New Britain herald., 1923-08-01
FORD MIGHT RUN
IF CRISIS ARISES
But at Present He Is Not Candi-
date for Presidency

New York, Aug. Henry Ford IL
not democrat, nor he is a republican
He has not the slightest notion OF
building of third party. And he Ii
not a candidate for public office-for
the present These are salient points
brought out in an authorized" inter-
view in the forthcoming Aug. 4 issue
of Golfers Weekly with the motor car
manufacturer, reported by Charles w.
Wood.
II am not a candidate for any,
thing" Mr.. Ford is quoted as saying:
Il can't imagine myself today accept
ing any nomination. or course, I can
not say, and no intelligent man can
say, what I will do tomorrow There
might be war; or some crisis Of the
sort, in which legalism and constitu-
tionalism and all that wouldn't figure,
and the nation wanted some person
who could do things and do them
quick. What would do then can't
say. But there isn't any such situation
now. I haven't a political mind, and
I don't see any sense in my attempting
any political leadership"
FOrd's Idea
In musing way Mr.. Ford told his
interviewer that perhaps under pres
ent conditions 1.-The best man for the
job is the man who can be depended
upon not to do anything" He said
President Harding reminded him of a
cautious big elephant who always puts
his foot on plank and tries 1t be-
fore he goes ahead.
That's the type of man to have I'M
til the time arrives for rapid change
the manufacturer added.
Mr.. Ford said that politics was in
vented before the scientific era and
advanced the opinion that some day
the industrial organism might absorb
the political organism. Politicians. he
said, get along largely by bluff and by
finding out what people think they
want and promising it to them.
You can't bluff much in modern
industry" the interviewer quotes him.
You may ordain man to be a
Bishop but you can't ordain him to be |
an electrician. In order to be an cleo |
trician he must find out for himself |
just how electricity acts"
Labor Unions Views
Labor unions are pronounced by the
motor car magnate to be "a great |
scheme for interrupting work." and |
speeding up loafing." He cited the
coal business as an example of how
the unions and the financiers work in
cooperation to deny the consumer
coal at reasonable price.
President Harding is doing as well
as can be expected, and Congress has
not yet marred the design of the uni
verse;" reads an excerpt from the pre-
amble of a thumb nail platform en-
bodied in the article.
Marrow nationism on both sides of
the ocean will prevent the United
States in doing much for the rehabili-
alton of Europe; the tariff is joke
md more nuisance thanFit is graft.
'hip subsidy would provide a bonus
or incapacity but the real objection to
he proposal is that it would seriously
hamper shipping; to provide bonus
or war veterans not incapacitated by
Wounds, is an insult to the exservice
men; the government seems to be the
,nly agency in sight with power to
establish a serviceable system and it
ooks as though the government
would do so presently" These are
ome platform pronunciamentos at
ributed to Mr.. Ford.
On prohibition his platform has this
o say:
Booze had to go out when modern
and the motor car came in.
Jpon only one condition can the ma
ion safely let it come back. That is
we are willing to abolish modern
industry and the motor car"