New Britain herald., 1925-12-04

think the center of population is Broadway and 42d street, New York.
 New England's future depends altogether upon Its own citizens New England. In fact, can regard the industrial ascendancy of New Britain as an example. As q manu- factuSAsg city, New Britain has no natural advantages. It Is on no river. IL Is not even on n main line of railroad. It is not as well situ- atcd as either Hartford or Water bury, or as New Haven or Bridge port. But New Britain has shown relatively faster growth than any of these cities, If we except the war boom period.
 What, then, has insured the growth of New Britain? Simply the enterprise of its own people. the driving power of It's manufacturers in the industrial marts of the country. There are q dozen cities in Connecticut alone which had better natural facilities to become the hardware city of the country; but New Britain gathered to itself that proud designation merely because its manufacturers paid little atten- ton 10 natural resources, graph charts, statistics and all the re- mainder of the modern business systems, and paid more attention 10 their own efficiency, to the qual- ity of their goods, and methods of marketing them. That, in the long run, Is the only effective system. The manufacturer who is eternally wondering whether he couldn't do better" in some other town, or some other section, usually hasn't enough time left to apply to the prime essentials of his business.
 What New England needs to do Is 10 get down to the historic brass tacks and quit bothering about whether the south can manufacture some grades of textiles to better advantages; to quit bothering whether the shoe manufacturers of st. Louis or Cincinnati have the edge on marketing the product; to quit bothoring whether other sec tions are growing faster than New England just at this moment. What New England requires Is recru- descence of it's original spirit of making quality. of goods that other sections would have 10 shoot at; we need revival of ideas and the facility to execute them.
 And, when all the lamentations are heard and chronicled, New England continues 10 possess a few advantages that are worth while. It is near the scaboard; it is near the largest areas of congested | population; it has an intelligent population, skilled in the uses of all kinds of machinery; it pays its workers q larger wage than the south and some other sections, but | its return is more product per man where the most modern ideas in ! the use of machinery are utilized. It also has an ample sutflciency of water power, and in due course this advantage will be utilized to a greater extent.
 Consider the supremacy of prod ucts made in New Britain. Scarce l ly city in the country where 1 building is under way that does not | find local products in evidence. . Scarcely an apartment building or hotel is erected in the large cities 1 that does not include New Britain l hardware. It is scarcely possible to pick up q publication going into : the homes Of the nation that does not contain the advertisements oi ! New Britain manufacturers. It was only about q year ago that one foremost publisher stated that what New England needed is the use of more printers ink; but in saying this he could not have had New Britain in mind, as local manufacturing establishments seem 10 be of tine best believers in thc efficacy of printers ink in New England.
 The history of New Britain's in dustrjcs closely parallels the his tories of most other prominent makers of the worlds needs. It is enterprise that circumvcnts so- called disadvantages.
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