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The Dawn of a New Constructive Era 



Correlated 



Efforts 



Needed 



War Crisis 

 Emphasizes 

 Need of 

 Nation for 

 Common Ef- 

 fort 



neighbor. In public works, as, for example, road building and 

 flood control, uncorrelated effort between counties and towns re- 

 sults in failure or in achievement by a very costly route. There 

 is often lack of sympathy and confidence between county and 

 state, or state and federal government, and lack of mutual con- 

 fidence between counties and between states. So that when the 

 larger unit of government is appealed to for aid in inter-county 

 or inter-state undertakings, localism manifests itself in demands 

 for the lion's share of common funds. 



We are only just beginning to feel an economic pressure re- 

 quiring harmony of purpose and unity of effort in internal af- 

 fairs ; and we are facing in the present international crisis the 

 consciousness of national weakness because of the lack of cor- 

 relation between our many separate political units. We are also 

 just beginning to appreciate that there is a lack of industrial or- 

 ganization of the country, that public interests and industry have 

 a vital relationship, that the industries of one locality are of im- 

 portance to- other localities and to the people as a whole. 



The very wealth of readily available resources has made it 

 possible for individual undertakings to succeed and localities to 

 prosper. When the cream has been skimmed off, communities 

 discover that they have not been building permanently. The 

 larger public learns that sources of supply are exhausted, and dis- 

 tress is caused by inability to obtain new supplies readily and at 

 reasonable cost. And when there is an unusual stress, such as 

 the present, the nation having the greatest resources of all na- 

 tions sees local shortages of a great variety of products such as 

 coal, timber, steel and foodstuffs. 



The consequences of the local exhaustion of virgin resources 

 are very serious unless there is a replacement by a productive 

 use of the land. In many sections the first industry is lumber- 

 ing. If the land is rich and tillable agriculture follows with its 

 farm homes, communities, cities and related manufacturing. 



In the South you are now facing the problem of progressive- 

 ly diminishing virgin resources, and what you are going to do to 

 sustain and build up local industry. Lumbering has been your 

 berina What? foremost industry. Today the South leads in lumber production. 

 In 1880 the South produced about 12 per cent of the nation's 

 lumber cut; in 1914 the proportion of lumber from the South 

 was nearly 50 per cent. All know that the virgin supplies are 



