The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-27
FORD DEALERS WILL MEET HERE TODAY
 FOR CONFERENCE
Reese Adamson Local Host and Pays Tribute to Man as Constructive
 Force

l ence today and for luncheon which will be held at the Tutwiler hotel. Accompanying the dealers is the chassis of the Lincoln car which is now being marketed by Ford repre- sentatives and it will be explained in full to the dealers present and will 1 be on exhibition at the establishment l of Reese Adamson at Fifth avenue and Seventeenth street.
 Among those who will be present are ". ". Mitchell, manager of the 1 Atlanta branch of the Ford Motor Car ! company. and Dan Iseminger. rep resentative of the Lincoln company.
 Reese Adamson will be the local host to the visitors today and in this 1 connection his remarks on Henry 1 Ford and the proposal to develop l Muscle Shoals which were made be- fore the Community club Saturday, 1 will be read with interest:i | "To do justice to my subject would | be a credit to the greatest orator or l to the most learned. l think, how l ever, that my few remarks will give you an idea of the biggest dream the worlds greatest dreamer ever dreamed-a dreamer whose dreams come true.
 There is a saying that. He who | serves best, profits most Henry 1 Ford has proven this saying to be i true. for his whole life has been de- voted to helping the other fellow and today he. is recognized as having more cash than any one man that ever lived. By building the best au- tomohile on earth at price that IS in reach of the people. he has created desire and sold the entire world on the motor car. The tastes of diff | ferent people have called for luxury and for different styles, and the ex- istence of other automobile manu- lecturers has been made possible While Ford gets 55 per cent of the automobile business, there is plenty of business left for the other manu- \ facturer. and nobody accused him of hurting the industry.
 Work in Betroit
 Henry Ford's operation of Muscle Shoals, and the manufacture of fer tilizer, aluminium, automobiles and l tractors will mean much to the en- tire world. and will make. in the years to come, his efforts in Detroit fade into insignificance by compari son. Detroit was comparatively a small city when the Ford Motor com pany was first organized, and today \ one-half of the city of Detroit or ap- proximately s5O,OOo people, are sup ported directly or indirectly by Mir. Ford.
 "The benefit derived from Ford's efforts is not confined to Detroit, the state of Michigan, or the United States, for motor cars are sold all over the world and every country in the world has profited by his genius : and by his education of the people to use motor cars
 Great Ford plants are also scat tered all over the world, and many thousand laborers are employed at a fair wage; their families are induced to improve living condition and take advantage of education. If Mir. Ford gets Muscle Shoals there will doubt less be great factories built. and I be- lieve that a great many products will be manufactured there and floated down the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers for export trade.
 Fertilizer and aluminium factories will doubtless spring up, and the combined group will give employment T to many thousands of now idle men. The state of Alabama will profit by having a taxpayer the size of Henry Ford-both by the taxes which he pays and by the taxes which will be
 
 laccumulate enough to be taxpayers themselves. This would indicate that the Muscle Shoals proposition is an Alabama proposition. but I am con vinced that, like his efforts in the past, the north, east and west of the Il United States will profit, and that every civilized country in the world will feel the effects of MT. Ford's ef- forts.
 MT. Ford is constructive, and not destructive, and he will create such a demand for fertilizer that I daresay he will not be able to supply any greater percentage of the demand for that article than he is able to do in the automobile business.
 Ford cars are playing an impor- tant part in the progress of business over the entire world, and millions are made happy by these cars, per hitting tired wives and pent-up chii- dren to enjoy the great out-of doors and to be revived by the fresh air. Schools are filled with children from isolated sections of the country through the use of these cars, and many people are able to go to church by the use of this wonderful convey ance.
 "The drudgery of the farm has 2 been changed into pleasant task by using the tractor built by MT Ford, and millions of tired shoulders have been relieved from heavy bur dens which have depriced them of the joys of living.
 Vision of Future
 ''If the companies who are fighting Mir. Ford could have a vision of the future and MT. Ford's developments they would see that manind would be lifted to still higher planes, and l.n where they could enjoy more pleas ant things in life. I think they would agree that a great market would be created for their products, and it would be to their interest to help him. To give the reason briefly why MT. Ford should have Muscle Shoals : is to say that he is a benefactor, and not in business to pay stockhold- } CTS dividends.
 "The entire force. both moral and ' physical. was put behind the allies in the World war, and motor cars } were put on the firing line at rate of 1000 day; Liberty motors. steam ships and other munitions of war were built in quantities on a cost basis, and the war was ended many years before it would have had it not been for this great benefactor
 'If the scriptural saying is true, By their deeds you shall know them, |, it would be a crime against civilizas- , ton to withhold Muscle Shoals from Mir Ford. and keep it from being harnessed for the benefit of man kind.
 Henry Ford has been the greatest benefactor the world has ever known, and his name will go down through future ages, honored and giorffied with the gratitude and blessing of