Show FORD SPEAKS PLAINLY FORD Is a man mail of ideas people may agree with mth him or they may disagree but they win will all lime haie to admit that when mien it comes to broad vision und and producing a product tor for tile the masses on olt a tremendous scale at a minimum mini murn price ford Is gener generally aliv one jump ahead of the hounds in this industrial age in which rich he alixes lie recently gave an interview to the new york horld and the lie north american newspaper waldi furnished it its as a cop copyrighted rIghted article to leading dallies throughout the united states in this article henry ford assailed the enemies of light and potter industry mergers in his usual direct and simple manner lie he riddled file lie scarecrows scare crows which are placed i before the people for political effect in an effort to undermine their confidence la in primate power potter development and thereby aid the program for of american institutions fords article Is so ho good so full fall ot of plain horse borse sense air and understandable logic hat cleaione cle rione should have an all opportunity port unity to rend read it in part lie said mid I 1 the critics of linking up our electro cal power plants will get educated if they just go on criticizing that la is the principal mine of criticism anyhow it educates the critics I 1 what I 1 regard as important Is not the profit that comes to the promoters which Is comparatively small but the profits occurs to the public at large from any increase in our national wealth I 1 i who will develop power sites and i build power plants and organize the distribution trib ution of power if big capital does not do it certainly small communities cannot do it even large cities haie found that it takes more than a municipal election to initiate production these things require capital and ex per lence and in ili the united states thel the conditions of putting these under state and national direction have not been fao favorable rable political action Is always more potent patent to hinder binder development or to pro proa hibit wrong practice than it Is to encourage original development taller power power plants all over this country natural resources coal oil gas viator flow wherever pos 1 sible to give the people tile the fluid energy which A can be used in nil all types of industry that eliat Is a great need we need a net met work of these plants all connected with some central vision of nhat this country needs and can use j you cant get industrial production 0 on a large scale without the most efel I c lent dent kind of power as the first link in the prosperity chain j the critics speak of a trust brusti 1 and predict high rates tor for power it if nion mon 1 are allowed to go ahead in power production and distribution well I 1 am speaking peaking of lp power not of a trust it if ily by power trust they mean a linking UPI api upi oi of national power sources that Is what ahat Is if coming if by power trust they mean high binders who ullo can seize the sources sour cesi I 1 of power and then told hold up the people who ullo must use rise it that Is not possible except on tire the theory that hat we is are arc hack back in the dark ages of business power production Is a business by ii itself t it belongs to specialists most businesses would be glad to drop the manu facture of power and confine themselves to the manufacture of their oun oln special commodities it they have the privilege something line fine has been done for the economic condition of tile the country tile interviewer asked the industrialist s ti what assurance exists that any monopoly konopol will continue to furnish electric energy to small industries at reasonable cost 1 TI the e assurance that dig big business mere ly throttles itself by excessive charges i ft v as mr fords reply besides he be add ed americans are arc not dumb they know how low to make bac backward knard business men bo b J have modern power producers know that it if they charge at a rate that mat will mill provide for overhead and a fair return on the investment what any farmer fanner or bustness business man would consider a fair rate they are on a sound basis for then they have ave the confidence and operation cooperation co of 01 the buying public I 1 production of 0 power Is not so BO costly it Is the application of power that Is I 1 costly the people know what nhat they want wani and how much they can afford to pay tor for it and that lives fixes the limit the dnn dan ger of capping gapping gap ping tile public simply there the danger 1 Is that me men with money and the construct lie le experience u will III hesitate to step in and do the job there Is no use assuming that we ore are discussing something that may come superpower Is already here more power more interlinked 6 stems over tile the land would moan mean more work greater production and more prosperity for all the people but as I 1 said let the critics keep on they learn something that way 11 |