The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-03
TO The TRENCHES
Ford Will Take Peace Plan to
Actual Fighters.
Boys Who Face Guns Can
Stop the War.
MANUFACTURER TIRED OUT
Details of Trip Have Exhausted
FOrd's Physical Strength.
Many Disappointed Because
They Can't Go on Ship.

New York, Dec. 3.-''When I return
to America l may be a great deal
wiser
1t was a very weary Henry Ford
who made this statement Thursday
night The Detroit pacifist was lying
on his spine in a chair. On one side
of him was Louis P. Lochner, secre-
tary of the Chicago Peace Society. on
the other was Theodore Delavigne,
press agent for the Ford peace pill
grimage that starts on Saturday at ?
p. m for Europe
In front of the motor car .manufac
turer were massed score of report
ers. They were hurting questions with
the rapidity of shots from machine
guns. What do YOU expect to accom-
plIsh? How will you get the kaiser
the czar. the president of France, the
kings of England and Belgium and
the sultan of Turkey together? What
is to become of Belgium and Serbia :?
What is gained if the belligerents do
stop in the same place they started?
Ford was smiling wanly. Lochner
and Delavigne were replying to ques-
lions with more or less satisfaction to
the interviewers. There were two
score or more men and women at the
door eager to enlist in the peace pill
grimage or sell some ''pe &c plan that
could not fall
Many Wanted to Co
Half a dozen telephones were
ringing simultaneously. Four elderly
women were weeping forth their tale
of a harsh secretary of state who
would not grant passports. The sec
rotary of the International Gardens
of Eternal Peace was threatening to
denounce the whole pilgrimage as a,
foolish frolic' because he hadn't been
invited He made no bones about his
disappointment.
There was a continuous stream of
messengers bringing in kilograms and
notes Three or four flashlight photo
graphs were tai IN. The room on the
seventh floor of the Biltmore hotel
was smoke-filled and close.
Henry Ford was tired He admit
ted it. He Looked it.
I'VE are going over to Europe to
talk peace" droned Mr.. Ford. I'VE
are going to talk it until the others
begin talking it. We shall talk until
talk spreads contagiously all over
Europe. We hope to get the talk into
the trenches. Once those boys in the
trenches begin talking among them
selves they will quit. Mark my
words"
.'win Mr. Bryan be there to help
you?" asked a reporter.
Mr.. Bryan is invited declared Mr..
Ford. HE has said that he wishes to
remain in America and fight prepared
ness. If he does he has my best
wishes. Still such are our plans that
we would like to have him come with
u.s. We shall start talking as soon as
we reach Europe
Didn't you decide earlier today
Mr.. Ford was asked. that Mr.. Bryan
couldn't sit in the Hague congress that
you wish to convene ?''
81 did not" replied the gaunt man
of peace 1Sa h. didn't insisted NJ Della
vigne.
1t was Mr.. Delavinge who had made
the statement a few hours before.
''Why go to Europe when you can
talk just as much-maybe more-in
America 81 Mr. Ford was asked.
Because we wish to join the other
European neutra1s," he replied. BE
sides the moral effect will be felt more
by going there. Europe will see prom
inent Americans coming who have
sacrificed much financially for the
cause of peace. There's Judge Ben
Lindsay giving up two months of good
lecturing just to help Europe back to
peace and quietude.
by the time 1 get back 1 hope that