The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-04-03
A COMMERCIAL
BODY IS WANTED
MOVEMENT LAUNCHED FOR OR
GANIZATiON OF CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE.
Committee Appointed to Secure APP
preparation from City and County
and Prepare :or Formal ocganza-
tion-Address of Hon. J. r. Gray.

One of the most representative
meetings in the history of Brunswick
was that held at the city hall yes
terday afternoon for the purpose of
organizing a new commercial body for
Brunswick. 1t is doubtful if a more
representative number of business
men ever gathered in this city be-
fore. Every line of business was
represented, the banker, the capital
list, the wholesaler, the retailer, the
professional man, and even The sal
aried man, while representatives Of
the city council, the county commits
sioners and all other bodies in the
city were present. In all more than
one hundred of the most influential
men in the confines of Brunswick at
tend I'd the meeting and they seemed
ready and willing to cooperate with
the great movement which had been
started and which, it now seems, will
be successfully carried out.
Hon. J. F. Gray, vice president and
executive officer of the Savannah
board of trade who delivered an ad
dress of great interest, did not ar
rive in the city until shortly before
5 O'Clock. In the meantime the meet
ing was called to order, temporary
officers were named and several short
addresses were made by local bust
ness men.
The meeting was called to order
by c. H. Leavy, who briefly stated
that tMr. Gray would arrive ON
belated train and he announced that
the election of a temporary chairman
and secretary was in order. L. H.
Haym was named as chairman and F.
E. Twitty as secretary.
Various citizens present were called
on cor short talks along the lines OF
the need of a commercial organiza-
tion. Those who spoke before the
arrival of Mr.. Gray were Col. G. P.
Goodyear, j. H. Hopkins, G. H. Leavy,
e. H. Mason, ]. B. Wright, L. R.
Akin, L. Ludwig and others. All OF
these speakers expressed themselves
as peing thoroughly in accord with
the movement to secure for Bruins
swick a paid executive whose duty it
should be to serve as secretary to
the commercial organization.
MIR. Grays Able Talk.
Mr.. Gray arrived at the meeting
just at the conclusion of very able
talk by Hon. l.. R. Akin, who had as
sured the large gathering of his in
tention to
tention to thorough support such an
organ zation as it was contemp rte1
to organize.
Mr.. Gray explained his late arri-
val by saying that he had left Savan-
nah at S.25 yesterday morning, &rrlV-
ing in Brunswick shortly before 5,
which, however, is nothing unusual
for people endeavoring to reach this
city. He at once started into his ad-
dress, which, in part, is as follows:
I'm geometry one of the first things
that the schoolboy learns is that an
axiom is a self-evident truth. In
the subject of my address this after
noon to you Brunswickians- value
of your proposed chamber of COM
merce'-self- evident truths may be
found in superabundance
'rIn union is strength; in organi-
cation is progress; one man is like a
leaf in the storm; united with his
fellowmen, he becomes an integral
mart of a veritable Gibraltar So
automatic are these truths that they
sound like empty platitudes. And yet
in these platitudes are contained the
first thoughts which a dawning intel
ligence suggested to our primitive and
barbarous ancestry. In these platl-
tudes lie tie secret of success OF
everv great undertaking in the worlds
history. 1t should be unnecessary
therefore, to prove by argument tnat
an organization of the character pro-
nosed for Brunswick-a chamber OF
commerce, Business Mems League
Progressive Union-by Whatever
name it may be known-is essential
to the prosperity and welfare OF every
.ci+v which aspires to march in the
forefront of the wonderful progress
of this Twentieth century. Such an
organization Working along the broad
est and most comprehensive lines ana