The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-02-16
Ford Sees Cities Swept
from America of the Future

cows in winter. The cities with their
concentrations of industry, are re-
sponsible.
The farmer will see the day when
both the horse and cow are done away
with. The horse will go because of the
concentrated energy of automobiles
mad tractors"
sBut what about the cows and their
milk ?" asked Mr.. Ford.
It is simple NATTER he replied,
| ito 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
Laboratories have already demonstrat-
ed that cows milk can be manufactur-
ed into scientific food by machines far
cleaner than cows and not subject to
| tuberculosis.
Meat Not Essential
"But what about the meat which the
cow provides ?" Mr.. Ford was asked.
] "Meat is not essential" he declared.
"a scientific food, such as / have
described, will not only take the place
of milk, but meat. AS for the horse,
he is twelve hundred-pound hay mo-
tor of the horse power. A little ma
chine half his size will equal 20 of
him."
/ 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 well as
in the cities, Mr.. Ford said his compa-
ny will be prepared to give financial
aid and cooperation to the towns and
villages in which it locates, such aid
going toward the building of sewers
and ether necessities.
/ Zone of the first demonstrations of
our plan is being made in town of
1900 inhabitants, 20 miles from De-
troit. Our factory there employs $50
men in the exclusive manufacture of
valves which we use both for the Ford
car and tractor. The transportation
is by motor truck, on good roads, the
ideal system of short haul transporta-
ton for railroad shipment farther on
1 Town Needs Sewer System.
/ "The town needs sewer system,
which the company is prepared to
build. 1t co-operates with the town.
people, so that there will be no need
of the town laundering in debt for
years under heavy issues of bonds-a
long standing evil from which no one
profits but parasitic non-producers,
such as the cities are filled with. This
/ will be our system in every small COM
munity in which we locate Improve
ments need not be limited to sewers"
Mr.. Ford announced that his COM
pany has taken over a water site at
Hamilton, Ohio, and has entered Is
other small communities
"Our plan is not to be confined to
one portion of United States, but will
extend throughout the country" said
Mr.. Ford.
eve will probably not limit it to the
United States England offers many
opportunities of this kind.
Idea in Smaller Community.
"The idea in the smaller community
Ford. "These. farming communities
| need their man power, and improved
mechanical farming methods will even
tually give men time to think of other
things than being held to crude farms,
Shaving through the winter for few
cows. They may work in one of our
factories until the time comes to plant
crops. They may then come back
when that work is done. There will be
no need for the farmer to leave his
farm or its surroundings for the I'M
natural conditions of American cities,
with their injurious effectsIon mental,
moral and physical life.
From sociological point of view
Also" continued Mr.. Ford, 1--WE have
found that there are fewer needy peo-
pie in smaller communities than in
cities. In the town of Dearborn, here,
we have had but three cases to look
into, whereas in Detroit there have
been too many"
Dearborn was the first location of
the big Ford tractor plant, and is Hen
ry Ford's birthplace. In this town,
once small village, there are streets
of attractive, well built dwellings, built
by Mr.. Ford for his employees at a
cost of about 25,000,000 during the
last two years. A comparatively few
employees of the Dearborn plant are
taken out of the factory each season
to work 5000 acres of land, Mr.. Ford
told the Tribune representative.
Farm Work fer Schools.
The Ford school, where about 200
boys are preparing for executive work,
ture. Before Ford tractors are paint
ed and prepared for market they will
be given days test by the school
boys on outdoor work. Practical agri-
cultural work on considerable scale
will be done, Mr.. Ford explained.
These youngsters have their own
bank accounts, provided personally by
the manufacturer during their tute-
late.
How long will it be before dent
will be made in America cities by your
plan ?" Mr.. Ford was asked. His ans
wer was as follows:
twenty-five years ago, there were
only three or four motor cars in the
world There were no electric street
cars 35 years ago. There were no
farm tractors, or airships and no wire
less Is years ago. There were no tele-
phones 80 years ago."
A New World Dawning.
The thought struck the interviewer
that, after all, it might not be impos-
sible that the next half century, per-
haps, might see the beginning of a