Show PRISONS WASTE HUMAN EFFORT I FORD SAYS IN URGING CHANGE CHANCE I I Convict Labor Today Is Ill III Directed and and Degrading VIEWS VIEWS ON SALVAGE Tells Why Hc He- He Bought Ships From Government Go By Dy n FORD FonD 11 II Collaboration with Samuel Copyright by Doubleday Page Co All Rights nights Reserved ONE ONn used nothing then one ne r I IONE would waste no nothing That seems plain enough But Dut look at atit atit It from another angle It If we uc se nothing at all Is not then the waste total Is It conser atlon or waste to a 1 public re- re resource source wholly from from use It Ii a aman aman man skimps himself through all ll the best years of his life In order to provide pro for tor hI hia old age ae has lias he conserved his res or has he wasted them 1 lao i-lao Ha rIa he lie been con con- constructively con constructively or destructively t thrifty ty now How are arc w we to reckon waie Usually we wc count waste In t terina of materials Ifa It-a bU buys twice as much food tood as her familY eats and throws the tho rest away she Bhe Is considered wasteful waste fur But Buton Buton Buton on the other hand is the house houst housewife housewife wife wife- who her family half enough to eel cut thrifty Not at all She Silo Is eVl even n more waste waste- wasteful wasteful ful than Ul thu first housewife house for tor forshe forshe she Is wasting human lives Shi Shu Is withdrawing from her family the strength whIch they need to todo todo todo do their work in Ill the world TC Materials are tre I less ss Important than human beings beings although we wc a 1 have Te not yet com conn come quite quit around to thinking In thal tha fashion l upon a time society hung a manfor man manfor manfor for stealing a loaf loaff Ioa of f bread o ow society treats treat au l nn ln offense ottense dlf dl dlf It takes taked that mill ma man puts hIm in a prison withdraws vs the benent of an nn amount of ot labor which might make thousands o 0 loaves of bread and then actual actual- actually actually ly feeds him many times as much mu bread as he stole stoIc We not only waste this mans man's productive pow pow- power powen pow power er en but also we call lail on our other producers to give up a 0 part of their production lo to support him That Is flagrant waste aste It Is necessary and wilt will b necessary to put men In Jail until the news news news gets about that the profits with of dishonesty do of o not t conj cpm pare piro with the proms profits of honesty but there I ii Is no reason for tor think think- thinking thinking In ing of a Jail as a tomb for tor t the e living Under class first Cirl class t-class non non- nonpolitical nonpolitical political non political management every jail joll In the country could be Into an Industrial unit pay high higher er wages to th tha men than men than n thoy could earn carll In out outdo outs do industry provide thep wl with h good food and reasonable hours hour of labor and then turn over an all excellent profit to the state We already lioe prison la labor lalor lor but most of It Is ill ill- Ill directed dogra degrading labor A criminal is 18 a producer non non but when 1143 1111 has been caught and sentenced it Is very wasteful to continue him lm as a ngn r tg can surely be turned Into Inlo a producer and probably Into a aman aman aman man Yet because we value hu- hu himan hu human man time so lightly and so 50 highly we wo do Io not hear much about the waste of or man In prisons nor noc do we hear much mucho of the waste of with with- withdrawing withdrawing withdrawing drawing support from Crom the fam fani families Illes 0 of the tho convicts and throw throw- throwIng throwing ing them on the thc communIty WASTE 01 OF LABOR LABOn Conserving our O natural tural re- re resource resources re resources sources source by withdrawing them from use Is not a lIer service to the community That is holding to the old theory that thata o thing is m more ro Important than a man plan Our na- na natural na natural tural resources arc ample for all allour allour allour our present needs neds We Ve do not have to bother about them as re- re resources resources re resources sources What we do have to bother about Is the waste of bu- bu buman hu human man labor Take a vein of oC coal In a mine As AB long as it remains in the mine It Is of oC no importance but when a 11 chunk of bat coal oal has baa b bOon en mined and set down In Detroit It becomes becomes-a becomes a thing of Importance because then It represents a 0 certain tain tam amount of the labor of men used In Its and tation If It wo e waste that bit of which coal which Is another way of oC of saying It if wo we do not put It to Its full use then use Hen we waste the tho and ener energy of ot men A man can cannot n- n not be paid much for producing something which is to be wasted My theory cf ct waite goes back or of orthe the thing Itself into Inlo the tho labor of of producing It It Wo Vo Vo want to get full Cull value out o ot of labor so that thai may be able abig to pay It full tull value It Is not use use not tho conservation Interests us u We want to use s lil ma- ma ma tex tex-ial to Its utmost In order that I the time of ot men m may nay not be lost lodl MaterIal costs cost nothing It Is of I no account until It comes cornea Into the bands hands of Saving materia because It I 1 material and ond Sll vh g material be be- be because cause bo-cause cause it represents labor might I seem to amount to the caine thing But Dut the t-e the approach mali makes II a deal of difference Wo We will III use material more carefully If we weI think of It O as labor For In- In Instance In Instance I stance we e will not so lightly WRit material simply Imply because we w can reclaim It for It for salvage Involve Continued On Oa Page Pago 1 0 Two FORD TALKS ON PRISON WASTE Front From rage Page One labor The Ideal 1 II to have o nothing noth- noth nothIng Ing to salvage BULLIONS MILLIONS S ED We Wo have a largo large salvage de- de department de which apparently earns for us twenty or more million n dollars a year Something of It wilt will bo fro told later In this chapter chapler nut But ai as a that department grew crew and became more Important and moi moro more strikingly valuable we Ire began 1 to ask sl Why should ne we have so muc much to salvage Are we wo not not giving more attention to reclaiming tha than to not wasting I And with that thought In mind we set act out to examine all 01 our processes A little ot of what wo we do doIn doin d in the way of ot saving man power pow by by extending machinery has haa a al- al already already ready been told and what we are doing with coal wood power and transportation will be told i rn In later lOoter chapters This has hIlS to do donly 0 only with lIh what was v aste studies 0 Oar studies and III up 1 to date dale Into hate resulted In tho savin saving o of pounds of steel a 8 year ear that went formerly Into sera scrap and had to be reworked with lIh the expenditure of ot labor This amounts to about three dollars dollus a year or ot to put It In a R better way to the tha ry labor on our sc scale le of wages of ot upward of two thousand men And all of that saving vis aa va accomplished so 10 simply that our present wonder I Is why we did not do It before The point Is the saving of ot hu- hu human human man labor so ao o th t It may be b made more efte lI e and mor moro more valuable It was to save savo the tho human hi hu- hu human man labor that had gone Int Into their making that we wo bought bo ht tw two hundred ships from the tho govern govern- government ment They had been built by bythe bythe b the emergency fleet corporation for tor use uso during the tho war ar and there theN was no commercial demand for tor r th m We are now breaking them up at our plant t at t Kearney New Ne Jersey Jelley Wo We can use UIO some of the e engines In our smaller plants for many of 0 the tho engines are first class Wo We do not expect to mak make mako 0 any money out of the salvage alvage c of thuG these we ships ships we pfd did not go Into It to make money We Ve simply did not like to see co such tuch a- a amass B a mass ot of fine material material material-llo O L-O much luch labor labor labor-go o to waste when we might It We Ve bought with the wage not n the profit motive moUn In our our- minds mind Industry owes owea 11 It to society to conserve material in 10 every possible way Not only tor for the element c of cost In the manufactured article although that Is II Important but buttor mostly for tor the conservation c ot of those materials whose hole production n II and transportation are aro laying a an n Increasing burden on society FUEL AND As AI It Is now no every manufacturing turing luring concern exists only to tomake tomake make its Ils own products It has haa not been linked up with the com com- community community But It Is becoming apparent that manufacturing concerns of useful to size can be much more the community than they now arc are for tor example In the matter of ot sup sup- supplying supplying plying fuel tuel and power rower Under the present system coal hauled to a factory Is la just j st burned under its It boilers and a small mall traction fraction ot of Its content utilized Deliver a 8 thousand cars of ot coal to the tho shops of ot a II great manufacturing manufacturIng- district and that Is th the end In II a ot of coal shortage the tho job of ot keep keep- keeping keeping ing the homes supplied with fuel tuel and the job jol of ot keeping thu fuel are distinct requiring two great supplies of coal Some Somo day In day In order to save human labor we labor we shall link all ot of this together All phases of life should complementary should be and can be comple comple- comple 0 0 |