The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-11-12
GLITTERING ANTICIPATIONS :.
MAY GO GLIMMERING


great deal of money to Florida, and a
majority Of the people of the state,
judging by the expressions one sees
In the newspapers, are expecting the
season now beginning to yield an even
greater harvest
They may be disappointed.
There are not going to be so many
prosperous people in the North this
winter. There has been great slump
in Injuries and prospect that there
will not be any too much money to
buy necessaries. Hundreds of thou
sands of men have been thrown out
of work in the last few months, and
the people of every state that doesn't
raise its own bread and meat may
have to draw their belts tight before
spring. It's true that, in spite of
scanty help. the farmers have raised
bumper crops, but thanks to continual
strikes, the number of people in the
cities able to buy, is going to be con-
siderably less.
Added to lessened ability to buy
provisions and clothes, the people in
northern cities face a winter of shiv-
ering if not freezing. There are more
mines and more coal than ever before,
but between avarice and laziness
there are also more dollars between
the plymouth and CRATE.
These advantages are bringing peo-
pie to Florida much sooner than usu-
al. There are usually few tourists
here before November and seldom any
great number before Christmas. This
is the middle of November, and tour
lists have been arriving for two
months. Since the middle of Septem-
Der more tourists in automobiles have
passed thru Ocala than in any entire
season except the last one since the
auto was invented. It is an off day
when from half dozen to twice as
many cars do not pass on the way
south. 1t is noticeable that large
proportion of these cars carry camp
ing outfits, and the people who drive
them do not look like they were flush
with money. There is reason to sup
pose that many have only enough
coin to last them, with good luck and
economy. to return home in the spring,
and that not few have not even that
much Judging by what we have been
told, the campfres of these people
reach back to Canada, and occasion
ally one comes from north of the in
ternational line.
Also, we have heard that consid-
cradle number of these strangers
have been seeking work Packing
houses to the south of here have en-
pioyed some and turned others away
We hear of one man who has been
using fine touring car to carry or
snges out of a grove to its packing
house. The grievous labor problem In
some parts of Florida is solved-anC
a greater one has taken its place
Florida is as hospitable as any
other state, but it can't afford to take
care of many impecunious people. This
state is self-supporting-that is, i
produces a great deal of bread ant
meat, beside fruit and truck, to b,
shipped and sold, so more bread AM
meat can be bought. It's difficulty O
supporting itself is greatly added t
by its position down at the far EN-
OF the country. causing not only it
freight rates to be high but often de
lays its shipments out with the resul
that our producers lose hundreds o
thousands of dollars every year. s
the people of Florida may be pardon
ed for saying that they do not wan
any but self-sustaining people to com
among them.
Self-sustaining people are of tw
kinds One-the most welcome t
hotel-keepers,. etc.-are those line
with money. The other-the mo.
valuable to the state-are those WI
can and will work
Gov Cats said in Washington la:
year that Florida needed two millio
new workers. The old man was III
usually accurate-for him-he on
exaggerated by nineteen hundre
thousand. Florida could assimilate
hundred thousand new working me
but they would shove wages dow
awfully. But of a truth forty to fift