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[KES DON’T BOTHER THE SOUTH
Much As the North and East, at Any Rate—Dixie Begins to
Enjoy Results of Campaign to Attract Industries.
William c utley
^■aCULAR strikes of re
-Wonths in the North and
-■th their accompanying
■ have largely ob
■fr-: the public con
the industrial awak
i “Kt is taking place in the
> southern industrial
K \ that labor troubles
0 ^K)j X ie will soon be re-
W" euneased southern
a s industry spreads
the difficulties root-
J : ^B r -concentration.
^B . far the South, which
ii^K'u months has pressed a
campaign to attract new
.K^ng plants, its compara
v'^Ket labor conditions have
, n serene contrast to the
w hrh have filled the
i^Bstage.
^B -of Labor reports show
^^K^ber workers involved
steadily increased in both
and South during the last
>■< o f 1936, the latest period
t^Kofficial records are avail
the totals are heavily
t^Hhe North, which suffered
involving 372,495 work
j^Hornpared with 105 strikes,
29.134 workers in Dixie.
Ui had its greatest num
t^Hnkes in August and Sep
-137 in each month, but
in October involved the
^■rkers—9s,l72. The South
■Kikes in August, keeping 4,-
employment, but 11,596
^Kt out by 16 strikes in Oc-
^^Kouth Is Non-Union.
the six-month period 40 to
of all new strikes oc
^■n four states —New York,
|^B a, Ohm and California—
■Ls and Michigan account
sizeable portion of the re
|^B During the same six
SMcniy two important strikes
m the South—one in the
and Fisher bodies plants
^■ta. and one in the plant of
Corporation of Amer
^■imberland, Md. Both were
^Hmicably.
^Hty of strikes of either “sit
^Hr “walkout” variety in the
^■easily explained. The South
^^■eiy non-union. With indus
^Bcncentrated than in eastern
western regions, it is less
^Ble to strike epidemics.
^Bdustrialists deem it prob
^B' public opinion will have
the "sit-down” before the
^Bn be effectively unionized;
^B™s” should appear, state
governments should profit
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■“siana is offering manufacturers a new field of industry with re
^P e niical discoveries of the possibilities of converting sugar cane
■to industrial alcohol. Inset: Gov. Richard W. Leche signing con
■*• s>ve a container manufacturer ten years tax exemption on ad-
Plant, to cost $400,000.
experience of their eastern
adle western neighbors in
> them.
’ and employment ip the
increased more rapidly
other sections, while hours
’ increased as much, and
oubtedly has some bearing
sence of strikes. The wage
Jal between the South and
actions was approximately
cent in 1933; by December,
Pad narrowed down to 21.9
’’ Since the southern work
’rding to economists, can
the same standard of liv
’ls northern counterpart at
nt less cost, the South may
m virtual parity as far as
ses are concerned.
I*xie Woos Industry.
'V to see wh y industry
~ ea by the opportunity the
°rds for decentralization.
Pee, Detroit and Akron
^Paralyzed in their produc
utornobiles and rubber if a
>iant gets into difficulties
un i° n J it would then
n the power of union lead
workers in 311 Piants
"’Pathy” strike. Sympathy
. still possible under de
industry, would be much
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Contented workers, these! They are enjoying themselves in a recrea
tion hall built by a large paper manufacturer wj^h plants in several
southern cities.
more difficult to carry out and might
end in a workers’ revolt.
Southern states are now making
it easier than ever before for indus
tries to migrate to points within
their borders. The first year of
Dixie’s industrial promotion drive—
1936—brought $322,000,000 in new
plants and equipment, the greatest
one-year development in history.
Leading the pack were paper com
panies with investments totaling
$60,000,000 in new plants; petro
leum refining, with $50,000,000 in
new distributing plants and pipe
lines, and iron and steel manufac
turers with a $53,000,000 expansion
program. During the first quar
ter of 1937 the pace was main
tained, with $92,964,000 in industrial
and engineering construction con
tracts awarded.
Prominent among the reasons for
this sudden metamorphosis of a civ
ilization that seemed destined to re
main permanently agricultural, has
been the extension of hydro-electric
power to the most remote regions,
resulting in an abundance of cheap
energy in places which had been
without it owing to lack of coal
for generating or lack of distribu
tion lines from hydro-electric
plants. In addition, the South pro
vided a ready market, lower con
struction and maintenance costs,
and plentiful raw materials. Os it,
Arthur D. Little, the noted indus
trial engineer, said, “Nowhere is
there likely to be a greater exten
sion of industrial activity.”
Now the South has “gone out after
the business.” States have conduct
ed active publicity and “selling”
campaigns, making generous offers.
These included exemption from tax
ation for new industries and outright
subsidies in the form z>f free factory
sites, free buildings and state
trained labor.
Leche Revives Louisiana.
Louisiana was one of those which
took the lead, capitalizing on under
developed natural resources and on
new, man-made ones. It stressed
the fact that “nowhere in the world
is there a greater opportunity for
the development of a chemical in
dustry than Louisiana, where salt,
sulphur and gas occur in close prox
imity.” It advertised and “sold
its 4,700 miles of inland waterways,
its 14,000-mile highway system, its
10 trunk-line railroads, its large per
centage of native American white
population. It aggressively promot
ed its mineral and timber wealths
and its great basic crops of rice,
cotton and sugar, supplemented by
sweet potatoes, strawberries, soy
beans and truck vegetables. Its port
of New Orleans was touted as the
second largest in the United States,
with unrivaled facilities.
Political interference with indus
try in the recent past, coupled with
heavy industrial taxes, had prevent
ed much industrial growth in the
last decade. But when the new gov
ernor, Richard W. Leche, was elect
ed he outlined a plan to revive the
state industrially.
The plan, which was adopted, re
pealed the objectionable license tax
on manufacturing establishments;
effected a more equitable tax on oil
refining; encouraged establishment
of a livestock industry by removing
the tax on cattle, sheep and hogs;
created a board of commerce and
industry to court industry; appro
priated SIOO,OOO for promotion, and
proposed a constitutional amend
ment giving the governor permis
sion to grant tax exemptions for ten
years to new plants and additions to
existing plants.
Effects were not long in coming
to notice. Building permits soared;
so did department store sales, elec
tric power consumption, manufac
turing sales, post office receipts,
wholesale grocery sales and other
indices. Problems of state finance
and legislative problems kept Gov
ernor Leche from starting his in
dustrial program with the full gusto
he would have liked, but his own
personal efforts brought into the
state 15 new industries ranging in
value from SIOO,OOO to $3,000,000,
employing 3,000 in their construc
tion and giving permanent employ
ment to nearly 8,000.
Mississippi Follows Lead.
Florida is wooing industry with a
tax exemption law and is granting
municipalities permission to erect
buildings for manufacturers. Cities
are vying with each other to attract
new factories, although insisting
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 to
replace the lumber mills that have
left “ghost towns” along the rail
roads, has adopted a plan to “bal- (
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 speci
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
land’s countries may grant perma
nent tax exemption on manufactur
ing machinery. Arkansas, with a
population 70 per cent rural, has
thrown its working cap in the in
dustrial ring with a large fund to
advertise the state's natural re
sources and manufacturing advan
tages. North Carolina has just ap
propriated $250,000 to herald its at
traction as a field for industrial ex
pansion. Texas is now considering
an appropriation of $1,000,000 a year
for the next five years to advertise
the state’s resources.
Southern Markets Grow.
To date efforts have been concen
trated upon attracting industries
which could process the raw mate
rials of the various regions. Louisi
ana, with its thousands of acres of
rolling pine land, now leads the
South in the securing of paper and
pulp factories—largely a new south
ern activity. The textile industry
has moved almost en masse to the
Carolinas; the South now produces
52 per cent of the nation’s textiles,
while New England, for more than
a century the seat of this industry,
now produces only 38 per cent.
As industrial payrolls provide a
constant stream of wealth for south
ern workers, the markets below the
Mason and Dixon line are constant
ly gaining in importance.
Advised opinion of many indus
trialists and economists is that the
North and East, as well as the
South, will benefit from the greater
prosperity of Dixie, with each sec
tion of the country supplying the
products it can best produce.
© Western Newspaper Union.
IMPROVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By REV. HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST.
Dean of the Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago.
© Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for July 25
LESSON TEXT—Exodus 12:21-28.
GOLDEN TEXT—The Lord thy God hath
chosen thee to be a special people unto
himself.—Deuteronomy 7:6.
PRIMARY TOPlC—Ready for the Jour
ney.
JUNIOR TOPlC—Ready to Start Home.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC—
How God Prepares a People.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC—
Equipped for a New Era.
“Let my people go”—such was
the word of the Lord to Pharaoh
through Moses and Aaron. “Who is
the Lord, that I should obey his
voice to let Israel go? I know not
the Lord, neither will I let Israel
go” — thus hardened Pharaoh his
heart. The issue was so drawn for
one of the great struggles of history.
On one side was a bold and mighty
monarch with all the resources of
the empire of Egypt, and on the
other an unorganized multitude of
slaves. No, wait, on the other side
was Almighty God! The outcome
was never In doubt and through the
unspeakable horror of the plagues
we come to consider the last of the
ten, tb.e death of the first-born, with
which is joined the establishment
of the Passover.
The Passover is of sufficient im
portance to justify careful study
simply aj> the perpetual feast of
Jews, but to the Christian it is also
a most blessed and instructive type
of Christ who is, according to Paul,
“our passover” (I Cor. 5:7). Let no
one who studies or teaches this les
son fail to point to “the Lamb of
God which taketh away the sin of
the world” (John 1:29).
I. A Lamb Slain (v. 21).
The sacrifice appears, a gentle,
submissive lamb, a male without
blemish, which is separated for the
giving of its life that the first-born
in Israel might be saved.
Notice that God’s instructions
were explicit, and were to be obeyed
if there was to be redemption. There
are those in our day who would
substitute any and every other meth
od of salvation for God’s revealed
plan. They talk about character de
velopment, the redemption cf t h e
social order, peace and politics, and
forget the Lamb of God.
11. A Blood Salvation (vv. 22, 23).
The act of faith in marking the
lintel and the doornosts with the
blood, brought salvation to the fam
ilies of Israel. Had they waited until
they could reason out the philosophy
of their promised redemption, or
had they shrunk from the blood as
their covering, their first-born would
have been slain. It was when the
destroying angel saw the blood that
he passed over them.
Many there are in our time who
speak disparagingly of the blood of
Jesus Christ, but it is still the only
way of redemption. “Without shed
ding of blood there is no remission.”
It ill befits an age that is so blase
and sophisticated as ours to attempt
to cover its dislike for God’s way
or 1 redemption by suddenly becom
ing too cultured and sensitive to
hear of the blood of the Lamb of
God shed on Calvary’s tree for our
cleansing from sin.
111. A Perpetual Memorial (vv.
24-28).
God wants his people to remem
ber. We, like Israel, are to remem
ber the bondage from which we
were delivered. Down through the
ages the Jews have kept the Pass
over. Our Hebrew neighbors do it
today. Let us honor them for their
obedience to God’s command and
at the same time seek to point them
to the One who is the true Pass
over, Jesus Christ.
IV. Christ Our Passover (I Cor.
5:7).
Let us add to the assigned lesson
text this New Testament passage
which speaks of our Lord Jesus
Christ as “our passover . . . sacri
ficed for us.”
The bondage in Egypt was ter
rible in its afflictions and sorrows,
but far more serious is the bondage
in which men find themselves under
sin and the rule of Satan. Surely
there is need of divine redemption,
and there is none to bring it to us
but the Lamb of God. He was the
One who without spot or blemish
(I Pet. 1:19) was able to offer him
self in our behalf that in him we
might find “redemption through his
blood” (Eph. 1:7, Col. 1:14).
“Is the blood upon the house of
my life? Is the blood upon the door
post of my dwelling place? Have I
put up against the divine judgment
some hand of self-protection? Ver
ily, it will be swallowed up in the
great visitation. In that time noth
ing will stand but the blood which
God himself has chosen as a token
and a memorial. ‘The blood of Jesus
Christ, his Son, cleanseth us from
all sin’ ” (Joseph Parker).
Labor and Patience
Truth is to be costly to you—of
labor and patience; and you are
never to sell it, but to guard and
to give.—Ruskin.
Judging Another's Sorrow
One can never be the judge of
another’s grief. That which is a sor
row to one, to another is joy.
Follow Our Convictions
Never swerve in your conduct
from your honest convictions.—
Horace Bushnell.
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Bowling on the Green Is One of the Favorite Sports in New Zealand.
New Zealand Is Country of Scenic
Wonders and Many Odd Paradoxes
Prepared by National Geographic Society,
Washington, D. C.—WNU Service.
ON DECEMBER 16, 1642,
Abel Tasman stood on the
deck of the Heemskirk in the
South Pacific and gazed out to
ward an unknown “great, high,
bold land.” At the hands of an
unimaginative cartographer the
new wavy lines added to the
map became New Zealand, aft
er the Netherlands Province of
Zeeland, to which it bears not
the least resemblance. The in
appropriateness of its name,
however, is not the only para
dox of this British dominion of
the Far South.
Captain James Cook, who first
explored the islands a century and
a quarter later, took possession of
them for his country only to have
his claims rejected. Britain still la
ter hoisted the Union Jack over the
land to prevent French immigrants
from settling in the place they cher
ished. The country’s capital bears
the name Wellington, but the Iron
Duke stood firm against the annex
ation.
Many New Zealanders who have
never been away from the island’s
shores, and whose parents likewise
were born in the Dominion, still
speak of England as “home.”
Here in an area approximately
the size of Colorado are grouped
the snow-mantled peaks of Switzer
land, geysers of a Yellowstone, vol
canic cones of Java and Japan,
and the lakes of Italy; the mineral
springs of Czechoslovakia, fiords of
Norway, seacoasts of Maine and
California, and waterfalls higher
than Yosemite.
Largest and Smallest Pines.
Glaciers slip down sharp moun
tainsides from vast snow fields into
subtropical bush. A short ride
through a pass in the southern Alps
will take one from impenetrable
evergreen forests into barren tus
sock-covered lands.
New Zealand is the home of the
massive kauri pines, some of which
measure 22 feet in diameter and
have reached hoary ages that rank
them next to the sequoias. It also
is the home of the smallest known
representative of the pine-tree fam
ily. Giant fuchsias grow to the
height of 40 feet; a white buttercup
has blooms four inches in diameter;
flax is produced from a lily; man
has imported all of the mammals,
and many of the native birds can
not fly.
The Maoris were the first-known
colonists of these southern islands.
Guided only by the stars and a
knowledge of the winds and ocean
currents, they boldly piloted their
slender double canoes from their
homeland of "Hawaiki” (probably
Tahiti and the Cook islands) to the
shores of New Zealand in the Four
teenth century. Legend credits them
with having followed the sailing di
rections of the famous Polynesian
navigator, Kupe, who is said to
have preceded them by 400 years.
To the new land they gave the
lilting, vowel - studded name, Ao
tea-roa, which is variously trans
lated as “The Long White Cloud,”
“The Land of Long Daylight,” and
“The Long, Bright Land.”
Here they lived, increased,
warred against each other, and cul
tivated their taro and the more
important kumara, or sweet potato,
which they brought with them. Then
came whalers, missionaries, and
traders; and colonists arrived with
gunpowder, conflicting social stand
ards, and the desire to carve out
new homes.
Principal City Thrives.
Protracted Maori wars, contested
land claims, the discovery of gold,
land booms, and a heavy depres
sion-New Zealand passed through
them all before she settled down
to economic equilibrium.
With its 221,300 people Auckland
today has more than twice the
British population of the whole
country in the early 60’s of the
last century. As a ship nears the
end of its 6,000-mile journey from
the west coast of the United States,
or the 1,200-mile span from Aus
tralia, it skirts the islands that stud
the cobalt waters of Hauraki guff,
enters Waitemata harbor, and
finally ties up at the very foot of
the thriving city.
The early colonists chose well
when they staked out this harbor
side settlement that once served
the country as capital and now is
the largest city in New Zealand.
Long ago Nature's forces, not
man’s industry, reigned in this local
ity. Within a radius of ten miles
there are more than 60 burnt-out
volcanic cones. Stand on the top
of Mount Eden, one of the best
preserved of the craters, which
rises like an observation post near
the center of the city, and you see
the once-fiery throats bulging or
forming symmetrical cones on tha
landscape.
From this same vantage point it
is apparent how narrowly North
island escaped being divided in two.
The isthmus upon which Auckland
sprawls, between the Waitemata
harbor, looking out toward the Paci
fic, and the Manukau harbor, open
ing westward to the Tasman sea,
is only eight miles wide. River
estuaries and other indentations
narrow it in places to a scant mile.
Veritably, water seems almost to
encircle the red- and green-roofed
maze of the city’s business blocks
and suburban residences.
Abounds in Flowers.
Business hovers close to Queen’s
street, which leads up from the
wharves, and in its adjacent nar
row, twisting thoroughfares. But if
the people responsible for the city’s
growth have failed somewhat in
town planning so far as the streets
are concerned, they have more than
exonerated themselves in providing
broad park spaces.
The parks seem almost number
less. To them the flush of the sub
tropics gives perpetual freshness
and color. Flowers luxuriate all the
year round. Even the race course
has an avenue of palms and ex
tensive beds of blooms that would
do justice to a botanical garden.
One cannot move about Auckland
long without the new War Memorial
museum claiming attention. It
stands out boldly, a massive white
Grecian building, above the wide
greensward on the heights of the
Domain. Here are housed treasures
from many lands, but most inter
esting of all is the comprehensive
collection of Maori objects on dis
play—the homes, elaborately carved
storehouses, war canoes, war im
plements, and handicrafts of that
powerful native race.
Rolling southward in January
from Auckland on the ribbon of
concrete and asphalt, you pass soon
into smiling open country, check
ered with fields. Men are haying
and herds of sleek cattle and sheep
graze on a hundred rolling hills.
Agriculture was the task to which
the New Zealand colonists first di
rected their efforts, but in the pass
ing years they have come to rely
more and more on pastoral enter
prise. An experimental shipment of
frozen meat sent to England in 1882
pointed the way out of a pinching
depression that had followed the
collapse of a land boom.
Historic Battle Scenes.
Today New Zealand butter and
other dairy products have attained
world-wide distribution. Os more
than 4,300,000 cattle pasturing on
the land, nearly half are dairy
stock. More than 28,600,000 sheep
also range North and South islands,
making New Zealand the world’s
seventh largest sheep - producing
country and the fifth largest in wool
production.
Near the little town of Mercer
was the old frontier between Maori
and colonist. The whole region is
historic ground, for here in 1863-4
the Maori warriors tested the best
mettle of the British troops and long
made pioneering a perilous venture.
Today, instead of a battleground,
the district is a peaceful, English
flavored countryside. Upon a hill
now stands the St. Stephens Maori
Boys’ college, where Maori youths
are being trained for useful pur
suits.
Just beyond Hamilton, the largest
provincial town in Auckland prov- t
ince, you may run into peat fires
that are smoldering and eating into
the black soil in many places. The
continued dry, hot summer weather
causes an outbreak of many of
these destructive fires.
A few miles to the west of the
main road that leads to Te Kuiti
are the fascinating Waitomo caves.
Interest in the caves hinges on a
tiny worm—an unusual carnivorous
glowworm—scientifically, the Bole
tophela luminosa.
The Glowworm grotto is a magic
ally uncanny spot. Floating along in
a boat on the stillness of a subter
। ranean stream, one looks up at
I myriads of these tiny creatures,
! with their lamps alight, that cover
i the roof of the cavern like a dense,
| greenish-blue Milky Way.