The daily times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1902-1936, 1919-07-19
Mr. FORD S
v Or! D FLAG
Presented in Court. The Peace
Ship and Other Matters.
Who Was
RESPONSIBLE FOR WAR
RESPONSIBLE FOR WAR

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. july,
lit cost Henry Ford $4,000 to
circulate three full page advertise
ments issued early in 1916 to COM
bat what the one time pac1fist now
1refers to as "overprepardness" This
Information was given to the jury
an Mr.. Ford's $1,000,000 suit against
The Chicago Tribune in Judge
fuckers circuit today by Kirkland
B. Alexander, former Detroit news
paper man, now in the advertising
business. Mr.. Alexander told the
Jury that the advertisements were
paid for an a basis of 100000
circulation.
I Elliott G. Stevenson has repeated
Ity referred to the hundreds of
thousands of dollars" spent by Mr..
Ford in his peace publicity cam
paign and Alfred Lucking has OBJ
tsected on the ground that the total
tamount was not believed to be more
ttban $4,000. Mr.. A1exander's fig
.ures did not include pamphlets, mail
ing and correspondence.
Mr.. Alexander said he afterward,
in December, 1917, went to the au-
sttomobile plant to interview Mr.. Ford
tor magazine purposes. The fixed
interview was brief, but Mr.. Alex
lander was invited to luncheon with
Mr.. Ford, Mr.. Lucking and others.
Mr.. Ford in the course of a gener-
.aI conversation said, according to
!, lthe witness that although Ger
!. many had invaded Belgium, She
had only beaten England and France
!, to. it. He said be believed Germany
was ready for peace, yet that when
ae went over in the peace ship he
was not able to see the Kaiser
Mr.. Ford was selling Liberty Mo-
tors to the Government at the time
. .hut he remarked that he didn't do il
flor profit and that he did not con.
Isider them munitions of war.
Referring to the effect of the
Russian situation on the value OF
Russian. bonds, it was mentioned
: that many were held by widows
land poor people in the country, an6
Mr.. Ford was alleged to have sale
j'tLet them go to work" He sale
j ithe war would be ended if all the
: Kings, Emperors, and President,
+ had to get into the trenches
b An Exaggerated idea of Him.
d ''It gives the public an exaggerat
led idea Of you as writer and /;
speaker, dosen't it?''
! Yes
n "It pictures you as great Dem
locrat?'
Yes"
THAT million dollars which MI
Reed says your house cost wa
= la little low, wasn't it?'
II don't recall
Didn't the house cost s1,20O,0O0
= I don't know what it cost
"Mr. Reed says your neighbor
Isat whiting on your pack porch
Now isn't it true that they woul
-! have to pass armed guards to ge
! to your porch p
II The Ford attorneys objecte
q stenuously.
Mr.. Stevenson argued that the
had insisted on the article bein
= Tread in full when Tribune counst
= Twas quoting parts of it, and tha
he had a right to show whether
was accurate
The court upheld the objectio
:. to let question, but allowed furthe
nc queries about the story.
IN did you say to Mr.. Reed ths
as national boundaries were wrong an
at national flags were silly?'
don't recall.
did you say that when nation
al were rotten their flags were rotte
IN land should not be respected
ch No, didn't
be did you tell him that after Il
* war you were going to haul dow
ms the American flag over your ia
'xt tory and put up an information
rs. flag?"
Iot II may have told him that.
ro- Mr.. Ford conceded that he kne
n little Of the military facts viii
OF the President based his plea in 1s
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