The Ocala banner., 1917-11-30

ers-providing food and raiment for
the boys in khaki.
He laid stress on the intensive sys-
TEN of agriculture pursued in Ger
many. How the farmers in that en-
pire, less in area and square miles
than Texas, were raising foodstuffs
enough to feed the people at home,
and an army stupendous enough to
meet in combat almost the entire
world.
He then told of the value of fairs
They brought the people together on
terms of good fellowship; the good Of
exchanging methods of cultivation
and the ocular demonstration of GER.
tain methods were more impressive
than any printed accounts could con-
vey.
the Jackson county fair at Mairanna.
That the day he was there forty or
fifty visitors, after viewing the exhib-
its became homeseekers, and he had
since learned had invested seven or
eight thousand dollars in the purchase
of lands.
The senator then told of the value
of county and state fairs as advertis-
ing mediums. He said that if the
great corporations, such as "Wrig-
ley's Chewing Gum," THE National
Biscuit Company" and a number of
others could spend millions of dollars
annually with profitable results one
might well compute the great value
of fairs as profitable advertisement
in dollars and cents to a state or
county.
He said that for the first time in the
history of the nation the farmers
can borrow money from national
banks, paying five per cent, and pay
ing this on long time instaIlments of
one per cent, which would enable ev-
eryone to enlarge his farm operations.
That the Florida farmer was placed
on the same level with the farmers of
the older states.
The senator said that the govern
ment realizing how much the life Of
the nation depended on the efforts of
the farmers was cooperating with
in
more pleasant and remunerative. That
it had appropriated large sums for the
eradication of the cattle tick, the boil
weevil, the citrus canker, hog chol-
era, etc, and had issued farm loan
bonds drawing AZ per cent. interest
and were free from every form of tax
alton.
Senator Fletcher said tnat he could
hardly close his address without re-
ferring to the tremendous war in
which we are engaged, and paid a
beautiful tribute to all the patriotic
activities that were being so enthusi-
astically and patriotically shown by
our people.
He thrilled his audience by his elo-
quent reference to the Red Cross, Y
nj. c.. A., women's clubs and the pre-
dominant and commanding figure of
Woodrow Wilson, and the great part
our nation is taking to win the world
to democracy.
Hon. Frank Clark was next intro
duced
He paid a glowing tribute to the in
creasing possibilities of Florida as a
farming and stock growing state and
said that it was his firm conviction
that one could earn a living for him.
self and family with less labor mad on
less number of acres in Florida than
in any other state in the union
That if he were living Horace Gree
ley's advice would no longer be to
go west, young man. but that the
old. sage of Chappaqua would say with
emphasis: go to Floridal"
Mr. Clark then drifted into the
question of the great world-war in
which we are so vitality interested and
paid eloquent tribute to the work of
the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A. and
the activities of the women in every
home.
Referring for example to the Red
Cross he said:
.'All nations have respected it's
members who are as so many minis
tering angels of mercy, save Germany,
whose conscienceless rules and mas
ters have not hesitated to make war
upon defenseless women and children,
representatives of the Red Cross and
helpless inmates of hospitals, with all
the fiendish glee and barbaric deviltry
characteristic of the Hohenzollern