The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-25

served.
Henry Ford has been denounced II
the strongest terms by men high up IN
politics and business, but it is to be
noted that there has never been a
strike in Ford's great factory and he
Is the largest individual employer OF
labor in the world. Ford is eccentric
but he is a genius when it comes to
manufacturing and to knowing how to
handle men. His profit-sharing plan,
In which the employees, beside getting
good wages get a share of the profits,
seems to have solved the labor prob
lem for him. There is no union in the
Ford factories and it is admitted by
all who have investigated conditions,
that employees of Henry Ford, wheth-
er in the factory or the assembling
plants or the sales rooms or local
agencies, are all loyal supporters and
boosters for their employer. Even
the great packing trust and John D..
Rockefeller, Jr., and the Eastman
Kodak Company are beginning to
follow Ford's plan of making the en-
ployes partners in the business and
sharers of the profits
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Moscow Elks are to be commended
for their effort to bring citizens of
Moscow and the educators together in
a social way. There has been too
much Giving apart" in this city and
the Elks have wisely decided that
everybody should know everybody
else. We should make the members
of the university faculty and the
teachers in our public schools feel
that they are part of, not apart
from the people of Moscow. Make
them feel at home. Invite them into
your homes and attend their meetings
and entertainments. Surely the action
taken by the Elks is a wise one and
should be followed up by closer rela-
tions between these educators who are
doing SO much for the youth of Mos
COW and the state, and the citizens
of this city. The reception to the
teachers at the Elks' temple should
be largely attended.
If those who are protesting against
The high state taxes in Idaho will look |
around a little they will probably de-
eide that they are fortunate. Idaho's
state taxes have been given big in
crease and the levy in this state is
- mills this year. But Washington,
With several times the wealth
# Idaho, has levy of 10.44 mills for
tate purposes, which is PAP mills or
more than % per cent higher than Ida
los levy. Washington taxes have MOI
cen as low for many years as the
axes in Idaho this year, which is the
ighest in the history of the state.
ct Idaho has contracted more public ,
improvements, wealth and population
ompared, than has Washington.
aaho's state taxes are still lower than
nose of any neighboring state.
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Press dispatches today state that
le Great Northern railroad will be the
de bidder for the Inland Electric
7stem which reaches Moscow, when
lat road is sold at auction by the re-
ever on November /, as a gentle
ems agreement" has been reached by |
hich other roads will not bid against
Ie Hill line. That has been the trou
q with big business too long. These
,entlemen's agreements" by which
y big ones gather up the small ones,
the detriment of the general public.
would be more "gentlemanly" if
ese great business interests would
Il more fairly with their patrons
d not have such consideration for
cir business rivals and competitors.
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The democrats are confronted with
, novel position of having strong
united party but no available
ndidate for president in 1920, ex
sting Mr.. Wilson, who is barred by
"unwritten law" from third
m. The republicans have scores of
ldidates but party so badly d.
ed that it cannot hope to elect any
n it might nominate while the party
split as it is now.
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'ome day Mexico will pile on the
/ straw and then she'll soon be as
Ilized and educated as the Phil