The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-07
Missing---A Husband and Wife

each earned only one dollar a day less than he is getting it would take fifteen millions dQdlars to wipe out the loss Tn year, and would soon make it impossible to give them employ ment at any wages.
 But MT. Ford gives employment and wages so much of his thought, and is such a genius in organizing in dustry and in inventing devices to re- duce the burdens of labor while in creasing the output that he can pay the highest wages in the history of the industrial world while shortening the hours of labor and making the work easier-not as short as he would like to see the hours, not as easy as he would have the work, but he is striving eve- to better the pay, to shorten the hours still more and to kill more of the drudgery. The man who does that is not a rotten Ameri- can.
 Mir. Ford has been "accused'' of be- ing a ''pacifst."
 He loves peace; he hates war; he believes that the most foolish thing men do on earth is to go out and kill one another.
 He would avoid the suffering that men bring to each other, and with it lIIG uileTlHS llldl COIreS to "Ol1len and children.
 Peace brings happiness, and war brings misery; so he is for keeping his country out of war with other countries, and for keeping other coun- tries from warning among themselves for patiently trying every honorable plan to prevent slaughter.
 He may differ with many as to how patient a man or a nation should be before declaring war, but when his own country was forced into a war for humanity, MT. Ford became one of the greatest aids to that cause in the world.
 I saw him both before and after America got into the war, saw him hoping that the conflict could be avoided, saw him act when once the aie was cast.
 Personally he went to each of the great plants he controls, planning al ways to get the greatest production for the government at the least cost without sacrificing the toilers, wheth- CT it was in making helmets or cais- sons, tanks or U-Boat chasers, cylin- ders or Liberty engines, any of the many millions of dollars worth of articles the government wanted and he could produce. The one thought was to make them right, make them quickly and make them as econonli- cally as possible.
 Nothing rotten about that kind of Americanisn.
 I saw MT. Ford again the day after the armistice was signed.
 They will not need lot of this stuff are making, better call up Washington and see if we can't stop it, he said to the man in charge of one of the very large plants.
 ''To do that there would be a loss that we could not charge in on the contract" said one of the men, "we would lose at least a million and a half dollars by it.'
 Isn't peace worth it?" was Mr. Ford's reply, and the work was stop ped at the earliest possible moment.
 And now with the war work all over, having determined in the be- ginning not to make one cent of profit off war work. MT. Ford asks the government to have experts go over his books so that, if it by any chance his books that. if by any chance for him in any of the many contracts, the money can be returned to the government. It is being done.
 And Henry A. Wise Wood says that PIPP, Detroit, Mich.