The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-10-30
AN APPROPRIATE WAY
OF PUTTING IL

In an election recently held in
Oca1a a bond issue of 100000 was
authorized for The construction of a
sewerage system The people voted
on bonds for several purposes and
the majority of items were unfavor-
abby reported. The vote was very
close and the sewerage bonds were
only carried by a majority of thirty
five votes. This will be a good move
for Ocala, however, as the matter of
sewerage is the ONE of the most i'm
pontance and other matters, such as
the construction of new public build
ings, paving and extension of water
plant, can wait. Times-Union Short
Talks
The Star has heard of journal
printed in Boston, which in giving
an item of news always prints it
from the best possible standpoint.
Instead of saying P7nhree out of
Ten Killed,' it says, Seven out of
ten were saved, etc. The Short
Talks man must have been close
student of that sheet. He always
presents things from the most opti-
mistic side.
In Ocala, Tuesday, we had an
election for on against $685. 900 in
bonds. We voted for 800, 1000 of this
amount The rest we turned down
because we already had $4,000
available for one of the purposes,
and we thought the rest could wait
a year or two. The next day we vot-
ed SIS, 900 for another purpose
1T is a very encouraging result.
1t means that the city of Ocala will
begin at once or public improve
ment work which will cost $3.50 900,
And it is now finishing up other
work on it's schools, that cost $75,-
10000, voted last year This means
over $500 600 in public Improve
ments in Ocala in 1914 and 1915-a
much larger amount in proportion
THAN any city of our size and re-
sources is expendlng at this time.
Unfortunately. our enthusiastic
bond advocates put in their best |
hicks for the last few weeks before
election proclaimling to the world
that unless Ocala bonded for the.
whole amount lit would show it's ut
ter lack of enterprise and he stricken
at once with the die7back.
The newspapers in other Florida
towns, naturally sympathetic. and
not being able to see Things from
the inside divided The issue into two
sharply separated sides, with no
shades nor compromise between.
And now that we have turned down
a part of the bond issue, they are
mourning OcaIa as being among the
lost Among these misled sympathiz-
ers is the usually CHEEKY Tampa
Triubune, which (has given us some
sympathy we do not need, and for
the first time, some advertising we
do not appreciate.
This, of course, rs not the fault
of our contemporaries but Of
some of our own folks, who in
trying to make Ocala people beEeve
the town would go to the demnition
bow4wows if it didn't vote the whole
bond issue, have created entirely too
much of a similar impression abroad
We must excuse them, of course
but we hope that in future contro-
versies they will remember that
this very solid town was here be-
fore they were born and will lbe here
when tthey die, and no bond issue i:
likely to make or break 1T; also tina
they will put on the soft pedal wheT
announcing any of our family dis
putes othe outside world.
However, we are not altogethe
misrepresnted The Short Talk
man, tho he probably didn't hav
the full facts, did nobly; and tn
Ocala correspondent of those tw
live sheets, the Tampa Times an
FLORIDA e6btropolis, wired to hi
papers me following which they dis
played under good sized head lines
Ocala Coming TO the Front