Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-29
April 18th, 1915.


April 18th, 1915.
Editor, Democrat:
The compliment implied by your re-
Qnest for a communication Is ample
compensation for the exertion which q
compliance viii require.
As to what Hendersonvilie should do
to facilitate its growth and enlarge its
prosperity presents questions upon
which you can get numerous answers
Some win say build factories. I con-
cede all the benefits looked for from
factories; l also concede that it's =
waste Of time and energies TO spend
ou1 time trying to get other people to
put money into enterprises in which
we ourselves win not invest. There Is
to my mind no present opportunity for
HendersOnVilIe to get factories unless
our people build them / am looking
I for the man who wants to put money
INTO factories in H-endersonviIle as q
leader in such enterprises, and until I
find him I want the man who viii not
lead in these matters to talk to me
about enterprises that our people can
and viii promote.
/ believe that Hendersonyille, as .
resort town, has advantages that no
other town In the South has. with
slight exertiOns upon the part Of q few,
with no exertiOn upon the part Of
many, Hendersonvf1le has grown 70 be
q great summer resort. and promises
to grow into q great winter resort
Everybody win agree to this state
menL, and everybody can. and ought.
TO contribute something to its growth
With small contributions Of cash and
large contributions Of applied thought
and wise utterances. our people can
soon reap n rich and delightful hAr-
rest. Nothing can be more delightful
han the service Of entertaining people
II the people entertained are willing
tn Is we'll for the entertainment
The most joyful hfes / am told. Ii the
life OF the musician who gets good pay
Cor his music. but the poor musician
cannot expect pay. Neither can an
entertainer expect to prosper u ne
wifhholds from his patrons their rea~
sOnable demands.
All successful resort towns furnish
delightful entertainment for their
guests, and much of this entertain
ment must be Of q character which
only the public rs such can furnish
L. must be free to the guests and 1t
must be Of a nature too expensive to
be furnished by individuals. Therefore.
it must be furnished by the public.
Who is the Public? And how can the
public answer this requirement? The
term Public, as here meant, includes
every person who has been, is now, or
may be benefited by people who come
To Hendersonyille and spend theiI
money. This includes every person
who pays taxes, and the benefits are
realized in proportion to the amount
of taxes paid, therefore, as entertain
ments attract resorters, and resorterS
spend money, and as money builds up
the tax payers, the tax payer should.
and 1 believe viii, most eheerfully u
scribe to the idea which 1 am trying
TO develop.
I want t~o-conyerSe with the man, .
woman, in Hendersonyille who has
ever visited a resort town Of any note
who cannot say, with e~arnestness, that
they have never visited such a resort
town where the public did not furnish
to its guests free musical concerts and
the better the town, the more the
music" 1 also want to converse witt
the person who can say that Hender-
sonVilIe, as a community, has ever fur
! nished any kind OF systematic and
agreeable entertainment as q eontribu-
ton 4 its guests. / also want TO
! converse with the person who believes
I that HendersonYile can sustain itself,
and continue its growth, If it neg
Iects, or refuses to furnish the visiting
| public with reasonable entertainment
| at the expense of the local public.
Nothing but the greatest local and
natural advantages could have brought
us TO our present position. but we must
not lose sight of the fact, that we
have lost thousands of people and win
continue to lose thousands OF people.
and nearly all the people who require
entertainment, that have the money TO
pay for ii, We can have those who do
not require ii, and those who desire II
but cannot afford It
Why is it that so many people 10
whom He~ndersonyiIle Is easily access