The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-04-15
FRIENDLY. TOWNS IN FLORIDA

The Jacksonville Metropolis says:
The Leesburg Commercial, one of the
Invest twice-a-week newspapers in the
state, attaches significance to the re-
mark passed upon its home town re-
Gently by an outside business man,
who said: "Leesburg is such a friend
ly town."
Inded the opinion expressed by the
disinterested observer is significant.
And Editor Leach is justified in COM
menting on it, because friendly towns,
like friendly persons, always attract
strangers and after contact soon
share spirit Of good will with them.
Leesburg is friendly town. There
are number of other friendly towns
in the state. too; and Florida is going
to have a more enviable reputation
when it becomes generally known as
the Land of Friendly Towns.
Towns are known by the twinkle in
their eyes, their handshakes, their at
titudes towards life, their appear
ances, iuts as individuals are; for, in
the real sense, a town is nothing more
than the individual magnifed.
1t is impossible for a town to be
greater than the average greatness
of its citizens.
1t is impossible for a town to be
more friendly than the average friend
illness of its citizens.
1t is impossible for town to be
more beautiful than the average
beauty of its homes and premises.
Since time immemorial men have
lived together in groups. The in
stinct to congregate is as old as hu-
man nature. But in the barbaric per-
iods men CLAIMED together for mutual
protection against enemies of their
own kind and against the wild beasts
that roamed the fields. Some slept
while others watched, al part of the
plan of protection.
In this civilized age, however, men
live in communities together for mu-
tual benefit as we'll as for protection.
This is the difference between civili-
cation and barbarism. The barbarian
thinks of self-preservation; the civil
lied man thinks of protection thru
the preservation and uplift of others.
Search the world over, from the
| north to the south, from the east to
the west, and nowhere on the face of
the globe will more ideal place be
found for the presence of friendly
towns. Nature has given us every
| thing the heart can desire in this re-
spect. Happy environment has been
heaped upon US in illimitable abund-
ance; everything is conducive; it is
! but for US to build realities with the
myriad-colored things of imagination
at our command.
Towns have personalities, and
while these personalities are generally
referred to as "civic spirits" they are
none the less distinctive and far
reaching as factors for Development
development in the broadest sense of
the word.
We do not know whether or not
Mr.. Trammell was correctly quoted
in the Ocala Star in which his state
ment appeared.-Palatka News.
| We don't know either, Friend News
We don't know that any communica-
ton that comes to this office from a
thousand miles off, even an A. P dis
patch, is absolutely accurate. We
suppose you didn't notice that the
communication you refer to was print
ed in several other papers beside the
Star. Why don't you politely intimate
that Wallace Stovall is liar? The
Statement" appeared in the Tribune
day before it appeared in the Star