Show PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES By Frederic J. J Haskin One of these fine days the seismograph seismograph seismograph graph will be recording a pronounced ed movement extending from Crom Maine to California and from Florida to Washington But it will vill not be an earthquake This phenomenon phenomenon phenomenon phe- phe phe phe- will be when all the people who shudder Individually individually individually when they think of a certain possibility do a concert all thinking and shuddering simul simul- It will be some shudder The man to be blamed for It all Is of course Henry Ford Fora However However- the fact that a considerable considerable considerable consider consider- able number of his fellow citizens run a temperature and grow purplish of countenance when they think of it does not not make Mr Ford any the less a presidential possibility He is is' is decidedly that 1 If you are for him If it you are against him or if you ou arc so neutral that you do not care who beats him Furthermore despite disclaimers disclaimers dis dis- claimers from the vicinity of Dearborn Dearborn Dearborn Dear Dear- born Mich there are more tangible evidences In the way of ot organized effort effort effort ef ef- ef- ef fort that show he Is an actual candIdate candidate candidate candi candI- date than can be discerned in connection connection connection con con- with any of the other Ford clubs with a home tiou in Dearborn are being formed all over th the country and 1 if half halt that thatIs Is l heard eard may be believed Ford dealers dealers deal deal- ers era will be required to sell the Ford pr presidential candidacy along with It Ford rd cars Ford tractors the Ford magazine and all other Ford prod prod- The lot of f a Ford dealer may maybe maybe maybe be a hard one but hut it bids fair to be bea a busy one and slightly strenuous s. s Some Some of the tho d dealers alers may not like to handle this latest of Ford pro pro- ducts Many of them did not like it they were told that they should sell a certain number of tr tr ic- ic tors prop proportionate to their quota of ofFord ofFord i iFord Ford cars But they sold the tr tiac trac e tors They didn't have to of or couise cOllise There vas was nothing compulsory about it They could relinquish their agencies but it is not of of record that many of ot them did that Possibly Pos- Pos sibly bly i It occurred to them that it be far easier for Mr 11 Ford to set get et new dealers than it would be for hem to get new agencies nUS Busy Since Sinco l Lust Last Juno Anyhow letters have been pub pub- ish cd to prove that the Ford agents A Ivere ere vere told to get busy organizing L' L for President President for clubs as long ago as lS last June and that some sonic of them tt least haTe hare been obeying orders orders- 1 r requests It Is planned to have havet t at t least one such club in every congressional con con- gressional district in tho the United States Hates It is understood but butas C as there re ra fewer than districts and lore nore than Ford dealers it rould appear that a club may be started in practically every own coven own in the country Mr Ford himself is said to be ignorant ignorant ig Ig- ig- ig nora t of all this activity In hl his behalf be be- half naif and to have nothing done done nothing to authorize authorize authorize au au- au- au or to Inspire It That makes his friends smile and his enemies snort mort The flivver king may not beas be he heas as wise as as' as Solomon and he may may not Know whether Herodotus was tho the father lather of ot history or the first Greek ruit vendor but no considerable number n r of of his employees could devote de- de rote vote any any considerable part of their I time lime to political activities activities' ais knowing it and without his sanctioning sanctIoning sanctioning sanc sanc- it In 1916 he was not an avowed candidate candidate canidate can can- and was supposed to deprecate the mention of his name in connection connection connection tion with the presidency Nevertheless less he Vas was entered in the Michigan pr primaries marIes carried them and received the ballot ballot ballot bal bal- ed two thirty-two votes on first lot In the Republican national convention convention convention con con- at Chicago This brings up the question as to Fords Ford's party affiliations Will he seek seck the Republicans or the Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic nomination or will he head an Independent party movement By way of answer it may be said that Mr Ford takes partisanship rather lightly He Is supposed to have been a Republican originally and in 1916 as has been recalled he was a candidate in the Republican primaries primaries primaries prima prima- ries in his Is state before the Republican can convention Later he I Iwas was a candidate for the Republican nomination for United States sena sena- tor and when he lie was defeated accepted accepted accepted ac ac- the Democratic De nomination and made the race against Newberry In the organization of the Fprd for President clubs Hubs nothing Is being said about the ticket upon which Ford expects to run This omission Is not to be regarded as an oversight On the contrary H it is a fair fall In Inference that the Ford boomers hope to create create create cre cre- ate what appears to be a great popular popular popular pop pop- ular demand for their man and then go after either the Republican or orthe orthe orthe the Democratic nomination the exigencies exIgencIes exigencies ex ex- of the situation at the time timeto to be the determining factor Failing to capture either of the major parties It may b be expected that the effort effort will I be be made to marshal marshal marshal mar mar- the popular demand into a new party The history or of politics has hat demonstrated that a third hh party m move movement movement ve ment t to attain formidable e prop proportions proportions 01 must be centered a around a a great personality There are those who believe Ford Is or has that hat There Thero are others who disagree disagree with that view yiew Should Love Ills his Enemies If t ever a man had reason to obey bey the biblical injunction to love Joys your enemies bless blessI th them m that curse you Ou I do good to to then them that hate you and I pray for them which despitefully use you Henry Ford is that 1 at man His If enemies In the business world d have contributed immeasurably t to Ms his commer commercial elal success success They They tried to kill his flivver w with rl ridicule riu with th the net result that they gave It l more ore advertising advertising ad ad- than money could have havo bou bought ht They have camped on his trail on every very venture he has undertaken undertaken undertaken under under- taken apparently only to insure his carrying it through They have set financial traps for or him only to s see e him escape them to greater financial triumphs A Af At the first suggestion of pf his entrance entrance entrance en en- trance into politics others of his enemies enemies ene ens- mI mies s opened the floodgates gates to a torrent torrent torrent tor tor- tor- tor rent of ridicule and abuse that Is still running strong To date they have succeeded only in making it unmistakable unmistakable unmistakable un un- un- un mistakable that Ford is a presidential possibility If they keep It up they may do more than that Quite rapidly they are creating tho the son that Ford must be he somewhat of ofa ofa ofa a miracle man to be he able to do so many things that presumably wise people people have declared he could not do doe Ford is not a miracle ma man He has economic and political theories that cause concern to men who are not his enemies and who do not grow hysterical when his name is mention mention- ed Most of those who recall his peace ship would be reluctant to say the least to see the ship of state slate entrusted to him as pilot Much may maybe maybe maybe be said legitimately in criticism of or him and 1 his ls ideas However none o of this alters the fact that Ford Is Isone Isone isone one of the greatest Individual forces In the affairs of this nation The man who took four spools and an old tin can and made him a acar acar acar car car carand and t the e darned thing ran ma may maj maybe be ble hie to show something new v in th the way of a political machine especially especial especIal- ly in view of the raw materials he now has to work ith Lets Let's see- see are there seven thousand or seven million of J those agents n |