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T HF BRUNSWICK NEWS
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Brunswick, Ga
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AI L DEPARTMENTS PHONE VS B !
Evidently the city of Belfast is not
yet committed to that plan of disarm
ament.
Unless you are a very fortunate
sort of chap, ydu had turkey hash
yesterday and the chances are you
will have it again today.
Now then the 5-6-3 ratio of battle
armaments has been analyzed in the
Armament conference. It ought to lie
plain to us all new!
Many communities might have had
more celebrations than we did on
Thanksgiving day, but few of them
wero blessed with that ideal spring
weather that was vouchsafed to us.
Our county bond issue la over;
pretty hear the whole community Is
happy over it; we have just observ
ed a momentous Thanksgiving day.
Let’s everybody smile and be happy.
Lord Curzon gives Priuiep ■</>*>
woli meant advice and warning about
tlio size of her army. However,
France has no English channel sep
arating her from Germany and has
not hud in the past fifty-live years!
Hark from the tomb! flole Blonse
is throwing his hat into the guberna
torial ring in South Carolina again
and Is out In a ranging announcement
for governor. Well, as the Savannah
‘News well remarks, he ought to poll
the whole penitentiary vote.
The tux revision bill was finally
passed in the dosing hours of con
gress on Wednesday, It has the ear
marks of its authors all over it and
in the congressional elections next
fall, we shall hear much of this piece
of hand-picked legislation.
The fair which ended yesterday
has proved Itself to bo u real revela
tion to many Brunswick people. The
exhibits are wonderful and only goes
to show what can be done I- the great
old county of Olynn along agricultur
al lines. The poultry exhibit Is mar
velous and interesting. On the whole
the affair reflects credit on those who
kre responsible fer it. It should be
heartening to those of our people who
havo always maintained that we can
Itroduce anything we want from the
soil of Olynn county, if we only go
after It in the right sort of fashion.
We very much hope that thou* will
be no more delay than Is absolutely
necessary tn the matter of proceed
ing with the sale <f the county bonds
h authorised on Wednesday and the
starting of work on the st. Simon
highway The expression of the will
of the people of the city in furor of
the Issue was so strong and complete
that It seem* t. us to come tn the
form of a mandate rather than a per
mtt. In any event, thin is a matter
of material Interest and ought to be
thought out by the prbpeiwofficials
promptly.
Brunswick ts justly proud of the
character of her colored citizens who
never fall to do their full duty along!
patriotic and civic matters. We all
mall their work during the 4 war
days* thetr devbtion to the canse.
their liberty It ltd, war aavlngs and
Red Croats drives. They measured up
great shape We have Just put over
s pr**gr***lve bond Issue to
build Mlp St -“oi tbev
voted \om kuutf&d per cent for the
at* a>utre! Can pm beat It? There
ts a little county fair on In the city,
visit It and observe hew handsomely
and how fredilnbl) the colored poo
pit are roptoueutad tu each of It* d<*
pa: intent*.
CANCELLATION OR PAYMENT.
The American pres£- is reporting
from England suggestions to cancel
the indebtedness which Great Britain
and other European countries owe
the United States.
When reading these reports one
can not help but go back to the days
of the great wear and the billions
spent by the United States for the
sake Democracy.
benefitted by this war?
Have received payment for the
thousands of lives sacrificed on the
altar of liberty? No, we have receiv
ed nothing but burdens. We are still
suffering from the war’s afeermath;
our are overtaxed, business
has grhe' through an embarassing de
pression unequaled in history, and
still they expect us to cancel the huge
war debts, which run into billions of
dollars.
Great Britain claims that a cancel
lation will return the prosperity and
solvency of the nation and she, in re
turn'; is welling to cancel whatever is
due her. But what of the benefits?
Great Britain has, materially bene
fitted. The German navy, a constant
menace to the British, has been de
stroyed. The German merchant fleet,
the greatest competitor of British
commerce, has been eliminated. Hel
goland, once the mighty blockade for
German protection, is no more. Ger
man South West Africa, of such vital
value, has been anpexed by Great
Britain. The British Crown has been
extended in Asia, Palestine and Meso
potamia. The German islands in the
Pacific have been given to Australa
sia, also a part of the British Empire.
Japan has received control over the
German islands in the North Pacific,
which perhaps some day will he used
as a naval base against the United
states. And now after all of them
have received a slice of the bacon,
except the United States, they want
us to eliminate the war debt, which
money we let them have in good
faith, because they say it is the only
way out.
Why Unde Sam should be holding
the bag seems puzzling, especially
when we know that ultimately the
public is paying for it. There may be
no way out to make Great Britain
pay, in the thoughts of the celever
diplomats who are holding power in
Great Britain, but if it is a matter <ct
finding a way out, it should be sug
Rested that we could purchase some
Ihlng from Great Britain, and thus
her- keep her money, if that
means a proper balancing of the
world.
We paid $25,000,000 for the pur
chase of the Virgin Islands from Den
mark. They consist of St. Thomas,
St. John and St. Croix. The total
amount of land is 138 square miles.
That mean8‘95181,159.42 per square
mile. There is something else we
could use, and that is the British isl
ands In the Atlantic ocean, which
cover Bermuda. 20 square miles; Ja
mulen, 4,207 square miles; Anguilla,
35 square milos; Barbuda, 62 square
miles; St. Kitts, 68 square miles; Ne
vis. 50 square miles; Antigua, 108
square miles; Monserrat, 32 1-2
square miles; Dominica, 291 suqare
miles; st. Lucia, 233 square miles; St.
Vincent, 140 square miles; Barbados.
166 square miles; Grenada and Gre
nadines. 123 square miles; Tobago.
144 1-2 square miles; Trinidad, with
1.754 square miles, and British Hon
duras, with 8.598 square miles, # mak
lug In all 21.468 square miles. 0
Calculating thds territory at the
some price we paid for the Danish
West Indies per square mile, w
would arrivo at a total of $3,885,888.-
559.00. We could purchase these isl
amis from Great Britain and pay her
with the Certificates of Indebtedness
which we now hold in the’ United
Tntcs treasury, and which were giv
en hy Great Britain to u*. Great Brit
ain could have no objection because
ill she is looking fer is to find a way
cut to pay tin* war debt, and ke#p her
gold within her own treasury. There
would be no gold transferred in this
transaction.
We can make good use of these pos
sessions, They have no value to any
country except the United States.
They could only be made use of as
against the United States in ease of
war, audAOf such there is not even a
slight from Great
Britain. In turn, Great Britain coul '
not dispose of them to another Kufo
peatt nation, as that would simply b
n violation of and contrary to the
?Doctrine, which would no
permit auy interference on the part
of Europe in the Americas. These isl
snds art* valuable only to the United
St *t*. not only from a political and
***mm*rcial point of view, bat —thin!
n* of Bcrumda and the Bahama*
A “LIBERTY TREE **
The following from the VaWjt-,
r**> w of infeMap jtwa^t
thu ceaaon li% . Se uefi slgnficaie j
and because Brunswick and St©‘
man hlttorlc ttv** played a part I
the interesting
At .\4UUdgevtU*. on \ r nn*ucc P!
i -Übcrty Tm planted to
1 norigllte the Ara: n r oreastpto
B was set in dirt that came frem
forty-eight different states, having
been taken by the different Gover
nors from some historic spot. The
governor of Mississippi sent dirt from
the Ijome of former President Davis.
Every one cf the governors responded
to the request which the Daughters
of the American Revolution at Mil
lcdgeville had made of them through
Mrs. J. D. Howard, who was in charge
of that part of the program.
In telling of the Liberty Tree and
why and oak tree was chosen, Mrs.
Howard had the following to say in
an address which she read at the
time:
“For this event we have chosen
the oak, not only for its strength and
sturdiness, but for its place in his
tory. Among some of the famous
<saks we may mention are the IChar
ter Oak,’ at Hartford, Conn., in the
hollow of which the Colonial Char
ter is said to have been hidden, the
‘Constitution Oak,’ which stjood at;
Cann’on’s Point on the Georgia coast,
from whose timbers was made the
keel of ‘Old Ironside,’ technically
known as the frigate ‘Constitution,’
-one of the mest important of the
earlier American War vessels; the
‘Wesley Oak’ at St. Simon Island;
the ‘Catholic Oak,’ in Rhode Island;
the ‘Lanier Oak,’ at Hfunswick; the
‘Toomb’s Oak’ *at Athens, and the
‘Jackson Oak,’ at Athens, Ga., which
i'J the only tree that owns itself.
Another great oak made famous in
recent years stands in Myrtle Hill
Cemetery, in Rome, Ga., under whose
boughs rests the remains ef our own
-Mrs. Eleanor Axon Wilson, at the
time of her death, the first lady of
the land.
“To this list we add today, Liberty
Cak, which stands for universal lib
erty, peace, now and for all times, its
roots to be nurtured by soil from ev
ery state cf the Union, the signifi
cance of which is to remind this and
future generations that sectional feel
ing and difference are of the yester
day and that instead, we have today,
one flag, one laud, one heart, and one
ration for evermore.’’
add editorial
REDUCING RAIL ACCIDENTS.
“The accident record made by the
railways of the United States in 1920,
as disclosed by statistics for that year
which recently have been issued by
ihe Interstate Commerce Commis
sion, is the best record,” says the
Railway Age, “that ever has been
made since statistics upon the sub
ject have been kept. The total num
ber cf persons killed, 6.958, was the
smallest in twenty-two years, or since
1898. But to appreciate the full sig
nificance of this statement it is nec
essary to*‘onHider the increases that
have occurred in the number of rail
way employees, in the trains run, and
in the amount of traffic handled.
“The railway’s accident record was
relatively at Its worst in 1910, when
the groat ‘safety first’ movement was
started. The accident statistics for
1910 are incomplete, but a compari
son of the statistics for 1911 with
those for 1920 shows the great pro
Rress that ha-; been made.
“The number of passengers killed
in 1911 was 290, and in 1920 only 229.
Meantime, the number of
oarred one mile increased over 44
per cent. The average passenger, on
the basis of the results of operattor
in 1911. could have traveled at the
rate of 60 mile* an hour for 206 year;
/before being killed, while on the ba
sis of the results of operation in 1920
he could have traveled at the rate o'
60 miles an hour for 388 years without
being killed. The danger of Have*
ing by passenger traiu was reduced
47 ner cent.
“The number of employees killed
In 1911 was 3.602. and in 1920 onp
2,578. The number of employees in
1911 was 1.599,854. while in 1920 I*
was 2.031.927. Therefore in 1911 th
number of employees for every em
Ployee killed was 444. while In 192
it whs 788. This Increased cf almost
-78 per cent in the number of person
employed by the railways for eacj
employee killed shows that there wa
x corresponding reduction in the ha/
ards of the occupation of the average
railway employee.
“The tctal number of pissenger
uuployees and all other persons kfl'
and In 1911 was 10,396. and in 1920 onl
9.958, a reduction of 33 per cen
Meantime the number of passenger
carried one mile Increased 44 1-2 pc
ami the mumbdr of tons o
freight carried ode mile 64 per cen'
This shows that, while the amount ,
• ******ngor traffic handled increase
Bincst one-half and the amount
'reight carried increased almost twt
thirds, the total number of person
killed decreased one-third.
“The number of trespassers kille
In 1911 was 5,284. and in 1920 onl
. There wgs a- dldelinv. in* tf
.fatalities ft* every aMavs
#*rsma 0b iipt those
er 'nontrespassers.' which increase
from 1,1*4 to IJS6T. This increase i
fatalities ’occurred at highway cro*
ipgs and was due t an increase ’
•' nsofc-*r of automobiles struck l
or trams struck by automc-
‘fHP !Sj£Wsi
biles.
,“Th? ‘safety fir: A movement inaug
urated in 1910 recognized the fact that
mcsi. accidents were due. to careless
ness and recklessness on the part of
the personnel of the railways rather
than to defects of their plant. The
great reduction of accidents undoubt
edly has been due principally to the
educational work which has been car
ried on among employees- and the ef
forts of ‘safety first’ committees com
prsgd of both officers and employees.”
The local Y. W. C. A. is making a
very earnest call for more financial
aid to insure the functionWg of the
institution for the next twelve
months. The “Y. W.” has become to
be a great Brunswick organization in
which all of the people have a com
mon Interest and from which they
all derive a 'common pleasure. It
would be a calamity to fail to support
it.
Jtssst
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D G, Y O U R BEST
FOR THE
Y. W. C. A.
YOUR PART IS NEEDED
GIVE!
It Is Brunswick’s Privilege
Let Us Help You
Beautify Your Home
Nothing makes ahome so cozy and com
‘ fortable as neat, attractive Furniture.
We have a full line of everything in the
Furniture line
Rugs, Linoleum, Stoves, Ranges
LET (JS no URE WITH OU.
B. A. Lewis
1602 Newcastle Street. Phone 166
J. R. CARTER & CO.
Green Groceries
■chickens, eggs, and fresh meats
Cane Juice
We grind'cane all day and have fresh juice all the
time. Come and see us grind.
J. R.jCarter & Cos.,
1210 Gloucester SL Phone 1036
NORTHJSXAR
DAIRY
Sweet Milk, per quart 15 cents
Cream, per quart, 50 cents
Butter, per pound 50 cents
DELIVER TO ANY PART OF THe’clTyT'^
i ;*4 J ■ „I. J * v *'
W. !L Griffin, R. V. Crine
Phones 2005 and 856.
Rub-My-Tism, antiseptic and
pain killer, for infected sores,
tetter, sprains, neuralgia, rheu
matism.
Tennis Rackets, $3 and $6.
Glover Brothers.
In future the
A. H. GORDON, Mgr.
SINGER SEWING MACHINE
AGENCY
"Will be located at
B. A. LEWIS FURNITURE STORE
1602 Newcastle St.
Phone 166
ACCESSORIES AND REPAIRS
A Checkinfg Acyount Provides;
Convinence to all parties concerned
Helps in keeping your books correct
Experience in money matters
Credit standing in ymir neighborhood
Knowledge of where every cent, goes
Insontenstiible proof of payment
Nice Nest-egg when idle or sick.
Good example for all young folks.
Save guard against being “held-up”
Conservation of tinse, pay by mail
, ‘ No loose change to be wasted
Concentration of local funds
Only real safe way to pay bills \ .
Up-building of community affairs
The greatest convenience at no cost
"THE BANK WITH A HEART.”
MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM.
Be Extra Your KBebenl
Wtien the new home is built; how proudly you will show
£ your new kitchen to friends! And how much prouder
you will be if this handsome new Round Oak Ironbrft
Range graces the kitchen. Arrange to have one installed
-select it now and have us hold it. You are fully pr *
tected in the matter of price—see note below. By seeing us
at once you wili be the gainer in more ways than one
ask for particulars.
ROUND OAK
IRONBILT RANCjE
The Round Oak Folks have GUARANTEED to us
their present price? against any possible decline until next
December 1. Should a price revision occur at anytime
this year you will receive the benefit of the full amount of
it from us. Buy or contract now. Come in and talk it over.
WRIGHT & G OWEN CO. '
GROCERIES AND SHIP SUPPLIES
PHONE 336-337. ' BAY AND MANSFIELD STS.
Cook With Gas
The cleanest, handiest and cheapest fuel. Don't be
a slave to your old kitchen stove. Cooking with gas
. is the modern way of living—lt saves money, time,
worry and work. Come in and let’s talk it over.
15 Mutual Light & Water Cos.
PHONE 7
Let Us Sell You That
Tall Furniture
We Are Showmg a Handsome
LINE OF
New Furniture, Rugs and
General Furnishings
Come In and Look the Line Over—We Can Suit
* You, ii It’s in the Furniture Line.
U.;-.* . , ■
Home Furniture Cos.,
1318 Newcastle Street Phone 364*
SATURDAY, NOV. 26, 1921.