ABSTRACT

There is no longer any necessity for industry to be concentrated near the source of power which it uses, for power can be distributed. There is equally no reason and no sense in using the vast developments of transport in order to throw an increasing burden of travel on human beings rather than on goods. It is possible for industry to move from one part of the country to another. It has done so in Britain, first moving North and West up to the outbreak of the first World War then moving back again South and East, moving as a sluggish tide which in bringing prosperity to particular areas brought many evils and inconveniences, which in other areas caused evils unredeemed by prosperity. There can be no question to-day of the need for the community to control and direct this movement.