The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-04-17
FORD employees ALLOWED
TO SHARE In PROFITS ONLY
WHEN THEY PROVE WORTHY


the nome conditions of Ford ON.
I ployes all 80 cents an hour men
Most OF the pictures are not pretty.
They look like muckrakers pictures
OF tenement life That Is just about
What they are, with the difference
that the general public has no OppOr
tunity 20 look and laugh. There are
pictures OF back yards wherein tne
Glth cutters zap the foreground cas-.
Cades OF tin cans drip from the steps,
dirt i'm piles is everywhere. windows
are broken and stuffed with rags
garbage pals yaWn la fostering hOr.
ror and a general air OF soddeu -Jr-
did life Is apparent Other pictures
are OF rooms wherein the beds are
close together filthy bedding drips
/ from the bulging mattress the plas
ter is broken and hints OF yermin
The hoor is hltlV beyond belief. limp.
shapeless garments dangle from nails.
there is an air OF desolatiOn and cold
discomfort IL is scene for the
breeding OF discomfort, OF anarchy,
Of horror and suffering and misery
and despair
Then there are some other pictures.
one is a .parlor A small room and
without ostentation But bless you.
it's home That's H. It's home. The
|, floor has a CHEEKY carpet and huhy
white curtains at the windows The
furniture is plain and OF not many
pieces, but Il Is comfortable fllrni
ture. picture or two on the wall
make things even more coy and IL
takes no imagination az all 20 see the
place on a storm-riddcn night "ilh a
cheerful FIRE and twinklin3 light
and the Riddles playing on the floor,
and the father and mother resting,
aud az peace, dreaming Of the future
v&en the children will grow, up into
good American citizens with an hon
est pride IN their home and n pride
in the parents who came as youths
mp from the black der4hs of poverty
;and waste
7 Another picture Snows a kitchen,
spotless shining WITH 4 demand in
It's very sanitation for good food
there Is view Of a bathroom with .
glistening tub The pictures were
taken in the homes OF men who made
30 cents an hour They have fami.
| lies The contrast is apparent 10 the
| dullest mind There is no argument
! beyond the statement that here are
! the results obtained By two classes
OF men drawing the same pay.
! My. how il does make them think.
They go back TO the squalor and
! the filth. TO the dirty babies sobbing
! i'm misery and unhappiness; to the
ragged children with the wolf-glare
born OF the struggle beginning 10
show in their eyes; 10 the slattern
wives: TO the vermin and grease and
tawdry glitter Of cheap ornamental
ton that has been thrust upon them
by suave statesmen OF pictures or
trinkets That picture Of the other
home established by a man who can
be no. brighter or better than they
for Ne earns no more, is before them
Then comes the ray OF hope-the de-
size TO be better citizens. Centuries
! OF oppression in many cases hold
| back the desire and they lack the in
itiatye for the first step. and then
Icomes-the investigator
He has his base The desire is
awake. The man is yanked from
sordidness 20 cleanliness in one jump.
Now YOU may think that the moving
from tenement so clean cottage
will not change the fundamental ma
ture OF the people TO whom the filth
seems a second nature Results Will
prove you wrong Let's take an in
stance
Alb Is Slav He drew 80
cents an hour and nc wanted mere,
He was sober did not gamble and
had no bad habits His work was
satisfactory He did not understand
why he did not qualify. He was
shown the book OF pictures. II took
some time for the idea TO filter
| through. You see this man had a To-
room house, and in addition TO his
| pay, was making comfortable In
come from a score OF boarders. His
wife did all the work In the house
| for the score OF men The result was
! "a house OF filth, a house OF unhappi-
I ness where the wife was worn TO
shadow where the children were
ragged dirty and uncared for where
! the food was bad. where the man at
night had TO work late about the
house and the children we're reared
/ in an atmosphere OF unwholesome-
ness. He had saved $500. In his
case bit Of advice was added.
TOOK root sprouted and lowered. To
day the S700 Is invested in a pretty