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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, 3IOXDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1922 . EB DY Ml EXPERTS Factory Product Not Alone of Henry's Mind. BIG DEBT OWED AIDES "LOVELIEST STOWAWAY," HERE SINCE JULY, FREED WITHOUT BOND. Obligation Is One That Cannot Be Wiped o'iit by Writing Check, No Matter How Big. BY S. S. MARQUIS, D. D. (Copyright United States apd Great Brit ain, 1922, North American Newspaper ailiance. Also protected by copyright in other countries of the world. Ail rights reserved.) CHAPTER XIII. Henry Ford has millions in re serve, owes no man a dollar and is hopelessly in debt. It the Ford indebtedness were such that jt could be met by writ ing a check it would have been paid in rull long ago. But it isn't that kind of an obligation. There are things connected with the for mation of his executive scrap-heap which leave the impression that Henry Ford is more or less unfa miliar with some of the finer ways of expressing his appreciation of the services rendered him. It is unfortunate that he has left the impression that the dollar is his favorite standard of measure when he comes to estimate the value of human service. I do not mean to say that he has never paid in any other way. In many instances he has shown friendly and generous consideration beyond the payment of a wage or salary to men in his employ. Other Men Rewarded. Tn other instances men have been rewarded in a way that has left him in their debt. He has paid them liberally, given bonuses, be stowed costly gifts. They started poor with him and ended rich. They began in humble positions and were advanced to places of honor and responsibility and paid princely sal aries. If they had gone into the scrap-heap later, why should they complain? "What more could he or any other man do for them than he has done? j But there are things in human re lations which some men prize above money. There are ways of throwing a man on the scrap-heap which leave him with a high regard and a friendly feeling for the man who threw him there. As a rule it is the landing at the end of the; fall that hurts. But in the method the Ford com pany sometimes resorted to there were painful and unnecessary wounds inflicted by the petard with which a man was hoisted. It wasn't the end of the fall but the begin ning of it that hurt. A statement regarding Mr. Ford has been put into print and copy righted to this effect: "He is as selfish a man as God permits to breathe." I suppose I should give credit to the author of that statement in case I wished to repeat it. But I do not care to repeat it. It does not express the truth as I see it. Mr. Ford is not selfish according to his light. If he knows, as a rule, but one way to pay, it must be admitted that in that way he pays generously.. The pity is that he is blind to the value of some higher things. This, as I see it, is the most outstanding and at the same time the most regret able of the defects in a man ' In whom there is So much to be ad mired. Ford Owns and Control Company. So far as I know his creditors do not regard the debt due them with anger and resentment, but , rather with pity and regret. The opera tion that removes the scales from a man's eyes may hurt less than the awakening to the fact that his il lusions are gone and he must see things as they are. - The Ford Motor company ig owned and controlled by Henry Ford. Ha is at present its brains and the orig inator of its policies.- But the Ford Motor company as it stands today is not the product of a single mind far from it. Into its development has gone the' thought of some of the keenest minds in the industrial world. Let it be freely granted that Mr. Ford gave to the organization an inven tive genius, an insight into the .fu ture of the automobile business, a dom'nating will and personality, yet it must be rememhered that there were many things in the game that he did not undtrstand in the beginning. It seems incredible that he, the modern wizard of finance, ever could have been so impracticable, so un informed on things concerning which he seems to be so well in formed today as to urge the build ing of a vault at the factory in which to deposit the surplus earn ings of the company. He learned a number of things about the game as he went along. By and by he made a sensational touchdown, but there were some rattling good players in the wedge formation that put him over the goal. James Conxr-na One Star. James Couzens was, and is, one of the ail-American stars in the financial game himself. A master ful man, a little more masterful than Mr. Ford cared to have about; an organizer down to the last de tail; a tireless worker who knows how to get work out of others something of a steam roller when it comes to ironing out difficulties and going through. He made a wonderful captain of the team that finally drove through the line with Henry holding the ball. And when the thing was done he took off h hat and joined with the bleachers in the chorus "Henry did it." I any one doubted Cousens' abii ity before he left the Ford Motor company his career since leaving should clear up any questions on that point. He is a man with ideas and a will of his own. He is given to forceful expression both in word and deed. It is a statement safely ventured that if he did not origin ate, he must have greatly modified many of the policies of the com pany during the time he was with it. There are men bom with too much initiative and independence to live all their lives in a subordinate posi tion, nowever honorable and lucra tive it may be. unless there is given mem practically luu per cent free dom and a corresponding amount of responsibility. :either Mr. Ford nor Mr. Couzens is adapted to the piaytng or a second fiddle. From what I know of the two men I ven ture the guess that they did not re main in the same company for the same reason that two locomotives do not run side by side on the same track not room tor both. C. H. Will, Sort r Fallback. IT. "Wills, a man of recognized a.hllity. a master of shop meth ods and production, with a thorough ft - f f:js v iv;. f t j jN -V?, STRENGTH OF If ADEQUATE Secretary of War Advocates More Money for Safety. CONGRESS ASKED FOR AID JEANNE BOXAR (LEFT) AND MRS. ROSE KNUTSEN. Miss Jeanne Bonar, French "prettiest stowaway"; who since her arrival last July has been enjoying free dom in the United States, was allowed to enter the country when Mrs. Rose Knutsen, wife of Captain Wal dimir Knutsen, on whose ship, the Manitoba, Jeanne came to America, convinced Ellis island that Captain Knutsen would go on her bond. and practical knowledge o f mechanics, an almost uncanny in sight into the atomic structure of iron and steel alloys, the developer of the use of molybdenum, was a sort of fullback on the team, the giver and taker of much punish ment. Wherever the - line was weakest he gave it the support of his weight and rush, wills was an invaluable man to Henry Ford. - Put Mr. Klingensmith and Mr. Hawkins in the lineup where you will halfbacks possibly Mr. Kling ensmith. in addition to serving in other important positions, selecting and developing men tor Important positions, filling the gaps in the of fice organizations, handling . costs and watching the financial affairs of the company. Mr. Hawkins sold Ford cars in the days when they had to be sold, before the time when people sat on the front steps waiting for a car to be finished so they could drive it home. Mr. Hawkins organized a sales organizations that proved so efficient and got so far ahead of production that It virtually changed the nature of his job. The prob lem came to be how to keep the people who could not get cars in a good humor till one could be made for them. And John R. Lee. the soul of the under, dog the friend of the down and out. the man to whom no one ever looked in vain for justice and a square deal. And every time any one handed him a bouquet ror his bigness of heart he tossed it 'over to Henry and when there was no one around explained to him what it was all about. And Henry kept the flowers. Other Also in Unenp. And there were Brownell and Hartman and Bonner and Knudsen and others in the lineup. A finer, more capable and more loyai group of men never backed a chief. They are not with him now on the upper levels of success," but a number of them were with him when he was making the climb. Granted that he has shown that he no longer needs" them he must admit, that much of the momentum that makes the going easier is the stored-up energy of the men who put every ounce Vf strength in them into the tug of the . early days, lie may not need them now, but there was a time when he did". He has been a very apt pupil. He is quick to recognize the merit of another man's idea and to appropriate it. But such was the devotion to him of the men about him that they were glad to have him take the credit for all achievements. It is true that many men who started with him in the early years of the organization developed along with him and shared generously in his material success. It is true that he gave them opportunities to do much greater things than they otherwise ever would have had the opportunity for doing. And it is just as true that they enabled him to achieve a success that he other wise never would have achieved. It was team work that did it. In all fairness the credit must be dis tributed. It was a great team and every member of it deserves great praise. At the time the Ford profit-shar-inf plan went into effect an execu tive asked Mr. Ford why he did it. The answer was, "Well, let me put it this way: There is nothing left in life, when all is said and done, but good fellowship and good will, is there? Nothing more counts. I would like to see folks who work hard get their share. I would lather give our boys a share of the profits than do anything else." Here is the conception of the ideal state in industry a just return for labor done, good fellowship and good will. It is unfortunate that it is not more frequently realized. For "when the shadows lengthen and the evening comes and the busy world is hushed and the fever of life is over and our work is done," then will our wealth be seen to be the friends we have made and held, for "there is nothing left in life, when all is said and done, but good fellowship and good will, is there?" (To Be Continued.) BORAH TALKS I'l BOSTON RECOGNITION OF SOVIET GOVERNMENT ASKED. MILL OWNER IS HOME Charles . K. Spaulding Returns From Washington Trip. SALEM, Or., Dec. 3. (Special.) After having had the pleasure of shaking hands with President Hard ing and looking upon Clemenceau, the French Tiger, Charles K. Spauld ing, operator of a number of large mills in the Willamette valley, re turned to Salem today from Wash ington. Mr. Spaulding represented the Salem Chamber of Commerce at the railroad merger hearing which has been in progress before the in terstate commerce commission for the past two weeks. "While in Washington Mr. Spauld ing testified that it would be better for this section of Oregon to have the Southern Pacific and Central Pa cific lines operated under a joint re lationship. He opposed the unmerg ing of the two lines. . j : S. & H. green stamps for cash. Holman Fuel Co., coal and wood. Broadway 6353, 860-21. Adv. Ex-VeteVan Nearly Mobbed for Demanding Reason Flag Is Not Displayed. BOSTON, Dec. 3. Within two years, owing to the near east situa tion, there may be another great war, Senator Borah of Idaho said in an address here last night. His subject was "The Recognition of Russia," and he advocated that step by the United States as a means of averting another European con flagration. At the close of the senator's ad dress the police guard at the hall was called on to prevent a riot when a questioner, who said his name was MacDonald and that he was a world war .veteran, mounted the stage Amid shouts of "put him out." Sen ator Borah insisted that the ques tioner be heard. "Why is there no American flag displayed-here?" MacDonald asked. Turmoil broke out afresh and many rushed for the stage to eject the stranger. Police intervened to protect him and the incident closed. Senator Borah said, when peace was restored, that wherever he ap peared to speak there were "Ameri can principles, if not the flag." Calling for unqualified recognition of the present government of Russia, Senator Borah told the crowd that the recognition of a government did not necessarily carry approval of that country's institutions. "Just as we eliminate suspicion and fear of other nations we shall return to conditions of peace," Sena tor Borah said. More Officers and Liberal Fund to Carry On Preparedness Is Recommended in Report. - WASHINGTON", D. C, Dec. 3 The present authorized regular army strength of 12,000 officers and 125, 000 men is "inadequate" for national safety, and further cuts would be "inexcusable," Secretary Weeks de clared today in his annual report to congress. "We should seize the first oppor tunity to bring tne regular army back to the proportions which are required," he wrote. "We cannot ever again make the mistake of ex pecting good soldiers to rise over night and good officers to be turned out in quantities in three months' periods. "We are making progress, and any progress is good progress. This progress is. however, scant, and not really enough Any further cuts would force us to lose what we have gained and would accordingly be inexcusable. "It has taken time and money to build what we have. It has taken blood and money to prove that we have rot, even now, vhat we need. We should, when practicable, add to what we have and attain to the progress called for in our defense project under the terms of the law. Officer Corps Backbone. Declaring the officer corps "i really the backbone of our military system," Mr. Weeks said that se curity for the future must rest "upon the foundation of our leader ship." 'I do not belittle the enlisted man ours is the best in the world. he continued "It is because I ap preciate him that I emphasize the need for officers to give the soldier his best opportunity to fight for his country and for his life. "We must have officers sufficient to handle the great army of the United States, We have not these officers now. 'Our reserve officers are the first to complain that their present lack of training is causing them to lose the knowledge that they gained in the war. Where is there any train ing to come from? Only through the regular officers. In my last annual report I stated that, with 18,000 officers authorized, we would not have enough to do all that might profitably be done. Now I must state that we have abso lutely not enough to do what is necessary to our safety as an organ ized state. Financial Strega Appreciated. "I appreciate tne urgency of our financial situation that prevents us from reaching our maximum re quirements. I cannot believe, how ever, that the importance of this need is fully recognized by all who do recognize the urgency of the financial problems. "I earnestly advocate a recon- Peacock Rock Springs coal. Dia mond Coal Co., Bdwy. 3037. Adv. Pi w pi rl you open a savings account with Portland's Progressive Bank today or tomorrow, it will draw interest from December 1st. 4 on savings is paid by the bank that excels in cash and bond reserve. 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