The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-25

From the Wall Street Journal.
 7 IT ENRY FORD started out to. J1l make cheap watches because z S as close student of mechanics, he found that the retail price of a watch was several times the factory cost if it could be stamped out by the. million Ot course he failed. And his first cars were a failure. But he finally landed with the cheap Ford car turned out by the million. Thereby he has blessed the world to the extent of billions.
 He attempted to set standard for wages with his minimum $5 a day, ir- respective of term of service, individ- ual character or quality of work. This without foresight proved a success. for it enabled him to hold his labor forces when the war made still higher wages
 Later he set out, with shipload of advisers, to settle the war and make the peace of Europe. Instead, he made himself laughing stock. European diplomacy and American politics rec ognizes only success. Nevertheless, everybody took off his hat to the Ford car, which became even greater in war than in peace. It was great out of a ditch. and easily repaired and replaced.
 You could not make Henry Ford a joke, vecause all the jokes they made about him he put in books and sold them, so that his critics still further advertised him.
 Then Henry Ford if he could not make peace between nations, thought he could start a race war of his own He got fooled, as many people have been fooled, by a book called The Protocols of Zion" very clever piece |of fiction designed as propaganda against the Russian Jew. and setting forth the Jew as conqueror of the world because he deals with gold and trade, and little else. Who should control the world but the trader who handles the gold? Mir. Ford's harmless Dearborn Independent became woE- der worker in stirring up race resent Ment, especially when all the articles attacking the Jewish race were re- gently published in volume The Jews immediately began to boycott the Ford motor. Yet nobody can say that they had any influence in clos ing the Ford factories.
 Fooled by work of fiction setting forth the Jews as conquerors of tho world, Henry Ford was certainly en- titled to another degree in foolishness
 If Henry Ford could not make the peace of the world or start a success ful racial var he could be the auto crat of all the products under his own invention; so he started to dig au- tomobiles out of. the ground and made a $50.000,000 commitment for iron mines timber lands. blast furnaces and railroads. While in the midst of these great enterprises to- eliminats all the supposed profits under the con |struction of his car. he discoveren n great new fact--two years after the armistice--to-wit: the war was ove1:. prices must go back to the pre-war basis. Hence the Henry Fora an nouncement-an good advertisement it appeared to be-Ford cars back to pre-war prices!
 But neither part suppliers. nor taxes. nor transportation would go back to a spre war basis. Of course pre- < war basis for prices meant a pre- war basis for labor. But somehow. labor. as buyer of the Ford cars, and the motor industry itself, curledE up as from sudden stomach sickness. In other words. there was q fainring' and fading of orders. Tne Ford fac