Ford as Don Quixote of Peace and Rivers and Harbors
The essay praises Henry Ford as a modern Don Quixote for seeking world peace with moral and financial courage, acknowledges mockery yet defends his generous, simple heart, and critiques rivers and harbors spending driven by political habit, noting recent efforts to curb unneeded projects while preserving essential commerce.
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Henry Ford
Cervantes
Don Quixote
Ford
New World
Henry
Army engineers urge abandoning costly projects nationwide
The Army Engineers advocate shelving existing federal projects including ones on the Missouri and Arkansas rivers. They warn many past undertakings cost four million dollars and proved useless. If Congress grants broader authority, more reports will push mass abandonments to yield substantial savings and curb pork barrel legislation.
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Preparedness debate defended by Daily News critic
The Daily News opposes the so called preparedness program and rejects claims of a subsidized press. It argues that in the United States there is no subsidy system for newspapers and defends editorial independence amid pro German and pro Allied debates.
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