Smyrna times., 1925-12-30
BOOST TO DEVELOP PENINSULA
GIVEN IMPETUS At SALISBURY
FIFTY BUSINESS MEN OF THE
EASTERN SHORE DISCUSS PLAN
To Make the Delaware Maryland Vir-
ginia Peninsula as Renowned as
FlOrida.-Seek Business Capital

ness and financial leaders represent
ing the banking, land-owning, agTi-
cultural, industrial and resort inter
ests of the entire Peninsula attended |
a meeting of the Eastern Shore Pen
insula Development Conference at |
Salisbury, Md, on Monday. Practi-
cally every section of the Peninsula |
was represented in the committee |
which is sponsoring the meeting, and
the additional acceptances which are
coming compel daily revision of the |
list. Delegates to the conference are
being appointed upon the nomination
of the sponsoring committee men,
bers, and notices of the appointment
are now going out.
The purpose of the conference was
to convene a thoroughly representa-
tive body, the membership of which
will be drawn from all of the fourteen
counties in the Peninsula to consider
plans for a rounded development pro-
gram and to take the organization
steps necessary to start action.
Business leaders Of the Peninsula
have long felt that the Peninsula can
increase it's population, its industries
and its wealth if it will organize for
the purpose Conference leaders pro-
pose to give development the impetus
which comes from community coop
GRAFTON. The program does not stop
with an advertising and publicity cam
paign designed to boost land values.
1t is the plan not only to bring more
people into the Peninsula to settle on
the land, but to take active steps to
increase the markets for Peninsula
products.
The general purposes of the confer
ence, as set forth in a statement be-
ing sent out to the delegates by the
committee on arrangements was:
To promote the migration of people
and the flow of capital into the PENN
sula-and to keep them both when
they come.
To advertise and publicize the Pen
insula, its lands. resources, OppOrtun-
tiles and products.
To develop and encourage its in
dustres to create an increased de-
mand for its lands, to expand its mar
kets, at home and abroad, to promote
| its resort and tourist possibilities and,
in general, to make the Peninsula a
better place in which to live and an
increasingly profitable place in which
to do business.
The statement points out that a cen
tral organization can do many things
which communities acting alone can
not accomplish. Some of the things
which such an organization should do,
the statement says, are:
Advertise and publcize the entire
Peninsula-continuOusly and nation
ally.
Organize comprehensive movements
to bring prospective settlers into thC
Peninsula on inspection tours.
Make a careful survey of existing
industrial opportunities and attrac-
/. the attention of capital to them.
Assist every portion of the PENN
sula in opening up new markets TO
Peninsula products.
Promote and develop the resort bus
mess as a component part of tn
! Eastern Shore Peninsula's econOmi
life.
Supply a wide range of individuals
communities and organized trade o
agricultural groups with market an
rate information, assist in obtaining
rate concessions and in settling dis
puted claims.
Encourage the production or stand
ardized products and the developmer
and use of trade names by supportin
such movements in the national az
vertising publicity fields.
Attract the attention of editors an
special writers and secure their c.
operation in telling the story of tt
Eastern Shore Peninsula to the natiC
Take the leadership in urging IL
development of needed rail, highws
or waterway transportation facilitie
Assist community, trade or agricU
tural groups, which may deside
form local organizations, by givil
them expert fund raising and Orga
ization assistance.
, Serve as a clearing house for
! ouiries regarding the Eaten ShO
:. Peninsula, its resources and OppC
''| tunities.
Publish pamphlets and bullet
dealing with the Eastern Short PEN
sula and it's various communities a
distribute them nationally.
- Among those who have alrea
signed the call for the cOnferen
which will be held in the WicOm
Hotel, the sessions starting at 10
IN a. M, on the morning of Decent
orK %, are the following:
ma George H. Hall, Milford; DR.. Il
-lso ton Grier, Milford; G. Thomp.
Reed, Milford; John B. Smith, n
ford; Col. Robert H. Williams,
NJ MoHo1lO,,rrb E1I1for N