The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1921-07-20
VISIONARY BUILDERS.
by DR.. J. w. Simmons, President of
the Brunswick Board Of Trade.

the brunswick Board or Trade.
Some of the sane, sober masters Of
finance in Brunswick, as well as some
of her more optimistic business men
are prone to criticise certain plans o.
the Brunswick's champion public
workers as visionary and impossible
of accomplishment. AS one of those
who believe that nothing is too grea1
to attempt accomplishment for the
benefit of Brunswick, 1t is my desire
to call attention to the best of texts
for the basis of the belief that exists
among us that we must dream dreams
see visions and prophesy if We ever
hope OF make of Brunswick the great
metropolis we expect to see even in
this generation.
In Holy Writ we find in Joel q; %:
"And it shall come to pass afterward
that | will pour out my Spirit upon
all flesh; and your sons and your
daughters shall prophecy, your old
men shall dream dreams. your young
men shall see visions" This is liter
ally true now in Brunswick, for the
young have imbibed the ideas Of flu
ture development along all lines;
while the older men are dreaming of
past glories, when the port was lined
with hundreds of towering masts and
mcnopoIies in various lines of endeav-
or filled their Golfers, the Young Mems
Club now are seeing visions of re
turning glories of permanent ma
ture
Again, in Proverbs 20; Is, we find
where there is no vision, the people
perish" Always, in all ages Of the
world, the visionary people have been
the forward-looking and the forward
acting people.
Napoleon dreamed of empires be,
fore he had marshalled single regi-
ment. Alexander had a vision of a
world at his feet before he called a
single soldier to his standard.
! Again and again has the world paid
homage to dreamers in industry, com
,merce, arts and science. 1t takes just
such who hitch their vehicles to heav-
emily bodies to impress the ordinary
work-a-day world that there is some
thing beyond and above the present
days businesses Even III finance, some
men are blinded as to future develop
ment by the dollar close up to their
eyes today.
We are all too prone to hesitate at
starting on road the end of which
We cannot see, though glorious things
might be promised at its terminus.
We shrink from the untried venture,
and are loath to accept statements as
facts from those who promise much
in results unless We are able to figure
II out in black and white with pencil
and paper or on an adding machine.
II Is perhaps well that the majority
OF mankind are doubters. They act as
governors upon a world that might
move too fast II left to men with vi.
sion to propel 1t.
Progress makes some men dizzy.
Gait In development Is a matter OF
taste and inclination as well as a mat
ter of judgment, sometimes.
But the man of vision and lthe
dreamer both have their places in the
community. One plans for the future,
the other picks out the precious spots
in the past and builds his ideas of
glory on them subconsciously.
either one of them might make a
grotesque set of plans for building
purposes. but the chances are that
some level.headed contractor In the
business world would work them over
10 sane basis. yet reserving the real
ideals of the vision.
Ii we 10 not have too many broth.
crs OF the clod" we can reasonably
hope for chance to rise.
Some one has said, "as man
thinks. so Is he" The same thing
applies to city. II any reasonable
number OF men think OF their city al
"A real, growing aud promising person
al smhition. and can continue to think
So long enough. there is an assured
hope az its reaching the acme they ar
IDENTIFY desire
Let us frown on the man who says
1T can't be done until he says ii car
bo done, and viii help show you shs
right way" nreamers and visionary
men are not often men who can clear
" map out the real working plans q
their ideas. They need help, and
sometimes lots OF 1t: not only I,
keep from losing the vision. bat rea
constructive aid in catching the rea
import Of II.
You cold. calculating. hardheades
business men. never discourage mar
with a vision. some day he may buils
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