Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-28
HUGE SUGAR MILL
! BUILT IN FLORIDA
Pennsylvania Company De.
VeIops Business on Shore
of Lake 0keeChobee.
BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR.

BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR.
Special Dispatch to The Star
MIAMI, Fla, February 28.-ProbablI
the most substantial business enterprise
In South Florida is the sugar industr!
around Clewiston and Lake Okeechobee
This development is about so miles west
Of Palm Beach and directly south OF the
ridge section of the State.
One of the largest sugar mills in the
United States has been erected there
and another one, still larger, is being
built. According to present plans, a new
mill each year will be constructed dur
ing 1881, 1892, 1888 and 1884, making a
total of six and they will be the largest
sugar mills in existence.
This development has provided for a
budget Of $4,000, 900, covering plant and
acreage investment, which VIII be dis
bursed by the end Of 1884. At that time,
it is expected that not less than $4,000
men viii be regularly employed in these
mills.
This section of Florida alone is ca
pable of furnishing half the sugar re-
quired to supply the population of the
United States" said B. G. Dahlberg,
president of the Pennsylvania Sugar Co.,
which is developing the enterprise.
This company has found it possible to
cane" in the manufacture of sound
proof building construction, especially
walls and ceilings. Its product is used
widely in radio stations where sound
proof walls and ceilings are so necessary.
"Our sugar development in Florida
will cost us more than $100,000,00 in
the next five years." said Mr.. Dahlberg
to me. Our extensive research has
shown US that no finer sugar land ex-
5Uke lor
will produce more per acre-very much
more-than other places. But this is
necessary, because higher labor costs
must be figured in here against the
lower costs elsewhere. Florida will be
as well known in the future for its
sugar production as Brazil is for its
coffee"
Business leaders on vacation are
not inclined to talk shop. They will
open up on golf scores. but ask them
about business matters and most Of
them shut up like a clam.
Still there are exceptions. To these
exceptional men business has become
so much a part of life that it has be-
come second nature to talk about their
business all the time.
Edward E. Shumaker, president of
the r. G. A.-Victor Co., leader in its
field, thinks that while televiSion is still
in the laboratory stage, on account of
its prohibitive practical cost, radio
owners will not have to wait very long
now.
Talking moving pictures for the
home viii be available in a short period
Of time, because the apparatus for
projecting talkies economically Is al
Shumaker. This should be the first
practical television development"
But the radio will play the big part
In the next war, thinks this business
leader.
In the next war 1t will be possible
20 load a plane with deadly bombs,
direct its progress and destroy entire
cities without the risk of life in the
process" said Mr. Shumaker, who has
Co. from office boy to the presidency.
"Out Of nothing, nothing comes"
This is fayorite quotation Of Col.
r. A Mitchell, senior vice president of
the Alabama Power Co. and a brother
Of Sidney z. Mitchell Of New York,
the directing genius of the Electric
utility corporations scattered widely
Throughout the world.
Public utility companies have learned
to do other things than sell power.
Many Of them are responsible for the
upbuilding Of vast communities, which
In turn increase the amount of power
used" said Col. Mitchell in speaking
of his own company's activities in
Alabama.
In the last few years the Alabama
Power Co. has been instrumental in
bringing into that State the Interna-
tional Paper Co.'s Kraft paper plant
at Mobile, an SO 900 900 concern. An
other plant. costing approximately
5000 900, was attracted to tuscaloosa,
where paper bag company operates in
conjunction.
The Kraft paper plants, now spring.
ing up in widely scattered sections of
Southern States, utilize ordinary pine
wood.
silk plants at Brewton and Decatur.
Ala, were secured through the work of
the Alabama Power Co., and SO was
the Dixie plant Of the Goodyear Tire
& Rubber Co., built at Gadsden at a
cost Of $8,000,00O
sAt GadSden, rubber reclamation
plant, where cast-oh rubber shoes, tires
ana other products are remanufactured
into other rubber items, shows what
can be done In using waste products"
said this Alabaman.
Col. Mitchell, one of the South's big
captains OF industry, began his business
career as a clerk in a store at SOS per
month. Then he struggled through lean
years, nrst as postmaster, then a rail-
road employe, then bank official and
finally became a public utility leader.
When all is said and done, generally
speaking, progress is made in direct
proportion to the amount of work put
into any enterprise" were the colonel's
concluding words.
Many of the finest yachts in America
are in Miami. Some have been cruis-
ing about Florida, Cuba and the Ba-
hsmas all Winter. Others have been
content to stay closer to the Florida
coast.
When Alfred Sloan, IT., president of
General Motors, arrived the other day
on his yacht, Walter Chrysler. president
OF the ChrySler company, was with him.
Both were Sun-tanned after DAYS of
cruising in Southern waters Stories
few thick and fast that a merger of
these two powerful groups was in the
air
But the real fact is that two old
friends went cruising together. There
is nothing to the merger story. These
automobile leaders have known each
other and have been on the friendliest
terms for many years. There is a
friendly business rivalry between them
but the friendship which began when
UoHh were youngsters ana not so con-
spicuous remains in these later years.
MS fine spirit; especially so in what
probably is the most keenly contested
and competitive industry of all-that OF
selling automobiles.
Matthew c. Brush of New York, pres
ident Of the American international
Corporation, known to as many Ameri.
can business leaders as any other Amer.
lean, arrived here yesterday aboard hi,
yacht, Marilda.
Mr.. Brush began his business career
as a newsboy in Minneapolis. Their
he became a hotel clerk and a pursei
on the Great Lakes.
Next he entered the shops of thu
Union Pacific Railroad at Omaha, wier,
he learned something of railroading
His first official position was as assist