The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-01-27
DISSENSION EARLY
DEVELOPED IN PARTY
Spirit Of Leader Broken and He Moves
Like Man in Trance; Delegates Desert
Denouncing Management; Auto
Salesman Stays on Job
BY CHARLES p. STEWART,


UNITED Presses Staff Correspondent
THE HAGUE. Jan. 15-(By Mail. -
Henry Ford's peace mission failed for
lack Of faith" According to his own
statement faith was Ford's sole stock
when he started. He had not enough
and those who accompanied him, with
few exceptions, appear to have had
but little.
Those of the party who really wish
ed the expedition well, were so bitterly
hated that an effort was made to ma
room a number of them at the first
European port touched. Ford's plan
as nearly as it is possible to put SO
intangible a thing or paper, was to
give the warning nations mental
science treatment. Ford himself at
the outset had unbounded faith in his
ability Despite the statement at
lributed to him that he intended to
get the boys out of the trenches
by Christmas he did not count on i'm
mediately ending the war
What Ford did believe was that he
could make a dent" by gathering
about him whole ships company,
uniting the members mads on one
big thought Of peace" and continual
y adding TO the volume and intensity
of this thought as he and his crusad-
ers travelled from neutral country to
neutral country, on the edge OF the
zone of war, or even in the zone it
self
Whether this plan would have sue
ceeded under favorable circumstances
can't be stated, because the peace
delegates failed to concentrate or
thoughts OF peace The Oscar IFS voy-
age from New York to Christiania was
horrible, not SO much because of the
incessant quarreling as on account OF
the atmosphere of suspicion and
malice after the first day or two out.
Ford speedily took to his cabin and
for more than half the trip was hard
ly seen by any but his closest advis-
ors. He was i'll, it was stated. The
nature of the illness never was made
clear. Several of the correspondents
whom the expeditions managing com
mittee was trying to separate from the
party did see the patient for a few
minutes the night before the Oscar
IFS arrival at Christiania. 1t is true
that he looked like a sick man, but
his malady seemed rather of the spirit
than the body.
Ford moved and spoke like 3 person
in semi-trance. He seemed almost
completely broken. Early in ihe yoy~
age he declared that squabbling among
the peace delegates was small mat
ter, that disagreements we're to be ex-
pected in any community, and that
when the party landed at Cmistiania
these troubles would quickly disap-
|
pear On this night, however, his
manner suggested that he realized the
fundamental weakness Of his organiza-
rion--that he had lost hope.
While Ford admitted that he based
his early hopes only on faith, Nine.
Rosika Schwimmer declared she had
written assurances from officials OF
ii 1.-The neutral European governments
that they would welcome such an ef-
fort as the one undertaken by Ford
and from men in high positions at the
chancellories Of certain OF the warning
nations "on both sides that they were
at least not unfriendly to the plan. The
second day Of the party's stay in Chris
tiania Premier Kundsen of Norway
denied the truth of her statement. Nu.
merous cables received in Christiania
from Nine. Schwimmer, addressed to
peace organizations and discussing ar
rangements for the Ford party's re-
ception and for cooperation in peace
work. still lay in the christiania tese-
graph office because there were nc
such organizations to deliver them to-
Those who opposed Nine schwimmeI
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