The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-01-27
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ne appear UttOTS tHe CITY councH
and the executive committee of the Re-
tail Merchants association yesterday
afternoon of John W. Greer, editor of
"The Wiregrass Country" was a pro-
found emphasis of the doctrine The
News has been preaching to Bruins
wick people for years.
Mr.. Greer said in substance that the
Wiregrass country CT Georgia had the
finest lands and the most congenial
climate, and the best seaport and the
most varied resources in the whole
wide world, but because we had no
people to cultivate these lands the
only permanent source of our wealth,
the section was poor and some of the
ports were languisaing
Mr.. Greer said that the logical con-
clusion of every thinker was that we
must have more people to cultivate the
land which is now idle and without
value. Then the question was how
to get more people and he gave the
only way known and the way that
has been successful in other sections
-judicious advertising. He invited
Brunswick and Glynn county to join
Wlregrass Georgia in this great move
ment to settle up the lands, to be-
come one of the counties that nro-
poses to bring a million people into
the section within the next five years
and that by doing so, Brunswick would
naturally cultivate the friendship nf
the Wiregrass Counties and bring to
her the trade of that wonderful sec
ton which is hers by nature, but
which has so long been neglected
Mr. Greer emphasized the fact that
brunswick would be compelled to en-
ter into this great movement if she
expected TO hold her own. He said
there was time when the loading of
vessels and the handling of the ccn-
MERGE was sufficient to make a large
merce was sufficient to make a large
although the shipping had increased
in tonnage the value of that shipping
to the city had vastly decreased and
that Brunswick must look to some
thing else to make her great.
The News is intensely interested in
t1ls movement to develop the Wire
grass section. Brunswick is the nat
ural seaport of the Wiregrass She
is bound to the section by the four
great railroads traversing it, and be-
ing from fifty to hundred miles near
er TO its geographical center, it is
but natural that Wiregrass Georgia
should turn to Brunswick not only to
ship her products to the world. but
to supply what she has to buy from
q,
Why should Wiregrass Georgia buy
her merchandise from Atlanta, two
hundred miles away, when in reality
most of that produce goes to Atlanta
from the east through the port OF
Brunswick?
There is but one answer to the
question: Atlanta has been cultivating
friendship of Wiregrass Georgia while
Brunswick has been sitting by boast
ing of her superb harbor, of her nat
ural beauties, and her salubrious eli
mate, while Atlanta has had men and
advertisements in Wiregrass Georgia
working for business.
AS Mr.. Greer said, all our advan-
tages are useless unless we put them
into action. If we want the business
of Wiregrass Georgia we must go af-
ter it. If we want the friendship of
this rich section which is developing
faster than all the balance of the
state, we must get out there in the
Wiregrass and become one of them.
They are cur people and we are their
seaport, and when we learn those peo-
pie and they know us and we show a
proper spirit toward them, then and
not until then, will they warm up to
our advances
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