Smyrna times., 1926-02-03
DR.. c. LAYTON GRIER PICTURES
STATE A LAND OF OPPORTUNITY
BOOST PROJECT TO ADVERTISE
AND DEVELOP PENINSULA
Ads Sussex County At a Meeting At
Milford to Subscribe its Share to
Eastern Shore Boost Fund

Eastern Shore Boost Fund
At the recent boost meeting held in
Sussex County, DR.. G. Layton Grier,
of the Caulk Dental Company, made
an address which not only spured Sus-
sex County business men to lend their
financial aid but pictured the Della
ware Maryland Peninsula as a land
of great opportunity. His address is
full of good things about Delaware,
is given in part as follows:
eve are met to engage in one of
those rare enterprises which COM
bine private profit with public ben
eft.
"We have gathered here as the re-
presentatives of the industrial, COM
mercial, financial, resort and agricul-
tural interests in our various COM
munities. We will have served the
purposes of the call by which we were
convened when we have determined
the place which Sussex county will
take in the Del-Mar-Va Eastern Shore
Association; and have given evidence
concerning the measure of support we
are willing to give to a program in
which we are vitally concerned.
Sussex Will Benefit
'I submit to you as men who are
intimately acquainted with all our
conditions that no county on the Pen
insula stands to benefit more than
Sussex by reason of such a program.
''The Del-Mar-Va Eastern Shore
Association idea appeals not only to
my state pride and my patriotism but,
if you will pardon the phrase, it ap-
peals equally to what l must term,
for lack of more fitting words, my
sporting instincts. For the propos-
ed association, while representing a
cooperative endeavOr, is likewise an
enterprise whose benefits will be more
abundantly harvested by those COM
munities which can most confidently
rely upon local initiative.
81 want to make this point very
clear if l can. For while l am con-
vinced that the Del-Mar-Va Eastern
Shore Association will help inaugur-
ate a new era Of progress in those
communities which are wide awake,
am equally convinced that the assO-
citation will confer but small benefits
upon those communities which are
asleep and determined to remair
asleep during the next year. l, there
fore, as one individual of SUSSEX
county, welcome the opportunity t
place it in alliance with the Othe
thirteen counties comprising the Pen
insula. | am confident that if we cal
make the rains of prosperity fal
more abundantly upon the Peninsula
as a whole, the people in Sussex viii
presently get their buckets out an
manage to catch their share.
Personally l am interested in tn
| Del-Mar-Na Eastern Shore AssOcia
ton for a variety of reasons. Bu
the foundation of my interest lies 0
! the hard fact that the association
program appeals to my business e.
penence. What we propose to do
to give to a broad civic movement II
d benefit Of business practices whiC
have demonstrated their effectivene
in the commercial and financial worl
What This Association Can Do
"We can advertise and publicize ii
opportunities and resources which y
have for sale; the association G
bring prospective purchasers
Georgetown or to Milford or Delma
or it can place the inquiries receiv
from people in all parts of the cou
try in the hands of individuals a
firms in every part of Sussex coun
just as those inquiries are placed
the hands of individuals and firms
other counties. But after that
rest Of the story must be told in
terms of local initiative. When, the
fore, the Del-Mar-Va Eastern Sh,
Association begins to function v
betide the community which is Wi
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