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Depressed Areas—and Depressing Thinkers

A year or so ago this department reported on the so-called Sanford Movement in Maine-the Down East version of the tried-and-true method of capitalistic self-help which has succeeded in revivifying scores of ghost areas from Laconia, N. H., to some of the hard coal towns of eastern Pennsylvania. The Sanford idea is both foolproof and sure-fire-and it doesn’t require a red cent from Washington, D. C. It merely demands enough gumption on the part of local citizens to buy up the old mill down by the falls of the river for lease (in appropriate small sections) to modern electronics or specialty companies which need a lot of skilled and semiskilled labor.

JC

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John Chamberlain

John Chamberlain (1903–1995) was an American writer.

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Depressed Areas—and Depressing Thinkers

A year or so ago this department reported on the so-called Sanford Movement in Maine-the Down East version of the tried-and-true method of capitalistic self-help which has succeeded in revivifying scores of ghost areas from Laconia, N. H., to some of the hard coal towns of eastern Pennsylvania. The Sanford idea is both foolproof and sure-fire-and it doesn’t require a red cent from Washington, D. C. It merely demands enough gumption on the part of local citizens to buy up the old mill down by the falls of the river for lease (in appropriate small sections) to modern electronics or specialty companies which need a lot of skilled and semiskilled labor.