New Britain herald., 1930-09-12
Connecticut Highway De- partment Landscape Di. vision Chief Tells of the Identification Program Under Way.

Middlebury, Vt, Sept. 12 PN-A profitable year for many New Eng land mills was foreseen by the in- dustrial committee of the New Eng land Council in its report at the opening session of the goth quarterly meeting here today Richard w. Sulioway, treasurer of the Sulloway Mills, Franklin, N. H., and William S. Nutter. vice president of the Goodall Worsted company Sanford, Me. reported for the committee.
 The activity ot mill at this time rests chiefly with the manage ment," Mir. Subway said in the re- port.
 Tn those plants where it is the practice of the management to maintain low inventories and a strong cash position, to employ re- search in the development of new products, new processes, and new markets, also to do the best mer- chandising job possible. we find a fair volume of business, and pros poets for ending the year with a profit smaller than in boom years, but a profit nevertheless - the com~ mittee found.
 The committee found that the whole mechanism of distribution is being subjected to scrutiny, and management is becoming more sci entifc in its efforts to cut costs and conserve profits
 Wah.hful Walters Suffer
 "There are many firms" the com mittee warned. "who are still wait ing for something to turn up and likely to find themselves out of the running as business once again re- sumes its normal gait. The mills that have adopted watchful waiting as poliices are the ones that seem to be feeling the depression the most"
 There has been no suffering to any appreciable extent from drought in New England and the committee on agriculture foresaw a good year for New England canners
 The corn crop in New England is large and the demand strong due to the failure of western corn crops" the report said. The potato outlook was described as good de- spite the fact that the crop is slightly smaller than last year and the price lower. Both are above the average for the past five years, how ever, the records show.
 New England railroads, steam ship companies, oil companies, pub licity bureaus. and hotels were can vassed for reports on figures on money spent in recreation in New England in 1880. The purely recrea- tional hotels enjoyed q very good year. the committee found, with losses occurring for the great part in transient or over-night business.
 Connecticut Man Speaks
 Connecticut. and Massachusetts have been cited by national students of the highway Identification prob- lem as conducting the most ad- vaneed programs Of roadSde devel- ophent in the country Luther M. Keith, in charge of the landscape division of the Connecticut highway department, told the council.
 Mir. Keith told of a program of tho council under which each New England state would be urged to authorize the appointment by its state highway board of a state land scape architect to plan and super wise the work along~the highways
 Practical highway identification contests and demonstrations will be carried out by the federations 0! women's clubs of New. England" he said. These federations were select ed by the council as the organized group having the greatest interest and the most effective influence fol carrying on the work in this field he said. r....'......