The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-24
URGE ACCEPTANCE
 OF FORD PROPOSAL
Franklin County Body Sends Appeal to All Other
 Civic Bodies


 Russellville. July 2S = (SpeeiaL'- The Russenville and Franklin County Chamber of Commerce has adopted the following resolutions urging the acceptance of Henry Fords proposal to take over Muscle Shoals:
 ITO the Several Commercial Clubs
 and Chambers of Commerce of the
 United States;
 Whereas crisis is facing the agricultural and commercial interests of the nation. Every organization and enterprise should rally to the support of the Ford proposition as to Muscle Shoals, Every newspap per-especiall our large and influential dailies- should spread a leader over their front pages calling upon the people 1 to demand of their representatives in the Congress 10 exert every influ- ence at their command for the ac- ceptance of Ford's offer They should not cease their eforts until every or ganization and individual in the country has made their desires known. This campaign should be carried to every section of the coun- try, for, in very truth it is not the south alone that Is vitally interested in this proposition, It touches the agricultural interests, especially, of every section. No part Of this great country is free of the need of fertil- 1 izers and as time passes, this will grow for the lands have lost their | fresh virginal fertility so richly
 stored in their depths originally, It | has been sapped by the feeding of ! s.b la.
 man and unless restored by man. will continually become poorer and poorer.
 "Ford's offer is not good simply ! because it Is Fords, but it is good be- cause of the nature of the offer. It i gives to the government a reasona~ | ble return-the only thing asked for On the investment, and retains Tor l future use the plants for the making l of explosives during war and the | navigation of a mighty river during | peace, and at the same time, provides i for agriculture that prime necessity. 1 nitrates, at ao reasonable price. No 1 other individual. corporation or com i pany would furnish the people this l prime necessity on an per cent basis as Ford agrees to do.
 Ford s dreamer, an altruist but he combines with these characteris- l tics the happy faculty of executive l ahiity unlimited We believe that l he is the only man who would de-
 velop Muscle Shoals to it's fullest capacity for service to humanity We | believe that he is the only man with means to handle the proposition that l would have that kind of conception l of it. With his wonderful ability as l an executive he combines the VIII 1 to rye taht makes him an idea l citizen. We wonder If in God s l providence, the mental, spiritual and
 financial ability combined in one
 man, has awaited the worlds great need for the development of one of | natures most wonderful resources | Since creation that power has been
 there. Civilization has progressed until the reources and possibilities Of
 that power are a vital need to human
 ity and the man with vision big
 enough and means almost unlimited
 is here and has offered to use it for
 mans good.
 'I ileie Is a great pressure being I brought to bear, by the opposition to Ford, on those who are in office
 whose duty it is to decide who they
 will let have this plant. The people
 want Ford to have Muscle Shoals
 Let us get together and do all in our
 power % give 1t to him. Be it
 Resolved, That we request the several commercial clubs and cham
 bers of commerce throughout the na-
 ton to join us in the effort to have Congress accept the Ford offer. and
 especially urg- that 'hey appoint
 committees for this purpose. ask the
 newspapers to carry prominent arti- olc and editorials or the p7upe s.-
 tion. communicate with their rep
 resentatives in Congress and use any
 other influence in their power to
 bring about this, the greatest com
 mercial and agricultural development of the nation, by letting Ford have ! Muscle Shoals
 I Yours for cooperation.