Show NO SWIVEL chair FOR FORDYS FORDS m S ON STAYED AT HOME DURING WAR TO HELP IN PLANT REFUSED TO TAKE UNIFORM FATHER WAS responsible declares declare he told edsel that wr war work in factory needed him would not accept safety first f t I 1 mt demons clemens alach henry ford during tile the last hour ot of his bis seven days on the wit witness stand took occasion to claim tull full responsibility tor for his son edsel fords claim for or exemption from the selective dratt draft he wanted to enlist e bald ald mr ford but I 1 told him that he could do more good where ne was he was offered offend several commissions which would have permitted him to wear a uniform and stay right in the factory but he accept them having made their decision it wat wai shown both mr air ford and his son eon refused to camouflage it behind a 2 swivel chair commission carrying boots and spurs this subjects subject the introduction of 0 which has been awaited ever evar since the trial opened did not develop along the he lines which had been generally ex pecked mr air fords forda inclination to shoulder full responsibility his statement that his son was absolutely essential to the war work being done in the factory and his revelation ot of the tact fact that edsel ford turned down several offers of 0 a a commission dis armed criticism the charges spread during a political campaign and recently repeated on the floor ot of the united states senate to the that the young president ot of the ford motor company had shirked his duty were wera so ao fully refuted that tribune counsel did not pursue the point it was waa the first time that a full explanation ot of the facts in connection kith edsel fords war work has been made public and it was waa easily the feature of the eleventh week of the trial henry ford spent seven days on the a atness stand and of this time he gave less than two hours to his own law yera As long as counsel tor for the tribune was hammering him mr ford sat quietly la in the witness wit chair answering the constant fire of quest question lons with great patience but the instant his own lawyers took him in hand his attitude changed he became self sek conscious and diffident ho he would not accept the efforts ot of his hie counsel to provide him with an aa opportunity to reveal the full extent ot of his bis patriotic work during the war his humanitarian views or his bis advanced ideas ot of thie the relations which should exist between capital and labor it Is all in the records said laid mr r ford ord 1 I have told tt all here onea ile he avoided with care anything that verged berged on boasting he would not leven ichen describe the extent ot of the war work which his factor factories teB yd aid and when record breaking performances in the product production lon of 0 munitions was mentioned he declared we did all we could let it go at that I 1 want to forget about it I 1 feel eel just as the 7 soldiers feel I 1 doret dont we want rit to talk about ray my war work the witness did how however emor after being pressed esplan n that his bis son had bought out the minority stockholders eta of th the 0 F ford rd company because into these interests e resta iad ins insisted fisted on mr ford squeezing me ae last dollar out ot of the public the the tha work ers and the product he wanted to cut loose from ls associates he said so that he could carry out ourt his ideas of tile the distribution ot of profits profit to rim KU through increased wages and to the through lower prices it was either buy or sell and mr ford bad considered selling and organizing a now new corA corpany pany his hie son however took up uke tie task of 0 alving out the minority stockholders arld and succeeded despite t ofle e general bellec la in the floun worl cial boria that this stock could not be purchased onest the most Inter interesting epting develop ments of mr fords mony came out when it was testified that the only legislation I 1 or he has ever bel soil was wa that tor for the protection ol of birds othur men ot of millions it was keep lobbyists hobbyists in the nationals natio nall and state capitol to urge and work woric tor for special privileges but the one that mr air ford has ever asked non the lawmakers had nothing to do with his own interests it was a incurious lous hit hii of testimony and lett left a ailep impsen slon on the audience rn fa the court chamber the tha subject was a of 0 questions concerning mr fords fiord list of friends lie he named edison and john burroughs tedi aa is his best friends outs ibb ot of hs immediate associates litigation in whick which nr mr ford has been interested was av another iother su act 11 0 of o interest it was shown thi that w ell the automobile basin babines bA sines was in the he first years of alts gro fl all manufacturers ot of motor cars overl frere competed to pay tribute to to what was wah known as a the selden patent on internal combination engi engines mr fard fought this thin patent lor for seven years find won and jay ay iy his victory treed freed ehni entire industry from its shackles mid aad made possible the wonderful groota alcich hw has rask ad 4 the last lew few yein years |