New-York tribune., 1919-01-10

gies of the best men, and altogether
life is made happier for hundreds of
thousands of people.
"Opportunjty often hides in the
simple things which are despised by
people Of high notions. Don't stand
around looking up at the sky. LOOK
around your feet You will find oppor-
tunlty on your back doorstep. We are
only in the dawn of things as yet.
"1he man who sees Is master.
ANY place is a good place to start
from. Opportunity will not overlook
you because you wear oyeralis and.
your hands are grimy with work. OPP
portunity often lodges the front office
and shakes hands with the fellow at
the last machine down at the far end
of the shop.
There is more science behind bolt
and nut than any professor ever
knew. A good man makes a coed job,
and good start is made when man
and job become good friends.
Exploitation of Labor Wrong
Gone of the benefits which will re-
suit from large development OF new
industrial ideas will be the decrease of
absentee ownership. When only few
lines are open the speculative capital
lists are always trying to get hold OF
what another has built up. They want
it not to make it better and bigger,
but to exploit it. The only interest
they have in the business or the prod
uct is the dollars they can squeeze out.
"Their game is not honest. 1t is not
human. 1t doesn't produce anything.
They are merely gambling in what
other men have built up by hard work
and honest dealing.
"a business ought to be something
more than mere source OF money: 1T
ought to show a worth while product
and healthy profit. But it ought to
show something more. The product
will wear out A business makes men
as we'll as articles for sale"
ScIfshness Caused War
MIR. Ford has hitherto unpublished
ideas on what started the world war.
He says certain individuals may have
started it for their own personal ends,
we were losing our respect for law,
piling up mountains of munitions, and
perhaps the Almighty grew tired of it
and swept it all away. He remarks:
"There is a great deal of discussion in
bility for the war. Everybody seems
Euesses are made.
"Thc war began i'll bad condition
everywhere-a condition which simply
had to break because it was so bad.
Individuals may have seized the occa
sion for their own personal ends but
there was world condition that made
it possible for them to do So
THE world was simply fostering with
selfshncss Men of power regarded
workingmen as factory fodder. We
hear about miltarists regarding citi-
zcns as mere cannon fodder. Well,
there arc men who exploit their human
brothers as factory fodder to make
money for themselves.
No Respect for Law
we were all chasing the things that
glitter and have no substance. Life
was becoming pretty much of a show.
We were losing what respect we had
for law. Public life was debased. The
needs Of the party rather than the
needs of the people Influenced too much
of our legislation.
'"We were piling up mountains of
munitions, great mountains of tools for
man killing.
We thought society could remain
healthy with one part suffering need
and the other part rolling in luxury.
eve thought that system which
STEPPED oil one man because he was
poor and bowed before another be-
cause he was rich was going to last.
"And then it happened. 1t was as
if the Almighty grew tired of it too
and swept it all away.
But now that peace has come again,
now that our President is doing his
best to set up a government of good
will throughout the world, it is un-
believable that anybody should want
to go back to the conditions which
made this war possible.
1--WE ought to double our guard
against any of the old dangerous
things creeping back into their former
places.
at is our hope that his paper will
do its part in the new work That is
the only motive we have in creating it,
An unbiased paper is an extended
voice, and if we can help, if our expert
cnce can be Of service to any one, we
are ready and willing to do what we
can for the welfare of mankind"