The Brunswick news., 1919-08-14
Mr.. M'PHERsoN's EXPLOSION


day morning. Either purposely or un-
Willingly Mr. MACPHERSON goes off
at a tangent. attempting to defend
Mr. F. D. NJ. Strachans personal
standing in this community. when as
matter of fact The News has not
questioned Mr. Strachan's status in
Brunswick as a citizen. That is not
the question at issue and Mr.. Mac
Pherson cannot inject, even by in
nuendo. that this has anything to do
with the ice controversy.
The News contends. and reiterates
its contention, that the stockholders
of the Glynn Ice Company are no
lore entitled to the output of the
plant than are it's local patrons-and
it refers specifically to Mr. Strachan.
Mr. Baumgartner, Mn. Mccullough
Mr. MacPherson Mr. Smith, assist
ant to the president and any and all
other stockholders.
In all fairness, should these stock
holders and officials be supplied with
ice by the block, to the exclusion of
those who are not stockholders in this
institution?
We say not.
And it is just this spirit OF dis
elimination as we'll as the woful in
capacity of the ice plant, that has
caused the present eruption on the
part of the white citizens of Bru S
wick. who have been made to suffer
Ice Company as to the exact condi
tions existing at it's plant Tho man
agement must have known, should
have known, that it would not be in
position to yield anything like the
quantity of ice sufficient to supply
the local demand. ALl yet the public
was assured it would be.
How much physical suffering would
have been spared had the Glynn Ice
company told the truth
And now as to Mr. Strachan's negfC
caretaker that Mr.. Macpherson relies
so implicitly upon for his information
as to the quantity of ice left at the
Strachan home Why should this ne
gro caretaker's statement be accredit
ed while the negro ice wagon dri
ver's word is discredited? 1t is no
reasonable to believe that the drive
would have made the answer that h
did in Mr. Aliens hearing, had h,
not received instruction from the ran
agement of the ice company
He was obeying orders.
And in this connection we woul
like to ask Mr.. MACPHERSON:
First-How many times during tn
| ,,rocop+ e,1n,p,or hoe vo,,r rofri.pre
tor been iceless?
Second-How many pounds of ic
have you been receiving daily at tn
summer home CT Mr. F. D n
Strachan on ST. Simon Island from tn
Glynn Ice Comapny?
Just answer these two question
without equivocation, Mr.. MacPhe
son, and the News will not interr'
gate you further.
1t is an indisputable fact that
great part if not the grea .ar part {
the Glynn Ice Company's output
shipped to St. Simons. While the New
comedies that the islanders have
right to their share of ice it does M
concede that they are entitled to
by the block while the people
Brunswick are made to suffer for lac
of it,
But even at that this does not cxcu
pate the Glynn Ice Company fro
all the vituperation which it ina
brought upon itself 1t was its der
| liction-it' public be damned att
tude-that has incensed the defens
less public. Had the management
+ is iackass 60. institution made II
slightest attempt to alleviate the co
ditions that have existed in Brunswi
during the present summer then the
attitude might have been mitigated
a slight degree, but as it has assume