New Britain herald., 1921-02-16
FORD CHALLENGED
 BY DETROIT JEWS
Resent Civil War Talk by
 Auto King

Detroit. Feb. 1s.-Detroits Jewish organizations yesterday issued a challenge to Henry Ford to prove charges that appeared in the Dcar- born Independent, the paper publish cd by MT. Ford. of alleged plots by international groups. They ask him to play the game as the true Ameri- can. in a spirit of sportsrnanship and good citizenship
 Three Jewish organiZa tions have greed 10 stand the expense of an m vestigation ito prove the untruth of statements which appeared in the Independent" MT. Ford may choose investigators s-osn tho Government Secret Service operatives they say. The statement in part follows:
 MT. Ford'S falla cious decla ration that we are not auti-Semitic' must contemplate. on hts part. colloss;,l credulity on the part of the American public.
 "It is contradicted by the countless charges he has made against the Jew and which he was making at the very time he proclaimed to the world that had the protest against anti-Semitism signed bS Presiden Wilson. Cardinal O'ConneIl and others been presented to him he would have signed 1t also.
  signed it.
 "JuStification that the persecution of the Jew is to promote world peace does not mitigate Mir Ford's offence against American democracy in the least whit.
 Puzzled over Contradictions
 But the chief trouble in Mir. Ford's interview lies in tho fact that he sent if broadcast simultaneously with the appearaCe of Dearborn Independent on the same date. While with his left hand Mir. Ford was beguiIing the public with spacious plea of friend ship for tho Jew. with his right hand he was attacking the Jew. Verify the gentleman docs not believe in getting his right hand know what his left hand is doing.
 Was Ford sincere when he said through tho public press February 12: We arc not anti-Semitis.' If We could answer nfIirmatively then as a matter of course we must conclude that hc was deliberately provocative when he said in his Dearborn Inde- pendent the very day: If the Presi- dent of the United States or the Gov ernor Of your state should make a specifically Christian alluSion in his Thanksgiving proclamation or men, tion the name of Christ that act would be protested as offensive to Jewish sensitiveness'
 MT. Ford must know this is un- true. Has the gentleman never heal rd of the Detroit Community Thanksgiv- ing service originated by n Jew, Rah- bi Leo NJ Franklin. and which de- mands that both the proclamation of the governor and of the president be read at every service?
 Was MT. Ford sincere when he said in tho public press February I2, Tt is rot to characterize our can- paign of education as anti -Semitic?' Then why the statement uttered tho very same day in his Dearborn Inde- pendent that the Jew possessed solely the Oriental mind and that American life is fare and meagre to the East ern mind. It is not sensuous enough. IL is devoid of intrigue. Its women of the homes do not play continuous ly and historically upon the sex mo- tive. Ii is n life made good and dur able by interior qualities of faith and auietness. and these of course are death to tho OrientaIly minded
 Ideals of the American Jew.
 This, too. notwithstanding the con- ception Of racredness held by the Jew for home life and notwithstanding also that there are hundreds of thou sands of American born Jews 10 whom American ideals and American standards a"r tVrr their guide and their watc iw5 d.
 MT. Ford is not .nti-Semitic. Are such insinuations as these merely Cx- pressions of his love for the Jew ara should they call forth from the Jew praise and thanksgiving?
 If MT. Ford's purpose is to wake up Boob Gentiles. as he charges in his February 12 statement to the pub lie therefore why the charge in his Dearborn Independent of February 13, that the Civil war in the United States was the work of Jews? The influence that Abraham Lincoln vas the tool of Jewish bankers and that either he did their bidding as nire- ling or as an innocent. ignorant vic tim is one of the false utterances published.
 "If Mir. Ford iE not the vicarious dupe of a group of anti-Semites and 'fawninE satellites. then he will 1rCler his anti-Scmitic campaign to cease"