The Prescott daily news., 1919-07-25
FORD CASE IS IN
 ELEVENTH WEEK
Manufacturer Takes the Stand Again and Examination is Renewed-Legal Points Are Argued.

Mt. Clemens, Mich, July 25.-The eleventh week of the Ford Tribune libel case opened yesterday but the examination of Henry Ford was ad- journed for two hours while counsel argued points oi law. Ford counsel contended that Tribune attorneys were indulg ing in the needless repeti- tion of questions while Tribune coun- sel answered that the questions had been repeated only as often as was necessary to test the witness credit ibility.
 The question then broadened until 1t included the advisibility of evidence relative to the war work of the Ford Motor Company. Horace K. Teney, of counsel for the Tribune, contended that Henry Ford's conscience had been pricked by the criticism made of him by the Tribune and that his changed views upon preparedness and change of heart subsequent to the Tribune's attack. The main question brought up by Ford counsel was the method and duration of cross-examina- tion as practiced upon MT. Ford. They contended that preparedness had been ruled out as an issue by the court but had been introduced in many in- geniouse ways by Tribune counsel.
 Previous to MT. Ford's reappearance on the stand special articles and edf torials from the Tribune were intro duced. In these the manufacturer was again described fairly and with a sym pathetic understanding.
 The days session was two-thirda gone before MT. Ford took the stand again. Then the pounding to which the witness was subjected all last week was renewed.
 What is anarchy?" asked Tribune counsel.
 War is as bad a~condition of an. archy as>I know of," replied MT. Ford. He would not say, on suggestion oi Tribune counsel, that either anarchy or war existed at the time of the Mexican trouble. "It was not anarchy because government existed; it was not war because war had not been de. ciared.'
 1t was just what said the othsl day." declared the witness. Tt val 6 riot"
 To all questions concerning his atti tude towards militarism MT. Ford de clared firmly, "All can say is that was against large army for aggres- sion."
 Practically every interview Henry Ford has given in the last five years Las been dug up and read to him again. They have ranged from very lengthy articles in eastern magazines to column length interviews in Los Angeles newspapers. Always accom- modating to newspaper men MT. Ford has been interviewed in every city he ever visited or where his train has stopped Tribune counsel has eR u6dVOTtQ tO ItCdll lO l1o lAlAu CdCu individual interview Naturally the witness could not always recall the incident or the conversation.
 MT. Ford tried to make it plain, as the examination went on, that he was and is against all war, but that he was for war, when the United States be came involved because he believed il to be a war to end war.
 In answer to carefully laid train of questions asked by Tribune attor. neys Mir Ford said that whereas he had once opposed war and believed the country adequately equipped for defense, he had reached another con clusion when the United States broke of relations with Germany. He did not think he was mistaken in his previous views but the changed con. ditions brought a change of duties.
 "I never called any person, any in. dividual, murderer; 1t was the sys tenn, the war system that was mur derous," said Henry Ford.
 MT. Ford will be on the stand for several days.