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A linen or'S-.a and Washing- ...,.4, of 5x.all toT factories "'".'( jj West, darkened since J. '-e -rouct,ve facilities W. :z;f"na.:or.al defense plants. , esrcially true in Hhno.s , '.conn Michigan and V' -r ate boasts two Ir'V,V,,d production areas one !ncrn counties and an-acr,M an-acr,M t.-.er.or...ernc rhrr do--n ,J-h along "T mediate '--'"t,rforhonus,ng and .omcwr.at c ..aoi . faciHties have trade ana ,0 take care oi r,t been v.a''3'e But leading "pCCtCdand economists are bu.mcs.rr.en and e Co optirr.istic. r Nation s Charles P. the wide- Eusir.ess recently ha ! PrCad ''"rT powerful decentraliz-; decentraliz-; WIn -exert a pc . immed, ii?cP""ebdeefenseprogr." ';-"traii;i:rdle'cci:trau. The 'actors th'tjnake to zation practical ' are First, better Mghwa' mg air travel and rad.o our land more comP smaU town cts are m destruc-away destruc-away from the eco sing met- tlve burden of ever proba. ropolitan taxes, in u town most impor ant. ft opportu. e,r.pnr. and pros' I J ! v -4v . . ' i - . v A ' .. .v. .:. .... v. r iiMttfc-. Main Street, center of community life in thousands of small towns throuKliuut America, Is shown, top photo, as It looks In Rldgcwood, N. J. Slewing lutest census liKiires which show that cities arc settling down Into "old Ke" while rural communities are growing faster than ever, , , - . ........... ;. J " , .. . - rconomUt siy that Main Street, Instead of Mall Street, Is the avenue of opportunity for today's young business men. Lower photo shows one of the many factories going up In rural areas the 300,000-pound-a-day mokelrs-poder plant near Itadford, Va., being built on farmland. atTorded by such firms as Hormel Tacking company at Austin, Minn., Hamilton Manufacturing company at Two Rivers. Wis., and Schenley Distillers Dis-tillers corporation, which recently reported on a survey of personnel at it plants in Lawrenceburg, Ind.. and Krankfort. Ky. According to Lewis S. Rosenstiel. chairman of the b.-ard of the Schenley company, compa-ny, an Increasing number of employees em-ployees at these plants are building build-ing new homes on small farms within with-in easy driving distance of work. This movement may well develop de-velop into the greatest revolution in American living conditions that we've experienced since the metro-j metro-j pj'itan city began coming into its j own." Mr. Rosenstiel says. Defense 1 plan's, he predicts, will be convert-pd convert-pd to Deace- lime production under the stimulus stimu-lus of a "more productive era" into which we will move at the close of the war, Henry Ford was one of the first of the nation's na-tion's leading industrialists to i .-i recognize the Lewis Uosenst.el q ' centralizing industry. "Beyond ! the immediate benefits and advantages advan-tages accruing to the employer and the employed from industrial decentralization." de-centralization." according to W. J. Cameron of the Ford Motor company, com-pany, "there are the wider im-plications im-plications of its communal and national na-tional social and economic significance. sig-nificance. In more than one instance during the depression years the es-.blishing es-.blishing of a little Ford industry in a Michigan town has been the economic salvation of that town. At Th -.me time this action has the rrrect oTrelieving. however slightly he human congestion of our overcrowded over-crowded industrial centers. Theri .'a.'.Sv.5 fn: canned to 'the United : State, Triark H. Minor, president of !??f,lenatfonal General Electnc romoany who recently predicted a shift in the r nara.;n- Prntrarhe colmic re-alignments re-alignments that will follow. rZ decentralization spells gloom C"ieti:earesaomncIialsd himeTZe i is aieady beginning whose Property i actory to jay idle as In Chi- Vene KLanTinstitute re-cag re-cag S tVhe 45-square-mile central PrtSH , lost 165 000 population in area has lost the thS 13 of total Chicago shopping VOlUT, fn toe downtown "Loop" handled in the a mQ areafnkp rTen?iO years later. 10 y ,1 appears, has reached The fy'nd is now heading down-US down-US PalCItas beginning to look like War street not Wall Street, wil '"omo'ot's avenue of progress! |