Evening star., 1926-12-12
FORD REITERATES
CHARGES ON JEWS
Article in Paper Declares
Race Directly Controls Fed
eral Reserve System.
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated FTesb
DETROIT. December ll.-Henry
Ford. through his paper. the Dear
born Independent, to be published
December %, replies to an attack
made upon him by Nathan Straus,
New York philanthropist, in re-
cent address before the national con-
ference OH Palestine, by reiterauhg
charges previously made.
Mr.. Straus was quoted as saying In
part that Mr.. Ford had been mlslea
into campaign Of SANDER against
the Jewish people and had asked
that Ford select 8 members OF
committee Of 10 to weigh the facts.
In his article; Mr. Ford charges
that "the international jew today Is
in direct control Of all financial CEN
ters Of government, including the
United States Federal Reserve Bank
system" . ...t
Proofs Of the article in the Dear
born Independent were made available
today.
Says Others Fear Jews.
Among other charges, Mr.. Ford as
serts that the international Jew pulls
so many strings in business that no
banker or business man feels safe To
oppose him.; that "he either Owls
the press or controls it, SO that only
pro-Jewish facts are ever admitted TO
print; that "he controls the re> olu-
tionary elements of the world on one
hand and the ultra-conserVative ele-
ments on the other, so that he has
equal power in communistic Russia
and capitalistic England, not to nien-
ton the theater, the motion Picture
OF agriculture" -
Replying to a quoted statement of
Mr.. Straus that Ford is using his
wealth for vicious ends and Is TO
menting race hatred" the article re-
plies that "as to philanthropy, it was
a great thing hundred years ago.
Genuine philanthropy today means
the payment of such wages as will
render philanthropy unnecessary.
Holds Charity shameful" -.
'It may be-" Mr.. Ford continues.
that Mr.. Straus revolutionlzed the
wage rate paid to employees Of the de.
nartment stores which he controlled
and that he reduced all excess profits
on goods, but If so. he has neglected
| to chronicle it in the long list Of his
philanthropies printed in Who's Who.
"TInfortunately for our full apprecia-
ton Of that list this magazine always
jfas held that there is something
shameful In receiving charity and
something shameful in offering it. We
have contended that the truest charity
was the effort to make charity super
| fiuous."
The article adds that "the interna-
tional Jew is the most closely or
ganized racial entity in the world, with
an espionage system that covers every
village and every larger center in the
country.
Suggests Committee Is Unnecessary.
"These are statements deductible
from the most deliberate uterances OF
Jewish spokesnen and illustrated at
large by Jewish history. To agree
with the Jewish claim to pre-eminence
. in these matters is no more a slander'
than to agree with their claim to pre-
eminence In the clothing trade. Be-
sides it Is q service to the American
people to tell them who their bosses
are"
AS to selection of committee of
judges, the article suggests that 1t Is
unnecessary in that "the Dearborn
Independent, in a very full and
pertinent statement laid the matter
before the only competent judges in
this cause, namely the American
people, and it is now proper for Jewish
spokesmen to meet the issue by ad-
dressing their defense to the same
judges. Issuing new challenges does
not obscure the fact that previous
one still stands"