The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-12-29

ui ms cate SUP. tue TVib Gal
would never have been heard Of.
says Gerald Stanley Lee. author oil
Crowds and Inspired Millonaires.'
aud then he takes this whack at An
drew Carnegie:
IF 7 were Mr.. Carnegie and wanted
to make one great stroke, before ]
died. at war in the world | would
spend Instead of three million dollars
on peace palace three million dol
lars, having every employer of labor
and every laborer know all there ia
to know about Henry Ford's factory
in Detroit
MIR. Fords sudden peace trip ON
the Oscar II caused the publishers
of Every body's Magazine TO stop the
press after the January edition. out
this week had been printed. in or
der that MIR. Lee. who has in the past
been Mr.. Ford's most friendly critic,
might express his opinion Of Mr..
Ford's amazing Peace Ship expedi-
ton.
Carnegie is handled without gloves
as a complacent self-satisfied person
who. after life of "coInpa rative fail
ure." is stultifying the soul of Amer
lea with his millions.
Nations ChiIdren's Diseases.
'Deferentialness TO Andrew Car
nege." writes Mr.. Lee, has come to
bF one or Ina diseases OF IHI2 HdLipn.
Nations have TO GO through their
chldren's diseases of course. but it
does seem as II America might have
produced among us all some one to
make Mr. Carnegie ridiculous or as
il we might have been able, from one
end of the country to the other. to
hunt up one college that would sho.
how funny, In the role of really Sc
rious or important person Mr.. Car
negie is
T. According to Mr.. Lee. Mr.. Carnegie's
attitude Is IAN infinitely more serious
threat at the life OF this nation. al
the vitality, virility of this nation,
than frank, bold. perfectly safe ras
cal like Jesse James--safe because
nobody takes him seriously"
Even the picture of the aged IL
brary -giver enrages the author u
cannot bear it," ne said TO see him
self-satisfaction on his face-and
every man and woman and child in
sight encouraging him to be funnier
and funnier And almost nobody say
ing anything.
~ am not blaming Mr.. Carnegie as
man. 1 am merely pointing out. In
what | say, that that Is all he is
merely mainland that he has no
right to become an institution.
II am afraid of what Mr.. Carnegie
/ as an institution may do to the cause
OF peace.
Benevolent millionares like Mr..
Carnegie are one of the great stand
ing threats in America at the life OF
| our nation.
A Standing Threat.
We have watched Mr. Carnegie
for row these twenty years, innocent
| ly banging about, lording over cities
with libraries. steering culture with
/ checks, leading great universities by
pensions. We have seen colleges put
ting their creeds in their hip-pockets
and holding out their hands. We have
seen Mr.. Carnegie buying off the in
/ tellsctual hardihood of big profess
sors. the educational condolences Of
7 faculties; we have stood by and seen
! him taking the whole educational
system of this nation and all our best
! intellectual centers and turning them
| into great spiritual machine-shops-~
big wiidernesses OF mechanical mind
edness--and doing II all because
| everybody In sight wants a dollar
! and half. and BECAUSE everybody
bows and scrapes, resigns. -sps one
/ side. and asks, What do you want
| Mr.. Carnegie? 1t shall be yours -
| According to Lee, MIR Carnegie
has thrown his fortune. like some
great, cheerful. selr-compl acent, snil-
/ ing milestone, around the necks of the
| men who in the factories and streets
and in our universities are making n
| fight for imagination. initiative. free
| dom from routine, personality, and
courage in American life,
! We can not hope for much in Mr.
| Carnegis's peace enterprise. or any
! thing else he Is interested In until we
are disill0sionized as people about
/ Mr. Carnegie, and Mr.. Carnegie is
! disillusonized about himself"
/ Henry Ford, on the other hand. be-
fore he began meddling in the affairs
of nations. had set an example in in
dustrial peace that is a sure way &C
| cording to Lee, OF eventually bring
| ing about world peace,
Here IL what Gerald Stanley Lee
wrote about Ford before the automo-
bile man conceived his Peace-Ark
scheme:
] 1T is always inoonvenient having
man around living along recklessiy
and prominently after one has said
good things about him. / am far
from agreeing with Mr.. Ford in every
thing he says. or is reported TO have
| said, and there are Important ideas
! organic in machine labor in which
I might differ with Mr.. Ford. But
SO far as what he has done in his fac
| tory to date liz concerned; the main
| driving. power In the man ID right,
| He has the We-vision. the We-spirit.
! and the We-wil,. and as long as he
/ keeps this he will stand as he does
| now--as the most signal dramatiza-
! ton. in the eyes of the world OF
/ Am erican genius and American de-
mocracy, and of the spirit and the
methods to be employed in getting
| the attention of the nations in peace.
| Mr.. Ford's factory is the best adver-
| tisement OF how peace works that
| either American or any other nation
| has yet had
| over against Carnegie America
| puts forth Ford
/ Ford Car Versus Krupp Gun.
Over against the krupp gun
America puts forth--the Ford car
| Here is what Mr.. Lee says about
Ford after Everybody's publishers
stopped their presses for him:
What I say in this article Is about
! the 'Peace-at- Home play ! most
i strenuously disagree with Mr.. Ford $
Peace Ship; and when Everybody s
| Magazine breaks in upon my feelings
about Mr.. Ford's Peace ship, expects
me to take all these feelings in a
/ minute and tuck them into few
! paragraphs, the reader will forgive
mo, perhaps. II my feelings stick out
| over the edge a good deal l hope