Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-12-12
Huddleston To Lead Fight
In House For Ford Project

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Dec. 1O-The
Friendliness of Congressman George
Huddleston for the Musscl Shoals pro-
rect of Henry Ford was declared in an
interview last Friday when the con-
gresham was a caller at the Review
office.
Later dispatches from Washington
and the still more recent statement of
Henry Ford at Sheffield, confirms
what the ninth district congressman
declared in a conversation with the
editor of the Review.
xsMr Huddleston is thoroughly in
favor of the Ford project going thru
and is going to keep up his efforts
to that end. He believes according to
a statement given out in Washington
Monday. that Secretary Weeks will
recommend acceptance OF the offer to
congress, and Huddleston believes that
the lower house will vote decided ma
jority to give Ford the chance he
wants at the Shoals.
But Congressman Huddleston is not
sure OF the senate He believes. just
as many other thinking persons be-
lieve. that the plans OF Ford will en-
counter their greatest opposition in
the upper house of congress. Huddle-
ston emphasized. in his conversation
in the Review office, the necessity of
bringing pressure to bear on the SEN
ate if early and favorable action was
expected.
The statement of HuddleSton in the
Review office made clear the declar
alton of Henry Ford at Mussel Shoals
on the day of his arrival there Ford
remarked that such depended on the
action of Congressman Huddleston,"
and for the time being let it go at
that. Many persons did not compre-
bend the full meaning of Ford's state
ment until he made later statement
declaring Huddleston friendly and the
man whose work in pushing the mat
ter would have much weight IN both
the upper and lower houses of Con-
grcss.
Congressman Huddleston discussed
the matter at length with the editor
of the Poview. With the farmers sup
porting the Ford plan, with labor an
xious for it to succeed and with the
great mass of people strongly endors-
ing the acceptance Of the offer by the
government Huddleston believes that
representatives in congress of the peo-
ple affected should work hard to make
| it certain.
Tt is expected that when Secretary
| Weeks refers the matter to congress
with recommendation that the offer
be accepted. A fight will Immediately
begin. In the lower house. Mr.. Hud-
| dleston thinks that a very decided
| majority will vote for the Ford plan.
passing the matter Immediately to the
senate for action 1t is there that Hud-
! dleson and hundreds of others anti
cipate red tape. delay and stiff oppo-
stion from special interests opposed
to Ford and strongly entrenched in
the upper house.
Ford's Injunction to watch Hud-
dleston." delivered at Mussel Shoals
! comes to have a new significance in
the light of later events. Whether
Ford believes Huddleston will uncover
some of the really powerful and partly
hidden opposition remains to be seen.
| Those who know the "big little con-
gresham from Alabama. fully appre-
ciate his ability to handle the matter,
and his friendly attitude is worth a
great deal to the South and the ma
ton in the coming fight. 1t is quite
probable that he will go far toward
uncover,ng and showing up in their
true light the forces opposing Ford.
both in the lower house where he be-
longs and in the upper house as well.
Meantime, now more than at any
time in the past. it is up to those who
want to assure Ford getting Mussel
Shoals to get busy with their represen-
tatives at Washington. The senate is
the place to concentrate the fire.
Leave the lower house to Huddle-
ston-Southern Labor Review.