The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-05-26
HOW FORD
WAS TRICKED
BY THE JEWS
Startling Charges Made in
Hearst's international
Magazine


cret service Black Hundred inves-
tigator, Boris Brasol, and C. C.
Daniels, New York lawyer and
brother of the former Secretary
Of the Navy, Josephus Daniels, as
heads of his "Anti-Jew" campaign
is disclosed in a series Of articles
by Norman Hapgood beginning
this month in Hearts Information
al, which appeared on the news
stands today.
The articles, which promise
some decided sensations as to the
pecularities of the Ford genius
are supported by documents, pho
to-static copies of letters, records
and statements of Ford executives
showing that Ford's "Anti Jew
campaign, once embarked upon,
was conducted with thorough Ford
magnitude and thoroughness.
In outlining the reasons behind
the publication of the articles, Mr..
Hapgood declared:
ut is indeed bitter irony that
in this land Of liberty the wealth
OF the richest man in the world
should be found seeking to arouse
racial hatred and fighting along
side agents of Tsarism in en-
deavoring to foment in the United
States the same kind of persecu-
tons which so darken the pages
of Russian history. That Mr.
Ford's motives are good does not
make the tragedy less.
NATURALLY to charge Ford with
aiding Tsarist reactionalies is Sc
rious business; it will be support
ed with abundant documents. Ford
does not understand these things
Outside of business where he is a
genius, his mind is that of a child.
But, | believe that this latest ex-
cursion of his into the political
field contains a very serious object
| lesson.
Henry Ford is the first of our
very rich men to seek to employ
his wealth in the field of political
ideas, to set up his own personal
agencies to influence large num-
bers of people to accept his own
personal beliefs. Other men have
confined the use of their money
to philanthropy, health, and edu-
cation, administered through col
leges or foundations, under indie
pendent control.
"Democracies can be as despot-
ic as monarchies. The preserva-
ton of freedom means active in
telligence and active will. When
| any man, no matter what his
wealth or position, attempts to
stir fires leading to oppression,
they should be extinguished by an
enlightened opinion, which may be
relied upto to distinguish between
prejudice and reason. 1t is with
this thought in mind that this Sc
ries of articles has been undertake
en-"
Outlining the activities of the
detective bureau which Ford
created to shadow all Jews of ma
tional prominence, the introduce
tory article proceeds:
Daniels was at the head of
Ford's detective agency in New
York, typical detective aggrega-
ton, silly and dangerous. No
story was too wild for these de
tectives to ignore. They muck
raked everybody who was a Jew
or was suspected of being a Jew.
They held solemn arguments
about whether certain people were
or were not Jews. They delved in
to the Shipping Board and the
War Finance Corporation because
Jews were at the head They be-
came terrifically excited over the
idea that Justice Brandeis of the
Supreme Court might have a pri-
vate wire that they could tap.
Many other Jews will appear as
we proceed with this Ahce-in-
Wonderland tale Of Ford's in
sanity. But not Jews alone. All
liberal Americans become "Jewisn
fronts. Colonel House worries
them a great deal. He is "Jew-
ish 'front.'. Detectives Took him
up" So is Herbert Hoover
Jewish front" The Ford ma
chine asks why Wilson is pro-
jew. The whole picture becomes
nightmare, like the persecution
manias of the Tsar's time, the
Kaiser's time, the Dreyfus mad
ness in France. And there is all
the melodrama of detective agen-
cies. The Investigators work in
secret. They take numbers, which
they use instead Of names. Ford's
secretary, Liebold, has a number
121X. Ford himself, presumably,
is Number One.
Discussing the reasons which
prompted Ford to undertake his
campaign, Nj. Hapgood declares:
Ever since Ford got off on this
particular mania, people have
been trying to discover the mo-
tive. They were familiar with the
general idea that a great manu-
facturer could show extraordinary
weaknesses in public affairs.
They had seen Ford boasting
about his lack of education, and
yet taking bigoted positions on
of history.
But in all these errors his
heart had been right. What made
the mystery was the fact that the
crusade against the Jews seemed
to need a bad heart as well as a
weak head.
How he got Off on the Jews !
don't know" said one of Ford
important employees. "But he's off
and that's all there is to it. He.
got the machinery going, and
you can't stop it." 81 think it is
Rosicka Schwimmer who made
him mad at the Jews, specialized
another hirh-Salaried Ford man