The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-05-28
Higher PRODUCTION
HELD short CUT TO
RELIEF FOR BUSINESS
only Way Out of Stagnation,'
Says Manufacturer in
Interview
NO TIME TO LOWER WAGES
Says Country Exists on Pay En-
veIope and Start Should
Be Made There
NO TIME TO LOWER WAGES

Detroit. May 28.-(P-The shortest
cut to relief from the present BUSH
ness depression, in the opinion of
Henry Ford, is an intensive develop-
ment OF agriculture and manufacture.
looking to quantity production from
the soil.
This is not just a fanciful idea.u
MI. Ford told the Associated Press
today. 1T is the way out of stasna-
tion."
Coupling with this statement that
1T will take just as long to get rid Of
the depression as it took to accumu-
late It," Mr.. Ford added:
We need to keep up the peop]e'A
spirit n you cannot do that with
talk; you must do it by action. This
is no time to lower wages. Those
who are lowering wages now don't
n what they're doing. They are
hitting the country when she is down.
Tney Will see the time when wages
will be higher than they ever have
BEEN"
Car any n man, President Hoo
yer for example, do anything to has
ten the return Of business prosper
lty?" Mr.. Ford was asked.
president Hoover has done every
thing anyone could do to bring about
improvement in business and indus.
try" he replied. Everything Presi-
dent Hoover has advised or tried to
put into effect has been sound, He
asked industry and business to keen
wages up. He's right and he knows
what he is talking about. Wages are
TOO low everywhere. This country ex-
lists on the pay envelope. There is
where we must begin"
Rewriting to his belief that uuan.
tlty. production from the soil is es.
sential, Ford said:
OF course the steady desertion OF
the farm cannot continue forever.
Too many people have believed Santa
Claus lives in the city. They were
raising a million dollars to advertise
Detroit and bring more people here.
I told them the money would be
better spent to educate people how to
get away from the city,"
Asked whether quantity production
from the soil would mean over-pro-
S~AAA "0NVCp GOkO Odlu.
What we call waste is only sur
plus and surplus is always the start
ing point of new uses. Everything
produced from the soil can be used
for some purpose. Industry has need
for everything the soil produces that
Is not converted into foodstuffs."
Want Bette" Conditions
There Is too much talk, Ford said
Of conditions as they were q year ago,
compared with today. 1.-The past is
absolutely gone. The whole world
wants to get to work and not just re-
establish conditions of a veal ago. We
don't want the old system back. We
want q better one"
Ford does not believe the machine
age" threatens the wage earner's fu-
ture.
THE machines have to be built and
1t takes men to build them. Our
own experience Is a vary good ex-
ample Of how that works out. Just
before we brought out our new car,
we were reported to be shut down.
We had 10000 men at work during
that shut down. They we're
gagged in making and Installing the
machinery needed for quantity pro-
duction of the new car.
Mans Work Easier
Another thing in this connection:
Last month the Ford Motor company
spent for materials and labor more
than $780, 0 900. Machines were de-
vised, not to do a man out of a job,
but to take the heavy labor from
mans back and place it upon the
broad shoulders of the machine"
One of the greatest evils that cal.
befall business and industry, Ford
said. was to have its leaders become
too contented. when people become
too ~contented," he said, there's US
ually trouble ahead. The contented
business executive" he added. "gets
that way by keeping his eyes shut"