Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-01
FORD'S IDEA OFLNING
SHOWS UNIQUE IDEALS
Predicts Partnership Between Workers and Employers
Does Not Believe in Saving Money-People Must
Seek Out Man for President

IWhiie not posing IS a prophet my
belief Is chat the world IS rapidly COM
ing to the partnership idea.
1t is likely that In time stock COM
panies viii! disappear and what we
term employer and employee will cease
10 exist IS such. but will continue as
partners.
Organization on a system approach
ing such an idea is the principle Of
my companies
BELIEVES WOMAN SHOULD
GET CHANCE TO MARRY
while am. or was. the head 1t
never has been possible for me- IL /
had go wished. TO pull off a crooked
deal i'm my business: my organization
permitted me Or any one else to do
such trick. II was impossible. We
are organized for each other.
Naturally. we pay executives well:
we have six men who receive $4,000
a year. and sever:l who are paid $780,
600 "a year. but We have 10000 men and
women who are paid So a day.
And every one of them has a chance
UPWARD as they qualify. As long as
no distinction Between women worker H:
they are paid alike.
And let me say about women en-
ployees. they are encouraged TO dress
we'll and make a good appearance. for
II they want TO marry we want them
AS to how I use my money. did
build fine home. But l have no
great collection or paintings. though |
40 ENJOY pictures. nor any Ii
brary simply because my tastes in
cline TO my main object in life-crea-
ton Of things.
HAS COMPLETE LABORATORY
IN ms OWN RESIDENCE
II do have. however. in my home
a completely equipped laboratory. with
skilled craftsmen. and in there ] find
my entertainment. and in that things
ave started
That's another way in which spend
my money for my pleasure
the mind of man can create. because
everything created tends to civiiza-
This is, a new era: bacbarism is go
ing swiftly
so ~, IS ns not nrs my desire to a,tenpt to
is il not possible the world y a great
clea house"
Labor? My solution Of the labor
constant division Of profits This i'm
plies an active lcgree of partnership
have said. will sooner or later in busi-
ness. this, believe, as ] have said,
Viii sooner or later in business take
the place of stock companies and the
more selfish forms of conducting bust
ness.
DOES NOT THINK IDEA
FOR LABOR Is GREAT
The, more Il business makes the
be reduced and the pay be, advanced.
You say 1t is 4 wonderfully great
idea?
II do not so class K. for 1T is a very
simple and very plainly right idea.
Seihshness in business is exempli-
fed by the steel industries
Steel is the basis for most of the
wars and troubles of the world, for
the interests o. steel extend. or have
extended, RICH. through from Krupp's
TO the smallest forge.
The more s:ecl was made. the more
IL was necessary 10 create demand
Tor IL. and the cry was for tonnage;
tonnage demanded guns and warships.
and when nations accumulated a guam
tity OF these. the next thing that came
/, to mind was to put them 10 use.
I, Better steel and less of II would
be better for the world and would serve
humanity better
1t seems TO me that the troubles
caused by steel Industries would be
cured and the rights of the people con-
served II the people, or rather the
government which is or should be the
people. should acquire ownership Of all
ores and their treatment"