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Show FORD IN HARNESS. While Henry Ford got off on the wrong foot in his endeavor to "get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas'' he has not indulged in a ny pacifist dreams since the United States took up the cudgels in response to Germany's challenge to the whole world and this country in particular, and we dare say he regrets having been so badly fooled in the first place. Mr. Ford has joined the staff of the shipping board and has been made special assistant to (.'ha rles Piez, vice president of the emergency fleet corporation, which is just now trying to speed up shipbuilding. He is turning over his factory at Detroit to the manufacture of war materials. The particular task in front of him is to introduce the multiple production methods meth-ods he has so successfully used in the manufacture of automobiles in the building build-ing of ships and without doubt he will soon be turning out equipment for our new merchant marine in large volume. Tt is possible, even probable, that it will not be very long before all the automobile auto-mobile factories in the United States will be devoted exclusively to the production pro-duction of war materials and that every ; specialist in ihis grat industry will be jin government employ. Taking it all j in all we may consider ourselves formulate for-mulate that the automobile business has J grown to such vast proportions in the last few years, for it will be of great help in winning the war. |