The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-01
'oday They Are Very Dead. Ford for President? Poor BondeIswarts. Pinchot's Good Money.
 By ARTHftR BRISBANE
By ARTHUR BRISBANE

number of graves is greater; the story about the same. Some went motoring, others fishing or goifing. nome stayed home. Ninety per cent played; the others worked or decor ate graves. How dead they are. that are gone except in the hearts of q few that remember; how dreadfully and completely dead. They might as well have died 1000 years ago. No lesson is learned. More wars are matching, the preparation that pre- vents war Is ignored. We drift along and celebrate the decorating of graves with holiday.
 Henry Ford for President clubs are to start in every congressional district and arrangements made for signatures enough to put Ford's name on the presidential ballot everywhere.
 Mir. Ford would make an interest ing run and cause agitation. His product is known to everybody, ap- proved by everybody. He pays the highest wages, charges the lowest price and succeeds. which is most important.
 But there are 'buts" He em- ploys no union men. He virulently, unjustly and ignorantiy attacked the Jews. a most useful part of the citi- nenship. and efficient when 1t comes to politics, or anything else. He has suggested substitutes to be used as money, Tn place of gold, gold, yell low and cold" Imagine how that would worry the bankers. They have something to say about elections. Imagine presidential order: Throw out all that gold in the treasury. We don't need it."
 Ford's candidacy is not improb- able. and let no man laugh at 1t. You might see bankers, union labor. and various other things, including the democratic and republican par ties uniting on a candidate to beat him, as democrats and republicans united unsuccessfully to beat Gold en Rule Jones'" of Toledo; or Berger, of Milwaukee.
 We arc to see strange things In this country and one may be the two old parties hunting for man strong enough to beat Ford.
 Clifford Pinchot reports that he spent sss,5s2.14 on his victorious pri- mary campaign for governor of Pennsylvania. His virtuous. van quished opponent, MT. Alter. with bosses. administration. high finance and the old Pennsylvania machine back of him. spent only st,1is.so. He says so himself. Perhaps he and his hackers thought they had 1t all ar ranged, and did not need to spend money--pcrhap he did not know what his friends really spent for him. Tn any case 1t shows that laws for bidding legitimate use of money in campaigns might help the machine and hurt the people.
 Pinchot spent his own money for the chance to serve the people honest iy, and had he not spent 1t he could not have won the nomination.
 The Bondelzwarts, Hottentots of Southwest Africa. start a rebellion against English rule and are on the warpath, waving their assegais, crouching fiercely behind shields of dried cowhide, and telling each other they will win-poor, deluded Bondelz- warts
 Their assegais had little chance against England when her machine guns were on the ground and subject to ambush. Now the machine guns come flying through the air, with dropping bombs and poison gas if needed. TAe fliers only laugh at the poor savaSes. but remember orders not to kill too many. They are need ed in the mines.
 This country could be made as safe against Europe and Asia as England is safe against those benighted Hot tentots. With an ocean on each side, the power to raise an army of 5000 : GOO in six weeks. we need only train ed gunners. officers fliers. plenty of tp fxA merchant ships and chemists for ex- plosives and poison gas. For If others use the last against us-and they will, If war comes--we shall use 1t against them, and we ought to be ready. Are we to be the Bondelx- warts or the overhead fighters in the next war
 We can keep ready cheaply. Among the standing armies Of the world ours is fourteenth In size. We need no great army. only plenty of the latest fashion in wsapons-fliers to drop T N T and paralyxing gases especially. Weapons that are barbar- ous in attack are plain common sense in defense. If man entered your house to Kill your children, would you not throw can of vitriol in his face. or suffocate him with ammonia?
 William Rosendorf. aged 6, had been dumb from birth. until he went up in a flying machine. The doctor testifies that he uttered several words distinctly. as the machine