The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-04-18
GOSPEL OF CLEANLINESS
and THRIFT PREACHED TO
ARMY OF FORD employees

maze OF emotions and questions. The
investigator went TO their room.
Fourteen men slept there. The room
was about 10 feet square. IL contain
ed four beds and they we're used in
shifts. The bed clothing was never
changed and the stencil from sweaty
clothing, unwashed humanity and
Nth was overpowering.
The investigator pointed at the
beds as he had pointed at the pig
Then he left. A week ago the two
boys. resplendant In white collars and
clean shirts, asked him 20 go with
hem. block from the factory they
Aalted at a new boarding place. 1t
vas large and newly painted. With
pride they led him through a clean
and shining dining room up the stairs
TO a room. they called home" IL
contained white bed, an oak dresser
and stand. Everything was spotless
from bedding TO floor. They opened
the dresser drawers and showed clean.
clothing, they turned down the neck
of their shirts aud showed well-wash-
ed necks and lastly they showed a
bank book. The lesson had been
lear:ed. They are getting the m
crease.
Something else happened at the
same time these two boys We're
taught the lesson. The other twelve
mems eyes began TO open. Three
more have sought new quarters. They
want TO live as Americans live and
get the increase The landlord has
been taught a lesson. He sees his
"boarders" slipping away. lie sees
his own job at the factory lettering.
A revolution is due in that house as
ii lras already arrived at many others.
In another week or SO that place Will
be remodeled, made sanitary and
from a center Of filth and disease it
wtlFbe a model.
The investigators know this be.
cause foreign boarding houses one.
after another hare come 70. knox Tie,
lesson thai Henry. Ford is IesUHing5
-cleanfiness and sanitation; thrift
and ecohomy Of the sort that engen-
ders se4freSpect, not the sort that
thriyes on starvation and dirt. The
investigators have found by actual
experience that humanity is humanity
the world over and that map is not
by nature dirty. fhe men who come
from Europe-and even some Amer
icans-haye lived in filth all their
lives because they were born In filth
and knew no better way, but it has
been demonstrated that underneath
natal environment is the desire to
progress Dirt is harped at by these
investigators because they have found
that all the rest Of the misery OF the
workers goes hand in hand with It.
Sunshine and fresh air make for
cleaner men in all ways and for bet
ter health, for higher ambitions and
the ava, ening Of the spark OF di.
vinity that shmbers in every breast
Ford workers are learning the les
son. They are not being driven just
shown the way and that is the way.
they take, SO per cent OF them They
are clean because IT pays them, they
are sober and Industrious for the
same reason-at first. But the habit
grows. even as evil habits grow, and
once they know and live the standard
set for them they will never again
go back TO the olden days OF slavery
to insanitation. Those who are men
tally i'll. the few who Will never pro-
gress because they are lacking In
inherent desire 10 progress, are be-
ing weeded out II is a case of the
of the fttest in the Ford
factory, but 90 per cent are fit or
can be made fit
There is the secret The human
touch. They are not given charity,
but are shown the way by kindly
hands whose work is to waken the
sleepers and light the path The
brotherhood of man is no iridescent
dream to Henry Ford and the results
he is gaining prove him right