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Cooling Motorists In Michisari Will Find Jen joyed a wonderfully varied array of General Motors President: w .. * i scenerv. missed manv other charmine; ^ l Wonderful Highways and Scenery A, •*>•?, zes From Many Lakes--HayFever and Mosquitos Are Unknown In Northern Peninsula Outlines Company's Policies Excerpts From Speech of William S. Knudsen to Editors During Their Visit To Pontiac Plant v. scenery, many charming and interesting spots, arid reveled iaf a summer climate "without a peer id the world. Many people make the around-Lake-Michigan tour and go home with the idea that they have seen the upper peninsula of Michigan. The fact is that they haven't seen Lake Superior, one of the wonders new nflt!onal°nark^ ^ T/ot^pr1 tional Editorial Asscoiation held in the earnings. YoO can't legislate a beautiful en<Jtfl«w-nrViirli romhirtP tn'city of on July 19, 20, and 21, j into a job. You have to give a lot of ZtoJ crr^Tlt the editors had the pleasure of being people full time, and.let them create make the region the Koof Garden Ue- wekomed to ^ Pontiac Motor plant' a surplus--that* is what puts othef by William S. Knudsen, president of: people to work. itinvewtion of the Na-! put to Mr; and Mrs. A.'" H. Mosher of McHenry afid Mr. and Mrs. C. of Woodistock At the Locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Large Lake Freighters Passing Through the IxH-ks. An average of one of these boats passes through the locks every 17 minutes. 4," The end gates showing the two levels of water. The level of Lake Superior is 22 feet above the head waters of the St. Marie river, which flows a distance of about 70 miles south-east Into Lake Huron. Luxe of the United States. Lordly Porcupine Mountains General Motors, who made a speech The Porcupine Mountain range of following a dinrier served in the plant Ontonagon county, in upper Michigan, on July 21. isn't the highest or longest assembly j Mr. Knudsen, a mild mannered of its kind in the world, but it offers scenic thrills a-plenty. ~ "We decided we would attempt to make our cars better and improve per formance and economy, and thanks to the ladies, we had to get streamlining took up the labor problem • into the picture. Things like that the motor industry, which filled the, brought a 40 per cent sales increase in The entire range is clothed with the front pages of the metropolitan press (the automobile industry. velvety sheen of virgin hardwood tim-ia few weeks previous, and assured his' "A lot of motor cars were Used up ber, a bright green cloak of surpass-j auditors that labor had never had a'during the depression and had to tie ing beauty. The drive from Onton-'raw deal from General Motors and replaced, so the motor industry came agon village, through the' foothills! never would. > | back first of all, because people don't away up to the Lake of the Clouds, His talk proved very interesting and like to walk anywhere. The motor traverses miles of high; clean forests,!we Are glad to pass it along to oUr car, far from being ajukury, is now a with enchanting views of Lake Super- j readers. Excerpts from Mr. Knud- necessity. When I was a workman, iotfon the way. , ; ; : v [sen's speech follow: , • |not so many years ago, men went to The like is, at thehighest altitude'Gentiero^-i iri the central west; (ftrectly *t the: want to..join Mr Sot of. '^ye^inent Feak,lhe g^t oi: y<?U"^elconae here.: X am sorry j travel was only about six milesji day the cljain. tV>p«p rmrr-m-pH that we do not have th waters have been inaccessible except lowing you General • Motors, but j the motor car has improved that fiveafter a stiff climb on foot, an tJhe oH'>« probably knp^that.We are scat- j fold.; We ha^ rg^ n^any worlf, pike ended at. the Carp Lake coppered all over the ^mtedStates andpur' plants who travel ba<?k and'r mine. The state highway department over the world, and if We go through thirty -mile^a day :in^ c*rjwd has remedied this by opening a new with our policies we'll- be scattered think -lathing of iu - route ttoo aa pprroommoonnttoorryy oovveerrllooookkiinngg the still more. I would like to tell you a tailed to Washington _ _ lake and at a short distance iway pre- facts about the corporation, and senting one of the finest scenic vant age points in the central west. After feasting their eyes on the then I'm going to tell you the corporation is . not so big. The corporation manufactures 1,800,000 cars a year, surpassing Lake of the (Clouds, manyjhkh is about 40 per cent to fortytravelers descend to Ontonagon fto r o.n„e„ .-five per cent of the total of all cars of the whitefvsh banquets which have made the community famous. The locality is a Lake Superior fv-hing center and supplies of fresh whitefish are landed almost hourly. A short drive made and sold in the United States. In addition to that, we make 200,000 cars in other countries. w5 "We have 238,000 employes. They earn an average wage of 93 cents an takes the visitor to the Victoria blow-!ho"' an T d they average 40.2 hours per off, a man-made geyser in the Onton-jweek- 1 merely tell you these facts, agon river which shoots a, water col- ^ that you may know that General umn 150 feet into the air at frequent i Motors 18 a.^od employer. Now the intervals. v {motor car industry is divided into Isle Roy ale ' j three factors: First--material. We Here is an island in upper Lake Su-!use one and on*-third tons of material perior, America's proposed new na- to build each car and we use an avertional'park, the home of the largest of 1T'°°° 10113 of "Serial every heard of moose on the continent. The: , - . • . ,. ,,, island is fifty miles long, a wilderness! ne L xt fact°r ,s machinery. We almost untouched In an issue of The i ?eed machinery to do,the work we Plaindealer, On, 29, 1936, Herman D.!*ave * do- and sometimes -the charge Ellis, music instructor in the McHenry [w/made that we are replacing men Schools, contributed an article, telling *',th machinery. The only answer to about his trip to Isle Royale in 1934, that » that ^ General Motors Corwhere he took many photographs, Potion is today employing more men among which was one of a 'closeup of than w« ever employed before in our a moose. history. Machinery saves costs an<| brings the product before more people. "It is fortunate that during the last fifteen or sixteen years, the United East Michigan So.far all that we have talked about that might interest those seeking the1 „. . , , , , ... great outdoor attractions ontheir! States had made great progress in the T « j * • manufacture of machinery. Today, journey has been confined to the west- h „ g considered .heid em part of the state and the upper Page Seve* car, or even us of their Today, THE LAKE OF THE CLOUDS, In the Porcupine Mountains of the Upper Peninsula of. Michigan. This scenic flern In 4QntWl|yiQn jounty^ has the highest altitude In the central west. work by bicycle, by trolley by local train. The radi the opportunity between work and; the shop. "When the N. R. A. entered the picture, somebody suddenly was pointing their finger at us and saying, 'You are bad.' Nobody had done that before; consequently, we were a little surprised, and began.to think maybe we were bad, WTe were, called down to Washington and told to do so and so. Ort top of that, a man was sent out to go through our plants---Mr. Henderson. He went through our plant, that is, he didn't, but he had an assistant go through. This fellow had never been in the motor car business before, aiid j had never been in a motor car factory i of any sort. He was a little rusty on the mechanics of,the thing. When we got all through, he made a report which accused usy6f everything but plain murder. !^ow you know there is such a thing as someohe talking a little too plainly--you begin to wonder whether you are really as bad as that. I think the automobile industry, after the Henderson report, took a new lease On life,.and began to think they were not as bad as they thought, they were. MOne of the things in the report was that we had too much of a shut down This impressive scenic view MlcMoan's large Inland lakes. taken on Grand Lake, one of E»«t ' Although thousands of people from distant places come to the Fox River Valley every year for vacations and recreation, there are also many hundreds of our own people who journey in every direction during the vacation period, seeking different scenes and a Some go to other eastern states, others will go in a westerly direction, visiting the Black Hills, Yellowstone Park, the Grand Canyon and even on to the Pacific Coast. Just why they go so far away sometimes is a mystery, when there is so much to interest them in some of our nearby states. Right now we are thinking of the * state of Michigan, in particular, having recently returned from a wonderful trip through that state, just across Lake Michigan to the east of us. Being the first trip into the great state of Michigan, we felt that it to be one of unusual interest, had no idea that we were going a combination of industry, farmis what one could see in peninsula if they cared to of every other part of the world so far as machinery is concerned. We are now able to manufacture things by machine labor that were laboriously wrought by hand sixty or seventy Week tn Upper Peninsula | ~ ~T'. .' . . „ years ago. The skill which was hand- An all too brief circle tour of the | 3'J"** "J®ed down through the years have given Land of Hiawatha might begin at the East Michigan. t>he gave it hundreds us ^ macy..;re as j3 today. The Straits of Mackinac. The first day, °f ""les ofshore-hneonLakeHuron, third factor in the manufacture of Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie. As that would not have it peninsula. However, now comes along the Blast Michigan Tourist Associa- Iper tion and asks for a little recognition. oneiThey claim they have got something i to shout about, too. . Mother Nature lavished her gifts on would be devoted to short stops on Mackinac Island and Les Cheneaux., On the way to Sault Ste. Marie a side enough, , c trip might be made to the quaint old lar*e share ®f Michigan's 5,000 IV »i«vc | » going! but Are to fihd village of DeTour. The second day would give time for a glimpse of the Sault Ste. Marie ship locks and a river trip to Tahquamenon Falls. Drive to Munising and the Hiawatha national forest in the early evening. On the third day see the Naples of America, the Pictured Rocks, Miner's Falls, Grand Island. Drive to Marquette. The fourth day could be occupied a brief inspection of the Mar- P*Hb? haps Witch Lake, then on to the Copper Country, a bit of which might be enjoyed before dark. On the following day more^--but not all--of this deing, fruit growing, scenery, wild life, lightfully scenic ngion would be vig. lakes, large and small, in fact a vacation land of great proportions, extending a welcome to tired workers, seeking their annual recreation away from the rush and noise of the great cities. It makes but little difference whether the traveler enters Michigan by train, boat or auto, he soon realizes that he has made no mistake in Including this state in his itinerary. In a recent issue we endeavored to describe our trip to the city of Detroit and then a four-day toUr, ending at Sault Ste. Marie, where the government locks are located. However, we have found out many other points Of interest since returning, some of them in the upper peninsula, which our readers will, no doubt, be glad to know ited, including the Porcupine Mountains, the Lake of the Clouds and the Brockway Mountain Drive. The sixth day would be devoted to Agate Falls, the Gogebic range, Ironwood, including Mount Zion park and its wonderful view, Watersmeet, the Ottawa national forest, Crystal Falls, Iron River, Iron Mountains, the Menominee iron range, and Menominee. Up bright and early on the last day, the route leads through Escanaba and the Bay de Noc country, Kitch-iti-kipi Spring, Indian Lake, Manistique, outstanding Blaney Park, Manistique Lakes, the 60,000 acres of the Hiawatha Sportsman's Club, and the Brevoct. lake shore drive into St. Ignace. vary in 16,000 acres, offer free for the camper and trailerite. half of the state parks are already providing electricity for the house trailer at a low cost. merits distinction. In an old-fashioned mitt, the is nearly si vast bodies of serve as nature's own air-conditioning system. Glance at the map and notice the green areas. These are forest tracts, set aside by the conservation-minded commonwealth in co-operation with the federal government as perpetual parks for year-round recreation. The eastern part is the state's "new" playground area. The west coast early attracted development because of its approximity to Chicago. However, miles of concrete highway have been built along the eastern shore of Michigan, skirting Lake Huron and affording a scenic route from the metropolitan centers to the Straits. Before planning a long auto vacation trip, we would advise securing a road map of this state and lay plans to visit as many of these attractive j motor cars is men, and it is the most important one. To give you an illustration, I can tell you that a few years ago a committee came over to see me Soviet Russia. They insisted that Michigan's state parks, which I they wanted to start an automobile size from thirteen acres to factory right from the ground up. I told them that wasn't the right thing to do, because I knew there wasn't much mechanical skill in Russia. Consequently the men would have to be taught, and it would take a long time before you could break in a Russian to in "Our work here with a central plant, after that a plant, and the last things the and forge plants, which art the most intricate. The Russians said: *You give us the machines, you give us the drawings, give us just a few men, and Russia will make motor cars and make them good.* "I said: 'No, sir,'I will tell you what I will do with you. I will take you out to a factory and 1 will sell you the whole thing--the. factory, the -machines, the forges, everything that goes with it, and you keep that, and we will keep the men, and in a little while I will have another factory, before you learn to run the one you got from me.' "Well, we didn't get together; you can compromise as long as two men are willing to think down the same road, but when one <nnn is thinking this way, and another man thinking that way, you had better quit talking, because you get farther apart the during the late"part of the year. Of office for two weeks, and couldn't get course, models have to change. Wheh- out; the staff had joined the strike. ever we have anything new to offer, Everything was on & sit-down basis, wmcn we mink you can use we want an(j food was brought in to the sit- _ to give it to you. It is good for the down strikers. Trucks came up load- see how much they can squeeze outirf business and it is good for you., !Pa with food and mattresses. Every- the people. I started out to tell see that as many of our people as po»*' sible are employed at good wages. You might think that the coipoartion is a group of stockholders trying to we are big. We are not big. We an composed of a lot of small businesses scattered all over the earth, and be in "Out of this report, we got the idea] thing was planned very well. Finally that we ought to reduce the time of we g0t hold of the Premier and he the shut down every year. We could fixed the whole thing up in fine shape. not eliminate it entirely, and after We gave them two weeks' vacation job is to have the various units proptudying very carefully, we discovered wjth pay. That was the period cf the gress on an even basis, keeping that by moving the show date from' sit-down strike, so the vacation didn't. thing in balance. We have to January up to the first of November,' c08t them anything. Then he gave * balance. We all know what that we could have two more months forty-eight hours pay for forty hours in which to build up stock for dealers woric. That was pretty fair, but just m the field, and consequently spread a short time later, he dropped the the production a little farther. | franc from seven to four cents, so the "In 1935, we tried that out, and the manufacturer had to raise his price. results were very gratifying. It re- Business went down and them WUfi duced the shut down period in hours no work.' » to the men by something like 40 per I DM Here ' cent to forty-five per cent. Then came | <«i sympathized with Mr! the years 1935-1936, when we found we He said: 'Some day the crowd will do were more or less bothered in speeches this to you,' and I replied: «No, that being made right along, that we were1 cannot happen in thi United States.' not quite good enough -- yet we paid Well, it did happen. 20 per cent more than anybody else, j "We managed to get them out of all Still we were making money, so we our plants except Flint. They just ought to have no objection to helping wouldn't move, and we were not geta brother in distress, but I want to ting anywhere. I can assure you we tell you from my experience that there tried everything in the world to stand On this jaunt the sightseer will have! short period of the vacation. spots as possible during the all too lon*er you go. The Russians went stat? park, • I "j'lj)'": t: TAHQUAMENON FALLS, in Luce County, Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The falls, large* highest between Niagara and the Rockies, and their surroundings are being taken over at *cceMlb" ""fr by* - >. somewhere else and got the factory, and from what I hear about the motor cars, they are not so hot. Tremendous Army "Now we come around to our problem of manufacture, and as I told you, I consider the men the most important problem. We deal with large numbers of men. It is like a tremendous army that is scattered all over the country. We have seventy-eight plants, and for me to control them by push buttons on my desk would be idiotic. We are not doing it that Way. Each plant is in charge of a manager--the Pontiac plant is in charge of Mr. Klinger and the Fisher Body plant here is in charge of Mr. Leeder. We let them manage the plant, providing they observe the rules of the corporation. We wart to do good work today; we want to do quality work; we want the men to be well paid; we want them to work in a clean place; we don't want them to have any accidents; and we want them to have enough initiative so that future executive^ can be picked from the ranks. ' Now, that is the General Motors policy. "When the depression came along, it brought a lot of problems that we did not anticipate, and our production dropped to one-fourth or one-fifth of capacity. What oculd we do? Our men had no work. Someone invented the share-the-work plan. We worked it at our Chevrolet plant. It was decreed that as long as we had one day of work everybody was going to get one day. It didn't work, never worked, because ,the men you pat to is only one thing worse than having too few men in a factory, and that is having too many men. It is not because we object to having the men there, but because it reduces the quality of their work. "I take a trip to Europe every year, and it is like a busman's holiday, because we have five plants there. I can go out and look through them while 1 am on my vacation, inasmuch as I talk the lingo they talk over there. It makes it a sort of pleasure and business trip combined. We have no plant in France, but I do know some of the French manufacturers. This time, I went in to see Mr. Panhard, who has a factory with 7,000 men employed. He showed me his new car. I admired it, and then asked: 'What about this sit down business you have here in France?' He said: 'I will t^U you all about it. It started last July, and it was planned by the syndicalists.' "The syndicalists are supposed to form the backbone of the present government in Spain. "He continued: 'I was locked in my on our rights. We found out we had very few, if any rights. The only thing you could be arfested for in Flint for six weeks was parking on the wrong side of the street. "You want to be sure you don't get mad in times like that, because it isn't going to do you any good. There wasn't anybody in this country that wasn't in on that strike, and I bar none--the Government, business, or anything else. .1 had two bunches of letters every day Ort my desk--one saying, 'you are terrible,' and the other saying, 'you are fine.' "However, the thing went along and we signed an agreement, and we have been operating on it now for five months. It wasn't a very good agreement but I still have hopes. The specific gravity of this movement will find its own level through public opinion, because that is the only thing that matters, after all. "I have no quarrel with workmen. I have been a workman myself. But I can't for the life of me think that I have a greater responsibility than to to a motor when it is out of "I should like you to feel that we in General Motors realize that we can get small twice as fast as we got big, if we don't give the public service. We have 17,000 dealers in the United States who employ an average of tea men each. There is another flock we have to look after, and I want to tell you that all the meetings we have, and all the conferences we have, all siotmer down to one problem which refers to the stability of the Corporation through the service it gives the public. "We realise that you are our boes--. This wagon of ours--and I call it ft wagon--is all molded by public opinion. The four wheels are the dealers, the buyers, the employes, and Hkm stockholders. It isnt possible for as to give the public a raw deal. It isn't possible to give the buyer a raw deaL As far as the workmen are concerned* they never have had a raw deal in General Motors, and 1 can assure f|M|k In the Twelfth century and study were so highly of in France that Philip II made this students' quarters inviolable their persons sacred. The law so far as to make it the citizen") duty to arrest any one who raise his hand against what the provocation. e am dare# Mt-Year-Old Quest Since 1328 Scotsmen have be^fe. seeking the return of historical Scofe» tish records removed to London Is 1290 when Edward I was conducting inquiries into the succession at the Scottish throne. CI. '•'vsvv.?