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T HE BRUNSWICK NEWS
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NEWS PUBLISHING CO.
Brunswick, Ga.
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The Newß is the official newspaper
of the City of Brunswick and of the
bounty of Glynn.
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The busy B 3— Bryan, Busch an:l
Booze.
“The Ships That Pass in the Night.”
—Whiskey ships.
President Harding’s brother, Doc,
Is not a politician, but he’s a Seventh
Day Adventist.
The bonus bill is proving to be
President Harding’s greatest bugbear
and the soldiers’ greatest bugaboo.
If you are satisfied with the amount
of shipping in Brunswick’s harbor,
why just remain quiet and say noth
ing about it.
TANARUS! the weeds on the vacant lots
around Brunswick are permitted to
grow to enhance the beauty of the
city, they fall far short of the mark
Babe Ruth seems to have lost his
"eagle eye” or the effectiveness of his
"swing.” To all appearances the
great "swatter” will do well to be in
the also ran class tiiis year.
If you are wiling to work for the
Old Home Town you might train your
energies on building up her port.
Lasker's seagoing bars are still pro
ductive of many "kicks.”
McCormick is attempting to have
himself rejuvenated by tranferriug
monkey glands into his anatomy,
which, with his recent ; nties, classi
fy him as being closely related to that
quadrumanous animal.
Glynn's (standing in the state as to
per capita wealth, is not to he consid
ered lightly by any means, and the
fact that she tops every county in
South Georgia, except Dougherty, is
something to shout about.
The strike of 1,000,000 railway
workers is inevitable unless the Rail
read Labor Board withdraws its wage
reductions order and the taking bad
by the railroads of contra'".; for farm
ing out shopwork. And as the strike
is scheduled for July Ist, somebody
will have to hurry.
In the death of Judge Joel Branham,
of Rome, Georgia, loses one of its
greatest and most beloved citizens.
Judge Branham was a lawyer of dis
tinguished ability, a gentleman of the
old school, and withal, “the noblest
Roman of them all.” His death is
deeply deplored.
The senate committee of finance on
May 31 voted to report favorably to
the senate the McCumber bonus bill,
which is very similar to the bonus
bill which pased the house whoop
ingly. The hill contemplates an ulti
mate cost to the tax payer of about
$4,000,000,000. But it m-.kes no pro
visions for raising the money, which
Is the most essential feature of the
bill.
Judge Max Land, of Cordele, has
entered the gubernatorial race, liis
platform appearing in several of the
Sunday papers. There is nothing es
pecially striking in the judge’s plat
form. except perhaps that he comer
out boldly in opposition to the $75,-
000,000 state bond issue for good
roiidn. while his opponents qualify
their position on the question by stat
ing that "now is an inopportune tine
to submit it to the people.” Jud:u‘
lin ahlqi lawyer, anji,,a fear
less , one,for else he would ’ ndt-vbavo
jumped into the political whirlpool
*t this-perilous stage of the ■ proceed
ings. The Cordeie candidate’s en
trance into the race only adds to the
complex,tv of the situation in a re
pinole dcg.ee. \
GLYNN’S HIGH STANDING
There are sometimes some impor
tant things that we do not know' about
the city and county in which we live,
in fact there are as a rule few per
sons that take the time to acquaint
themselves with figures that are more
than interesting, in fact pleasurably
startling. For instance:
Did you know that Glynn county
stood seventh among the counties of
the state in per capita wealth? Not
only that, but mere is oly one county
in South Georgia that exceeds her in
this respect, Dougherty, and the dif
ference in the figures is but slight.
Glynn's per capita is $5Bl, white that
of Dougherty is $609. In comparison
with these two counties, there are no
others in this section within hailing
distance.
Martin V. Calvin, statistician for
the Georgia department of agrieul
ture. furnishes an interesting resume
of Georgia’s per capita wealth and
purchasing power, worked out on the
basis of the 1920 census. As Mr. Cal
vin very truly says, “One may de
spise statistics because they are look
ed upon as dry reading, but it re
mains that the degree of one’s sue
cess is accurately measured by facts
and figures. Business men and worn
en who give heed to the message of
accurate statistics go forward smooth
ly and flourishingly. The figures
themselves are a guarantee of suc
cess.”
According to Mr. Calvin’s statistics,
at the close of business December 31,
1920, Georgia’s tax digest showed
property values amounting to $1,181.-
473.058. That is exclusive of railroad,
telegraph, telephone and express
property. The latter -class having no
place on a tax digest.
In 1300. says Mr. Calvin’s statistics,
the digest showed our total property
value to be $338,154,413. During the
twenty years property values on the
digest increased $793,315.645, or 204.3
per cant, the annual average increase
being $39,605,932.
From the above it will be seen that
Georgia property values have increas
ed by leaps and bounds, as rapidly as
any other Southern „tate, if not ex
cecding all of them. Between 1904
and 1912, according to the United
States government figures, Georgia
real property and improvements in
creased G 0.6 per cent, compared with
Ohio’s 52.08 per cent.
The following are the eight leading
counties in the state, each haying
more than SSOO per capita, with their
population:
Pep Cap. Pop.
Clarke $799 26,111
Muscogee 77S 44.194-
Fulton 727 232,606
Richmond 679 63,692
Bibb 631 71.304
Dougherty 609 20,063
Glynn 561 19 370
Floyd 502 39,841
WHAT Will SHE DO WITH IT?
A state highway bond issue of some
substantial amount is absolutely ire
perative if Georgia is to benefit from
the $2,000,000 of the federal aid fund
That is now conceded by a majorit:
of the members of both branches o
the legislature, including several win
are avowedly opposed to the $75,000,-
000 "bond issue for state highways.
it is being argued by several mem
bers of the general assembly that
there is no other way in which to
meet this federal aid requirement un
less an increase of taxes 'is resorted
to, which they will not consider, bin
express the opinion- that at the ap
proaching session the legislature
would not fail to make federal aid
available through some definite legis
iation. But how? That is what’s dis
turbing the minds of those realizing
the necessity of quick and sane action
in order to receive the benefit of fed
eral aid. The government does not
stop to argue with a state as to
whether it wants the money, or not
it is placed at a state's disposal, under
certain conditions, and if those condi
tions are complied with, then good
and well. If not, then the opportuni
ty goes knocking at the door of the
state that does want it.
If Georgia is to keep pace with the
other states ol‘ the Union in the mat
ter of good roads —highways, if von
please—then it devolves upon her to
demonstrate it to Uncle Sam. He has
to be shown. Other states are only
too eager to accept the aid offered by
the federal government, with its re
qnirements to proceed on a fifty-fift>
basis. It has been announced that
the $75.0110.000 bond issue will not
arid a penny to' the tax payers’ bur
den. That has beqn explained from
every cross-roads to the largest cit
ies. and even then there is that irre
sistible impulse on the part of many
44fe> to throw a fit when the word
•bond” is suggested to them.
The GpoVisib flood. ifoMs ’4vi,aici:(-
tion, according -to an' announcement
made bv the managing directors of
that organization, is not arbitrarily
bent on a $75,000,000 bond Issue. It
has been urged that that amount l>.
raised because it was felt that with
INFINITE VARIETY
On Activity in County and Town
Evidenced Dally in South Georgia.
More than 200 cars of cantaloupes
were shipped last week from Mitchell
county.
Donaldsonville has shipped more
than 100 ears of nogs—many to Ala
bama and Florida points.
Pelham is shipping several cars of
watermelons a day.
Blackshear and Hahira sections are
gratified with the tobacco crop now
being cut.
The first cotton nlooms and the first
sweet potatoes of the season have
been shown at Douglas.
Vidalia shipped two cars of Irish po
tatoes one day last week.
Moultrie men are locating a live
stock farm in Atkison county.
The Merchants and Mechanics
Loan and Savings Company, -Way
cross, has begun business.
Mcßae held another successful hog
and chicke sale.
Ocilia reports fair sized new sweet
potatoes—a week ago.
Evans county has let a contract for
anew $50,000 courthouse.
The Statesboro Advertising Club is
taking in many new members.
Ocilia reports full grown cotton
bolls at Mystic.
Milltown has begun melon ship
ments in earnest.
Fitzgerald is shipping cantaloupes
by carlots.
Lizeila, Ga., reports the first sweet
potatoes of the year.
Americas reports the sale of $200,-
000 worth of cotton one day last week.
South Georgia’s hog sales have ag-j
gregated more than $75,000 for the
season.
Boston is to have two new mercan
tile establishmets.
Americus also is to have a muni
cipal swimming pool.
Worth county has begun shipments
of cantaloupes.
such a bond issue, the bonds could be
sold as the work was undertaken. If
he legislature believes in ultra-cos
-iervatism and favors a smaller bond
issue, well within the income assured
from the auto and gasoline tax, the
Good Roads Association goes on rec
ord as sanctioning it, as it would be a
long step toward perfecting the orig
inal good roads program for this
state, the longest, in fact, since the
first dirt trail was made through the
woods by the Indians.
Early consideration of good roads
legislation is looked forward to when
the legislature convenes, as it is rea
lized that Georgia must adopt some
plan to make available the federal
funds. Georgia cannot afford to pass
up this golden opportunity, and there
is little likelihood that she will, to
have a system of highways that will
he her pride for all time.
Georgia must get out of the mud.
THE DESTRUCTIV EFCRCE OF
SILENCE,
“We hav advertised a long while,”
said an anerican manufacturer who
wished to stop. “And have good will.
That good will will last us for a long
time. We_ don't need to add to it
right now.”
To some extent that is so. The fly
wheel goes on turning for a while
after the power is shut off. But not
for long. And when it stops it takes
more power to start it, by six times,
than it takes to keep it running.
One might almost as well say:
”We won’t buy coal now that it is
So expensive, we will gradually chop
up the plant and burn that in the fur
nace until coa! is cheaper. And then
we can rebuild the plant.’ ’
Gi#xl Will is a fine thing to use.
But not -a fine thing to use up.
Nothing is ever finished —done.
Time is destructive. Stop building
up and times starts tearing down
Some things last longer than other
But nothing lasts so very long. You
think of your plant, for instance, a:
built. But it only stays built became.'
you are painting and repairing ant
gradually but continually replacing i
bit by bit.
Think how much more rapid the in
rvitablo loss in a thing so intangible
1 1 familiarity—as reputation—a
good will.
Out of sight, out of mind— not al
>n a minute but before so very long.
Advertisers who stop advert’sir-:
expose the advertising structure, o
which they have invested much mon
ay for many years, to elements quit
as destru -five and- more rapid i;
.'heir action than those which attar'
And disintegrate an untinshed, aba
ioned building.
In almost every community y
will find t)u* i'uijis of an ambitious y.
unjin (shed, map.-bau v -gone lally ca!!
.Somebody’s Foily.
.Much money went into tho wo
and then financial reverses stopp
it all. And the winds blew and lb
■ains dee. ended and the sun warpe
i ee wood and tile dampness rotted
end r'st and decay completed its ruin
Now. an advertising structure, de-'
pendent on familiarity and reputa
tion. can never be Unshed even to the
extent that a building can he finished.
I
Wc venture to say that never, in your
most ortimistic moments, have you
felt that your advertising structure
Mr. Husband —
Every Member of the Familjj
Will find soiinci enjoyment in the home that you have so
long promised them. You standing in the community
mado stronger if you own your home.
The individuality you desire in your home can be very
satisfactorily planned by coordinating the ideas in the
various homo building books which are here in our
office
You may just want to remodel a part of the house —
anew pot oh or sun parlor. Whether you build anew or
remodel, you will find our service the best and our ma
teria) without: a peer.
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DEPENDABILIT Y
COUNTS IN 1922
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Visit 'Our Big
' Store at Arco
Many people may not know
that a great Department Store
is at their very doors, a store
of general merchandise where
the best of goods is sold at the
most reasonable prices. You
are cordially invited to pay us a
visit—lt may save you money
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Industrial Store Company
Arco, Georgia
i THE VILLAJg_.,IJEAUI|I-;ilL Mi) .'IjIU.JIOjH jE-OFMitYNN'S GREATEST INDUSTRY.
was finished and that it would shelter
and protect your established business
forever after.
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■ No, you realize, when you stop to
think, that the work of building must
. go on until the end of time.
i Good will is a fine thing to use. j
s But not a fine thing to use up. '
Vacation Time is Here
Have you saved what you planned to have for this vacation
if you Slave not now is the time for the vacation resolution
for next year. Let us help you put it over. Our savings
Club will do the work.
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H. G. DOWLING Ph one H. A. WEST,
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TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1922.
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