The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-02-19
ENCOURAGE LOCATION OF INDUSTRIES.

Do we want more industries, more people, more
wealth in Greenwood? If SO, here are few vita
points to consider.
The live town is always on the lookout to ado
another industry to its list.
Industries make work, and work attracts
workers, and of workers the town is built.
A manufacturing plant added to a community
means a positive addition to the earning capacity
of every citizen. So that, in encouraging new in
dustries you are not only periodically aiding
your community, but you are directly promoting
your WI fortunes.
We have seen a few so-called business men who
were satisfied with the population of their com.
munity-didn't want any more people, didn't want
any more trade, didn't want any more money.
Those men were 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 E them. It's
facilities may be limited; it's wealth may not be
great; its situation may not be advantageous.
But a LIVE PUBLIC SPARTAN appreciation
of every assets the feature that most attracts
the intelligent business man who is seeking a To-
cation.
No manufacturer wants to conduct a business
III q uCou ~ " tAAoC tAAO w A4AANJ
not use a dollars worth of his goods. The very
atmosphere Of the dead town is like a wet blan-
ket on his business.
The OWL with pep, with ginger, with hustle,
injects the same qualities into every business
within its environs. Shrewd business men know
this, and hunt for just such towns.
If we would grow as a town we must show that
we WANT growth. And we must offer INDUCE
|MENTS.
For instance
We want to land a manufacturing plant. We
go after it. The managers %stipulate for a con-
venient site donated. We donate it. W. 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 a community where that spirit ruled. They
could afford to pay for a site, but there was no
way Of determining whether the community real
ly WANTED their enterprise located in its midst.
And thus it goes on and on.
It 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 and developing our community.
1t is the SPIRIT BEHIND these actions.
It is the BROAD and JUST view taken by the
CITIZENS of the community-a view that REC
OGNIZES the VALUE of the enterprise sought,
that COMEDIES its USEFULNESS as a FAC
TOR in the communicative sort Of view the
average citizen of Greenwood takes.
We are all human. We like to be a~ppreciat
ed at what we feel and know to be our real worth.
Even the hardest headed business man among us
is susceptible to a just appreciation of his worth
to the community.
So when e show to industry that we WANT
it; when we say to it, by our words and our &C
tons, that we APPRECIATE it and VALUE it a.
its TRUE WORTH, then it is that industry con-
ceives a desire to be among us and of US.
Our town will be as big as our genuine am
bition. 1t will be as progressive 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
a grave yard. And towns are but collections ot
people and enterprises from which those peo-
pie live.
Greenwood is in the live class, and her people
believe in encouraging the establishment of sub.
enterprises here.
Wilson's friendly tip to Cuba: Better not Try
to start anything.
NEWSPAPERS and war-makers are twins.