The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-10-26
CONE TO BRUNSWICK YOUNG
MAN!

past thirty days have been called up
on to a greater degree than ever to
display the advantages OF this port
city to visitors seeking sites for the
location OF various manufacturing
plants and other industries. The To-
cal Board of Trade has been busy on
the job of showing prospective pur-
chasers sites suitable to their needs
and I'm the meantime several of them
have decided to come here. In our
needs and, in the meantime several of
them have decided to come here. In
local news columns yesterday morn
ing we chronicled the coming of a new
shipbuildng plant. the commencing Of
operations of a new cotton compress,
and the initial steps looking to the or
ganization of company to develop
the Satsuma orange and other money
crops.
Not many years ago when the great
West opened its arms to pioneers,
| Horace Greedy made famous the eX-
preston: Go West Young Man" We
! shall quote in full an article which APP
peared in the last issue OF Leslie's
Weekly, and endorse the wisdom
which has changed that slogan to Go
South Young Man"
Little more than a generation ago
the South was In sackcloth and ashes.
Today industry and prosperity are
everywhere in Dixie Her fields are
furnishing the white staple to clothe
the world and thousands of spindles
convert this regal world product into
beautiful and useful patterns for the
use of man. Not only are the sun
kissed valleys and lands Of the South
fit for agriculture. but by climatic
conditions. water supplies and an en-
vironment not forgetful of the mental
and moral progress of man, such
Southern progressive cities as Bruins
wick offer every advantage for the
man who wants health, wealth and
happiness
From the very heart OF a great
Northern metropolis. Leslie's Weekly
speaks as follows:
"southward! The exemption of the
Southern States from the epidemic of
strikes prevailing in all the rest of
the country is attracting widespread
attention The statement that the
American Tobacco Company is arrang-
ing to transfer its New York cigarette
manufacturing business to Durham,
N. c. and Richmond Va, as the re
suit of a strike in the metropolitan
district IL significant 1t affects about
1000 employees The preponderance of
negro labor in the South. very little of
1t organized or even recognized by
the unions. and the lower rate of
wages paid In Suothern industrial CEN
ters are bound eventually to lead to
the removal of many more industries
to the Southern States The example
of the tobacco company. 1t Is said.
will be followed by others 1t has
long been known that Birmingham,
Alabama, produces iron so cheanly
that 1t makes the market price for pig
iron in the United States. The fer
mentors of discord in industrial cen
ters in the East and West should
bear in ming that the South with its
temperate climate, its cheaper and
more tractable labor, its abundant wa
ter power and other natural advant
ages is attracting the attention of cap
lital today as never before The great
est industrial development and the
largest urban growth and commercial
EXPANSION of the future will take
place in the Southern States Go
South. young man, and do 1t right
away"
In addition to this injunction from
Leslies. we should luke to broaden the
advice by making it read Go South,
Young man do Il right away and so to
Brunswick at that"