The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-18

torneys declare that Henry Ford Is an anarchist.
 They were declaring 1t to court, jury and public.
 One of them would modify the definition of the word anarchist as understood by the general public and make MT. Ford a mild sort of anar- chist, not a bomb throwing anarchist. but one whose views seemingly inter- fered with the functions of govern ment.
 Another declared MT. Ford to be as bad or worse than the bomb throw ing anarchist.
 That evening I walked through the country with Mir. Ford, heard him discuss the law suit which brought the Attorneys into court to defend the Chicago Tribune for having called him an anarchist in 1916, and for which act he was bringing them to book.
 Mild of manner, kindly of expres- sion, but firm. MT, Ford expressed an earnest desire that some general good to the public would come out of the suit.
 'If editors could be made to real ize that words thouehtlessly, care- iessiy and sometimes viciously print ed often do great Injury to innocent mon, if out of 1t the average editor would become just a little more care- eul in dealing with the regulations of Others. that in itself would make all Shis trouble we'll worth while," he said.
 And again, "Kindliness of heart would make most of them careful If they would only stop to realize how far reaching their words are, and with a few, only the fear of the law will make them respect the rights of others"
 It did not seem possible that the kindly man, walking along the high way. always thinking and planning in a 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 was driving along the West Grand Boulevard in De- troit.
 We came to a long building, four stories high; 1t covered an extra long city block. In every window there was a bright light. and each light shone for wounded soldier from over seas. We paused and I counted four hundred of the windows that could be seen in the drive along the front There were many more at the rear of the building, and other buildings within the enclosure.
 Henry Ford's entire hospital, cost ing something over three million dol lars. and one of the best arranged in the world, had been turned over to the government for one dollar a year. that the wounded among the country's defenders might have a chance for recovery under the most favorable circumstances.
 Yet there are men who would brand him an anarchist!
 man came to my home, an Ar who wave their hands when they talk and pound your desk, and get excit- cd about everything
 He had lost his job, and wanted 1t back. His own story was that he worked for one of the Ford organ izations. had q violent disagreement with the foreman in the first instance, and was transferred to another de- pertinent, 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 Q chance in another de- partment; so 1t went until he had been tried in five different jobs, al- ways wanting to have the foreman do things his way instead of following the regular order of things always, according to his own story causing trouble among others in the depart ment, not vicious but meddlesome
 Inquiry at the plant revealed the fact that even then he was given a hoping that out of 1t would come use- lay off as disciplinary measure. fulness to himself and to the organ ization.
 Can a foreman discharge a man ?'' was asked the head of tho Ford Mo- tor Co. employment department by one of the attorneys, during the Ford-Tribune trial.
 He cannot" was the answer
 ''If a foreman doesn't want a man. what do you do with the man?"
 Give him another tob.''
 And If that foreman is dissatisfied with him. what do you dor"
 Give the man another job.''
 And if there is disagreement with that foreman
 Then we begin to think something Is wrong with the man"
 But the Ford system is never to give up. We always work with the man until he is made useful to the world.
 Yet there are those who would brand as an anarchist, the man who can ans does apply this system of practical patience to an organization employing over fifty thousand men.
 It was some little time after the European war broke out. but long be- fore our people got into it Many firms in Detroit were getting war contracts on n very profitable basis from foreign governments. MT. Ford had his opportunities. many of them. He was discussing them one day as he was driving away from the Ford motor plant Gin n Ford coupe which he drives himself).
 Hc stopped the machine, turned about in the car, looked at the plan. ana said with all the earnestness a man could use: 'T would rather tear down every brick fin that plant. smash every window and throw 1t all in the river than make one article to kill q man."
 ''How easily that could be mis- construed" thought. How easy i. world Nuve been to QuotS him as say ing he would do it instead of that he s,"would rather" do it than make munitions for foreign governments.
 ~But if our own nation" I began