Show J e FARMERS E S INSIST MUSCLE SI-IO SI SHOALS LS BE PUTt l PRODUCING CHEAP FER FERTILIZERS FE I IJ i r J p- p JJ ZI qI I. I t i i By Y R. R P. P BOWER BOER I e. e ti fr Member 1 I r r rt r Of President Coo Coolidge idge's s Muscle Shoals Inquiry u urY rY i l L J sc Su fers mir 11 t r Sr nr yr y r t I I r Muscle Shoals The Shoals The Farmers Farmer's Drea OI Cheap Chean Fertilizers Fertilize J. J what will be the next ext ch chapter pter in the long and d hectic career of Muscle Shoals Shoals' r The magnificent power dam stands fully completed te the tho 15 air nitrate plant is fUll fully equipped and ready to operate the turbine turbine- generators costing nearly half a million dollars each are in place and electric current is being generated generated gen gen- crated yet no nitrates are being produced Only a aart part of the electric current c V Is being utilized and aud this goes floes to t V the power monopoly of that region the the Alabama Power Company Company Company-at at ata a price Inice that fa falls Us by more than thau half haIr halfa haIra a million dollars a year t t to pay even 4 per cent Interest on the tho fair tall peace time cost of the dam and anel power plant The received by tho the Government is only two mills j ej kilowatt hour t A At same samee time farmers farmers farmers' aro are buying millions million of tons ton of off fertilizer each year car The uso use of fertilizer is slowly Increasing but It would go forth by leaps and anti bounds i if cheaper heaper fertilizers were available President Coolidge's l Iu Shoals Inquiry reported reported re re- ported that proper poper utilization o of Muscle Shoals would cut fertilizer costs 1 IS lu per cent Farm organizations have been able to work worl out with tho the leading air nitrates producers producers' of f America America- the American Company Company- a proposal r for r the operation of the Muscle Shoals plants on a basis oven better than Utan that offered by Henry Foul Ford and finally withdrawn by him when Congress him out with its dilatory tactics No wonder then that farmers are demanding of Congress quick end and lull cull disposal U I of the Muscle r J Shoals question In accordance with the tho pin purposes poses adopted when the tax taxpayers taxpayers' taxpayers taxpayers' tax payers payers' money moncy was appropriated this project namely for the pro pro- production of nitrates for fOl explosives in iii time timo of oC war and fertilizers in time of or peace Congressman C W. W F F. F J James of ot Michigan acting chairman of tho this this' Military Affairs Committee of times the t House has hns the chief responsibility for or getting early action on this 11 mat matter mat mat- t. t ter tel when time the now new Congress as assembles as ns se in iii December Congress greSS was ready to vote ote on oil a Muscle Shoals als leasing bill last session especially tho time Madden Madder bill introduced by Congressman Congressman Con Con- gressman Martin Madden of Illinois chairman o of the powerful appropriations appropriations appropriations committee But Mr James James' committee adjourned with with- without without out giving Congress tho the opportunity to vote on any bill t I t. t |