The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-01-27
EDWARDS CHOSEN
FOR COMMITTEE
Objects of the New Florida Develop
ment Board now Being
Organized

Mr.. John l.. Edwards has been Sc
lected to represent this section of the
state on the organizing committee of
the Florida Development Board. Mr.
Edwards was persuaded to serve by
the committee of three, consisting of
Mr.. John H. Taylor, DR.. ]. E. Chace
ard Mr.. J. M. Meffert, who were ap-
pointed at the meeting in the Marion
County Board of Trade room yester-
day morning. This committee of three
will also have the task of raising the
$4,000 that this section of the state
has been called on for, as a part of an
initial sum of 5000, which is to be
in the hands of the organizing COM
mittee before a charter for the Flor
ida Development Board is asked for.
The Florida Development Board is
the name given to the new statewide
organization which has for its object
the upbuilding of Florida in particu-
lar, and which is part of a general
organized movement looking to the
development of the coastal plain
states of the South, from Virginia to
Texas. The membership of the or
ganizing committee of the new body
is an excellent indication of the SUBJ
stantial character of the new organi-
zation. The members of the organiz-
ing committee are: Jules NJ. Bur-
guires, West Palm Beach, chairman;
Arthur G. GUNNER, Jacksonville,
treasurer; DR.. L. A. Bize, Tampa; DIR.
". F. Blackman. Lake Monroe; A.
Hunter Brown. Pensacola; John L. Ed
wards, Ocala; F. Grower, Jackson
vile; Mrs. Edgar Lewis, Fort Pierce;
C. E. Stewart Jr., Tampa; William L.
Wilson, Panama City; c. S. Ucker,
Baltimore, Md.
are stated as follows in the constitu-
tion of the Florida Development
Board:
To arouse in all the people of Flor
ida and of the United States more
adequate sense of the resources and
opportunities of the state, especially
as regards it's vast areas of unoccu-
pied and idle lands.
To unite the residents of all parts
OF the state in a common enthusism
for Florida and in cooperative efforts
toward its rapid and substantial de-
velopment
To conduct statewide campaigns of
education, looking to the complete
eradication of the cattle tick, and the
largest possible control of hog cholera
and other animal diseases; the con-
servation of the forest and the better
control of forest fires; the extension
Of +hn raa1o v0n11axr oF %hn faI
eral government, so as to include the
swamp and overf1owed lands of Flor
ida; the development of the citrus,
truck, live stock. fish and other sea
foods, cane sugar, phosphate. lumber,
and manufacturing industries of the
state, and of all other industries
adapted to Florida conditions; the de-
velopment of permanent pastures and
forage crops; and the introduction of
pure-bred breeding stock; the more
profitable marketing of farm and
other products; the more generous
support of the state agricultural col
lege and experiment station, and the
establishment of experimental farms
in various parts of the state; the
adoption of such measures by the fed
eral government. the state legislature
and the several boards of county COM
missioners, as will safeguard and pro-
mote the interests of the farmers,
land owners, stockmen, fishermen,
lumbermen, merchants. miners, manu-
facturers and other business and pro-
fessional classes of the population;
ard the enrichment of rural life espec-
tally by means of better schools, bet
ter highways, better sanitation and
community activities.
To cooperate with all boards of
trade, chambers of commerce, Rotary
clubs, boards of county commission
ers and other trade. civic and profes-
sional organizations, in the develop
ment of the state.
To maintain an information bureau
for the benefit of tourists and intend
ing settlers.
To establish and maintain a serv-
ice bureau for collecting and furnish
ing without cost to it's members in
formation of a useful character which
will assist them in the development
and marketing of their holdings and
products.
To discourage such land selling and
colonization schemes as are economic
ally unsound and essentially dishon-
est.
To conduct a nationwide publicity
campaign with reference to the great
opportunities offered in Florida look
ing to the bringing in of settlers in
large numbers and of the right char
acter, upon the unoccupied lands of
the state. And further. that the
Florida Development Board shall not
operate for profit, shall not deal in
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