The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-19

as u ulSClpllndry measure, nOplnB tna'
out of it would come usefulness tc
himself and to the organization.
"Can n foreman discharge mann
was asked the head of the Ford Motor
Co., employment department by one OF
the attorneys, during the FordTrbune
! trial.
"IIe cannot" was the answer.
"If a foreman doesn't want a man,
What do you do with the mani"
"Give him another job"
"And if that foreman is dissatisfied
| with him. what do you do?"
"Give the man another job"
"And if there is disagreement with
that foreman?"
"Then we begin to thing something
is wrong with the man"
But the Ford system is never to give
up. We always work with the man
until he is made useful to the world.
Yet there are those who would brand
as an anarchist. the man who can and
does apply this system of practical pa
tience to an organization employing
over so 900 men.
1t was some little time after the
European war broke out, but long be
fore our people got into it, Many firms
in Detroit were getting war contracts
on very profitable basis from foreign
governments. Mr. Ford had his OPP
portunities, many of them. He was
discussing them one day as he was
driving away from the Ford motor
plant lin u Ford coupe which he drives
HIMSELF
lie stopped the machine. turned about
in the car look at the plant and said
with all the earnestnes n man could
use: Il would rather tear down every
brick in that plant. smash every win
dow and throw it all in the river than
make one article to kill a man."
How easily that could be miscon-
strued," l thought. How easy it would
have been to quote him as saying he
would do it instead of that he would
rather" do it than make munitions for
foreign governments.
But if our own nation" I began,
but he did not let me finish the ques-
tion.
of our own nation gets into it, our
own nation can have everything in
money, material or energy that I have
and without a cent profit he broke
in. Il believe it is wrong to make
profit off war materials, to turn 50 hor-
rible thing as the slaughter of men
into personal gain"
Which belief may make him appear
as an anarchist in the eyes of some
the profiteers.
Again he said: "A nation that goes
out to conquer the world for gain of
trade or territory or any other selfish
motive is guilty of murder and makes
murderers of its men," a saying that
has been very much DISTORTED many
times
1t has been printed that no special
provision was made to care for the
families of the Ford soldiers who went
to the front. No special" provision
was necessary. 1t was all taken care
of in the regular workings of the Ford
organization.
Looks After Mems Families.
Many men testified in the Tribune
case, and their wives testified, too, that
when a man employed at Fords has to
quit work for causes beyond his con-
troll, such as sickness, jury service, go
ing to war. or anything of the kind
the Ford sociological department auto
matically takes up the work of seeing
to it that the family is looked after.
and this operated in the matter of SOL
diers, their wives testifying that they
received payments from the Ford com
pany during the absence of their hus-
bands and the husbands testifying that
their jobs We're open to them. and in
many instances at advanced pay, on
their return.
1t was on statements CONTRARY to this