The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-03-07
Importance OF HOT AIR
Any Work of Public or Private
Improvement

Editor Star: It is well stated in
your recent issue that even the pes
simist has his place and we will ac
cept with good grace all the hard
names your pessimistic friends "Kum
min and Coin" have given our hot air
artists, past and present. If you can
have them accept the old a. c. l. depot
as a butting block. they will have
work in the past" that may help us
in the future Hot air artists have
their place also and a very important
one and the surest sign of life, action
and progress is the pessimists' kick.
a few years ago, while taking a trip
around the coast with few friends, 1
visited st. Petersburg and found some
"Kummin and Coin kickers there.
Some of which compared our advant-
ages in Ocala and Marion county with
good productive soil and some enter
prises for summer business with theirs
as only climate, poor soil and little
summer business.
From recent indications, however, a
few hot air artists got in their work
There and relegated the t'Kummin and
Coins" TO the outskirts with time suf-
fcient to tug at the brakes, ruminate
Iamonst hot air artists errors and in
predicting disaster and calamity at ev-
cry move-presumably healthy check
while a positive incentive to action.
From childhood to old age. few men
lever amounte to anything or got any
where excepe they used their errors
and omissions as stepping stones to
Isuccess. The man who made no errors
made nothing else or is dead or dying
Ocala's errors have not been so much
that they spent thousands advertfs-
ing but that they did not stick to-
gether and follow up with many more
thousands and get results. Our town
has suffered and evidertly is still suf-
fering from pessimist'c influences. Nc
town ever escaped this.
No sane man with good business
Judgment will say that if Ocala car
lget that strip of land to the springs
for a trolley line to move freight and
passengers and then get some heir
from the government in widening the
water way to the springs, but that il
means water rates to Ocala, and water
rates means Ocala a distributing
point for the interior of Florida witt
wholesale houses along the line ant
in Ocala and that means increased
valuations of all property along tht
| line and in OcaIa. Then it comes dowr
to the 'if'' obstable and that can neve1
be removed by a citizenship of Kun
Minis and Coins" but by genuine no
, iair artists, shoulder to shoulder, wht
/ with confidence in their townsmen
thei rtown and its future possibilities
who can lose a nickel without spend
ing their life looking back for it ant
: bemoaning their sad experience in tn,
loss. With this class of hot air citi
@ens standing together, we can ge
7 what we want while "Kummin AM
Coin" will still be pounding on tina
!, old A. c. L depot or some other worth.
e object of the dim past.
colt with his shoulders agains
e the collar Juggling the bit is
= much better prospect to get a wago1
s out of the rut than a baking hors
4 that fears the collar and backs at eac
\ crack of the whip.
e Jacksonville, Tampa and St. Peters
: burg are where they are today becaus
[ their teeth and turned a deaf ear t
:. the pessimist, and Ocala need not fea
to follow where the hot air artists O
: these towns led. Let US pull togethe
h and remember that no single improve
ment in Oeala. Marion county or else
d where was ever accomplished withou
o some kicker tugging at the brak
d levers for caution If not for cessation
). G NJ