Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-08-15

WHY did upper Wisconsin take Tue
worlds championship award IN aiiAi"
at the last worldwide contest!
wbv arc the pea canning concerns
ooinn nearly all the new factories la
upper Wisconsin? soo+or;os
Wbv are the beet sugar tactoiie0
looking to upper Wisconsin TOT IN
creased product? 800
WHY does the best clover seeu
| come from upper Wisconsin!
WHY are the pastures good In upper
Wisconsin when dried out else"net0'
WHY are several of the world lars
est manufacturing creameries IN tue
upper Wisconsin countieG!
Why are so many pickle factories
and sailing works being located IN inc
upper Wisconsin counties?
These are but a few OF the salient
points in which the vacant lanus VI
Wisconsin have advantages over otlel
regions of cheap lands, but they are
enough to be convincing when iully
digested They open the way 10
more complete consideration OF the
situation. In this more complete con-
sideration. we make full use OF the
United States census, the recoru
made by Wisconsin in the Natlohai
| Corn show, which is the only recog-
nized international contest; the
weather records and other unGues-
tionabIe data. 1t is thus seen that
| there is no buncombe in our CAM
paigns for development-like
why we get scores Of letters compll-
menting us upon our methods. The
state is to be congratulated that 1t IS
unnecessary to do otherwise than
give the actual, unquestioned and I'M
questionable facts.
| | have spoken of everyone's inter-
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
were 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 a tract of wild Land
for farm merely starts a 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, johbers, banks and other in
situations of Milwaukee and other
| Wisconsin cities, if $50, 200 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 were doubled (for
this matter Of development is a state
| wide proposition in 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 a useless expense, the lethargic
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 maxi
| 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 farmed for centuries, but the
fact remains that they were once de-
pleted and it has taken decades and
tremendous expense to bring them
back to their present productiveness
If we are to bank upon the progresn
of these European people we shoula
appreciate the pressure and distress
that drove them to it-and the tima
it required. / am sure that no ono
here wishes such experiences ir