The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-24
NOVEL INDUSTRIAL
CENTER PLANNED
R. w. Babson to Construct
Small. City,5Near WeHes-
ley Mass.
FOR PRODUCTION
AND DISTRIBUTION
Hopes TO Care for 100000 Suffering
From Unemployment Hopes States
Will Construct Buildings In DiStribu
ton Section-S25O. 600 Endowment


BOSTON. Mass. Jan. 24-Roger W.
Babsou is going to build small city in
Wellesley, aIass,, and plans TO make it
the industrial capital of the United
St;ftcs. lie has bought ~ acres OF land
for the ~ites and starts work this spring
on two buildings, the. first of the group
that will eventually contribute toward
making it the mecca where the Industrial
powers of the nation will gather and
work for the bettermeut Of the nation.
MIR Bahson declares that today To-,
o0GH00 people in America are suffering
from nigIoyment-'' extras ~, he calls
tHgm who are ont of luck except in days
ut uunsuai prosperity. In times OF de
preston. it4fs they, hc says, who suffer
ltiliZe thiS@ surplus DE declares, b. and
36t 91aRit T7tt-,lC'99 4 'cejlit3u,t unrest and
general misfortune.
According 10 Mr. Babsou 5 view these
are the cmpluyes--ome @1N#O OF them.
lie holds that if these 2uuO9 men were
organized into one central organization.
tine prahIeui Of dealing with the 10000
con would be implied This l. what Mir.
BabsOu PROPOSES to do.
lie has had the 220-aere plot planned
out for u small city II viii not be
chartered city. 1t Will be q gigantic
conference. ground for all the, powers
that control production ana direct dis
tributi0n.
Around the first campus will be built
hr buildings that deal with product ION
-four main buildings covering every
viii he listed under forest products,
agricultural products, live stock and
mineral products.
inner Chamber for Production.
There viii hc the inner chamber of the
powers OF production. There the men
that control the country : great indus
tries will gather. There viii be kept
their records. their charts, the up-to-
date and constantly changing files of
statistics There the secretaries of the
National Textile association the .Amerl-
can Iron and Steel institute and other
great national associations can discuss
the countrys problems like the preSi-
dent 5 cabinet. From there they may
90 To lunch together.
- If more of those men who collectively
hold the fate of America in their hands
could go to lunch together. / am sure
business arrangements would be more
direct, more attabie. and that the people
of the. c0lmtIN would benefit enOr-
mousiv.' said Mr Babson
\ lot of land for a building il TO be
presented to each of these great ma
ing7 subsidiary u these principal four,
associations have. already Siguifed their
intention OF taking these grants.
The other -ca1apus viii centraliZe the-
country mower of distributions Each
state viii he rcanestpJ Ia keep a build
ing where reurescntatiyes and statis-
teal flies of state conditions viii he on
hand. Mr. and Nrss 4abSon are to pre-
sent Massachusetts with the FIRST build
ing.
\ connecting Group of buildings de
voted. to eeollamlca. finance. psychology
and factory management, viii act as a
link between the two campuses There
viii also be many Incidental acconnao-
dations, an art building for exhibiting
Of industrial pictures. IA chanel. gym
nasium, a restaurant. dormitory, golf
links. bows nc ltnp and arrangements
for the accommodation of conference dele
gates and their fR4niles The grounds /
win he made an IDEAL place for national
Has se5oooo Endowment |
The Babsonf scheme Is alreadv III thc
blueprint stage and has I'm endowment
fimd Of S250,0a0 rs. a start, which frfndt
Mr.. Babson hopes 10 increase TO 81 .000- i
GOO, shortly. Ground viii BE broken
this Spring for tie iiistS two buildings I
he whole q fair -ls--hcingTc Conducted I'M
de1 the direction OF. board Off trustees
dent.
- Cotton. wool, ysteel, leather-thesel
aald MI such lemiglAy Words are spelled S
out in blood, said Mr. Babson. When .
detlation ike q plague blights the in
dustrial life Of the country it leaves
behind il havoc of poverty and an
guish that is seldom known to the gem
cral public
We who are. not. Of he unwanted
1G000D00 seldom realize this. Today.
among a. million 4aen. women and chill
dreu- Of rtRs tmted States there il suf-
feriffe such as never was IN Belgium
II realize il is mpossible with one
idealistic stroke to wine out the weak
nesses of our civilization. to end for
ever human suffering and misfortune