The Newtown bee., 1900-10-19
Town TOPICS.
DR. GORDON MAKES SUGGESTIONS.
LET THE BUSINESS MEN ORGANIZE TO SEE
If SOMETHING CANNOT BE DONE TO
BRING SOME INDUSTRY HERE.

Editor of THE BEE, Dear Sir: It Ia
with regret. not due to anv pers NAL mo-
| tives, that I learned of the removal of
the Rubber Co.'s busir ess away from
Sandy Hook. After carefully consider.
ing the situation, as it PRESENT. iteelf,
| have come to the conclusion that this is
not q time for lamenta tions and teare,
action upon the part of the business, pro-
fessional, ard sober, well-thinking, in
daential citizens of Newtown.
And what are we to do in such a
crisis? Organize. And why organize j.?
Because in organization there is possible
unity OF purpose and In unity there is
strength; therefore. let the intellectual
manhood Of the town be concentrated in
an organized body of our mort IL fluential
citizens. For what purpose? To guide
our little township through the industrial
whiriwind which now threatens to cor.
rupt it. commercially, socially, and
otherwiee. And how are we to accom-
plish this tremendou and apparently in
eurmountable tack? By working in
unity for common cause for the COM
mon good.
FIRST, by organizing, electing a presi-
dent, vice president, secretary, treasurer
be known as 'Newtowns Board Of
Trade" or "Newtown's Busiress Mems
Association" or "NeWtown's Village In.
dustrial Association" or whatever you
may wish to term it. Secondly, by en-
listing under our bann er the influence of
sister organizations in euch cities as
Bird dgeport, Waterbury and New Haven !;
for will not the wholesale merchants
of those cities, who are memb bers of SIM
liar organ fzations and who have supplied
our lo cal merchants in the past, be affect.
ed to greater or less degree. and will
they not therefore be willing to extend
need2
Thirdly, by endeavoring to II fluence
the United States Rubber Trust to leave
its boilers, engines and turbine wheels
as they are at the present time, in order
not to disturb the motive power of their
vacated factories, so that they will be in
position to harbor more readily eome
other industry.
Fourthly, by opening negotiations with
the railroad companies in reference to
the transportation of coal and raw ma.
terial, at the lowest possible rate, for the
benefit OF any industry that may choose
the buildings, 80 soon to be vacated, as q
suitable place for their business.
Filthy, by Influencing the town at an
annual town meeting to reduce, If neces-
sary, the taxes on the factory property,
thus enabling the United States Rubber
Co. to lease their property at the lowest
possible figure.
Sixthly, and lastly, by making a su-
perhuman eff )rt, assisted by the city or.
CARNATIONS above er umerated, to induce
some manufacturing interest (woolen
mills. preferably, on account OF the en-
ployment that could be afforded to those
Of both sexes), to locate here.
Now that the Newtown fair is over,
and the town elections past and gone,
thus enabling some Of our best citizens
more time to devote to the cause, as I |
have outlined, let US prepare to bring
order out of chaos and to carry out some
plan of action, not on political lines, but |
rather on q sound business basis, and,
when organization fs perfected, let a fee,
to be known as an initiation or member
ship fee, be charged each member, the |
same to revert to the treasury of the |
organization, the fund to be used in judi |
cially furthering the cause we all have
at heart, namely, the sDatchipg from the |
industrial decay which now threatens it,
the name of our staid old town.
Hoping that my humble commupica-
tion will meet with the unanimou4 ap.
proval of our we'll thinking fellow
townsmeD, and that they, and the pre- SO,
irrespective of any business, social affil-
or selfish motives, will see fit to
take prompt and immediate action in q /
matter which 80 vitality cor Germs such q |
large percentage of the citizens of New
town. remain as ever, An humble
citizen Of Newtown,-[J. W. Gordon,
A. B., n. D.