The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1925-12-22
NEW ENGLAND STATES
TO FIGHT FOR TRADE
cry cOMMONWEALTHS, kTDl,
1zING SHoRTCOMING, IN
LIFE OR DEATH BATTLE.
A COUNCIL OF INVESTIGATORS
Industries Seek Way to Win Back
Business Being Carried From Them
Into the South and the Mississippi
Valley. Prosperity Moving Away.

Into the South ana the MlSSlSSlppl
Valley. Prosperity Moving Away.
dramatic battle to retain their
o1aces in the industrial sun is being
4 naoed by six New England states
4 which have been supreme for a cen
+,,rv or more in many fields. Aware
hat the south and west have been
+ crowding New England out of the
American industrial picture the six
4 sta+es have Joined hands in a struggle
Jar their economic and business inter
4 acts They have assumed the theory
4 that the best defense is an offensive
Il move. :,
The New England Council, COM
i orising u men, recently organized at
meeting in Worcester, Mass, is
seeking the remedy. Twelve men from
each of the six states, including bust
+ ness men, farmers, bankers, transpor-
tation officials and manufacturers, the
council is cross-section OF New
England life.
The council generally is not inter
ested in local industrial problems. 1t
tackles the major difficulties. The
. growing prominence of the south as
textile center and of the Mississippi
valley as a shoe manufacturing center
B are the symptoms of a condition that
affects the welfare of all New Eng
n land 1t is this condition the council
wishes to remedy.
The council now is making survey
4 OF the industrial status-and POSSIBLE
+ ties-of the six states. When the sur
y yev is completed there will be avail
3 able complete picture of New Eng
4 land and the transportation, agrlcul-
. tural commercial and industrial rem
4 edies necessary to stimulate and re-
new the economic life of the section.
Land of Industrial Centers.
New England is in the hands of an
executive committee which is drawing
4 I'D broad solutions of the outstanding
4 problems of the six states. New Eng
land is determined TO prove to the
world that she is not slipping.
Ever since the early days of the
American republic New England has
been land OF industrial centers.
. Towns were built up for protection
from the early Indians, so industries
quickly developed when that danger
s no longer existed.
The New England shoe manutact-
uring business goes back to 1851,
when the first shoe factory was es-
tablished at Plymouth Early New
! England had its cattle-and therefore
. its hides for shoe making-right at
n its back doors. So New England
4 quickly became the shoe center OF the
4 country.
Prosperity Moves.
Today, though, the largest shoe fac
tories in the country are located at
4 Binghamton, N. Y, and ST. Louis
4 Mo-. far away from New England
Labor troubles and the removal OF
the cattle industry to the middle west
4 helped to bring about the change
\ New England in the meantime has
Y been content to continue with its FAC
tories virtually just as they are. That
4 fact has added to the industrial de
cline. in this particular line, OF the
section.
Labor troubles figured, too, to de-
gree in the moving of the textile cen
3 ter from New England to the south
Y Cheaper labor available in the south
however, was the most important IN
& fuence The south, too, has fewer re-
y strictive labor laws. Many New Eng
land textile firms realized these con-
4 ditons and moved to the south. Those
that remained at home, it IS pointed
out were slow to adopt modern ma
& chinery and improvements, and thai
helped the south along.
Still Plays Big Part
New England, however, still plays
a major part in the textile industry
having more than half the spindles III
the country and in the shoe industry,
New England manufactures as mucn
textiles as the other states combined
New England too, boasts that II
still has some of the finest farms III
the country and that other smaller III
dustries it boasts still are without
equal New England fisheries, too,
do a business that is without a peer
anywhere else in the nation.
Studies Water Power.
One of the outstanding possibilities
OF solution for this industrial prob
lem OF New England is water power
The council now is studying this as
pect Of the situation.
Most of New England's water pow
er is in Maine. A $100000,0OO power
project, for Harvesting the tides OF the
Bay Of Funday, now is being planned,
such plant alone could supply all
New England with power.
Development of water power, Il Is
Predicted, will mean better living con-
dltions for the workment, greater
Production and lower taxation. with
cheap power, it is declared, New Eng
land will be able to recapture some