The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-04-23

THAT is AMOUNT COMMITTEE
WANTS FOR ORGANIZATION
OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
Members of the Committee Appeared
Before Council at Meeting Last
Night in Interest of New Oreaniza-
tion-Appropriations Expected.

The mayor and council of the city
of Brunswick and the commissioner:
of roads and revenues Of Glynn coun'
ty will be asked to appropriate $1,000
each for the maintenance of a paiC
secretary and for other expenses o1
a new chamber of commerce, which
is shortly to be organized in Bruins
wick.
Various members OF the special
committee appointed at the meeting
held few weeks ago appeared be
fore fcouncil last night and urged. the
appropriation by the city. The mem,
bers present were F. E.. Twitty, chair
man, L. R. Akin, F. D. Aiken and
c. ii. Leavy. Each of these gentle
men made a short address to council,
urging the great need of such a COM
mereial body just at this time. Chair
man 1witty, who was the spokesman
of he committee, presented petition
to council asking the appropriation,
which is as follows:
To the Honorable Mayor and Council;
The undersigned, as commftIee ap-
pointed at a meeting Of the citizens
OF the city, appear before you in ac-
cordance with the terms of the reso-
luton which was adopted by that
meerihg requesting appropriations by
the county and city sufficient to pay
the expenses of commercial organ
lza-iJn OF Lnis city including a paid
seer etary.
We have considered the matter OF
the minimum amount of funds that
should be provided for the first year
to properly support a commercial or
ganization similar to a chamber OF
commerce or board of trade, including
the salary of a competent secretary
and executive officer who will devote
practically his entire time to, the du-
ties OF his office, and also including
incidental expenses such as station
cry, stamps and advertising. 1t Will,
of course, be important to issue and
nave published for distribution, a
pamphlet setting forth the advantages
of the city and the county. To get
the benefit of the great development
that is now and will for some years
to tome unquestionably pervade the
entire South, it is necessary that we
shont1 take proper steps to perfect
an organization which shall have an
officer that will give his time to the
work. Much has been done by our
citizons through various organizations
and as individuals during the past
few years. These citizens have nee
essagily given much more than their
share of time and money to the pub
lie service in this way. We believe
that it is conceded by practically all
of our citizens that the funds for this
promotion and development work, af-
fecting the public generally, causing
an increase in population and in in
dustrial enterprises and in our tax
able values, should be paid from the
treasury of the city and the county.
The public shares equal the benefits,
and it is only fair that they should
share the burdens involved.
After due consideration, we have
reached the conclusion that the sum
of 81, 900 is necessary to properly carry
on me work of this organization for
the first year. The experiment IS
worth trying it. II will be waste of time
to get a cheap man to do the work
halfway. We therefore ask that your
body will appropriate one-half OF this
amount, and we will make a similar
request of the county commissioners
By he terms of the resolution the
method of handling this money and
the kind of organization that will be
formed will be determined by mass
meeting of the citizens to be calIeo
after your body and the county com
missioners act upon the matter.
Trusting that you will act favorably
upon this application,
Respectfully,
F. E. TWITTY, Chrm"