The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-02-12
JOHN DAVEY WRITES AN ARTI-
Gle OF INTEREST TO LOCAL
PEOPLE,
He Is Greatly Impressed With the
City, Sui Trunks the People Them
selves Are Responsible for the Slow
Growth of Their City.

There is one way to do thing, that
is. do it.
No place that have visited in this
southern trip has so favorably i'm
pressed meat first sight--as Bruins
wick, but no place that | have Teen to
has so much surprised me for the
want of life.
AS one enters the city and sees
what bhe railroads have done. what
faith they have displayed in the in
vestment; how they see her future he
catches the spirit of that great future
and begins to prophesy great is the
future of Brunswick" Then he be-
holds the spacious streets and ave
nues and sees at once the advantages
over the other coast cities. He gazes
upon Ule majestic live oaks and 9TH
er arboreal monarchs; goes through
the southern portion of the city and
discovers a huge park, with mammoth
trees, a real, natural park, that New
York or Chicago would pay millions
of dollars for, laying there, idle and
unobseryed lily the masses. He learns
that Brunswick has the lowest death
rate of any Of the cities In the Union
He meets a dozen or so of good, live
souls and catching their spirit begins
to feel he has struck the live city
of the south, =" but he soon begins to
realize that the life of Brunswick is
IL IN, mt. ut ~
tremities are cold, benumtied, chilly!
What's the matter? Is the beautiful
city asleep or dying?' We hear the
story. "An official abseonded with
public money years ago" we have
bad several fbooms' that fell fiat; the
people have lost confidence and dis
carded hope"
Well, what are you going to do?
Are you ready for the undertaken? II
so make your "wili." But, good peo-
pie, If there is ever time for courage
it Is when the gloom Is thickest and
prospects for good the least promis,
ing. A. dead fish can swim with the
stream tIut it takes a living one to
plow it's way against the sweeping
currents.
The question of life or death of this
city, as far as the present is concern
ed depends on what kind of 'stuff"
you citizens are made of. The other
coast cities are alive; they are ZEN
larging their borders," under condi-
tions far less favorable than by what
you are surrounded If You wait for
"luck to turn up" it will turn up
where it always does-in the other
fellows pocket book, You must learn
that fortune" does rot drop into
your bank account, tnt is acquired
along the road of Hump and Hustle"
You, present property owners, may
die poor. but Brunswick will remain
with her sublime natural advantages
and the poor foreigners that come
here will become the owners of one
of the most beautiful cities of the
south.
A goodly number of ladies and gen.
tlemen were out yesterday to see the
wonderful exhibit by your state agri-
cultural college, every child, white
and colored, should have gone through
those cars, whose contents reflect so.
much credit to your state government,
and particularly to the earnest gen
tlemen in charge thereof. had hoped
to have written something concerning
this, but will give it in another ar
ticle.
Brunswick is not going to be bur
led, neither will she die; the present
generation may perish. for the want
of exercise, or die Of starvation, but
Brunswick of the future will respond
to the activities of live energetic
people. JOHN DAVEY.