Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1915-07-02
MASSACHUSETTS TURNS THE
TABLES ON HE WEST.


IN THE Massachusetts agricultural
exhibit at the Worlds Fair is a huge
sign extending across the building,
Young Man Come East" This is
turning the tables on Horace Greely's
famous saying with fine irony.
Why Is Massachusetts trying TO rob
this thinly populated western coast of
its young manhood TO take them back
to the bleak and barren shores of
New England?
The answer is simple enough. 1t
Is population that makes markets for
manufacturers, Therefore it is good
business for the Bay state to seek I'M
migration from whatever source it
may come.
at first blush ono wonders how New
England can hope to entice people
away from California to settle back
east: Yet Massachusetts sets forth in
great detail the agricultural advant.
ages h possesses over all other
lands.
The fact is that California grows in
the open many farm products that are
raised in Massachusetts only under
glass. There are said TO be forty
thousand acres around Boston in
green houses devoted to early spring
vegetables.
The great advantage Massachusetts
offers is a market in its m~anufuctur-
ing centers. And here we have the
key TO the whole situation. The great
depression that has come upon ;hc
northwest is due TO the fact that the
European war has taken The ships of
the ocean and paralyzed the lumnrr in
dustry. For the time being ii Las de-
stroyed the market for Oregon and
Washington for their principal output
YET with thousands OF men uncm-
ployed both of these states are Giant.
orinE for more population and have
splendid exhibits at San Francisco.
Has it eve occurred 10 mem that he
proper solution of this problem foT
greater population is TO provide EN-
ployInent for the inhabitants already
within their confines before seeking
). new settlers?
/: The same is true of Nevada and
California. The old order of things
has been to have more men han there
are Jobs. The desire of the mamufac.
turer has been TO have Il waiting list
OF idle men.
Idleness breeds disease, poverty,
crime, misery. The way to correct
these evils is to reverse the. old ord
er and provide more jobs than there
are e Thus III population will
purify itself as water does in a run
ming stream. 1t is %statgnant, idle pop
ulation that menace the life of the
republic as %stagnant water is dang
erous 10 health of the individual.
Massachusetts in a way is solving
the problem by providing employment.
1t is all right for her TO come to the
Pacific and ask III young men to
come east. But we need all these
young men on this coast.
Nevada has entered the right field
to retain its young men. The govern
ment reclamation projects are giving
the opportunity to every one to find
a home and become prosperous if not
wealthy.
Nevada should make her advantages
known TO the world. An excellent
start has been made at San Francisco
and San Diego. After the fairs are
over the good work should be kept
up
This advertising can be done best
through Commercial clubs. Elko
should join hands with Reno in max
ing the state known.
Advertising is like aerial navaga-
ton. The flyer can not rest in climb
ing TO the sky. Once started he must
keep on going if he would gain the
ascent. Nevada must not rest in the
campaign that has been launched
through the opening of the Panama
canal.