The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-27
NEW ENGLAND'S FUTURE
By George Brewster Gallup.

ny george Brewster Gallup. There Is no need for New. England
 70 aoase herself in the ashes of peni-1 | tence. and groveI in an ecstacv of self
 plty ana petulant partisan recrimina- I4on- She Is at the beginnina- of a great future rather than at the end or 9 period of blasted opportunity. Her hills ring with the voices of l undeveloped waters; her valleys yearu Tor the coming of scientific tilIers of the SOIL; her rivers and harbors await the genius of engineers competent to perfect them for the great commerce Of continents calling for us to pre- pare for their claInorous demands up-
 on the skill ck our industrial armies. What New England will do is writ ten in the brains and wills of young men. tdeallstfc descendants of the DOW erfu1 pioneers, whose ideals live in their tndelfble master strokes upon the virgin land they found here-the roads they built; the forests felled; the
 bridges thrown across the streams; and in the mute monuments and shrines which still give prayerfu1 con- 1 nand to a larger faith.
 Let the young men of New England, I too long denied great opportunity, even
 the boys who in this month of june will issue forth from a thousand fnsti- l tutions of learning.-h1gh schools.
 grammar schools, colleges and univer- sities,-let them see the promised land
 
 ! land for them to develop and to en- ter in upon it's rtches.-and in another decade shall a great transformation
 be wrought in the land of the Pil- grims.
 New EnsIand needs only the vision, I the plan, the groundwork of her des- | tiny to be revealed to virile youth, and she will emerge the richest, the most I efficient the most progressive and l helpful section of this country ! AL IeEf 4txP Planning preached in all her borders,
 to the end that all the inefficient, i'm
 complete, archaic and obsolete
 mechanism of the greatest perfecttons l not only for the sake of doing bust-
 ness successfully, but for the larger purpose of fostering and conserving
 the highest type of citizenship. To begin. to do this now will cost large sums, of money. but not to do
 this necessary work of reconstruction
 today will entail a much heavier cost tomorrow.
 For this work must and shall be done, otherwise the very life and in-
 dustriaI supremacy of New England
 will steadily decline under the pres-,
 sure of despondency and the conpe- tition of the splendfdly optimistic fand creative western and southern sec
 tions of this country.
 Let us consider what must be done to initiate these works of, practical
 construction.
 First, in place Of amateur and in-| expert management of municipal en- gineering and Anancing, must be sub stituted a systern of planning by com
 potent engineers and nnuicipal archt- tects and efficiency experts, which
 shall take 8 comprehensive look ahead
 so that we shall build not for the day,
 or the life of an administration but
 for half a century of uninterrupted ropportunity and progress.
 There is hardly a city Or rnanufac-
 turing centre in this section that does
 not require the immediate investment
 of large sums for the perfecting of
 the physical factors which make for
 edicieucy in the conduct of business and the reduction of posts of living.
 This Is the great advantage Of New England: that there is now oppor- tunity to complete and rearrange. in the light of modern scientific city building in Europe and other countries l the admirable and splendtdly adaptive foundations Of generations of able men who constructed up to the best light of their day.
 But the work now to be done must | be planned by the foremost experts. 1 for the securities we shall sell to finance this work must be of the | highest character in order to secure the attention of careful investors not only at home but in the other sec- tions of the country.
 The municipal bonds we shall offer to secure the funds to improve our New England cities. will be of the most attractive character. as safe as government bonds and paying 8 good rate of interest.
 By offering them in popular de. nominations of $100 and fractional parts thereof, we shall open up a thousands who have but small sums to place and then only in ways that are absolutely safe.
 If you search today through the strong boxes of our financial insti- tutfons. you will find scores of ntl- lions of dollars worth of municipal bonds of western cities and the bonds of western railroads. They form a substantial part of the assets Of es- tates and individuals in this section of great per capita wealth.
 We should rejoice that our thrift and economic resources have been utilized so generously to build up oth- CT cities and industrial enterprises in other sections. But now that these other cities by reason of their su- perior perfections and commercial vi- eor are beginning to attract from us the industrial enterprises on which our success depends, 1t is time to see if we cannot find equally good use for our money at home in similar ways It is time that we began to draw back the investment money of the rich and prosperous West for perfectfng our own centres of industry.
 Instead of raising sums of money to advertise the advantages of our cities while in an incomplete and irnDerfect condition for the purpose Of attracting new enterprises, we shall advertise our municipal bonds for the making of Improvements, and in this way advertise the prospects and ru- ture perfectionse Of our cities. ISfis xvII1 he a. sound economic policy.
 The other method we will leave to be continued as it has been begun in the less cautious and conservative sec- tdons.
 But we shall offer to tens of thou sands of descendants of New England,