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PAGE SIX FORD Fill BDIW MUSCLE SHOALS BID “No Longer a Live Issue With Us,” Says Flivver King NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—(8y The Associated Press) —Henry Ford has withdrawn his bid for Muscle Shoals : and, according to an interview with him in the current issue of Collier's Weekly, has assumed a waiting at titude by putting it up to the gov ernment to make the next mo'e >f he is to take any future action in the matter. The transaction, characterized by Mr. Ford as “a simple affair of business which should have been de cided by anyone within a week,” he, declares, “has become a complicated polictical affair.” and the bid was withdrawn because productive busi ness cannot wait on politics. “Muscle Shoal#?” Mr. Ford is quoted, “That is not a live issue with us any longer. More than two years ago we made the best bid we knew how to make. No definite action has been taken on it. A simple af fair of business which should have been decided by anyone within a week has become a complicated poli tical affair. We are not in politics and we are in business. We do not intend to be drawn into politics. “We have been and still are deep ly interested in Muscle Shoals as a national asset. There is small pro mise now that it ever will be a na tional asset—more than likely it w'l be only an expense. That concerns every one of us as citizens. In the Ford business, once we make up our minds to do anything, we go right ahead, do it-with the leastpossible waste of time, energy or money. If we cannot do what we want in one way, then we find another. “We are moving so fast and the settlement of Muscle Shoals’ future seemed so far away that we had to find other means to do the things we could have accomplished at Mus cle Shoals. In fact, we have pass ed Muscle Shoals. Productive busi ness cannot wait on politics. There fore, we are withdrawing our bid.” Asked it that meant withdrawing absolutely from Mucle Shoals and everything that pertains to it, Mr. Ford replied: “Yes, we have made our bid; now let them make us a bid. And they will not have to wait three years for their answer. We can tell them in five minutes.” After discussing the government investment in Muscle Shoals which he said was much larger than it ought to be, but which could not be helped because it was rush work done in war time for war purposes, Mr. Ford said: “Our bid was intended to develop a method by which the public’s mo ney could be made productive and eventually returned to the public treasury at a projit, while at the same time we should produce nitrate at a sufficiently low 7 cost to sell them to the farmers at a fraction of what they now have to pay. Also, we in tended to create a plant which would not only make us independent of Chile for nitrates for explosives but would give us an independent supply possibly equal to that of all the rest of the world put together.” Mr. Ford said his company had completed the purchase of 160,000 acres of coal lands in Kentucky and after relating some of the experi ments conducted at the River Rouge plant said: “We find from our experience at River Rouge that we evan generate electrical power in these coal lands to any extent that we may need and at a cheaper rate than we could under our bid at Muscle Shoals. .And also we can generate in our own way entirely outside of all political influence or political mecal ing. That is why we have lost our interest in Muscle Shoals.” Asked what he thought ought to be done with Muscle Shoals, Mr. Ford replied: “In any event, the public must not permit it to be broken up, for through its nitrate production it can be our greatest guarantee for peace on the one-hand and for the farmers on the other. I believe the armv engineers could carry it through if ASTHMA CURBED N 24 HOURS BYNEWTREfiTMENT » Specialist’s Prescription Succeeds Where t Everything Else Has Failed. Complete Relief Guaranteed —Or No Cost No longer need anyone endure all that terrible gasping, wheezing and coughing, and those awful nights of strangling horror. For no matter how long you have suffered with Asthma or what your age, Rinex will stop the severest spasms in 30 minutes, and is positively guaranteeJ to do away with all that terrible wheezing, coughing, gasping and loss of sleep in 24 hours—or it costs you nothing. 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Granger RpughCut Pointer on T b(lC^° burn9 , the I g nolMgare l t^ ethod pro duce 4 . ~ ... . 1 J' . Trained Wild Beasts To,Be Big Feature of’Sparks’Circus Of.Cs i® S i S. —r rwWwwessgßf \ 4 E W rs.. 1 £ ,;,a ~g,K—ainmi&ai Manager Chas. Spaiks, .'of the Sparks Circus coming to Americus Monday, Oct. 20 is of the firm conviction that variety is not only the spice of life but of a modern circus as well, aand has this se-isc.i deviated from the straight and nar- THE AMERICUS TIMES RECORDER rev; circus traditions of the pa~t by augmenting his two nours’ program with a vast number of trained wild animal numbers of a thrilling na ture, among them being a group of 1 five real forest bred African lions. • One thing that, according to news- paper reviews, impresses the public in watching the exhibitions given by this remarkable group of lions is the untamed fierceness of the animals. While yielding to the persistent ef forts of their trainer, Steve Batty, to train them the tricks that primari ly make their performance so inter esting, there is abundant evidence that their native wildness has not been subdued and that they are still “kijigs of the forest” despite their enforced captivity. “YES, YOU ARE RICH IF YOU CAN WALK” ATLANTA, Oct. 15.--A little crippled boy looked up wistfully at a visitor from the white bed in tn'i "Scottish Hospital for Crippled Ch-.'- dren in Atlanta. He played with the visitor’s watch and fountain pen and then asked to fee his pocket book. He examined the few coins in it and handed it back to him saying, “You are rich.” When the visitor denied being rich, the child said: “Yes, you are rich. You can walk.” The little philosopher has ne'er taken a step, but he ' nows, as the surgeons pointed out, that real riches are not in pocketbooks but TUESDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 14, 1924 cin strong legs and well-formed bodies to do the work and enjoy the play of life. This hospital, which stands on cne corner of a quiet block in a quiet suburb of Atlanta, was one, of the first of its kind to be estab lished in the world. During the brief period of eight years it has taken and cured more than 1.800 MAKES CLOCK OF STRAW IN 3 YEARS Clock made entirely of straw was the sensation of the Munich summer fair of products of precious metals. It is five feet in height and is model ed after the famous cathedral tower 1 IW I Vw 5n of Cologne. The clock needs no oiling and keep time perfectly. Its builder is a village cobbler of east ern Prussia, who worked on it threg years. It must be awful to feel bad and have nothing special to kick about. 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