New-York tribune., 1921-02-09
Ford Breaks
Silence, Denies
Tie Asked Loan
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them belong there by right. The hcti-
tious war prosperity Of the United
States lured them away"
Mr.. Ford has been giving much
thought to the subject Of cities and
their influence on industry and labor,
he said. In his opinion, cities event.
ually will disappear as great congested
manufacturing centers and of what he
terms industrial filth" Horses and
cows, he believes. will be superseded
by the concentrated energy Of machin-
cry and food, respectively. and must
disappear. The inventor Of the Ford
motor car believes that manufacture,
agriculture and transportat tion---the
three essentials on which this country
depends--can better work to mutual
advantage If grouped about small COM
munities rather than cities. He plans
"to promote industry and labor where
they belong, away from the present
congested centers, with their unwhole-
some aspects for workers, concentra-
necessities Of life and other clumsy
features"
"Cities have come to be unnatural" ;"
said Mr.. Ford. "They cause unnatural
unrest in mems minds. They have Gre
ated a condition which is robbing agri-
culture of it's man power, robbing the
worker and the manufacturer of nor,
NAL human conditions, and have Gre
ated the spectacle of the farmers pro-
duction having to be transported to
these great centers, to be treated or
milled or manipulated before they are
transported back again to the smaller
communities to be sold back to the
farmer. These conditions are artificial.
Aims to Utilize Water Power
"The Ford Company plans TO get a
large part Of its manufacturing away
from the great cities. We plan and are
already putting the idea into operation,
to utilize the water power of small
streams throughout the country for
making various parts Of our machinery;
beth for tractor and car. During the
next few years we will enter many of
the smaller towns and even villages
where the townspeople and even the
farmer, if he cares to, may have all
the work wanted. This work for the
farmer will come when he is not busy
on his farm, and so will add to his
earnings.
"The food raising season is compare
lively short, and the farmer is to-day
slave to enforced idleness and few
cows in winter. The cities, with their
concentrations Of industry, are re-
sponsible.
"The farmer will see the day when
beth the horse and COW are done away
with The horse will 60 because Of the
concentrated energy of automobile and
I tractors"
"But what about the cows and their
milk? ?" I asked Mr.. Ford.
at is a simple matter, he replied,
"to take the same cereals that the cows
eat and make them into a milk which
is superior to the natural article and
much cleaner. The cow is the crudest
machine in the world. Our laborato-
ries have already demonstrated that
cows milk can be done away with and
tho concentration Of the elements of
milk can be manufactured into scien-
tifc food by machines far cleaner than
COWS and not subject to tuberculosis. !"
Even Beef Not Essential
"But what about the meat which the
cow also provides ?" Mr.. Ford was
asked.
"Meat is not essential" he declared.
"a scientific food, such as | have des-
cribed, will not only take the place of
milk, but meat. AS for the horse, he
is twelve hundred-pound 'hay motor
CT one horse power. A little machine
Demonstrating his claim that farm
ers may work in Ford factories in
small communities, where all the es-
sentials of life can be had as we'll as
in the cities, Mr.. Ford said his COM