The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-04-13
COMMITTEE MADE A
GOOD COLLECTION
People of Ocala More Generous With
Their Money for a Good Cause
Than. with Their Presence

The meeting held yesterday after
noon at the Chamber of Commerce
with Mr.. G. c. Chapman, field repre-
sentative of the Florida Traffic Equal
izatlon League, was not well attended.
A committee was named from those
in attendance, however, and today a
good-sized fund was raised among
the business men and shippers and
viii be deposited with one of the
banks as trustee, to be paid over to
the Traffic Equalization League as di-
rected by the members of the execu-
tive committee of the league from
Ocala and Marion county This ar
rangement was made so that Ocala
and Marion county would pay their
proportionate share but not more
than their share of the financing Of
the organization. The committee that
raised the fund consisted of L. H. Pill
lans, c. G. Rose and J. NJ. Jackson.
The Florida Traffic Equalization
League was organized at Lakeland in
February and has its headquarters in
that city. 1t has been chartered un-
der the laws of the state for the pur-
pose of obtaining an equalization of
freight rates both intra-state and
interstate and to unite the efforts of
all the citizens, communities and or
ganizations in Florida interested in
the equalization of freight rates, and
to employ the necessary expert traf-
fee men and attorneys to carry out
these urposes. It is the immediate
purpose of the traffic league to obtain
the establishment of rates based upon
| the principle of the long and short
haul and having obtained this, it is
then to take up the problem of dis
crlminatory and high rates. At the
! hearing before the Interstate Com
| merce Commission in Atlanta, begin
ming May 22nd, it is the plan of the
league to have representatives who
will ask that the rates known as the
fourth section committee rates be put
into effect at once
/ AAAS O4iiNC4S VI JlS
Equalization League are: T. J. Ap-
pleyard Jr., Lakeland, president; first
vice president, B. W. William, Brad
entown; second vice president, C. W.
Bartleson, Fort Myers; third vice
president, W. A. Mckenzie, Leesburg;
fourth vice president, Thomas Hamil-
ton, Live Oak; fifth vice president,
Frank P. Goodman, Lake Alfred;
treasurer, J. L. Gibson, Lakeland;
secretary, Isaac Van Horn, Haines
City. Executive committee: T. J.
Appleyard, Lakeland; B. w. Williams,
| Bradentown; c. W. Bartleson, Fort
Myers; W. A. Mckenzie, Leesburg;
Thomas Hamilton, Live Oak; Frank
P. Goodman, Lake Alfred; J. L. Glib
son, Lakeland; Isaac Van Horn,
Haines City; L. H. Pillans, Ocala; C.
H Tedder, Live Oak; c. G. Rose,
Ocala; Leon Thompson, Mulberry; w.
F. Sneed, Lakeland; L. S. Harvard,
Live Oak; H. o. Sebring, Sebring; /.
T. Williams, Bradentown; R. J. Blank,
Lake City; J. S. Taylor, Largo; Fl. L.
Shearer, Ocala; Glover Taylor
Gainesville; F. P. Toombs, Dade City,
If the fourth section committee
rates are put into effect, Ocala and
points in Marion county will have
: their trade territories increased. Un.
der the new system Ocala merchants
} viii be able to- ship to points north
and south of the city for some dis
!, tance before coming into competition
with Jacksonville and Tampa as a
} present. All points south of Ocals
/ will have higher rates than the rate.
, in Ocala, whereas at present watel
/ competition points like Sanford ant
t Tampa enjoy rates much lower thar