New Britain herald., 1916-07-22


 was before I ever saw the man-that Henry Ford would be president of the United States for the greatest number of years in our history. I think I used some such expression as the longest-lasting president He will be elected and reelected and will give universal satisfaction. MT. Edi- son, who was present, smiled and eX- claimed: Good Reese! Good Reese! I want you to meet him some time And a few years later I did meet him and found him an exceptional and re- marka ble man.
 Tn what was exceptional, profess sor?"
 II Have Never Met This Mans Equal"
 why, I have never met this mans equal! I have travelled over this globe fifty-three times, and have met in my professional and public life of forty nine years, the beSt-knOWn people, from one end of the world to the other, in all walks of life, from the lowest to the highest, including the states men and potentates of the earth, and in all that experience I have never met a person that has impressed me as possessing in so eminent a degree, a balance of the highest human qual- itieS as this man does. In his mind and body and spirit; in short, in his personality, he seems to be polarized and attuned to the underlying good. l His soul seems to be always poised on the question:: What is the good i thing here, in this matter, for the | human race? What will greaten the 1 human family now and forever? And 1 it is this pitch of his soul, and this l tone of his mind, that imparts such 1 simplicity and charm to his life and | manners. He is so plain, and wthal | so able; and he makes you feel as you talk to him, that he stands for l humanity, and not for his separate self or for his immediate family or for l his class. At least, that is the vibra- ton his atmosphere always inparts to me.
 And Mrs. Ford, his wife, I found to be a woman of very quiet and reserved ! presence. She must have been greatly influenced by her husbands transcen- dent simplicity. Their life together is free from show sham; their tastes and habits are exceedingly simple in everything. They are thoroughly dem 1 Ocratic in sentiment and in their aSsO- | citation with others. Agreed in their l understanding of ife's purpose; of the use of their powers and opportunities; 1 and cOnsecrated, in their activity, to I the greatening good of humanity, they l have become ideally one. What one l breathes out, the other breathes in. l have never, in all my life, seen or 1 witnessed anything equal to their l plain, transformations iving-nOt any | where, nor with anyone that had 1 wealth. And this couple have millions at their dispOsal; and millions keep l pouring in upon them! Yet they are unspoiled and seemingly unspoila ble."
 'So you provision the fact that Hen ry Ford will make us a model pres | ident?"
 That I can clearly see. He will l make the best president we have ever 1 had; not alone as representing the la | boring people or rather the great com | mon mass of the people as distin- l guished from the interests and the 1 professional classes; but he will prove 1 equal to any of the Powers of the l world; able to cope with all of them; ] nay he will prove to be a model of | representative rule for every nation and tribe, for all will copy from him"
 Do you make this prediction of his l representativeness from your observa- I insight?"
 'Dr. Eye, l wish you to empha size the fact that 1 make this statement not from observation of the man-thOugh my observation bears it out; I make it from an intuitive insight into the secret springs of things; into the movement of subtle forces back of facts-an insight that I have never 1 been able to explain. I am now in my seVenty-slxth year, and I feel that I shall never be able to explain how l | control this power to transcend facts and appearances, and thus get at the underlying truth, which, when we once seize 1t, not only explains the | facts of the past and the present, but 1 points the way to the possible. The l truth, my friend, is to be found in ! the explanation of the facts, for the l truth IS a statement of the operation of subtle forces that brought the facts ! Into existence; a statement of how and 1 why things are as they are"
 1 Reese Demonstrates for Edison. The man who thus boldly predicts ! the end of the European war to the day, and tells with equal assurance of great events ahead for the United l states, has had a truly wonderful ca reer since he was six years of age. The events, however, that gave him a worldwide reputation and estab- ! lished his fame as a clairvoyant on an enduring basis, were his three closely related and keenly critical in- terviews with CD Thomas A. Edison, l CD Dr. William Hanna Thompson, author of Brain and Personality" and (3) a committee of well-known, hard headed men selected sug- gested by Edison, among whom was Justice John w. Golf of the New l York State Supreme court