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Plans to Reduce DETROIT, May 16.—Henry Ford, workd’s master mechanic, is working fo cut the nation’s transportation eosts in half. Railroad men are eagerly waiting to see what he offers, for Ford has a way of solving mechanical and or- ganization problems that have baf. | fled the wisest meh of the genera “The trouble with the railroads ts @hat they are spending far too much for upkeep,” war Ford's diagnosis of heir disease. He went out and bought two loco Motives. He's tearing them apart Row in his experiment laboratories @t Dearborn, Mich. TOO MUCH DEAD WEIGHT IN LOCOMOTIVES He's seeing just wherein they are @o heavy and cumbersome “There's too much dead weight {n Phe world,” ho says. “I see no reas fon why a locomotive shoukt be 200 tons in weight tnstead of 100 tons “And there’s no reason why weight @f freight and passenger cars shoul ‘Bot be halved” Tn a word, Ford plans to “jitney the railways Paignee engines, cara, roadbeds, Beridges—with correspondingly light costs of operation and upkeep are his aims. If Ford brings these things to pass Means that railroads will be built months instead of years. Freight fares will be ‘Thus every commodity transport: @d by railroads will be cheaper. The Business of the country will have to Ford does not propose to abolish steam engine in favor of the gas He plans to co G@rilinate the two. He recently purchased the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton, a 500-4ge rallway ‘Phat road offers the material for his experiments. He has built “The Dearborn,” a @asdriven passenger coach. It's a t car without a trolley Weighing half as much as the ) @rdinary electric car, it holds the falls while rounding a curve at 65 Milles an hour, The total weight of ‘the car is 11% tons. _ Ford believes the gasdriven cars for passenger service, runs. Steam-propelled i E i tr : l e E: 43 gE R f 3 i He Gone more other fmdividual in the relieve Bnemployment and busin stagna 3 4 pay a bonus of one day’s every two weeks, beginning 16. reclaimed thousands of con- other “down-and-outers.” unded the Ford Institute of echnology for the training of tech. experts. He founded a boys’ trade school. NO HORSES OR COWS ON HIS 8,000ACRE FARM He owns an $,000acre farm on Which there is nelther cow nor horse. He publishes a weekly paper, the Dearborn Independent. He is erecting a $7,500,000 plant at roy, N. Y., to make farm tractors. He's miller, grocer, butcher, dry goods merchant, legal adviser, teach- @r and doctor for 75,000 in his em i Ford's mile-long factory at River Rouge, Mich., is the greatest man Bfacturing plant in the world. It is the central unit of the most self-suf- | ficient industry in the world. Ford ships and Ford trains, trav- @ling on Ford tracka, bring in timber from Ford forests, coal trom Ford Pits, iron ore from Ford mines, and @and from Ford deposits, He is dredging a slip beside the River Rouge factory preparatory to the opening of the proposed lakes-to @ea water route. Then sea-going Ford liners will carry his autos and tractors to Europe. Ford is already manufacturing, from his own raw materials, steel, fron, artificial leather, glass, paint, @hemicals, wooden parts and fuel. ‘Within a few weeks he will add to Shis list celluloid, rubber tires, cloth, galvanized tank metal, copper tub- fing, wire and magneto parts. BOUGHT OUT ALL OTHER SHAREHOLDERS It is reported that Ford bought out Bll shareholders in his $200,000,000 @uto company several years ago be- cause of opposition to the construc tion of the River Rouge plant and the buying of raw material sources When completed, the River Rouge Plant will employ 60,000 men. The ag Plant at Highland Park, Mich., em- f Ploys 43,000 men. He has 17 manu facturing plants in Michigan, assem- bly plants thruout the United States and Canada and factories in France, Spain, Ireland, England and Den- mark. ‘The Ford hospital cost $5,000,000. It is ‘the only one in the world where No employe, doctor or cook has sleep. ing quarters. All rooms, except the children’s wards, are private and each has a bath. ‘The hospital does not accept char- cases and \9 not exclusively for Ford employes, “We are not operating it for the gubmerged 10 per cent of humanity, Bor the plutocratic 8 per cent,” said AYS? “Dead Weight” by Half and Cut Costs in Two an official “It ts for the great 82 per cent that has been too lightly considered in the past" SCOURS COUNTRY FOR SURGICAL TALENT Ford t scouring the country for medical and surgical talent. The equipment ts unequaled by any other hospital. It ts opening with accom modations for 600 and with a few simple changes will care for 1,200. One hundred were selected from the thousand applicants for the first class in the Fort Institute of Tech. |nology, which will grant degrees in jchemical, electrical and mechanical engineering. ‘ Highty educated men from Ene land, France, Holland, Belgium and India, as well as the United States, are In the first class. All Ford prop. erties are their laboratories, They apend two weeks In factory and two m classroom. They receive $20 a week, working or studying. “The millions invested in the Ford industries are to be returned to the workers and producers thru some such medium as the tnstitute of technology,” the founder declares. Expenditures of the school will be unrestricted. . The graduate of the schoo! will be | under no obligation to the Ford com pany, but the company intends to draw from it material for high ex- ecutive positions. “AVERAGE BOY LOVES FINE MACHINERY” “The average boy loves fine ma chinery,” says Fort. “He glories tn Producing something of actual worth.” That's why he founded the boys’ trade school. Only boys too poor to Jobtain schooling or those showing tendencies to become loafers or jertminals, are admitted. They spend two weeks In shop, one tn school, and are paid 19 to 25 \cents an hour for eight hours a day, [tho they work only seven. Fach boy gets a §2 gift for his |hank account every month and a |Leent an hour raise, At the end of } thelr four-year course they are ap. prenticed In the shops at $4 a day or will continue tn the institute of | technology Ford proposes to use his gigantic industry to destroy the modern city. “The modern city is causing an un natural restlessness, at the time robbing agriculture of its man- power,” Ford sys. “It takes from the worker and the manufacturer the normal living conditions to which they are en titled. It makes the whole business of production and distribution arti- ficial and costly.” FARMERS SPEND WINTERS AS SLAVES TO COWS “Farmers spend their winters in slavery to a few cows. Both the milk and beef of the cow can be replaced by synthetic foods that will be much less Uable to carry disease. “There are no horses or cows on my farm near Dearborn, We work those 8,000 acres to the maximum, two crops @ year, and yet spend only 20 days annually doing it. Ho contends that the world of the future will be made up of countless small industrial centers surrounded by farma Factories will use the water power of small streams. Farm. er and factory hand will disappear. “This will come about when the horse and cow are supplanted by con. centrated energy,” he says. “The horse is a 1,200-pound hay- motor of one horse power. He's the clumsiest machine in the world. A ttle motor half his size can do 20 times as much work. “That's the way it will be In the farm-factory centers, Workers will be granted time off from the fac tories, They will farm their land or help someone else, clean up the work in a few days and be back at work in the machine shops. “Production of farm stuff will soar, community and family life will be stimulated, industry will be bet tered and everyone will be happier. “The industrial plants will grant financial aid to towns for sewers, water systems and modern conven iences. “If the citles endure, the workmen will have no time to go to them. Mentally, morally nnd physically they will be improved.” A CITYLESS NATION, HIS UTOPIAN IDEA Ford is putting his Utopian idea of a cityless nation to a test. He has established factories tn 16 small communities. Eventually they will be established all over the United States and in England. In a #mall village 20 miles from {Detroit Ford employs 250 men. Everything is motorized. Workmen |are released at seed and harvest time, many providing the labor for Ford's motorized farm. Ford was asked when the world change in the urban and rural rela- tion would come about. “Twenty-five years ago there were only three or four motor cars in the world,” was his reply, He announced that he has begun to grind wheat raised on his farm and stored in his elevators in newly: erected mills, He will sel the flour in stores at the Highland Park and | River Rouge plants at $7.80 a barrel |Other stores are asking $12.50 to | $14.50 in the eame community | White-haired. Fifty-seven. ithe Slender. With an artist's hands. That's Ford. | DIDN'T BEGIN TO SAVE INTIL HE WAS 40 Born in Greenfield, Mich., a rural jsettlement. Parents were poor. | Learned the machinist trade, Didn't begin to save until 40 “Don't be too careful to sve,” he urges young men. “Experience is the charge to the battery. The great. er the charge the farther you'll go See if you can't invest in yourself.” He was asked if It would be just as easy tor anyone to repent his per- |formance if they were to begin at this moment. “Why, yes," he replied with de. cision, “Take @ nafl or a screw. Make the things better and for leas money than anyone else and the result is certain, Then expand that industry in every direction and it | EMPIRE d } | | will lead Into all industries. | “My first idea was to produce | watches factory in the house still, The pro- ductic was to have been 2,000 a| ‘DIVORCE GERM: | SPOLIED CHILD Marital Ills Start in the Cra- dle, Says Woman | LO8 ANGELES, May 20.—Divorces start in the cradle! | | ‘They mature in the cabaret, the bridge club or the parle of the | “other woman”—BUT, like many an other disease, the germ was already in the system. For there is @ “divorce germ,” de- clares Mra. N, A. Courtright, now In age om ip |i I have the plans for the RULTS INDUSTRIAL lg i cents each, But somehow I drifted to autos,” Ford doean't No time for It. Yet he al “go in for soctety.” ‘8 seems SEATTLE TO SEE _ A CHINESE CITY) ANSWER CHARGE Huge Carnival to Mark China Week Here Seattle citizens will peer into the mysteries of a Chinese elty during ‘China Week,” which opens May 23 A huge carnival will be staged on | King st. In behalf of the millions of starving Chinese by the China famine fund committe, May 23 will be Commero@day; May \ ‘CHIPPED SPITAL else, Still he keeps a guiding hand on all his industries, even to minute | details BRIDE HELD TO 'Her Husband Shot Thru Head in Quarrel WOODLAND, Cal May 16 | Deppite the fact that @ coroner's jury at Sacramento night ex lonerated Mra. Edna Greenhouse, | 14, of blame for the death of her bustand, Jobn Greenhouse, who was shot thru the head during & quarrel between the couple, she ts being held in the Yolo county charge of the city social service com-| 24 Oriental day; May 25, Church day: jall on a murter charge. mission here, and she should know, | May 26, China day; May 27, Chil “I must ignore the verdict and for she has had the divorce disease | dren's day, and May 28, Union Labor | present the facts tot he grand fury, under @ microscope for many Years | day, Tickets admitting to all attrac | which will soon be sum: ed," Die And this germ, she declares, has no Latin name. It is simply this: SPOILED CHILDREN. Spofied husbands are grown-up spoiled boys, and spoiled wives are grown-up spolled girls, and the two make divorce. This is what she says “The averages boy not taught poise, Me the category of child attributes “The mothers ts Ereat sin of modi ary. When. they are tired, Oderty. Kissing le supposed to be t all-cure. It @ NOT love, I contend. 1 | le merely emotionaliam, bed for the child, | bad for the mother. j “The modern child te obsessed with « mother’s sympathy. He never learns to) depend om bimeelf, even for the smallest | things. “The consequence te evident in a vax riety of ways when that child grows to womanhood, of manhood, and weds. “Neither husband nor wite has learned self-rest int nor polse nor seif-euffi- had dosens of men, whe were secking divores, say to me—My wife is | Io mo unsympathetic td dp wor o things and ac an interest in ‘There you have the hb child grown into | r ly the same—diverce court.” Mra. Courtright is making a careful | ntudy of child-life and its environ. ment. She is noting cases in which boys | and girls are being allowed to follow | their own sweet will. She is tabulating results, as the children grow, under an analytical eye. These children are of all agen Some of them soon will be seeking the marringe license clerk and build ing homes of thelr own. It is her purpose to follow their | destinies and to prove—at least in a few cases—the truth of her aasertionsa. | “Spare the rod and spoil the child” was the old adage. A new one might | be—"spoll the child and point the! way to future divorce court annals,” | Camp Fire Tag Day Sale Nets $2,500 Receipts from the Campfire Girts' | tag day sale Saturday were estimated The purpome of the nale was to| help raise a fund of $10,000 to tm. | prove the Camp Fire Girls’ vaention camp on Vashon island. The site| covers 168 acres, Half the fund has | already been raised. LEAVENWORTH, Kana—Circult | court of appeals affirms sentence of Capt. David A. Henkes, who tried to resign from army when U. 8. entered | war, to five years’ imprisonment, POOR LANDLORDS! HAVE TO FURNISH WINDOW SCREENS CHICAGO, May 16.—And now they're jumping again on the generous, patient, kind-hearted long-suffering landlord, They tell him he has to furnish screens for the windows in the houses of his tenanta. ‘The department of health calls attention to the city ordinance providing for this in a public notice urging citizens to aid fly fighting. Officials promise to en- force it. All sympathizers with the kind- hearted and long-suffering land- lords please raise their right hands. tions will be sold for $1 each, chil dren half price. Don’t Forget Those Heroes in Hospitals An urgent appeal for supplies to be taken to the disabled service men still confined in hospitals in various parts of the #tate ia made by the American Lewion. New magazines, books, frulta, pre serves, tobacco and other things that, will mmooth over some of the rough «pots in the hospital warda are asked. Contributions may be left at head quartermof Rainier Noble post, in the basement of the Stuart building Fourth ave and University st. BLOOMINGTON, I.—George Shuttles, fireman, fatally injured and three passengers hurt when Kanmas City Hummer, fast Chicago & Alton | train, leaves track at Shirley, three miles south of here. trict Attorney C. C. McDonald of Woodland stated. “The woman's own statement to was that she killed him, altho she did not realize she was shooting.” Mra. Greenhouse stated that the shooting occurred when they quar reled over what they would haye for supper. The shooting occurred in Washington, just over the line from Sacramento county, but the dying man was rushed to the Sac ramento emergency hospital, where he died. The inquest was held at Sacramento for that reason. os * Oregon Artillery . 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