The Farmville herald and farmer-leader. (Farmville, Va.) 1934-1957, 1954-02-02
B'b'o" Discusses

TUIUNE \IIkC
New Boston N H-Whether OF
not Y. u and I will live to see
World War III. I am convinced
a revolution will take place in the
location Of factories.
Crowded Parking. More Fires
AS the development Of good
roads followed the increased
operation Of automobiles. so the
decentralization Of factories will
follow the increased nuisance OF
parking. Parking facilities are as
inadequate and the parking pro-
blem as unsolved today as was
the highway problem when we
had only dusty dirt roads. Park
ing lots may be only a temporary
solution. The real answer is NOV
ing factories into rural sections
and having the cities take in these
suburbs
Another serious problem is
loss by fires. These are tremend-
ously heavy and costly today
Fire. occupancy and business in
surance are great helps; but these
cost money. Such insurance pro-
tects us against our own losses.
but not against the constantly
increasing total fire loss This can
be accomplished only through
more fire alarm boxes, more
sprinkler systems. better construc-
ton and housekeeping" What
with all these we must finally re-
sort to more decentralization,
Employment Problems
Every year more up-to-date
manufacturers are operation
schools for training employees.
To compensate for increased
wages and meet competition en-
ployees must be better trained.
The first cost Of such training
seems high to time employers;
but it pays by reducing turnover.
One Of the best investments which
corporation can make is IN the
finding and training of seriously
minded young people for its
organization.
Most of the Factory Schools
and the college, public and private
engineering schools are in cities.
AS a result, they attract mostly
city young people, who too often
have led soft lives and are not
SO likely to make ambitious en-
ployeeS. AS a rule, better trainees
can best be secured in the rural
schools surrounding city, where
boys are trained to work and save
in the home. These young people
usually make the best workers.
Everyone Has Auto
In view of the above. l forecast
that even before a factory leaves
big city and moves out into a
rural section it may have its
training school in a rural or sub
urban section, rather than in the
center OF a big city where the
factory is now located. This would
enable the factory to attract and
train country young people A
few years ago this would have
been impracticable because of lack
OF transportation, but today al
most every boy with any mechani- |
cal ability has a secondhand car. /
In fact. if a boy has not ingenuity |
enough to fix and operate a car,
he is not the kind Of a boy that /
the school wants. Such a program +
would later bring better poung
people into our cities as employees
1t would also relieve some pressure
now on 1.-THE public trade schools
giving mechanical instruction.
Thus the cities and the factories.
and its young people would all /
benefit.
Benefits the City
Anything which helps solve the
problem for city ulti-
nately helps the city. 1t may,
help cities to have GER
ain factories move out into the
Cities are intended to be
yreat shopping centers. This
means that we should favor the
merchants and their stores in
very reasonable way-good roads.
plenty of parking space. low taxes.
md friendly people. Public
chcols dependant upon taxes
ould well afford to train the
tudents to be courteous under
II conditions.