At Dearborn, Mich, last week Henry Ford, Irenee du Pont, Francis Patrick Garvan and 200 tycoons, farmers' spokesmen, chemists, propagandists and journalists assembled for a big charade. Mr. Garvan, president of the Chemical Foundation, led the enthusiasts into Mr. Ford's reproduction of Philadelphia's Independence Hall. There, on a table from Abraham Lincoln's law office and after the Fordson High School band played "Stars & Stripes Forever" and Handel's "Largo," Mr. Garvan solemnly wrote his name at the end of a lengthy Declaration of Dependence Upon the Soil and of the Right...
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