Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-07-20
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 Overconfidence is a deception fault that has wrecked many ambitious undertakings, observes the Manufac- turers' Record discussing a tendency upon the part of the citizenship of a community to relax in their efforts to obtain new industries. It is sad, but true the Record continues, that many communities, after energetical- ly working for their development and seeing their efforts rewarded with a fair measure of success, have stopped for little rest and dropped off to sleep. Some are awaking with q shout, but, alas! many are moving along drowsily.
 No wise business man who has labored to make his enterprise a large and prosperous one, would sit back and say to himself, My concern has grown so fast and is so well known that it needs no further help from me in the way of encouraging trade and securing new customers. :" Yet that is tacitly the attitude of successful business men in a number of cities and towns, though individ- ually those men are working with might and main to increase trade and enlarge their operations. They have utterly overlooked the fact that, eX- cept in rare cases, they prosper only as their community prospers.
 A typical illustration of how a city allowed itself to become over confirent after creating population of over 60,O00 in less than 20 years is given in an article in the Tampa (Fla.) Times by Hugh c. Macfarlane chairman of the Tampa Industrial bureau. Under the heading, Tam pa Become Too Sure of Her Future and Has Been a Loser,' MT. Macfar- lane states:
 "Ten years ago one class of citi- zens argued that the foundation of the city was firmly laid and that it was no longer necessary to offer in- ducements for new industries, for we were of sufficient importance to hold everything that we had and that oth- CTS would come without expense to us. That if anything was done in the way of city building it should be along other lines. They secured following because their projects were portrayed in pleasing language, and the minimizing will always fol- low the man or set of men that prom ises to give something for nothing, but thinking men know that things of value can only be had for price. We all now realize that a mistake was made; that since we slackened in industrial development we have not increased our wealth and population at the same rate; that many of our merchants have suffered financial distress and have been praying for relief, and that whatever relief they iidNS lictN IttS NOliiS ltoii oii iiNiSoSS of industrial workers during the past two years.
 "The Industrial bureau promises to bring diversified industries into Tam pa that will give employment to a great number of people at fair wages and that these industries shall be such as can operate here as success fully as elsewhere. They do not in- tend to part with the ownership or deliver to any manufacturer any thing of value until he has establish ed business in successful operation and sufficient capital to operate that besiness. They intend that every dollar bestowed as an inducement shall be spent in the erection of per manent factory buildings, so that if one manufacturer from any cause suspends operations another can oc- cupy the same building. They pro- pose that these factory buildings shah