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Appeals to Ford Total Six Million Dollars Month

and preference was given 10 the most
needy. to men Of large families
rather than to men with few depend
ents, and to married men rather than
to single men.
The fact that special consideration
was given to old men and cripples
brought hundreds Of applications
from these classes. It was impossible.
of course, to take on all who applied.
but every effort was made TO find
places for as many as possible. 1t
was necessary to select special jobs
for the old and the physically handi-
capped. The work must be light and
as far removed from danger as pos
sible. I do not recall that a cripple
ever received an additional injury
while in the employ of the company.
and the only instance on record of
injury to an old man was the case of
one who went to sleep and fell off his
chair.
Over 100 cripples We're ia the em-
ploy Of the company at the outbreak
of the war In addition to these.
some four or five thousand more men,
disabled more or less by disease. and
who for that reason would be reject
ed by industry. we're on its pay roll.
After the war the company agreed to
take a thousand handicapped men as
fast as they came out of hospitals.
Let one suppose that all this was
done as charity in the ordinary
sense Of that word. The company
prided itself on the fact that it could
place these men so that they could
earn the wage paid them. Cripples.
because of the difficulty they expert
ence in getting a job, as rule show
their appreciation by doing we'll the
work given them. BY way of illus
tration I recall the case of n blind
man hired in and put to work. A
few days later his foreman brought
two men with perfect vision and
sound Of body TO the employment
manager: Here" said the foreman,
take these men and transfer them
to some other department.. I don't
need them. That blind man you gave
me the other day is doing their work
and his, too. and they are only in his
way. And what's more, he keeps
singing all the time he is working"
He had been a piano tuner. He came
TO my off1ce and told me his story. He
had been able to make enough money
to buy food. but friends or family had
to help out from time to time in the
matter of clothes and room rent He
would like a chance to make his own
way in the world. 1t was given him.
And he made good.
Mr.. Ford lifted to the level of self
support hundreds Of people who 9th.
erwise would have been living on the
charity Of others.
Employees Ill and in hospitals, with
their savings exhausted. had their
hospital bills paid by the company.
and in addition to this a weekly al
lowance, equal to half pay, was given
the family. I have known hospital
care at the expense Of the company
to extend in some instances over r
period of more than two years. Just
so long as the physician stated the
man had a chance to recover and re-
turn to work he was regarded as a
Ford man and was taken care of. In
,, all cases where it was possible. how
ever, some member Of the family Of a
! sick employe was given work until
the employe himself was able to re-
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MR.. FORD once made contribu-
Itl ton toward the furnishing of a
building which l was fitting out for
recreational purposes. When he was
making out the check for the sum
pledged he paused and, looking UP at
me, said: Il might as we'll make this
out for a thousand or two more while
l am at it," NO" 1 replied, "the
amount you are giving is sufficient.
I am not going to expend moro than
is necessary just because can get
it." WELL" he said, IF you want
moro you might as we'll have It. The
gift of money means nothing to me.
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The only thing I can give you that
would mean anything would be my
time"
Mr.. Ford seldom places a gift in
the way Of money in a manner that
and direction. He took over a hospi-
tai at time when it was in financial
difficulties. He put millions into it,
Lut before doing SO he paid back to
others who had previously put money
into the institution their contribu-
tons in full. "lf am to support that
hospital. then I am going to control
it, he said to me.
AS to the manner OF using his
money for the benefit of others. Henry
Ford has his own ideas. They are not
of the conventional sort. Few of his
ideas are. His theory that wealth
should be amassed in way that will
not create poverty. and so make
charity necessary; that the profits Of
industry are not SO much Of a private
and personal affair as to justify any
one man in making even a philan-
thropic distribution of them: that the
proper disposition Of such profits is to
put them back into industry for the
benefit of labor, is a theory SO near
fundamentally sound that I cannot
see much to justify the criticism that
is made of it. It's weakness, it ap-
pears TO me. is that it overlooks the
fact that we have not yet reached the
industrial millennium in which there is
work for all all the time; that acci-
| dent or old age may render even a
Ford employe helpless in the struggle
for existence: that there are thou
sands OF people in this world now,
and thousands more will yet be born,
mentally and physically unequal to do
anything that will give them ade-
quate support. Charity of the kind
that Henry Ford decries. and which
we all decry for that matter. is. as
things are, necessity. and there
seems to be no good reason why he
should not bear his portion Of 1t. His
failure to do so, however, should not
blind US to the great good he IS doing
in his own way. We could even afford
to have a few more billionaires like
him. But until the millennium arrives
we need a few people of means who
will accept our modern organised
charity a. one Of the necessary evils.
and give It their support
In accordance with Mr.. Fords idea
as to the best way to help the other
fellow. two rules were fundamental
in the sociological department OF the
| company. The first was that no prob
! lem was to be solved by the use of
money when the solution could be
reached through work. The second
was that no case should be under
taken that could not be put ulti-
mately upon a self-supporting basis.
| Thousands Of cases of destitution
were relieved by giving tho head Of
the family, or some member of 1t, en-.
ployment. There was . time whom
all applicants for employment were
! looked up before they were hired in.
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our new church" One was almost
forced to the conclusion that If every
parson had a Ford car, and every
church a bell. the pressing religious
problems of the country would be at
an end.
4 man of wealth is confronted by
no problem more difficult than that
of making q wise use of portion
of his wealth for charitable pur-
poses. To give to. ease ones con-
science or to avoid criticism is not
. dificult matter. It can be done by
a man who has plenty of money with
out thought of sacrifice.
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charity was ruined by it. The
amount given in this case was, as l
recall it, about SIT. The investment
of that ST has saved him millions.
Just another example of wise use
Of money for which he has become
famous.
Mr. Ford has no use for the ordi-
nary channels of charity and philan-
thropy. Such matters are taken care
of by other members of the family.
To the Red Cross. the community
fund. to people destitute on account
of sickness or the infirmity Of years
and to many charitable institutions
Mrs Ford and Edsel give generously.
Thousands of people. high and low.
great and small, known and un-
known. make pilgrimages to Detroit
to obtain money from Mr.. Ford for
every conceivable object under the
sun. Many thousands more write let
ters asking his financial support. 1t
Is railroad fare and postage wasted.
A great deal OF my time. before l
went with the Ford Motor Company
and since. has been taken up by peo-
pie out to get money from Mr.. Ford,
and who insist that either 1 put their
case uD to him or obtain for them an
interview in order that they may
plead their own cause. AS matter
Of curiosity l kept for a time record
of the sums thus sought. The total
was close to $4,0oo,ooo a year.
The requests for money coming into
his own office average. SO I have been
informed, over $4,000 900 a month.
One reuest that frequently came
under my notice was for a Ford car.
The entire output of the factory, 1t
often seemed to me. would hardly
meet the demand if every request
were to be granted. Charitable. reli-
gious and philanthropic institutions
and organizations were in need OF a
Ford runabout or truck-possibly two
or three of them. or even forty or
fifty of them-right away. Some
times it was q member of the parish
who wanted to surprise our dear
minister. by making him a present
Of q car. Not infrequently the min
lister made bold to state his own
needs. One bishop wrote asking that
two carloads Of runabouts be sent to
him at once. Ee had in his diocese
a large number Of missions and a
small pusnber Of missionaries. Give
each Of them q runabout and their
work could be quadrupled. 1t was a
fine ddea. But it was not altogether
original. We had been confronted
with something like it before. But 1t
required more than one letter to con-
vince the good bishop that if the
thought was an inspired one, then
inspiration as TO the value Of Ford
runabouts. sedans and trucks in reli-
gious, charitable and philanthropic
work had become too general for the
Ford Motor Company alone to. cope
with 1t. It was necessary to sell =
few cars in order to kesD going,
Next to a runabout for the parson
se emed to be the need for "a bell for
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Frank Carpenter Some MotorC Views the Country Finan
Asset-Farms Which Average 81 Bushels Of Wheat 50 Bushels
Bushels Potatoes Per AcreCop Nrsd Like Babies and
Every Shock Capped-E1ephans Horse The Stone Roads Of Belgium
and What the Debt Might Do for Americaot Be Richer Than Rockefeller
Volga Which Melted Sixty Offered for
Sheets Blank Ppe-A Austrian and His Financial
Dilemma.
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for a road from Boston to Panama
and run two tracks through our zone
along the canal. Or. suppose we
could bridge the Pacific, the extra
$1,000 miles would allow US to motor
on our own roadway from San Fran
cisco via Honolulu to Manila. with
more than 5000 miles over to take in
Guam and Samoa and the Hawaiian
Islands on the way back.
All this might be done with the
money we have loaned to the Bel
gians, which I. for one. hope they will
pay. They are supposed to get it
back as q first lien on the German
reparations, and much OF what they
have already received is now going
into new roads. Would it not be bet
ter from now on for Uncle Sam to
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rise in places to the height of the
Blue Ridge of Virginia. Belgium,
like Holland, is made up largely of
the rich earth washings brought down
by rivers and streams from the high
lands, and it is cut up by canals. We
crossed a canal every few miles. and
this necessitates bridges which in
most cases are OF stone or concrete.
There are more than 1000 miles of
canals and five rivers that are used
as commercial waterways. The
Scheldt, which would not be consid-
cred a large stream in the United
States, has on its banks three cities
Antwerp, Ghent and Journal. 1t has
been a water highway for centuries,
and boats were paying toll upon it
as far back as A. D. 1000. The freight
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HE following Story TOLD py a
man who was not in the en-
ploy Of the company will serve
L to illustrate what I know was
the effect Of the spirit of the company
upon its employees in hundreds OF in
stances:
Beside me in street car so the
story runs. "there sat a man past fifty
years Of age. He was foreigner. ana
by the badge he wore l knew he was
Ford employe. A woman entered the
car with two small children. Both chill
dren were poorly clad. Their stockings
we're full of holes. their shoes worn.
The mother took the smallest OF the
children on her lap. and by doing 80 en-
posed two large holes In the knees OF
the child's stockings. She made attempts
to cover these holes. but the little dress
was too short to conceal them. Each
time the mother tried to hide the holes
the old man next to me shifted rest
lessy in his seat. Presently the woman
got off the car and the old man followed
her My curiosity was aroused, and
also followed. At the curb he spoke to
her could not hear what he said, but
from gestures made toward the little
ones, I gathered that he was interested
In them After talking with the woman
for a few minutes he accompanied her
to a nearby store. l followed and stood
at a distance so that they would not
know they were being observed. Stock
ings. shoes and rubbers were purchased
Also some underwear, and coat for
the smaller child. He left the store
with the woman. doffed his cap to her
at the door and said Goodbye The
woman stood dazed apparently unable
to express the gratitude she felt J fol-
lowed the man and spoke to him.
THAT your daughter ] asked.
"'Who:' he said.
THE woman with the babies.
"'No.- don't know her. But did YOU
see dem poor kids? I got myself four
children, and was poor like that. Now
work at Ford's and make good living.
think Of mine. and help 'em a little
Bit
"What was the woman's Nance
"T don't know
"'Where does she live
"I no ask her
"'What Is your name:
"He looked at me sharply and said.
You one Of dem newspaper men. You
write it in de paper. Ny wife find out
and l catch hell. She no believe ME and
get jealous. I no give my name
II endeavored to convince him that
he was mistaken. It was no use. He
h.@
to see II I were following him."
There was something in the spirit Of
those days that called out Of men the
finest and best in them. One caught q
glimpse Of a new era In industry. And
perhaps the dawn is there-behind the
clouds.
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made. as a rule, about thirty miles
an hour and all the way have found
good roads of macadam or we'll paved
with stone blocks.
Belgium has enough public roads
to reach twice as far as from Phila
delphia to San Francisco, notwith-
standing the country all told is not
much longer one way than from Bal
timore to New York and not much
wider than the distance between
Philadelphia and Baltimore. 1t covers
an area about one-fourth that Of
Pennsylvania. 1t is less than one
third the size of Indiana and only a
little larger than Massachusetts with
Delaware added thereto. The land
for the most part is fiat, although the
Ardenne mountains at the southeast
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spend more of his money on our pub
lie roads rather than lend it to other
countries to use in making their high
ways about the best paved on earth?
X = X
4 S to the highways of France and
[ \ Belgium, I know whereof speak.
During the past month or SOL have
motored through Il great part of
France, and within the past fortnight
have been motoring back and forth
across little Belgium, making at times
more than 200 miles in one day. Some
of my travels have been in Il Benz
limousine. left here by the Germans
d en-passenger car of fifty
horsepower, with first-class Belgian
chauffeur, named Jules. We have
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CHAPTER XII.
THE FORD CHARITIES.

Mr.. FORD hates the word charity
1Nl and all that it stands for. He
gives generously to friends and en-
Ysoyes, but 1t Is in recognition Of
services rendered. He gives neither
q stone nor money to tho man who
asks bread, but . job.
mo man ever helped another by
swing money" he insists.
have heard him say that the only
man on whom he ever bestowed q
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Ask for
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4 LII this is a preface to some in
"A vestigations 1 have been making
these past two weeks regarding your
mortgage on Belgium. 1t shows why
! dare not give you the figures in
This European currency, and why all
my calculations must be in American
dollars and cents. According to fig
ures furnished me by the Treasury
Department at Washington on the
18th of last May. Belgium owed the
United States Just about $429. .000, 900.
1t is not much, perhaps. in the total
"f moro than $4,000, 100000 which
tho several foreign nations owe us.
hut it represents more than $21 per
family, and would be tidy little
sum to put Into public improvements
il We could have the spot cash. Four
hundred and twenty-nine million dol
dals would mako 10000 miles of new
railways at $4,000 a mile. 1t would
make moro than $4,000 miles Of first
class motor highways at $4,000 a
mile. or enough to reach around the
world at tho equator and build also
II first class Roosevelt route from
Seattle to Boston.
With this money that Belgium 5wes
us. which we raised sc. ,ur liberty
spnss and which is IN addition to the
feed the Belgians during the war.
Uncle Sam could create a system Of
new motor roads, zigzagging this
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BY 8. s. MARQUIS. ID. ID.
CONTINUED from last Sunday

IN HE following story told by
man who was not in the EN-
ploy Of the company will serve
L to illustrate what I know was
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Continued on Sixth Page.)
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-20
HITS MAIL
TRUCK; HURLSAGENT
ON ENGINE Pill 0 7
EMPLOYE DRAG.
GED t50 FEET IN ACCIDENT OC-
CURLING LAST NIGHT AT ROCK
ISLAND DEPOT.

Frank La Vanway, aged baggage
agent at the Rock Island station, who
has for the past twenty years worked
about the depot without figuring in
mishap, nearly met his doom last night
when he was knocked down and drag
gcd $50 feet by freight train, which,
luckily for the gent, was travelling at
a slow rate Of speed. w hen picked up
by witnesses to the accident Mr.. La
Vanway was bleeding profusely from
numerous cuts and was unconscious.
The police ambulance was summoned
and rushed the unconscious man to
he hospital
Dr. 4. J. Roberts was summoned to
-Ltend him, and a careful examination
showed no bones to be broken. How
ever, the agent had suffered many cuts
and bruises, 1t will be several weeks
before he will be able TO return to
work. Upon his own request the in
jured man was removed to his home.
217 West Washington street, last
gening, where he is confined to his
bed.
According to the story told by spec
tators, Mr.. La Vanwey was pulling a
platform mail truck across the first
track to await the coming of a pas.
ger train. A slow freight was
going west, but the agent thought he
had plenty of time to move the truck
across. However, the truck was extra
heavily laden with holiday mail an
it caught in the rails. La Vanwav
walked around the truck to push on
the wheel and force it across the
track. When he had the truck prac-
tically all the way across and was
hurying to pull it the remaining dis
auce the freight hit first him and
en- the truck, demolishing the latter.
5 the big engine hit Mr.. La Vanwav
nd threw him onto the pilot he was
nocked unconscious. He did not re-
ain consciousness until he was placed
il the hospital.
Inquiry at the ! a Vanway home this
morning revealed that the injured man
as resting easily and the cheering
announcement was made that he
would be able to be out in a few
weeks.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-20
JACKIE C00GAM CLUB
TO BE FORMED HERE
Ottawa is to Have Jackie Cooean
Club of It's Own.

Jackie's representative arrived in
Ottawa last night to form the club
for local youngsters Ottawa will be
the third city in Illinois to have a
Juvenile club of this kind and the idea
is rapidly gaining popularity in other
sections of the country.
Membership in the Jackie Coogan
club is open to all boys and girls III
the city under sixteen years of age
There will be no dues or initiation
fees Of any kind The purpose of the
club is to bring together, at frequent
intervals, the city's youthful admirers
of the famous little film star, and to
remote among them a spirit of good
fellowship, based on a common inter
est various contests wiil al % DC held
for the members of the Jackie Coogan
club, the first of which will be a con.
test in which three attractive prizes
will he awarded for the best reviews
OF Jackie's latest picture, "Oliver
Twist, a screen version of the Charles
Dickens classic. This contest will
open just as soon as the club is formed.
The first meeting of the Jackie
Coogan club will be held Friday after.
noon, at three thiry in the Gaiety
theatre. All boys and girls under six
teen., who want to join the club are
invited to attend this meeting and re-
ceive their membership cards and
badges.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-20
BACK SHOE CLERK
into HOTEL. LOBBY
AT POINT OF PISTOL
LA SALE BANDITS NEARLY
MAKE FATAL FAUX PAS BE-
FORE ROBBiNG kASkASkiA
STORE LATE YESTERDAY AFT
ERNOON.

La Sale. Dec. 20.-{Special. His
hands held high in the ali, whilst
two badits backed hin. through a
rear door of the Martin shoe store, in
to the crowded lobby of the Kaskas
kia hotel and then made to re-enter
the store while the highwaymen kept
him covered with big revolver, Joe
Pietrowski clerk, later told police he
was unable to cry out an alarm to
prevent his employer being robbed
last evening.
Pietrowski was alone in the store,
which occupies a part of the Kaskas-
kia building, when two unmasked
men, both about 80, entered and
without further ado ordered him, at
the point of a wicked looking gun,
to stick 'em up Needless to say
he obeyed the command
After they had him thoroughly
covered the pair, advancing step
at q time, told him to back up. They
moved him toward a door at the rear
of the shop, not knowing that it
opened into the hotel lobby, which
"do wen lilSu dI lut lluic viii
guests.
One of the duo reached around the
clerk and flung the door open Pie
trowski, with hands still extended
toward heaven, stepped out into view
of the crowds in the lobby and with
in plain sight of the cigar counter,
but unfortunately no one there saw
him or realized his predicament
When the bandits discovered their
error they poked their gun little
closer to the youths ribs and in
structed him to step back into the
shoe store. He was then taken into
little room where Mr.. Martin kept
his shoe repair machinery and lock
ed up while they rifled the cash draw
er. They obtained about 5000 in cur
rency and silver from the register
and sped out the front door. Pietrow-
ski later forced his way out of his
temporary prisdn and spread an
alarm, but the bandits had ample time
in which to make good their get.
away before the police We're called
on the job.
The crime was committed a few
minutes before the closing hour. Pie
trowski says he could identity the
pair should he ever see the magain
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-20
$4,000 JUDGMENT
O. KID BY HIGH COURT

Springfield, H.. Dec. 20-(Special)
The Supreme Court today sustained
the decision of jury in the La Sale
county Circuit Court awarding Louis
Te Pette of la Sale an $4,000 YER
dict for the loss of leg The defend
ant, the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroad, took an appeal to the
Hieher court. A decision affirming the
action of the lower court was handed
down today.
The case was heard in the La Sale
county tribunal almost two years ago
8! wss carried 10 the Appellate Court
Tho decision was affirmed there, and
a second appeal was taken to the
hichar court
The verdict was the largest ever
awarded IN Ia Sale county for the
loss Of limb Attorneys Coleman q
Caiemand A. +. B''tters Represent tf5
rlaintiF and Boys, Osborne d Grigg-
the railroad.
Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-20
LAUNCH SUIT TO TEST
BONUS LAW VALIDITY

Springfield. H., Dec. 20.-A friendly
suit to test the coustitutionality and
legality of the Illinois soldiers bonus
law was filed here today Half dozen
different objections to the law are
raised. 1t is complained that the law
was not legally passed and is uncon-
etitutional in that the text of the bill
is not designated in the title, and ia t
the law emil races two separate dueS-
tions which should have been provided
for in separate laws.
The proceedings looks the form OF
a petition for injunction against the
service recognition board and state
Treasurer Miller to prevent any fur
ther activity in carrying ont proyi-
sions Of the S55.00O000 bonus They
were filed bv pr. Elmer +. Hagler.
president of the Springfield Chamber
Of Commerce and father OF two sol
diers in the world war.