Activate Crown seal, glass-blowing machine, and carbonated soft drink industry.
17 missions 19 enterprises
-2 Missions + 1 Enterprises to build a domestic film industry. Taking inspiration from recent European developments, Jason Mendez and Oscar Hollihan, two engineers, entered into partnership with a small Alabama Businessman by the name of Jerome Anders, opened a film studio in Daphne, AL. Simultaneously, Jerome Anders purchased a theater in both Savannah and Fort Lauderdale, converting them into the CSA’s first true Movie Theaters, with orchestra pits for an accompanying soundtrack and everything. The Silver Laboratory, as their company was called, produced the first true Dixie film, a rendition of Beowulf that cleverly combined the already old Rotoscoping technology for animation with the more standard film, combining live action silent film with animation (in the form of Grendel and the Dragon.) With the success of Beowulf, almost overnight, privately owned theatres opened across the country, and with one even opening in Port Davis. Within three months of the extremely profitable release of Beowulf (many people reportedly going to see the film repeatedly,) other investors have begun to move to Daphne, hoping to open their own film studio.
-1 Mission towards The Office of Human History. This is a progression of a good amount of the Academic work into Human Sciences and Human development we’ve done these past few years (The Eugenics studies, as well as the Archaeology, and, finally, the linguistic work) as well as the existence of the Institutes of Southern Culture. This will be a central authority/funding body/publishing house/regulatory body for the study of human development and ancient civilizations. This will be based in the Cyrus Thomas Museum, in Savannah, a building built for the preservation and study of artifacts and remains, as well as to display them for public edification. The most important aspect of the body, however, is the establishment of reciprocal archaeological traditions in friendly nations. The first meeting of this body will be led by William John Mcgee. (I envision this as something between an explorer’s club and serious academic body, where academics can share and discuss and work.) The first three “distant offices” that this body will help sponsor are listed below, and are led by bright, young, new academics, who will shape them as see they fit, and one grand expedition is launched into the Himalayas.
-1 Mission towards Andean Archaeology. Yann Peyton Mohan is a young Alabamian who served as a teenager in the Atlantic war. During the war, he discovered a passion for indian culture when he fought alongside some cherokee soldiers, who would tell their ancestral tales around the fires at night. After the war, he attended university studying the classics, refining that interest into one for the Natives of South America, communicating with some Brazilian institutions during the period of Dixie-PB friendship, and publishing a number of works on Western Amazonian Mythology. As such, he jumped at the opportunity to run an office responsible for Human Studies in the Andes. He has little experience running actual field work, but has experience running teams, and so will likely have a relatively administrative attitude towards the archaeologists, both Dixie and Andean who do work there.
-1 Mission towards Chinese Archaeology. Dr. David Stanton is young, a mere 31, and a consummate academic. Educated as a Methodist pastor, his true interest in archaeology and biblical history was only spurred by his work with the flock. He was already planning a mission to the Taiping, to learn of their doctrines and interpret them through the lenses of heterodoxy, and dialogue with local priests. He saw the opportunity to run this Office of Human History as a great boon, a divine endorsement of his mission to learn about the Taiping. He will do much of his work by coordinating with local priests and interacting with local bureaucrats, both of whom will likely be interested in the history of china. (unfortunately, this means that archaeologists in a century or so will be incredibly annoyed at the clear biases in his writing.)
-1 Mission towards Japanese Archaeology. Balfour St. Claire is a New Orleans native, of old Cajun stock. The youngest son of a wealthy plantation family, Balfour St. Claire spent most of his youth an indolent wastral, until he found his passion amongst his peers in the chrysanthemum distract. Balfour St. Claire is classically educated, and finds the culture of Japan to be an interesting parallel to the aristocratic society of the south. A charismatic, charming, seductive man, St. Claire will leverage his skills to ingratiate himself within the Japanese bureaucracy, and skillfully navigate it to coordinate digs in Japan.
-1 Mission to a Himalayan expedition with the PD. This is an actual expedition sent by the Office, rather than a field office. Led by Cletus Jones, a good old mississippi boy who has travelled extensively through Asia (And participated in the joint anthropological research with the PD.) A Brilliant, if unconventional man, Cletus, amateur adventurer-archaeologist, speaks many of the Asian tongues, as well as Russian, French, German, and Spanish. He was part of the cooperative effort with the Pacific Directorate on the Linguistics and Archaeological programs, which is why it was a happy coincidence that his expedition ran into that led by the Husband and Wife Nicholas and Helena Roeorich, with whom he had built a rapport with during exchange. Deciding to pool their resources, expedition teams, their vodka, and their bourbon, they together embark on this expedition into the great Interior, searching for the mythic Shambala, or at least something that explains it’s legends.
-1 missions, 1 corps Pacifying Breckenridge. The Watie administration finds itself inheriting a Gordian knot of a mess in Breckenridge. Despite that, the vast untapped mineral, as well as the sizeable dixie population living there means that effort needs to be maintained to keep the peace. Unfortunately, very few solutions seemed to present themselves to the Watie administration that didn’t risk even greater bloodshed for the white colonists. As such, the Watie administration will attempt a “live and let live” policy, where there will be little interaction with the African natives, with the corps serving to protect white settlers and white settlements.
-1 mission to send the statesmen to investigate the aztec blood cults, coordinating with the Germans. We will follow their lead on this mission, as they have already put some work into it. However, use the coordinating with the Germans to begin to build a network within their intelligence apparatus. Hail Hydra.
-3 missions + 3 Enterprises: towards the “Stand Tall” Initiative. The Stand-Watie administration believes that it is necessary to prime the pump for economic recovery, and so rolled out the Stand Tall project, which will go hand in hand with the manufacturing push across the country, as well as the education programs. The Stand Tall project is a project designed to provide work for the unemployed in a number of fields: Infrastructure, construction, and public works. The primary beneficiary of this will be the infrastructure network, with a large number of paved roads being built across the nation, allowing for new automobiles to spread across the South and in the Caribbean. The infrastructure push will also include smaller regional zeppelinariums, to allow for cargo shipping through air throughout the nation.
Secondly, new and modern school houses and hospitals will be built throughout Dixie, bringing a modern standard of living even to the more rural parts of the country, and complementing the education push. These will also likely be working in conjunction with local institutes of southern culture.
Thirdly, and related to the manufacturing push, the Stand Tall project will fund an expansion of the electrical grid, both wiring and building hydro-power plants in useful places. (I could link a map of those in the south OTL, but there’s TONS, so...)
Fourthly and finally, the Stand Tall project will sponsor the development of lands within national parks as great reserves. People will be hired to build trails, ranger stations, and overlooks throughout the preserved lands of the south. This will include, but not be limited to:
-The Valley of the Vapors park, in Arkansas
- Dry Tortugas, in Florida
- Everglades, in Florida
- Biscayne Park, In Florida (south of Fort Lauderdale)
- Congaree Park, in South Carolina
- Smoky Mountains, in Carolina/Tennessee
- Guadalupe Mountains, Texas
- Big Bend, Texas
- Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia (Shenandoah)
- Russell Caves, Alabama
- Cambalache Woods, Antilles
- Anvil Forests, Antilles
- Queen’s Gardens, Cuba
- Humboldt Forest, Cuba
- Guanahacabibes Islands, Cuba
Taken together with the industrialization push, the Stand Tall project should spur the development of the south into a truly modern, industrial, nation, overseen by its benevolent oligarchs. (Or, at least that’s how the Watie Administration, and it’s Mercantilist allies views it.)
-2 Mission towards helping the 14 families in the CAF maintain power. This will be done through the deployment of Statesmen agents to motivate the locals to resist a socialist crackdown in the area, which can be equated to Unionist and Mexican interference in CAF sovereignty, AND that, since they are willing to use violence, the government is no longer acting in the best interests of the people. Perhaps help rally the Catholics, equating the socialist crackdowns to the Anti-religious french state. If there aren't any crackdowns, maybe we should create a fear that there WOULD be one. This should help the 14 families to capitalize and push for a referendum towards the "Greater Republic of Central America." Local agents will likely work with PB's agents, even though there is some hostility at the national level, here we're working towards the same goals.
-3 Missions to help educate poor-whites to help them compete in the modern industrial world. This includes scholarship grants for university as well as providing an impetus for unmarried young women to become teachers and spread a basic education throughout the south. Often times, this will end up linked with a local institute of southern culture. Education opportunities will also be afforded to unemployed poor whites who, hopefully, will learn some and absorb enough to be hireable in the more specialized, modern, industries.
The Watie administration will also gather a board of educators, academics, faith leaders, and business leaders to develop a standardized curriculum to be taught across the south. This will help ensure that a basic level of education exists throughout the (white) southron population, and allow even the most distant of appalachian coal miner or western farmer to theoretically compete on an even standing in the industrial setting (or allow them to have the know-how and knowledge to run their own businesses.)
Of particular note is Mary McLeod Bethune, a young black woman who, while serving as Maid and assistant to one of the educators, impressed him with her quick wit, and ability to learn. She forms the nucleus (and impetus) of a small, but active group, who seek to educate freed blacks.
-2 Enterprises to Japan for
power grids, using experience gleaned from the “Stand Tall” and Industrialization Pushes.
-2 Enterprises to TVs, perhaps linking it to the developing Daphne film studios?
-5 Enterprises to set up industry across the country:
The Transition from the Stone Government to the Stand Watie administration saw a change from the half-hearted industrial focus of the former to one that was heavily informed by the New South Creed (and to a lesser extent by the alliance with the mercantilists that had allowed Stand Watie to win the presidency.) Instead of focusing purely on the factories themselves, or even (to the shock of many of the president’s allies) on extant corporations, President Watie’s government took a three-fold approach dedicated to ensuring that the Southern Economy would recover from the Great Crash of 1894.
Firstly, the Stand Watie government will allocate funds to help larger machining and manufacturing interests (including the president’s own Austenaco) to hire former Japanese Atorasu-Mitsu employees, corporate advisors and corporate patents, as well as finding local engineering talent to help retool larger factories and manufacturies. They will soon begin producing a wide variety of motors and engines, including include electric engines primarily for use in small and medium-sized stationary manufacturing operations operating in the vicinity of the Shenandoah, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Cherokee coal stations (where power is increasingly available) as well as internal combustion engines designed to operate on liquid fuel (gasoline) and steam in regions more distant from these major power hubs.
Secondly, the Stand Watie government will initiate a project to link up the smaller, local power grids into a larger, national one that will allow even the more distant rural area access to electricity, which will allow even the smaller towns to have start-up electric machining shops. (This should likely synergize well with the power-grid tech we are developing with Japan.)
Thirdly, the Stand Watie government will issue subsidies to allow the development of small, local machine shops and workshops, so that the machining needs of most can be seen to locally. This will likely be a combination of small, locally owned startups and larger interests opening machine-shops in important rural nexuses. With some grit and luck, some of these workshops may eventually develop into larger manufacturing concerns in and of themselves.
-2 Enterprises towards Crown Seal, Glass Blowing Machine, and Carbonated Soft Drink Industry. This will likely emerge as an unexpected side-effect of the manufacturing push by the Stand Watie government, as local manufacturing shops give small local soda shop owners (most of which were pharmacists) the opportunity to produce on a much larger scale. Most of these drinks, which had originally been marketed as Tonics and Cure-alls, quickly became indulgences and beverages. The earliest (and arguably the greatest winner) of these trends was Asa Griggs Candler, who was the financial and marketing push behind Coca-Cola, but other carbonated beverage producers in the early days included Sparrows, a drink with a secret and complex variety of ingredients, rumored to include Ginger, Sassafras, Tumeric, and Chile peppers, Peachtree, a carbonated Peach-forward drink, and Spanish Champagne, a citrusy drink with another proprietary secret mix of herbs and spices, as well as a number of individuals who began to sell their family recipe “Root Beers” on a larger scale. Finally, a small, but not insubstantial, group of Japanese pharmacists in New Orleans have grouped together to create a drink to appeal to their compatriots. Chrysanthemum’s, a delicately citrus, peach, and mango perfumed beverage, was the most successful of these Japanese originating products, sold across of the CSA and in Japan, spurring the development of local Japanese equivalents, and a craze in importing more traditional confederate Colas.
Interestingly, the Crown Seal will ALSO allow beer breweries to expand and sell on an unprecedented scale.
-1 enterprises, 1 corps towards industry in Breckenridge. Plant & Co exploration and Southern Oil & Chemical, now that there is a solid and distinct dixie presence in the breckenridge, will execute surveys of our territories for resources and produce reports thereof, with preliminary resource extraction beginning.
-1 Enterprise towards Gyrocopters with Italy.
-3 enterprises to Stand Tall Project (See Missions section)
-1 enterprise towards finishing railroads
-1 enterprise towards providing the Statesmen with a fully equipped headquarters facility, with modern, cutting-edge, technology.
Trade 400 HC to Japan for 24 MC
Trade 62 HC to the PD for 9 MC
1 corps to expand Breckenridge
Adopt:
AC power, because a DC power grid sounds horrible.
Deal with New South Creed.
