Life — January 30, 1919 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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180 ce bg Mr. Ford’s Own ” Page He FORD has started a new paper called Dearborn Inde- pendent, with a department called “ Mr. ” This page, at least, interesting, the Ford's Own Page.” good reading; agreeable and considerably wise. If Henry contribute, regularly, as good a page as his first effort to the Dearborn Jidependent he can carry his paper on his own shoulders For a weekly paper requires only one Too many good is very can good article a week. articles in a paper impede and hore the der, just as too many wise and com- petent would impede legislation, But one good article every week to surprise and exhils congressmen probably readers is all right In every issue of every weekly that depends on its own qualities for existence there should be something to admire and something to complain of Daily papers can live by news well handled. Their thoughts are less im- portant to their existence than the thoughts of weekly papers, but week- must have thoughts. If Henry Ford intends himself to furnish to his paper the articles which readers are to lies dimire, he must get someone else to furnish the pieces which they are to We bi in to call his at- tention to the great natural talent for this service of Mr. E. W. Howe of Atchison, Kansas. Mr. Howe's mind is almost as interesting as Henry He has a remarkable gift for forming and execrate, Ford's own. nparting wrong and sometimes malignant opinions that will excite any ri eration, cise, and a paper that provides for it But one ht-minded person to exe- Execration is a pleasant exer- fills one need of humanity not execrate what he does not The beauty of Mr. Howe as an exciter of execration is that he is al- does read. THE COUNTRY HAS RAPIDLY THE PASSING OF AUTOCRACY ways readable. You don't skip him. You read him, and then Henry can get him to be a regular con- tributor to the Dearborn Independent, it might be a good plan to leave blank spaces after each of Mr. Howe's more objectionable deliverances, in which en- raged readers might express them- swear. If selves, But Bro. Howe has a monthly publi- cation of his own, and might not care to hire out to be the scape-goat of Mr Ford's though, of would be advantageous to him to be paper. course, it connected with a paper in which the likeable pieces were furnished by some- one competent to do it. We suppose he is a good man, and for that reason the more fit to help» Henry Ford. For one does not like to have a bad mar writing in one’s paper, even to provide the necessary bait for execration. Henry said in his opening remarks “Money never makes men. But it leaves them free to reveal what they really are—to unmask their character.” And so do printed words, and even A man may hide his money and not be suspected of it, but if he forms the habit of putting out printed words it amounts to an habitual ex posure of his character in the alto gether. But Henry's character is excellent Good luck to him, and to the Dear- horn Independent E.S.M. more so. RETURNED TO A PEACE BASIS Ccomicbooks.com