The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-26
FORD GETS TEN AIDES FOR HIS
 PEACE VOYAGE
Six Men and Four Women Accept Invitations to Help End World War.

night had accepted the inVitation Sof Henry Ford, the Detroit automobile manufacturer, to join in his personal ] ly conducted peace party.
 MT. Ford explained the snaallness of the number by saying that many of the 100 persons to1 whom invitations had been sent wer4 undoubtedly ab- 1 sent from their, homes because of | the Thanksgiving parties. | The steamship Oscar H., which he has chartered to take over the peace delegation, has cabin accomodations I for almost 400 persons, and MT. Ford is confident it vii be filled. Reformers in the List
 Those who have accepted MT. Ford's hospitality and will aid him in "ca,l1- ISChristmas' are: John WananaI<er, New York and | Philadelphia merchant.
 New York Immigration Commissioner
 Frederick c. Howe and Mrs Howe. Miss, Helen Keller. Mrs. Alice Park, Suffra g1stsS from Palo l | Alto, Cal.
 Mrs. Anna GarIin Spencer of Mead vile! Pa, engaged in ethical culture work in this city.
 Former Representative Richard Bar tholdt of St. Louis. C. The Rev. S. S Marquis, Dean of St PauTs Cathedral, Detroit. A. IL. Weafherbee, Secretary of the
 Nebraska Peace Society, Lincoln. l The Rev. Washington Gladden., lee turer. of Columbus, o.
 Mir. Taft Laughs MT Lochner, Secretary of the American IConfederation of Peace, who is assisting MT. Ford in his movement, said invitations had been sent to William J. Bryan and Will, liam H. Taft
 Mr Taft passed through New York on his way to New Haven from Rochester last night MT. Ford's rep resentatives saw him and arranged an interview between the two
 Ford's peace movement?' MT. Taft was asked.
 The former NPresident answered the question by laughing heartily.
 |''I've always been for peace" MT Taft said. .eand am also for reason able preparedness" "
 word from William J. Bryan was anxiously awaited, but nothing came. and when MT. Ford returned to the BiItTnore, after spending the day with Thomas A. Edison, he sorroWfully announced that the inventor could not be included in the list of present acceptances- A final decision is awaited.
 The first invitations were sent to 100 persons, but it was said last night others would be added until the ca pacity of the steamer was taxed This is the form of invitation sent out:
 will you come as my guest
 aboard the Oscar II. of the Scan
 dinavian-American Line, sailing
 from New York Dec. 4 for Chris
 tiania, Stockholm and COpenha- A gen? I am cabling leading men ! and women of the European na-
 tioz1sy to join us en route. and at
 some central point, to be deter
 mined later, establish an interna-
 tional conference dedicated to ne
 gotiations leading to a just set
 clement of the war.
 One hundred representative
 Americans are being invited,
 among whom Jane 2 Addams
 accepted today. Full letter fol-
 lows With the 20.0O0 men killed
 every 24 hours, tens of thousands
 naimed, homes ruined, another
 winter beguns the time has come
 for a few men and women with
 courage and energy, irrespective
 of the cost in personal inconveni-
 ence, money, sacrifice and criti-
 cism, to free the good will of
 Europe, that it may assert itself
 for peace and justice, with the
 strong probability that interna-
 tional disarmament can be ac-
 complished. HENRY FORD.
 The governors of every state were invited, but no acceptances had been | received last night, although replies came from Cows. Clark of Iowa. Will Hams of Oklahoma, Ra1ston of Indi- ana, Stuart of Virginia. Ferris of Michigan, Manning Of South Carolina, Rye of Tennessee and Craig of North Carolina.
 Though MT. Ford was absent from the \peace party parlors in the Bilt- more yesterday, they were besieged I by scores of persons who had methods of stopping the war that they thought were fully as good as MT. Ford ss One woman, whose husband died twenty years ago, came in to sell MT. Ford some prescriptions her husband had left She was confident that if MT Ford would have them filled and ! sent to the trenches thousands of lives could be saved MT! F'ord's agents did not buy the prescri ptions. | Peace poems and peace prose were offered,
 MT -Ford's managers last night gave an inl<ling of their plans. we shall approach the people of the neutral countries first and then the governments.'' said MT. Loch- ner.
 '"The people are the governments supplemented MT. Ford.
 Itinerary Not Settled. That is as far as the peace program has been arranged. The Oscar IT. vii. deliver the party at Copenhagen and it is supposed to go to Christiania and Stockholm and then to- any place where the peace propaganda prospects look good.
 While MT. Fords business here is to settle the European war. he is also i settling plans to open factory in the Esog Sf nj Hn 70rl fcYT- the owners of an s0-acre plot, between Jersey City and Newark, on which he expects to build.
 ''I'll not say anything about it." MT Ford said to reporters. You're out