Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-10
HENRY FORD TALKS
At BERRY SCHOOLS;
May BUY MINES

ROME, Ga, April 8.-Without the
least publicity and almost without
notice, Henry Ford and a party of
friends reached Rome Saturday
for short visit at the Berry school,.
which Mr.. Ford said was to fulfill
a promise given to Miss Martha
Berry, head of the institution, al
most two years ago.
On the arrival of the party, they
were taken to the Berry school
chapel, where the hundreds of stu
dents had assembled to greet the
manufacturer.
In Mr.. Ford's party were Mr.. and
Mrs. C. L. Kingsford, of Detroit, and
Frank Campbell Mr.. Ford's secre-
tary. They had been met at King
ston, a station about eighteen miles
from Rome, by Miss Berry and
| friends.
Ford Praises School Work
Following brief program of
school songs and devotions, Mr..
Ford was introduced by Miss Berry,
and spoke for a few minutes. He
expressed admiration for the work
Of She schools, and urged the stu
dents, when they returned to their
communities, to aid in every way
possible in the development Of water
power, regardless of the smallness
of their streams.
Mrs. Ford spoke briefly in appre-
citation of their cordial welcome and
the good work of the institution,
and Mr. Kingsford expressed similar
sentiments. Robert Maddox, of At
lanta, who had joined the party
there and who has been treasurer
Of the Berry schools board of di-
rectors, paid a glowing tribute to
the work Of Mr.. Ford in increasing
and cheapening the transportation
facilities of the country.
Welcomed for City
A welcome was extended on the
part of the city by Judge Moses
Wright. After the exercises at the
chapel Mr.. and Mrs. Ford met the
students on the campus, shook hands
with them and gave them some sug-
gestlons in regard to making their
lives useful.
A report is current here that Mr..
Ford has, bought or is planning to
buy number of beauXite mines in
this vicinity. There are some large
deposits of beauXite near Rome.s
ToR - ~
idential boom, Mr.. Ford smiled de-
preciatingly, and said:
II don't even know where it start
ed, and I am not interested in it,"
AS he said this he smiled at Mrs.
and who said very promptly: "If
Henry really went to the White
House to live there, he would have
to go without me-
On the Muscle Shoals question,
Mr.. Ford was rather reticent, saying
the proposition is now baking in the
oven and I don't want it to burn"
Says Country Can Assist
He said the press Of the country
could assist in the success of the
plan and that the people of the en-
tire southeast and of the whole coun-
try should be Just as interested as
he is in the proper and speedy de-
velopment of Muscle Shoals.
Reverting to the function of water
power in his own plant at Detroit.
Mr.. Ford said he had harnessed only
a small stream there, a very narrow
river to operate one Of the most i'm
portant departments of the plant
and that, using it's force alone, he
was manufacturing 10000 day of
| one of his auto parts.
by the way" he declared, II en-
ploy only women in that department,
116 of them, and each draws six dol
lars day"
The Ford party will remain, here
over Sunday, leaving Sunday night,
or early Monday morning for the
north