The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-04-18
SUNDAY LETTER
BY UNCLE JOHN
a FEW INTERESTING SUBJECTS
TOUCHED UPON BY OUR
CONTRIBUTOR.

Mr. Editor:
have thought that it might be JUS
as well TO stop these writings. Il
seems utterly impossible to get the
+, people to come together with a deter
i mined spirit Of harmony in behalf Of
the Greater Brunswick that we al
want to see.
Our people can be down into mos
any sort Of an organization except
such as will stand for our trade and
i industrial development.
One wants a society to protect the
dfay mules. Another wants one to
protect the negro children, and don't
you know that this work has just nat
urally grown on me till feel a sorr
Of proprietary interest as a public cen
sor, and Il makes one want to say
things just like you editors do when
You feel the burden OF public needs
hanging on your shoulders.
Some Of the dray and hack horses
certainly need something, and / be-
lieve It's oats. And it takes business
to enable the owners to buy oats.
II We could help the draymen # would
be the best turn for the animals.
/ know that some of the negroes
beat their children numerically, and
perhaps they ought to get into the
police court for IL; but when I take
a snap shot view Of the average ne
gro woman IA her relation as servant
and see the streets crowded with the
Youngsters playing marbles and pick
ing in the trash boxes, | wonder II
there could not be a higher aim in hui
manly that would have an industrial
fearing upon these triling brats that
are breeding recruits for the chain
gang and fees for the solicitors.
But these are days OF maudling SEN
timentality ard while parents are
worrying over the heather, foreign and
domestic. the devil too often has his
own in a tandem team at pace in
Keeping with our rapid IDEAS
want TO see boy that is boy
all over. full OF fire and energy and
mischief but when they are turned
loose on the streets with the gam
bling instinct OF their marble playing,
Stun associations and street-bred
impeslsnence. often wonder II the
school teachers who in some way nave
to keep them in subsection don't need
| a society for their protection
But calmly rejecting, it Is not soci-
cites that we need so much as a re
turn to reason aud the good, old ways
in which osir daddies blazed the hes,
civilization that the world has known
| II is enough TO make the angels
weep at the sight OF the hapless little
hazards that are incubated into ex.s-
tence. trundled into knee breeche
and sci atriftt a89n the turhid sea e.
accdency, while the world is a-wor
Irving at every form OF correction thai
is not sugar-dpped and rose scented
But there is adrift in the civilization
OF this period too deep set in its way
for sermonizing. The only way t.
clear the devils workshop is by &
process of industrial activity thal
forces its discipline and methods into
the moral makeup of the oncomins
lmanhood Of the future. The kind 81
philanthropy ;hat this age needs is az
open way for people to earn Their liv-
ing, and that is the moral demand d
= hest type Of civilization.
The best revival that Brunswick
coulS have would be a public meeting
! in which we could all come to the con-
| fessional. admit our own faults, and
swear OF from ganging about like 9
set of village gossips.
Let " quit our stupidity and build
/ Brunswick. Uncle John.