The New York herald., 1922-05-07

period of depression Nothing of the
kind. They were simply trying to pit
nonsense against sense. Which is some
thing that cannot successfully be done.
Being greedy for money is the surest
way not to get 1t, but when one serves
for the sake of service--for the salts
faction OF doing that which one believes
to be right-then money abundantly will
take care of itself.
A World of Machinery.
ANY scheme looking to abolishing
money is only making affairs more
complex, for we must have a measure.
That our present system of money is
satisfactory basis for exchange is a
matter of grave doubt. The gist of
my objection to the present monetary
system is that IL tends to become
\ thing of itself ana TO block instead of
| facilitate production"
| Much of Mr.. Ford's article Is devoted
to denunciation of waste, which obvi-
| ously he abhors and concerning which
ne offers numerous suggestions In the
way OF correction. 1t is about the worst
bane of the United States, one gathers,
In reading his comment. He plans to
eliminate much Of it through machinery
and he visions a queer world. a world
Of neutrality-suspicious. comes up the
picture Of cold. metallic sort of world.
In which great factories will drive away
the trees, the flowers. the birds and the
green fields. And that then we shall
nave world composed of metal ma
chimes and human machines"
we waste so much time and energy"
he laments, that we have little left over
In which to enjoy ourselves, and ma
chinery, money and goods are useful only
as they set us free to live. do
not consider the machines that pear my
name simply as machines. If that was
all there was to It would do something
else. take them as concrete evidence
OF the working out OF a theory OF busi-
ness-a theory that looks toward MAX
ing this world a better place in which to
| live. The fact that the commercial sue
cess of the Ford Motor Company las
been most unusual is important only be-
cause 1t serves to demonstrate la a way
which no one can fail to understand
that the theory to date is rieht. Consid-
cred solely In this light, L can criticize
the prevailing system of industry and
the organization OF money and society
from the standpoint of one who .ias not
been beaten by them. :"
Quashing Complexities.
II he were thinking selfishly, lie says,
he would ask for no change In me sys-
tenn. but he is thinking of service, and
in that light he sees that the system en-
courages waste 1t keeps men from
getting the full return from service
My effort" he says is in tho direc-
ton OF simplicity. Nearly everything
that we make is much more complex
than 1t needs to be. Our clothing, our
food. our household furnishings-all
could be much simpler than they are
and at the same time be stter looking
/ do not mean that we should adopt
| freak styles. There is no necess lty for
that. Clothing need not be bag with a
hole cut in it. Real simplicity means
| that which gives the very best service
and Is the most convenient in uye. The
trouble with drastic reforms is that they
always insist that man be made over
in order to use certain designated ar
ticies. L think that dress reform for
women-which seems to mean ugly
clothes--must always originate with
plain women who want to make every
one else look plain. Tha. Is not the
right process. Start with an article
that suits and then study to find some
! way OF eliminating the entirely useless
J patts iniS applleS TO everything--a
shoe. dress, a house. a piece OF ma
chinery, railroad, a steamship. an air
plane. AS We cut out useless parts and
simplify useful ones we also GU, down
the cost of making.
Burden of Extra weight.
There is no more sense i'm having ex.
ira weight in an article than there Is
In the cockade on the coachman's ha-
cannot imagine where the delusioa
that weight means strength comes
from. Fat men cannot run as
fast as thin men but we build most OF
cur vehicles as though dead weight fat
increased speed. A deal of poverty
grows out of the carriage Of excess
weight. Some day we shall discover
now further to eliminate weight.
| The farmer makes too complex an affair
| OF his daily work. j believe that the
average farmer puts to a really useful
purpose only about 5 per cent. of the
| energy that he spends. On my
own farm at Dearborn we do every
thing by machinery. We have elimi-
mated a great number OF wastes but wa
omy. We have left more undone than
we have done"
Mr.. Ford says that his concern
| turned out car No. 100000 on May
81, 1921, and that 1t is now in his
museum along with the gasoline buggy
that he began work on thirty years ago
and which first ran satisfactorily In the
spring of 1893.