The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-02-19
THE DEL-MAR-VA EASTERN
SHORE ASSOCIATION
BY Fred P. Adkins

Just what does the Del-Mar-Va
Eastern Shore Association propose
to do ? Along what lines will it
operate ? From what point of view
will it approach the innumerable
problems which the Peninsula
presents !?
The Association will attempt to
deal with the Peninsula's problems
just as any wise and prudent man
would attempt to deal with them
if he was the sole owner of the
Peninsula and all it contains.
Anyone who owned all of the
agricultural land in the Peninsula
would be anxious to put that land to
the best possible use. He would be
anxious to increase the value of that
land by increasing production. He
would see to it that the crops which
were best suited to particular
locality were planted. II there was
idle land, he would bring in people
from the outside to till it.
In order to put the Peninsula's
agricultural land to the best pos
sible use, anyone who owned all OF
it would advertise it. He would bid
for home-seekers and settlers.
That is just what the Del-Mar-Va
Eastern Shore Association proposes
to do. 1t does not own any agri-
cultural land but it wants to help
the people who do own it to put that
land to the best possible use. That
means more people, more production,
more business-more business for
the merchant, for the bank, for the
manufacturer-for everybody. II
tural land on the Peninsula, he
would not only try to put it to the
best possible use but he would be
anxious to do everything he could
to secure the best possible market
for its products. He would help the
men on his, farms sell their crops.
He would encourage them to put
their produce on the market in
standardized packages which bore
organized trade marks and which
would, ii possible, command. a
premium.
In every way that could possibly
occur to him, any man who owned
all Of the land on the Peninsula
would help solve the marketing
problems which are becoming in
creasingly intricate and increas-
ingly embarrassing to the individual
who attacks them single handed.
That is just what the Association
wants to do-help solve the market
ing problem. In addition to adver-
Using the land itself, it proposes to
advertise the things the land pro
duces. 1t will help producers, who
ask assistance, to organize. 1t will
attempt to create new market out
lets and it will stand behind each
individual producer and see to it
that he receives as much for his
products as anyone else receives for
products of the same quality.
Anyone who owned all of the
Peninsula would make it a point to
see that the Peninsula's industrial
opportunities were properly utilized
In order that they might be util-
lied, he would see that they were
properly advertised. While building
up agriculture on the one hand,
anyone who owned all of the Pen
insula, would build up industry on
the other.
Again, that is just what the AS
ISOLATION proposes to do.
The owner of the Peninsula would
find that he had many miles Of ocean
front, many miles of river front that
should be the sites for resorts and
for part season homes. He would
advertise these sites among the
people who are looking for oppor-
tunities of that kind. He would
attempt to realize the largest amount
possible from his resort and home
site opportunities.
And that is just what the Associa-
ton wants to do-advertise the
Peninsula's resort and home site
possibilities.
Anyone who owned all OF the
Peninsula would see to it that thous-
ands upon thousands of people came
down every year as tourists and
sight-seers. Anyone who owned the
Peninsula would be proud of it.
Being proud, he would talk about
tin the newspapers and mag
azines. AS a result, people would
come down to see what the talk was
all about. Each visitor would spend
a considerable amount OF money,
and the man who owned the PENN
sula would benefit. The Association
plans to tell the story of the PENN
sula in the newspapers and mag
azines. 1t plans to bring people