The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-19
LEAD CLEAN LIVES
OR QUIT, SAYS FORD
Manufacturer Warns Employ
ces They Must BE Decent
to Share in Profits.
NO BOARDERS IN FAMILIES
Married Men Must Bar Outsid-
ers and Bachelors Occupy
Sanitary Quarters.

DETROIT, April 1s-The responsible
ties that go with money are being brought
home to workers employed by the Ford
Motor Car Company. They must live de-
Gently. This is the order Of Henry Ford.
who is sharing profits with them In or
der 10 give them that opportunity.
Men and women who cannot lift them
selves above squalor when the evils of
their living conditions are pointed out to
them and when the money to provide
better conditions is supplied will cease
10 be employees of the Ford company.
Such Is the notice sent to all employees.
Married and single men who do not
live up to the modern standard OF Ameri-
can every day living are TO be eliminated.
Married men who keep boarders in their
homes will lose their places. So will
single men who reside in rooming houses
such as have been found in Highland
Park. where they sleep in shifts and
never bathe.
Another innovation at the Ford plant,
an English teaching school will be opened
on Monday. A teacher has been brought
from New York. Tho first class will COM
prise 200 students of eleven national!ties,
represented by Armenians. Austrians,
Greeks. Hungarians. Poles. Russians. Ru-
Turks.
Must Learn American Ways.
'sThese men OF many nations must be
taught American ways. the English Ian
guage. the right way to live" said Mr..
Ford to-day.
Married men should keep their house,
holds for themselves and their imme-
date families. They should not sacrifice
family rights. pleasure and comfort by
filling their homes with roomers and
boarders.
single men are also expected to live
comfortably and under conditions that
make for good manhood and good citizen
sh;p. II would not do for them TO waste
their share OF the profits. Once they live
correctly. breathe the real fresh air Of
freedom. see that health and strength are
fully conserved. We can make them good
citizens.
1--WE now have forty-flve investigators
who are interviewing each employee.
Every detail Of living is inquired into
From the figures so far presented. and
none Of them is complete. it appears that
there are more men c3 years old IN our
employ than of any other age. Our IN
vestigators have found many of the men
in deplorable surroundings and the notice
sent to employees will warn those who
transgress.
Gives Time 20 Correct Evils.
I'VE will give every one time to correct
mis- living conditions. But the tenement
and the crowded rooming house must be
eliminated. Men who earn from So to So
a day do not need TO have their wives
take IN boarders. They should save their
shane of the profits and invest 1t in homes
or real estate. They sell their labor TO us
and We give them bonus.
Our lawyers will give each man help
that he can be certain is sincere and
honest. We will investigate the land he
wishes to buy to see II the price is right
and will supervise the contract. Protec-
ton is afforded against schcmers and
agents who wish TO secure their money
for fraudulent purposes.
1.-THE Investigators have wide latitude.
man. his wife and three children. living
in four rooms and there were five live
ducks in the bathtub. lie couldn't I'M
derstand why he wasn't considered clean
and a share in the profits had been denied
him. The Investigator rented another fiat
in n better peighborhod for him"