Show ir ir 1 bowe about henry ford the world court by ED HOWE 0 1933 1013 bell syndicate service alus THUS a by Fr elderich la Is widely proclaimed as one of the greatest books ever written As a matter of curiosity I 1 lately looked over eight of its pages and noted doted the lines containing ordinary common sense easily understandable I 1 found but five such lines in the eight pages had enormous common sense but it was so corrupted by nonsense in the literature of the past that in his most famous book the proportion of good to bad Is five to two hundred and sev enty two thus a Is written in mongrel poetry a weakness the author certainly inherited from the past the book Is full of references to gods did not believe in the title Is a tribute to a tissue of myths originating more than a thousand years before the christian era if a ever lived he was 0 9 type of man utterly unknown in the time of hundreds of years before or in the present a better title would have been thus Fr elderIch 1 there Is value in the book but I 1 shall not bother to dig it out as it may be found in many short sum marles mt rles was highly educated but never learned to write simply naturally and property properly except in five lines of two hundred and ant seventy two of his best product probably the proportion of nonsense in the conversation and writing of men less noted is greater 0 0 A foreigner was quoted lately as saying a depression Is about the most natural thing there Is that he was born during a depression and has lived in one ever since americans will not accept any such reasoning they demand a boom all the time and falling to get it go bawl ln ing to the government for tellef relief for ninny many years we have been breaking records and astonishing foreigners the action of the foreigners fore ignera in laugh ing at us now after robbing us Is very humiliating I 1 once saw in the newspapers a statement credited to henry ford r bior d in the days of his greatest roa test prosperity lie ile the standard of living in tle the united states stages should be advanced until every man who wanted a job was guaranteed one at twenty seven dollars a day as a minimum every american din he admitted was so noble so in tell igent so much better than the peo pie or of other countries he could not live fittingly on less and you laugh probably you read mr air fords brag with approval nothing astonishes me more than the incompetence or of great men when called upon to make decisions in questions of a public nature men who in business life achieve reputation for sound sense lionor honor and capacity when asked to consider questions affecting the public at large have in thousands of cases become pitiful fools and disgraced long lives of probity there is in existence a world court to which most nations belong the membership made up presumably of as capable men as can be found among the tetter etter classes A booklet Is available lvang its history membership and proceedings to date and I 1 have read it during idle time the object of the world court of course Is to get rid of war of the expense of armies and navies during intervals of peace in most parts of the earth practical lin bakers after hundreds of years 0 of f experience per peri lence ence nt at their trade have found it convenient to operate night shifts surely i one of the simplest and most ost unimportant questions yet on page fifty I 1 find the world court con considering s ider night work in bakeries many have hake been profoundly discouraged by the lack of lit intelligence in men I 1 be hew statesmen are responsible fo for r most of the discouragement any fair review of the situation clearly indicates that the common people in their private affairs have lone done very well As moving a tragedy as I 1 have ever eve r heard was told me by an ancient maiden of the martyrdom her mother endured in living with the father of bf the relator of the story I 1 knew the old man and thought so little of him I 1 believed most of the charges against him some men are very hard to get along with the worst of the women haters baters admit it |