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HENRY FORD'S LIBEL CASE.
SIX CENTS DAMAGES!
In the trial before a Michigan jury of the Libel Suit for 1,000,000 dols. brought against the Chicago Tribune by Mr. Henry Ford, the automobile manufact- urer, the jury have returned a a verdict for Mr. Ford.
They awarded him six cents damages!
The libel was the headline to a leading article “Ford is Anarchist."
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As is well known, the plaintiff. Mr. Henry Ford, who began as a poor mechanic. laid the founda- tion of his immense fortune by making a small but highly efficient automobile, and selling it for a few hundred dollars at the time when other motor-cars cost thousands. The result is that his tin Lizzies,"
flivvers," now flit about every country on the face of the globe.
The organisation of which he is the head employs upwards of |30,000 of the highest-paid workers in the world the wages of the lowliest of whom is & dols, a day. His own income exceeds 1,000,- 000 dols. a year.
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minutes could have found a man who would have told me all these things."
MAN OF TO-DAY--XOT
YESTERDAY.
The suit resulted from a storm For history, indeed, he has
"Most of of criticism aroused by a country-nothing but contempt.
bunk," he said; that is, wide pacifist agitation carried on it is by, or rather for Mr. Ford when "buncombe" or pure fiction. Had war between America and Mexico he ever heard of Benedict seemed probable, when participa- Arnold?
Yes, he thought so tion in Europe's life and death doubtfully.
He was a writer, struggle was seen to be inevitable, wasn't he? And everybody in and when the President and mem- the court room knew instinctively bers of the Government were that someone at some time had stumping the land in an endeav- told him of a story by Arnold our to make the nation see the Bennett. necessity for preparation.
The trial brought the astound ing revelation that, outside of his sphere of mechanics, of which he is a master, the great captain of industry-whose supposed thundering philippies had roused the indignation of the Govern- ment end a large part of the population-was ignorant of things that are known to every schoolboy that he could read fooly with difficulty, and that he did not know the meaning of words in every-day use.
An idealist, he surmised under
&
urging of defendant's counsel. "a man who helps to make profits."
He rather fancied that "mobile army" had something to do with mobilisation, and that treason was anything against
the Government.”
It appeared that he had the raguest of ideas as to what an anarchist was; but the appellation had stung to bitter resentment this well-intentioned man who, loved by
and
years of adulation
the flail of sudden censure.
He had his own ideas of how
the world should be run without reference to the past. That was all done with. Why waste time worrying about water that had flowed under the mill?
And so he sought to flatter his egotism by appearing in the guise of the nation's guide and mentor on the eve of the greatest crisis in-its-history- through further self-advertisement that had done so much for him and his business. He always had lent a ready ear to any would-be reformers who came to him with half-baked ideas and panaceas, and agreed with each and all of them.
A RADICAL REFORMER. "I think, Mr. Ford, that the Bible is too out of date and ought to be rewritten in plain modern English," suggested one of these enterprising gentlemen, with a view to creating a nice lucrative job for himself at the Croesus's expense.
"Yes," assented Ford, "I think everybody who so, too." knows hini had been flattered by That this projected masterpiece then was never penned was seeeming had been made to smart under ly due solely to the fact that To him, as the cross-examination of the manufacturer, who has pressing affairs claimed the atten- tion brought out, an anarchist never let his fade interfere with was a person who threw bombs business.
and also tried to overturn the In fact, he allowed himself to Government. He was only an be exploited by every scribe, back anarchist if he combined these or otherwise, who took a notion misdirected energies. If he engag-to write bim
up
and access
ed in them separately, if he mere-was able to obtain ly threw bombs, this absolved him to him, He knew he was from being classed as one. being exploited and was quite This Croesus of the Middle West content to let them believe he with the touch of Midas-who is
was being fooled. The more ful- so rich that he does not know
some the write-up the better he and does not care whether a great was pleased. hospital in Detroit, bearing They ascribed to him ideas that his дате, cost two millions never could have entered his or four-and who has untutored mind, put into his
HIGH SEAS DRAMA:
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A rutiny which reads like a page from Robert Louis Stevenson occurred on board the American ship Mariska, bound from Balti more to Brest.
to
The Mariska, which is owned by the Pittsburg Steamship Com- pany, bad thousands of casks of spirits on board, and the tempta- tion proved too much for the black fremen, who broke open some of the batches and filled themselves with good rya whisky. A mutiny followed, and the officers were powerless deal with the situation, be- fore the wireless cabin Was wrecked the operator sent out an S. O. S. message, which was picked up by the British Standard oilship War Khan. The War Khan was 200 miles off the South Irish coast then, and one of the crew who came ashore from the vessel at Castletownbere told a Daily Chronicle representative the story of how they went to the rescue.
"It was about two o'clock in the afternoon when we picked up the distress signal and immediate- put about to the Mariska's position. After an hour and a half's steaming we sighted her.
Herfires were out and she was drifting with apparently nobody in with an officer in charge boarded charge. Au armed party of us, the vessel, and on deck everything hatches had been torn up, and was in confusion. One of the broken battles of whisky were scattered everywhere.
"We met with no real serious) Pposition, and made our way to found several of them in a bad the men's quarters, where we state of drunkenness. We releas ed the men who had remained loyal, and they helped us to secure the others who were inclined to give trouble.
"The captain had been locked up in his room, end when we released him he was in a terrible.
state.
mutineers without being aware of what was going on, and they knocked him down with a blud- geon before he could draw his gun. They then kicked him along the deck and locked him up.
"He met the attack of the
"Most of the officers came in for a bad time, and were all ap- parently taken unawares. Some of them were in irons.
operator had
The wireless been caught in his cabin sending out distress signals, and he got a blow on the head which rendered!
section, and we placed half dozen of them in irons."
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him" unconscious. With the for further processions
intendent of the British and For- assistance of the loyal members pageants of one kind and another. eign Bible Society beadquarters of the crew we cleared up the It is time that we stopped pro to a Daily Chronicle representa- mess, got fires going and left our cessing and pageanting. There tive. It is one of the signs of firemen to help to stoke on the is work to be done-and all these the days of peace. It was evident that the whole, have taken place on Sundaysand orders that it is only with the remainder of the journey to Brest. ceremonies, even those which trouble started with the nigger Bank Holidays, have interrupted greatest difficulty that we shall be
the resumption of that work.
What was the meaning of the
"One large consignment has average procession or pageant? To nine onlookers out of tea it others to parts where there has gons to Iceland. We are sending was a substitute (not to be too been a Bible famine for a long polite) for a circus.
Well, circuses are good fun lete German Colonies in East period-certain portions of the depart from his attitude of kindly though I question the wisdom of Africa, and other places that were respect towards his tormentor. that historic palliative, "giving closed by the war are at last go-
"Am I treating you badly?" the people circuses." But the appealed the latter from a remon- plain truth is that this attempt toing to be supplied this year. strance of witness's counsel, and revive the pageant idea is not new languages to our printed Ford turned his other cheek to only ill-timed (because wasteful publications, making altogether be emitten.
of labour which ought to have 517 different languages in which No. Mr. Stevenson, I don't been productively employed other-the Bible is printed by us. This
But rarely did, he manifest impatience, and never did he
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said it in all sincerity. Without part of artists, cranks and out even having inquired what
doubt there were in his heart awe reactionaries to preserve a spirit Japan and China, and also the and admiration for this man of which is dying and had better be kept going throughout the war.
presses in Germany, which were was being spent upon it-who loathes the very name of war
the leonine head, the prodigious dead. And so when war clouds lower- memory and the facile word and everything that savours, of ed over the Mexican border and a whose verbal thrusts played like force on England all sorts of old-world accessible. Some of them These individuals are trying to 000 Bibles to all parts of the "Last year we dispatched 8,746, cruelty and injustice-honestly believed when at the end of 1915 Publicity agent, of pacifist ten-forked lightning flashes about his fashioned sports and merry-were taken in collier slipe, some he chartered an ocean liner and of education for the people"
dencies, proposed a campaign straining intelligence, shackled making which are neither set out on his fantastic peace against war that the philanthro- the treasure of Golconda could They want us to sing folk songs. South America special one-man by lack of that which all very sporting nor very merry hinterland of remote Africa and
on camel transport, and in the. expedition to Europe that with pist held in horror, and against not buy for him now--and that They want us to dance morris loads were made up for the nigger, the power of bis money and his the wicked military preparations the lawyer possessed in sup dances. They would like to gal-head" carrier to transport them hired pacifis: eloquence he could of the Government, Ford gave erabundance at the tip of his vanise into a false rejuvenation to regions inaccessible by other stop the conflagration that was him carte blanche. spreading over the world.
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wagging finger.
caee.
EXPERT ON BIRDS AND MECHANISM,
all manners of stupid antiquarian means."
games upon the village green."
H
DO WE WANT FOLK SONGS?
"Go as far as "you like," he THE GOLDEN KEY.
said, and the publicity agent did. That has been the trouble with He spent hundreds of thousands
Only once, for a few blessed As though the villagers (and Ford that belief in the omnipet-of dollars on propaganda in the
Now this pageant business is ence of wealth. To him money form of full-page advertisements minutes was Ford at bis ease. the Cockneys, too) weren't per-really got up by a clique of who derive a lot of LONDON DIRECTORY, caused all portals he cared to and circulars, and raised no end itering, plain submitted for dances they want to dance, what has no genuine popular origin. I
was the "Open Sesame" that in newspapers and of pamphlets That was when he was asked to fectly capable of deciding what fussers,
identify and explain some en songs they want to sing, what pleasure from its planning; but it. enter to be thrown wide open at of a hullabaloo. his approach-the Aladdin's lamp
some reason as exhibit in the games they want to play! One can Ford never read-or had read
see the most amazing by means of which all desires to him the weird pronounce.
of the most melancholy spectacles pageant in the world, at any hour: could be gratified, the key to all ments, falminations and excoria-load had fallen from his shoulders, villag which had been got hold Strand.
He straightened as though I ever witnessed was that of af of the day, by strolling, along the the Continent of Europe. The sites knowledge.
tions that were being put out and was all smiles and animation of by a young squire of the alleged Knowing nothing (as it appear- under his name. "Did he say His feet had touched firm ground intelligentsia
The Londoner, at any rate, Ehan 2,000 trade bascinated at the trial) about the fund-that?" or "No, I don't know what
cast of mind.doesn't need these distractions: of government, ignorant that means," were hie continual at last and he knew whereof he He had goaded his tenants into He is free of the most marvellous of history, even of the annals of comment and admission when
morris dancing and folk-song spectacle the world has ever seen? spoke.. his own country, he had aspired extracts were read to him, but be incidentally brought out by a trained animals for the delecta city. And he can enjoy this in Oh yes, and it did appear singing and they performed like the daily street life of his own to be a United States Senator, added invariably: "Still, if it chance remark that this nature's tion of his guests sud for the ordinary course
bears my name, I'm responsible." gentleman, with his paradoxical literary gentlemen who wrote business peregrinations. There of this
of commingling
uncommon enthusiastic articles about the is no necessity to give him The trial lasted three months, business acumen and anpractical joyousness of this humble com-circuses. The artists and cranks in the course of his cross and for seven days of it Ford was idealism, was informed on one munity. But when the and would be revivers of ancient examination, that his lack of this subjected to an ordeal of question-subject having nothing to do squire wasn't there the humble customs do not understand the essential knowledge would have ing which his counsel protested with motors or automobiles or community chanted music-hall Londoner if they think he made it impossible for him pro was cruel and inhuman and under aircraft. He knows a lot about choruses and danced that vulgar either amusing or inst perly to have fulfilled the funcwhich the nonplussed, bewildered birds. He has studied them with dance (I don't know whether it He can, and does amuas tions of a legislator in the Upper badgered witness plainly suffered John Burroughs, theoctogenarian has a name, but it exists every struct himself quite natural House he gazed at his inquisitor the depth of humiliation as his naturalist, for whom he has the where) which you may behold happily without with mingled amazement and pity ignorance of rudimentary know greatest admiration and affection, every evening wound the piano Ward Muir,
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