The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1919-07-16
RAILROADS WILL
SPEND THEIR
OWN MONEY
Cooperation Committee Will Not
Control the $135, 900 Appropriated
to Advertise Florida


The railroad administration CO.
operation committee met in Daytona
Monday. Much misunderstanding and
misinformation concerning the COM
mittee, and the object for which it
was appointed, has spread over the
state, according to Louis II. Chazal,
secretary Of the Marion County Board
of Trade, and a member of the COM
mittee, who returned to Ocala last
night. The impression has gone forth
that the committee, which was ap-
pointed as result of the recent meet
ing of commercial secretaries with
Mr.. w. j. Craig, chairman of the pas
senger traffic committee of the south
east, is to have charge of the expendi-
ture of the $135, 900 which the railroad
administration appropriated for. ad-
vertising Florida this coming winter.
The committee will have nothing to
do with the spending of the $135, 900,
and the committee so announced
Monday night. The $135,O00 will be
spent by the railroad administration
officials, and will be spent regardless
Of anything that may be done within
the state.
The cooperation committee was
appointed for the purpose of uniting
the various committees, and sections
of the state, in a plan for hooking up
the advertising of the committee in
the state with the advertising of the
railroad administration, with a view
to making both more effective. How
this can best be done, the committee
was unable to decide at its meeting in
Daytona. The committee is keeping
an open mind. and hope sto reach a
decision later.
In view OF the geographical, geo.
logical and other physical differences
of the communities and sections of the
state, the committee concluded that it
is impracticable to unite Florida in
one campaign advertising the state as
a whole. The committee recommends
that the various communities in the
state take advantage of the railroad
advertising by placing the advertis-
ing of their communities in the same
periodicals and on the same dates
used by the administration; thus tax
ing advantage of a general Florida
lead, and concentrating the publicity.
The committee expects to have an
other meeting as soon as possible,
when an effort will be made to reach
some definite conclusion.
The impression that had gone forth
over the state was that the railroad
administration cooperation commit
tee would have control of the $135, 900,
and this brought about much criticism,
especially from northwest Florida.
Mr.. Craig, however, had announced
in Jacksonville that the money would
lie spent by the administration itself,
in advertising Florida as a whole and
not any particular part of the state.
The original members of the Co
operation committee were: j. j.
O'Brien, chairman, of Moore Haven;
J. L. Pepper, Daytona; NJ. w. Graves,
Miami; l.. II. Chazal. Ocala; L. A.
Whitney, st. Petersburg. All Of the
committee except Mr.. Whitney were
present at the meeting in Daytona.
TIE committee had d/already seen that.
through oversight, there was not
among its members a representative
from Northwest Florida. One of the
first things the committee did, there
fore, was to elect Mayor Guyte P. Nc
Cord, of Tallahassee, member. May
Or McCord had attended the meeting
IN Jacksonville.