The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1919-11-16
SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHT.


bitter days of the past and 1t had
hoped that they were gone forever
However, we have observed the drift
back to the old stagnating condition
for many weeks and We have observ,
ed it with both alarm and regret
The News was one of the organizers
OF the Brunswick Board of Trade
and its editor was the first secretary,
who served for many months without
compensation and later for years was
director in the organization. In
all those years and up to a few
months ago, the Board played it's
part well in the work of devel )ping
the resources of this city. But there
came a day when the Board seems to
have lost sight of its real purpose
and when it began to pay more at
tentiOn TO city politics than to any
thing else. On that very day the real
usefulness of the organization began
to wane and its real functions as a
vital force in the upbuilding Of this
community were retarded and Grip
pied. The best evidence Of that fact
Is to be found in the achievements OF
the Board during The past year.
What has ii done, save to interest
itself i'll the matter of city govern
ment. with which it had no business:
Even yesterday, the Board was busy
sending out to registered voters -
referendum to the people on a polit
ical issue, on the eve of an election
in which a futile effort has been made
to inject the question.
In these days when every city
in the country is utilizing the pow
er Of its commercial organizai ions
that they may get their places in the
sun of the new era of development
following the great war, why should
Brunswick pay Il secretary thirty-siX
iE,ndred dollars per year-thr1e run
dred dollars per month, to devote his
own time and the time of three stem
ographers at cost of thirty two hun,
red and forty dollars per annum-
two hundred and seventy dollars pc,
month, to sound out registered voters
on political ISSUES!
We call upon the mon who are at
the helm of the Board of Trade to
stop before it is too late to save til
organization from the ruin tina.
threatens it. We need it, We uead il
for the purpose for which it was CT
atcd and without imputing impr' per
motives to any men, we ask them to
desist for the sake of Brunswick and
this community. How ludicruua and
manifestly obvious was the atti; ude
CT the people of Brunswick-througil
the Board Of Tradc-on ArmisticC day
when other cities from California tc
Florida were listening TO oratiOn1 o"
the bravery of our boys in France
Brunswick was treated to u political
speech on the proper rorm OF gov
ernment for her people by an imported
orator from Illinois, who only a ghorI
season ago carried back to his windy
home some $4,000 OF the money OF
the people OF Brunswick invested sin
cereIy for Board of Trade PURPOSES
And by the way, who paid for his
coming to Brunswick at this tlne?
Now then, I'VE ask the question, are
We right III these statements o: are
We wrong?
If we are right, we insist that w
are doing d public duty in calling the
situation to the attention of the PEG
Dlc of the community. If we are
wrong and anyone will convince L;
If the fact we will 90 TO the vel.' lin
it to make reparation for any Illus
tee we have done.
Now again, we have heard mu%E o
the commission form of government
lately and we want to say he"e ahC
now that when that issue comes ant
the light on the subject has beer
turned on. the people will be fount
in favor OF it and The News VIII DC
il, tIr fight for it!