The Brunswick news., 1916-10-22
BRUNSWCK'S OPPORTUNITY

water and good society" the conser-
,vative and cynical New Yorker re-
piled: That's all hell lacks"
The condition OF Brunswick in re-
| spect to the back-country is not SINH
lar to that of the Western deserts, so
much of which have been made TO
blossom Ike the rose by irrigation
projects perfected at the cost of mil
lions of dollars. but it is decidedly
similar in the lack of population.
| Wealth is created by no other animal
than man, and only through increas.
ed population can the quickest and
surest additions to the wealth OF a
| commounity be created. Increase Of
population must precede increase Of
wealth, for one is the creator and the
other the creature.
For many years past, clearthinking,
far-seeing. men in Brunswick have
, said that Brunswick will never have
a permanently sound basis for growth
to the size of a great city nor for con-
tinued prosperity, until she gets
the back country settled up with
prosperous, hard-working class
of settlers. Panics and periods OF de
fpression are often worldwide. The
European war caused intense depres-
sion here little over ii year ago, and
today is producing an era of Industrial
expansion. Action and reaction are
equal, all philosophers agree. Indus
trial expansion is generally followed
by over-ext.nsion, and that in turn by
reaction and depression. The day may
come, and God grant that it be far
foff, when such a period Of depression
may close many Of the industries of
Brunswick. Now is the time for our
people to fix in their minds the fan
damental truth that wars and financi-
al depression have no adverse effect
on the growing crops, and that Bruns-I
wick will never be safe, nor a great
city, as her importance as port
makes possible, until the cut-overi
pine lands, now considered practical
ly worthless since the timber has been
cut off, are covered with farms that
will produce as much during war as
during peace. as bountifully when
Wall street has the blues as when
the Great White Way is at its best.
There is but one way to attain these
results quickly, without years of de-
lay and opportunity missed due to de-
pending on individual effort instead
of community cooperation, a period
of waiting, as Brunswick has done
with her harbor to such a consider
able degree, for the world to recogl
nize her superior advantages" and
pour into hre lap unearned rewards.
Investigation by Brunswick bankers,
the county agricultural agent, by eX-
ports OF the United States and Geor-
gia agricultural departments, has
proven, beyond dispute, that Bruins
wick's climate is superior to that of
Mobile for growing Satsuma oranges
and that Brunswicks soil is superior
for growing vegetables and general
farm crops. while the soil is as we'll
or better adapted to the Satsuma.
The people cf Mobile agree that the
increase of about $4,000 in rural popu-
lation. within six years, from settlers
located ON the formerly valueless cut
over pine lands, and the increase of
taxable values alone in two counties
of $20, 900 900 is due to only one thing
organized work through corporate
bodies. handled by experts, and using
the glamor and attraction of the Sats-
una orange for its power to draw the
settler from the colder regions where
the orange cannot be grown, but
where general farm crops, truck. and
cattle and hogs can be grown as well
/. as in the South. perhaps better in the
opinion of She prospective colonist.
Seven years age. Mobile was in the
same shape that Brunswick is today
"a vast waste of cut-over pine lands
that her people said would produce
nothing. and that were sold for next
| 10 nothing when a buyer could be
| found and fooled Then systematic