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1 UKIGON Si ME USFRY VOL. LXI NO. 19,345 PRICE FIVE CENTS Entered at Portland Oreon Poetofflcp as Sccond-citM Matter. PORTLAND. OREGON, 3IONDAY, NOVE3IBER 20, 1922 EWBERRY QUITS NEIGHBORS QUARREL OVER WOOD; 1 SHOT MAX ACCUSED OF THEFT FIRES, . THEN DISAPPEARS. FRENCH SUPPORT PORT OF PORTLAND IS SECOND ON COAST CLEMENCEAU VISITS BISHOP REMINGTON ASSUMES POSITION GRAVE OF ROOSEVELT I PLAGE IN SENATE PLEDGED BRITIS BUSINESS IS EXCEEDED OXLV BY SAX FRAXCISCO. WREATH IS OFFERED AS A SILEXT TRIBUTE. EPISCOPAL PRELATE IS IN STALLED AT PEXDLETOX. PUCCT PARilDAIPII FLI1R REVEALS GE1S0FIO uiiLdi umvii rums TO START TODAY i Resignation Is to Take Effect at Once. COLLEAGUE'S DEFEAT CAUSE Attempt to Continue Service Held "Futile." PARTY ENMITY IS CITED Retiring Senator Feels He Would Be "Hampered by Partisan Political Persecution." ... WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 19. Truman H. Newberry of Michigan, whose right to a piace in the senate has been a subject of long and bit ter controversy, has submitted his resignation with a request that it become effective immediately. In a letter to Governor Groesbeck, made public here tonight, Mr. New berry said he had been impelled to retire voluntarily because of the de feat of his republican colleague, Senator Towrsend, in the election of November 7. The turns of events, he said, would make it "futile" for him to attempt to continue his pub lic services since he continually would be "hampered by partisan political persecution " Controversy Is. Reviewed. Reviewing the outstanding fea-: tures, of the controversy which grew out of his election four years ago over Henry Ford, his democratic opponent, he declared his right to a seat in the senate had been "fully confirmed." He added that if in the future there seemed to bo oppor tunities for public service he wouid not hesitate to offer himself to his state and country. The resignation brings to an end a fight which already has made political history and which, it ap peared, would be resumed early in the session of congress which be gins tomorrow. Convicted in Mich- J igan of a conspiracy, to violate election laws. Senator Newberry ap pealed to the supreme court which declared unconstitutional the sta tute under which he was accused. Senate Confirms Seat. The senate itself after a long in vestigation finally confirmed his title to a. seat by a margin of five votes. In the campaign just closed the case was an issue in many states. A copy of the letter of resignation Bent to Governor Groesbeck was delivered today to Vice-president Coolidge by Walter It. Dorsey, Mr. Newberry's secretary. Mr. Newberry himself "is at his home In Detroit The letter to the governor, dated November IS, was as follows: "I tender herewith my resignation as United States senator from Mich igan to take immediate effect. Colleague's Detent Cited. "I am impelled to take this action because of the recent election. Not-1 withstanding his long and faithful public service and his strict adher ence to the basic princples of con structive republicanism which 1 hold in common with him, Senator Townsend was defeated. A'hile this failure to re-elect him njay have been brought about in part by over four years of continuous propaganda of misrepresentation and untruth, a fair, analysis of the vote taken in Michigan and other states where friends and political enemies alike have suffered defeaL will demon strate that a generarfeeling of un rest was mainly responsible therefor. "This situation renders futile fur- ther service by me in the United States senate where I have consis tently supported the progressive policies of President Harding's ad ministration. My work there has been and would continue to be ham- . pered by partisan political persecu tion and I therefore cheerfully re turn my commission to the people from whom I received it. Gratitude Is Expressed. "I desire to record an expression of my gratitude for the splendid friendship, loyalty and devotion ot those who have endured with me during the last four years, experi ences unparalleled in the political history of our country. By direction of the democratic administration these began immediately upon by nomination by proceedings before a specially-selected grand jury sitting in another state, which by a vote of 16 to 1 completely exonerated thosi -who had conducted my campaign. "Then followed my election, with every issue, which has since been raised clearly before the electorate of the state. A recount was de manded and after a thorough and painstaking review of the ballots by the United States senate,. I was found to have received a majority. While this was in progress I was subjected, with a large number of representative men of Michigan who had supported me, to a trial, follow ing Indictments procured by a demo cratic department of justice which, through hundreds of, agents, had hounded and terrified men in all parts of the state into believing that some wrong had been done. Under : the instructions given by ths court conviction of a conspiracy to spend (Concluded en Fag 5, Column I.) Frank Schaffer Taken to Van couver Hospital Suffering . From Bullet Wounds. VANCOUVER, Wash. Nov. 19. (Special.) Frank Schaffer, 40, who lives about 12 miles north of this "oflL'tL ' result, he said, of a row with George W Edwards, a neighbor, over some j wood which Schaffer accused Ed-1 wards of stealing. The sheriff left immediately for that vicinity to, look for Edwards, who was said to have disappeared after the shooting. Schaffer was expected to recover. At the hospital Schaffer made a formal statement accusing Edwards. He said the wood had been stolen while he was away working in a logging camp and that on his return he had accused Edwards. Edwards, he said, came to the Schaffer home today and shot his victim at about 13:15 P. M., after they had talked the matter over for about an hour. Schaffer walked to the home of another neighbor, a man named Busch, who brought him to Vancou ver. One bullet struck Schaffer in the head, another in.the side and a third in the hand. The weapon was of small caliber and it was believed that none of the bullets penetrated to a vital part. Both Edwards and Schaffer live alone. IMPEACHMENT IS PUSHED Keller and Woodruff Say Action on Dau&herty Will Be Urged. WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. 19. Announcement that they intended to vigorously push impeachment proceedings against Attorney-Gen eral Daugherty was made in a joint statement today by Representative Keller, republican, Minnesota, who presented the original impeachment charges' to the house, and Repre sentative Woodruff, republican, Michigan. "We will not be deterred from our insistence that the judiciary com mittee act upon the resolution to e'nable the impeachment of Mr. Daugherty to proceed to trial be fore the senate," said the statement- "We demand that the ju diciary committee hear the evidence against Daugherty or state openly that itj refuses to let the country know how he has conducted himself in'office," ' , v;' .. . . " 1 . I J-'. BIG WHISKY CARGO SINKS Launch With 800 Cases of Scotch Goes Down Off Long Island. , (By Chicago Tribune Leased Wire.) NEW YORK, Nov. 19. Captain Tawes of the good ship Hahn, of the prohibition navy, mixed a mighty highball Thursday, of the capacity of about a cubic acre, 12 miles oft the Long Island shore, it became known today. With the aid of a depth bomb he mixed 9600 quarts of Scotch with the surrounding sea water. The whisky went to the bottom early last week. There were 800 cases of it. A launch had run alongr side a whisky runner and was start ing shoreward with a precious cargo when it was overwhelmed by heavy seas and sank. 80-MILE HIKE IS TAKEN Lane County Supervisor Walks Far to visit Schools. EUGENE, Or.. Nov. 18. (Special.) Owing to the impassability of the roads in the western part of Lane county at this time of year, J. G. Swan, county rural school super visor, walked between 80 and 100 miles to visit schools in that section last week. Mr. Swan left Eugene November 9, leaving the train at Rainrock. He hiked over the Indian creek trail to North Fork. Here he visited the schools, and from there he made a circuit to Big creek and Heceta and back to Florence afoot, crossing the Siuslaw river and visiting sev eral schools on the south side of that stream. GOVERNOR DENIES PLOT Oklahoman Denounces Murder Tale as Dastardly Lie. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Nov. 19. Governor J. B. A. Robertson today branded as a "dastardly and damn able lie" charges filed in district court at Okmulgee, OkIa last night, against him, alleging that he released a murder convict from the state penitentiary, "to kill the county attorney of Okmulgee county." The chief executive bitterly de nounced the public official who "has stooped so low"' as to make the charge. . 0 COAL OUTPUT REDUCED Lower Production Reflected in Car Loadings. (By Chlca-go Tribune Leased Wire ) WASHINGTON. D. C, Nov. 19. Preliminary estimates on coal pro duction in the week ending Novem ber 11 as revised by late reports re flecting the curtailed output be cause of election day and Armistice day put the total coal raised at 11, 933,000 net tons. Early returns on car loadings at mines during the past week indi cate 13,200,000 net tons, comprising 11,100,000 tons of soft coal 2,140,000 tons of anthracite. andj Stand in Near East Is to Be Backed. DIPLOMATIC DEAL IS MADE Paris to Get Support in Reparations Demands. PACT i IMPORTANT" ONE Significance Appreciated Only by Remembering How Far Apart Two Nations Had Drifted. BY RAYMOND FENDRICK. " (Chicago Tribune Foreign News Service. Copyright. by the Chicago Tribune.) PARIS, Nov. 19. Sir John Brad bury, British reparation delegate. today receivjed instructions from London to support the French rep arations claims against Germany to the utmost possible limit. It was Great Britain honoring without hesitation Lord Curzon's promise to . Premier Poincare at Quai d'Orsay yesterday of Great Britain's support to France mak ing Germany buck up and pay in return for -hearty 'French support in making peace in the Near East that would be satisfactory to the British Empire. This huge diplomatic horse trade, which in a day transmuted the Anglo-French entente from a scrap of paper into the most powerful au thority in Europe, is the biggest rearrangement of power in the world since November 11, 1918. Europe Held Fortunate. The details of the peace, to be im posed on Turkey and the consequent effects on Russia become of second ary interest compared with the good fortune to Europe at finally having he French and British governments able to co-operate. The details of this peace,- which Premier Mussolini will bo askfd, to ratify tonight, are .iot''laiffnflcftt.f.a. shown' by the following points: 1. To insure freedom of the straits.. They must be open in war time a well as in peace time, to warships as well as to steamers and the zones along the straits to be demilitarized to prevent Turkish armaments. This will incidentally allow the greatest naval power to choke Russia at any time. y 2. France will join the other allies in coercive military ' measures against Turkey in case of refusal to accept the peace terms. Rou manian and Serbian troops will also be massed on the Thracian frontier. ' 1 Neutral Zones to Be Kept. 3. The allies to occupy Constan tinople and the Asiatic neutral zones until the peace treaty is ratified by the parliaments. 4. Capitulations to be abolished, but their substance to be retained under another name, 5. Palestine. Syrian and Mesopo- (Concluded on Page 3, Column 2.) NOW IF Ranking Is Based on Total Trans action of Ships Cleared and .' Filtered In Two Years. THE OREGONIAN NEWS BU REAU, Washington. D. C, Nov. 19. On, total transactions of cargo3 cleared and entered, Portland as a i port ranked' eighth in the list of 12 I leading ports of the United States j in both the fiscal years ending June 3, 1921, and June 3, 1922, according to .statistics of the shipping board given out today. Seattle, which was twelfth in 1921. came up to tenth place 'in 1922. Portland ranked seventh in car goes clearing in 1921 and 1922, but does not rank as a port of entrance. Seattle, which has made a poor showing as a port of clearance, made a better record as a port of entry. ' -1 Cargoes entered at Portland In 1921 totaled only 32,084 tons and in 1922 fell to 31,233 tons, but a much better showing is made as to cargoes cleared in these years. In 1921 Portland cleared 990,234 tons and in 1922 shows a gain of almost 600,000 tons, the total being 1,318, 761. In the fiscal year 1921, cargoes entered at Seattle were 325,44.1, against 198,268 in 1922. In 1921 cargoes cleared at Seattle were 568, 969, as compared with 831.168 in 1922 On total transactions of cargoes entered and cleared in the fiscal year 19,22; the 12 leading ports of the country stand In the following order: New York, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Galveston, Baltimore, Boston, San Francisco, Portland, Or., Los Angeles, Seattle, Savannah and Portland, Maine. In the Pacific district the ports rank as follows: San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Ta ccma, San Luis, Astoria, Aberdeen, Everett, San Dlegoi Bellingham, Port Angeles and Port Townsend. While Astoria shows a reduction in cargoes entered from 50,915 tons in 1921 to 18,377 tons in 1922, a dis tinct gain on the more important side of clearances is Indicated. Car goes cleared at Astoria in 1921 to taled 72,492 tons, as against 130,581 tons in 1922 Figures for all the ports of the Pacific district on total cargoes In long tons and cleared in the fiscal years 1921 and 1922 are given as follows l2f! . .".S.174,a2f . . 962.31 S . . 894.41? . . 948.94H . . 2M.97t" . . SM6.424 .. 123.407 . . 27.535 .. 41,727 1922; 2,290,:! 92 1,340,9(14 1,02B.4SI 1,22S,(I42 333.214 " 199.953 " J4R.KS8 110.911 ' 77.770 84.S48 6S.115 46.768 81 021 8.995,922 San Francisco Portland, Or. . Seattle Los Angeles .'. , Tacoma ...... San I.uis ....'. Astoria ...... Aberdeen Everett San Diego : . . . , Bellingham 60.794 Port Angeles 26.660 Port Townsend ...... 34.090 Totals '. 5,791.703 BOAT UPSETS; 60 DROWN Craft Said to Have Capsized iy Gulf of California. MEXICALI. Lower California, Nov. 19. More than 60 persons were drowned when a boat capsized while attempting a landing early today at La Bomba, 60 miles south of Mexicali, on the Gulf of California, according to word- received, here tonight. HE CAN MAKE THEM PULL TOGETHER. - SYefvfcY BOY- War .Premier of France Calls on cx-Presidenfs Widow at Oyster Bay Home. NEW YORK, Nov. 19. (By the Associated Press.) Georges Clem enceau, war premier of France, mo tored to Oyster Bay today and laid a wreath on the grave of Theodore i Roosevelt. The gray old Tiger, hinyself an apostle of preparedness, spoke.no word as he stood before the grave of America's wielder of the big stick. But he was visibly moved. His keen eyes took in every de tail of the little fenced-in enclosure that has become a shrine for many Americans. Then he stood for a moment more with a far-away look, deeply Im mersed in thought. Finally he turned away and trudged slowly down the winding path of Young's Memorial cemetery and motored to Roosevelt's home. - While others of the party rang the door-bell and waited Clemen ceau turned abruptly and walked off down the broad veranda where Roosevelt used to sit to watch the I sailboats on Oyster bay. j He walked all the way to the rear ! of the house, closely inspecting the j long, lqw structure, stately but sim-1 pie. on the crest of Sagamore hill. Archie Roosevelt, who served as a soldier In France, hurried to the veranda to greet him and con ducted him into the house, where Mrs. Roosevelt greeted him. He passed some time in Roosevelt's fa mous, trophy room. Then he mo tored back to New York. Clemenceau was accompanied on his trip to Oyster Bay by Colonel E. M. House, director of his tour of the United States; Mrs. House, Mr. and Mrs. Gibson and Frank L. Polk, under-secretarv of state In the Wil- auiuuiiBLiaklUU. There is only one event on Clerh- enceau's programme for tomorrow, a reception at which he will meet a group of newspaper reporters and editors. What ho will do with the rest of the day will depend on his own whims. TIDAL WAVE REPORTED Earthquake Also Declared to. Have V -v Occurred In, Hilo. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19. A ra dio message picked up at the San Diego Btation of the naval wireless system and relayed herepurporting to come from Hlio, T. H., told of an earthquake and tidal wave there to night. Efforts to communicate with the Hilo radio station, operated by a private concern, later were unsuc cessful, but radio men declared it was not usual for that station to communicate direct with mainland stations. HONOLULU, Nov. 19. Reports of an earthquake and tidal wave at Hilo, on another island in the Ha waiian group, picked up by main land wireless stations tonight, were discredited here. No earth shock has been felt in this city. There is no direct communication with Hilo on Sunday, as the wireless station there Is closed on that day. General Sammons Or ders Forces Over Top. CITY IN GENEROUS MOOD $648,329 to Be Raised Here for Various Charities. QUICK CLEAN-UP IS AIM "Out of Trenches by Thanksgiv ing," Slogan Adopted by Workers for Big Drive. HINTS FOR THE PORTLAND HOUSEHOLDERS THIS WEEK AND NEXT. Answer doorbell promptly when the Community. Chest solicitor calls. - ' . Have your mind made up as to the amount you will sub scribe and be generous. Treat with courtesy the woman who calls upon you. You can keep up her morale by being kindly. . . She is doing an act of char ity in calling at your home. Help her by subscribing promptly and saving her time. Above ail help! Give by the month. "Out of the trenches by Thanks giving!" This order was passed along down the line yesterday by General E. G Sammons, in command of the Com munity Chest drive that starts early this morning. "Snap into it and clean up thor oughly but quickly," he directed. "Make Thanksgiving day worthy of thv, name.- 3ive the whole -. town 8o-methtng to be really thankful for Do ypur stuff and we'll all eat tur key Instead of crow a week from Thursday. Let's go." General Sammons gave a last look at his war maps, lists and other headquarters data yesterday and gave out the -word that everything is ready for the big drive that opens to get all Portland on the dotted line. . City In Generous Mood. Scouts carried the word to head quarters that Portland's people are in more generous mood this year than at 'the time of the last drive. They are more convinced than ever of the merits of the chest way of caring for the helpless. Indications are that the drive will go over in good shape, it was declared. Another thing that is the basis for high hopes is the fact that the last drive was smashed by a virulent wave of influenza that decimated the campaign organization. Work ers by the hundreds, from the gen-! eral chairman in command down, were laid low for a week or more by the flu. Just when every unit of the drive should have been working its hardest. There are no signs of such a dis aster this year and it is believed by those directing the effort that with the absence of such an untoward cir cumstance, nothing can keep the campaign organization from raising its budget. St. Paul In Race. 1 Portland has somewhat of a race in its chest drive. St. Paul, Minn., a city in the same class, starts its chest campaign today, too, and its budget of $670,000 compares favor ably with the J648.329 that the drive here expects to raise. There will be a keen watch kept on what St. Paul does here at home, and with the con fident feeling so apparent at head quarters, it Is not believed the show ing made will be at all to the dis credit of Portland. The official kickoff of the drive will take place at noon at the big indicator set up at Sixth and Morri son streets, on the corner of the old postoffice grounds. Mayor Baker will raise the flag and declare the hunt for dollars under way. There will be speaking and stunts. : Parade la Planned. Preceding the programme at the indicator a short street parade through the main portion of the I business section will be staged. The procession will be led by a band -donated by the Musicians' Mutual union. Members of ths fire depart ment in fire trucks, with sirens shrieking, will add- to the clamor. Mayor Baker's address officially opening the drive will be followed by an appealing tableau. From the crowd will walk a little girl, thinly clad, hunger-stricken. Seeing the huge loaf of bread at the top of the ladder she will eagerly rush forward to disappointment. For she cannot reach the bread because the ladder is without rungs. Al most hopelessly, pitifully she will glance to one side, then the other, with a wordless appeal for aid. Touched by the appeal Mayor Baker will step forward, seize a t.mm,- 1 v i n t. npn rhv flnri a -J f t J drive into place the number of rungs subscriptions to the chest have made (Concluded on rage 8, Column 1.) Visiting Bishops of Three States Give Welcome to N'ew East ern Oregon Functionary. PENDLETON. Or., Nov. 19. (Spe cial.) The Right Reverend William Remington, formerly suffragan bishop of South Dakota, was in stalled this morning as bishop of the eastern Oregon diocese of the Epis copal church at It o'clock and to night delivered his first address from the local pulpit. The morning hour was devoted to a brief addres-a of welcome by visit ing bishops from three states. Those who spoke were bishop Walter T. Sumner of Portland, Bishop H. Tou- ret of Idaho, Bishop F. W. Keator of Tacoma and Bishop Herman Page of Spokane. Bishop Page conducted the installation. A reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Johns Sr. fol lowed the vesper service. Many clergymen from aH- over the inland empire were in the city for the in stallation. Bishop Remington has not yet announced where he will es tablish his residence, but he stated today that it lay between Baker, LaGrande, PSTidleton, The Dalles and Hood River. Mrs. Remington-did not accompany the bishop at this time, remaining in South Dakota. A conference of bishops and clergymen will be held in this city tomorrow, at which time the most Important subjects before I the church in this section will be ! discussed. TWO CLIMBERS ARE HURT Men Plunge 60 Feet When Shale Ledge on Cliff Collapses. As a lesult of a 60-foot fall over a cliff on Yeon mountain yesterday, A. E. Smith, 127 East Thirty-ninth street North, was suffering from a severe cut to his head and body bruises, and a companion, J. B. Scott, 40, 375 Sixteenth street North, had a broken rib, bruised body and pain ful cuts and bruises about the head. Yeon mountain is about 40 miles east of Portland oh the Columbia highway. The men were In an out ing party of four. As they were climbing, they stepped onto an in secure ledge of shale that gave way, precipitating them down the moun tain side. ' SLAYER TO LEARN FATE Mrs. Clara Phillips to Appear for Sentence Today. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 19. Mrs Clara Phillips, convicted of second degree murder for beating Mrs. Al- Derta Tremaine Meadows, young widow, to death with a hammer, will appear for sentence tomorrow morning. The penalty for second-degree murder is from 10 years to life Im prisonment. Mrs. Phillips' counsel announced plans to file a motion for a new trial. CARDINAL MERCIER IS ILL Primate ot Belgium Reported to Be Suffering From Influenza. BRUSSELS, Nov.V 19. Cardinal Mercier, primate of Belgium, is ill with influenza. His condition tonight was reported as progressing favorably. INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS The Weather. YESTERDAT'S Maximum temperature. 49 degrees; minimum, 38 degrees. TODAY'S Probably rain; westerly winds. Foreign. Chinese minister arrested on charge of graft. Page 2. Rising tide of Islam le menace to Euro pean peace. -Page 5. Mussolini balks at allied request to hold preliminary conference at Lausanne. Page 1. National. Mrs. Felton adds coior to opening of con gress. Page fi. Extent of federal beaurocracy declared by some to be justified. Page 4. Liquor tax for bonus to be proposed in house today. Page 8. Senator Newberry resigns. Page 1. Domestic. Divorce reform advocated widely. Page S. Ford car reveals genius of its maker, says Dr. S. S. Marquis. Page 1. Clemenceau decorates grave of Theodore Roosevelt. Page 1. Frank Bacon, famous actor, dies. Page 3. Pacific Northwest. Car fare reduction in Seattle urged. Page. 6. Eastern Oregon's new Episcopal bishop Installed at Pendleton. Page 1. Neighbors quarrel over wood; one shot. Page 1. Sports. Scholastic elevens to play finals. Page 13. Princeton undisputed chantpton of "big three." Page 12. Oregon and California only undefeated coast elevens. Page 12. Hoppe slated to regain billiard title. . Page 13. Commercial and Marine. Steel production is reported better. Page 19. - , Portland ranks second In Pacific coast pons. Page 1. -Lumber business holding up well. Page 18. - . Reaction in bonds deters new offerings. Page 18. European- buying essential to continued prosperity. Page 10. Lumber business holding up well. Page IS. j Portland and Vicinity, Man, girl. In auto, take 75-foot fall, Page 20. T' tl. chest drive to start today. Page 1. Willamette drive for funds starts. Page 9. Little Car Henry Ford Done in Steel. LAWS APPARENTLY IGNORED Man, Like' Machine, Goes Whatever Happens. SERVICE HELD AMBITION Automobile Manufacturer Would Like to Make AVorld Bet ter, Says Dr. Marquis. BY S. S. MARQUIS, D. D. (Copyright United Statea and Great Brit ain, 3922, North American Newspaper alliance. Also protected by copyright in other countries of the world. All rights reserved.) CHAPTER I. I have known Henry Ford for 20 years. For a time he was my par ishioner, and then for a time I was his employe. Given freedom to create, a man will reveal himself in what he pro duces the painter in his picture, the sculptor In his marble, the writer In his book, the musician In his composition and the mechanio in his machine. The Ford car is Henry Ford done in steel and other things. Not a thing of art and beauty, but of util ity and strength super-strength, power and endurance in engine and chassis, but somewhat ephemeral in its upper works. With top torn, body dented, upholstery gone, fend ers rattling and curtains flapping in the wind, you admire the old thing and speak affectionately of it, be cause under the little hood the engine- occasionally on four, some times on three, frequently on two, and ,now and then on one keeps rhythmically chugging along, keeps gorig when by all the laws of inter nal combustible things it ought to stop and with one weary expiring gasp fall to pieces and mingle with the mire its few remaining grains of rust. But it keeps going, just as he keeps going contrary to all the laws of labor, commerce and high finance. "Fool ThinKn" Accomplished. Some years ago I sat in the office of a Ford executive discussing with him a certain thing the "chief had ordered done. "It's a fool thing, an impossible thing," said the execu tive, "but he has accomplished so many impossible things that I have learned to defer judgment and wait the outcome. Take the Ford engine, for example; according to all the laws of mechanics the damned thing ought not to run, but it does.' As in the Ford engine, so in Henry Ford there are things that by all the laws of ordinary and in dustrial life should "queer" him, put him out of the running, but he keeps going. He is an extraordinary man, a per sonality in the sense that he is dif ferent from other people, quite dif ferent, for that matter, from what he is popularly supposed to be. But, however unlike the rest of us Henry Ford may be in some respects, he falls under the classification ot ordinary mortals in this he "is not satisfied with what he has and is. He is one of the richest men on earth. He is the most widely known man in the industrial world. But with, these things he Is not content. He has other ambitions. For exam ple, he not only has the willingness, but has shown a rather strong desire to assume national political respon sibilities. And on one occasion he voluntarily took upon himself the task of settling the problems of a world at war. His ability to do in other than the industrial sphere may be commensurate with his will, but his efforts in other directions hav not been such as to Inspire con fidence. Congress Might Quit. It is not only the absence of cer tain qualifications, but the presence of others that make us doubt his fitness for the field of politics. If our government were an absolute monarchy, a one-man affair, Henry Ford would be the logical man for the throne. As president, and he seems to have aspirations in that direction, he would be able to givs us a very economical administra tion, for a cabinet and congress would be entirely superfluous If he were in the White House. The chances are that he would run ths government, or try to do so, as h runs his industry, having had ex perience along no other lines. The Ford organization would be trans ferred to Washington. That would not be so difficult a matter as it might appear to the uninitiated. It could be accomplished in a single section of a Pullman car with one in the upper and two in the lower berth. I agree with Mr. Edison, who was recently reported as say ing of Mr. Ford, "He is a remark able man in one sense, and in an other he is not. I would not vote for him for president, but as a di rector of manufacturing ior Indus- - (Concluded on Page 2, Cfiuma 2.)