Show 8 washington I 1 NEWS LETTER t ily by congressman CONG KESSMAN GRANGER lp INDUSTRY concerted effort to do some in IL a practical work in postwar planning of industries for the west a group of congressmen from that area sonie me 50 organized I zed recen recently aly for that purpose i two meetings have already been 1 I held arid a great dell deal of enthusiasm and gusto give promise of even a larg 1 participating in this new er grou gra I 1 movement t to 0 plan and develop west so as to make that ern see 1 tion economically self sufficient A the term economically self S renall jant originated with the president in j s recent conference where he expressed v himself forcefully on oil the no jj casity ty of greater decentralization of industry after the war ile he mentioned the fact that many new factories and industries have found their place in sections of the west and south many any during this emergency but pointed t to the fact that still further development must be undertaken if we are to reallie our greatest possibilities the steel trusts have always concentrated tent cent rated their mills and blast furnaces in the east thus necessitating necessitation 9 the he moving of great stores of iron ore from the rich natural deposits of the west while this is only one example of wasted energy yet it typifies the tremendous job to be done if every section of the country is ever to make itself 41 economically self sufficient and certainly the postwar period of readjustment offers great opportunities for such development on a national scale if the plans can be carefully blueprinted and approved for lm j mediate construction whet when i the manpower of the armed forces is released |