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Show - i X 1 I J I BEAVER PRESS KIKES DON'T BOTHER THE SOUTH the North and East, at Any js Much AsResults of Campaign to Atir 7 Sradu,!, stitrin, into frJJ 1 ixie t........ B Macular egins strikes of m montns find East, with their wntb t nhSCUieu xxv-- - I consciousness the 3 , in- - mat is ? the South. place in n and evaporav 3r water Lthern industrial lead fel that labor troubles nixie will soon be re- in increased southern as ,tions industry n- which lately for the South, IW18 months nas pressea a fined campaign to attract new tcturing plants, its compara-fquie- t labor conditions have but in serene contrast to the scenes which have filled the f 1JU) ., t T.nhnr reDorts show aiu"""" I u nrlrprs involved i... IDUIIluci ui ov..- increased in both 1 Contented workers, these! They are enjoying themselves in a recreation hall bu.lt by a large paper manufacturer with plants in several southern cities. centralized industry, would be much heavy industrial taxes, had Drevent- more difficult to carry out. ed much industrial in the1 Southern states are now making last decade. But whengrowth the new govthe totals are heavily it easier than ever before for indusernor, Richard W. Leche, was electt the North, which suffered to tries to migrate points within ed he outlined a plan to revive the work-i 372,495 involving ikes, their borders. The first year of state industrially. compared with 105 strikes, Dixie's industrial The plan, which was adopted, repromotion drive ng 29,134 workers in Dixie, 1936 brought $322,000,000 in new pealed the objectionable license tax numits orth had greatest plants and equipment, the greatest on manufacturing establishments; I strikes in August and Sep-r development in history. effected a more equitable tax on oil jr, with 187 in each month, but the com1 one-yea- pack were paper refining; encouraged establishment' f. with investments totaling of a livestock industry by panies removing The South jworkers-95,1- 72. $60,000,000 in new plants; petrothe tax on cattle, sheep and hogs; strikes in August, keeping leum refining, with $50,000,000 in created a board of commerce and Iron employment, but 11,596 new distributing plants and pipeindustry to court industry; appro-priate- d Oc16 in out strikes by jfkept lines, and iron and steel manufac$100,000 for promotion, and i turers with a $53,000,000 expansion proposed a constitutional amendSouth Is I thatc, program. During the first quar- ment giving the governor permisLig the period 40 to ter of 1937 the pace was main- sion to grant tax exemptions for ten of all new strikes oc-sj cent with $92,964,000 in industrial years to new plants and additions to in four states New York, tained, and engineering construction con- existing plants. iylvania, Ohio and California tracts awarded. Effects were not long in coming Illinois and Michigan account-- r to notice. Building permits soared; reasons for the Prominent among a sizable portion of the reSuFj so did department store sales, eleciser. During the same six this sudden metamorphosis of a civRiPioy tric power consumption, manufac-- : ref.s only two important strikes ilization that seemed destined to iscomain permanently agricultural, has turing sales, post office receipts, in the South one in the place oofe wholesale grocery sales and other been the extension of irolet and Fisher Bodies plants most remote to the rihtn.j regions, indices. Problems of state finance itlanta, and one in the plant of power and legislative problems kept Govof cheap an in abundance resulting of Corporation la ernor Leche from starting his in- been had which in places energy Md. Both were WWt. IJelanese dus trial program with the full gusto of coal without it owing to lack mGaf he would have liked, but his own distribuof or lack for of strikes of either "sit-- " generating $rcity personal efforts brought into the or "walkout" variety in the tion lines from state 15 new industries ranging in jh is easily explained. The South plants. In addition, the South profrom $100,000 to $3,000,000, value conlower a vided jlatively ready market, With indus-Jts- s 3,000 in their construe-- ; concentrated than in eastern struction and maintenance costs, employing and plentiful raw materials. Of it, tion and giving permanent employ: l.ddle western regions, it is less ment to nearly 8,000. Arthur D. Little, the noted industo strike epidemics. Jeptible is "Nowhere e industrialists trial said, engineer, deem it probMississippi Follows Lead. to be a greater extenthere likely will have irwu public opinion is wooing industry with a Florida Jthat the before the sion of industrial activity." tax exemption law and is granting can be effectively Now the South has "gone out after municipalities permission to erect; unionized; should appear, state the business." States have conduct- - buildings for manufacturers. Cities are vying with each other to attract new factories, although insisting1 that they must be engaged in light manufacturing, such as garments, small housewares, etc. no plant; which emits objectionable fumes need apply. Agricultural Mississippi, eager toi i a yip replace the lumber mills that have left "ghost towns" along the rail-roads, has adopted a plan to "bal-- j ari ance agriculture with industry," which was sponsored by Gov. Hugh White. In addition to tax exemption for five years, it offers free facto-- ' ries and free factory sites which, if the manufacturer maintains a specii A J fied payroll for a stated period of years, become his property in most cases. The factories are built by; the municipalities in which they are situated, the cities issuing bonds to cover the cost. Other states are proceeding along the same lines. Alabama offers ten years of freedom from taxes. Mary-permaland's comities may grant nent tax exemption on manufactur- ire machinery. Arkansas, with ai "" 4 i. ji i P population 70 per cent rural, has: thrown its working cap in the rc--F to 3 i Louisiana is otTerinff manufacturers a new field of industry withcane ring with a large fund chctni(al c!iscovpri nf h nnccihilifios nf ronvcriinff sugar advertise the state's natural re1 sources and manufacturing advanP Into industrial alcohol. Inset: Gov. Richard W. Lcrhc sisninffon ton-rad- five a container manufacturer ten years tax exemption tages. North Carolina has just ap00 atpUttt, to cost $400,000. propriated S2."i0,00!) to herald its exindustrial for field traction as a M local ROVnri'.mrnfa nr and "selling" cKnnM Texas is now considering pansion. Me experience of thrir pastorn ed active publicity oilers. of $1,000,000 a year campaigns, making generous an i middle appropriation . taxin These included exemption from neignDors for the next five years to advertise ation for new industries and outright the state's resources. fyu"l mom. and emrloyment In the subsidies in the form of free factory FJ'O haun ! , Southern Markets Grow. . '"'i-.isemore rapidly sites, free buildings and raD in oU:er u:,crn. WI1J1C IIUUIS To date efforts have been concen-trnielabor. I... as upon attracting industries :. , much, and Lechc Revives Louisiana. ,'j "l"''sea which could process the raw matewhich if a nuiiie Dearing of those Louisiana was one rials of the various regions. LouisiThe wage on undercapitalizing the took lead, rinti,-.thousands of acres of the South and and on ana, with its developed natural resources land, now leads the pine rolling stressed It approximately new, man-madF'5to ones. ' J South' in the securing of paper and J'i'1: Dy December, i. in the world "nowhere that ' " nad fact the a new southH O nurn trt 91 nnrrowpd pulp fartories-larg- cly is there a greater opportunity for ern The textile industry activity. of a chemical inmoved" almost en mass? to the t0 "onomists. can the development where salt, has Louisiana, than the P'Hith now produces S;'lt, s,and"d of liv dustry and Carolina; occur in clofe proxgns of the nation's textiles, sulphur ci:t 52 ""rlli,;rn per counterpart at Der rJS. and "sold imity." It advertised C r"st- he South may while New England, for more than , fM its 4,700 miles of inland waterways, a ccr.turv the seat of this industry, a J,;,v,r,ual Pnriy as far as its 1.000-milhighway system, its now produces only 33 per cent. are concerned. its hrfe pertrunk-lin- e railroads, 10 a U'ni. t.i..... As industrial payrolls provide white American native of southcentage for of wealth L "nut l,nrd to Rn constant sfeam below the population. It aggressively promotern workers, tite markets constant-weal.hs timber ,:,c' and , mineral the its ed uih aT, r opportunity line are O.xon arid T "''Centralization. i hasic crops of rice, Maon lO ' jnM-- , UUU ;(n 'gaining in importance. cotton and sugar, supplemented by- Iv' indusulj br. r. ', "''lr"'t and Akron Advi.'cd opinion of many soyw berries r' st r.i rmtniors. e their Produc-r.?;is that the ;;"'d e,r.t not ' economists and Us port trialists ns well as the ;;' ,Us i,nd rubber if a beans and truck vegetables. as the North and East, touted was int0 Orleans New difliculties of the greater from benefit will thav, "P:s South lll""n; it would then second largest in the United States, of Dixie, with each .sectindusprosperity of unio lead- - with unrivaled facilities for i to supplying the , , p"wcr ion of the country Workt'rs in a11 P'ants trial "sy'mr best shipping. can produce. it 'i y" strikcproduct, Lnlon. Political interference with indusr.kes Sympathy fe Western Newspaper while still with possible under de try in the recent past, coupled tirM in October involved the this Leading . Non-Unio- fl -k hydro-electri- c hydro-electri- c UncLPltiL Soys: "Quotations" -' i sprinkled with grated cheese and dotted with butter. Bake in a moderate oven until well browned. Browning Biscuits. Biscuits can be given rich brown tops by brushing the tops with a pastry Disagreeable Odor. The smell brush dipped in milk before placof new paint has a very bad effect ing them in the oven. on some people. To minimize it, fill a pail of water and Storing Brown Sugar. B r o w n sprinkle in it some hay and one or two sugar will not become lumpy if onions, freshly sliced. Stand this in stored in an airtight jar. a room newly painted, and much of the smell will be neutralized. Cooking Cabbage. Cabbage should be cooked only until tender Meat Pinwheels. Biscuit dough, when tested with a fork. Too much meat 'chopped with onion, cooking results in changed color carrot and parsley. Spiced toma- and an indigestible product. to gravy. Make your favorite biscuit dough and roll out fairly thick. Heating the Oven. Open the Spread the meat mixture over the oven door for a minute soon after surface, leaving an inch margin the gas has been lit and you will of dough uncovered. Then roll up find that the oven will get hot dough and meat together, and much quicker. By doing so you slice off pinwheels. Grease a let out the moisture that always shallow pan and lay in the pin- collects when the oven is not in wheels. Bake in moderately hot use. oven until done, about 30 minutes. To Clean the Piano. Use the suction cleaner to remove dust Turnips Au Gratin. For tasty dish turnips in boil- from the inside of the piano, and ing salted water, then cut into clean the keys with a soft cloth fairly thin slices and drain well. moistened with methylated spirit. a chamois leather. Arrange in layers in a buttered Polish with WNU Service. fireproof dish, and cover each layer of turnip with grated cheese, a seasoning of pepper, and some little dabs of butter. The last layers should consist of breadcrumbs half-coo- k jrth and South during the last pths of 1936, the latest period avail-Bu- t ich official records are iti When Drawers Stick. B lack lead or black lead pencil rubbed on the edges of a drawer which has become swollen from heat will enable it to be opened and shut Quite easily. But It's Callousness People with no feeling can acquire a reputation for great fortitude. When one undertakes to "plan" happiness it consists mainly in eluding unpleasantness. It's all right to bank on the future, but it's quite another matter to draw checks against it. Advantage of living in a small town is that you can be so many kinds of a charter member. A pedestrian used to be a person who walked. Now it's one who V The most common error in the management of the child is the facility with which a mother makes and the ease with which she promptly ignores thvir outcome. Dr. Vermis II. Kelly. History will wear many false beards to conceal truth about our current affairs. Richard Washburn Child. Peace will be promoted by preserving freedom of action and by keeping all decisions in the realm of rationality rather than hysteria. C. C. 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