The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1921-08-04
NOW FOR ST. slMoNt

In very short time Brunswick and
do what should have been done half a
century or more ago, but under con-
i ditions infinitely more suspicious
i than then obtained It is the build-
ing of eauseway linking this city
with St, Simon Island, project that
means muck to state and to nation,
4 but vastly more to the Brunswick of
To-day and that envisioned Brunswick
Of tomorrow and the day after.
1t can be done, it must be done and
lit will be done, because Brunswick
has purged her lexicon of that mega
lively slothful word can't or cannot,
and nailed to her masthead the sy-
1 nonymouds derms- performance land
| achievement. Every day witnesses
performance of notable sort, and ev-
cry day sees achievement of the kind
that builds for the common good.
There was a time, and not SO long
lago at that, when st. Simon Island
was considered hopeless as a civic
asset. Today all Brunswick acknow
lodges it's potential worth to city and
state, once it is made easily accessible
to yehicular travel which will be GER
tain to bring ramifications in develop
fncnt nearly if not quite as valuable
| in dollars and cents as is the ports
marine business. And this statement
is in no sense a hectic view of a tre-
mendously big undertaking. 1t means
just this and perhaps more.
First championed by Constant Mill
er as the thing that would cluse
brunswick to grow and expand as
nothing else has ever done, and later
unanimously chorused by the Young
Mems Club and other civic bodies as
an end that must be attained without
regard to cost, the first concrete step
toward contamination will be taken
next Monday when two state engi-
neers begin surveys of several pro-
posed routes and final report and
recommendation OF the one appeal
ing to them as most feasible, location
and construction expense being prime
factors in their selection. The News
is immensely pleased with the pres
ent status of so highly important a
matter, and 1t believes all Brunswick
holds receptive and aa.icipatory at
titude of great things certain to fol-
low this initial eDdeavpr of the state
surveyors.
II Is not premature to say that in a
general sense the construction ex
pense of connecting st. Simon Island
with Brunswick Is merely an Incl
\ dental item in the development and
Eexpansion OF an asset too long dor
mant but one which when quickened
will be practically boundless and linn
itless. Tradition and heritage are
more or less sacred institutions and
should be so guarded. st. Simon is
full OF 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
thing resembling a spoke in the
wheel of Owl and state progress.
That we are just now planning to give
the island to the world proves that
we have too long chung to and fondled
tho impractical, instead of clarion
sounding the actual wealth and value
Of that particular thing Thank God.
that day has passed and forever, al,
belt the tradition. the folklore, the ro-
nance and the history of old st. 81.
mon will always furnish inexhausti-
Bile themes to those coming thousands
sure to follow the building of the
oauseway.
| Upon Brunswick and Glynn county
will fail the major burden of throw
ing open and developing the empiric
riches Of an island too long neglected
from the viewpoint OF commerce and
Industry with the social side ms an
ever increasing fountain of wealth
The News ARMY believes that Bruins.
w'ckians are now fully alive To what
81. Simon Island means to them and
those representing them after they
have passed The News believes that
when the survey Is completed. the
route selected and the necessary hond
issue called that the awakened Bruins.
wick spirit will put II through with
little or no difficulty. The Young
MEMS Club. the Board Of Trade. and
Iother aggressive civic bodies have
Lsaid II must be done and it win be
done, The Brunswick spirit Of forg.
/ Ing jahead Ensteadof standing stiIl.
with our eyes TO the ground and our
minds cuddling the past. will not be
denied