Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-23
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
ABOUT
BY Bruno Leasing
In the New York American
Henry Ford and clear Thinking


1 received a letter from a man the
other day abusing me because 1 con-
sidered Henry Ford's presidential
campaign as a joke.
"If you prove to me that he didn't
raise w~orkingmen's wages" he wound
up, cor give the farmers cheap autos,
I'll agree with you. Otherwise you
have not got a leg to stand on"
Unfortunately 1 cannot prove either
of these things. Or, l should say, for
tunately. Because 1 like to see every
body's wages raised and I like to see
farmers automobiles getting better
and better, and cheaper and cheaper,
every day. And I admit cheerfully
that Henry Ford raises wages and
makes good, cheap autos. But, just
the same, 1 wouldn't care to have him
operate on me for appendicitis.
Ford's peace ship" was a silly idea.
1t was well-meaning, but it ended in
a laughable fizzle, as all intelligent
people knew it would.
His hatred of Jews displays. AN un-
balanced, badly equipped thinking pro-
1850 IL may OC olnCGIG III LIS U6llGl
that the Jews are responsible for all
the evil in the world, but his sincerity
does not prove his ability to think
clearly. %
And his repeated assertion that his
tory is Chunk" ought to prove to every
one that his store of knowledge is
limited. If you learn to keep away
from tho fro offar hov;nr 6,,r,1E 49,
self several times, you are learning
a bit of history. And it is not bunk"
Incidentally, all that we know Of
the origin and purpose of this govern
ment of ours, of what George Wash
ington did to establish it and of what
Abraham Lincoln, did to preserve it,.
comes from our knowledge of history.
Is this bunk?
If a man with this kind of a mind,
seriously spending his money to be-
come President and to direct the af-
fairs of this great country and give
advice to our Congress and deal with
the able statesmen of Europe, is not a
joke, I don't know what is. In that
case Jack Dempsey and Raymond
AAiIChCONh nave DOpSS VI AOIlludIlOu.
The sad part of it, however, is that
there are people with minds like my
protesting correspondent who have so
little knowledge of the spirit of our
government, SO little regard for the
welfare of the nation or it's needs, so
little fitness to play their proper part
as a cog in a great machine, that they
arn hnnoct1u wiI1inn 10 o1ovo+o Az
l~ifesaver who rescued them from
drowning, the cook who makes their
favorite dish or the fiddler who plays
the tunes they like to the highest po-
sition in the land,
In these troublous times our gov
eminent needs at it's head the finest,
soundest, be%st-equipped and most far
seeing mind that can be found. For
such a post no sane, patriotic Ameri-
can would think of selecting merely a
kind-hearted, shrewd business mar
any more than he would think of
trusting himself on the ocean in a
sail boat captained by the most ex-
cellent pianist.
This country is not a business COR
pOloCloh. II 10 AOI d CluU. II Is uOL
a settlement of farmers or of laborers
or of small investors.
1t is the most gigantic experiment
in the art and science of government
that was ever undertaken.
To make this experiment a success,
with all the rest of the world like a
pack of wolves at our door, to make
10, ZOO, 900 people of all kinds and
creeds and beliefs and occupations
happy and prosperous, will require
the finest, best trained and the broad
est mind that this country can pro-
duce.
And anything less than that is a
joke.