The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-17
FAIRFIELD COUNTY TO BE WELDED IN
 INDUSTRIAL UNIT
Manufacturing and Farm ing Interests Need Greater
 Degree of Co., Operation

Has Fairfield county the Spirit or Conscience that may be awakened in time to save the county from indus trial destruction by the unified West! Will it's farmers, factories and other economical units force transportation which will open the doorway Of New England to the raw material that is badly needed here? Aibove all will 1t be able to arrange distribution of it's agricultural products so that modern merchandising methods will prevent glut in commodities and a. sacrifice of the farmers work?
 | These are the topics that were touched upon by representatives of the daily and weekly press of Fair field county who met in conference with heads of the Fairfield County as- sociation in Bridgeport last night to discuss the situation which confronts this county at the present time, and looking towards advancement of the | business and agricultural welfare of the county
 The need of an agency to boost iiFairf1eld county over the entire United States at all times as is ma1n- tained by other communities and lcounties was advocated by Judge Ed ward K Nicholson, member of the I State Defense Council and president | of the Fairfield County association l[Eie also advocated that there should tbe a technical high school for the county where ambitious youths might learn the higher branches of mechan- fcal and industrial art without the necessity of serving long years of ap- premiership in shops
 The matter of transportation in this county and to the outside communui- ties was discussed by Lynn w.. Will son and others present It was the concensus of opinion. that some means must ultimately be found to have
 quick and readily access to and from the Western markets or trade cOndi-
 tions in this county would be stif1ed, factories would move and the farmer
 through modern merchandising meth ods would again be exploited by the
 greater capitalized organizations and
 their product be 8 glut on the local , market. It was asserted that in times past Fairfield county's produce had
 been shipped to New York and re- turned to these communities for ulti- mate sale and consumption.
 1t was brought out by editors pres ent that the cost of coal in the west
 today is s4 per ton in factories. that
 New England factories are paying $S per ton and workers in factories $10 p1f IOll WIIi0 d Jew oI Cn0 IdISGI lac
 tories are able to transport coal to
 their fires at B and $4 per ton by
 wholesale purchase. It was suggested
 that some means must be founid for ico-operative buying and transporta- Ition in this county.
 Judge Nicholson declared that these features were now under considera- . tion by the Fairfield County Associa-
 ton for the Mobilization of Resources and E. F von W'ettberg, chairman of the Agricultural committee, intimated that the question of co-operative dis
 tribution of vegetables and farm pro-
 duce as well as the Cooperative pur- chase of commodities needed in the county from other centers is now un- der consideration.
 As one speaker pronounced it, the
 slogan for Fairfield county should be
 Intelligent Selfishness' if the inroads of the West should be combatted suc- cessfulIy and the supremacy of New
 England maintained in its industry.