Article December 3, 1921 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from J. Edgar Park, Roger W. Babson

[Henry Ford in The Dearborn Independent]

More important than anything the Conference (on Limitation of Armament) may do or fail to do, is the faith of the people in what is right. It is very important what ground we have for our faith. If we pin it to a person, he may fail us; better pin it to a principle. If we pin it to a conference, it may sell us out; better pin it to the truth of the future. Versailles has made millions of cynics. Why? Because they founded their faith on Versailles. But has Versailles made any truth less true? Has it made any lie less false? What failed at Versailles? Only the men who had in their hands the highest climax of opportunity which the old era had ever offered. That's all. Truth is so much the gainer, because now the world knows what error can and will do.

[From "Is There Anything in Prayer?" an Editorial in The Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado]

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