The Monroe journal., 1922-11-10

the doom which awaits them at the
coming election they refuse TO per.
init the House TO function until il is
becoming less and less useful as a
1 branch of the Government, so much
so that even Secretary of War Weeks
SAYS this Congress has reached the
lowest ehb of any Congress in the
entire history of the Nation?
Even the staid old Boston Tran
script declares this is
the worst House in many years.
breaking more pledges than any Con-
gress in 20 years, its leaders being
leaders in name only, and for the
most part they represent either the
worst of the most stupid in either
party today, and by its record is un-
worthy of another lease Of power.
Conditions are such that other great
Republican newspapers condemn the
House in equally strong terms.
Ford 10 Work Out Farm Problems
"Mr. Ford also has a provision in
his offer about research that is eaus-
ing no end of anxiety to those who
have feasted and fattended so long
upon the public. What do the fSf-
tilizer companies want with research
They have been doing business for
so years with little or none of il,
and they have finallv educated the
farmer to buy their Wonder Worker
Corn Grower" with his eyes shut.
They have sold him dirt and sand,
inert matter, for years, all nicely
sacked and neatly labeled, and if
the compound contained only II
pounds of plant food and SIS pounds
of inert matter in l00-pound sack
that was no fault of theirs. The
very nature of the kind of business
they were doing required that il be
done that way, as though the farmer
did not have enough sense to mix the
l2 pounds of plan, food with IS
pounds of dirt and sand from his own
farm, thereby greatly saving freight
rates. And then by this methods the
railroads received more freight. and.
again, 100-pound sack looks like it
is worth more than l2-pounds sack.
(Applause.)
at was merely the result of using
the raw materials that are available.
To be sure, there had been disconcert-
ing moments when inventors had
brought out new processes, but, hap
PLY for the fertilizer interests.
the patents could be purchased and
locked up in a safe. without disturb
ing their normal business operations.
But here comes this fellow Ford with
a pile of cash as big as the Pyramid
Ghizeh and sends along his chief en-
gineer to testify that he is ready to
spend more than $50,000,000 to work
out the farmers problems. OF course,
it is preposterous, say these interests.
Ford Does Not Need This to Make
Money
But, Mr.. Speaker, let us drop this
point of view of the interests and
take up for a moment the viewpoint
of the great body of people who have
sent us here to Washington to repre-
sent them. No reasonable minded
man can claim for moment that
Henry Ford needs Muscle Shoals to
make money; he has a well-demon- |
strated working plant for that pur- |
pose at Detroit, Mich, which is one
Of the wonders of the world in mod
ern industries, and it is turning out
tractors and automobiles at the as
founding rate of 5000 per day. But,
Mr.. Speaker, with all due respect to
Mr.. Ford, il can hardly be said that
it is desirable to 90 down in history |
merely as a maker of 'flivvers,' how
ever successful in that art he may be,
and it is easy to appreciate that in
making this unmatched offer for Mus
Gle Shoals Mr.. Ford is seeking to
bu Id an agricultural monument to
that shall endure when the
last of the host of 'fivvers' has gone
TIE way Of all machinery"