The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 58

1 ou Eagle Wad! AJ 1IIC HHOOKIAN DULY K.MJLE. MIW YORK. SUNDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1927.

A Ai Dy I Sure in Motor Warfare Bilioris Casft in War or U7ord Supremacy In Automobile Industry as General Motors Coming Business Armageddonl Northern Michigan mmr to the i on return trip. Aii-n there are Ford boats opera'. on open sea. carrying automo-CJe pari to Ford p.ant on the Atlantic and Pacific roM and tor-fuii The company has 3 branches in the lined State and foreign office and as-vioate companies in all par-. ol the world.

The fifteen millionth ar of Model as produced early in and the ase' of the Ford uor Company of Dec Jl. 1926, mere STcH 2'. 18.O8O. Then tiirre Js the Ford Motor Com-piiir of Canada. and affiliated companies South Africa and Aus-lialia.

Ihe a.ssets of tnese compatue into many millions. As the commissary of an army, th? medical corps and other branches are vital factors- in any campaign, these matters'have not been overlooked bv Ford organization. In fact, they nave come to be associated with the Ford name that mention of them r.ould seem to be superfluous. From Hospitals to Movies. An enumeration of some of these "extras'" at the Highland Park plant ot the company is impressive.

Here 15 operated a power, heat and plant, fire department, telephone and telegraph exchanges, glass factory, wire plant, wool and cotton textile plants, lreight and express offices, laboratories and machine shops. Further, it maintains a boys' trade ichool. hospital, safety and hygiene departments, motion picture studio, park and athletic field, band and auditorium, welfare department, grocery, drug store, shoe store and meat market The other titan of the motor industry, the General Motors Corporation, of which Mr. Du Pont is chairman of the board and Mr. Sloan is president, is equally impressive.

Incorporated on Oct. 13. 1918. under the laws of Delaware, it acquired in exchange for its own stock practically all the stoci of the General Motors Company, incorporated under the laws of New Jersey Sept. 16, 1908, and since dissolved.

General Motors Has 56,000 1 Stockholders. The present company was Incorporated to manufacture, buy and sell and deal in motor vehicles, boats, flying machines, their parts and accessories and to conduct a general automobile business in all its branches. The corporation also is empowered to acouire natent.s and 1 trademarks, and to acquire and dis- pose of by sale, mortgage or other-1 Ll.l I I I' IT' I .,1 Ford (left), Pierre S. Du Pont and rise securities of other corporation. The tnpior of tnu hue organi-ratlin averaged 1 JS Si last year and the ctorkno.oers ntunoered 56 620 uc March SI In this torpor Hon me find an all-cm Drawing organuauoo: a aide ot activity.

To mention merely some of the hih spots, the corporation manufactures Buirk and Ladiuac passenger cars. Chevrolet pacncer and cooimrrcuU cars. Oakland Pontiac and commercial cars. OldsmooUe passenger cars, ons the Fisher Body Corporat on and a majority of the Mock of the Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Company of Chicago. Among sine ot subsidiaries of ihe Fislvr Body Corporation alone are the National Plate Glass Company, the Tcrns'edt Manuiacluring Company, the Fisher Lumber Corporation, the Fisher-Delta Log Company and the Fleetwood Body Corporation.

Il also readies out for the control of raw materia. to tiir process. Not connected with the manfacture of motor vehicles is the Frigtdaire Corporation of Dayton, Ohio, all of the stock of which is owned by the Genei-al Motors Corporation. This organization manufactures Frigidaire tlectric refrigerators, ice cream cabinets and refrigerating units. In the accessories and parts group, owned outripht or in part by General Motors, are the AC Spark Plug Company of Flint, Mich the Delco-Remv Corporation of Anderson, which among other things manufactures Klaxon ho-ns: the Light Company of Dayton, Ohio, and many others.

Reaching Overseas. There Is a highly organized export and overseas group and a miscellaneous group. In the latter is included the General Motors Acceptance of New York, which finances the distribution of General Motors products, and the General Exchange Insurance Corporation of New York, which provides insurance for General Motors dealers and purchasers of General Motors cars. As in the Ford organization, the welfare of employees comes in for i's share of attention. In the miscellaneous group are Modern Dwellinss, which provides housing for employees in Oshawa, Modern Housing Corporation, which provides housing for employees in Flint, Pontiac and Janesville; the Bristol Realty Company, which provides housing in Bristol, and the New Departure Realty Company, also in Bristol.

Assets of General Motors as of Dec. 31 it r. om noi in rt i authorized $500,000,000 issue of 7 per- i cent cumulative preferred stock, par swer that capital punishment has not been applied that it is ridiculous to expect capital punishment to be a deterrent of murder when we execute so few murderers?" I countered. Capital Punishment Has Failed. is the most conclusive prcof that capital punishment has failed.

There has been growing for years in America a rising prejudice against taking a life by judicial process. That feeling has repeatedly manifested itself in the verdicts of uries." "To what do you attribute this aversion to taking a life by the State?" I queried. First, because it doesn't seem civi lized for the State to take a life. But. more fundamental than that, the sus picion has become rife that innocent defendants may be executed.

Many jurors enter the box with a subconscious determination not to become a party to killing a possibly innocent person. Jurors are loath, even in a clear case, to render a verdict the result of which is beyond reconsideration and recall. 'Note the case of the police offi cer who was murdered not long ago in Queens County. The officer, while off duty, had seen two men whose actions aroused his suspicion. At his order they entered his car and he began the drive to bring them before some women who had complained of being held up.

As he drove, one of the men drew his gun and shot the officer. "Yet the jury which tried the case returned a verdict of murder in the second degree. This in spite of the fact, that the case was clearly murder in the first degree and the death penalty according to the present status of the law should have been applied." "Well, then, what Is the solution (right). LOCAL HOSPITAL CANCER CLINICS American Society Lists 14 Brooklyn Institutions. In answer to many requests the American Society for the Control of Cancer makes public a list of hospitals in the city, with their clinic hours, where examinations for cancer mey be obtained.

Information in regard to cancer and literature on this subject may be had without charge by applying either at the national office of the society, 25 W. 43d Manhattan, or at the office of the New York City committee of this society at 34 E. 75th st. The list of Brooklyn institutions with the hours during which examination may be had follows: Beth Mnnefi Hopitt. 104 Hart St.

Dally from a.m. to 1- m. ami from 1 to p.m. Brooklyn Hospital. Haymond st and 1 Kalb from 12::0 to 2 p.m.

Bushwlrk Hospital, Putnam and Howard iven. Dally from 11 a.m. to 12 m. Coney Island Hospitst, Ocean parkway-Dally from 10 a.m. to 12 m.

Cumhfrland Rtrest Hospital. 105 Cumberland at. Dnily from II a.m. to 6 p.m. Grfenpolnt Hospital, KlnRsland live.

itondny. Wednesdny and Friday from to, 1 ii SO a m. and from 1 to 3 p.m. Holy Fwmlly Hospital, Dean at Daily except Saturday. 1 to 3 p.m.

Jewish Hospital. Class'dl nnd St. Mark's aves. Dnllv from 1 to 3 p.m. Long Island Collelf" Henry and sts.

Daity from 10 to 11 a.m. and from 1 to 2 m. Methodist Episcopal Hospital. 7th ave. anil nth st.

Daily, except Saturday, to 2:30 p.m. Rt. Cstllerlne'a Hospital. 133 Bushwlck ave. Daily from 2 to 4 p.m.

St. Mary's Hospital. 12CS St. Mark's ave. Daily from 11 a m.

to 12 m. Vnit'ed Israel Zlon Hospital, 4808 10th ave Daily from 2 to 3 p.m. Wvckotf Hospital. 142 St. Nlch.

las ave. Dully, except Tuesdays and rn to Py CHAMBER AYERiV BUILDING FIGURES GIYE ONLY ONE SIDE Question Reliability of Statistic Basad on Permits Issued Cive Out Result of Own Survey. Th reliability of the fisurea teoer-ally broadcast as aa accurate ted. to building cond.tion thrvtghout tna country ta questioned by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce in issuinc last night its own build me survey for Brooklyn for the first 10 months of 1927. Buildinn surreys hich ue as their baas the building plans Cird and the permits Issued are scored as haphazard and relatively inaccurate.

The proper method of surveying the building world, the Chamber holds, is by rrsulu obtained that is. by the number of buildings completed during a given period. This is the basis of the Chamoer surveys in the past. Only One Side of rk-tare. Prominent business houses, satis-ticuuis and individuals supply figures based on the permits issued.

These figures are of value, the Chamber recognizes, as a rough forecast of what is to come in the building world. Nevertheless, it supplies only one side of the picture and cannot be taken as definite. The Chamber surveys are a definite picture of the actual building gains Brooklyn. As an example of the unreliability of permit figures as a concrete record of building, it is pointed out that each permit issued has a time limitation of one year after date of issuance. If construction is not started before the expiration of a year after the permit has been granted it is null and void and must be reissued.

Many contractors file plans, it Is contended, and then through financial pressure, changes in the surrounding neighborhood or other contributing causes a-e forced to postpone building operations until the year is up. They then apply for a new permit This new permit, which is a duplicate of the one issued the preceding year, is conscientiously included in the figures for the new year by groups which use permits as the basis of their conclusions, in spite of the fact that it had already been included in the surveys for the previous year. In this way an Inflated total is obtained, a total used mistakenly by many as an index, swollen though It be, of the prosperity of their communities. Permits Allowed to Lapse. Similarly it is pointed out that many of the permits which are-allowed to lapse are never renewed because of financial difficulties of the builders or because of some change in plans and the building which is added to the total of new buildings in the community never gets any further than architect's plans.

No chance for Inaccuracy lies In the Chamber's methods of collecting statistics. The Chamber's figures, which are compiled by the research and statistical department of the omanization, are based on the reports of the building inspectors of Brooklyn to the Building Department. Building in Brooklyn for the lirst 10 months of this year was far in advance of the buildings completed during the similar period in 1926, the Chamber survey shows. The total cost of the 1927 buildings to date was $153,085,482. an appreciable increase over the $128,871,196 scored last year, which was considered In building circles a banner year.

perienced clerk does twice that many. But it takes at least a year of practice to make a 32-letter-a-minute clerk. "It takes so long to make an experienced clerk here because Brooklyn is probably the most difficult mail distributing city in the United States, due to the lack- of system with which the streets are laid out and numbered. We have 28 postal districts in the boro, all of irregular shape. In order to make a correct distribution of mails into the proper racks a clerk must know the first and last odd and even numbers of every street In each of these districts.

20 Days in 4. "The problem confronting the post office in this matter of properly sorting the mails Justifies our plea to the public to mail early. Each year the volume of mail for the four days Immediately preceding the Christmas holiday has been equal to the volume handled on any ordinary 20-day period. The full brunt of this falls upon the experienced regular clerks; the auxiliaries cannot help them much. "In our mail early campaign this year we have had the finest co operation ever accorded.

The newspapers have responded nobly. The public utilities have enclosed small circular exhortations in their bills to customers, and others, like the traction companies, have displayed large posters. Post Appeals. "Department and other stores likewise have displayed posters generously in their show windows as well as inside their establishments. A total of 2,250.000 small mailing notices have been supplied the various bill mailing firms by the Post Office Department.

We feet sure that postmen this year will be able to enjoy their Christmas dinner without the thought that they will be snowed under on the morrow with an accumulation of tardily posted Christmas packages. "As in the past, additional floor space will be engaged to handle the extra Christmas volume of mail. In the Fort Hamilton and several other sections stores will be rented. The 14th Regiment Armory will again be used and also the new Post Office Garage, which has Just been completed on Washington between Tll-lary and Concord sts. It is of three stories, 110 feet wide, and extendi 234 feet deep to Adams st.

Max D. Steuer, Famous Lawyer, Says Only Cure for Crime Is Proper Home Environment; Favors School for Adults Where They Can Be Trained How to Bring Up Children Henry $100, there was outstanding last Feb. 15 $130333.200. Of $16,183,400 authorized 6 percent cumulative preferred stock, par $100, there was outstanding on the same date $1,795,900. Of authorized 6 percent cumulative debenture stock, par $100, there was outstanding $2,786,900.

The authorized common stock was 10.000.000 shares of no par, of which there are outstanding 8.508.884 shares. Assets of the General Motors Acceptance Corporation, incorporated to provide credit facilities exclusively lor General Motors Corporation distributors and dealers and purchasers of General Motors products, were $274,778 919 on Dec. 31 last. The General Motors Building Corporation, incorporated in 1919 to construct an office building in Detroit for General Motors Corporation, had assets of $21,141,505 at the end of last year. Assets of the Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturinc Company were S43.8B3 and the balance sheet of the Yellow Manufacturing Acceptance of the problem of murder if it can't be stopped by punishment?" I asked.

Home Training at Fault. trouble is that parental care A of children is going out of fashion in America. Education and the proper rearing of children alone will reduce crime. The murderer and the criminal is as often born as he Is created. It is environment and neglect of the duties of parenthood that produce our criminals." "What is your criticism of the home today?" I asked.

"Parents heedlessly do little things which cause disrespect among their children. For instance, the striving youthful appearance by so many mothers. A girl sees her mother paint her face, bob her hair, and go practically unclothed. It is natural for the child to idealize her mother and to believe whatever she does to be right. And when the girl follows her mother's example she soon learns the consequences "The very things the mother does she deprecates in her daughter.

Quarrels are followed by loss of respect. The mother is ashamed but will not confess it. The daughter derides her mother but continues to go her ways. Home life is destroyed. The girl, keen to escape from such a home, marries, but not as the result of mature, real love.

A false start is made in the new home. The criminal is often the product. "We often hear men and women relate how much of their success they owe to parental influence. Such parents gained and held the respect and devotion of their children by giving them a good home and supplying wholesome surroundings. "This talk, Mr.

Baliinger, about the immorality of youth is all nonsense. The old folks overlook the beam In their own eyes, noticing the Corporation showed assets ot 959.010. The figures In the case of this corporation as in the case ot the Ford Motor Company, while simple enough if regarded as mere numbers and arithmetic, are difficult to comprehend in actual terms of purchasing power. Where is the man on the street, unless he figures on the basis ot purchasing railroad, or steamship lines and the like land even that would be difficult) who can visualize what he could buy with, let us say, General Motors' assets at the beginning of the present year? The mind visualizes readily enough articles that may be purchased with a five-dollar bill. It reels and staggers before $920,894,106.

But the conflict which observers In the motor world say impends will be on a grand scale. The recent conflict between Germany and the Allies has been called the World War. Yet not nearly so much of the world was affected as will be in the motor Industry conflict. mote in the children's. The command against adultery was made because of its prevalence.

It was rife in the days of Moses. Hence the 'Thou shalt There is more adultery today among the older generation than indiscretion among the j-oung. When youth goes wrong it is because it follows the example of the old. There never has been a great moral prophet who did not preach his message to age and rebuke it for its sinful neglect of youth. Schools for Adults.

"I SAY we need schools for adults. I They should be taught how to rear children and to conduct homes. The great message which should be preached in the churches and synagogues should be 'save the young, preserve the Youth should be exhorted to join in the effort to save tlie old and prevent the continuance of their bad examples. "Parents complain about the children being out of the home so much of the time. I ask with whom should they stay in the home? The parents are never there.

Bringing children into the world Imposes an obligation. Until it is treated as such by parents, we must expect constant increase in all crime, including murder. "Hired help brings up the children of today. Unfortunately, this extends even to the homes of those in modest circumstances. A mother, by giving her time to the great work of building up her issue, can eliminate in a large measure the flaws which lead to the prison or the chair.

When mothers once more regard motherhood as the most ennobling profession, rather than as an obstruction, crimes of violence will decrease. "The proper care of the young Is the fundamental need of the period. We cannot frighten people into being decent, but we can train them to be. Let parents reform the home. Education will do the rest." Gird Loins for 1 General Motors Defense Pout, ae 57.

cliiJTJjn ol the uiia. and Aired tSiuiii Jr. il. pres.denl. Ptjii acuvit.ej M.D of Cadujc.

Pocitisc. motor wa.cles and CMC truest and afhiiated Manufacture of FiMicr txG.ca, AC spark Deiro iuilii and Fr.gida:re electric re-1; ice cream cabinet and units: provision ol credit faculties ex lusivfly for ccneral motors nb.it ors, dcal- eia and purchasers. utrtcrurd capitalization i(V 000 (K-0 7 percent cumulative pre-. icrrcd. par 1100: S16.183.4O0 8 cent cumulative prelerred.

par iu: vrtiBui.uuu pcrcrn; ruiiiuia-uve deoenture. par tlOO; lOOoOOOO shotes common, no par 891. 1C6. the of a suggestion that his wepith as ill-notten sain or anything her than a reward merited by his peculiar genius. And of Eclse! Ford it may be said briefly he is his la.

hers son. Du Pont and Sloan Born to Purple. Du Pont and Sloan, on the other hand, were born to the purple. Each a graduate ot the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Executive themselves, their associates have been largely executives.

Without any particular claim to genius, each is recog nized generally as a financial leader sterling ability and keen foresight. They are at home in Wall Street, still lien territory to Ford, and Wall Street listens respectfully to their opinions. So much lor the impending battle, the battle ground and the generals What then are the forces that these leaders command, what manner of organization has each built up? This a matter of financial record. The Ford Motor Company, according to "Moody's Industrials," edition 1927, was incorporated under the laws of Michigan on June IS. 1903.

and capitalized at the relatively small sum of $100,000. of which only $28 00 cash actually was paid in. The stockholders were 12. including Henry Ford, who owned 25 percent of the stock. Ford Capital $100,000,000.

Later, in 1905. Mr. Ford acquired sufficient stock to bring his holdings up to 51 percent. Shortly thereafter he purchased an additional 7's percent. This arrangement continued until 1919.

when Edsel Ford, who had succeeded his father as president, purchased the remaining percent of outstanding stock. On July 9. 1919, the Ford Motor Company was reorganized under the laws of Delaware, with an authorized capitalization of $100,000,000. The principal manufacturing urits of the company are in and near Detroit. To make possible tremendously increase mass production of the new-Ford cars the company spent millions for new machinery and plant remodeling.

But even before that time the Ford plants produced more than 8.000 cars and tracks daily, operating five days a week in eight-hour shifts. Besides smaller manufacturing plants in various parts of the -country, there are six in close proximity to Detroit, another at Northville and hydroelectric plants at Flatrock, Waterford, Phoenix, Plymouth and Nankin Mills. Other plants are at Iron Mountain, St. Paul, Green Island, N. Hamilton, Ohio; Kearny, N.

Glassmere, L'Anse, and Pequaming, Mich. Prepares for Airplane Era. These plants, be it understood, are devoted entirely to the manufacture of Ford cars and trucks. They are merely part of the picture. The great Ford organization includes not only raw materials and means ol transportation, in fact everything necessary to turn out a completed motorcar, but a factory for building all- metal commercial airplanes another evidence ot Ford farsightedness.

This is the era of the motorcar. But who will say that the era of the airplane is not Just around the corner? Sursly not Henry Ford. All indications are that he is preparing for it. But before going further Into the thoroughness of the Ford preparation and organization attention should be called to his purchase of the Lincoln Motor Company, organized in 1917 to produce motorcars of exceptionally high quality. Ford acquired the company in February, 1922.

The next month the Lincoln Motor Company was reorganized in Michigan with an authorized capitalization of $15,000,000. The plant has been vastly improved since it came under Ford ownership. It has a yearly capacity of 10,500 cars Truck Factory. Now for some of the other aspects of the Ford Company. The Ford-son plant, which manufactures the Fordson tractor, operates its own blast furnaces, power plant, locomotive repair shop, the largest foundry in the world, machine shop, motor assembly plant, body plant, sawmill, coke oven, open hearth furnaces, steel plant and rolling mill, paper mill, sintering plant, glass faotory with an annual capacity of 12.000.000 square leet of glass and a cement plant producing 2.000 barrels of cement a day.

This Fordson plant has 12.3 miles of roadways and b6 miles of railroad tracks. Coal, ore and limestone bins have a capacity of 2.000.000 tons, arries IT. S. Mail. Ford's Stout Metal Airplane Company is located at the Ford Airport, Dearborn.

In addition to building the ail-metal commercial planes, the company operates three airlines, one to Chicago, one to Cleveland and one to Buffalo. Daily round trips art made. The planes carry United States mail and company freight to Chicago and Cleveland, but only company lreight to Buffalo. Coal being necessary to manulac-ture, the Fordson Coal Company was incorporated in February. 1923.

with $15 000,000 capital, and operates mint-s in Kentucky and West Virginia. The properties represent a coal reserve for more than 100 years to come a valuable asset in any struggle for supremacy. Runs Own Railroud. Then there Is the Ford Railroad, the Detroit. Toledo and Ironton.

operating 470 miles of railway. It connects with practically every transcontinental line, thus affording unusual shipping facilities. A new division nl the road, known as the Detroit and Ironton. 13 1-4 miles long and run ning from Fordson to Flat Ro-I; is operated by electric motive, power, usini elect; ic lorcmotives distorted and built by the Ford Motor Company. The railroad also owns and oner-fitcj lake freighters carrying ore from 1 Ford Ne- it Car Fiii Move Stn-ti; ns er From G.

M. So'. 3 vih On; Hive StvpenJous Financul anJ Control Own R.vx Matjri.il Pn- uncii 'n anJ Evw furt.iiion Facilities li Bv I AN Ci. IIOLMKS. Norh of a commerciiil nature in recent years so gripped ihe public imagination as th recent arrearance of the new; I Ford motorcars.

Heralded in the most expensive advertising campaign ever undertaken by any corporation, the car as received with a hom age befitting a potentate. Mjst of tlKi-i who becani? ecftatic ever the new models wore thinking merely about the desirability of own-in? one for personal use. But to thoughtful observers the car iWelf appeared to be of secondary importance to something far greater and more momentous, of which it was but a symbol. This they conceive to be a struggle for world supremacy in the automobile industry between the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation. The conflict, they say, is inevitable.

The new Ford car they consider to be merely the first strategic move of the Ford generalship. They are awaiting expectantly a move by the General Motors leaders. Portends Giant Struggle. Such a struggle between these financial giants and titans would overshadow any pitting of wealth against wealth, brain against brain, and carefully built-up organization against organization in the history ot industry. It would be a conflict such as would make the Homeric heroes and the mighty of Valhalla appear puny and insignificant.

Already these financial giants have conquered a world undreamed of by the ambitious Macedonian, Alexander. Alexander's chariots overran that small world centering about the Mediterranean and- fatuously he sighed lor more worlds to conquer. But out of the West have come the motorcars and trucks of these- two great organizations to overrun Europe, from the rocky fiords of Norway to the silver sands of the Riviera; Asia, from the bleak plains of Siberia to the rich lowlands of India where turbaned Brahims count their beads bv the burning ghats of the Ganges; Africa, from Morocco and Egypt, where puppet monarchs make pretense of reigning, to the South African republic where men burrow beneath the earth that milady craving for diamonds may be satisfied. North and South America have been overrun, too. Billions Id "tattle Plans.

As each has thus triumphantly encircled the globe in the role of a conqueror, it is inevitable, say the observers, that they should turn upon each other in a final struggle for absolute supremacy. The far-flung battle line would encompass the entire earth. Into building up these two great world-wide organizations, billions of dollars have been poured and billions have been garnered. Years have been spent in careful preparation a painstaking preparation that makes the preparation of Xerxes for his invasion of Europe, described with such apparent admiration by old Herodotus, seem the work of a second-rate amateur. In the service of the two titans, Mark men sweat and trjil In the Congo; yellow men labor placidly in Asia, and clear-eyed executives with close-cronped mustaches sit at flat-top desks in Dearborn, New York and elsewhere and plan and plan and plan.

Money Resources Inexhaustible. The financial resources each can draw upon appear to the layman almost inexhaustible. It is a trite but true saying that nothing succeeds like success. And each of these great organizations have achieved unparalleled success. Thousands would scramble to invest at the call of cither.

And Wall Street is not likely poon to forget that memorable occasion when Henry Ford demonstrated he could get atng without Wall Street. Leaders" in this great struggle would be on tie one side, Henry Ford and his son Edsel; on the other side, Pierre S. du Pont and Alfred Pritch-ard Sloan Jr. More divergent types could scarcely be imagined. Consider, for instance, Henry Ford end his son, Edsel, a combination which somehow recalls two other I lawier-mia-sou piuneeis iaiiiuu.1 ui early American history John Cabot and his son Sebastian.

Ford Once Poor Boy. Henry Ford was a poor boy who learned the machinist's trade, but whose mind soon became aflame with an inventive idea. A home-spun figure he appealed to the imaginations of Americans in some such way as Lincoln did. He is a man whose career has 'been a romance, who has rained the respect of capitalists and the affection of the everyday man. There have been railroad and financial kinqs who have risen from humble origin, but.

rightly or wrongly, the public has always believed their great wealth was not amassed by honest dealing and fair practice. Ford has been criticized: he has made mistakes and admitted them but from no quarter ever come even Ford Battle Line Chief executives Henry Ford. f4. founder, and his son, Edsel Ford. 33, president.

Principal activities Manufacture of Ford passenger and commercial motor vehicles and Lincoln passenger cars. supplementary activities Manu- acture of all-metal commercial irplati'-s, operation of a railroad and Great Lakes and ocean fivightcrs. coal mines, blast iur-niri, foundry, locomotive machine nhop, steel plant and roliins null, glass factory and wool and textile plants, etc. An' hoi ized capitalization ooo.nno. as of Dec.

31, 1926 I is of is of ir. 1,700 'Extras' in Postof ike To Speed Distribution of Christmas Mail This Year Proper Care of the Young Is Fundamental Need of the Period, Says Lawyer Opposed to Capital Punishment Because It Doesn't Stop Murders. Max D. Steuer, a lawyer of national reputation, reutes all attacks on the younger generation and blames the elders for the present )lood of crime and criminals. In this interview he expounds this as his chief argument against capital punishment.

By WILLIS J. BALLINGER. GALLOWS, electric chairs, torture chambers, laws or parliaments can't stop murder. Murder can only be stopped in the home. Fathers and mothers are the real executioners when traps are sprung and the juice is turned on.

Stripling youth will continue to expiate its wrong bringing-up on gallows and in electric chairs until old age stops prattling about errant youth and realizes where the real errancy is when mothers stop trying to client time by paint and childish antics and start cheating the gallows by some real motherhood. That is the way Max D. Steuer, one of the greatest lawyers in the Na tion, looks at the question of capital punishment. After pausing tor a mc ment before a large oaken door over which was a large brass name plate, "Mr. Steuer" I entered and sat down for a chat with Mr.

Steuer. Knowing him by reputation only and never having seen him before, I expected to see a veritable patriarch before me some one whom the leniency of time had permitted to garner that extra degree of fame which Mr. Steuer cniovs in his profession as well as some stern-laced geniicman wnose life absorption in logic and fact had left its impress in rigidity and ponder-ousness of manner as I have so often seen it do. Mr. Steuer was otiite a surprise a smiling, dapper, robust little man who sat behind a broad-topped desk and replied to my interrogatories with a degree of amenity that Impressed.

Puch pleasantness in a salesman would have received no comment but in a great lawyer it stood out. The Result of Ambition. A QUARTER century ago Mr. Steuer had a law diploma and that was about all. But he was given a $100 claim against a notorious swindler.

This swindler had ben prosecuted by the Government and the prosecution had failed. He secured a judgment and put him behind bars. That break made Mr. Steuer. He calls it pure luck.

But back of that opportunity to step Into the limelight which came his wav was the ambition to be a lawyer which he had since the age of 8. and the steady preparation to cjuip himself to realize this ambition As Dr. Phelps says "The event does make the man it merely reveal? him." The man was made by long preceding preparation and struggle "Why are you opposed to capital I began. "Becausp.it doesn't stop the commission of murder," answered Mr Steuer. "What would you put In its place? I asked.

"Any punishment, that would stop murder -If IhPre Is such. But there isn't." replied Mr Steuer. "But, Mr. Steuer. when you say that capital punishment has not stopped murder, what do you say to the an The annual expansion of the postal i service in Brooklyn to care for the Christmas mail is again well advanced, with most of the additional help that is to be employed already enrolled and waning to De mustered in.

The last few days of the past week taw a daily increase in the numbers of persons visiting the main post-office in Washington st. with Christ-mas packages, mainly parcels destined for foreign and distant domestic deliveries. The various branch stations and most of the 260 drug store contract, stations throughout the boro report a corresponding increase in the amount of parcel post mail received. The additional help to te employed to handle the holiday mail, according to Postmaster Albert Firmin, consists of 700 auxiliary carriers and from 1,000 to 1,2000 extra clerks. In addition he said, the regular vehicular fleet will be augmented by 29 army trucks, 20 largest size furniture vans, 175 to 200 wet wash horse-drawn laundry wagons and about 250 pushcarts, besides 10 new trucks which the Postmaster General has recently allotted Brooklyn.

The new trucks, now being assembled, will increase the regular mail truck equipment to 181. Police Test. "Extreme care is exercised in the employment of extra holiday help," 1 1 if. "ITuarv onntinanf. is first of all finger-printed and the prints turned over to the Police Department.

If they disclose that the applicant has at any time been in the toils for an offense Involving moral turpitude, he Is then and there barred from further consideration. "Having passed the police test, applicants are then given a fitness test. The test for the auxiliary carrier Jobs is a simple one of reading a few addresses and knowing the streets In a section to which he can be assigned. For clerks it is more elaborate, though most of the clerks are assigned to loading and unloading trucks and other vehicles. Only a small percentage of the auxiliary clerks pass the examination with a efficiently high rating to Justify assigning them to such purely clerical tasks as sorting mail.

Must Sort 10 a Minute. "The clerk examination consists of sotting 100 letters into a distribution box. The minimum speed at which one can be assigned to this work without clogging up the machine, so speak, is 16 a minute. The ex Mothers of Present Jazz Age Are Increasing Crime and Necessity for Gallows, Says Steuer it. j- xst The mothers of this jazz age are directly responsible for the increase of crime and the necessity for the gallows, accuses Max D.

Steuer, one of the greatest lawyers of the nation. It is the example of parents which influences children. The painted, short-skirted mother who prefers bright lights to home fires cannot raise healthy, normal-minded offspring, he further declares. Daughters of such mothers heap terrible consequences upon their own heads by following in their footsteps. Teach right parenthood and home building and the death sentence will never be invoked.

1 MAX D. STEVER. scat 'vj'vH A i The Penal Law Price 75c By mail 80c Code of Criminal Procedure Price 75c By mail 80c INCLUDING 1927 AMENDMENTS PUBLISHED BY THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE.