The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-09
MIR. FORD'S OWN PAGE

Whatever is wrong n our industrial system we know much is wrong-it be righted only by clear definition what it is and wherein its wrongness consists This means ful inVestlgatlon on the one mana ana couraseous application the other. both of which operations call for dispassionate diagnosis and detached wis 
 looking another, at what has and what another lacks, that we have made a. personal matter out of that which is much bigger-bgger in size well as in demands.
 To be sure human nature enters largely into doubtless colors all the competitive activities Of class it might be easily dealt with but it is of human fibre everywhere And greed exists. And jealously all the human qualities out of which spiritual and physical violence are created exist.
 But perhaps the hardest critic among would hesitate to that these unlovely qualities are all that mark the industrial processes of our time We shall have to admit, probably that other and better qualities have had an influence on what to
 Men make things for two basic reasons: for satisfaction they find in the making and for the reward. the living they get from it.
 Tangled with these motives are others, of course some higher and some s laudab1e wish bring ones family in civilized fashion to maintain themselves is laudable wish maintain family eminence that world relieved of the necessity of forming useful service for their living desire to extend the knowledge and use of it throughout Is laudable seek by that article to cripple men, simply private fortune such heights, without doing good to others, as shall make all the
 a justify his income by exspending it for the creation of larger service or opportunities for his fellowmen then he ought accumula ting.
 he justification unusual income that it Is being used to create unusual out for mems energies and new sources of human happiness
 I mountains of money to inaugurate great opportunities supply motives and careers to nd thousands of men. It doesn't matter whether these inaugurated by indivi- groups of individuals, money is required $ opportunities that jus tify the gathering O large into pile.
 It is longer a distinction to be rich.
 a matter of fact, to be rich is no longer ambition
 People don't for money, they once Certainly they, do not stand in of 1t. nor O him who possesses it
 People decency of livelihood, and then great occupation great servceableness of life distinction that really honors
 
 accumulate by of useless surplus does no what do, how the earth supporting us-that tells the story
 a moments thought to that far individual personal advantage is concerned. vast accumulations of money mean nothing. A hu man being is being, nourished by the same amount quality of food, is warmed by the same weight O clothing whether rich poor And one can only inhabit at time.
 Unless is degenerate and has the rntsers mania, mere accumulation amounts to nothing.
 Put if one has visions of service, if has plans which ordinary resources could possibly re- alize if a life ambition to make the indus trial desert bloom and the work sday life suddenly blossom into fresh and enthusiastic human motives of high character and efficiency then one large sums Of money what the lar mer sees in his corn-the beginning of new and rich or harvests whose benefits more be selfishly confined than the suns rays can be exclusively 1oyed.