Arizona republican., 1919-07-18
FORD ENDS FOURTH
 DAY AS WITNESS
 WILL RESUME TODAY
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MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich, July IT. Henry Ford's fourth day on the wit ness stand in his s1,000,oo0 libel suit against the Chicago Daily Tribune was much like yesterday in subject matter and in the prolonged multiplying of questions to obtain specific answers.
 Today while he was being questioned concerning a letter sent by Thedore de Lavigne, who was his peace publicity man in 1916, to Henry A. Wise Wood, the following went into the record:
 Mir. Ford-I don't know anything about the letter. I know that he wrote it, sent it out.
 MT. Stevenson-Do you think that he would have made that statement if it were not true?
 Attorney Murphy-That is objected to as argumentive.
 MT. Ford-I don't know.
 The Court-He does not say he did not; he says he doesn't remember. What did you say, MT. Ford?
 MT. Ford-I don't remember; what ever the stenographer has got there.
 MT. Stevenson-You don't remember what?
 MT. Ford-Whatever you asked me"
 DlsSialnS heSp0nSIDtllty
 The de Lavigne letter concerned a speech by Henry A, Wise Wood in De- troit- Before making the address MT. Wood called on MT. Ford and in his speech quoted MT. Ford as wishing to ignore all national boundaries ana stating that after the war he would pull the Stars and Stripes from his factories and hoist a world brotherhood flag.
 This speech was reported the next morning in the Detroit Free Press and that evening the Detroit Evening News had an editorial on it. MT. de Lavigne sent this letter to MT. Wood in New York.
 MT. Ford, after reading the story of your address to the Detroit board of commerce as printed in the Free Press today, has requested me to mail to ven the enclosed editorial from the Detroit News. This, Mir. Ford deems all that IS necessary to answer your very in- teresting disclosures of his interview with you, for which he is deeply grate- full" The editorial referred to was de- signed to refute MT. Woods prepared = ness arguments. MT. Ford testified that MT. de Layigne told him of the | flag feature of Mir. Woods speech, but that de Lavigne wrote the Wood let ter on his own responsibility. He ad mitted that he had never asked the Free Press to deny the truth of any portion of the speech although he said he had denied 1t often in other quarters, | Apparently you now think that the statement that you were. going to lower !. the flag was a reflection on you?'' suggested Mf. Stevenson
 Tt was a detriment, yes sir" You have denied it since? ?-in the ksenatorfal campaign?"
 T don't remember"
 Was it published in the senatorial campaign?"
 T didn't pay any attention to the senatorial campaign. They're liable tc say anything in campaign"
 Many Causes for War
 Scattered through his testimony ii appeared that MT. Ford ascribed the world war to variety of causes. in i cluding bankers, munitions makers alcoholic drink, kings and thenr hench- men and school books. John Reed. a magazine writer of New York and re. cent Russian bolsheyiki emissary to tho | United States, disclosed the alleged facts in an article published in 191e. Reed, in his story, said he reminded MT. Ford who opposed drink, that tho French and Germans prosper on wint and beer.
 Yes, and it was one of the cause: of the war said MT. Ford.
 "How?' asked Reed.
 Tt made them suspicious of eacl other"
 He criticised school books as gleri flying wars and the heroes of them thus instilling the military spirit in tn youngsters.