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Ford were to die today, (and he is past 73 years of age) the Federal inheritance tax on his estate would be so great that in all probability the estate could never be sold for enough cash to pay it. The Ford estate inheritance tax problem is one that has attracted national attention of late.

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Let us suppose then, that Mr. Ford had a deadlock battle with Mr. Lewis and his big union, as threatened. Was ever a man in better position than Mr. Ford to maintain almost any position he desired or chose to assume? Why, he could simply shut down his immense institutions for ever and for aye, and in the light of what must happen to his estate when he dies, he would be nothing loser. He would put hundreds of thousands of men directly out of emplo5rment for good; and additional hundreds of thousands who make their living distributing, transporting, selling, servicing, financing, upkeeping, oiling, fueling, etc., would likewise be out of employment personally. And, because Mr. Ford is going to lose most of his estate when he dies, anyway, you can easily assume that such action would not cost him or his family a thin dime. There would just be that much less for the Government to collect in inheritance taxes. ***

I am not in Mr. Ford's confidence, and do not pretend to know what he plans when the show-down with Mr. Lewis comes, but I'll say one thing; no man ever held such a whip hand. He has nothing to lose if he locks up his mammoth institution and goes fishing for the rest of his life. But hundreds of thousands of men, and multiplied hundreds of thousands of their dependents, would have to start life all over again. I don't think he'll have to go that far. But it might be well to remember that he is in no position to be crowded.

Unquestionably too *t":. I alu"top*"r,t of emotion has clouded some of the President's Supreme Couf,t plan discussion. But f read some figures the other day which were declared to be authentic and I believe are, that tell an interesting story without any effort at emotion. To offset Mr. Roosevelt's plea that he would have a Supreme Court not so given to vetoing the acts of Congress as the present Court, it was shown that Mr. Roosevelt himself has vetoed exactly 221 acts of Congress in the last four years, while the Supreme Court has set aside acts of Congress just 77 times in 148 years.

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Four to five decisions of the Court are criticized, yet one man vetoed 22t acts of the entire Congress in four years time, while in the entire history of this nation the Supreme Court has overruled Congress only eleven times by oneman majorities. Get the idea?

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Another statement advanced was contradicting the statement that it is young men that are wanted in the Court. It appears from the figures presented that no President in a century has appointed as many elderly men to the bench as has Mr. Roosevelt. A listing of his appointments shows mostly men of advanced years. The old age claim is something entirely new. ***

These are good times for following the advice of Abraham Lincoln, when he said in his first inaugural address: "My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it." ***

I was much impressed the other day by hearing a very interesting speaker tell from the Bible a story of Paul, the great Teacher. Paul was in Jerusalem, and the Chief Captain sentenced him to be bound and scourged. But to the Centurion who would bind him to the whipping post, Paul asked: "fs it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman?"

And the Centurion ** *ria*ed at the name of Rome, and he told the Chief Captain. And the Chief Captain askeh Paul if it were true that he was a Roman citizen, and Patrl answered "Yea." The Chief Captain marveled at Paul being a free man, and said to him: "With a great sum ob. tained I this freedom." Freedom to him was something he had had to pay through the nose for.

But Paul proudly ""ia to .nl Chief Captain: "BUT I WAS FREE BORN.''

And the speaker, in conclusion, asked this question: "fn the years that are to come, when the question of freedom arises with YOUR children and THEIR children, will they be able to answer, as Paul did-'I was free born'?-or will they have to reply as did the Centu,rion-'With a great sum obtained I this freedom'? That is, if they HAVE freedom."

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