Show e l' l With few exceptions the leaders in every small community at some sometime time raise the question as to how If J some industry or more industry or more industries indu tries may be brought in- in into into t. t to the town tow Where 1 the town is f r large enough its Chamber of Com Com- Commerce f r merce or other civic organization has a committee whose purpose it r is to work upon this problem con con- In some instances con con- considerable considerable money is spent on sites and bonuses to encourage indus indus- industries industries industries tries to locate within the town There are two things that many small towns searching for industry caR can do that are too often overlook overlook- ed cd First it can encourage en the in industries in- in it has either cither by buying exclusively home manufactured products or or through material assis assis- tance The other plan is to some industry that fits closely into the community and arid uses raw ma ma- produced d on the farms about the town A two fold benefit is derived from industries of this type A payroll is provided and a market is made for local producers two desirable things In conversa conversa- conversation conversation conversation tion with ith a party from another state recently he told us of a athing athing athing thing that his community did that struck us as a new idea and in inmany inman inmany many man respects a good idea His Histon ton town n lenders leaders instead of reaching out to bring in in new and unknown industries with new and unknown operations requiring workers for for- foreign foreign foreign eign to the community chose one 1 of its local industries and set out outto outto to render whatever assistance I be rendered an industry they the already had an industry whose owner they knew who had grown grownup up in the community and who ho em em- employed a number of local people and had for eral several years e They The discovered disco that with the addition of certain equipment that he was unable to buy he could double his output and his force of employees I A fund was raised and the equip equip equip- equipment equipment ment installed and the business ex ex- The experiment proved pro a success a much bigger success than a number of similar efforts that had been devoted de to securing industries operated by strangers from the outside We re believe there is food for thought in the above e to many communities that in cast cast- casting casting ing about for a way wa a to help them them- themselves themselves selves overlook the most productive productive tive sources of help already alread in their own midst I |