New-York tribune., 1921-02-09

pany will be prepared to give financial
aid and cooperation to the towns and
Villages in which it locates, such aid
going toward tho building of sewers
and other necessities.
zone Of the first demonstrations of
our plan Is being made in n town of
/ 500 inhabitants, twenty miles from
$50 men in the exclusive manufacture
Of valves which we use beth for the
Ford car and tractor. The Transports
tion is by motor truck, on good roads,
the ideal system of short haul trans
portation for railroad shipment farther
on. The town needs a sewer system,
which the company is prepared to
build, in cooperation with the towns
people, so that there will be no need
of the town foundering in debt for
years under heavy issues of bonds-a
lprohts but parasitic on-producers,
such as the cities are filled with. This
will be our system in every small com
munity in which we locate. Improve
ments need not be limited to sewers"
Mr.. Ford announced that his com
pany has taken over water site at
Hamilton, Ohio, and has entered fif-
teen other small communities.
Plan May Be World Wide
"Our plan Is not to be confined to
will extend throughout the country"
said Mr.. Ford. ave will probably not
limit it to the United States England
offers many opportunities Of this kind.
"The idea in the smaller community
is to get at it and do it," said Mr.. Ford:
"These farming communities need
their man power, and improved me-
chanical farming methods will eventu-
ally give men time to think of other
things than being held to crude farms,
shaving through the winter for few
cows. They may work in one of our
factories until the time comes to plant
crops. They may then come back when
that work is done. There will be no
need for the farmer to leave his farm
or its surroundings for the unnatural
conditions of American cities, with
their injurious effects on mental, moral
and physical life.
"From a sociological point Of view
ALSO" continued Mr.. Ford 1--WE have
found that there are fewer needy peo-
pie in smaller communities than in
cities. In the town of Dearborn here
we have had but three cases to look
into, whereas in Detroit there have
| been too many"
DSdID DGIH was tlS iiSa lOSaeiOh VI IhS
big Ford tractor plant. In this town,
once q small village, there are streets
of attractive, we'll built dwellings, built
by Mr.. Ford for his employees at cost
of about $2,000,000 during the last two
years. A comparatively few employees
Of the Dearborn plant are taken out
Of the factory each season to work
5000 acres of land, Mr.. Ford told The
Tribune's representative. The Ford
School, where about 200 boys are pre-
pairing for executive work, will also be
given taste Of agriculture: Before
| the Ford tractors are painted and pre-
pared for market they will be given a
days test by the schoolboys on out
door work Practical agricultural
work on considerable scale will be
done, Mr.. Ford explained. These
youngsters have their own bank ac-
counts, provided personally by the
manufacturer during their tutelage.
Huge Changes in Generation
GLOW long will it be before dent
will be made in American cities by
your plan 2" Mr.. Ford was asked. His
answer was as follows:
"Twenty-fve years ago, there were
only three or four motor cars in the
world There were no electric street.
cars thirty-tive years ago. There were
no farm tractors, or airships ard no
wireless fifteen years ago. There were
no telephones fifty years ago"
The thought struck the interviewer
that, after all, it might not be impos-
sible that the next half century, per-
haps, might see the beginning of a
comparatively cowless, horseless, milk
less era, in which the city laborer had
become a joint mechanical farmer
laborer, and the farmer a laborer-
farmer. 1t is the dream of the auto
manufacturer who dreamed fifteen
years ago that automobiles could be
made articles of cheap bulk produc-
ton.
Henry Ford does not impress the