Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1919-08-21
TEACH LOYALTY
TO FOREIGNERS
FORD ENGLISH SCHOOLS INcUL-
CATE PRINCIPLES or PURE
AMERlcANlsM IN STUDENTS.
TRIAL DRAWING TO A CLOSE
Attorneys Begin Final Arguments
After Ford Counsel Presents ORA
matlo Testimony On Eduoa-
tional Work.

tionaI Work.
Mt. Clemens, Mich.-Henry Ford's
counsel kept until the final day on
which testimony was presented, the
strongest arguments in their posses
sion. Not until the trial was within
a few hours of Its close did they bring
to the witness stand Clinton G. De-
Witt, superintendent of the Ford Erg-
lish school.
MIR. Ford" said the witness, was
Of the opinion that you could not sue
cessfully put over one idea while there
were So languages spoken in the fac
tory. so to promote that one idea,
which was and is ~Americanism, he in
sisted that every workman must learn
to speak the 'American'-not the
English-language.
There were 5000 students in the
school before the United States en-
tered the war and the factory was
practically turned over to government
work"
Sample lessons we're read by the
witness. Parts are given as follows:
Every good American loves and
respects the United States Flag.
"Our flag stands for liberty, justice
and peace.
"Its. colors are red, white and blue.
"The red stands for love, the white
stands for purity. the blue stands for
truth"
American flags" said the witness,
"were used profusely in the school
room and a silk hag always futters
before an electric fan.
Teach A~merlcanism.
The men are taught that there is no
greater title than American citizen"
and are urged to accept the advant-
ages of education offered by this coun-
try SO that they may fit themselves,
through knowledge, to defend their
liberties.
Pictures of great Americans adorn
the class rooms, special exercises are
held ON the birthday Of great leaders
OF the nation and finally, when the
class graduates, 1t Is presented with
souvenir American flags and is gwen
membership in what is known as the
American Club" The Federal and
state courts recognize q diploma from
the Ford English school as an syi-
dence of adequate preparation for
citizenship, 1t was shown.
Through this testimony counsel
sought to bring out that the man
who taught 5000 foreigners to love
their adopted country and to respect
its flag could scarcely be called an
anarchist and that a man who sought
every possible method to instill love
for the Stars and Stripes in the
hearts of those who come to 1t from
foreign shores, could never have
made the slanderous statements at
tributed to him by Tribune counsel.
Mr.. Ford, it was shown, loaned al
HIS OuuNutlOudt WOAhCIo " LuO 6ON
eminent at the time war broke out
The war department found the meth
DDS used In the Ford English schoo
30 valuable that they introduced then
In all training camps. Henry Fort
paid the salaries of the men be loaned
to the government for the work.
Closing Arguments Open.
Closing arguments in the cas-,
opened the last Of the week. Attorne,
VIM. Lucking led off for Ford counsel
He called attention first to the test
mony which showed that The Tribune
hot for Intervention in Mexico be
cause 1t thought such action woul,
lead to conquest or at least to grea
riches for the United States, ha,
found Henry Ford blocking its patl
Just when its long campaign CAV,
promise of bearing fruit. T~hereupou
said the attorney, The Tribune set on
to destroy Mr.. Ford's influence, t
sweep him out Of its path and to still
his voice which pleaded for a cours
which would help the bleeding reput
lie to the south to regain her feet an
to strike forth on a new highroad Q
education and freedom,
Attorney Weymouth Kirkland oper
ed for The Tribune. He declared tina
what Mr.. Ford had done since 1916
when The Tribune called him a
anarchist-had nothing whatever (
do with the situation as 1t was whe
the newspaper stigmatized the man,
facturer as an enemy Of his countr,
He. did not deny that MI. Ford ha
done an immense and valuable wor
for the government during the war bu
he claimed that this did not alter tn
facts as they were before wal brok
out. Mr.. Ford, the attorney insiste,
was an anarchist at the time Th
Tribune described him as such. an
: the truth he said was sufficient justit
II noftN- Par kho $780,