The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-02-21
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Do we want more industries, more
people, more wealth in this town? If
so, here are a few vital points to con-
slider.
The live town is always on the look
out to add another industry to its list.
Industries make work and work at
tracts workers, and of workers the
town is built.
A manufacturing plant added to
your town means a positive addition
to the earning capacity of every cit
izen of the town. So that, in encour-
aging new industries you are not only
periodically aiding your community
but you are directly promoting your
own fortunes.
We have seen a few so-called bust
ness men who were satisfied with the
population of their COMMUNICATIVE
want any more people, didn't want any
more trade, didn't want any more
money.
Those men wer dead and didn't
know it-but the community did know
it.
The town that makes a determined
effort to attract men and industries
will get them. It's facilities may be
limited; its wealth may not be great,
its situation may even not be advan-
tageous. But q live public spirit-an
the feature tnat most attracts the in
teillgent business man who is seeking
a location.
No manufacturer wants to conduct
business in dead town. 1t matters
not that the town may not use dol
lars worth of his goods. The very
atmosphere of a dead town is like
wet blanket on his business.
The town with pep, with ginger,
with hustle, injects the same qualities
into every business within it's environs.
Shrewd business men know this and
hunt for just such towns.
If we would grow as town we must
show that we want growth. And we
must offer inducements.
For instance
We want to land a manufacturing
plant. We go after it. The managers
stipulate for convenient site donated.
We donate it. We secure the plant.
Now, did the donation of the site
secure that plant? 1t did not That
was the smallest consideration. The
spirit that prompted the donation was
the magnet that did the pulling. The
managers of the enterprise wanted to
locate in community where that spir-
it ruled. They could afford to pay for
a site, but there was no way of deter
mining whether the community really
wanted their enterprise located in it.,
midst.
And thus it goes on and on.
1t is not the bonus, or the site, or
even the exemption from taxes that is
the real drawing power in locating
new enterprises that are to aid in
building up our community.
1t is the spirit behind these actions.
1t is the broad view taken by the town
that recognizes the value of the enter
prise sought, that comedies it's useful
ness as factor in the community.
We are all human. We like to be
appreciated at what we feel and know
to be our real worth. Even the hard
est headed business man is susceptible
to a just appreciation of his worth to
the community.
So when we show to industry that
we want it; when we say to it, by our
words and our actions, that we appre-
ciate it and value it at it's true worth,
then it is that industry conceives de-
sire to be among us and of us.
Our town will be as big as our gen
uine ambition. 1t will be as progress
sive as we are. And the spirit of the
population we attract will be of the
same kind as our own spirit.
You never find a live person under
a slab in grave yard. And towns |
are but collections of people and en-
S~rises from which those people live. |
-'e started right in securing |
>ory. Let us not stop
and keep after new
will get them.