The Ocala evening star., 1915-10-09
ORIGINAL IDEAS

ideas and two or three good ones, we
will disregard his instructions:
ssThis hit and miss stuff in the name
of friendship is punk. We need to in
iect some Germanic thoroughness and
system in our campaign for new
neighbors. And even at that there
are other things to be done on this
old oval besides making your home
town the center Of population-mere
population To make your town
center of literature-a center of
knowledge healthy tOwn-a clean
and beautiful town-a town without
extreme poverty-a town where every
one is busy and no man may say 1
cannot. obtain work; above all, from
an industrial standpoint, to make
your town one in which there are
many factories all home owned and
operated with skilled labor. These are
| the things that count in the building
of town. 1t is not always necessary
to build in a big bulky way to build
splendidly; diamond is more beauti-
full and more valuable than a hundred
!
pound rock.
"Ocala is a city of vast potentiai-
ties; as a city, she appears able to
borrow any sum cf money for proper
purposes. Her bank statements show
that she has any amount of money on
deposit-that any legitimate enter
prise having sufficient collateral could
be easily financed at home! Why then
all this stuff about attracting north
ern capital?' Northern, eastern, west
ern, southern or northeastern capital
are all alike. That is, they all fight
shy of the town that seeks to attract
capital Such town is a bad risk.
eve will assume that Ocala needs a
broom factory and wants $4,000.
Ten of Ocala's leading business men,
associated together and jointly re-
sponsible for the business-their
names would be good for nearly a
million. But here's the trouble:
Ocala's leading citizens don't associate
together for the purpose of starting
something they get into the
l
from the outside. Let something
spring up like this: Ocala needs a corr
mill to grind out meal and grits anC
take care of Marion's surplus corn
Do five good men and true form {
company Like warm place they do
Five good men and true each start {
little sawed off plant of his own, anC
none of them make money. The far
mer kicks on their price and ships hi
grain away and the local consume
eats grits ground in Utah because hi
merchant can buy it five cents per tol
cheaper-pellagra and all. System
there's the idea. A goal and the near
est way to the goal! There's the way
Eastern capital be damned. A full
page ad. run for year in the Satur
day Evening Post would not attrac
so much money to Ocala nor so man,
people nor so many industries as
, the three hundred most forceful busi
ness men in the city organized tn
Ocala industrial corporations! Oh,
, represent youth and the new day an
reasonl And the old heads may rea
back on their launches and yell 'im
J mense possibilities, untouched re
sources, ETC., etc, ad nauseum /
Ocala' till certain warm place grow
cool on the surface and a straw on
haystack slowly loosens! The noun
tain has been in labor and borne
mouse-that's all Mine is the way @
? the future. 1t may be that me un
2 Gott und Allah are against it. Mayb
: 1T never has been done, by gum
o Maybe-and here I pause, tremblin
s with fear-maybe the parson and ou
n congressman won't approve of il
: Maybe-as the ancient monkeys sal
: tc the one who told them 'twould
|, best to stand erect instead of on al
e fours-it means changing human ns
e ture! All right, then change the damn
: thing! Don't you believe the blear!
e eyed son of a gun that tells you ths
e can't be done either-it can. In tf
/ dim and distant past-when you WEI
G a tadpole and l was a fish-we fsht
o ate tadpoles, and later on some of v
K monkeys ate other monkeys, and the
G some of we men ate other men-cal
It nibals But those whose natures di
s not change with changing times b,
5 came atrophied, their developmel
Is was arrested and their natures b
: came Interchangeable as well as the
/ forms. So today. we have tadpolt
h and fishes and monkeys and elephan
at and cannibals, all bearing some III
ID mistakable marks that man bear
st but none quite so high in intellect n,
Id so beautiful in form fas woman, an
s, way. They told the reformers
d. their day that it had never been al
to never would be done. The old der
d, ocrats of the tadpole age of our ra
le voted straight because old father b;