The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-29

square deal to do anything like it's duty by labor. There are, of course, many other factors that enter into the creation wealth. Thus the directive faculty" the quality of leadership in thought and action is not only absolutely need ful in all organized undertakings great or small but it becomes increasingly and. consequently increasingly more valuable the obJect to which it addresses itself size complexity and difficulty.
 Let us take example the case of MT. Henry Ford Through the organizing genius enter prise of b seIf-nlade man, MT, Henry Ford Cnot by Llo1opoIH' put Tn keen competition with other man ufacturers), the automobile, instead of being a ury of the few has been brought within the of those of modest
 The cost of the product has been vastly cheapen- ed. The margin profit on each automobile sold mas been greatly diminished Wages have been largely increased, Iivlng conditions of e- TOT a great many more men than were employed In other words, every single human factor con- eefleo III either production or consumption has been advantaged. New wealth has created at the expense of no It be was created by the workingnlan. except in the phy scal sense It was not created by either monoply or privilege. It was created mainly out of MT. By far the largest percentage of this wealth expenses of the business but out of what is left MT Ford's share is, by common report, in l. Did MT. Ford earn s1ooO,oOO in one year? If not how much did he earn? By what scale would you measure the proporton due to him of the wealth created mainly by his faculties?
 ?. If he had not been allowed to the large have found the means enlarge and improve factory, possible enterprise which
 
 and largely increased the to the workingman and the opportunity for employment? Is there any instance where communistic merely co-op- erative undertakings have produced similar results? Is there any instance where governmental manage ment has produced similar results?
 In recently published very able pamphlet 'Reconstruction' Miss Christabel Pankhurst the well-known English leader the fight woman suffrage says:
 Certain people ought to know better, have falsely taught that the poverty semi poverty the is due to the luxurious living the pros porous sections of the community. is not the 1 through of agitators the result years industrial eff fort had been divided equally among the members of the community, there would have been ap- preciabIe increase of prosperity any and there would have been dead-level of poverty all" way progress is pull everybody o a common level of mediocrity, which ultimately common level of wretchedness o help everybody
 It is not material success which must be abolish ed; It is poverty and Justified discontent which be abolished
 abolish poverty by division. only multiplication
 s by spoliation of some, but by creat- ing larger and broader opportunity for that national webeing can and be enhanced. l wonder how people realize that if all in comes above $1OO00 taken and distributed among those earning than S10, 900, result, it possible o figure out, would that the income of those receiving distribution would be increased barely by 19 per cent
 And the result of such division would be immense loss in national productivity by turning a powerful and fructfying stream a of rivulets of which would simply lose them in the sand. A
 I wonder how many people know eighths of national income goes those with incomes of S5,000 less. and but one-eighth te with incomes above $5,0e0