The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-24
FOOTBALL COACH
|. RECTTES OPINION
ON FORD OFFER
Dan McGugin, Confused
In House Hearing, Has
Attentive Audience
TELLS COMMITTEE
SOUTH HAS TURNED
go ages Referendum
Effect OF Ford
: Propaganda
washington Bureau)

4 WASHINGTON, April 23.-The
south. regarding the Henry Ford offer
for Muscle Shoals. made a mistake in
the beginning, and has turned over"
in great majority of it's people, ac-
cording to Dan McGugin, football coach
and between seasons legal representative
Of the Tennessee Manufacturers sasso-
citation.
The gridiron expert. in his testimony
before the Senate committee on agricul-
ture, today furnished an excellent OPP
portunity for virile supporters of the
Ford offer and defenders of the people
Of the south to confuse him by pointed
crosszexamination, but the members of
the committee who might have leveled
a lance in behalf Of, Ford and the south
were absent
Show No Worry
In this connection, it has become the
subject of comment that advocates of
the Ford offer have displayed very little
interest in it's behalf, or anxiety that
opponents of that offer have completely
run away with the situation since the
Senate committee initiated its hearings.
While the Alabama House members were
animated by apparent enthusiasm when
the proposition was before the HOUSE
committee, only one of them, Representa-
tive r.. B. Almon Of the Eighth dis
trict, has even looked upon the pro-
ceedings since the scene was changed.
Senator Underwood, on the floor Of
Senate, has demanded that hAsty action
be taken, but he has not appeared in
the chamber of the committee. 1t has
also been noticeable that J.. W. Worth
ington. local representative of Mr.. Ford,
l. - n ~
mot darkeped the doors 0f the commit
To- VI sInbeT. @Tsy HilseF, epokesfl1an for
tie azesioan Earn Hureau federation,
has not been Observed among the inter-
eafed spectAeDf6 In consequence the o.
fer Of Ford has Appeared in the role Of
the Abandoned orphan. To enhance this
feature of the situation. Senator Norris
announced today that whereas Mr.. Ford
himself had declined to come to Wash
inEton to explain and defend his offer
against repeated attacks Of its critics,
w. B. Mayo, his chief engineer, who
was selected to appear before the COM
mittee, was somewhere in northern
Michigan and could not be located"
Everything His own Way
McGusin had everything his own way
today. His appearance before the House
committee resulted in his utter confu-
sion. But his auditors this morning ac-
copied his opinions with delight, and at
adjournment invited him to return
further to 'elucidate" the situation. The
four senator's who heard the bulk of his
testimony, Norris, Kendrick. Mangus
johnson and Ransdell, frequently inter
rupted the continuity Of the story by
interpretations respecting southern char
acteristics, child labor legislation and
the tariff on butter. 1t was on the sub
ject of production as contrasted against
marketing that johnson declared in
stentorian tone his disgust that farmers
desired fertilizer to increass their har-
vests.
Il can't see," he exclaimed. why they
pay 80 damned much attention to pro-
duction."
Whereupon, be left the chamber in
high dudgeon, and McGugin resumed his
testimony.
Big business, according to McGugin,
wants dissemination of Muscle Shoals
power, not its Capitalization. He con-
fessed that big business feared the com.
petition of Ford. his ability to produce
for the good of humanity, his willing
ness to pay labor living wage
He declared to the committee that
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