The Cordova daily times., 1919-08-01
HENRY FORD'S IDEAS


 The trouble with MT. Ford was that he considered the world his automo- bile and was trying to make jitney out of it. He attempted to run the world on a Ford motor.
 History is bunk to me-" says Mr. Ford Music and other arts have no interest"
 The great manufacturer sOlemnly swore, however, that he was begin ming to like the banjo.
 Henry Ford was typical in many ways of our pacifsts. Without much knowledge of history and little schOOled in the intricacies of human nature, they adopted an idealistic doc Urine with the enthusiasm of unthink- ing zealots.
 The maker of jitneys has changed since he sailed across the seas in his peace ship with other idealistic men and women, among whom was ROsica SchWimmer, an Austrian lady of many attainments who later was revealed as a spy.
 Being as keen as most American industrial captains, Henry Ford began to sense his own folly before the peace ship landed at Copenhagen. Some thing seemed to tell him that he was trying to extinguish a world confagra- tion with a deWdrOp.
 Henry Ford has learned much since he adopted the tenets of pacifism, even if his soul thrills to no music except that of the banjo, even if he still finds history bunk"
 He has learned that he never really was against either war or prepared ness for war. He was against wars of aggression only, and when he as- sailed preparedness he meant over preparedness" he informs us.
 Our pacifsts, as a general rule, were long on idealism and short on logic. They allowed the Hun propagandists to lead them around as if they were trick bears with rings in their noses. When the Hun shook the rope they danced and made themselves egregi- Ously ridiculous. We had even a his sacred office, conducting himself like a dancing bear every time the Huns gave the signal. He attended meetings of societies which had been formed ostensibly to promote a kind of teetotaler pacif1sm, but which, it transpired, were designed to aid the kaiser's war for world conquest.
 No doubt most of the pacifsts who were not arrant towards were honest. To them war seemed monstrosity in this wonderful modem world of moral uplift and scientific achievement. Con- frOnted by the most stupendous war of all times, they were intellectually stunned. They could not realize the fullness of the drama going on before their eyes. They adopted toy expedi ents like 'peace ships" and became the joke not only of statesmen but of SVSIy 1OW-UlO OWSu FduuCN1l1C NOIIASuAon
 The flaw in their logic-the flaw that reduced them to absurdity-was theil failure to see that pacifism, in it's last analysis, was the repudiation of al force, even in the cause of right. Once the pacifists admitted that force might be used to uphold any cause whatsO ever, he ceased, logically, to be g pacifist. Henry Ford now admits that he was wrong in his pacifsm and says that he was thinking of wars of az gression.
 Pacifsm would do away even witf the police. The police force is noth ing more nor less than an army formed to conduct unceasing warfare on crim inal aggressors. The "offense agains international morality" for which tht kaiser soon is to stand trial is only in larger degree the kind of crime the police are coping with every day Mankind has agreed that certain standards of public morality must b. preserved No standard of publi, morals can be upheld without thu threat or the use of force. It wal this knowledge, no doubt, that i'm pelled the statesmen at Paris to forn