The Prescott daily news., 1919-07-22
"FORD'S IDEAL"
 DRAW APPLAUSE
Audience Breaks Precedent By
 Demonstration at Trial-Says
 He Did Not Say He Would
 Take Stars and Stripes Down.

ms experience on the witness stand In his million dollar libel suit against the Chicago Tribune apparently as fresh as he was the day when he first took his seat before the jury. But once he lost his temper even under questions which verged on insult He has answered quietly, patiently and kindly throughout the long ordeal and his manner has made deep impress sion On the audience which fills the court room.
 Once today, while Tribune counsel was reading an interview published in a national magazine, in which MT. Fords ideals were set forth at length the audience broke into applause, counsel had just read this statement: What 1 want to do is to make the farmer as independent as I am, inde pendent of the banks, independent of the trusts, independent of the rail- roads," Then the crowded chamber, which has been following the reading with evident sympathy, broke the
 
 Questioned again concerning the in terview in which he is quoted as hay. ing said that he would pull down the stars and stripes from his factory af. ter the war and hoist new banner of league of nations, MT. Ford denied emphatically that he had ever made such a remark.
 Did you care enough about it to deny it?' asked Tribune counsel.
 Many, many, times,' answered MT. Ford, "but denial never catches ur with the story"
 q never told John Reed, who wrote the article setting forth these state ments concerning the flag, that l wal having such a banner designed in m5 factory I never ordered one design ed there. I never saw it until it came into this courtroom. I did see a small paper design once in St. Paul's Ca. thedral"
 'It was a terrible thing to say about an American born and bred" added the witness.
 Considerable time was spent again in reading from President Wilson's speeches which the Tribune wishes to place in evidence in an endeavor to show that MT. Ford has not been in agreement with President Wilson's policies.
 The presence of MT. Ford on the stand is attracting a crowd which grows daily and which packs the court room until not d foot of standing room is left. The early hour at which the trial opens daily 8:30 a. m. is no drawback. The room is usually well filled long before counsel make their appearance. The trial, which dragged interminably through several weeks of testimony ranging all the way from the Mexican border to the battlefields of France, has taken on new life. The high ideals of Henry Ford has fresh ened the case and given it new in terest. Only when his ideals are at tackled is there a trace of fire in his tones.
 "War IS murder"
 "The men who are at the bottom of war are the men who want to make money out of it."
 "There is bette: way than war. Teach people to think for themselves"
 "kiIIng people is murder, war kills people. War is murder. Even l was a helper of murder. We were all in it."
 I've must have the league of na- tions, either that or we must prepare to the hilt and stand ready for another war"
 On such points as these no attack of counsel can move him. He stands by his statements. 10 matter in what direction the examining attorney leads he will not retract. He refuses to compromise.
 q do not hate anybody" he was quoted in the John Reed article as saying, but I believe the men who want war and who try to make war are thinking in the wrong direction" "
 It is possible to make everybody prosperous and happy. He believes that is the high ideal of his life. War stands in the path of such an accom- plishment, therefore he hates war.
 Opposing counsel are still attempt ing to elaborate upon MT. Ford's dec laration that he does not care much about history. He admits that he made that statement and stands by it.
 T am interested in today" he says, land the possibilities which it holds for tomorrow
 "All the lessons of history did not teach us how to avoid this last war