Bisbee daily review., 1919-07-18
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 WAR WAS DUE TO SCHOOL BOOKS
Drunks, Bankers and Munition Makers Also Contributing Factors.
Would Pull Stars and Stripes Down From Factory After The War and Hoist World Brotherhood Flag.


 MOUNT CLEMENS. July 17.-Henr, Ford's fourth day on the witness stanS in his $1 1.OOO.OO libel suit against the Chi. cago Daily Tribune was much like yes. terday in subject matter and in the pro. longed multiplying of questions to obtain specific answers. Today while he was being questioned concerning letter sent by Theodore De. Lavigne. who was his peace publicity ir 1916. to Henry Wise Wood. the following went into the record:
 Mir. Ford-I don't know anything about the letter. I know that he wrote It. or sent 1t out. Mir. Stevenson-Do you think that he ! would have made that statement if ii were not true? Attorney Murphy-That is objected to as argumentative. 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. Mir. Ford:
 MT. Ford-I don't remember; whatever the stenographer has got there. MT. Steyenson-You don't remember what2
 Mr. Ford--whatever you asked me.
 The De LavIgne letter concerned a speech Henry Wise Wood made in De- troit
 Before making the address Mfr. Wood called on Mir. Ford and in his speech quoted MT. Ford as wishing to ignore all national boundaries and stating that aft CT the war he would pull down 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 1t. Afr. De Lavigne sent this letter to Mir. Wood in New York:
 MT. Ford, after reading the story of your address to the Detroit board of com merce as printed in the Free Press. to- day. has requested me to mall to you the enclosed editorial from the Detroit News. This Mir. Ford deems all that is neces- sary to answer your very interesting dis closures of his interview with you. for which he is deeply grateful"
 The editorial referred to was designed to refute MT. Woods preparedness argu- ments. Mir. Ford testified that MT. De Lavigne told him of the flag feature of AIr Woods speech. but that De Lavigne wrote that Wood letter on his own re- sponsibility. He admitted that he had never asked the Free Press to deny the trutb of any portion of the speech al- though 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 reflection on you?" sug- gested Mir. Stevenson.
 'It was a detriment. yes sir"
 You have denied it since? In the sen atorial campaign?"
 'I don't remember"
 Was it published in the senatorial campaign?"
 'I didn't pay any attention to the sena- torial campaign. They are liable to say anything in a campaign"
 Scattered through his testimony 1t ap- peared that MT. Ford ascrlbed the world war to a variety of causes including bankers. munition makers. alcoholic drink. kings and their henchmen. and school books: John Reed. a magazine writer of New York. and recent Russian Bolshevik emissary to the United States disclosed the alleged facts in an article published in 191S.
 Reed in his story said he reminded Mir. Ford. who opposed drink. that the French and Germans prosper on wine and beer.
 ''Yes. and 1t was one of the causes of the war;" said Mir Ford.
 How" asked Reed.
 Tt made them suspicious of each oth- er."
 He criticizeds school books as glorify- ing wars and the, heroes of them. thus installing the military spirit in the young sters.
 The Detroit manufacturer. in explain ing why he forget so many things. said that hundreds of persons visit the fac tory. and that in those days he talked to many of them, making casual remarks which passed from his head almost as soon as made. For instance. he said that he remembered little of what his talk with Mir. Wood was about.