Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1919-08-15
teach LOYALTY
TO Foreigners
FORD ENGLISH SCHOOLS iNcUL-
GATE PRINCIPLES OF PURE
AMERIcANIsM IN STUDENTS.
TRIAL DRAWING TO A CLOSE
Attorneys Begin Final Arguments
After Ford Counsel Presents Ora.
matte Testimony On Educa-
tlonal Work.

Mt. Clemens, Mich.-Henry Ford's
counsel kept until the final. day on
which testimony was presented, the
.trongost arguments in their posses
sion. Not Until the trial was within
i few hours of its close did they bring
to the witness stand Clinton c. De-
Witt, superintendent OF the Ford Eng.
fish school,
MIR. Ford" said the witness, was
IF the opinion that you could not sue
cassfully 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.
listed that every workman must learn
to speak the 'American'-not the
.Gnglish-language.
There were 5000 students In the
chool before the United States en-
cred the war and the factory was
Jracti6alYy 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
com and a silk flag always futters
lefore an electric fan.
Teach Americanlsm.
The men are taught that there is no
.reater title than American citizen"
md are urged to accept the advant-
,ges of education offered by this coun-
.ry so that they may at themselves,
through knowledge, to defend their
iberties.
Pictures of great Americans adorn
he class rooms, special exercises are
held on the birthday Of great leaders
If the nation and finally, when the
class graduates, ii is presented with
souvenir American flags and is given
membership in what is known as the
American Club" The Federal and
tate courts recognize a diploma from
the Ford English school as an evil
lence of adequate preparation for
citizenship, it was shown.
Through this testimony counsel
ought to bring out that the man
who taught 5000 foreigners to love
heir adopted country and to respect
is flag could scarcely be called al
rarchist and that man who sough'
very possible method to instill low,
or the Stars and Stripes in the
learts of those who come to 1t from
oreign shores, could never have
made the slanderous statements at
ributed to him by Tribune counsel.
MI. Ford, ii was shown, loaned al
lis educational workers to the gov
inment at the time war broke out
rhe war department found the meth
ds used in the Ford English schooi
valuable that they introduced then
all training camps. Henry Fore
aid the salaries of the men he loaned
0 the government for the work.
Closing Arguments Open.
Closing arguments In the case
pened the last of the week. Attorney
Nm. 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 II thought such action would
lead to conquest or at least to grea'
riches for the United States, had
found Henry Ford blocking its path
just when its long campaign gav5
promise of bearing fruit. Thereupon
said the attorney, The Tribune set ou
to destroy Mr.. Ford's influence, 70
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
AtloihSy "Syhouth hihldHu opSh
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 |
described him as such, and |
the truth he said was sufficient justifi-
cafinn for tha attach