Over at Jalopnik, Justin Hyde takes note of an article by Henry Ford that ran in The New York Times in 1931. To observe the newspaper’s 80 years of publishing, the editors sought views of the next 80 years from several notable people, including William James Mayo, a founder of the Mayo Clinic.
Mr. Hyde notes that Ford avoided making specific predictions about 2011:
What he seemed most worried about was wealth corroding character, something on many minds following the 1929 stock market crash. “Material increase,” Ford wrote, “is definitely checked by moral decrease.”
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