Show Sowing Seeds For Progress Trends moving industrial plants to rural areas area's and small communities lead to new industrial farming operations operations operations oper oper- whereby strange seeds are converted into har harvests of essential products good jobs and plural dollars Some of the largest American corporations now are operating plants in the smallest communities and most of the states Others have fewer plants but relatively expansive geographical geographical geographical geo geo- graphical distribution of operations Mostly these plants take over idle land The timber long since gone Soil productiveness is waning Local businesses businesses businesses busi busi- nesses may be dull People of the countryside often h have ve neither regular nor reliable sources of income In these areas industrial operations can change a bleak future into a prosperous economy For example Vanadium Corporation of America is building a n new plant in rural Jefferson county Ohio Afew A Afew Afew few years ago the corporation opened plants in equally rural Cambridge Ohio and Graham West Virginia The corporation sows as seeds the minerals it imports from a dozen countries nourishes them with fuels and ores purchased in a score of states or produced from its own mines here on the Colorado Plateau in Africa or in Peru Electric furnaces con convert rt them into crops of ferro ferro- alloys vanadium chromium silicon manganese and others These helpful additives are essential in the production production production pro pro- of iron st steel l and numerous non ferrous metals and alloys These operations call for obtaining funds from earnings earnings earnings earn earn- ings and investors to purchase the land and build the plants Production equipment is installed Raw materials are brought in Local people are trained for paying jobs Payrolls begin feeding the local economy Products are shipped to all the world An area insufficient even to it itself itself itself it- it self suddenly becomes productive Benefits scarcely end there A prosperous region finds itself financially capable of providing better schools new roads convenient utilities more effective government and other facets of modern living Beyond that the locality local local- locality ity becomes the good customer as well as the supplier of other regions domestic and foreign These happy developments are made possible in part by complementary industrial and agricultural progress progress Industry is expanding to meet the greater needs of growing growing growing grow grow- ing populations Agriculture through mechanization is producing more food from fewer acres Theres There's another essential factor too frequently o over over- r. r |