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Moore Haven, Fla,
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December goth. 1920.
| 20 the Editor of The Journal,
! Pensacola. Florida.
/ Sir
At meeting of the directors of this
bank, held Saturday night, December
18th, Mr.. D. w. Stevenson, active
vice president of this institution, was
requested by the directors and Off
GERS to tender his resignation as a
member of the road commission of the
State of Florida, to which office he
was recently appointed by the COVER
nor. Mr.. Stevenson agreed to retire
] from the board.
An explanation of this action of our
board should be given publicity,
therefore, l am writing you with the
request that you publish this letter.
| This community is only five years
old. We are growing rapidly and at
a critical, formative state in our de-
velopment. : Mr.. Stevenson has been
active in the entire affairs of this
community for three years, first as
cashier of this bank and later as ac-
! tive vice president. He is also/man-
aging director of the Glades Loan e
Investment Company, secretary of the
Moore Haven & Clewiston Railway
| Company and an active force in every
organization in the community. He
has managed not only the affairs of
this bank and the investment COM
pany but has personally handled the
affairs of a great number of our in
| dividual citizens. In short, he is the
one man we have here upon whom
we all lean for financial guidance
and direction.
| 1t would really be a calamity for
this community to have Mr. Steven
| son take up the work of the state
road commission. He would give it
the attention it required with the
same faithfulness he has given the
community, and we would have to
stand aside and see our most valuable
citizen taken away from us. 1t was
because of this threatened loss to our
community that we requested Mr.
Stevenson to tender his resignation.
He agreed to retire from the board
as soon as possible.
We understand that every citizen
has a public duty to perform to his
community, county and state We
know that Mr.. Stevenson would have
done his work on the state road COM
mission thoroughly and without pref
udice or bias or favoritism. We know
he would have been one member Of
the board who would have worked as
a Floridian and not as a Moore Haven
citizen. We submit that in requesting
him to resign from the board that we
realized we were placing him in the
position of neglecting his duty to the
state, but we felt the vital needs of a
new community would be recognized
by the citizens of the state, and his
action approved.
We placed the matter before him,
explaining just how great would be
our loss and how great would be the
loss to the state. We further stated
to him that we would be proud of
the connection if he would insist upon
holding the position and that we
would still look to him to manage our
institutions The broad guage of the
man was shown by his immediate de-
cision to remain with US and help our
community through its youthful
struggles.
In closing, we wish to state that we
citizens of Moore Haven were particu
larly gratified by the flood of letters
which came to Mr.. Stevenson from all
parts o. the state congratulating him
upon his acceptance Of the appoint
ment. Those particularly which came
from bankers and professional men
approving Of the board upon which
was another banker (Forest Lake,
and himself. indicated that the bust
ness interests of the state in general
were appreciative OF the busy. respon-
slhie men who were willing TO take
time from their business 70 devote TO
the interests OF the state. We trust
you will realize we were not really
selfish in asking Mr.. Stevenson TO
remain with US, but that Il was abs0-
lutely our need and dependence which
prompted our action.
Yours truly,
MARION y. OBRIEN.
President.