Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-11-22
WOULDN'T Be BULLDOzED
henry Ford Indignant At Blackjack
Methods
NO MORE PUBLIC CHARITY For hin
Bio Detroit Manufacturer Has Un-
pleasant Experience In New York
Had Given s5oo,ooo to War Work
Fund; But Still Was Subjected to

pleasant experience IN NO" ro'N-
Had Given $5o0,ooo to War Work
Fund; But Still Was Subjected to
Annoyance.
New York World.
Henry Ford. who got up and walked
out Of the Metropolitan opera house on
Sunday night when United States Mar
shall Thomas cBull'D Mccarthy said,
We'll get $1,000 out Of you for the
War Work Fund or blackjack you.
went home to Detroit late yesterday
afternoon still ranking over the treat
ment he got from the marshal. who
singled him out Of the audience and
pcstered him for sums all the way
from $4,000 down.
I'm off charity for lifc." said the
motorcar manufacturer in talk with
q world reporter. i've gwen a good
many millions to charity in my time.
but l will not be blackjackcd by peo-
pie who do not produce anything and
never have produced anything. and get
their salaries without productive work.
Tempted to Make Big offer.
For a moment ! was tempted TO
get up and say would match the con-
tributions Of everybody in the opera
house audience, to show that was not
a piker in money matters. But l was
advised against that. and 30 1 just
walked out.
ITO this very fund I had already
contributed 100000 in Detroit. II
properly approached in the Metropoli-
tan opera house / might have made an
additional subscription. But was not
going to be bulyragged into subscrib-
ing"
Mr.. Ford's subscription Of $600,000
to the fund, which he made in Detroit,
before coming here. was one OF the
largest individual giving recorded dur
ing the drive.
II came to New York. the centre OF
gayety in our country. for little re-
creation with Mrs. Ford. our boy and
his wife" said the manufacturer. This
was in the midst Of q lot Of important
government business. went to this
entertainment for little relaxation
and was bullied, although I thought
had done my share in this drive. So
from this day henceforward / am
through with charity"
No More to Charity, He Repeats
Knowing the great sums the motor
manufacturer has given to one or an
other worthy cause, The World report
er asked:
do you wish me to publish that, Mr..
Ford-that you will give no more to
charity?"
Yes, say IT," Mr.. Ford answered.
Americans do not want charity. any
how. All they want is a chance to
work for their living. and I will give
more of them than ever a chance to do
so. About 1000 of my men are In the
army and navy service and they will
all have jobs when they como back. 80.
sailors as can be used"
The 1000 men referred to formerly
were part Of the Ford production force
Of about $4,000.
See. II the scnkers and brokers'
who make their money out of using
other peoples money and do not work
themselves-will take their men back
and make room for others In the same
way" said Mr.. Ford.
Healthy, whole. Ill, crippled. we
will use all Of them we can In our mo-
tor car and farm tractor plants" he
.dded. Then he told the story Of a
blind man who needed Job and waa
put to work In the Detroit plant fitting
plug gauges into nuts and so on. With
in a month the man was doing the
work Of three persons with sight.
Should Fit Cripples Into Jobs.
There are few human beings so
badly crippled that they cannot do
enough work to make themselves q
comfortable living. provided some one
will take the trouble to At them into
Jobs" Mr.. Ford said. And II they are
unable to do such work, then we will
care for them through real charity"
The heckling he received was not
the only offensive thing which the
contributor of 100000 heard at the
Metropolitan Sunday night.
Whoever was giving the entertain.
ment produced a short play in which
the idea seemed to be to keep our ha-
tired Of the Germans" said Mr.. Ford
and in this Mrs. Ford. who was pres
ent at the interview. concurred. ''Thii
play showed German brutalities-
showed German drinking while theii
Belgian victims were being shot out.
side. That might have been all right
before the end of the war. We ther
hated militarism and fought 1t with al
our power. But the war 10 over, and
we have won.
"Is not militarism over? 1t should
be. And II militarism Is not finished
and through with. then why don't we
fight on and bring 1t to an end? II we
have won and militarlsm 10 conquered
why should these plays which tend tc
keep up our hatred be produced? II
militarism is not yet conquered. let's
go on fighting until 1t is."
Ready to Do Peaceful Work.
I'm a pacifist, but I fought to end
militarism. Ny plants fought 100 pei
cent, and are still fighting. because we
have not yet stopped making Liberty
motors, Eagle ships, gun carriages and
other implements Of warfare. Wher
the government tells US to stop these
things, I will have our plants go into
real peaceful productive works. instead
Of work that Is bound eventually to bt
destroyed into nothingness."
Mr.. Ford would consent only to ven
brief answers to questions asked as tc
post. matters. Thus:
do you approve Of feeding the Ger.
mans?"
Yes. II we did not we are in the