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THE UNITED AMERICAN
EDITORIAL
NIGHT SCHOOL STUDENTS MAY NOW OBTAIN
DEGREES
A WAY FOR night school students to obtain bachelor
of arts or bachelor of science degrees has been
opened through a recent ruling by the Washington
Square College in New York. The ruling which will
take effect with the beginning of this school year
incidentally opens up a broader outlook of educational
advantages for those who are seeking the night schools
for the education they have been unable to obtain in
American day schools because of adverse financial con
ditions and in many instances the limited primary
education in foreign countries, which has proven such
a handicap to intelligent people of foreign birth. This
is the first time an educational institution has made
it possible for students to obtain a degree through
attending night school classes only.
The college course is prepared specially for students
who support themselves and are unable to attend day
schools. It will be a six-year course, because of the
university ruling limiting students to twelve points
a semester, or twenty-four points a year. If a student
can take work in the Summer school, the course may
be completed in five years.
Besides the evening classes, late afternoon and
Saturday morning classes will be held for those who
can attend them. Besides the bachelor of arts and
bachelor of science degrees there also will be courses
in journalism and law, with premedical and predental
studies.
THE HENRY FORD “BUSINESS”
TS THERE anything so nauseous, next to salacious
criminal news, on the front pages of the daily
papers now-a-days, as the gossip of Henry Ford’s
“business?” Ford is a cheap multimillionaire who
likes publicity as well as he likes money. As far as
we know, he has spent nothing for the advancement
of science or for the endowment of institutions and
laboratories promoting the cause of health and human
happiness, the prolongation of physical life and the
destruction of the death-dealing germs which are yet
undisturbed by the skill of the medical profession. But
he has spent barrels of money for propaganda in Amer
ica, creating a race and creed consciousness that is
threatening the very foundation of American institu
tions and principles in government. Not satisfied with
the damage done in America, Ford has invaded Europe
with his propaganda against the Jew. Creating hys
teria against the Jew is evidently Ford’s favorate pas
time and avocation. Ford has had his anti-semetic propa
ganda translated into many foreign languages and sent
into the countries where pogroms (Jew massacres)
have been at least as common as lynchings in America.
In these countries the reaction has been quick and
sure. Ford is undisputably able already to claim
his share of the gory glory won by the mobs that
have attacked defenseless Jews during recent years,
because he has contributed most liberally the fuel that
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has fed and rekindled the embers of race hatred that
had been burning low for a time.
Yet, we rave over Ford. His every utterance, silly
though it may be, is given wide attention, and it is
safe to say that a goodly proportion of Americans
regard him in the light of some omnipotent deity.
Is it presumptious to predict that some day we
will pick up the morning paper and find that Henry
Ford is considering buying the United States and that
the deal is about to be closed. At the time of the
armament conference he offered to buy the United
States navy, and now he is in the market for a goodly
portion of the American merchant marine, keeping the
Shipping Board guessing. After a small beginning
in railroading, he is now credited with having plans
to enlarge his transportation operations until there
will be but one directing railway head in the country
—himself. His ascent into the air has already given
rise to publicity which is indicative of his ambition to
control aerial navigation in our country. Rumors have
it that he is seriously planning to absorb several com
petitive automobile factories,
If the American sea and air lanes, the transporta
tion arteries, the coal and iron mines and the water
power become a part of the Henry Ford system, it
is not beyond belief that our politicians may become
sufficiently subserviant to the will of this money king
to turn the country over to him in barter for lucretive
life positions.
We might be thankful, again, that the God who
regulates all nature has limited the span of human
life to some extent, making it impossible for those
who thirst for power to perpetuate themselves indefi
nitely.
In as much as few survive beyond the alloted
“three score years and ten,” we need have no fear
that Henry Ford will reach the summit of his dreams
of material power where he reaches the borderline of
his life’s span where he, too, will be told to “leave it
all behind.”
THE SERVICE THAT IS BACKED BY LOYALTY
TF YOU want to judge a person’s character, suppose
you give some thought to the measure of loyalty
he exercises toward the individual firm or institution
that provides him with employment.
It may not be an unerring gauge, but it will furnish
you something to measure by. Only an ingrate is
disloyal to the one to whom he unquestionably owes
the obligation of service. This test applied to the
individual may be equally well applied to a group of
persons organized to act as a unit. An act of un
fairness is no less culpable because it is committed
by a group rather than by an individual.
Some people seem to feel a certain sense of obliga
tion to be loyal to an individual who is their employer,
though they have no such feeling when their employer
is a corporation. It is the same idea that governs the
man who believes himself to be honest though he would
ride free on a public conveyance if he could.
Everywhere manufacturers and employers com
plain that they are paying the highest wages in the
history of their business, yet they claim that pro
duction has not increased and that the quality of