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Show Cooperation Pays Recent developments indicate that states and communities which cooper-! wiiu uieir puDnc utilities naturally experience greater industrial progress than those which fight and harass them. Railroads, electric companies and similar agencies are always alert to bring new industries into the territory which they serve. They have a business busi-ness motive in this, of course, but the bringing of new industries not only benefits these corporations, but makes lor added prosperity for the entire community. Examples of this are particularly observable of late in the leading industrial indus-trial states of the South, such as North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, where the utilities have worked hand in hand with civic organizations and the public pub-lic generally in locating new industrial plants. Through such cooperation Alabama has secured during the past two years, a number of especially desirable new industries textile plants, paper mills, tire factories, Pullman car works and long list of other enterprizes which furnish a market for raw materials, give employment to labor and provide an Increased demand for products of the farm. One of the leading factors in this development has been the Alabama Power Company, whose network of transmission lines reaches every section sec-tion of the state and provides power at low cost even in many of the smallest communities. Similar results have been achieved elsewhere. Any state which is fortunate enough to have forward looking and enterpriz-ing enterpriz-ing utilities would do well to cooperate with them in building up their industrial indus-trial fabric. Cooperation pays. |