Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-19
Attorney for Manufacturer CharacteriZes Quizzing as
 Brutal.
ON STAND ONE WEEK
 AND END ISN'T NEAR
Maker of Automobiles Defines Mo bile Army as q Large Army, MobiliZed-Doesn't Know
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Mount Clemens, Mich, July 18- Although Henry Ford today compile ted a week on the witness stand in his libel suit against the Chicago Daily Tribune, Elliott G. Stevenson, for the defendant, who began ques- tioning him last Monday, showed no sign of reaching a conclusion.
 The examination of the witness on the contents of the alleged libelous editorial in the Tribune on June 23, 1916, headed "Ford Is An Anarchist" was the important feature of the day. Alfred Lucking, senior counsel for the plaintiff, characterized the ex- animation as brutal" and the wit ness, pressed to admit the editorial charge of being an ignorant idealist" and reminded that on previous occa- sions he had admitted it. remarked:
 You are a good enough attorney to get me to say this or that, but it would not be in my mind.'
 Haven't I tried to be fair with you, MT. Ford?"
 Absolutely"
 q have not tried to mislead you ?"
 "No Sir"
 Ford's Attorney Protests.
 It was here that MT. Lucking made his charge of brutality, adding:
 You take modest witness, Mr. Stevenson, and try to pound him into saying that he is an ignorant ideal ist. It seems to me that this should be left to argument It is not right to pound a man of MT. Ford's type, retiring and modest, who doesn't like to appear in public, and push him in- to saying things against himself. He is the easiest man in the world to get to say a thing"
 "Have l been pounding you, Mr. Ford ?" asked Mr Stevenson.
 "Mr. Lucking is talking through his hat. isn't he"
 "He is talking as though you may" was as the steno0rapher caught the reply of MT. Ford, who speaks in so low and untitled tone that his own lawyers rarely hear him.
 Nearly two hours were consumed, while MT. Ford was excused from the stand, in reading into the record tes- timony of General Erasmus, in 1916, before the house committee on mili- tary affairs. It bore on one of the Ford advertisements. written by Theodore Delaviene. formerly plain tif's peace publicity manager, in which a part quotation made the gen. eral apnears to state that with H. 900 additional men, the coast defense system would be adequate. It ap- peared from further reading, that General Weaver admitted that the guns were obsolete and outranged by modern naval guns: that the forti- fications were too far apart and with out a mobile army they could be talk en by landing parties operating from the rear.
 What's Mobile Army?
 "What do you understand by mobile army?" asked MT. Stevenson.
 "A large army" answered MT. Ford.
 "A large army?"
 "A large army, mobilized."
 50 that is vour understanding of mobile army?"
 "A large army ready to be mobili- zed."
 "All right. then, that was what YOU thought mobile army was when this advertisement was printed ?"
 "I don't know" said the witness.
 Mr. Stevenson let the subject drop after explaining that mobile army was one that could be moved quickly, and took up the editorial.
 "What is the office of the head line of an editorial. MT. Ford?"
 q don't know what you have ref erence to-"
 MT. Stevenson explained headline suggests what is in the body of the article under it, and reminded the witness that in previous testimony he had defined an anarchist as bomb thrower, or one who seeks to over turn government.
 "What was in the editorial about bomb throwing MT. Ford ?" z
 Nothing that I know of, only in the headline"
 The lawyer then began reading the editorial and asked MT. Ford to stop him if he came to anything about bomb throwing or overturning the government. He read the first paragraph and reminded the wit ness that he had not been stopped.
 "You have read the headline, MT. Stevenson"
 "Yes. MT. Ford"
 "Well, you can stop right there"
 "The headline, Mr. Ford, you said, was to indicate what was in the ar