The Prescott daily news., 1919-08-08
MAKE AMERICANS
 WAS FORD PLAN
Government Adopted His Plan Of Teaching Foreign Born Dig Libel Case is Nearing an End.

l Mt. Clemens, h.. Aug. 6-rbe last testimony was uttered in the Sord-Tribune libel suit Tuesday. It was brilhan description of American isation methods created by the Ford organization and adopted by the United States government.
 When the government in 1917 found itself with tens of thousands of drafted men who could neither read nor speak the English language and had no conception of American prin- cipies 1t conscripted every Ford edu- cational worker and used the same methods in the training camps which Henry Ford was using in his factories. That was the final answer given by the Ford forces to the Chicago Trib- une's contention that Ford is an an, archist and that his teachings mako anarchists. So American is the Ford educational course, said Clinton c. Dewitt. superintendent of the Ford English school, that not even the English language is taught-it's the American language.
 "Mr. Ford was of the opinion that you could not successfully put over one idea while there were 52 lan- guages in the shop" said MT. Dewitt, "so for his one idea which was Amer tcanism, he insisted on one language which is the American language and that is how our school began. When Ford shop students graduate from the school they graduate into The Ameri- can Club which gives advanced ac- quaintance with American ideals. The motto of the Ford school is Help the other fellows It's school yell is Sis Boom-Ba. Hurrah for Uncle Sam" Several of the lessons which the Ford classes study were read from the witness stand. One of the grammar lessons ran, ''I buy an American flag, you buy an American flag, he buys an American flag"
 One of the class contests was to see which group could sing America" best.
 In the center of every classroom used by the 4,000 students huge Bilken American flag was kept always waving by the help of large electric fans. One of the instructions to .eachers read, Have the students write five sentences about America"
 we always call the students Amer ican," said MT. Dewitt. We teach Dur men that they are Americans now. Our formula of address in the class toom is, Now all the Americans who can say the sentence properly stand np.'
 We always run patriotism and home together in our lessons" he con- tinued. we show how correct home life and love of country are linked together"
 Some of the examination questions ran as follows: Explain what the stars and stripes in the flag mean? Explain what liberty, justice and equality meant"
 Every American loves and respects the American flag" read one of the lessons. "The American flag stands for liberty, justice and equality"
 Pictures of great Americans adorned the classrooms and the pupils were given lessons from their lives. One lesson was entitled, How to get cit kenship papers" Another lesson had this as the "Fact to be thought about: sAn anarchist is man who does not believe in organized government" This was in lesson 63.
 "Government is for the protection of the people" was the fact to be Thought about" in another lesson.
 The American flag was bought in 5000 lots for the Ford school pupils, each man being furnished with one and taught it's care and significance, The federal and state courts had long recognized a diploma from the Ford school as an evidence of adequate preparation for citizenship papers, 1t was testified
 Henry Ford wishes that we become big. broad, intelligent American cit izens." was sentence in one of the. reading lessons. At the autumnal graduation exercises the American flag played a conspicuous part
 MT. Ford loaned all his educational workers to the government for the training of teachers for the Ameri- canization work undertaken during the vark. Ford educators were in the military camps and in foreign military