Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1921-08-11
From Northern Ilhnois to Detroit.
BY ]. o. Knott.


: got on the nerves OF both audience and
4 Inautauqua-p program folks. We had
few pleasant towns IN illinois, but
: We left the State to move into Michigan
S with the impression that il at least
!. some Of the towns which we visited
n IN illinois in any sense characterized
the State, then our work was not ad-
: Iusred TO the State itself.
: One town in particular, whose name
is forgot, and whose location would
be difficult to discover even by a book.
v ing agent OF Chautauqua bureau
9 gave US roast in the form of double
write up, in English and in French Ca
madam Dialect, in which we were all
fayed and our skins tackled UP on the
wall for the public to gaze upon. The
} town was largely dominated by a reac-
tlonary physician who fought every
thing, from oiling the streets OF his
town to the towns having Chau-
tauqua. The French-Canadian editor
was true to the blood of his kith and
kin, who. in times past. fought with
the Indians against both the British
people and the American colonists, and
after the capture OF Quebec, came, in
large numbers, southwards to the ter
ritory OF Louisiana. Like q bag of
cats, carried out for drowning, some
OF these Canadian French spilled out
on the way South and propagated their
kind on the territory where they hap
pened TO drop. We found them, last
year, near New Orleans-the same
obstreperous people they were hun
ured years ago, and with no more dis
position to progress. Where such an
| element happens to get in place
Of influence, as. for example, editor
OF the paper OF his little town, the
town is the sufferer. The hotel of this
little town was presided over by a
proprietress OF the same stock, and
when two Of our young men, who had
always occupied the same room, to re-
duce expenses, asked for that prvi-
lege at this so-called hotel, the pro-
prletress said to the girl in waiting:
Here, take these two cheap stiffs to
their ROOM" OF course the two
stiffs" went otherwhere.
After giving our Chautauqua pro-
grams in fifty real towns, where folks
OF intelligence dominate things, we do
not take to heart that a French Ca
madam editor tells the world that we
are all mud and physical bigness, and
rejoiceS that we got no contract for
the year 1922.
AS We moved up through Michigan,
we came nearer and still nearer to De-
troit. The flying trains that passed
without stopping at the smaller towns
which we were playing" were head
ing for Detroit. At last we entered
the city itself, with an engagement in
one of its important suburbs.
Michigan, as a State, spells in large
letters the name Of Henry Ford; but
the city of Detroit is city he has very
largely made. While the auto bust
ness all over the country is depressed
TO some extent, Ford is turning out a
new auto every three and a-half min
uteS.
1t is not a sign of discrimination on
the part of our countrymen TO see SO
many of them joining in the cheap
cry against Ford. calling his auto
"hiver," teaching even children to
make a distinction between an "auto"
and Ford" and making the young
people Of home feel that the public
laughs at them for riding in "ford."
Some folks that | know VINO should
have Ford cars both for financial and
ether reasons, are burdened by no bet
ter but more expensive cars, Sail be-
|
people in the home yielded to that
propaganda which the claimants for
big profits on other autos put out, in
But, in Detroit, they say: "Every knock
is boost to a Ford" and the coed
work goes on. The man who should
receive the sympathy and appreciation
from every laboring man in our coun-
try for the persistent way Ford has
stood for living wages for his men
and participation in the profits of his
great enterprise, can we'll afford to en-
dure fun that is made of him by the
ignorant and the ill-advised. The
man himself will vet exemplfy to this
. country that every stand he has taken
!, peace Ship" and others--was from
righteous heart, and was really a
move in the true direction. even
l though, like in case of Woodrow Will
, son, his plans for the world were too
far in advance OF the world. Mr.. Ford
. has lately purchased railroad, and il
Is said in Detroit that he is running
o his road at a croft, while all over the
country the other railroads are band
ed together in a determined purpose
e to bleed the people BY most exorbitanI
e freight charges; these railroads are
continually crying: eve can't meet
D expenses" Mr.. Ford NAV show the
a country something in this line.
d see that instead of writing on De.
h troit have given vent to my per.
;. sonal admiration for Henry Ford.
y boost no auto. own none Though il
! ! did, it would be a Ford, for ex
k ample's sake if nothing elsal, but
q have suffered enough myself from
cheap, superficial criticism while I wa.
letting out my highest powers for thu
p good Of the world. to understand how
e ungrateful the public oftimes is, unit
:. q man=dieS Then the rahhle inin.