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Show m SAYS HE STILL FIGHTS Exerts Every Resource to Keep Hands of Wall Street Off Project DETROIT. March 17. Declaring that if "It's the last thing I do in this world. I'll exert every resource and everything at my command to Keep the hands of Wall street off Muscle islioalB." Henry Ford today broke his silence maintained during the last two months will regard to his offer to base and operat.- the "unriiment wa-terpower wa-terpower project In Alabama, Mr. Ford made the statement to the Detroit News in response to an intimation inti-mation reaching him to the effect that because of his silence, the people of the southern states had begun to wonder won-der whether he had lost interest in the project "Tell those people of the south." Mr Ford said, "that Wall street will have no part either in financing or operating Muscle Shoals if I can help it. If it's the last thing I do. I'll exert every resource and influence at m command to keep the hands of Wail uf-..t r.ft t H r. &,Vi-k4la nrnirr! .1 Mil !,!'- petuate it as a great example to the American peopie a living example of what they can do if they will safc-guard safc-guard the country's waterpower and develop it." "In Muscle Shoals Heq the freedom of American Industry, " Mr. Ford continued con-tinued During the war .tho country coun-try turned its every resource to help free the world from militarism. B militarism mili-tarism fostered by an international monev power. Now, in the same way, wo are going to fight to the last ditch to free American Industry and American Ameri-can agriculture from that same money power. If the American . people once can catch the idea of what waterpower means how It can be put to service in a thousand ways, cutting tho costs of Industrial power to a minimum and thus, through better service, make possible pos-sible a higher standard of living for all people, at a greatly reduced cost they never again will submit to the proposition that to got power they must pay tribute to Wall street "All the people need to catch the Idea is an example. A potential example ex-ample lies at Muscle Shoals. In a rense, the destiny of the American people peo-ple for centuries to come lies there on tho Tennessee river, because whoever controls a nation s powr controts that nation's people." |