The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1921-10-13
NOW THEN, LET'S GO TO WORK.

its all set!
We either want th3t st. Simon
| bridge or we DON'T
If we want it, we know now what
it viii cost and how to go about get
ting it. It will cost around $4,000,
and the plan is to bond city and coun-
ty OF produce this revenue.
For our part we believe the project
is the one great big thing for this
community to do and it can be done,
there is no question about that!
1t can be done, it must be- done and
it will be done, because Brunswick
has purged her lexicon of that mega
lively sslothful word "can't" or can
not" and nailed to her masthead the.
Synonymous terms performance and
achievement. Every day Witnesses
performances. of notable sort, and ev7I
ery day sees achievement of the kind
that builds for the common good.
There was time, and not so long
ago at that, when st. Simon Island
was considered hopeless as a civic as
set. Today all Brunswick acknow-
lodges its potential worth to city and
state, once it is made easily sccessi-
BILE to yehicular travel which will be
certain to bring ramifications in de-
velopment nearly if not quite as val
liable in dollars and cents as is the
ports marine business. And this
statement is in no sense hectic view
Of a tremendously big undertaking
It means just this and perhaps more
1t is not premature to say that in .
general sense the construction ex-
pense of connecting st. Simon Island
with Brunswick is merely an Incl
dental item in the development and
expansion of AN asset too lcng dor
mant. but one which when quickened
will be practically boundless and linn
tless. Tradition and heritage are
more or less sacred institutions and
should be so guarded st. Simon is
full CT folklore and history OF the
|. sort worth coming at times and re-
Numbering always. but they have no
place in the affairs OF the world and
could not possibly be turned into any
Iithing resembling a spoke in the wheel
of civil and state progress. That we
are just now planning to give the Is
land to the world proves that We have
too long chung to and f17dled the I'M
practical, instead of Understanding
the actual wealth and value of that
particular thing. Thank Ged, that
day has passed and forever, albeit
the tradition, the folklore, the ro-
nance and the history Of old 81. 81
mon will always furnish inexhaustibie
themes to those coming thousands
sure 10 follow the building OF the
eauseway.
IIpon Brunswick and Glynn county
will fall the major burden OF throwing
open and developing the empiric rich
es of an island too long neglected
from the viewpoint of commerce and
industry, with the social side as an
ever increasing fountain of wealth
The News firmly believes that Bruins
wickians are now fully alive'to what
| 81. Simon Island means to them ana
those representing them after they
have passed, The News believes these
bond issues viii be speedily called
and that the awakened Brunswick
spirit will put it through with little
or no difficulty The Young Men
Stub. the Board of Trade. and other
aggressive civic bodies have said 1t
must he done and II will be done. The
Brunswick spirit of forging ahead In
stead OF standing still, with our eyes
to the ground and our minds euo-
ding the past, will not be denied