The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-12-04
UNCLE JOHN SURE
WE CAN Do IT
BELIEVES BRUNSWICK CAN Or
4 CAME A MILLION DOLLAR
Il DEVELOPMENT COMPANY.
EDITOR News:

EDITOR NeWss
You hit the nail squarely on the
head yesterday morning in your edi-
toTial when you put il up TO the lead
Ing citizens OF Brunswick that If my
conditions are right, and if bv their
leadership the people Of this city can
be Influenced to join in a cooperative
effort to make Brunswick grov, .hey
sho'ld rot hesitate to take NJ he
work with all possible energy and do
1t now
It is settled fact that the incoming
federal administration is going to ex-
ert itself to bring about a removal Of
prosperous times and that all the great
financial factors are now endeavoring
TO force the reaction. The decks are
being cleared for action We need
not doubt the quickly coming better
times. ard more than ever in the his
tory o. this country we are going 10
see tendency 10 real estate invest
nents. because they are safest.
There are two large real estate fac
tors Interested in Brunswick and
there isslo good reason why We should
not expect their cooperation with us
in a movement that would count for
something. There Is peculiar law
OF compensation that everybody is
ready to help those who are helping
themselves. Nobody wants to be on
TO the grizzled end Of a failure.
When people undertake, under the
stress of individual capacity TO pass
Judgment upon the proposition Of a
million dollar development company
for Brunswick, and cover before the
immensely az It, 7 am thinking that
the mistake Is If not having suggested
five times as much II is an axiom
With the promoters that the bigger the
scheme the easier II is to float T..
Men who nave the means and capacity
Of doing things are not looking for
corner lots in the woods.
The great and convincing movement
for Brunswick's growth must con
template not only inside development,
but the close settlement of the sec
ton around it, with garden spots of
thrift and beauty and suggestion Of
hountifulness exuding from every acre
of its soil. The most of what we eat
should be grown around us, and the
fatted Golfers of the express COM
aany fed from the outgoing overplus
If our truck farmers, instead of doubt
ing the cost OF our living by the
ftIsigiiss that we pay for what ought
30 come in wagons.
No, Mr.. Editor, my proposition does
not overtax the ability of our people
aroused TO the call which the possi-
bilities Of Brunswick makes upon
them as the guardians of her career.
What we really ought to do as a
family in common interest. join with
Darien and st. Marys in a magnificent
proposition Of one grand cooperative
scheme embodying all Intervening ter
ritory, 10 shake out this curvature of
the Atlantic ocean and point face 10
the landward, giving the seaboard
travel glimpse of beauty that would
mark The Brunswick behind it, and re-
veal the impulse of a Twentieth Gem
tury victory over natural deposits.
Fifty years ago towns grew-nOw
they are built Do you catch it, II
we want il, we've cot 10 build Bruins
wick. II only takes nerve, desire, viii
ingness. cooperation, patriotism, NO.
sitive plan and Twentieth Century
foroefulness
Maybe yoa think this very glowing
ilnasi alton. but it IS more dependable
than sitting on those Monk street SID
slabs fishing. with hcpefulness. sor
something nat won't bite,
unoie Jcl'n.