The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1920-01-02
ANVIL CHORUS HAS
Medina PLAYERS
WHO TOOT LOUDLY
Good Enterprises in Medina
Should Be Encouraged And
Choice Ones From Outside
Helped Finincially.
AMPLE WATER SUPPLY
FOR RUBBER MAKING

Some time last fall a few Akron
men wrote asking the prospects for
a rubber plant in Medina. Several
came to this city to make inquiries
and several business men from Me-
dina, led by L. F. Carver, president
of the Medina Board of Trade, made
return visit to Akron.
At that time there was much talk
about the water supply-or to be
more defnite-the lack of water sup
ply. Not a few Medina citizens
from the old croaker corps-at once
held up both hands for attention that
they might have an opportunity to
air their erudition regarding their
knowledge of water conditions in and
about this city. The old croakerS'
corps said at once, "There's not
enough water, and we know it; no use
to talk further for the making Of
rubber consumes much water and we
haven't got it and can't get itv'
Croaking may sound good to a
man or woman raised where the only
music heard is the frog orchestra.
But croaking don't get any one very
far; don't get any one very much.
This is especially true where a COM
munity is seeking to induce new en-
terprises to locate in their midst.
Medina has two enterprises that
need more money for expansion pur-
poses. They need, too, more homes
for the accommodation of workmen
here and that would gladly come if
their families could be properly
~. IL AnIr
breaches the money needs of these
concerns Medina's Mr.. Pecksniff at
once comes to the front with the
statement, "You can sell stock in
concerns operating outside this city
but Medina people won't buy Medina
enterprise stock"
A pitiful state of affairs if this is
true. With companies right at home
needing money, and with these con-
Germs going and earning and paying
good dividends, one can't sell these
stocks here in Medina but can turn
about and sell stocks with little trou-
BILE Of concerns unknown, without re-
sources or dividends! That's certain
ly serious joke if true. But who has
ever tried, seriously, to sell Medina
stocks, and fell down, and then sold
outside stocks?
A Cleveland rubber company is now
knocking at our doors for admission
as a rubber mandatory. This enter
prise should be given encouragement,
and if it shows up good should be
helped to come here. But while we
are doing this it is not necessary to
overlook the good going concerns now
within our bounds; in fact we should
give them every consideration. There
is plenty of money in Medina city and
county for several sound concerns;
there is plenty of money with which
to build all the needed cottages and
homes required by the men who will
be employed here and need them. All
that is necessary is to shelve Mr.. ,
Pecksniff and get Old Man Optomism
busy and then we can finance the good
things we can induce to come here. .
Medina is good little city, but Mr..
Pecksniff is started OF on small in
centive while Old Man Optomism
needs quite a stiff push to get him
started. But when you do push, Sem
tinel reader. be certain you are behind
the right man. ."
With the rolling nature of the
lands lying about Medina, and with
the usual rainfall here, it should be no
trouble to arrange for water sup
ply. With a reservoir dug deep
enough to receive surface drainage
rather than to contribute to natural
drainage, and dam that would catch
the waters from surrounding hills, it
is possible to store up several times
the water needed in good sized rub
Der mandatory. Here again Mr..
Pecksniff becomes visible and should
at once be chased to cover.