The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-04-28
UNCLE JOHN NOW
SAYS GOODBYE
OUR POPULAR CONTRIBUTOR
SAYS FAREWELL TO HIS
MANY READERS.

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letter to the serial Of effort TO arouse
Brunswick people to some action look
ing to It's upbuilding. But for the
| service CT love the tiresomeness OF fl
would long since have brought a sur
cease. Clinging to single idea. the
only way 10 accomplish specific per-
Torrance, / am not remindful OF the
dryness Of an oyerthreshed theme.
/ believe the only way to correct a
fault is to find the fault. To cure
a disease correct diagnosis is a ne
| cessity. Ii there is nothing the mat
ter with Brunswick there is no use in
"doctoring." If she is bristling ana
building to the satisfaction Of inyes-
tors, and 20 their profit, what's the
use in worrying and trying to stir up
the monkeys? What's the use Of try
ing TO follow the examples of Atlanta,
Macon, Augusta, Columbus, Savannah
and Jacksonville, when II is so much
easier 10 listen to the lullaby Of Thai
mann, Bladen. Nahanta, st. Marys and
Darien. finished products Of a satisfied
citizenry.
Perhaps you are right, as expressed
in an editorial squib OF a few days
since. Everybody should join in glad
some sleepfulness over Brunswick's
wonderful prosperity and centurya
growth. If they don't like # they
should pick themselves up and leave
I've an objection to this sentiment.
Il was invented by q Georgia village
editor whose business amounted 10
/ about 1921 year and didn't own a
single to his naEe ana sorry ne
didn't copyright it, for it's been used
periodically ever since as a sharp say
ing 10y many editors I think that
you really did not mean it, You want
ed your lines and it just struck you
1t was something like this that
made the Mallory Steamship company
leave us, but It didn't do Brunswick
any good Then knew several !ndi-
yiduals that did it--one who has made
more than q hundred thousand dollars
! in hts new home know some others
mat are going to dc il. We should
be glad when they come, but lot
/ @idItlti NuGu Att4 stay
| never did believe In another say
ing-that half dozen funerals would
| help town 1t isn't so. Funerals
| are people dissatisfied with failures
OF Investment and success in business
leaving town don't make it grow
It's fallacy and l wonder at the folly
that makes any one think so ever
!, If q sooths2yer said 81
( Sometimes a town just happens, bn
| it never gets over it, Cities are mad
by people who are never satisfied wiz
! things at a standstNl and with canai
tiors that are not promising
Brunswick has been buneoed, bot
! tied and thvalled by foreign interests
and foreign landlordism There seems
to be but one relief Tor It. and that
| is some great development by bond -
| sue Of the county. whereby the burden
may fall equally upon an that are at
| interest. Aud Chat development should
be an enterprise of such consequence
as to assure results of magnitude
Exhaust the credit Of This city and
county for side lines and pet schemes
OF marrow purview, which merely graf
ify a certain pride ard improve only
a circunscribed limit and YOU have
nailed the skull and crossbones owe
the doorway to her future
1t is compliment enough, Mr.. Ed
tor to assert that Brunswick has the
location and possibilities Of a city OF
$4,000 people without further linger-
ing over it, and that she has the peo-
Pile who could begin the movement 70
a rapid Accomplishment The mar
Who says this is not so is the Crouch
er. If it is SO then every vested right
in the town has right TO expect it,
and to be disappointed ii it is not
attempted.
| have urged three important steps
to Brunswick's growth, and they are
all within the scope Of our accom-
plshment.
A syndicated reorganization and
capitalization OF our industrial enter
prises upon . footing that would make
them equal to something beyond the
| pin-hooll topic of the town, because
we have woodworking shops that have
houseroom and steam capacity, by the
addition OF few variety machines tc
many times double their output and
working forces.
There is in these things the power
and force of building a city, OF creating
| investment and exciting SPECULATION
from which spring eager enterprise
and city sustenance.
| l have done my best and have don,
it Loyalty. ] can't force it. and have ne
right to more than INST on the cor
rectness of my views.
l thank you foy the kindness of You
columns and the compliment of you
editorial expressions Uncle John.