The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-29
HENRY FORD SENDS
MANHOOD PATIENTS
Five Reach New York to I'm.
dergo Treatment for Liquor
and Drugs.
EXPERIMENT IN HOSPITAL

Henry Ford has proved to his own
zens out OF ex-convicts. lie hopes also
hat he can make happy. reliable and
s~elf-respecting wage earners out OF alco-
holics and drug users. With that aim
before him he has sent five young men
three alcoholics and two morphine
users, one OF whom has beer In prison
to a private hospital on Central Park
West for treatment.
Mr.. Ford believes that no man is so
far down In the human scale that he
cannot be pulled back to usefulness. Ac-
%cordingly. the Qulntette of young men-
three employed in his factory n two
with Jobs In sight there-have been
brought here TO be cured Of their habits
80 hat they can earn more money and
treat their families better.
But the big idea which Mr.. Ford seeks
10 work out is the establishment in De-
troit OF a ward in his new hospital for
the cure Of the drink. drug and tobacco
habits.
The five men who are patients in the
New York hospital are afYording Mr..
Ford's surgeons and sociologists an op-
nortunity of working out plans for the
upbuilding OF al institution such as Mr.
Ford has in mind. Here II may he said
hat Mr.. Ford is receiving daily man.
appeals from wives and oth to taxi
their husbands ana SONS ana make some
thing out OF them.
'ut OF the expected cure OF the nNe
men and the methods OF treatment APP
pned TO each patent ~ planned to grow
a ward IN MIR. Fords Detroit hospital to
combat the use OF liquor and drugs
among the $4,000 employees in the Ford
plant and among others that Mr.. Ford
desires to reach out and save.
The hve cases were especially selected
by Mr.. Ford's representatives to test
certain phases OF treatment. There ID
one morphine user who begs to be cured
OF the habit. There is another who IL
willing to be cured but who says that
unless he is relieved OF the craving he
Sould 10 back to the drug after beins
kept away from II for ten years. There
Ia one young fellow who occasionally
goes out on a bat and who has splen'
did prospects ahead OF him II he stays
away from liquor. There II one alco'
holic who has been drinking for years
and a similar imbiber who has a large
family dependent upon him.
Change In Mental Attitude.
Mr.. Ford wants to see hrst how efec
tive the treatment IL In changing the
mental attitude OF the patients-hov
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to fight his way back to normal strength
For this purpose the Ave men wer,
brought TO New York on Saturday
The men. whose names OF course viii
not be disclosed. were In charge of DR.
j. f. Mead. chief surgeon for the Ford
Motor Company DR.. c. II. Eisman. ar
assistant surgeon. and ". J. WagstafY
head OF the company's sociological de-
partment
zone OF the patients" said Mr.. wag
san yesterday. has been In the emplo,
OF Mr.. Ford for three weeks. He ha:
been a confirmed drinker for years
Mr.. Ford hired him In answer to tn,
pleas of the man's wife. He turned hin
over to us and told us to make a mar
OF him
Let me say that Mr.. Ford seems &c
have a greater faith in men than any
person | have ever met. No matter
how often We may make an adverse re-
port he will say We'll. the mans go
something good in him and I want to SEE
you bring II out
$50 We have brought this man on In
the hope OF curing him.
Convivially Inrlined.
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