Judge — June 30, 1923 — page 19: what you’re looking at

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William Morris Houghton William Edgar Fisher BDITORIAL Enough! T woutp be interesting to know how many of those who I are casting their straw votes for Henry Ford for President actually own Fords. We can think of nothing which, at the present time, so arouses the spirit of partisanship as the possession of a car. Policies of state, the iflicting interests of classes, sections and blocs, as questions to quarrel over become purely academic in comp: of bus and the other fellow’s. car conscious: the ubiquitous Ford joke has united them in a the derision of ison with the respective merits of your m And Ford owners are peculiarly nt proletariat of motordom, sensitive t tsider and quick to register their devotion to their car milit the « and its maker. So it may be that the Ford joke is at bottom responsible for the remarkable display of Ford sentiment in. the Collier's poll. In any case, as one of its perpetrators, we wish to say that it has gone far enough. If only the five million or more ladies and gentlemen who vibrate in unison to the purr of a flivver will call off this particular method of getting back at us we will promise never to crack a Ford joke again. A Prophecy S HEARS still a lot of flubdub about Bolshevism, as if orship of the proleti al doctrine that ever dan age. We happen to think much of it, but is it than the trine of the divine right of kings, to which the whole of Europe has subscribed at one time or another? Or, for that matter, is it any less practical than the doctrine on which our own Government is supposed to be founded, that all men are created t were the only insane a lon't ny crazic! equal? The latter was as revolutionary a notion in 1776 Bolshevist idea in 191 nd the civilized world predict rly collapse of any social order which sought to put it into effect. Our republic survived, but because we were e with our theory. And the Russian ing for a similar reason. the 1 an only Soviet Reput Doctrines and doctrinaires, once the work of construc- tion supersedes that of destruction, make — themselves heard with greater and greater difficulty against the din of industry. We profess to foresee the day when the difference between the Russian soviets and our own system of Government, so far as essentials go, will be no greater than exists now be- tween our own Government and the British monarchy. G h the same conditions of life, human beings in the long mu 17 run will organize to meet them in much the same way, and this is true whether they believe that Tchitcherin is a man’s name or merely a titter. B Angeles recently that when he died he knew he was “going straight to heaven.” We don't he needs to be reminded of that well-known scriptural passage, “IL is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Undoubtedly by now he has had private advices that his own disability in Saviors InLy SuNDAY, it is reported, told an audience in Los suppose this respect will be wai There are other Americans, we feel sure, who entertain a like confidence in their future. William Jennings Bryan, for example, who is also a rich man, and John Roach Straton and the Rey. Bowlby and John S. Sumner and Wayne B. Wheeler. All these gentlemen must regard their passage through the pearly gates as a foregone conclusion, Otherwise they could have no business advertising so noisily and so widely their personally conducted Cook's tours to the home of eternal bliss. Fortunately for the rest of us, we are still free to pick another destination. Thumbs Down HERE exists in a certain Midele Western town, so a friend I tells us, an automobile dealer who has far outstripped competitors in his territory. His phenom na source of amazement to those who have observed him in action, for two reasons: The cars he sells, while excel- lent, have strong competitors, and the man himself is decidedly not of the go-getter type. He belongs rather to the unhurried, whimsical, individualistic school of business man with whom nal success our fathers were familiar. How does he do it? Well, his explanation runs somewhat as follows: “Anybody can sell a car. I make it my job to see that ever station gets exactly the atte I leave that part of my business that tion it to my two sons. comes into my serv requires without delay. In other words, he turns over the prospects to his youngsters, but he looks after the old customers himself. And he ought to be prosecuted under the Sherman Anti-Trust law for con- ducting a monopoly in common. sense. The Femaled Fist rs. O. H. P. Benmonr, who is president of the Nati Woman's Party, is a militant advocate of the pol dictatorship of women. “Henceforth women are to be dictators,” she told James Martin Miller, who writes for the Dearborn Independent. “The end of the dictatorship of the world by men is in sight. The day is not far off when the Woman's Party, of which I am president, will be strong cnough to impose any measure it may choose.” We don’t know much about the party of which Mrs, Bel- mont is president, but the sex of which she is a member has measure it might always been strong enough to impose ently united as well. choose, not only strong enough but suffi The dictatorship of the world by men is a myth which wiser women than Mrs. Belmont invented and fostered to divert attention from the real hand at the tiller, a very soft and lovely little hand, Mrs. Belmont; not a fist. How Mr de Maintenon would have laughed at Mrs. Belmont!