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gained thereby. In fixing the personal
surroundings of employees we should say
most decidedly the employees should have
a voice, and their opinions and wishes
should be consulted. II employers of la
Dor have a genuine interest in the i'm
provement of the conditions of labor. no
conditions that are distasteful or irksome
will be laid upon the men.
Our experience leads us to the con-
clusion that the interest taken in en-
ployees as to their individual welfare is
most desirable from every standpoint, not
only of the employee and his family, but
of the business itself"
Then Mr.. Ford told how the profit-shar-
ing plan had succeeded in its initial year
the plan by which $4,000 men and
women get a wage of at the least S.
day for eight hours work.
Mr.. Ford gave figures to show how the
men themselves had advanced in earnings,
in bank accounts and general comforts.
but he declared that their efficiency had
been increased, so far the company
was concerned, by from Is to 20 per cent
and that il was necessary now to hold
the workers back rather than to urge
them on. Moreover. he described how
the police magistrates had noted the alb
sence of Ford employees from their courts,
and he expressed the conviction from ac-
tual experience that he could make a man
out of any convict who came under his
system.
Those qualified for participation in
profits are OF three classes:
First-Married men living with and TAX
ing good care of their families.
Second-Single men over twenty-five
years of age who are of proven thrifty
habits.
Third-Young men under twenty-five
of women the sole SunDOrt
Of some next of kin.
The person must be in the employ of
the company six months before he can
participate in profits. which rule serves
to deter men from leaving other steady
jobs.
record of facts is made in the case of
each individual, and every employee quail
flying under the above. able to use the
money constructivey. for the good of self,
dependents, and the community in general.
is awarded a share according to schedule.
Wages are paid according to skill, and
skill subdivided into degrees of skill. The
company has only eight rates of pay oper-
alive in the shop or on its hourly wage
payroll. A separate rate of wage applies
to each skill rating. An employee may
know the reward of his increased eff
cheney and development and of all the
possibilities and probabilities for advance
ment with the company at the time of
entering its employ.
The company maintains corps of forty
men, judges of human nature, who ex-
plain opportunity. teach American ways
and customs, English language, duties of
citizenship. who counsel and help the un-
sophisticated employees to obtain and
maintain comfortable, congenial, and san
itary living conditions and who also ex-
ercise the necessary vigilance to prevent,
q. h.rp frotl fxy fHnvv
falling into habits or practices detrimen-
tai to substantial progress in life. The
whole effort Of this corps is to point men
to life and make them discontinued with
q mere living.
The wages, he said, are about Is per
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have made good, one so much so, in fact,
that he holds an executive position in the
works All these outcasts, Mr.. Ford is
proud to relate, are gaining in selfre-
spect and strength of character every day,
encouraged by the helping hand of the
executive, who devotes much of his ener-
gies in aiding those who have been as
unfortunate as himself
In every. prison in the land there is
ray of hope now that Mr.. Fords latest
idea for the benefit of the fallen has been
made known. In Sing Sing the prisoners
whose terms soon expire are eagerly
seeking application blanks that they may
get a job in the Ford plant when the pris-
on doors swing open to new life.
And they won't enter the plant with
the stigma of their disgrace upon them.
Their secret will be theirs, and Henry
Ford's. For when they quit prison they
will leave disgrace behind, their past
closed book, without fear of being con-
fronted with the specter of their shame.
The history of the new Ford employee"
will be what he wants to make 1t. in SO
far as his fellow worker is concerned.
Thus, by sealing the past and by giving
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and while Mona may have said it those
who knew her at all well knew that she
never felt it.
Accordingly the wedding took place.
Mona went through it all with great
calmness and sweetness. After the mar
riage she left her father and her chum-
stepmother and made her home with an
aunt. There were no scenes-nothing
that even approached quarrel or hard
feelings. Mona simply went to live with
her aunt in Baltimore and at her aunt's
home she remained until she set sail for
Europe as nurse.
The marriage caused much discus
sion in Washington and elsewhere. The
disparity in years between the bride and
the bridegroom led many sentimentalists
to declare that the Wilson's should for
bid it. OF course that called forth loud
laughter for it was argued whether the
Wilson's, being American parents, could
possibly manage to stop the marriage if
they wanted to.
Theodore Roosevelt once declared
apropos Alice that as President he found
no trouble in governing the people of
the United States but he'd given up trying
to govern his daughter. Miss Wilson I'M
questionably loved McAdoo in spite of
his fifty years so wouldn't it have been
impossible, wrong and everything else
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that kind Of talk. There's nothing real
ly the matter with such men except
that they get the wrong kind Of food.
Would be afraid to employ a murder
er? ! would not. The mere fact that
a man has committed a murder does
not mean that he is a murderer In the
sense that he would do it again.
would consider man like that perfect
Iy safe; more SO. perhaps than a man
who hadn't committed such a crime, for
he would have had his lesson and would
be mighty careful before he permitted
his temper or disregard Of the law to
sway him again. ! would not be afraid
to employ him.
ANY one who has had the experience
with convicts that l have had would not
call any Of them hopelessly lawless. Every
man Graves action. He gets started at
the wrong sort of thing and Is carried
along by his own momentum. Turn the
give him hope, give him work
and let him know he Is going to be prop.
erly paid for it, enable him to get a good
home, and you will make him q citizen
able to earn his living honestly. and he
will do It"
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to have forbidden her to marry him?
Then capital tea parties went off into
discussion of whether a girl of twenty
three or twentyfour can truly love
man of over fifty.
Some of the women who had seen
more of life than others said that youth
was incapable of discerning age; that
when the girl of twenty-five or twenty
four falls in love with man the matter
of age is mere incident. The awaken
ing of the woman who is party to these
unions is bound to come, they said, as
she approaches the dangerous age"
Another discussion that grew out Of
the wedding was whether men have not
just as marked a period of the danger
Gus age as women. This epidemic of
marriage with young girls contracted by
elderly men is said to be always raging.
IL is only that at this season in Wash
ington an unusual number of men OF
political eminence happen to be attacked.
The young man falls in love because
he cannot help it. Men in the Novem-
Der of life cannot help it either but in
the latter case pride of life, not passion,
is the animating principle.
1t was Oscar Wilde who divulged
this Of his sex: AT ffty-three u man il
either saint or a satyr.'
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to the unfortunate or the criminalborn,
as the case may be, the chance" all are
always demanding, Mr.. Ford hopes to
open new era along the straight and
narrow path to the wolves of society.
by giving each work with hope l can
reform every convict" Mr.. Ford declares.
Habitual criminals, detectives. degener-
ates, moral imbeciles. constitutional infe-
riors, all are one to him. Work and the
proper environment and food will cure
them all. Mr.. Ford believes. Don't be
convinced" he says, that a man who has
committed more than one crime can't be
good It's always a case of not having
been taught to work right: I mean work,
real work, real physical work. Work with
hope will straighten up any man. Every
man has his niche; there's place where
every man will fit, and the problem is to
find that place. There isn't any differ
ence between the man forced into crime
by social conditions and the criminal by
choice The latter just needs somebody
to make him do things he can do instead
of the things he wants to do.
"Take the case Of any soeaiIed de-
generate don't take any stock In
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cent above the usual market wage for
such service, and then every one who is
eligible is entitled to a certain profit.
The minimum daily income under the
plan, wages plus profit, is S.. The hourly
profit-sharing rate added to wages) is
based on the wage rate. and so arranged
or graduated as to give those receiving
the lowest hourly rate the largest pro-
portion of profits. For example. man
receiving "a cents per hour has a profit
rate of PSI. cents per hour in addition
and total daily income of S.. whereas
men receiving 81 cents per hour wages
have a profit sharing rate of q cents per
hour, with total daily income of Sc.
Daily absentees from work have de-
creased from total equivalent to 10 per
cent of the working force under old con-
ditions to three-tenths of 1 per cent un.
der the profit-sharing plan.
The number of men leaving the employ
of the company since the proft-sharing
plan started in comparison with the year
previous is shown below:
Discharged Quitting Men
March. 1nI3........ l.276 SO 5.I5s
March. 1911. 1876 1i5 166
Five-day men are the "foaters,' so
called. who leave without notice.
No man is discharged until he has been
plONtu utterly lIOlil every
If he fails TO make good in one depart
ment, the foreman sends him to the clear
ing house. and he is given repeated trials.
If necessary, until he makes good, or it
is proved that he does not want to succeed.
Bank accounts show an increase during
the first six months of $50 per cent: life
insurance carried. sc per cent: value of
homes owned outright, 81 per cent; value
of lots owned outright Sc per cent. This
RI hla SboryipO nD1v IN
employees as are on the proft-sharing
basis.
Careful medical survey reveals a sub
stantial improvement in physical at
tributes.
A carefully prepared map of the city
shows that 5000 families have changed
their places of residence since the plan
was started, and a study of the districts
into which they have moved. and from
which they came. shows that the migra-
ton has been from poor and squalid to
healthful, sanitary quarters. with envi-
ronment conducive to health, happiness
and comfort.
No man is Influenced to change his
mode of living, his habits or character to
qualify under the profit-sharing plan, if
he does not willingly so elect
Whereas at start GO per cent of the
men were receiving a share of the profits,
six months later. Is per cent were en-.
rolled as participants. and at the end of
the first year S7is per cent, representing
practically all of the men past twenty-five
years of age. with few exceptions.
So. having proved he can improve the
condition of the workingman by the i'm
provement of working conditions, Mr. Ford
now turns to a more difficult thing-the
reclamation of the pariah, the ex-convict,
the wanderer with no place to 60; the
outcast from society with whom none
cares to rub elbows, in factory or in mill
or in any line of endeavor. Already this
businesslike philosopher has put his idea
to the acid test. for already many one
time convicts are employed in the Ford
plant, all Of whom. according to Mr.. Ford,
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THE UNCERTAINTY or LIFE.

THE death of Joseph Diggs, Jr, yesterday brings out
the uncertainty OF the length of life, and the fact
that We do not know the day nor the hour when
we may be called upon to depart this life. Almost in
the ~twinkling of an eye yesterday Joseph Diggs. Jr, a
lad just past the first score Of mile stones in his life,
was sent to death. He and a companion had been en-
Toying themselves boating on the river, in an effort to
get away from the oppressive heat. They decided to
cross from one side OF the river to the other and when
in mid.stream decided to take a little dip in the cool.
ing waters. Both lads were having a fine swim and en-
enjoying themselves immensely, when suddenly the
Digs lad gave a cry Of alarm, evidently being seized
by an attack Of cramps. A few minutes later. despite
the efforts Of mis- companion to save him, Joseph Diggs,
Jr, had gone down for the last time Little did either
OF these lads imagine that when they started across the
river that one of them would be called By death before
the opposite shore was reached. The sympathy of the
entire community goes out to the parents OF rivers vic.
tim. 1t seems almost impossible 10 them that their boy.
who yesterday morning was in perfect health and en-.
joying life with the enthusiasm of one of his age, 10
dead, and yet such things happen every day in some par:
OF the world.
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BERLIN ACTIVE.

SERIES of important conferences concerning the
~ differences between the United States and Ger.
many was started in Berlin yesterday, and those
In close touch with the situation say that it is likely
thatjthe troubles between the two nations will be settled
beferesthe parleys in Berlin have come to a close. The
reason for this series of meetings is due to n long CON.
nuntcationS from the German ambassador in tho United
States. which was transmitted to the German officials
through the American representative in Berlin. The
communication is said to have contained all the evidence
In the Arabic case collected in Washington and the mes.
sage receiving the most careful attention of the high
officials Of the exGcrman nation. Before the German
answer is sent to the United States it is said that prom.
inentl bankers, business men and officials from all depart
mentsi OF the government will be asked to express their
views on the questions involved. 1t is now admitted 10
Germany that the final decision in the Arabic case is
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"FORE!o
FEW years ago golf was

A FEW years ago golf was considered a game for
~ mollycoddles and old men. Also 1t was a game
for the rich, the nearrich and the snobs. Mem.
bership in a Country club" was necessary to play the
game. That meant time, money and social aspirations,
as a rule. You had to motor out to play golf. And you
had 10 be properly attircd. And you had to buy lunch.
cons I'D drinks and things.
The fellows whose amusement consisted of Kelly pool
on Saturday night and baseball whenever they could
play It, never hcsitated about expressing their opinion
of golf and golfers. 1t was considered perfectly safe ia
Insult a person who golfod. And most peoples idea OF
nothing at all, physically and mentally, was the chap
who chased a little. inofenslve white ball around a ten,
acre, lot. aying to coax It into divers and sundry holes
with the aid Of numerous crooked sticks that bore silly
names.
Today it's different. The public parks in many big
the craze for golf is far ahead of that of any other sport,
not excepting baseball. 1t costs nothing, after the in.
itial expense of sticks and balls. the course is open to
all corners, the games are properly supervised to pre-
vent confusion, and old and young, male and female, fat
and thin. sick and well-all Of them are playing golf.
The golf craze hasn't reached all parts of the country
yet. hut 1t is spreading like a prairie fire in August. 1t
Is becoming the great American game. It's the most
beneficial. the least expensive form OF amusement and
recreation yet devised. It's the greatest, most interest.
ing, absorbing. celebrating and stimulating method OF
exercise for the mind and muscles ever invented. It's
the
"Fore!"
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up to Germany. and IT is intended tina. the next note to
the United States shall voice the sentiments OF the Ger.
man people as a whole.
IL matters little tet people Of the United States how
the differences between the two nations are settled. 50
long as a settlement which viii give satisfactionsto all
concerned Is promulgated. Undoubtedly the real sentt.
ment of the people Of the United States is for peace with
Germany. II at all possible. Tho trouble between Ger.
many and the United States is not SO serious that It is
past hope, and II the diplomats of the two countries will
only get down to some working basis. all will be well.
But It is high time that some definite plan be made and
agreement made that the plan for peace will be carried
out in good faith. This continual wrangle is provoking.
and Ct is time for a definite. clear plan to be adopted and
adhered to strictly. II this is done, the United States
and Germany should be on the best of terms in a short
time.
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delivered an address that has been
read and praised throughout Elkins.

The Rev. y. w. Philips, field sec.
rotary OF the Anti. Saloon League in
West Virginia, with Mrs. Philips, is
in the city. For twenty years he was
a minister for the Disciples OF Christ,
hut gave up his membership In that
denomination and became a Seventh.
day Adventist. He and his wife were
baptised into that church September
4 at a campmeetiag OF the West Vir.
ginia conference being held at Yves,
ton. MIR. Philips has been delivering
addresses at an Adventist evangelical
tent service which is being held In
this city at the present time.
The National Association OF Post.
masters. including first and second
class only, will mold It's convention
this year in Washington, the dates
being October 22.23. West Virginia
has Z Of the first class and 26 OF the
second tlass who belong to this or.
ganization.
The two days session OF the post.
masters will be devoted largely to
u consideration and discussion OF
questions that come up every day
in every postoiIice. such as the ad.
vantage OF the motor service In the
delivery Of mail on rural routes; tho
best facilities for handling parcel
post, a part OF the service that is
rapidly growing; the postal savings
branches and, moreover, the two d.
vision plan that is being inaugurateo
in the larger postoffices Of the coun'
try, and collateral subjects.
TIE social features of a leading ma
ture include being received by the
President; a trip down the Potomac
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8 WORK FOR BRYAN.

A CC0RDING to reports yesterday plans are under
N way to send W. ]. Bryan to Europe on a mission
otspeace. This should be 10 the liking of the ia
nous gentleman from Nebraska. We take it that Mr..
Bryan isEyery much excited over his peace schemes. and
BY sendng!him to Europe he will be able to get a chance
10 study the peace situation in regard to Europe at close
range and give the warning nations the benefit Of his
seltpraised ideas.
Dr.. William Fargo, representing the American news.
papers published in foreign languages, heads the deal for
the shipping of the former cabinet member 10 Europe
In the interests of peace and he seems to be very much
elateds over the prospects OF the success OF the expedi.
ton. He says that Mr.. Bryan has intimated that II the
trip Is undertaken that he Bryan will for the sake of
the cause" not only be willing to sacrifice his valuable
time for the trip, but will pay his own expenses. This
Is d very fair spirit. on the part of Bryan, for in these
hard times people of Bryan's standing are not sacrificing
time and money foolishly. OF course, IL Bryan is sue.
cessfuli in his visit to Europe and is able TO bring the
war to a close. by turning loose his oratory on the heads
o. Eusope, he will undoubtedly be able 10 arrange a lee.
ture tour oflthe country and thereby detray in some mea.
sure the expenditures he will make "for the sake of the
cause"
a man who can stop the war in Europe would have no
trouble in booking q tour through foreign lands, in fact
he would be the hero Of the world. 1t may be that MIR.
Bryan will be able TO accomplish the seeming impossl.
BILE, andlif he does he should be given due credit. 1t
would be the greatest surprise the world has ever known
u Bryan goes to Europe and makes good as a peace
maker. IT. to be hoped that Bryan makes good, but the
proposition seems to be a hopeless one.
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Court News

Deeds Filed.
Elizabeth j. Williams and husband
TO Francesca Picolo n parcel of land
on Dunkard Mill run in Lincoln dis
trict. Consideration $500.
James Eddy and wife 10 Oliver Eddy
q parcel of land on Robinson's Run In
Paw Paw district. Consideration 500
Vital Statistics.
Birth and death certificates have
been filed with County Clerk A. q
Martin for recording as follows:
Births. DR.. James II. Boulware. one
Deaths, Or. L. y. iost, one.
Administrative Named.
Ida o. Toothman was named admin
istratrix OF the personal property o.
the late E. C. Toothman. Bond o.
$500 furnished.
License Issued.
The following marriage license was
issued by County Clerk A. G.. Martin;
William Shaw and Margaret Eys
Green. both OF Pennington. Liliiar
Green, mother of tho. girl, gave hel
consent in writing.
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YOU'LL SOON EAT CHICKEN WITH
THREE, MAYBE FOUR LEGS!

VERONA, N. j., Sept 17.-"Um,
yrrni Waiter, bring me a broiled
chicken with three legs"
In O very, very ehort time that Is
what you may expect to hear in any
drst class restaurant. according to a.
W. Pierce who. should you visit him,
will point with pride to a three.leg.
sed barred Plymouth Rock pullct
which he has developed on his poultry
farm near here. The pullet, now
four months old, is twice as large as
It's brothers and sisters and Is able
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cARELEssNEss

The Pennsylvania station in New
York was crowded. Busy porters
were unloading baggage from huge
trucks. The din was fearful.
Trunks were being thumped anu
smashed on the platform by husky
porters and a group Of helpless tour
lists Eazed in sad eyed amazement at
the nistreatment OF their baggage.
Suddenly, when the smashing was
At lis heighth, the foreman came from
his booth and thundered to the man:
"Say. you guys, what do you mean
BY handling trunks that way?"
The eyes of the tourists frightened.
Wonder Of all wonders-a baggage
man with conscience! However,
their hopes soon died. The foreman
continued:
YOU'RE making too many dents in
that concrete platform"
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to turn up so per cent. more worms
in a given time with its extra claw.
Pierce, who is greatly pleased with
having three drumsticks grow where
only two grew before, says he Is
wording on a system OF matings which
will soon give the world a three or
even f%ourlcggcd fowl for table use.