Arizona republican., 1919-07-19
FORD. ENDS H|S FIRST WEEK 0N
 W|TNESSSTAN
No Indications His Exami- nation Will Close Soon Tribune's Counsel Bonn bards Him with Questions Alleged Libelous Edi- torial Is Read
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 MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich, July IS Although Henry Ford today com pleted week on the witness stand in his libel suit against the Chicago Tri- bune, Elliott c. Stevenson for the de fendant who began questioning him last Monday, showed no signs of reach ing a conclusion.
 The questioning of the witness on the contents of the alleged libelous editorial in the Tribune June 23. 1915, headed Ford is an Anarchist" was the important feature of the day. AL fred Lucking, senior counsel for the plaintiff. characterized the examina- ton as brutal" and the witness, pressed to admit the editorial charge of being an ignorant idealist' and re- minded that on previous occasions 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"
 "I have not tried to mislead you7"
 "No, sir"
 Calls Attorney Brutal
 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 idealist. It seems to me that this should be left to argument"
 Have I been. pounding you, Mir Ford?" asked Mir. Stevenson; MT Lucking is talking through his hat, isn't he?"
 He is talking as though you may" was the way the stenograpner caught the reply of Mir. Ford, who speaks in so low and muffled a tone that his own lawyers rarely hear him.
 In taking up the editorial, MT. Stew enson said;
 What is the office of the headline of an editorial, MT Ford?'
 T don't know what you have ref erence to-"
 MT. Stevenson explained a headline suggests what is in the body of the article under it and reminded that in previous testimony he had defined an anarchist as a bomb thrower or one who seeks to overturn government
 What was said in the editorial about bomb throwing MT Ford?"
 Nothing that I know of except in the headline"
 The lawyer then began reading the editorial.
 BypIay as Editorial is Read
 MT. Stevenson had asked Mir Ford to stop him if he came to anything about hC1nb throwing or overturning the government and after reading about 75 words reminded the witness that he had not been stopped.
 You have read the headline, MT. Stevenson"
 "Yes. MT. Ford"
 Well, you can stop right there"
 "The headline, Mir Ford. you saiL was to indicate what was in the article. I am reading the article so you can compare it with the headline. You don't find anything about bomb i throwing or overturning the govern ment?"
 Only in the headline" The lawyer continued to read the 1 editorial making after each paragraph | the same inquiry and receiving the same negative reply.
 MT. Ford said to MT. Stevenson:
 Ford Reads Only Headlines
 q will give you a little explanation l of the way I feel I, myself, very sell | dom read anything else except the 1 headlines of any article. That is one 1 of the objects of this case. to try and 1 have people stick to the truth a little more behind their headlines"
 MT. Stevenson made another attempt to get the witness to confess that he was an ignorant man, as the lawyer said was shown by his inability to answer questions concerning cardinal points of American history, the army and navy and similar matters. MT Ford turned to the judge:
 Does he want me to say that don't know anything about govern ment?"
 The court remained silent and MT. Stevenson continued.
 q have asked you a number of uue@- tions, and I do not want to press yol as to whether you are a well informed man, competent to educate the public. or an ignorant man, who ought not to undertake to educate the people. bur in view of what you have said. vou would not question that ignorant is a proper characterization of you?"
 MT. Lucking jumped to his feet and said:
 That is objected to as brutal and inhuman."
 Admits His Ignorance of Most Thinos
 MT. Ford ignored this and remarked ;
 As said, MT. Stevenson, I am ig- norant of most things"
 In one comment on the editorial. Mir Ford said he considered the whole article as bad. When MT. Stevenson read the statement that he takes the men who stand between him and ser vice and punishes them for service which protects him." MT. Ford said that 1t was not true. l Do you claim that you did not dis courage men for military service?"
 Yes. sir"
 But you boasted that as a result of your anti-preparedness efforts only ten of your twenty thousand employees attended a militia encampment?"
 But I don't know about that. It was in the De Lavigne booklet. hired him to be my expert on those things and told him to state only facts 1 assumed that he carried out instruc l tionS. l have no personal recollection