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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. QKEflQy, SUNDAY, rAPRTL 29, 1928,
Why I Am for Hoover
An Interview With Henry Ford
By Samuel Crowthers in Saturday Evening Post
! from tht lust uf moliveN, but the
j temptation to nunt the price wan
1 nm for Hoover for pi-enldi'iit
lecauo ho huh nhuwn tliat ho can
kIeo up nny Job, pick thu li'lit men
and direct It thru to hucophh. Thru
fourteen yem-H ever hlneo liel
:lum he ha been ImmtllnK Hume
of the biKt:'.t Jobs in the world,
lio has made a nuceeHtt of every
ono of them. He haw Hhown that
lie Is not nfruld of nine.
The greatest jb that the world
ha ever known Is now before this
country. It Is ho bite that none
of the uld-llne politician even
knows that it exists. We huve de
veloped this country Ju.st enough
Kreulcr than any of the old luxm-a,
It 1m nut In polilicM. Jt catimjt be
described in thu old ImiKiiugu of
politics.
No ono 1h much concerned now
with liberty and Imlependi'iieo an
lied up with the jiht to vote. We
have all the rights our forefathers
KlruKKlcd for. We are concerned
with new and different rights and
rcHpoiiHihilltifH. The great Ifhuo in
duets which must bo carried.
This pi oki am will circulate bil
UoiiH of dollars. lum'l tay It will j too Htrong and mj rubber went
cut billltiiiH of dollat-H: t-ay It wilt I above a dollar a pound. Secretary
circulate billions of dollars. That Hoover did not nk for legislation
is the true way of Haying it. Wejor make any protect any foreign
have the money and will have 'nation has the right 10 charge uh
much iiioi-e, for every dollar thus' what it please, jt in up to us to
spent will product several dollars.
j Ami undertaking Lhis work will
mean I hat for many years per
haps forever we shall not have
r to bother about unemployment
! anywhere, lioth the farm and the
I fat-lory will tdiare in every dollar
that is paid out to the men uciu
; ally on the work.'
It dot's not matter to mo who
during the past six or seven years j be made high. We have now to
to know that much which was j prove that they can be continuous
thought to be impossible can be ly paid that there will be no
luudu possible under the right I periods of unemployment over
leadership. The task is to make ! which the worker cannot finance
such use of tho experience we have himself. The working day has be
to develop this country to a point j doc the work or who owns this
where every man and woman has i work when done. It is ue, not
the oiuiortunitv both to work and ! nu nersbip. that counts.
to play.
We have proved that wages can
I Our government is not organ
ized to manage business and there
j fore we should probably gel less
find ourselves. Me called
meeting of the rubber men. They
learned jumI bow njiiHi rubber Mas
already in the country and what
could be done toward reclaiming
i rubber. That broke the artificial
j price and saved the users of auto
i mobiles iit least half a billion
' dollars. 1 neJdcn tally, it caused
some of us to make u start toward
g tting our own sources of rubber.
A man U-tn versed in the ways of
, the world ami of business would
have made a great many speeches
and probably had the country talk
ing war and accomplished noth
use out of govej nment-o w n e d I ing but the generation of a great
pained that wo ran build rightly
for the future, otherwise we are
going to lose all that we have
gained. We have the men, we have
. tho money and wo can make the
tools for the job. Hut all these
will be useless without leadership,
That leadership, because the thing
is national, must be hi the presi
dent. The quality of Hoover's
leadership requires no experiment
ing. It Is a demonstrated fact.
The leadership of one other man
lias also been demonstrated. His
name is Calvin t'oolldge. Hut ho
lias nid that ho will not be a can
didate to succeed himself. Quite
u number of people affect not to
believe that he means what he
iftays. They seem to think that he
ought to repeat his no every day.
come eight hours instead of ten or
twelve hours, and the six-hour day
may be Just around the corner.
The five-day week is no longer an
experiment. And so the use
nterprlses than we should get nut
of privately owned. Km private
ownership has to charge low rates
in order to get volume, and to
practice efficiency in order to get
profits. The government has to do
neither. The public advantages of
private ou liei ship are uneoualed.
il. of hard feeling.
This man Hoover not only has
Ideals but he run do things. He
knows what to do and where to
find the light men.
Among what are said to be the
Is.sucK art: prohibition and what is
called farm relief. We cannot
leisure Ih up for analysis. We must country must do for its own well
have analysis or otherwise we being also describes the kind of
shall Just have regulation which I president it needs. Jt is not that
means that wo shall lose the free, the president Is the director gen
dom that we arc working forward
to.
Transport
No man Is wise enough to say
how the future should be planned.
Hut we have right at hand many
enormous developments which will
keep all of use busy over enough
years to give us a chance to gain
more experience and on this ex
perience to do more planning.
This country could nut have de-
The bare statement of what this i elect a president who says in ad
vance that he will toko the oath
of office witli a mental reservation
not to support the constitution. No
candidate proposes to dtt this.
nil of tht nation or any other Some farmers are well off and
kind of absolute ruler. Hut some-; others arc not. Hut I cannot re
one has to be spokesman of the 'gard the farm as distinct from in
progressive need of the country. In idustry or as In opposition to Indus
times past wo have had very able! try. The one depends on the
men who led the country without jollier. If the farmers do not earn
living In the White House. We ! money, then a great Industrial
called them bosses and they were, i market vanishes. If the workers
Wo do not now need bosses, but jdo not earn, then the great market
wo do need a president who is the I for farm products drops, irndoubt-
naturnl spokesman and leader of edly the freight on farm products
the country. Hut he cannot lead is too high, just as is the freight
1 respect the man too much notlveloped without transportation. I without a knowledgo of what he is on all products, but this will be
also to respect his word. He has That gave us national markets. I leading. cured only by providing more and
been a fine president and doubtless These are mass markets, and thus I Hoover knows the language of! better methods of transport In the
he could have remained In office, wo have been able to use better modern progress better than any i general plan of the development
but ho has declined and is out of ; methods of manufacturing and get man. As an engineer, he has al-iof the country. The farm is small
H. He has made a place in history. 1 higher wages and lower prices, f
We have had u taste of how The first rapid transportation
experience can be put to work to came, thru tht) railroads. Then
to pay wages and earn money with
low prices. That has created big
business. It will create big farm
ing. We are now in the transition
, period and that is always u period
of temporary hardship.
In short, wo are not using what
I wo have. There is a tendency to
j think of the country as already de
i veloped, when aetuiilly the (level
i opment has scarcely begun. We
j have already gone further than
.any other nation. We have done
jthls by taking advantage of science
; in a large social way for the bene.
; fit of all. The whole country Is in
flux. If an industry or an indus
trial unit tries evun for a little
i while to stand still. It never
catches up again. New methods
in farming are coming in as quick
ly as are the new methods in in-
idustry. New methods are adopted
fin both Industry and agriculture
only because they make a fuller
juse of materials and men than did
the old methods. We have reached
(our present point without plan, but
j to go much further we need the
; opening of the country on so broad
j a basis that the government itself
j must aid not In finance or . In
managing but in helping so to plan
thai the barriers to Individual nc
I Hon may be removed. And unless
I we take this in hand quickly we
may find our progress rather sud
denly blocked. That is a very real
danger. We are faced with the'
; alternative of use or decay,
i To know that we have come to
I the end of our resources within
, a given circle is to know some
i thing worth while. Jf the old
I circle Is barren, nothing Is left but
j to break into a newer and wider
circle, and that is exactly whnt
will occur under the pressure of
the circumstances which are now
piling upon uh. The old system is
going out flf business;' there Is no
servo the people. Secretary Mellon
canio Into tho treasury from big
business. He was rich and used to
handling great amounts of money.
That, according to a certain kind
uf politician, unfitted him for of
fice, i Hut now cveryono acknow
ledges that his management of
finance has saved the country hun
dreds of millions of dollars that a
loss trained man would never have j ming them for power
known could bo saved. Ukewlsc, them for transportation
came the automobile. The motor
vehicles were at first thought to
be competitors of the rttilronds,
but now we know that (hey fit to
gether. Husiness breeds business,
and now wo have not enough
transportation. We must use tin-
great waterways that have In
put here
transport
ready planned the water and hydro
electric development of the coun
try: and as a public officer and ! ment of the country can it become
business in a world of big bus!
! ness, and only thru the develop-
with a knowledge of cause and ef
feet, he knows the great present
and future Influence of these de
velopments. Kor instance, In 1 1 i
he was the guiding spirit of the
employment conference which met
to discover ways and means to end
t he hardships of unemployment.
for us to use both for ! I'hat was a conference of employ
ami for power. lani-i,!''S to find methods for putting
Improves
Hcsldt
to the department of labor He
tary Davis brought a long experi
ence In the leadership of men, and
therefore he haa been a success In
his office.
A Pleasant Hut C'oMly Compliment
Hut of what value Is experience
in iiid management or puime ai-i
fnlruV .lift I it
make who is president? Tho poli
ticians of both parties apparently
think that selecting a presidential
candidate Is no affair of thu peo
ple at all. Tho primary elect Ions
wero established on the theory that
thru them tho members of a party
In n state might express a choice
of candidates. That has remained
tho theory. The practice is to
holed a stalking horse who has lis
much chance of being eventually
nominated by his party as he has
uf being emperor of tho moon, call
hi in a favorllo son, let him amuse
himself making speeches, and then
get the people voting for hint as a
matter :vt local pride. The dele
gates ho gains arc not delegates at
all, but just pawns In a political
gamo that is commonly played In
a hotyl room.
Tho people thus have the right
to nominate Juggled away from
them. They good-naturedly vole
for their favorite son, not because
they want to see him president but
Just to pay him a compliment; and
tho politicians play on this good
nature for their own purposes.
If one wero to Judge by tho ar
ray of favorite sons that are being
brought, forward as ptci'tdential
candidates, then experience Is of
no moment which is only anoth
er way of saying that It makes no
difference who is president. More
limn a fuw republican pollticlims
have the notion that any republi
can candidate will be elected,
while some democratic politicians
privately believe that any demo
cratic candidate will be defeated.
My own opinion is that -the inde
pendent vote of the country will de
cide tho election; that vote will be
cast for the best man. regardless
of party. The younger generation
is not hog-tled to any party.
To got back to the question:
"What difference does it make who
Is president?
Wo all have our personal prefer
ences, but a mere preference Is not
Important. If It be true, as is said,
Hint no real Issues are before the
country, then any man of reason
able ubillty will make an accept
able president. The favorite sons
aro not stating any Issues other
than those which orators alwavs
state. Mr. Hoover cannot state i
any Issuer, for he Is ji member of
tho administration tind its spokes-
man is President t'oolldge. We can i
hardly decide what kind of prcsl- j
dent wo want until we know some-
thing of tile task which Inevitably!
If on before any prenideul whom we
mav fllQcti. I
It Is quite true that we have no I
real political Ihsucr. Hut we have
an ecnnomh? problem which loom?
GOITRE NOT A DISEASE
the accumulation of these large
bodies of waler assists tin; rainfall.
We have the Creat I.tikes and the
Mississippi partly in use, but I hey
aro doing only a fraction of what
they can be made to do. And
many other projects only await
further planning and coordination.
I'or we know that we are in need
of all kinds of transport by air,
by land ami by water and that
each has its place and that each
will make business for tin others.
This country needs to have Its
Industry more spread out. Klee
tr Icily and transport will do this.
Then things can bo made where H
is most economical to uinke them.
W have too much useless trans
pert of goods. If we can cut out
(his waste, ( lieu the added pur
chasing power will create so much
new business that all the new fa
cilities of transport will be taxed
i their utmost to carry those pro-
big business. The farmer is solv
ing his own problem by moving
off tho farm where he cannot earn
money. The man who earns money
on the farm is doing so by apply
ing the methods which have made
industry.
The small farm as a money
making affair is dead, just as the
small country store Is dead. And
people to work. they are dead because they are
A Man or Ideals and Action j crude. The man who wants to be
There was unemployment every- so aided that he can tjarn a living
where in the world. In Kngland ! without improving his methods is
ami other countries I lie politicians j beyond aid. And I suspect that
met the. situation by granting a, only the farmers who are failure
dole to the unemployed and made are asking for help,
matters worse. Our employers' That the vast imijority of far-
spread out their work among as mcrs are not failures is shown by
many employes as possible and all j the buying power of the farm
the public work which could he slates. I know farmers who make
started was Marted. Ami. the result out well ami others who do not.
was that by 1U2'2 the whole min-!nnd those who make out well
try was nt work and by lima we would do equally well in almost
were having a high prosperity ' any line. The otherc. could fail in
Hint is only an example of what j any thing. That happens to be thu
planning can do, way of the world and no one
Kruiii time to time foreign i known it better than the farmers,
nations have been foolish enough ! The I'lace for (iovcrnnient Aid
to imagine that by some s.VHtern of The pensioning of various indus
tries has been tried time and again
control they could raise the prices
to us of raw materials that we had
to have ami which they imagined
they alone could supply. Some of
the controls were official and oih
ers were semi-official. The lirittsh
control of rubber was undcrlnken
everywhere In the world. It has
never worked and can never work.
And no more can it work with
farming. hi addition, this is a
world of lowering prlt'os, I'rogress
Is in the direction of learning how
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jthf new era, which will not ulone
j jsolve our present problems but
'aboliKh them utterly,
j It wuh very nice to be a poll-
i'tician and officeholder fifty or
even twenty years at), when ho
much could be dune by a deft
spfcch or u Hklllful bit of leKisla-
tfon. TIiohc wero tho Kood old
! dny when Ieal enactment could
xoothc almost any hurt. Hut that
'day Ih pat. Tho political day ia
' paMt. The day of sHceches on the
slump ami bills in the legislature
' Ih past. Thoe charimi will no
j lonKr work. i
The tragedy of present day poll- !
i tics Is that, with the moist desper
jate need uf party salvation on all
sides, the party men cannot ee
what they niuct do to be saved, ,
.and could they nee It they would '
not fo It. The old era has them in '
too firm a grip.
This 1h already In evidence in '
the very values which congress 1
puts on: its actions. We have had .
a number of concessional investi
gations through several years ;
which have shown up some very
bad conditions. Hut the people i
have always known that a certain
number-of rascals got Into politics :
and that they are about equally I
distributed among the parties.
The public has no tendency to ex
cuse or to whitewash crime In high
places. Hut they are beginning to
j wonder what sort of system it Is
(that tloes not prevent these things
j from happening. Why do not,
'these investigations lead to the de- .
vising of ways and means to pre
I vent ?
Politics ns It Is flayed
j Neglect of the Important busl-
ness coLs the public more than it
would be pop.xilde for anyone to
, steal. Dishonesty Is never more
jihan detail ami can he hamlb'd
as such. If a man in binfincss gave
up two-thirds of his time to see
ing that no one stole from him, he
would soon have nothing worth
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'..liil.'u tim i.l;. ve, ! hv Iho noli-
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action to the sense of wrong con
ditions. It Ik the first crude re
action to the prcssuro. It is unitiz
ing t note how laigtf a percentage
of our intelligent classes remains
in the region of fault-finding "Im
ply because effort is required to
rise into the region of nnalysis.
Lazy-inindcdntsi , is a diseaKo
which drives the mind to lean on
any convenient defect that may
neiTVu a an excuse for reason.
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