Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-08-15
TEACH LOYALTY
To FOREIGNERS
FORD ENGLISH SCHOOLS iNcUL-
CATE PRINCIPLES OF PURE
AMERIcANISM IN STUDENTS.
TRIAL DRAWING TO A CLOSE
Attorneys Begin Final Arguments
After Ford Counsel Presents ORA
matte Testimony On Eduea-
tional 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
few hours of its close did they bring
to the witness stand Clinton c. De-
Witt, superintendent of the Ford Eng
lish school,
Mr.. Ford" said the witness, was
Of the opinion that you could not sue
cessfully put over one idea while there
were 50 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 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 were 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
nd peace.
Its colors are red, white and blue.
The red stands for love, the white
lands for purity, the blue stands for
| ruth"
American flags" said the witness.
were used profusely in the school
Dom and silk flag always flutters
before an electric fan.
Teach Americanism.
The menxare taught that there Is no
.reater title than American citizen"
| md are urged to accept the advant-
tges of education offered by this coun.
-ry SO that they may fit themselves,
through knowledge. to defend their
| iberties.
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, it is presented with
souvenir American flags and is given
membership in what is known as the
American Club" The Federal and
tate courts recognize diploma from
the Ford English school as an evil
lence of adequate preparation for
citizenship, 1t was shown.
| Through this testimony counsel
| sought to bring out that the mar
Who taught 5000 foreigners to love
their adopted country and to respect
is flag could scarcely be called al
narchist and that a man who sough;
every possible method to instill Low,
;or the Stars and Stripes in thu
learts Of those who come to 1t from
oreign shores, could never have
made the slanderous statements at
ributed to him by Tribune counsel.
Mr.. Ford. it was shown, loaned al
lis educational workers to the gov
rnment at the time war broke out
The war department found the meth
DIS used in the Ford English school
valuable that they introduced them
IL all training camps. Henry Ford
L 'diu tlC ooAdl ACo VI liiO men nc tCoACu
o the government for the work.
Closing Arguments Open.
Closing arguments in the case
,pened the last of the week. Attorney
Vim. Lucking led off for Ford counsel
lie called attention first to the testi
nony which showed that The Tribune
lot for Intervention in Mexico be
cause it thought such action would
lead to conquest or at least to great
| riches for the United States, had
found Henry Ford blocking it's path
just when its long campaign gave
promise of bearing fruit Thereupon,
said the attorney. The Tribune set out
to destroy Mr.. Ford's influence, to
sweep him out of its path and to still
his voice which pleaded for a course
which would help the bleeding repub-
lie to the south to regain her feet and
to strike forth on new highroad OF
education and freedom.
Attorney Weymouth Kirkland open
ed for The Tribune. He declared that
what Mr.. Ford had done since 1916
when The Tribune called him an
anarchist-had nothing whatever to
do with the situation as it was when
the newspaper stigmatized the manu-
facturer as an enemy of his country.
He did not deny that Mr.. Ford had
done an immense and valuable work
for the government during the war but
he claimed that this did not alter the
facts as they were before war broke
out. Mr.. Ford, the attorney insisted.
was an anarchist at the time The
Tribune described him as such, and
the truth he said was sufficient 1ustifi-
| cation for the attack.