The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-06-19

l sat in the court room at Mt. Glen
ems, Michigan, and heard attorneys de
clare that Henry Ford in an anarchist
They We're declaring it to court, jury
and public.
One of them would modify the def
milton of the word anarchist as under
stood by the general public and make
Mr.. Ford a mild sort of anarchist, not
bomb throwing anarchist. but one
whose views seemingly interfered with
the functions of government.
Another declared Mr. Ford to be as
bad or worse than the bomb throwing
anarchist.
That evening / walked through the
country with Mr.. Ford heard him dis
cuss the law suit which brought the
attorneys into court to defend the Chi
cago Tribune for having called him an
anarchist in 1916 and for which act
he was bringing them to book.
Mild of manner, kindly of expression,
but firm, Mr.. Ford expressed an earnest
desire that some general good to the
public would come out of the suit
'If editors could be made to reali2e
~
and sometimes viciously printed often
do great injury to innocent men, if out
of il the average editor would become
just little more careful in dealing
with the regulations of others, that in
itself would make all this trouble well
worth while" he said
And again, "Kindiness of heart
would make most of them careful. if
they would only stop to realize how
far reaching their words are, and with
few, only the fear of the law will
make them respect the rights of others"
1t did not seem possible that the
kindly man. walking along the high
way, always thinking and planning in
q thousand ways how to benefit his
fellow man, how to help others to help
themselves was the Same man who had
been denounced in court that day.
The next night l was driving along
the West Grand Boulevard in Detroit.
We came to a long building, four
stories high; it covered an extra long
city block. In every window there was
bright light, and each light shone
for wounded soldier from over seas.
We paused and | counted four hundred
of the windows that could be seen In
the drive along the front. There We're
many more at the rear of the building,
and other buildings within the en-
closure.
Henry Fords entire hospital costing
something over three million dollars.
and one of the best arranged in the
world had been turned over to the
government for one dollar n year, that
the wounded among the countrys de-
tenders might have a chance for recov-
cry under the most favorable circum.
stances.
Yet there are men who would brand
him an anarchist!
A man came to my home, an Ar
menian. He was one of those fellows
who wave their hands when they talk
and pound your desk. and get excited
about everything.
He had lost his job and wanted it
back His own story was that he
worked for one of the Ford organiza-
lions. had a violent disagreement with
the foreman in the first instance, and
was transferred to another department.
couldn't get along with that foreman
and was put in another department;
he and the foreman didn't see things
alike there and he was given a chance
in another department; so it went un-
I'll he had been tried in five different
Jobs. always wanting to have the fore
man do things his way instead of fol-
lowing the regular order of things. al
ways, according to his own story, caus-
inc trouble among others in the de-
partment, not vicious but meddlesome.
Don't Know How to Fire.
Inquiry at the plant revealed the fact
that even then he was given lay-off