SOUTHERN HORIZONS 



TVA may well determine the future of three of the 

 South's greatest industries, the old, well established 

 hydro-electric power and fertilizers, and the very new, 

 very potential aluminum. 



These industries are rooted in three most important 

 Southern resources : water power, phosphate rock, baux- 

 ite ore. Their products energy, plantfood, metal are 

 so basic that they have a tremendous influence upon 

 the future development of the entire South. They in- 

 volve the lives of millions of Americans who live far 

 beyond the confines of "The Valley." 



TVA's well advertised successes which are sharply 

 questioned and which have not been unequivocally 

 proved are stimulating proposals for similar River 

 Valley Authorities in the South and elsewhere in the 

 nation. Therefore its accomplishments, from the point 

 of view of their industrial potentials, should be regarded 

 neither myoptically nor through rose-colored glasses, 

 not only for the sake of Southern industrial develop- 

 ment, but also because they affect the economic future 

 of the whole nation. 



Amid many splendid accomplishments two failures of 

 the TVA rise as bold and uncompromising as a pair of 

 gigantic smoke stacks towering high above a beautiful 

 modernistic group of factory buildings. The first is the 

 failure to meet one primary objective for which the 

 Congress set up this magnificent experiment in regional 

 planning. The second, which grows out of the first, is 



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