Show I I I Howe About N Henry Ford The World Court O. O 1333 1933 Bell Boll Syndicate a- a By ED HOWE by 1 Freiderich Is wIdely widely wide wIde- ly proclaimed as one of the greatest greatest greatest great great- est books ever written As a matter matter matter mat mat- ter of ot curiosity I latel lately looked over o eight of Its pages and noted the lines containing ordinary Commonsense common commonsense commonsense sense easily understandable I found but five such lines Jines in the eight pages had enormous enor enor- mona common sense but it was so corrupted by nonsense in the literature literature lit lit- of the past that in his most famous book the tho proportion of good to bad is five to two hundred and seventy Thus Is written in mongrel poetry a weakness weakness weakness weak weak- ness the author certainly Inherited from the past The book Is full fulI of at references to gods did not believe In The title Is a tribute tribute tribute trib trib- ute to a tissue of myths originating ing more than a thousand years before the Christian era If It Zara- Zara ever er lived he be was wag a type of man utterly unknown In the time of hundreds of ot years before before before be be- fore or In the present a better title would have been Thus Freiderich There Is value In the book but I Isha Ishall Ishall sha shall l not bother to dig it out as ns it may be found In many short sum sum- manes maries was highly educated educated edu edu- but never learned to write I simply naturally and properly except exI except ex ex- ex- ex In five lines of at two hundred I I and two seventy-two of his best product t. t Probably the proportion of at nonsense In the conversation and writing of men less noted is greater reater S S a A foreigner was quoted lately as assa assaying assaying sa saying ln a depression Is about the most natural thing there Is that he was born during a n depression and has lived In one ever since Americans will not accept any such reasoning they demand a boom all aU the time and rallIn falling failing to get et It go bawling to the government government government govern govern- ment for relief For many years we have ha been breaking records and astonishing foreigners ners The action of the foreigners In laughing at us now after robbing us Is very hu I lance once saw In the newspapers a statement credited to Henry Ford FordIn Fordin I In the days of his greatest pros pros- He said the tile standard of living in the United States should be advanced until every man who wanted a job was guaranteed oneat oneat one at nt twenty seven dollars a day as a minimum Every ery American he admitted admitted admitted ad ad- was so noble so Intelligent so much better than the people of at other countries he could not live fittingly on less And you ou needn't lagh probably you vou read Mr Fords Ford's brag with ap ftp ftp- p- p pro at Nothing astonishes me more than the Incompetence of great grent men when called caned upon to make decision decision de de- de- de in questions of a public na na- na- na ture Men Ien who In business life achieve e reputation for sound sense honor and capacity when asked to consider questions affecting the public at large have In thousands s sor of or cases become pitiful fools tools and disgraced long lives lI of or probity There is In existence ence a world court to which most nations belong the membership made up presumably of at as ns capable men as can be found among the better classes A booklet booklet book boole- let Is available giving Its history membership and proceedings to date and I have ha rend read It during idle time The object of the world I court of course is to get rid of war of the expense of armies and navies na during Intervals of peace In most parts of at the earth practical bakers after hundreds of or years of ot experience at their trade have found It convenient to operate night shifts shirts surely one Olle of ot the simplest simplest sim sun pleat and most unimportant ques ques- Yet on page fifty I find the World court considering night work in bakeries Many Inny have ha been Two pro roundly discouraged by the lack of ot Intelligence In men mell I believe statesmen n are responsible for most of the discouragement any fair review review revIew re re- re- re view of the situation clearly Indicates Indicates Indi Indi- cates that the common people In their private affairs have ha done very ery well S Most people will wm read only that with which they agree I believe belle Oscar Wilde was mistaken mistaken mis mis- I taken In more wa ways s s 's than any other man who ever lived JIved but have ha just read rend his De with Interest Interest interest In In- terest as I have read many of his other books bools and plays sHe s He was the foulest man of whom 1 I have ever er heard and possibly I one of the most Intelligent certainly certainly one ono of tho the worlds world's best wrIters writ wrIt- ers I cannot refuse to read such sucha a man because I r do not always agree with him He Be wrote many pla plays s 's that hint sparkle with Intelligence and wit but In his Salome I cannot see n a single reason renson why it should have e been written or why wily anyone one should wish to read It foul silly bloody and fortunately a failure He rIe was that uneven unc In everything e I have never known a single lc human hu man being of whom I entirely approved approved ap ap- ap proved I ha have hae e never entirely ap approved approved proved of at myself |