Flour Mill,” pp. 1–3, in Vertical File—“Ford Farms,” FA.

54.
Reed, “Miracle Maker,” pp. 11, 67; Detroit
News,
May 11, 1930; Tarbell, “Every Man a Trade and a Farm,” p. 80.

55.
Wing, “Farmer Visits Henry Ford,” p. 3.

56.
Judson C. Welliver, “Henry Ford, Dreamer and Worker,”
American Review of Reviews,
Nov. 1921, pp. 494, 485.

57.
HF,
My Life and Work
(Garden City, N.Y., 1922), pp. 15, 204.

58.
Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
p. 232; HF quoted in Welliver, “Henry Ford, Dreamer and Worker,” pp. 482–83.

59.
Sorensen,
My Forty Years with Ford,
pp. 233–36; Wik,
Henry Ford and Grass-Roots America,
pp. 84–87.

60.
Wik,
Henry Ford and Grass-Roots America,
pp. 87–96.

61.
“Henry Ford at Bay: The Extraordinary Trial at Mt. Clemens,”
Forum,
Aug. 1919, pp. 142–43; HF,
My Life and Work,
p. 200. See also Wik,
Henry Ford and Grass-Roots America,
p. 88.

62.
HF, “We Don't Know Enough,”
Country Home,
Aug. 1931, p. 5; Welliver, “Henry Ford, Dreamer and Worker,” pp. 482–83; Ford interview, Washington
Evening Star,
May 28, 1930; Wing, “Farmer Visits Henry Ford,” p. 46; “Experimenting with the Soy Bean,”
Ford News,
March 1933, pp. 49–51; Reynolds M. Wik, “Henry Ford's Science and Technology for Rural America,”
Technology and Culture,
Summer 1962, pp. 247–58.

63.
Welliver, “Henry Ford, Dreamer and Worker,” p. 485. See Clipbooks 1919–1923, in FA, for a sampling of news stories on Ford's initiatives in this area.

64.
“Henry Ford at Bay,” p. 142.

65.
HF, “Why Henry Ford Wants to Be Senator,”
World's Work,
Sept. 1918, pp. 525–26; “Henry Ford Wants Cowless Milk and Crowdless Cities,”
Literary Digest,
Feb. 26, 1921,
p. 42; “Henry Ford at Bay,” p. 143. See also “Ford Thoughts,” p. 36; Wing, “Sort of a Man Ford Is,” p. 52.

66.
HF,
My Life and Work,
pp. 190, 189, 192.

67.
“Spirit of 76,” p. 8.

1.
Oliver Barthel, “Reminiscences,” pp. 70–73; “Henry Ford, Discussing His Religion, Says I Believe in a Master Mind,” London
Express,
Nov. 4, 1928; William C. Richards,
The Last Billionaire
(New York, 1948), p. 411.

2.
See HF, “Looking Under the Human Hood,”
Rotarian,
Jan. 1947, p. 10, and HF, “Rock of Ages,”
Woman's Home Companion,
July 1943, where he recalled his early religious training; Dr. Edsel Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” p. 3; Margaret Ford Ruddiman, “Reminiscences,” pp. 38–39.

3.
HF, quoted in Sidney Olson,
Young Henry Ford: A Pictorial History of the First Forty Years
(Detroit, 1997 [1963]), p. 31; Samuel S. Marquis,
Henry Ford: An Interpretation
(Boston, 1923), p. 92.

4.
“Henry Ford Says I Believe in a Master Mind”; Ralph Waldo Trine,
The Power That Wins: Henry Ford and Ralph Waldo Trine in an Intimate Talk on Life
(Indianapolis, 1928), pp. 76–77, 80.

5.
“Ford and Trine: A Christmas Conversation About Life, Work, Vision, Religion, and Immortality,”
Psychology,
Feb. 1929, p. 55; Irving Bacon, “Reminiscences,” p. 155; Artemus Litogot, “Reminiscences,” quoted in Peter Collier and David Horowitz,
The Fords: An American Epic
(New York, 1987), p. 132.

6.
Charles H. Wood, “Ford Makes Some Amazing Revelations,”
Forbes,
Jan. 1928, p. 10; “Henry Ford Says I Believe in a Master Mind.”

7.
“Henry Ford Says I Believe in a Master Mind.” On Ford's familiarity with Emerson, see Allan L. Benson,
The New Henry Ford
(New York, 1923), pp. 331–32. See also Trine,
Power That Wins,
pp. 14, 15.

8.
“Henry Ford Says I Believe in a Master Mind”; Ralph Waldo Trine, “The Religion of a Practical Man,”
New McClure's,
Feb. 1929, p. 67.

9.
“The Amazing Things Henry Ford Told Frazier Hunt About Himself,”
Cosmopolitan,
Feb. 1926, p. 25; “Henry Ford Talks of Mind-Reading in Dialogue with Ralph Waldo Trine,” Boston
Post,
n.d., in Vertical File—“Misc.,” FA.

10.
“Henry Ford Says I Believe in a Master Mind.”

11.
“Ford Says He Reads Bible Every Day,” New York
Times,
July 25, 1929; HF, “Looking Under the Human Hood,” p. 11.

12.
“Henry Ford Says I Believe in a Master Mind”; “Ford and Trine: A Christmas Conversation,” p. 54.

13.
HF, “Rock of Ages,”
Woman's Home Companion,
July 1943; HF, “Looking Under the Human Hood,” p. 10; William A. Stidger, “At the Height of 80 Years,”
Christian Herald,
July 1943, pp. 15–16; HF, “Faith,”
American Magazine,
Feb. 1941, p. 9; S. J. Woolf, “Ford, at 80, Expounds His Faith,” New York
Times Magazine,
July 25, 1943, pp. 6, 23.

14.
On Trine, see Donald Meyer,
The Positive Thinkers: A Study of the American Quest for Health, Wealth, and Personal Power from Mary Baker Eddy to Norman Vincent Peale
(New York, 1965), pp. 25, 60, 61, 88, 92–95.

15.
Trine,
Power That Wins,
pp. 11–12.

16.
Charles S. Braden,
Spirits in Rebellion: The Rise and Development of New Thought
(Dallas, 1963), pp. 13–20, 28, 35, 49; Jackson Lears,
No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880–1920
(New York, 1981), pp. 38, 53–54; Meyer,
Positive Thinkers.

17.
Nathan G. Hale, Jr.,
Freud and the Americans: The Beginnings of Psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876–1917
(New York, 1971), pp. 231–32, 229, 244; Braden,
Spirits in Rebellion,
pp. 14–18; Meyer,
Positive Thinkers;
Lears,
No Place of Grace.

18.
Norman Beasley, “Ford Answers: 'Should You Go into Business for Yourself,' ”
Forbes,
Nov. 15, 1928, p. 11; P. L. Atkinson, “Ford's Message to Young Men of Today,”
National Brain Power,
June 1923, p. 72; M. K. Wisehart, “Henry Ford Talks to Young Men,”
American Magazine,
Aug. 1929, p. 160, quoted in text.

19.
Atkinson, “Ford's Message to Young Men,” p. 14; Albert Sidney Gregg, “Henry Ford's Half Dozen,”
Leslie's Illustrated Weekly,
Dec. 31, 1921, p. 908; Benson,
New Henry Ford,
pp. 67–68, 210, 270, 273–74; Bacon, “Reminiscences,” p. 155.

20.
Wisehart, “Henry Ford Talks to Young Men,” pp. 160, 45; HF, “As I See It: A Common Sense Editorial,”
National Brain Power,
June 1923, p. 11.

21.
Trine,
Power That Wins,
pp. 37–38, 47, 61–63, 16–17, 35. See also “Henry Ford Talks of Mind-Reading.”

22.
Trine,
Power That Wins,
pp. 15–16, 21, 22.

23.
Ibid., pp. 161–62, 165–66.

24.
Detroit
Times,
March 29, 1926; William C. Richards,
The Last Billionaire: Henry Ford
(New York, 1948), pp. 292–93, quoted in text; David L. Lewis,
The Public Image of Henry Ford: An American Folk Hero and His Company
(Detroit, 1976), p. 229.

25.
For insightful treatments of nineteenth-century food and health reformers, see Stephen Nissenbaum,
Sex, Diet, and Debility in Jacksonian America: Sylvester Graham and Health Reform
(Westport, Conn., 1980); James C. Whorton,
Crusaders for Fitness: The History of American Health Reformers
(Princeton, N.J., 1982).

26.
Trine,
Power That Wins,
pp. 107, 108, 111; Keith Sward,
The Legend of Henry Ford
(New York, 1948), pp. 108–9.

27.
Trine,
Power That Wins,
p. 119; “Spirit of 76! Henry Ford Talks to Bernarr Macfadden,”
Liberty,
Oct. 28, 1939, pp. 7–8.

28.
Norman Beasley, “The Commonest Thing We Do, We Know Least About,”
Redbook,
May 1935, pp. 59, 164. See also Trine,
Power That Wins,
p. 107.

29.
Detroit
News,
August 9, 1919; Sward,
Legend of Henry Ford,
p. 108; Lewis,
Public Image,
p. 229; Robert Lacey,
Ford: The Men and the Machine
(New York, 1986), p. 240.

30.
Barthel, “Reminiscences,” pp. 77–78; Sward,
Legend of Henry Ford,
pp. 108–9; Trine,
Power That Wins,
pp. 114, 127–28; Baltimore
Sun,
Feb. 10, 1921.

31.
For revealing discussions of this trend, see Lears,
No Place of Grace,
pp. 26–32; Gail Bederman,
Manliness & Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880–1917
(Chicago, 1995), pp. 170–215.

32.
Ann Fabian, “Making a Commodity of Truth: Speculations on the Career of Bernarr Macfadden,”
American Literary History,
1991, pp. 51–76; Lisa Grunberger, “Bernarr Macfad-den's
Physical Culture:
Muscles, Morals, and the Millennium,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1997, esp. pp. 1–20.

33.
P. L. Atkinson, “Smooth-Running Henry Ford,”
Physical Culture,
June 1923, pp. 24–25, 126–27; P. L. Atkinson, “Introducing Henry Ford Himself,” “Ford's Message to Young Men Today,” and “Making the Ancient God Vulcan Look like Thirty Cents,” all in
National Brain Power,
June 1923, pp. 12–13, 64–65, 14–16, 72, 26–28, 60–61; “Spirit of 76,” pp. 7–8; Bernarr Macfadden, “Henry Ford's Secret for Success and Happiness,”
Physical Culture,
Jan. 1940, pp. 12–13, 77–78. The advertisement appeared in
National Brain Power,
June 1923, p. 65.

34.
Atkinson, “Smooth-Running Ford,” pp. 24–25, 126.

35.
Ibid., pp. 126, 127; Macfadden, “Ford's Secret for Success and Happiness,” p. 78.

36.
Norman Beasley, “Keep Interested and Stay Fit: An Intimate Interview with Henry Ford,”
Psychology,
Nov. 1923, pp. 7–9.

37.
Trine,
Power That Wins,
pp. 128, 69.

38.
Charles E. Sorenson,
My Forty Years with Ford
(New York, 1956), p. 18; Allan L. Benson,
The New Henry Ford
(New York, 1923), p. 201.

39.
John Côté Dahlinger,
The Secret Life of Henry Ford
(Indianapolis, 1978), pp. 80, 215. John Dahlinger was the son of Evangeline Dahlinger and, most likely, Henry Ford.

40.
Ibid., p. 15.

41.
Ibid., pp. 15, 16, 27.

42.
Ibid., pp. 8–9, 26, 87.

43.
Ibid., pp. 32, 80.

44.
Ibid., pp. 23, 70.

45.
Ibid., pp. 101, 14.

46.
Ibid., pp. 16, 90, 91; “Boss of 7,000-Acre Farm Got Start as Floorwalker in Detroit 12 Years Ago,” Detroit
Times,
Sept. 27, 1918; Ford News Bureau, news release, n.t., n.d., in Vertical File—“Ray Dahlinger,” FA.