Inner Story
of Ford Ship
By Chas P. Stewart.
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
THE HAGUE. Feb. 2. —Henry
Ford's peace mission failed for lack
of “faith." According to his own
statement faith was Ford’s sole stock
when he started. He had not enough
and those who accompanied him, with
a few exceptions appear to have had
but little.
These of the party who really wish
ed the expedition well, wen' so bit
terly hated that an effort was made
to maroon a number of them at the
first European port touched. Ford’s
plan, as nearly as it is possible to
put so intangible a thing on paper,
was to give the warring nations
mental science treatment. Ford him
self at the outset had unbounded faith
in his ability. Despite the statements
attributed to him that he intended to
“get the boys out of the trenches by
Christmas." he did not count on im
mediately ending the war.
What Ford did believe was that he
could “make a dent" by gathering
about him a whole ship’s company,
uniting the members’ minds on one
“big thought of peace" and continual
ly adding to the volume and intensity
of this thought as he and his crusa
ders traveled from neutral country to
neutral country, on the edge of the
zone of war, or even in the zone it
self.
Whether this plan would have suc
ceeded under favorable circumstances
can’t be stated, because the peace
delegates failed to concentrate on
thoughts of peace. The Oscar IPs
voyage from New \ork to Christiania
was horrible, not so much because of
the incessant quarreling as on account
| of the atmosphere of suspicion and
malice after the first <\m or two out.
Ford speedily *took to his cabin and
for more than half the trip was hard
j ly seen by any but his closest ad
visors. He was ill, it was stated.
The nature of the illness never was'
j made clear. Several of the corres
| pendents whom the expedition’s man
aging committee was trying to sep
! urate from the party did see the pa
tient for a few minutes the night be
fore the Oscar Ii’a arrival at Christ
iania. It is true that he looked like
a sick man then, but his malady
seemed rather of the spirit than the
body.
j Ford moved and spoke like a person
jin a semi-trance. He seemed almost
; completely broken. Early in the
voyage he declared that squabbling
among the peace delegates was a
j small matter, that disagreements
were to be expected in any commun
ity, and that when the party landed at
Christiania these troubles would
quickly disappear. On this night,
however, his manner suggested that
he realized the fundamental weak
ness of his organization—that he had
lost hope.
While Ford admitted that he based
his early hopes only on faith, Mme.
JRosika Schwimmer declared she had
written assurance*! from officials of
all the neutral European govern
ments that they would welcome such
an effort as the one undertaken by
Ford and from men in high positions
at the chancellories of certain of the
warring nations “on both sides’’ that
they were at least not unfriendly to
the plan. The second day of the
party’s stay in Christiania Premier
Knudsen of Norway denied the truth
of her statement. Numerous cables
received in Christiania from Mme.
Schwimmer, addressed to p^ace or
ganizations ami discussing arrange
ments for the Ford party’s reception
and for cooperation in peace work,
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The Outside Bunch are milling
Like flies around a lamp
Because we*ve got $2,000,000,
And it’s bound to make a camp.
Hard time® are soon forgotten
Now let every fellow try
To paint a rosy future
With a drop of Sherwood Rye.
still lay in the Christiania telegraph
office because there were no such
organization to deliever them to.
Those who opposed Mme. Schwim
mer assert that she had thus tried to
deceive Ford concerning the strength
of peace sentiment in Scandinavia.
Mme. Schwimmer boasted that
sho had a “dossier” of every person
on the ship and that not a word was
said which sho did not know of al
most immediately. There were many
indications that this was no idle
boast. In throwing the expedition
upon the newspaper correspondents’
mercy at Stockholm, the Rev. Dr.
Charles F. Aked admitted that the
press representatives had many legi
timate grievances but insisted his
own grounds for complaint were even
better than theirs. He had made
heavy financial sacrifices to accomp
any the expedition, he said, and had
bet'n assured he was to have consider
able voice in directing its policies.
He had never, ho declared, seen Ford
for more than ten minutes at a time
and had practically no influence.
Herman Bernstein, the New York
Jewish editor, gave up his peace dele
gateship at Christiania and continued
the journey merely as a chronicler, at
his own expense. Mrs. Milholland
Boissevain resigned from the party
at Stockholm because she felt, she
said, all attempts at democratic con
trol of the party had been abandoned.
Governor Mann of North Dakota,
though professing to have left the ex
pedition at Christiania for personal
! reasons, said confidentially that it
would cost him thousands of dollars
j to explain to his constituents his cnr»
j noetion with such a party of “nuts ”
Judge Ben Lindsey and his wife
^ succeeded in interesting Ford, early
| in the voyage, in a plan for finding
! homes for European war orphans.
! The management, then controlled by
' Peace Secretary Louis P. Lochner
■ and Mme. Schwimmer, served notice
shortly after Ford’s departure for
home, that the steering committee
would repudiate any subsidiary move
ment which did not have the com
mittee’s approval. Such approval
5 was refused the Lindseys. Dean S.
S. Marquis of Detroit, Fold’s close
personal friend, was not on good
terms with Mmme. Schwimmer nor
j Lochncr. It was the general impres
sion that his influence was responsible
| for detaching Ford from the party.
S. S. McClure was denounced by the
management and for his part spoke of
of the expedition’s management in
terms of contempt. Differences were
j not forgotten when the party landed
The various splits widened. They
were not the result merely of differ
ent views. They were due to petty
rivalries for control of the expedition,
to individual ambitions and to the
i failure of the greater number of the
delegates to grasp the highness of the
Ford idea. Henry Ford, himself, did
not stick to his own ideal.
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WAR ORDERS DEVELOPS
MANY WOMEN MACHINISTS
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
CLEVELAND, Feb. 2.—So many
hundreds of women machinists and
mechanics have been developed in this
and other American industrial cent
ers since the European war boomed
business and cut off immigration,
that the American woman’s invasion
of the mechanical trades threatens
to vie with tho invasion of the same
field by women in Europe.
Thousands of women have been em
ployed for years on light mechanical
tasks in this country, but skilled
women mechanics manipulating giant
steel lathes, punches, drills trimming
presses and other heavy machinery, is
believed to be an industrial innova
tion in America.
This at least is true in Cleveland
which, with other cities is riding the
crest of the prosperity wave started
by huge war orders from the allies.
The cause is twofold: there is a labor
shortage and women are more effici
ent in certain mechanical work.
Whether women will continue their
invasion of jobs formerly filled by
men is, many manufacturers say, one
of the big factors to be reckoned with
after the war is over.
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NEWS NOTES
An enlightening little story which
has its moral occurred this morning
in the Seward hotel where George
Mirlach had stepped in for a moment. j
Someone was talking about the Gate
way.
“I never read the papers,” said Mr.
Mirlach.
Another party spoke a moment
later.
“Have you ever met Mr. Martir.
dale, Mr. Mirlach,” asked he.
“Hem’ do you do, Mr. Martindale,”
said our popular jeweller jus he held
out his hand. “I saw your name in
the Gateway just after you came in.”
Huh!
Messrs. Torrey and Hopkins, pro
prietors of the Seward Club, have in
stalled brilliant lights for their pool
and billiard tables. Each table hius
three GO-wat nitrogen lights. The
pool on the arrival of the first boat is
closed.
The bullet which came through the
ceiling of the Brown and Hawkins
store last night came within a few
inches of Tom Towle, the nightwatch
man.
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