The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-12
South Wants To See Ford Secure
 Muscle Shoals

north of the Mason and Dixon line is of the opinion that anyone but Henry Ford would be welcome at Muscle Shoals, Ala, as operator and lessee of the Governments huge waterpower and nitrate plants there it would not require more than fifteen minutes in gay Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, e-z:ss1ssippi or Florida community to convince him that he was wrong. So far wrong, in fact, that he probab ply would wonder now ne ever got that way.
 The specialization of sentiment for the Detroit manufacturer has taken place, it is asserted by those most in terested in the Herculean efforts be- ing put forth in his case for several reasons, among which are:
 FOrd's known ability to get the utmost from a working man and pay him exceptionally god wages, and Ford's known inclination to sell his products at low market price.
 Farmers, business men, and just ordinary citizens believe that unless Ford gets the nitrate plant and cleo tric plant on the Tennessee River the South is going to lose the great est opportunity for advancement 1t ever has seen. They believe that if anyone else gets the plant possible failure faces the enterprise and, also. the exploitation of the South's pro- ducers-
 Greater Than Niagara
 The average man knows little Of Muscle Shoals. He hears that Henry F'ords wants it, that the Alabama Power Co. has claims on it, and that several bids have been made for the property. But he does not know that at Sheffield and Florence, Ala, on the Tennessee River, which lies south of the supposed industrial cen ter of the United States, there exists the greater water-power project in the world. t ranks greater than NJ
 ial rnn N perts hold, and dwarfs all other en- terprises.
 the river realize that their bread ana butter depend in the future mainly upon such developments. The South is a network of high-tension electrlc- ity transmission cables There IS the Alabama Power Company, the Geor- sia Railway & Power Company, the Southern Power Company and other lesser fry. The mountains of Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas abound in excellent water-poWer srtes. ana the electricity developed from them serves the South. That is why the average Southerner wants someone to get hold of Muscle shoals Tn whom he has the greatest faith Henry he already has waved his magic wand stamps him as being of that type, SouthernerS believe.
 Therefore the South has enlisted in the Ford cause-man. woman ana child The situation has reduced IL self to this: Are you for Ford or against him?'' It doesn't make any difference whom else may be for Ford the South is interested in getting boosters for the Detroit man.
 Pressure on Politicians
 Politicians are being told that they needn't come around next election day if they are not doing their best tO hand over Muscle Shoals to Ford The Ilegislature is being warned that it had better bend its neck to the yoke l and pull for him, and the governor of Alabama knows this. He has an n0uuced himself-right out 4ond- strong for Ford.
 The entire citiZenry of Alabama ana GeOrgia-at least 1t is entire so tar as anyone has been able to d1scoVer-I have rnassed themselves together in a Ford boosting society. At mass recently held in Montgom- cry and another in Atlanta sentiment was expressed in enthusiastic terms.
 There isn't any mistake about where the South stands, and, what's more, the South wants the world to know where 1t stands. Unless MT. Henry Ford the eminent citizen Of Detroit Mich gets control of Muscle Snoais Inc south is very likely to vent us wrath somewhere in the nelghpor- hood of a good-sized bunch or Con pressmen. The fact that Henrys or fer contains some features that some do not like doesn't 1n- 7To1ca the folks of the South.