Arizona republican., 1918-10-26
The "Eaqle Boats"


 We abate none of high regard for Josephus Daniels whom We mentioned only yesterday, as the secretary navy, in which position he has made good But do not think that he possesses a happy qualification for the selection of material for the United States senate It is something to make up the personnel of the navy and quite another to as sembe the personnel of the senate of the United States. In the undertaking of the latter task by Mir Daniels we have the of the shoemaker who did not stick his last.
 Mir Daniels urges the voters of Michigan to elect MT Ford to the senate because his "eagle boat has proved to be good submarine chaser. That we will admit is not a disqualification for the senate but hardly regard it complete, satisfying and supreme qualification. The best barber the best blacksmith the best anything is to be looked up to such, but he might fall below the senatorial standard. If however "eagle boat" building is to be the qualification have had sorry senates in the past and have senator's most of them, now who ought to be elsewhere. Webster, Calhoun and Clay knew nothing about "eagle boats"
 As we have observed, however. knowledge of eagle boat" building, though not necessary torial qualification is a disqualification but think that Mir. Ford disqualified for the or any other position in which patriots should be placed before the "eagle boat" designed Mr. Fords peace ship" excursion a disqualification: his threat to take the Ford money out of all banks which subscribed to the Anglo French loan.
 And about that time Mir. Ford, who had hitherto wrought with only hand and brain, loosed his tongue and widely quoted by the press throughout the country From authentic and undsputed interviews in 1915 and later ttere have been collected gems which have been compiled under the title of Henry Fords Proverbs"
 We select a very few of them:
 If came here and offered treble prices to manufacture motor cars for military purposes I would burn down my plant before I would accept order.
 The word murderer should be embroidered on the breast of every soldier and every naval sailor
 would beach every warshp and dissemble every rifle and gun and the salvage into useful commercial implements to be used for the benefit and upbulding of mankind.
 What difference would it make if all Belgium fell into the tomorrow? Who could notice it in busi- ness?
 As there is no other way to end the than by mediation and discussion, why waste pre- cious human life?
 I changed my mind only in my life.
 a republican for the same reason that have ears; was born that way.
 A pacifist I shall always be.
 These only very few of the proverbs of MT. Ford. Not all of them of this tone. Some of them the sayings of wise and apparently patriotic man. but all of them are the sayings of Henry Ford
 That MT. Ford has changed his mind again and is engaged in patriotic work is well known. Like many another American who opposed war, he became warlike after in it. But even since then there has been blot escutcneon of new-found patrotism-the exemption from mli- tary service of his Edsel the plea that he needed for the direction of War work at the Ford plants As matter of fact is stated by those who know that he could easily have been spared; he not figurehead in the Ford industry until the call made upon the youth of the country be- tween the of 21 and 30. The prevalent opinion is that this young saved from the discom- fort and peril of the trenches because sud den discovery his usefulness to his country at home
 We think Mir. Daniels admiration for the "eage boat has blinded him to the early. and later, evidence that Mir. Ford lacks certain qualifications for a United States senatorship