Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-02-18
Seen By Outsider
Misdirected Energy.

Using one of the letter heads of the
Waterfowl Commercial club, down
the side Of which are enumerated
some OF the Industrial needs Of The
city, the writer of the article below
briefly sets forth the facts as they
present themselves to his view. His
observations with reference To some
things are certainly timely-the good
an Institution may do here, either to-
itself or to the citizens, depends in al
large measure upon the degree OF,
prosperity which attends It's efforts.
Regarding the packing plant, Wa,
tertoWn has already made a very
good beginning. 1t has seemed OBJ
iyious that much energy and means
have been wasted in sending our
meats to the eastern markets to be.
cured and packed and then bringing
them back again for home consump-;
ton, and the packing plant has had a.
tendency to offset this in part, and
further to develop the Industry means.
were taken at the last annual meeting
to double its capital and thus to keep
more of the profits of the business at
home.
But we are t~respassingg GGJI the
points. covered by the communication
under discussion, which is as follows:
Views Of An Outsider"
The Saturday News,
Watertown, S. ID,
Gentlemen:
The letter head on which this com
tmunication is written came into my
possession today and / have read it
with considerable interest. 1t is not
Led that your city needs wooden mills,
icracker factories, wholesale indus
Lries, etc, Sufficient to supply a city
Eof 100000 people. There is no ques-
ltion about this. The city needs them
in order to reach the population stat
ed but have you the facilities war
ranting Inducements for Industries Of
this character? Can you guarantee
them q profitable business? The abb
soIute basis of business is the profit
which is shown and any enterprise
which does not develop that profit
must become insolvent for reasons too
obvious to need explanation.
Personally ! am an outsider In
other words my work is such that I
lido not become permanently attached
to any City but. from association and
former connections, ! am more than
lordinarily interested in the future Of
WATERFOWL, therefore, permit me to
make a few suggestions.
Has 1t occurred to you that every
citizen of WatertoWn who has child
of sufficient age to have graduated
from the nigh school If further edu-
cation is desired, must leave the city
for some point where the same can
be obtained. How much does it cost
you annually over and above what it
would were there an institution here
properly equipped to furnish the re-
iquired instruction?
How much money would be expend-
ed in this city each year by outside
Istudents il you could care for them?
You have any number OF church So
I~cieties who, with little encourage
ment, would be glad to erect q college
here which would supply all needs.
While discussing this matter it may
be well to mention packing house
matters. Thesmajority of the1neat
used BY WatertoWngcitizens is shippedl
to Sts@Pauls or Chicago IN foot, killed
and reshipped back to WATERFOWL.
why not get busy and save all OF the
intermediate profits3 You have local
lcapital enough to handle a concern.
of this kind; if yon have not, enlist
1.-THE efforts of some OF the packing
concerns and have them establish a
branch concern. s@
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has
done this and / took the matter up In
directly with the Commercial club of
Fargo, n. d, and the result is that
there is nov every probability of a
branch packing house in Fargo in the
near future.
wish to be pardoned for submit
ting a communication of this kind but
it has occurred to me that there is d
very considerable amount Of misdi-
reeted enrgy Watertown which,
lif put through the proper channels,
might be of great benefit.
Very respectfully,
Geo. II. Case.
Waferfown 6 n 1915