POLITICAL NOTES: Ford Speaks

Monday, Jul. 27, 1925

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"In the colleges of the Orient, scientific subjects are taught in English—not because English expresses the ideas better but because the textbooks have been written in English. Mechanics and engineering, being comparatively new, are in the languages of their discoverers. In India, China, Syria and Turkey, the teaching of science is in English, but it is not so in Japan.

"A few English words will become universal. Take the Ford car, for example. In India they refer to any car as the 'motor gari' and the Ford is the 'Fordt motor gari'."

*The Oneida, now unloading at Bordeaux to bring back a commercial cargo; the Onondaga, in the Caribbean returning with 1,600,000 ft. of lumber from Seattle whither she took Fords; the East Indian being reconditioned at Chester, Pa; the Henry Ford II and Benson Ford (named after a young son of Edsel) in the neighborhood of the Sao Canal, one carrying Ford products, the other returning with a commercial cargo. All carry the "Bluebird" ensign chose by Mr. Ford himself; cf. Maeterlinck.

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