The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-06-12
HOW OCALA WILL LOOK
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS HENCE
1continued from Yesterday)

Mr.. Chazal, in his younger days, |
had been a reporter on metropolitan |
sheet. Then he aspired to riches, and |
became a real estate dealer. But ne |
couldn't get the ink off his fingers,
so in time he was back in the news
paper business, and had now for more
than a score of years held a position
that requires ceaseless vigilance, iron
nerves and unfailing good temper
city editor of a big daily. The local
desk is always the most exacting
place on a paper. Things come to the
other departments, but the local man
has to send after them, and keep
sending. The only regular thing IN
his life is its irregularity. Life with
an ordinary citizen is one damnthlng
after another. With city editor, its
a dozen damnthings after thirteen
other damnthings, with several COM
ing in sideways for good measure.
Mr.. C. tilted himself back In his
chair, pushed box of Ocala forged
Havanas toward me, and out of pure
force of habit started in to interview
me. "I thought / knew everybody IN
the city twenty-five years ago." he
said. cit is strange / can't remember
you."
"a good many billions of better fen
are past rememberingy@2 replied.
"Let me add a drop to the ocean"
49, s-ardon me if l seem curious"
"On the contrary, | have been
wondering ever since | reached your
city why / excited SO little surioslty.
Twenty-Five years ago I would have
had thousand people questioning
me to where there have been one.'
Curiosity" said Mr.. c., "is vice
that has cen well nigh eradicated.
I think it is because people are so
much better acquainted and better in
formed. We are all keen for infor-
nation. but idle curiosity is little
known"
.-aAGGd10aalaasn papers have you in
1.-TWO, the Banner and the Star"
"Isn't that a small number for Sc
large city?'
eve cover the ground-why should
there be more? We tell all the news
we generally take opposite sides or
questions relating to public affairs
and argue them out fully. Nearly ev-
erybody takes both papers, and thai
is one reason why nearly all our peo
pie are so well informed"
"How do you account for the grea'
prosperity of this city and section"
at is owing to the fact that it il
the best farming country in th'
world. Climate and soil are the near
est right. Enough and not too much
may be said of everything
us the Oklawaha able to keep YOU
freight rates DOWN."
"Since the government took charg'
of the railroads, we have not needed
to keep rates down. Rates are Low
enough and there is no Discrimination
of one city or section against an
other. Under such conditions, SLOW
boats can't compete with swift trains
Until the government took the roads
the Oklawaha was noble helper, am
the persistent fight of railroad men il
Congress against its improvement
furnished strong argument for gov
eminent ownership. The Oklawaha
now principally local artery o
commerce. Running thru some o
the richest farming country in tn
world, boats traversing it bring pro
duce to this city and various station
on the railways near, which carry tn
produce to more distant markets.
is also a great stream for pleasur
craft. Along twenty miles of it
course, the original forest has bee
preserved, and thousands of tourist
make the trip every winter"
"Does the government own the tele
graph and telephone lines, too ?"
''The governments, national, stat
and municipal, control everythin
that all the people use. We had grea
trouble for awhile in making peopl
work as well for the public as the
did for private employers. Nov
they work better, and there is nc
near so much to do"
SLOW did the great war end ?"
''The United States had to form
league of neutral nations for thei
own protection. In 1917, Austria an
Turkey were overrun by the Allie
and Germany seemed determined t
fight till all her people were dea,
The Germans finally capitulated 0
condition that American troops onl
should occupy their territory unit
treaties could be drawn up. All tt
fighting nations were bled white, an
for awhile we were on short ration
in America on account of trying |
feed the starving of Europe"
"What did you do with Mexico p
I'VE pacified it with the stror
hand and hold it today, because
won't leave US. The northern pa
is divided into states, which helon
to the Union. The southern part ar