The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-03-01
THE MARION
COUNTY CHAMBER
Of COMMERCE
The Veteran Trade Body Formally
Assumes Its New Name
Today

name is effective today.
Announcement of the committee
and subcommittee for the member
ship campaign which is to start next
Tuesday, March 7th, will be made in
day or TWO. The committee is now
being lined up. No one will be placed
on the committee unless he or she ex-
presses willingness to serve.
The Chamber of Commerce has re-
ceived a communication from Mr.. Le-
land J. Henderson, of Columbus, Ga,
secI etary of the Florida Short Route
Association, saying that a party of
officers Of the association and group
of boosters from Columbus will reach
Ocala Saturday of this week on
trip over the short route, with view
to making its southern terminus,
which is now Gainesville, point far
ther down the state. The officers of
| the short route were entertained in
OcaIa last year. The Chamber of
| Commerce has written Mr.. Henderson
offering TO be of such service as it
can and Offering the use of the cham
Der as headquarters.
| In his letter, Mr.. Henderson sug-
gests a conference here for the pur-
pose of interesting Ocala in the asso-
citation. Secretary Chazal has ad-
vised him, however, that the Chamber
of Commerce has taken the position
that there are too many road assO-
Citations, good roads organizations and
auto clubs, with an attendant duplica-
tion of overhead and a confusion of
the motor tourist, and has decided to
support some one organization cover
ing the entire field and not any par
ticular route or section.
A letter has been received from the
Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce,
stating that the "All-F Florida" trip of
Jacksonville business men for the
purpose of getting acquainted with
the people in the western and central
part of the state and for the purpose
0 fletting people of these sections
know that Jacksonville is ready and
willing to cooperate with them, will
start on April 25th. The tour will be
made in Pullman train and will
cover a period of four days The stops
at the various points en- route will be
necessarily very short. The train will
arrive in Ocala Wednesday, April 26
at $50 a. m. and will remain here one
hour A cordial invitation to visit
Ocala and Marion county has been ex-
tended by the Marion County Cham,
Der of Commerce, which expressed re-
gret that the visit must be so brief
The Chamber of Commerce has sug-
gested that in addition to the stop ir
Ocala, stop of ten or fifteen minutes
be. made in the southern part of the
3 county for a brief inspection of the
= construction on the Dixie highway.
: The Chamber of Commerce has re
ceived the following notice from th'
Interstate Commerce Commission:
"At the request of carriers operat
ing within southern territory and OF
IIdilN lHl6ISSiSu SIllppSIS. tnS COIfI
n mission on its own motion has insti
S tuted an investigation of the elias:
[ rates applicable in interstate com
merce within southern territory: Be
tween that territory and Mississippi
river crossings; between that territor!
\ and Ohio river crossings and point
beyond Illinois, Buffalo, Pittsburgl
d and central territories: and between
g that territory, excepting North Caro-
e lima points, and Virginia cities an
e eastern points beyond in trunk lin
:: and New England territories.
Y "This investigation has been insti
5. tuted because the rates in question
u in many instances, differ material,
l. for substantially similar hauls on lik
= classes of traffic; because the rela
tionship to first class of the rates O.
u the lower classes varies greatly i
n many of the different scales and ad
n justments; and because many of tn
rates are higher for short distance
e than for longer over the same line G
g route. The investigation is favore
not only by the carriers and shipper
IS but also by most, if not all, of tn
n. commissions of the southern state!
ar The carriers have been working upo
:: revision of the rates for man
t months The commission believes thu
at by instituting this investigation
l. will be possible to secure result
more constructive and harmonior
than can be secured in the separat