Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1926-08-12

merce, decided tnat Cnefe was ho
greater sport than that of trying TO
interest industries in placing their
southern headquarters in Atlanta.
Chasing the New Industry" Mr..
Newell calls this sport, and whether
or not he has been successful as
PLAYER of this game is best attested
by the record of new business which
has sought and found foothold IN
Georgia's capital during the present
year. Seventy-one corporations or
firms decided during the first six
months of 1926 that Atlanta is a
good place in which to do business
and they accordingly have placed
branches or headquarters in that
city.
at always is gratifying" Mr..
Newell stated to The Week, Ito
waste the development and industrial
growth of community and to see
the results attained through organ
lied and combined efforts of mu-
nicipality.
mo association can 'wheelbarrow'
an enterprise into city, but results
have demonstrated that organizations
or chambers of commerce, which have
devised ways and means to supply
helpful and authentic information
covering details of the advantages
and resources of its particular city,
stands a better chance of obtaining
new industries than those cities which
have not collected, assembled and di-
gested the data of its commonwealth
in scientific manner"
Mr.. Newell became specific in his
discussion of industries, selecting the
farm as an outstanding and well I'M
derstood example. The farm, he
pointed out, is a source of material
"a primary industry.
"Farms," said Mr.. Newell, "fur-
nish about eighty percent of all the
materials which the factories fabri-
cate and add to the value of the
wealthy really created by the farmer.
The relationship between agriculture
and manufacture never has been full
ly appreciated for many think the
two are opposed and that one can de-
velop only at the sacrifice of the
/ other. In reality, each is dependent
upon the other for the fullest extent
of it's being.
"In order to induce the location of
industries in any city," he pointed
out, "the municipality must offer GER
tain definite advantages and these
must be of such character and num-
her as &c prove to the owner of the
industry that their best interest will
be served by locating within the
metropolitan area of that specific
community. This means that the
conditions offered by the city will en-
able the industry to be operated so
that it will produce a greater profit
than it could make if located else
where"
The difference between the large
center of population and the smaller
town as an attraction for the big in
dustry was gone into at some length
by Mr.. Newell. Large numbers of
comparatively unskilled workers, he
observed, often are found in the
smaller towns, where living condi-
tions sometimes are cheaper than in
the larger towns, but he doubted the
wisdo moi location at all times in
the smaller cities. "The idea," he
said, sis not fundamentally sound be-
cause in small communities made up
of people all of whom are without
material possessions and whose small
incomes are dependent upon contin-
uous work, there is little or nothing
| in the way of diversion or relief from
the irksomeness of continual daily
task, while in larger and more gen.
orally prosperous communities, there
is always some means by which wage
earners can find some entertainment
and escape the eternal and unchang-
ing grind. While the difference is
one hardly to be solved by some ex-
act mathematical equation, or which
can be set down in ledger, expe-
rience and observation shows that
workers who have occasional enter
tainment, even though it be of low
cost variety, are more contented and
there is less liability of friction be-
} tween them and their employers"
These facts, Mr.. Newell believed,
indicate that an industry should be
in or near some city sufficiently large
to allow recreation facilities.
The trend of city towards a GER
tain industry was brought out by Mr..
Newell. eff city has five cotton
Mills" he pointed out, as an example,
it will want sixth one. Diversified
ton of industry, he asserted, should
be goal. "a town built on the di-
versified industry plan," he said,
"does not feel the full effects when
periods of depression come, and these
periods are bound to come to all in
dustries. A city with factories max
ing many different commodities US
ually maintains higher average pay
roll than cities which are dependent