The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-03
FORD IN THE'GAME'
International Ideas Promoted
In His New Magazine.
"DearbOrn Independent" Ii
Unique in Style, Policy.
TRUTH AND HAPPINESS, CREED
Proposes To Tell Readers All
About Rotten Politics.
World Must Go To Work If
There Is To Be Peace.

Henry Ford apparently is trying to
make thought transportation as uni
versaI and as cheap thru his new
magazine, 1.-The Dearborn Indepen-
dent as he has made human trans
portation thru the Tin Lizzy." With
out advertising of any kind, he is fur
nishing his magazine at a 1ltney a
week. Maybe you don't think it is
worth the price-there are persons
was given to thenl-but just the same
he seems to be putting it over.
In the May issue of "Reconstruc-
ton" an interview Upton Sinclair OBJ
tanned with Ford gives some interest
ing statistics on the new auto kings
mating it as 1.-The Ford International
Weekly" In this interview Ford is
quoted as telling how he happened to
get into the magazine game.
He says that he bought his publ
cation by accident. 1t was just a lit
tie country paper with about 700 cir
cula ton and the owner offered to sell
it to him for $1,000. He bought it
and in about four months he has built
up a circulation of 100000.
OF international Character.
The Ford magazine, like the flivver,
is not of elephantine physical proper
tons. The issue of April IL contains
Only 10 pages, Out lIlc ISdullS LldllcI
is truly Of n international character.
There is a page called "Mr. Ford's
Own Page; quite bit of matter up
holding the League of Nations; an edi-
torial page; an article on the wilson
policies; two pages of current topic
photographs; lean mixture OF fic-
ton: an article condemning Russian
Bolshevism and a retraction of state
ments made about some of the big
packers which were later found to be
unjust" Also. there is an article on
Armenia and the American Manda-
tory and articles on ireland and Bel
GUM by foreign correspondents.
Truth and Happiness.
In the interview that he gave SIN
clair, Ford said that he is going to
print the truth in his magazine. He
proposes to tell the people what they
need to know; to tell them who max es
war and how the game of rotten poll
tics is work I'd. He also hopes to tell
the people how to get idle land into
use and to tell young men how to find
useful things to do, because, he SAYS,
that is the way to be happy in the
world.
Ford's interview is devoted largely
to finding happiness" He says his
great wealth makes him happy be-
cause it enables him to do worthwhile
things he otherwise could not do. He
boots at the idea the under dog does
not have a chance in the world to-
day. He says there never was such
a chance in this country for a man to
rise if he's got it in him and that sue
cess is possible to any man in Amer
lea who will find something useful to
do and work at it persis1ently and
thoroly.
Ford told Sinclair he believes alb
solutely there can be no success with
out money.
THAT is why you pay high wages?"
Sinclair asked.
''That-and because it is the way to
make men work; it is the right way"
Ford replied.
Get World Back to Work.
In Mr. Ford's Own Page of The
Dearborn Independent of a recent
issue he says that the salvation of the
world today depends upon its getting
back to work without delay. He says:
However much men may dislike
that word, however much they may
feel that it savors of slave driving,
however much they believe it is the
slogan of those who want to make
money out of 9th ars, the fact remains
that work is at once our greatest de-
Tense, our best guaranty for the fu-
ture, and our most potent deliverer
from the confusion in which the
world now finds itself
Must Give High Wages.
Continuing, Ford says:
High wages, the best possible
wages that can be paid, are necessary
in order that the distribution of the
products of labor should be as equal
as possible.
But even before wages comes
work. Without work, wages are i'm
possible. Work is the first rule in
moral. mental and physical hygiene.
1t is the most useful form of social
sanitation. The lack of it in Europe
is directly responsible for the social
diSintegration we see there"
Further on in his article Ford does
some prophesying. He says:
The time is coming-in the moral
sense it is already here-when a man
will be held to have no rights in money
or property that he does not operate
for the general benefit"
Ford absolutely promises to make
new car in the near future that will
be cheaper and better than the one he
is now making. He says he is going
10 make it so cheap that every work