The daily banner., 1919-06-30
TRIBUNE WITNESSES ADMITS
WRITERS AND THINKERS
AGREEE WITH HIM ON
WAR AND BROTHER
HOOD OF MAN
CLAIM FORD AID WAS ADY
Defense Apparently Retreats erotn
Theory That Ford Did NO, reip
Dependents Of Employees
Who Were Called into
armed Forces

Mt. Clemens, Mich.-From attempt
ing to prove that Henry Ford did NOT
! provide for the dependents of his EN-
pIoyes who were called i'll the army or
| the United States on the Mexican bor-
der, the Chicago Tribune, defendant in
the $lO0O,OO0 libel suit, has turn
ed it's attention to an effort TO prove
| that aid which test only has shown
was given was tardy. Piles Of can
celled checks and the testimony OF
soldiers aud their dependents have Of
| fered evidence that the editorial in
which the Tribune called Henry Ford
an anarchist and in which II alleged
that he would do nothing tor members
OF The national guard who left mis-
plauts, or for the families they left
| behind was unfounded. The Tribune
| defense has therefore retold from that
position and for the purpose OF the
legal case has taken up Il new stand
in the claim that assistance which the
Ford Motor company gave 10 the
wives aud children of It's soldiers, his
employees, came very late ana was a
result of the TribuDe's criticism.
I Soldiers Dependents Aideo ty Ford.
! The gist of the testimony offered by
witnesses, both employees and the
wives, is that aid which was given by
the Ford Motor company started about
month after the men had left the
company at the call Of the guard.
; This ii has beeo shown ny direct evil
dence was about the length or time
, necessary to set the machinery 60
! exception 1t was shown dependents
! who did not receive assistance al the
expiration of month had either fail
ed to make application prnmpfly or
/ through the proper channels, OF hal
, made changes In their addresses with
/ out giving the COmpany's educational
investigators notice of their new To-
cation. In number of cases en-
plOyes who had been called into the
guard had failed to turn in their
! badges or to ask for rhe disks which
would assure them employment upon
! ont q complete record or their cases
! and piled ny the work Of the in,esti
gators sent ont by the Foro Motor
! company to learn how nnrh assistance
was needed by holders dependents
Two witnesses testified that they
were informed at the offices or the
educational department that no as
sistance would he forthcoming II they
failed to Identify the ciers who gave
! them this information.
An examination or Ford 0itr,sis has
! shown that previous Ia the date on
which the witnesses claimed To have
| received such advice checks were Civ.
Ell out TO a large pG0D~' of families
Great Writers and r17l.~, :ue.ed.
| A professor. Jesse s. Reeves. nead
! Of the department of politicai er0nOmv
! of the University of Michigan. was
called to the stand for crOss-examina-
! ton by counsel for Mr.. Ford Prof.
Reeves has testified or direct exami.
nation that many of the beliefs ex-
pressed by Mr.. Ford were those of
! SOuuSSl SuOW
, that the beliefs in question were COM
mon beliefs. and that the great writers
and thinkers. as we'll as anarchists,
held to them. Such household and
schooIroom names as those of Whit.
! tier. Lyman Abbott, Ralph Waldo En-
| erson, Benjamin Franklin and James
Russell Lowell were introduced and
quotations from these eminent schol
ars and thinkers, including Franklins: ::
/ ''There never was a good war. or o
bad peace"
Lowell's, "For war, call it Murder"
/ and Tennyson's lines in Locksley Hall
On the furling of battleflags in the
parliament of Men, the federation OF
the world"
! The witnesses admitted that these
! thinkers were not anarchists and that
/ their views and those OF Mr.. Ford CO.
incided.