Show I I I i 54 AN EDITORIAL EDITORIAL- EDITORIAL EDITORIAL-BY EDITORIAL BY I I IAN FLORENCE DAVIES t 1 NIGhT MIGHT BC DC Henry ford wants want to see eee the Bible DIble 1 In the public schools l lor or of America The ih are that he lie will not g gK his hla wish wh There are too many al creeds In America for any ary anyone anyone one group to allow the other a chance chanu at Interpreting the holy Book But Henry lenny Ford doesn't I that kind ot of o Bible teach tench I Ing He H Ji that hat he had hall three tine old school teachers who used to read the Bible BIblo at ot school They with his hla hi mother helped to lay the of ot his character They taught him the difference between botwen right and olId wrong and 1 got It lu Into o Ills his head that If It you sin sou ou suffer Buffer Henry Honry Ford couldn t tell loll you right now whether hether those old school teachers were Baptists or Methodists Metho high churchmen or orlow orlow orlow low churchmen There was wag noth noth- nothing ing In what they read out of the tho great old book Jook that thet have bO boon 1 at odd odda o with any race rac or sect What he ea easa s that the tho Bible eM gase 0 him ga wan a foundation for tor charac charac- character character ter ten and a II bual buds for conduct We Wo Wo learned something In our day he says that that we never for for- forgot forgot for forgot got We Vc learned thit you ou suffer It if OU ou em n ma may be bo son some one else elso euffer also but you ou lt put putI Buffer uffer I fer anyway anyay We learned that no noone noone one ever gets get away with a Cl wrong I act Everything E sooner or later ator Is Ii d up We learned that the Universe e Is so ao constructed that the wrong thing will be discovered dl be- be be before tore fore it goes goe ery tar far Such knowl knowledge education edge odge 3 Is the best part put of or educatiOn education tion In my judgment I think I 1 n those thou days we got fot the very vel essence of ot the Bible Mr rr Ford adds add It is la only the oe- oe os ea of or the Bible that you ou can give to children And that Is the best part of It It I ll is only when some Bome clergymen get got a hold hola of at the book that It begins begin to look strange I Children can It Such Is tho plain old fashioned 1 l rea reason on hy Hr Ford would like to seo the Bible taught In the schools When one read reads da that Columbia college at Columbia Now New York City I Is actually talking about abolish abolishing In examinations bo- bo bo cause of a failure to study and a alack alack alack lack of honor on the tM part of th the pupils Mr Ford Fords Ford's plan seems seem to have some lome r real al merit Thero wasn't want a boy among 11 us IlL says Mr rl Ford Yo abe ho hadn't been through a 1 course coures In moral philosophy by the time the year was over But today th that t kind kina of teaching la Is ItIs ItI out of fo fashion and the pit pity of It I is that even evon In the homes it I ig is sup sup- sup supposed posed to be just juat a It bit old old-fash to think that the foundations tlona of char have to be ac- ac actually flo taught There seems seem to be bea bea bea a feeling that children wilt will just evolve their own 0 standards of character and all will come out outI outwell outwell outwell well in due course of time But children need measuring ticks of judgment The precepts they they hear In youth have vo a a way of coming to their In itt time times or of ori stress or doubt I cant can't find the slightest oh- oh ob objection to the Bible Elbie of justIce and conduct says saya Mr Ward Ford and I dont don't belle belleva bellev anyone 10 else can cen Until wo we can C II find some omo better WIL way of making such uch standards of justice justIe and conduct a part ot of character Mr Sir rord's Idea Ia might at least leut be wort worth thinking about |