The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-01-08
BOARD OF TRADE
MEETS TONIGHT
Will Take Steps to Cooperate in
Organizing State Development
Association

The Marion County Board of. Trade
meets in regular session tonight at 8
o'clock. The meeting will be by way
of preliminary session to the an
nual meeting of the trade body to be
held Thursday night, January %. A
very important matter which will
come before the organization tonight
will be to determine what part Mar
ion county shall have in the organiza-
ton of the proposed Florida Develop
ment Association. The purposes of
this association are set forth in ten
tative constitution. These purposes
are as follows:
1. To arouse in all the people of
Florida and of the United States q
more adequate sense of the resources
and opportunities of the state, espec-
tally as regards its vast areas of un-
occupied and idle lands.
2. To unite the residents of all
parts of the state in a common en-
thusiasm for Florida and in CO.
operative efforts toward its rapid and
substantial development.
3. To conduct statewide CAM
paigns of education, looking to the
complete eradication of the cattle
tick, and the largest possible control
of hog cholera and other animal dis
eases; the conservation of the forests
and the better control of forest fires;
the extension of the reclamation pol
icy of the federal government, so as
to include the swamp and overflowed
lands of Florida; the development Of
the citrus. truck, live stock. sugar
cane, phosphate, lumber and manu-
featuring industries of the state, and
of all other industries adapted to Flor
ida conditions; the development of
permanent pastures and forage crops
and the introduction of purebred
breeding stock; the more profitable
marketing of farm and other pro-
ducts; the more generous support Of
the state agricultural college and ex-
pertinent station. and the establish
ment of experimental farms in var
ious parts of the state; the adoption
of such measures by the federal gov
ernment, the state legislature, and
the seevral boards of county commits
sioners, as will safeguard and pro-
mote the interests of the farmers,
land owners, stockmen, lumbermen,
merchants. miners. manufacturers and
other business and professional
classes of the population; and the en-
richment of rural life. especially by
means of better schools, better high
ways, better sanitation and commu-
nifty activities.
a. 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.
5. To maintain an information bu-
reau for the benefit of tourists and
intending settlers.
6. To establish and maintain ser
vice bureau for collecting and furnish
ing without cost to it's members in
formation of useful character. which
will assist them nthe development
and marketing of their holdings and
products.
and colonization schemes as are eco
nomically unsound and essentially
dishonest.
8. And finally, to conduct nation
wide publicity campaign with refer
ence to the great opportunities offered
in Florida, looking to the bringing in
of settlers in large numbers and Of
the right character. upon the unoc-
cupied lands of the state.