The Cordova daily times., 1922-04-25
SOUTH PULLS
 FOR H. FORD
Auto Maker s Ability to Pay High Wages
 Sways Many.

ATLANTA, Ga., April 25.-If any one north of the Mason and Dixon line is of the opinion that anyone but Henry Ford would be welcome at Mus cle Shoals, Ala, as operator and lessee of the governments huge waterpower and nitrate plants there it would not require more than fifteen minutes in any Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi or Florida community to convince him that he was wrong. So far wrong, in fact, that he probably would wonder how he 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 ut most from a working man and pay him exceptionally good wages, and
 Fords 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 greatest opportunity for advancement it ever has seen. They believe that if any one else gets the plant possible fail ure 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 Ford wants it, that the Alabama Pow CT Company 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 center of the United States, there exists the great est water-power project in the world It ranks greater than Niagara itself in potential power, experts hold, and dwarfs all other enterprises.
 Those in the South who know about the river realize that their bread and butter depend in the future mainly upon such developments. The South is a network of high-tension elec- tricity transmission cables. There is the Alabama Power Company, the Georgia Railway and Power Company, the Southern Power Company and other lesser fry. Tn mountains of Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas abound in excellent water-power sites, and the electricity developed from them serves the South That is why the average Southerner wants some one to get hold of Muscle Shoals in whom he has the greatest faith. Henry Ford's success in enterprises where 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 and child The situation has reduced it. self to this: Are you for Ford or against him?" It doesn't make any diff ference whom else may be for Ford, the South is interested in getting boosters for the Detroit man.
 PRESSURE OF 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 legislature is being warned that it had better bend it's neck to the yoks and pull for him, and the Gov ernor of Alabama knows this. He has announced himself-right out loud  strong for Ford.
 The entire citiZenry of Alabama and Georgia-at least it is entire so far as anyone has been able to dis cover - have massed themselves to- gether in Ford boosting society. At a mass meeting recently held in Mont gomery and another in Atlanta senti- ment 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 it stands. Unless MT. Harry Ford, the eminent citizen of Detroit,