Brethren & Co-Workers Letter - January 01, 1970 - Herbert W Armstrong - January 01, 1970

Herbert W Armstrong

Recently I wrote in The PLAIN TRUTH that we should prepare to adjust to a lower standard of living. I mentioned that the United States standard of living is much higher than in Britain, most European countries, Japan. I explained how this was largely due to U.S. manufacturers. In 1914, I wrote a magazine article on the Ford Motor Company $5-per-day wage scale. Ford had just inaugurated the assembly-line, conveyor-belt system of mass-machine production. This was possible because they had a mass market. I went to Detroit in early January 1914 and saw Henry Ford and his Sociological Department manager, John R. Lee. It was BIG NEWS at the time. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library