The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-03
Sir George Cadbury's Chocolate Business -
 His Daughter Gives the| Fortune Away - Will This Help or Will Tt
 Hurt-The Life of An Industry - About the| Use of Capital.

gland. He established 8 model village; made his workers sharers in the profits and accomplished a. great fortune. Cadbury now having passed to the grave his daughter, Mrs. Cornelius Boeke, gives the stock to the workmens and women's council of Rourn- vile ito promote home and inter- national activities She says that capital is responsible for most of the trouble in the world today.
 What do you think of this ac- tion? Is it wise? Is it unwise? The conclusion may depend upon the line of thought pursued
 Here is one line. Why didn't every man of England found a great chocolate industry? Why didn't each and every one build a model village; put his employees into 1t share profits with them and make a great fortune for him. self? That answer is quite too easy. Everybody will say the ta1- ent to do it is uncommon; only a few men have it. Sir George Cadbury was an exceptional man. There are not many like him.
 
 This naturally raises the ques- tion, are there any exceptional men among those people to whom the business has been given? If there are such persons. can the other persons find them? If they do find them will, they put them in power? In this mode of req soning the test of Mrs Boeke's wisdom will be found in what happens to the industry.
 
 Driving through Connecticut, along the banks of the Housa- tonic River and elsewhere, here and there a deserted village will be found. There will be a fac tory or the remains of it, dwell ings well advanced toward decay, the remains of what was once prosperous industrial community These villages swere founded usually by the genius of some individuaI; when that individual died. or disappeared, no brains came along to keep the business going.
 Very likely the great business of chocolate selling, developed by Cadbury fin his model village, is doomed. Of two ways of look ing at 1t the most probable is that nobody will be found able to carry on his work.
 
 Please note that right here in Bridgeport business enterprises do not long survive their founders Among Bridgeport's organizations, pr. Days Church Is perhaps the oldest, and among business organ izations. the Bridgeport Times is perhaps the oldest. How many enterprises in Bridgeport have endured for 100 years?
 
 There Is another angle. Mrs. Boeke does the thing because she says. most of the evils in the world flow from capital. Many evils do flow from capital but the lady may be wrong about the quantity of such evils.
 In & hundred years there has been a tremendous improvement in the well being of the masses of mankind; they live better with more bathtubs; more health; more amusements; more happi- ness; more mental interests and more securities for life and pro- perty than in any previous age. These Improvements are contem- poraneous with the growth of capital.
 It must be admitted by candid men that Cap1la1 mas prOduCed much more good than it has evil
 
 An action such as Cadbury's daughter takes, and such as one of the Garlands has pursued in the United States, does tend powerfully to direct attention to Improvement which may be made in the use of capital
 Henry Ford, who is a greater business man than Cadbury, in business accomplishments and in business altruism. often admon- tshes employers that they can do great deal better than they are doing. The worst evil that at tends upon the use of capital is perhaps the lack of coordination between industries, which per n1its the people to be thrown into great periods of idleness and waste when suffering, though