The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-12
Mr. F1OrCJ's OUUn Page
Henry Ford Is a Great Manufacturer, Great Thinker; Great Man; He
 Says, "Keep Working"

The salvation the depends its get ting back to work. However much men may dis it of slave driving, however much they may believe that 1t is the slogan of those who want to make money out of others, the fact remains that Work is a greatest defense best guaranty for the future, and our most potent de- finds itself
 You almost measure the value danger of anything by it's effect Work.
 If you will sum uII the pTlhcIpal oostrucnons to Work you will find them to be disease, crime, indoence class hatreds etc
 You would have to include, of course indus trial injustice, for that also interferes with Work who refuse recognize the human and spirit ual element in Labor, is considerable hind rance to Work these days, and by that standard it be regarded evil
 It is pretty safe to set down a blanket rule that any compromise readjustment, attitude or act that Work going full blast again, is full-blown gain to everybody concerned, no matter how it may appear loss at the moment
 For idIeness half-hearted effort is loss all around, while Work well-directed and useful Work, help being beneficial all round
 That is why insist that the first thing, the first thing to do is to get the world back to
 Politics isn't first; treaties not first; diplo- macy is not first; Work is first
 Why? Because, with Work delayed the trou- bes that you seek to solve by politics and diplomacy only increased. Keep the world idle another year the massed difficulties will be almost in soluble likeness never bred anything but trouble. Not that normal kind of trouble which arises out a resentment against wrong-doing, but that ab- normal kind which digs up or creates troupie Tor troubles sake There is lot of trouble in the 
 idle minds,
 Moreover, with Work neglected you rarely have sanity vision winch is needed for sound SO o the problems that confront nation work has more balanced view and will take far wiser with regard to big question than a nation which is idle. The hand and mind that are unoccupied by useful tasks, tasks that really something world, become diseased and biased and one-sded The Judgment of idleness is not to be trusted.
 Work gives width of view. Work gives breadth of fellowship The man in the shop has in his work a wider connection with the actual thought and feeling O world than the a library full of books. Labor gives a sort of tele- phonic or telepathic connection with every of and their problems.
 The truth of these statements may be gath cred from the fact that when you want to know you don't lock yourself away in dusty book rooms A book may easily be used to shut you away from your fellow and the common mind. but Work puts you communication with all the world.
 Thus when you take a continent like Europe away from it's humanly useful work for a period of five years. allow idleness continue after ply heapng up mountains of unhealthful thought which really part of the peace problem at all. but which in time become almost of greater importance than the peace problem Work would leaders of old world possessed the vision and the it and upon it.
 We may go further than this and say that it is not even question of wages, 1t is question of Worl-this of saving the world.
 Readers of this page have need that state our position regard wages. No one will make mistake of concluding that because said Tit is question wages that would countenance for one moment shrewdy dishonest of the present confusion a for reducing
 Not for instant,
 Wages necessary in order that the products of labor should be distributed.
 High waSes the best possible wages that be paid are necessary order distribution Of the products of labor should be as equal possible