The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-04-21
Physically. Mentally and Morally
They Are Far in the Lead De-
clareS Efficiency
Expert
HEAD OF GREAT CONCERN
CLAIMS LITTLE CREDIT
Saws He Has Merely Furnished
the Path and Pointed
the Way

"The physical, mental ana NOR"
condition OF the Ford Motor company
employees, taken by and large, Is lVO
per cent better than any other body
of employees in any factory N the
world today
This is the belief OF an efficiency
expert whose business for the past
few wears has taken him into many
factories. The investigators say that
three months ago he would nave oeen
unable TO say this as they believe me
condition Of the workers then was
only average
Taking 100 names OF employees
from the payroll OF over 10000 and
making a visit OF personal inspection
would show that al least 90 OF the
hundred are today living in better
lcmes, eating better food, wearing
better clothes and viewing life VITA
a new outlook.
Few families or Ford workers viii
be found in tenemenbs or novels. Inc
few are preparing 10 move or are
doomed so the wages that are being
paid me UngKftfed worker IN an rae
! - - -. : @...s. sSsi 50 80 /" y
TO better themselves the Ford plan
holds that additional income would
not benefit. but would only increase
the scualoI by: increasing the satisfy
ing OF Gnwholesome appetites. ~
Henry Ford denies he is bettering
humanity. He contends he has only
furnished a path and pointed way,
He holds his great proiit-sharing gift
is but duty, and that he is deserving
of no praise. He believes the indus
trial and social revolution that Is go
ing on night and day among his TWEEN
ty odd thousand employees IS finding
its impetus in their own hearts and
brains, and that man In the abstract
needs but a path upward shown him
to furnish the locomotive power him
self
But when evening comes and the
Industrial army is freed and a great
black line OF men goes by the win
dows OF the Ford factory moving TO
ward new homes. new hopes and new
conditions, the song Of the harvest
silently sung by upheld heads and
Strengthened bodies, the man who
gave the start" must feel the wave
OF gratitude that is surging from the
toilers' hearts
From the murmuring waters
OF the river far away into the grass
grown fields beyond Highland Park
there is not a fraction ~ a mile OF
the close gathered humanity we call
Detroit but has within It's measure
ments one or more human beings who
are the happier and better for Henry
Ford
The tenement and the howell have
heard the cry OF doom as far as the
Ford employees are concerned The
black shadows OF ignorance and
racial hatred and human discomfort
are being lifted throughout the city
where Ford employees congregate
The Ford gift is radically different
from other great philanthropic deeds
inasmuch as the giver continues hrs
interest In the recipients The so
Geological department is permanent
fixture at the factory and the mem
bers are continually opening new
veins whereby the thousands OF work
ers may take yet another step toward
better living condition,
The coming OF sanitation in the
homes and In the person OF the work.
or is bringing with IL desires that up
60 this time have been dormant. A
passionate love for the country that
has given them these gifts is spring
ing up among the foreigners and the
children OF the workers as they say
their prayers before the tiny affairs
or at the bedsides are told to pray for
the Stars and Stripes as well as for
Mr. Ford and their own kin
The Americans who have benefited
by the pToht'sharlng number several
thousand. and other thousands have
benefited indirectly. The majority OF
tie workers have near relatives whose
need for various comforts has been
mp to this time. but 20
whom the reflected generosity has
row brought relief from many many
minor burdens
IL the desire for better wages and
the desire TO be clean and live on a
higher and better plane are not sun.
client TO rouse the workers there IS
another emotion that r. The lnvestl
gators have found that pride is
gf eat and valuable ally What one
man glories In his companions envy
and with the way open 20 be as good
az he" they take t.
Students OF economic conditions
from all parts of the country are visit.
saF the plant They come out after