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FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1919
HENRY FORD’S IDEAS
The trouble with Mr, Ford was that
he considered the world his automo
bile and was trying to make a jitney
out of it. He attempted to run the'
world on a Ford motor.
“History is bunk to me,” says Mr.
Ford. “Music and other arts have no
interest.”
The great manufacturer solemnly
swore, however, that he was begin
ning to like the banjo.
Henry Ford was typical in many
ways of our pacifists. Without much
knowledge of history and little
schooled in the intricacies of human
nature, they adopted an idealistic doc
trine with the enthusiasm of unthink
ing zealots.
The maker of jitneys has changed
since he sailed across the seas in his
peace ship with other idealistic men
and women, among whom was Rosica
Schwimmer, an Austrian lady of many
attainments who later was revealed
as a spy.
Being as keen as most American
industrial captains, Henry Ford began
to sense his own folly before the peace
ship landed at Copenhagen. Some
thing seemed to tell him that he was
trying to extinguish a world conflagra
tion with a dewdrop.
Henry Ford has learned much since
he adopted the tenets of pacifism,
even if his soul thrills to no music
except that of the banjo, even if he
still finds history “bunk.”
He has learned that he never really
was against either war or prepared
ness for war. He was against wars
of aggression only, and when he as
sailed preparedness he “meant over
preparedness,” he informs us.
Our pacifists, as a general rule, were
long on idealism and short on logic.
They allowed the Hun propagandists
to lead them around as if they were
trick bears with rings in their noses.
When the Hun shook the rope they
danced and made themselves egregi
ously ridiculous. We had even a
bishop, clothed in all the dignity of
his sacred office, conducting himself
like a dancing bear every time the
Huns gave the signal. He attended
meetings of societies which had been
formed ostensibly to promote a kind
of teetotaler pacifism, but which, it
transpired, were designed to aid the
kaiser’s war for world conquest.
No doubt most of the pacifists who
were not arrant cowards were honest.
To them war seemed a monstrosity in
this wonderful modern world of moral
uplift and scientific achievement. Con
fronted by the most stupendous war
of all times, they were intellectually
stunned. They could not realize the
fullness of the drama going on before
their eyes. They adopted toy expedi
ents like “peace ships” and became
the joke not only of statesmen but of
every low-browed vaudeville comedian.
The flaw in their logic—the flaw that
reduced them to absurdity—was their
failure to see that pacifism, in its last
analysis, was the repudiation of all
force, even in the cause of right. Once
the pacifists admitted that force might
be used to uphold any cause whatso
ever, he ceased, logically, to be a
pacifist. Henry Ford now admits that
he was wrong in his pacifism and says
that he was thinking of wars of ag
gression.
Pacifism would do away even with
the police. The police force is noth
ing more nor less than an army formed
to conduct unceasing warfare on crim
inal aggressors. The “offense against
international morality” for which the
kaiser soon is to stand trial is only
in a larger degree the kind of crime
the police are coping with every day.
Mankind has agreed that . certain
standards of public morality must be
preserved. No standard of public
morals can be upheld without the
threat or the use of force. It was
this knowledge, no doubt, that im
pelled the statesmen at Paris to form
a peace league based on armies and
navies.
Religion, education and other means
of suasion may be sufficient for the
average man, but the kaiser and the
burglar are not average men. They
are the kind of aggressors against
whom armies and police forces con
duct their necessary warfare.
Just before the war the London
police were slaughtered by criminals
who barricaded themselves and used
revolvers and rifles. For years the
police of the biggest city in the world
had gone about their duties unarmed,
and the system operated satisfactorily
until it occurred to a gang of desper
adoes that a “war of aggression” on
the police might be successful.
Before he burst upon the startled
East, George Creel was a police com
missioner in Denver, where no man
ought to be a pacifist. He decided
that a club was no necessary part of
a policeman’s equipment, and so he
disarmed them. Soon there was a
chaos of criminality. The army of de
fense was easily overthrown by the
army of aggression. The clubs came
back and soon thereafter Creel de
parted for the East.
Pacifism simply opens the doors to
anarchy. Instead of conquering war it
lets loose all the great and little ag
gressors to make war.
THE ALASKAN RAILROADS
Senator New of Indiana has intro
duced a bill appropriating $17,000,000
to build a railroad between Seward
and Fairbanks, in Alaska. With a
laudable disposition to economize, con
gress very naturally makes the cuts l
in respect to what it knows least
about, and where the members think
it will affect the fewest people. Hav
ing made a beginning in Alaskan rail
road building on a rather extensive
scale, it is showing a disposition to
quit with its job uncompleted.
The government should never have
appropriated a dollar for building rail
roads in Alaska, but having driven
out the private citizens who had be
gun the work, and taken over con
struction itself, it should finish the
job. And when it has finished it it
should quit and give the people a
chance to build up the territory. The
$17,000,000 appropriation should pass.
If the government had permitted
Alaska to develop freely as the rest
of the country has developed the pop
ulation of the territory would have
been three times what it is now and
it would have railroads to give the
service immediately demanded.
Under private initiative railroads
built only as likely to get a reasonable
traffic in the immediate future. The
roads are built only to accommodate
the early traffic, extensions and bet
terments being made as demanded. It
is said that the government so far as
it has gone has built better than pri
vate owners would have built at first,
but it has not finished the job. It
should finish it and then put up the
roads at auction, take its loss and
get off the lid.
The Alaskan people do not like gov
ernment railroad management any
better than the rest of us. In fact,
they hate government management of
most things. They are sick and tired
of the whole goveri^nent “regulation,”
which is depopulating the territory and
preventing its development.—San
Francisco Chronicle.
ENGLISH EDITORS TO
ENJOY SOME RESPITE
FROM ARDUOUS LABORS
LONDON, June 16 (Correspondence
of Associated Press).—All the regular
editors, special writers and reporters
of the Times, Daily Mail and Evening
News are to have two days each week
for rest or recreation under the “five
day working week” which Viscount
Northcliffe is introducing in his news
paper properties.
The writing staffs of the Times and
Daily Mail already have been reor
ganized on this basis, and the system
is to be extended to the News.
The same system is to be arranged
in the near future for all others on
these papers, including all members
of the business staffs, the printing and
mechanical forces. This is not possi
ble at present on account of the scar
city of skilled labor.
Lord Northcliffe’s view is that all
men, especially those engaged in brain
work, attain their highest efficiency
by this division of work and recrea
tion and by a complete change at
these regular and frequent intervals.
The chief rival of Lord Northcliffe
in adherence to the theory of short
hours and better work is the great
soap magnate, Lord Leverhulme, for
merly William Lever. His ambition
is to have a working day of six hours
for all his thousands of employes, and
he has even hinted at a four-hour day
as a possibility of the future.
Although this is a free country, it
is not a bad idea not to be too inde
pendent to do a day’s work occasion
ally.—Ketchikan Times.
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