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The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
May 3, 1924 
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Things To Think About 
The Mystery of Henry Ford 
Since we asked the readers to tell us 
why Henry Ford enjoys the full con¬ 
fidence of the American people while 
most other rich men are viewed with 
suspicion, we have had a good many 
opinions. The following three are typi¬ 
cal of many. There can be no question 
that Ford is the most popular American 
today. 
CHEAP CARS AND PARTS 
You ask why Ford has such a hold 
on the people. Here is one main rea¬ 
son : Ask any user of his cars, tractors, 
etc., what they pay for the extras, and 
it is only a fraction and sometimes a 
small one at that compared to the prices 
charged by others. Leaving out all ques¬ 
tions as to the good he has otherwise 
done and the use or also misuse of his 
cars, they certainly save much misuse of 
poor horses. If the auto business was 
in the hands of a trust what would he 
the price? For rich only and that would 
not take in the farmers you well know. 
Mr. Ford sells his extras so low one 
cannot help think he has a heart in him, 
and does not sell to a poor man and 
charge an exorbitant rate of interest. 
This is the reason mainly for Mr. Ford’s 
popularity, in my opinion, at least. Can 
any point to one dishonest act in public 
life he has done or one case of extortion 
or otherwise? And this is the reason, 
in these days of corruption and graft he 
is looked up to by the common people for 
his rugged honesty as no other man since 
the beloved Lincoln. 
If he was a natural leader of men and 
was in the saddle, don’t you think some 
of these grafting politicians who fear and 
hate him so, would go quickly? I have 
no admiration for Mr. Ford for his piling 
up such a large fortune, or for his at¬ 
tacks on the American Jews, but give 
him credit for what he has done and is 
doing. LEROY LLOYD. 
New York. 
USED UIS WEALTH HUMANELY 
You ask “Why do the people want 
Henry Ford to have Muscle Shoals?” 
and then compare him with Standard 
Oil—Rockefeller and other rich men. It 
does not, to me, seem like a difficult 
problem to solve. Henry Ford is a rich 
man, but from the standpoint of the 
people, he is entitled to all the wealth he 
possesses, while the statement does not 
apply to many, if any, other rich men 
in our country. Ford’s business policy 
has been to give the people his products 
at unprecedented low prices, and at the 
same time paying labor the very highest 
wages known. 
Rockefeller typifies other rich men and 
his policy has always been to squeeze the 
people all the traffic will bear and drive 
all competitors out, that will not join in 
fixing prices, and paying his help the 
smallest price he could, and get away 
with it. 
Our government officials have been 
very backward about giving Ford’s bid 
for Muscle Shoals favorable considera¬ 
tion, until it began to look dangerous to 
each Senator and Congressman, to ex¬ 
pect to be re-elected, if he voted “no.” 
The people expect, and justly so. from 
past experience with Ford, that when he 
becomes in possession of Muscle Shoals, 
that farmers will be benefited, all over 
the country by his facilities and desire 
to furnish fertilizers at unheard-of prices, 
and to reap a good share in any and all 
things that Ford’s ideas, and the enor¬ 
mous natural water power combined, will 
make possible. 
He is looked upon as a public bene¬ 
factor of the greatest magnitude. The 
people realize, that because of his busi¬ 
ness methods, we not only buy his make 
of automobile at surprisingly low figures, 
blit that he has forced all other autos 
to lower levels. Automobiles are the 
only manufactured machinery that is 
selling at less than pre-war prices. 
New Jersey. R. D. NORTON. 
NOT SO SURE OF XT 
You say: “Who can tell why Henry 
Ford enjoys this confidence, while other 
wealthy men are viewed with distrust?” 
Well, it is astonishing to say the least, 
why so many persons, seemingly intelli¬ 
gent, would have Mr. Ford take over 
Muscle Shoals for a period of 100 years 
for good or evil, so far as the United 
States is concerned, when it is almost 
being proven that people become mani¬ 
festly dishonest, corrupt and selfishly 
greedy every four and eight years or 
from one administration to the other, 
whether Democratic or Republican. 
Even though Mr. Ford were to pay 
full value for Muscle Shoals I submit 
that it would be a very dangerous thing 
to do to lease suc-h a vast enterprise 
to anyone for so long a period as 100 
years, but wlren it is recalled that, as 
you state on page 596. he is only paying 
;a pittance of what Muscle Shoals is 
worth or has already cost Uncle Sam, It 
goes beyond the comprehension to under¬ 
stand it. 
Here is a statement made by Senator 
McKinley of Illinois, recently : 
“In addition to the .$90,000,000 of 
property to be given Ford along with the 
Muscle Shoals power, the government 
must still expend $6S.000,000 in cash of 
taxpayers’ money. Why is this never 
mentioned? Mr. Ford will not accept 
the gift until that cash is furnished by 
the taxpayers.” 
Commenting on this statement, the 
Chicago Tribune says : “We were under 
the impression that we had made it clear 
that Ford demands the completion of 
government improvements at government 
expense, to a total of at least $135,000.- 
OO0 as one of his requirements for taking 
over Muscle Shoals.” 
There are two reasons, in my opinion, 
why Ford enjoys the confidence of so 
many people, while other wealthy men 
are viewed with distrust. One reason 
is that thousands of persons ride in Ford 
cars, and yet have never stopped long 
enough to ascertain whether or not those 
thousands have been injured or benefited 
in the long run. The other reason is that 
other thousands, particularly the farmer?, 
have heard that Ford would furnish 
cheap fertilizer, but have never used 
their heads to find out how it would bene¬ 
fit them to get cheap fertilizer, and have 
their government sacrifice untold millions 
of dollars to do it. 
Virginia. a. Sidney johnston. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOMESTIC.-—April IS a caravan of 
about 700 tourists from California at¬ 
tempted to break through the Arizona 
quarantine at Yuma, and were repelled 
by guards with fire hose when they 
rushed the inter-State bridge over the 
Colorado River. Later the tourists were 
allowed to enter Arizona after their au¬ 
tomobiles had been run through disin¬ 
fectant. The efforts to keep foot-and- 
mouth disease out of Arizona led to a 
request for Federal troops to enforce the 
quarantine against California on the 
Yuma Indian Reservation, but this was 
denied as illegal by Secretary Weeks 
April 21. 
Lieut. Commander Louis S. Scheibla 
of the navy was drowned in the Potomac 
River near the Dahlgren Proving 
Grounds, Washington, D. C., April 17, 
when an airplane in which he had landed 
turned over. The plane was piloted by 
Lieut. S. B. McMurrain, who was 
rescued. 
Eight firemen are known to have been 
killed and a score of other firemen and 
spectators were buried beneath the fail¬ 
ing walls of a burning four-story box 
factory, near 14th St. and Blue Island 
Ave., Chicago, April 18. Twenty fire 
companies were working on the blaze, 
whose intensity had attracted a large 
crowd. A steel water tower had just 
been raised alongside the front wall when 
there was an explosion and the wall fell 
•outward, trapping firemen and specta¬ 
tors. 
Four persons, including a father and 
two sons, were killed and a third son was 
mortally injured when a Boston-bound 
train on the Maine Central struck their 
automobile at a crossing at Lewiston, 
Me.. April 20. The dead are Adolph, 
Egide and Eugene Valle, and Paul Dube, 
all of Lewiston. Leger Valle, driver of 
the automobile, is not expected to live. 
Six firemen were injured, one seriously, 
in a spectacular five-alarm fire that 
swept half the block of lumber yards 
lying between Fifth, Lewis and Sixth 
Sts. and the East River, New York, 
April 20, with an estimated loss of $250.- 
000 . 
A joint resolution was adopted by the 
U. S. Senate, April 21, authorizing 
changing the name of Mount Rainier, 
Wash., to Mount Tacoma. 
The young woman commonly called 
the “bobbed-hair bandit,” w r ho was ar¬ 
rested with her husband in Jacksonville, 
Fla.. April 20, returned to New York, 
April 22. She is Celia Cooney, aged 20. 
and was assisted in her crimes by her 
husband, Edward Cooney. There are 10 
hold-up charges, which included the 
shooting of one man, the money taken 
being listed as $1,601. 
WASHINGTON—April 17 a bill was 
introduced by Senator McKellar of Ten¬ 
nessee under which no corporation would 
he permitted to contribute directly or in¬ 
directly in connection with election of a 
President or Vice President. The maxi¬ 
mum permissible contribution to a Presi¬ 
dential campaign by any one person 
would be $500, while $100 would be the 
limit in campaigns for the Senate or 
House. No national committee may 
spend in excess of $1,000,000 ip any na¬ 
tional c-ampaign, and may not contribute 
anything to State or local committees to 
help bring about the election of a Presi¬ 
dent or Vice President. 
The Senate April 18 passed the Immi¬ 
gration Bill with quotas based on the 
1890 c-ensus and containing a section ex¬ 
cluding Japanese and abrogating the 
gentlemen's agreement. Premier Kiyoura 
told American newspaper men Ambassa¬ 
dor Hanihara would not he recalled. The 
Premier explained the Ambassador’s use 
of the phrase “grave consequences” in 
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