The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1909-03-06
PLANS GIVEN
BY UNCLE JOHN
HE OUTLINES SOME WORK FOR
THE GREATER BRUNSWICK
ASSOCIATION.

Editor News:
Before we get harsh about the
backwardness of the citizens in get
ting In line with the Greater Bruins
wick Association, wouldn't It be a
good idea TO look all behind it?
Brunswick is head over heels over
organized. The few hundred eligibIes
have been hooked into every conceiv-
able kind of order. They are over
bodied with affiliations, social char
ity and otherwise 1t consumes their
nights and most of their spare nickels.
The average business man doesn't
know whet.-er it's a customer or a
schemer that's looking for him. They
are pulled wherever there is pulling
held. and public service demands have
been worked to finish. They feel
that there is a limit TO this continued
exhaustion of purse.
Most of them are game and willing
workers for Brunswick, but they want
TO know If it is worth while. But all
this is no excuse where good can be
done, and that's the way they feel
about 1t.
have suggested few pointers for
the guidance Of the Greater Brunswick
association. First, enthusiasm of the
membership, then something to arouse
action then there should be promise
of profit-a tangible something.
Suppose, for instance, to get the
ball TO rolling we turn the main
work TO home building" One home
owner is worth a dozen foreign land
lords to a town. Make ii on the plan
OF building and loan association
shares $500, not more than ten to any
member and one dollar q month on
the share. sell the money at every
meeting 10 the best bidder, but only
for home building or home redeemina
purposes, under restrictions of a pro-
per committee. Get up a club of three
or four hundred members. They come
to the meeting once a month to pay
their dues and to see the money sell
From the first meeting new home
made. II will make business for the
planning mills and work for the car
penters and masons. 1t will help the
deserving and pay the helpers, and
kill some of the dullness.
No, ! don't mean a skin game, or a
device for paying managerial salaries.
but genuine, honest old time coop
erative association
Get such a crowd together once a
month and there will soon be action
and cheerfulness in the camp.
AT the Greater Brunswick associa-
ton meeting the other night nearly
every suggestion was dope to let
her die easy Not word as to what
would make the association strong and
energetic.
AS ! have said, a few hundred dol
lars is only a fog OF paltry If the
members cant be pulled out of the
dry grins and put to shouting.
i In my long residence in Brunswick
with the thousands OF dollars that have
been exhausted in effortless efforts
have seen nothing half so good as the
page advertisement of the Santa Clara
Cigar company in last Sundays At
lanta Journal. II told what dealers
thought of the Brunswick Smoker as
the best seller on the market, with
February orders for one million of
them.
1t makes an idea. The Greater
Brunswick association wants a good
man to give all his time to Brunswick
and there should be something for him
to do besides collecting the dues
What's the matter with having an at
tractive store up town with full dis
play of Brunswick made wares, and a
live sales agency for them. The point
is this. II Brunswick can compete for
the trade she should reach out for it,
II she can't compete then that ought
TO be looked after
One OF those page ads every week
in the year, telling of Brunswick made
things, would talk more for Brunswick
than hundred telling about Bruins
wick.
The Greater Brunswick association
should be pusher, and here are some
of the ways that will make good start
ers and help it to earn its way. and
give Ii a happy and useful life,
III.