The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-10-20
MIR. FORD'S OWN PAGE

Like a sensitive plant, it will close up in an unfriendly atmos- phere.
 The whole matter is, after all. personal to every man, woman and child in this country. AS a personal question. it comes in this form: Would I exchange the present opportunity to live in measurable comfort, for the condition Of other nations who have no comfort at all, and hardly even the necessities or life?"
 And as personal responsibil- ity it comes in this form: This period can be safely weathered only as each one stands by he task My .sonal duty as a member of his American nation, whose national duty is to set the world on it's feet again. is to keep the wheels turning, keep useful p,,avc lcn uE keep up he cutie" of -as-c Lhings which a,eE body ueals in order to I've"
 The condition in which the world finds it alf is primarily due o war. The war is over, ba. i-a eff=c $ aTe not and will T b for a Ing inc. I, will be Q much longer tine if We slack en LII our duty to our own nation and the world.
 Perhaps there never was a time in our history when our i +n fa STn fully stated in industrial terms. Work - strong Work - honest Work is the Service We owe the country now. It is the para mount duty of the hour. We need to cultivate Work for it's effect on the morale of the world. for it's reconstructive ser vice, for it's proof of the power of human nature to come back after the terrible strains of the past five years.
 There is no danger whatever of harm coming to the country by any industrial adjustment in the interests of better wages, better conditions of work, bet ter hours, better profit-sharing plans, better devices of any Kind that will put productive labor in possession of a juster share of the profits of it's product,
 Don't succurb to the faIlacy that right relations will ever in jure industry or any interest in industry. It is onlv when we at tain perfectly right industrial re- lations that industry will ever be on a sound basis economically.
 There is absolutely nothing to fear in the desire o. men Tor bet ter conditions; indeed, it is most hopeful sign.
 But this is not to be confused with the spirit that would hold up, stop, throw out of order, cripple and slow down the very processes on which socEety de- bends for it's ex-s lence. That spirit is absolutely dangerous and is to be feared by every man who loves his own, his famiIys and his country's welfare.
 The first consideration is the Work. Capital must make the Work always the first considera- tiOn. The Work comes before profits. The Work comes before private consideration. So must labor make the Work it's first considera It is only the Work which will provide liveIi- hood for any of us. Doubtless speculative capitalism has a large account of guilt to settle. Nobody doubts that But, even So, the Work comes first We shall best unseat greedy, unfair. oppressive, speculative capital by producing those things which make the world free and pros porous.
 The message for this time is that each of us has his own re- sponsfbility. Each man in his place in the industrial rank holds that part of the line firm. And the condition of the world is such that it needs the steadiness and com mon SanSa Of e1-a,-xr ,,,o,,