The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-10-31
LOCAL EFFORT FOR
LOCAL RESULTS.

Organization is the thing, but there
is such thing as OVERRIDING it and be-
coming tor-heavy. Communities get
together in local societies for develop.
ment and betterment work, and then
the ambitious ones organize state aSso-
Citations and in turn comes the national
organization. The local bodies too Of
ten look to the state organization fer
help, and look in vain, for practically
its functions have been absorbed by a
national society with set of high titled
managing directors, who plan ION pa
peri scientific surveys and hold cut
promises of Roman meal-eggs TO ap.
pleS-for every subscribing subordinate.
Ii is 10 be noted however that the sub
scribcrS who do The supporting are all
subordinate.
We call attention to this condition Re.
cause of having read letter from Rich
ard H. EdmondS, editor of the Manufac
turers Record TO Secretary Folsom OF
the Palatka Board of Trade. After
some kindly personal references 10 Mr..
Folsom in connection with his former
work, and expressing the hope that he
would accomplish large things for
Palatka and the surrounding country"
Mr.. EdmondS said;
The possibilities for good TO a com
~ managed Board of Trade or CONNER
Cial organization in Florida, as in a very
large portion of the South, are almost |
without limit Unfortunately, however, |
some of our Southern commercial or. |
ganizatiouS have wearied in we'll doing, |
and when good results were not achiev.
ed within few months, have dropped |
by the waySide. Others have looked TO |
outside organizations TO do for them
what they must do for themselves. Ii |
is the old story of the lark. You re.
member that in one of the ancient ia
bles the lark returning one evening to
her nest of young ones found them in
great excitement and much alarmed.
They told the mother lark that they had
heard the owner of the wheat field in
which their nest was located, saying
that tomorrow his neighborS were com
ing 10 help cut his wheat, and their
home would surely be destroyed. The
mother Gained their fears and told them
not TO worry. The next day she went
off again in perfect peace of mind. Re
turning in the evening she found her
youngsters in a state of turmoil and
great fear because they had heard the
owner of the field say that some of his
near friends and relatives were certainly
coming the very next day TO cut his
wheat. She again Gained the fears OF
her babies and told them not TO worry.
But on the third evening when she re-
turned they told her that they had
heard the owner of the wheat field say
10 his hired man, Tomorrow we will
come into this field and cut the wheat
Now" said the mother lark, they
mean business. When they undertake
10 depend on their neighborS you need
not worry, but when they start to do
he work themselves it is Time for US to
De moving" This is about, as you ,
know the old Aesop fable, which has an
application TO all the work of develop
nent of the South. When each com ,
nercial organization in The South is :
)uSlly at work Tor its own town, and /
Zach State for itself, neither of them de- |
bending on outside organizations and c
huS sitting down Supinely waiting for {
others 10 do for them what they must do 4
or themselves, then they will accom- t
dish the results for which they were c
ormed. y
need not, am sure, say TO you that b
m an enthusiast as TO the future OF +
florida. | believe it is TO be TO the AT Il
antic and Middle West section even \
more than California has been 10 the 4
'acific Coast and the west. Its devel- II
pment is in its infancy. There are
cry great possibilities for utilizing its =
reat natural advantages for the eStab- y
Shment of industries, the broadening u
+ diversified agriculture, the develop J.,
lent of many lines of manufacturing, q
nd for making the State the winter re. .
ort and playground for many thousands a.
t people in the North and West who I,
esire 10 escape the rigorS of Northern u
Innate. OF