A FORD “PARADISE”

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 169, 13 April 1921, Page 7

A FORD “PARADISE”

COWS AND HORSES TO DISAPPEAR.

The Ford car is to be followed by a Ford “Paradise.” Mr. Henry Ford is now claiming public attention as the architect of a New Utopia, its foundations already laid, which is shortly o begin- to rise to its full glory tho New York correspondent of Iho Daily Mail”). By means of an alliance between his industry and the farmurn population, Mr. Ford proposes to change the face of tho United States and abolish manufacturing cities with their squalor and “industrial filth. Except during the food-producing season Mr. Ford says, the farmer s life “is spent in enforced idleness with fews cows.” Therefore he plans the manufacture of Ford cars, and, above all, tractors, in numbers of small factories located in towns and villages, using water-power whenever possible. The farmer will then be able to work during the winter and -mcrcaso wealth making appliances which will enable him to farm with doubled efficiency In summer all hands in factories would become tillers of the soil, thus solving the farmer’s problem of labour supply. This is merely the broad outline of the scheme. , , , Mir. Fond will abolibh horses and cows as being anachronisms The horse ho contemptuously dismisses as a clumsy hay-motor of 1-h.p.,” and cows as a poor makeshift too. The Ford laboratories have (demonstrated their ability to take the same cereals that cows eat and transform them into milk that is infinitely superior in every way to the dirty product of those discredited animals "Cows are the crudest machines in the world!,” is Mr. Ford’s withering description of them. Their meat he adds, is entirely unnecessary. lord food,” or manufactured artificial milk, beats any meat for nutriment and digestibility. . _ The first branch of the new Paradise, the head office of which will remain at Detroit, will 1 be opened at Ford, a town of 1500 inhabitants, 20 mile* from that city Mere are manufactured valves for Ford tractors and motor-cars. Mr. Ford mentions that town as an instance where a great business concern can use its wealth for the general good. it needs a sawer, so the Ford company can build it in conjunction with tho. townspeople, thus avoiding tho necessity ot the town struggling under a load of debt for years. . Arrangements have been made to begin immbdia'toly "Utopianising” 15 .other communities. "How long will it be before yon will have made inroads into American, cities ?” Mr. Ford wns'‘asked. "Fifteen years ago," replied the potential world's greatest manufacturer of "Paradisos.” "there wore no farm tractors, airships, or wireless. Twenty-five years ago there were only three or four motor care in the world, Th'irty-fivo yours ago there wore no electric oars. Fifty years ago there were no telephones.” Ill's Inal remark wa«: "England seems to offer many opportunities for the exploitation of my idea.”