The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1916-12-16
FLORIDA FOREVER
The State Of Florida,
Department Of Agriculture


] Editor Star: The people Of the state
and nation have decided what they
wanted by their ballots. Democrats,
republicans, prohibitionists, socialists.
Iethodists, Baptists, Catholics, indie
/ dependents, and what not, entered the
fay and waged and ragged even to
ferceness, but it's all over, or should
be, at least for the next four years or
1850 days.
There is no need now of rancor or
repining. The past is gone. As Moses
said in Genesis 45:5: "Now therefore
be not grieved, nor angry with your
selves" and let US agree with David
in the Psalms, that it is vain "to eat
the bread of sorrows" There is phil
osophy too in the pleasant verse by
Folger McKinsey, of the Baltimore
Sun, who says:
A lot of worry shortens life,
So say good judges.
1t doesn't pay to fool your wife
Or cherish grudges.
Cut out the useless anger, men,
The cold resentment;
And deal little now and then
In sheer contentment.
And again:
There is no path however hard
That leads not somewhere ere the
end
Into some neighbours sunlit yard
Or the bloomy garden of a friend.
There is real work to do in our
loved state of Florida. Work to make
our state greater, more prosperous,
more beautiful and more enjoyable
that there may be happiness and COM
fort in every home.
There are towns and cities to be
built; swamps to be drained and the
land made fruitful; farms and gar
dens to be carved out of the wilder
ness; broad acres to be titled for
food for the increasing millions of our
country; knowledge existing to be ap-
piled in getting best results from our
labors; skill to be attained in wrest-
ing profit from the waste of fields,
forests and mills; more machines put
to work to meet the multitudinous
steamboats, to be built and operated;
and new highways to be made and
cid ones improved.
There is need of more and better
schools, of love of birds and every
living thing, of conserving the gifts
of nature, of the wonders of the land |
and growing things; more gardens to
be made-the first man was placed in
a garden. See Genesis 1859. There
is need of more consideration to the
work of the churches in pointing the
way to the better life and living;
there are new songs to be written,
and new poems and more newspapers
to be printed and read; there are fall
len ones to be lifted up; more kind !
words to be spoken; more cheerful
"good mornings" to be uttered, and
more smiles scattered. Cecil Rhodes
cnce said: "There is so much to do and
the time is so short"
Florida is still in the making, and
opportunities reach out to us as
eagerly as the hands of Monte Cristo |,
stretched skyward, accompanied by
the cry: "The world is NINE" Let us
be up. and doing, think as we work
"as man thinketh so is he"-and let
us adopt a. slogan this striking adj
monition from a sermon by Brooke
Herford:
"Go forth into the busy world and
love it; interest yourself in its life;
mingle kindly with it's joys and sor-
rows; try what you can do for men
rather than what you can make them
do for you, and you will know what it
is to have men yours, better than if
you were their king or master"
More power to your pen in your
good work, and that of the other
many good editors of Florida, in
helping to build up great state.
Yours very trulV