The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-06-02
BUGS!

to some dense citizens. Their
own city and community is without
beauty or prosperity to them. To
some close contact breeds contempt;
they can only see the grass.
We hear of pulling together and
get together and efforts are made to
that end. We get together only to
form combustion which is truly sub
marine in it's explosion.
The first true way to get together
is for each man, each citizen, to get
himself together in his own heart and
believe in his own town, in its every
fiber and makeup; get inoculated
with his own peculiar city bug.
We hear of that town, and the other
town and city doing wonders Pray
tell, where do these reports come
from? Truly from the citizens Of that
community themselves, and more so,
they try to impregnate the citizens of
other communities and cities with the
wonderful growth of their own city,
and right here some of these dense
people 1--WE can't call them citizens)
are prone enough to get the culture of
this bug, cultivate it till it germin-
ates in their own weak brain, till they
are. ready to proclaim this or that
town q wonder, the bug terminating
and cultivating so strongly till it kills
the bug of their own town, and then
it's a matter of the survival of the
fittest to them. Better let that bug
from some other city when given you
die aborning, and cultivate the germ
of your own city.
The writer of this article has been
in position to study unbiased city
of this state in the last four weeks
whose bugs have been terminating all
over the United States and it's in the
stomachs of some of our own people
This city is supposedlto be city Of
some $1,000 souls. She has a less
number of business blocks, count fol-
count, than Ocala. You look into
these stores and business houses, they
have no more clerks or doing no more
business than Ocaia business houses
We say we have vacant buildings
business houses. In one block, on one
side of the street are seven vacant
business houses. On the other side
Iof the street are four more, and there
| is not block in the city, with the ex-
Iception of one or two, that has not 9
vacant business house. As to resi-.
dence property, there are as many fol
rent and for sale signs, if not more
than in Oca1a. AS to its manufactur.
| ing interests, Ocala has two to theil
one. As to natural resources, we
flood them with an avalanche. VIZ
have as good public buildings, If moi
better; we have no developed water
front, but we can have other resources
which they can not have. We have as
many boat lines and more railroads
Take the banks, according to size OF
lefty and population, we have more
capital stock. Take their professional
men, there is the same bunch in botn
places and we can flip with them
Three months in the year this won.
derful city huns and is dead nine
months. And Ocafa helps to support
the floating population in the summe,
who go there to work in the winter
Ocala is twelve month city and a
hummer at that twelve months in the
year. This wonderful city is not II
the same class at all, and we are not
saying anything against this fine
Florida city, for her citizens are NJ
and doing and she's fine place and
surely has made wonderful progress
but not any more so than our own
beautiful Ocala.
Get down to business, don't get the
bug of some other city in your sys-
tenn, but talk Ocala morning, noon and
night and in your sleep, so that it fills
even your own unconscious mind and
Iif you cannot do that you have ne
business in Ocala; better go to thai
other town you are talking about and