Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-11-15

wages-Farmers- for President
Jews.
Promptly at five o'clock at the Dear
born Independent Henry Ford arrived
| visited with him for two hours and
again on the following morning for
another two hours. He is the easiest
man to talk with | have ever met. He
is natural. He talks without reserva,
tions and when he makes state
ment, it has a ring that is true. Above
all, there is an unmistakable fearless
ness in his kindly face; and his keen
blue eyes radiate strong sincerity
of purpose.
Henry Ford has no more interest in
running for the office of the Presi-
dent of the United States than he has
an ambition to become a bootblack in
Detroit's leading hotel. This is my
personal opinion as a result of twice
meeting with him and discussing
everything else but politics. | carried
away the very definite impression
that he has several interests which
have infinitely more attraction than
politics. Then, too, Mrs. Ford has de-
creed that there shall be no politi-
clans in the family.
Talks Of Muscle Shoals
On the subject of Muscle Shoals,
he was extremely alive. He seemed to
have had and still was in possession
of deep interest in the governments
disposition of this property.
"The Muscle Shoals Plant should
always remain in American hands
But, anyone who will take the trouble
to investigate, will find that the Cor
gas Power Flant, recently sold by the
War Department to the Alabama Pow
er Company, is not in the hands of
American capital The money behind
this company is British. There lies
the danger of selling this property
piecemeal. This great nitrate plant
can be turned into munition factory
on five days notice, and it is practical
to do so, providing it is kept intact.
I agreed in proposal contract with
the government to keep it as unit,
in order that it might be readily trans
formed should the emergency require.
Henry Ford has a habit which
transcends the commonly accepted
meaning of the word, to the degree
that his hobby is almost a passion
with him. In the pursuit of his life
business activity, this hobby has per
colated thru his program in such a
way that it is almost his principal
business. That hobby is farming.
Works His Farm.
1t was on farm that Henry Ford
was born. Starting as a farmer boy,
he remains a farmer today with six
thousand acres of the best farm land
in the State of Michigan. His purpose
in building an automobile was to
make it so reasonable that the farm
er could afford car. Having done
this, he turned his attention to MAX
ing a tractor which could do the
wholesale labor of the horse in the
fields, and today the farmer is numer-
Gus who turns over twelve burrows
with a Ford tractor where he plowed
one before When he saw for the first
time the Muscle Shoal Nitrate fields,
he visioned another great advance
ment in the interest of the farmer, in
the manufacture of fertilizer on a
tremendous scale From those nitrate
eds he saw the resotling of thousands
of worn-out farms. His six thousand
acre Dearborn farm is today conduct
ed as an agricultural laboratory, a
farming experimental station. He
sees things thru the eyes of the farm
er always.
AS / walked about this farm,
saw all kinds of experiments in pro.
gress. There were horses, COWS, pedi.
greed stocks of all kinds, deer, and
in fact nearly every kind of animal
which is of use to the farmer in any
section of the United States.
Even weeds" said Ford, they are
the farmers very good friend if pillow