The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-18
IF HENRY FORD HAD BEEN
 SOMEBODY ELSE

0OMEbOOI ELSE
 Writing to Col. c. J. Hildreth of Albany, Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi ac- curately described the Muscle Shoals situation when he said, q believe that if Henry Ford had been almost anybody except Henry Ford, a practical working agreement in regard to him and the plant would have been long since reached. He has rendered himself, of course, politically and personally obnoxious to very many republicans, especially Senator Newberry of Michigan"
 Much of the resentment created by the dila- tory tactics government officials and Congress have shown in disposing of Muscle Shoals is due to a realization that there is more or less politics going on behind the scenes The De- troit manufacturer is not only offensive to the republicans, but he is feared as a competitor by powerful interests which have united in the fight against him.
 All of this opposition has merely strength ened the support MT. Ford is receiving from the farmers and others who have confidence in his integrity and ability Call it blind faith, if you will, but no other man in the country could have captured the imagination of so many people and won their allegiance.
 There will be more delays before the Muscle Shoals question is settled and even with the elimination of the Gorgas steam plant, the Ford offer would still meet with obstacles of one kind and another, but members of Congress who are squirming in their seats and keeping wary eye on the voter, know that if Henry Ford does not get Muscle Shoals the responsi- bility will be placed squarely where it belongs.
 
 The radio will be great comfort to arctic explorers when sitting all alone on a cake of ice.
 Spirtualism is weak in the kind of evi- dence that would be accepted in a court of law.
 It's great pity the Patagonian monster will never be captured It would put new life into the circus business.
 MT. Arbuckle's desire to resume work may be due partly to the fact that his three trials are said to have cost him $110,0oO.
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 The Bertha M. Clay style of literature had it's good points. It never brought blush of shame to maidens cheek
 At Genoa, as at Washington, it seems hard matter to keep France from spilling the beans. Long skirts may be returning, but the pro- gress downward is slow and uncertain.
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 Joe Humility has probably made his last att tempt to interpret the thoughts of Woodrow Wilson.
 Anybody who'd lambaste Judge Taft, that good, easy man, would steal the pacifer from an infant.
 The democratic eliminator seems to be working in the general direction of Jimmy Cox, but you never can tell about politics. Senator Borah is baffled again. He won't be able to have General Semenoff tried for murder
 MT. Harding continues to be the republican partys chief asset and Congress its greatest liability.
 We'd like to ask Sir Arthur Conan Doyle if poker is permitted in the hereafter and what the prospects for little golf
 The former Crown Prince of Germany is trying to tell the world through his book that he didn't agree with the Kaiser which is not particularly important, even if it happens to be true.
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 Some of our most promising criminals are young they could not have had time to take complete course in a school of bur glary.
 
 Andre Tardieu thinks America did well to stay out of the Genoa conference So far it looks as if Tardieu had sized up the situation correctly.
 Representative Tinkham says the Anti-Sa- loon league controls Congress. Does Mir Tink- ham regard this a recent discovery, or is he merely repeating thrice-told tale?