The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1922-06-16
KENTUCKY NEEDS
new INDUSTRIES
State Offers Advantages to
Men and Money Seeking
Big Opportunity.
By E. PAUL ANDERSON.

trial paradise of america. yet Ken
tuckians are continually looking 10
other gardens of opportunity.
Kentucky has all those material as
sets that have made other States sue
industrial centers of achievement an
wealth. Certainly no other State ha
produced any better men and womsr
The Kentuckian who casts his lot else
where becomes an outstanding elemen
in his new environment. This is espec
tally true Of the Kentucky boy VIII
has been trained in his own un!versit.
in engineering and throws his energ.
| and talents into some Industrial or en-
| cheering organization.
Kentucky Engineers Good Ones.
The evidence OF over thirty year.
] mas shown beyond any question tina
there are no better engineers any,
where than our own sons. They hav,
shown qualities OF leadership wherever
they have gone. But why should boy.
with industrial tendencies be compel.
ed to find the main chance away from
home?
The reason is apparent. Kentucky
mas not been ready to squander hei
wealth of resources until her sons
were effectively trained for the task o;
using them to the very best advant-
age thus avoiding the squandering oil
wealth INDUCED in by sister States
and at the same time insuring the de
yeiopment of her materials so abund
Nantly provided and thus bring the
greatest returns to our favored Com
monwealth.
The population of Kentucky is dis
dnct and genuine. There is no section
OF our America where the original
characteristics of a people have been
so definitely preserved as in kentuc-
ky.
race Of engineers has been de-
veloped among our own people: we
are now ready to evolve industrially
and still retain those essentials Of
good living that have made our Sec
ton unparalleled as a habitation.
But mere announcement proves moth
ing. What Is the basis OF industry
1t is beyond any question Power.
Why is Muscle Shoals the vantage
ground of the South just now? Ii is
a question Of power to do the infinite
variety of tasks that imaginative and
inventive men proposes.
II ii is question of power, Ken
lucky has more energy locked up in
her coal fields for doing the work OF
man than any other State. Why should
1t be our ambition to send all of this
potential wealth to other sections OF
The country? Why not reap some OF
the real benefits instead of stripping
our State for the benefit OF others sim
ply because we do not have the con-
struction initiative that could better
succeed in Kentucky than anywhere
else?
Why succeed here better than else
where?
Ffrst-Our climate is unequalled.
second-our power requirements are
unlimited
Third-our new and unspoiled areas
present ideal locations for manufac-
turing on a large scale.
Communities can be created, follow
ing the best methods determined by
civic experience, and unhampered by
lnfavorable practices that have be-
ZONE fixtures in old towns and com
nunities, that just grew"
1t is a generally accepted system
% pan comprehensive Industries so |
hat unit method OF production will |
Prevail. The skilled artisans and la
,orers, while being employed by a I
,reat composite organization can still /
i've in small communities thus retain
ng all the advantages of the small I
own socially and economically.
Ford proposes a city seventy five
niles long supplied by the power OF l
Muscle Shoals. In reality chain OF (
mall centers all contributing to a
composite and complex system of man
Kentucky can do the same thing.
Let us retain the small town but de-
'elop a great aggregate of produc- /
ion.
Now in addition TO having in Ken
ucky the basic element Of industry
'ower-we have practically every
hing else. Look at them:
Timbers of broad variety and large
Clays of infinite variety
nd extent. Our fire clays are famous,
ur pottery tile and brick clays should
'e put to work to make one of the
otable ceramic centers.
Field Almost Untouched.
The building stones here are all but
Untouched.
The cement making elements are
Without limit.
The road making components are
Nature has even depos-
ted a bitumen surface already mixed.
A highly developed agricultural com
,onent exists. Agriculture will re-
GIVE Its greatest stimulus by creating /
lome markets of consumption. The
highest agricultural progress has been
made in those communities having the |
most industry.
Just think! Old Massachusetts has
ust said through Gov. Charles H. Cox
Young man (meaning the farmer,
'ome East" In an editors note re-
emily this Comment was made:
Massachusetts, years ago dropped |
apparently from the race for farm pro
luction and its young men left the
oil held to be worn out for the rich
nd cheap lands of the West. The
ands in the West are no longer cheap
nd modern farm science has discov-
red that the Eastern soil is not USE
ess, while economic experts have
'ointed the advantages of neighbor-
ng market to production. That is Why
he Governor, Charles H. Cox, Is any /
Gus to tell the world that the farm
afds of the old State are once siore
o come into their own and every
ere worked means one more unit OF
'roductiveness."
Need Of New Industries.