Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1924-07-24
Cure For War Lies At
Muscle Shoals, Says Ford
Famous Manufacturer in Interview in
Collier, Points to the Possibilities OF
Producing Nitrates for War Power
Beyond Anything Ever KNOWN
But in the Interests of Peace.

NEW YORK, July 23-Henry Ford
believes great wars can be ended by
the United States welding the big
stick. In an interview with Samuel
Crowther in Golfers, the National
Weekly, for July 10th, Mr.. Ford de-
clares that potential nitrate production
al Muscle Shoals will make the United
States independent of Chilean nitrate
and able to manufacture high explosiv-
es on a colossal scale, undreamed. OF
by munition manufacturers, and' thus
develop war power beyond anything
that has ever been known. In the IN
terests of peace, he declares, 1T seems
that we shall have to do it"
Mr.. Ford states that war is moi
inevitable. "The world does not seem
to be tired of war in spite of the fact
that everybody lost and nobody won
in the last war. People are still think
ing that force and force alone, is I'M
portant, and they are going to go or
thinking in that way until force ap-
pears which makes the biggest forces
they can muster trivial in comparison.
He believes that force is latent in Mus
Gle Shoals, and that it can and must be
developed unless an enormous emer-
gency expenditure is to be totally
strapped
"Our bid for Muscle Shoals" hi
says. has been talked about goce
deal. but we have not been doing the
talking" He adds that his interest II
Muscle Shoals was that of preserving
national asset of vital value in flu
ture national emergency, and that il
there is better way of developing the
project than the one he suggested il
ought to be- adopted.
He describes the boosting Of the
price of nitrates for agricultural use
as poor, petty business" and that
nitrate profits could be readily multi
Piled by selling nitrate products to the
farmers as cheaply as possible. :.
"Petty larceny wars, he states will
die out of themselves" adding: eve
cannot prevent all war but we can pre-
vent great wars"
Mr. Ford believes that that potent
Instrument of war-making, the aero
plane, "can be commercially developed
as soon as they (airplanes) are taken
up in commercial way" Ground at
Dearborn has been given over to an
aviation field. GAS soon as we know
as much about them as we do about
automobiles-and that will not be long
they can be built by the thousands
or by the Millions" he declares.
It's Power VS.. Power, Not
Right Against Might
international justice is very apt to
be power balanced against power, in
stead of right balanced against right
and Mr.. Ford believe that the queer
combination OF banking and business
abroad. which he says is not common
" the case in America, results in war
as contest for markets. "The home
market is our chief concern" he con-
Guides. 1--WE have no temptation to
make war for trade purposes"
In the same interview in Golfers
Mr.. Ford refers to the recent oil IN
vestigation and its disclosures, assert
ing that "No people other than our
own would have kicked up such russ
The worst evidence that has been turn
ed up concerns action which in many
countries could be taken as a matter
of course. They expect their politicians
to act that way. These Investigations
would have scarcely been started ev-
en- in this country twenty or thirty
wears back. We shall have nothing to
fear so long as political rascallty is
exposed"