Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1946 — Page 27
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By THOMAS SCHROTH United Press Staff Correspondent WELLESLEY, Mass, Dec. 5—If ou live in one of the 10 big Amerin eities and you value your life, ou'd better start packing now for move to the country, according to lhe advice of Roger W. Babson, 71-ear-old economist. The 10 biggest cities in the
IInited States will certainly be de-
troyed “when the inevitable third porld war comes,” the Babston Intitute head said in an interview. His theory—intelligent decentraliation of business—has become “alnost a religion” to him. “We must nove our industries into the coun- , We must glamorize rural Amerca rather than metropolitan Amer: » ;
Several months ago Mr. Babson formed the world that he was ffering an “atomic service” to busihessmen who wanted to prepare for e atom war to come. In October, ollowing his own advice, he bought broperty in Euraka, Kas, tucked afely away in the hinterland. Sees No Spiritual Awakening Mr, Babson, who advises thounds of businessmen on economic broblems, explained:
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Asked how he happened to buy a three-story building in Eureka, Mr. Babson demonstrated his ideas about decentralization. Mr. Babson says he set a large map of the United States in an parallelogram scaled approximately 2850 miles across and 1650 miles from north to south. Where the midpoints of these lines crossed, he found Eureka, ‘Kas.— “the city nearest the center of the United States.” The rest was simple-—he went out to Bureka, bought a big building with a “fine, deep basement,” and plans to build atom-proof vaults there for duplicate copies of his 43 years of records. Cites Three Needs Mr. Babson says there are three things the country needs most of, because of the certainty of an atomic war: (1) decentralization, (2) self-contained rural units, and (3) camouflage of industrial establishments. Eureka 'is completely self-suffi-cient, he says. For camouflage purposes, he plans to buill three office buildings on Eureka’'s outskirts which will look like ordinary Kansas barns. “World war III can be avoided only by the United States renduncing some of its sovereignty,” Mr. Babson said. “I don't believe that, with all our luxuries and freedom, we'll do that until we are hurt. Only another war can bring the United States to its knees, in my -humble opinion. “The kind of destruction which America's 10 biggest cities will experience is nothing new. Look at Carthage, with its eight destroyed cities, one on the other. It is foolish to think that the United States
“Only a great spiritual awakening |is the only nation in history that 0 prevent world war III. I can|will not suffer.
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