Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-08-15

49, | w upper Wisconsin take ~.
worid's championship award in ~, ,ns
at the last worldwide contest '''afa
Why are the pea canp,rv
placing nearly all the new fao touce'ns
upper Wisconsin? les in
Why are the beet sugar f.o,.
looking to upper Wisconsin ~ ie'
creased product? 'of IN
Why does the best oIo,.-
come from upper Wisconsin, so
Why are the pastures good =
Wisconsin when dried out elsor-1 pI7.
Why are several of the worlds re
est manufacturing creameries N
upper Wisconsin counties? me
Why are so many pickle sac,o..
ana sailing works being located in ~
upper Wisconsin counties?
These are but a few of tho 49,,
points in which the vacant land
wisconsin have advantages over OH
regions of cheap lands, but tbav
enough to be convincing when f,,ne
dlgested. They open the wav -
more complete consideration of thu
situation. In this more complete coa
slderation, we make full use Of ~
united States census, the racors
made by Wisconsin in the Nation,
Corn show, which is the only raoo~
nized international contest. ~
weather records and other unopss
tlonable data. 1t is thus seen thu,
there is no buncombe in our cam.
palgns for, development-likewlqs
why we get scores of letters commit
menting us upon our methods. II.
state is to be congratulated that if
unnecessary to do otherwise than
give the actual, unquestioned and nm
questionable facts.
have spoken of everyone's ;ntsr-
est in development / believe that
we have too long looked only to the
people who sell land for farms or
sites for factories, assuming that they
We're the only ones receiving benefits
from the transactions. For illustra-
ton, we will take an ordinary Wis.
consin town. A factory is located by
some enterprising real estate man Is
that the end, or is it only the begin
ming of the benefits resulting from
the sale of the site? Or, taking the
farm land situation, we find that the
man who sells tract of wild land
| for farm merely starts chain OF
transactions that end, or rather never
end, with the merchant. banker.
| printer, doctor, lawyer, and all 9th
ers in profits. and to the community.
\ county and state in taxes. The land
man spent most of his profits getting
| his customer and is through in the
single transaction, while the Others
had no initial expense and are never
| through. Who, then, as a matter of
fact, is the most interested in the
matter? 1t is so with new factories
and in practically every move calcu-
lated to bring about more complete
development of any section. To car
! ry the matter little farther, what
would be the effect upon the fac
tories, jobbers, banks and other IN.
| stitutions of Milwaukee and other
Wisconsin cities, if 100000 new far
mers were located in upper Wiscon-
sin, if scores of water powers were
| harnessed, if hundreds of cities and
towns were founded, If the popula-
ton of the state We're doubled (fOr
this matter of development is a state
wide proposition i'm the ultimate it
is proposition of millions of people
and billions of wealth.
/ believe that many, if not most,
of the cities and towns of this state
should enter the publicity field We
are in an advertising era. Every
where publicity is shaping largely the
| destinies of people and communities
The pessimistic will harangue against
it as useless expense, the ethargic
will ignore it, but the fact remains
that the successful are awake to the
dynamic effect of publicity.
Once this nation was termed the
worlds bread basket" Today We
are close to the border of an i'm
porter of foodstuffs. Soon, at the
present rate of progress, we will find
our lightly mentioned high cost OF
| living a permanent social and eco
nomic problem, and attention must
be given to greater yields from the
lands now under cultivation.
1t is easy to say that we are max
| ing marvellous strides in increased
yields, and figures can be found up
on which to base the assertion-but
the fact remains that We are mere
ly maintaining the level of produc-
ton. 1t is equally easy to point to
the much larger yields of certain
European countries, and discourse
upon the fact that those lands have
been farrned for centuries, but the
fact remains that they were once de-
pleted and it has taken decades and
tremendous expense to bring them
hack fo their ureSent DrOduCtiYeneSs