The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-18

the charge of forgery, which carries a penalty of from ten to twenty years penal servitude. His case was heard in the criminal division of the circuit court
 When Wares wife was arrested Mon day in an attempt to free him from the jail and was ineareerated on a charge of being a dangerous suspicious char acter, Ware immediately wrote letter to James Davis, assistant solicitor, say ing that if his wife was released he would plead guilty to the charge of for tary Illinois Agricultural Association and other members of this association includ- ing Dr. Robert Stewart, College of Agri- culture, University of Illinois, and Arthuf C. Page, editor of Orange Judd Farmer
 They go for an inspection of the govern. ment air nitrate plant and water powet where the government has invested up- ward of eighty million dollars for the manufacture of munitions in time of war and fertilizer in time of peace.
 1t is understood that these men repre- senting the agricultural interests of H. linois are deeply interested as to the out come of the Muscle Shoals enterprises.e The fertilizer problem is the biggest sin gle problem the farmers are having to work out at time when more food and clothing are demanded of the farmers and labor saving devices are being called into use everywhere and in every industry.
 Intelligent fertilization is one of the very greatest labor saving devices a farmer can use and no farmer in America has a better understanding of this fact than the middle western farmer where la DOT saving devices mean infinitely more there than in the south because farm labor is several hundred per cent higher in the middle west than in the southern r-fa seo4t 4t.fts. II purpose for which the plant was origi- more and more fertilizers of the higher grade from year to year
 There is a growing sentiment through
 out agricultural America that the Muscle Shoals plants must not be junked, that they must not be leased nor sold to cor porate interests, thereby defeating the pu-pose for which the plant was orgi- Eally established, the manufacture of munitions in time of war and the nanu- fracture of fertilizer in time of peace. It wll be recalled that Mir. Thompson visi- ted Washington some time ago on be- half of the Chamber of Cornerce of Birm- lngham to study the Muscle Shoals mat ter and his report disclosed some very important facts. MT Thompson has re- cently been impressed that unless the leading farmers. the thinking farmers the informed farmers, the influential far ners of the country, regardless of section protect their interests at Muscle Shoals tbeir interests will go to waste there and their opportunity will be lost To this end MT. Thompson is calling Muscle Shoals enterprises nitrate plants and power development to the attention of such farmer organizations and representatives as are accompanying him on this trip
 The farmers feel that no matter what the recent investigation may disclose as to waste during war time at the Mus ele Shoals plant, is no argument why the plant cannot be successfully operated in peace times and these disclosures should not defeat the purpose of the original bill, viz: the manufacture of munitions in time of war and fertilizers in time of peace. The south's only claim to the plant is the location and Muscle Shoals water power was determining factor in that. It is more and more being realized chat it is not the south's problem to save Muscle Shoals government nitrate plants, but the nations problem and the farming interests throughout America are giving
 he matter intelligent study and care. ful consideration.