The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-03-12
SOME ADVICE
BY UNCLE JOHN
ANOTHER INTERESTING COM.
MUNIcATioN FROM OUR pop
uLAR CONTRIBUTOR.
Editor News.

Editor News:
What Brunswick needs in good large
doses is enthusiasm. Folk talk about
the Atlanta way and what is it. Com
mon sense and enthusiasm. She has
the creative spirit, and the factors of
enthusiasm. Her big men endorse
little things and put the force of pub
lie approval behind them. They are
neither ashamed, afraid of, or too busy
10 encourage and help along the atoms
that make a mass. They know the ac-
cumulative power Of constantly doing
something, and that Is the way At
lanta was built, and is building-not
By imported experts, but by plain old
Georgia Crackers and their offspring.
The ever-inspiring idea with Atlanta
is, not what she is, but what she is
doing
hope the G. b. A. is going 20 ma
teriaIize and then move on a plane
that will make enthusiasm that will
go to creating something. Give the
folk something to talk about. They
have been stuffed with statistics, the
new frehouse, school building and the
sKress block, until it is as chaffy as
breakfast food
IL we can't do anything else we
might organize a few new lodges. Sup
pose we organize a lodge of the
"Amaleamated Kiters." 1t would beat
the. Joy Birds" and The Jiggers,'
and all that kind of social and bene-
fetal mutually. Here is the idea-a
banker going home 10 dinner found
ten dollar bill in the gutter His
wife asked for ten dollars to pay the
butcher. He gave her his pickup. The
butcher paid 1t to a farmer for sheep.
The farmer paid it to workhand. lie
paid it to his grocer. The grocer paid
II TO the bankers who discovered that
it was counterfeit. See, fifty dollars
of debt paid without a dollar. As we
have no bankers that would overlook
counterfeit, the "Amalgamated Kit
ers' could round up a chain OF debts
one of them issue a check, and keep
ii going for week, and when 1t got
to the bank, If there was no funds,
the Greater Brunswick association
could cancel It out of its treasury.
It heats any enterprise | can think
al. and would put Brunswick on the
glad side within month, as far as il
comic reach. If everybody in town
would join the "A KS" and all the
"A ks" would join the Greater
Brunswick association don't you see
how It would fill in? We would have
the biggest meetings that were ever
nulled of since the steel plant was
christened,
let us get 1t into our heads that
Brunswick is a good settlement for
10000 people. and that their coming
will put her in motion for 100000
Let us realize that the only hope
for Brunswick is to get busy. yet us
see that the county builds that auto
mobile road into the trading country
Let us take up ways ana means TO
settle farming population around
us.
John. the Chinaman, truck grower
was one of the best promoters that
has struck Brunswick, He made his
money and left us. but he started a
Brunswick negro into the trnck-groW-
ing business, whose example may lead
many others. 1t is cutting of impor-
tation ana leaving the money at home.
That's what counts
We need a home-owners assocla-
lion. Something that will put salary
and wage savings to help build this
city. Fiji the town with hometown
ers and you have population that IS
steady and loyal and reliable. As
town asset one little thousand dol
lar home owner though he be hod
carrier, is worth ten times more than
4 ten thousand dollar investor in our
real estate, who lives somewhere else.
Start the home fever. coax il and
Intensity it into a bristling enthu-
siasm ana you have the concrete foun-
dalton for a wall that will stand
How much we could do If we were
just willing to do it.
Uncle John.
BRUNSWICK CANTON, /, o. o. r.