DAY OF YOUNG MEN.

Bruce Herald, Volume LV, Issue 63, 18 August 1919, Page 6

DAY OF YOUNG MEN.

FORD'S ENTERPRISE, .The New York correspondent of the London 'Times' reported in January that Edscl Ford, aged 24, son of Mr Henry Ford, lias been elected President of the Ford Motor Company at u salary, of £30,000 yearly, in succession to axis father, who announces his own. retirement from active direction of the company, in order to give younger men a chance. As his last official act, the elder Ford raised the minimum daily wage .throughout his factories to 245, displacing the previous minimum wage of 20s made effective four years ago. This minimum applies to 28,000 employes, while there are 23,000 others who are receiving more than, this sum. Mr Ford in a statement says:—'This is the age of young men, and I want to show the world that I stand at the back of my belief that young men arc capable of directing big business.' Mr Edsel Ford will thus have full executive control of the. Ford motor car production, which represents an investment of £20,000,000. Mr Henry Ford will concentrate his own genius on tho furtherance of the production of tractors, and will give soino of his time to a weekly periodical he recently began to publish. Mr Henry Ford, the well known automobile •manufacturer, was born at Greenfield, Michigan, on July 30, 1803. Before he organised tho great company which bears his name ho was chief engineer of the Edison Illuminating Company. In tho year in which Avar began he announced his plan of profitsharing, which, in his personal application, involved the distribution of £2,000,000 -annually amongst his employes. SURPRISE FOR A WIFE.- t How a wife called to sec her "husband and was received by his 'fiancee' Iwas described at North London Police Court, when Daisy Ecclcshall, a nurse, asked for a maintenance order against her husband.

Mrs Eccleshall said that after her husband was demobilised he set up busines-g as a motor engineer, and lived at Haverstock Hill, while she worked elsewhere. A few .weeks ago she went to his address and asked for Mr Eecleshall. The door was opened by a girl, who said that Mr Ecclcshall was not in, but she was his fiaiicce and could - she take a message? Mrs Eceleshall introduced herself as Mr Eeeelskall's •wife, much to the surprise of the girl, who was wearing some of the witness's clothing and j&wellery. Defendant said that on Christmas Day, 1917, his wife and he signed an agreement to live apart, and they had never lived together since, although they had seen eacl/ other occasionally. The magistrate examined the document, and remarked that it would be against public policy to read it. Mr Young (defending): That was the reason why I did hot mention it. It is a most-extraordinary document. The Magistrate; It is inconceivable that marital relations could exist after the signing of such an agreement. I am not satisfied that there has been desertion in law, and I shall dismiss the application. •VILEST INJUSTICE.' 'We are busefy betrayed,' cry the Berlin papers. 'Against' every principle of justise and".international law, the Paris Posco Conference is going to confiscate our rsvcr-soa cables. It lias dotci7Jiiju.\t t) treat them as a lav-ful prize of war. J"»ny, more —'t is cm going, with ili& vilest injustice, to curtail our rigMs to wireless telegraphy, arid to forbid us henceforth to use outbig wiiclcss station at Nauen cither for political purposes or for propaganda.' It y-'iil hi remembered that the first act of the British Navy after our declaration o fwar on August 4,1914, was. to cut the German deep-sea cable. The Germans thought they had a good substitute in the just completed wireless station at Nauen, which sometimes managed to hammer 24,000 words a ,;j day of the most doubtful veracity into America's- and Asia's cars. Now all that is over, and Berlin is holding public meetings of protest tind rage. PEER AND DEMOCRAT. The' Norwich correspondent of the 'Daily News' says the Earl of Kimberley, who has now definitely allied " himself with the Labour party, made a dramatic speech at Wymondham, Norfolk, whore he-, opened a now Labour institute. ■ 'I cannot help being a peer,' said Lord Kimbcrley, ''but I am a demo- - crat, and whatever I can do to help . thio Labour party I shall do, and sec,

as I hope to see, the Labour party gov-' crn this country.' 'POOR GERMANY'—A BISHOP'S PLEA. 'lt cannot be called a noble or unselfish thing if wc ask for the Kaiser's head,' declared the Bishop of Winchester in a remarkable speech at a gathering at Earnham to welcome homo discharged soldiers. 'ls there not,' ho asked, 'a real danger of settling back after the war, where such noble, unselfish things hava been done, into a life which is not noble and not unselfish? 'I seem to see it in -the public lifo when wo clamour for the most that we can possibly got out of poor, starved, trampled, humiliated Germany.'