The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-07-29

.ixned with a fictitious name
will be published.-EDITOR.
Editor, The Times-News:
Enclosed please find a letter in
reply to the one written by our
"Florida friend" I should be
pleased to have you print it.
Thanking you, | am, Yours very
truly, (Mrs.) Edith E. Collins.
Having read the letter publish
ed in your paper Saturday, July
"a, written by an Orlando resi-
dent, who summers in Hender-
sonyille, | desire to know if there
were any of us who entertain the
same opinions. l would like very
much to express mine, which are
very much to the contrary.
Our summer visitor states: "The
attitude here is cold-blooded and
commercial" that we are neglect
ed after our money is taken
(sounds like a regular hold-up),
and there is no effort made to ar
range programs, ETC., to entertain
u.s."
This is untrue. / have been a
summer visitor in Hendersonville
and vicinity, also winter visitor
in Florida for a number of years.
/ knew Florida from stem to
stern, have visited and wintered
in ali the large cities as we'll as
many of the smaller ones. l wish
to say that in my opinion, in most
of the Florida cities it is without
doubt plain case of "hold-up."
To begin with, the house rents
there are exhorbitant. You are
down there, it's winter time, you
don't want to go back, and they
know it, so God help you. In orr
der to live there at all you almost
have to buy half-interest in the
power, gas and water companies,
and on top of that you pay dearly
for the vrious sources of enter
tainment you do get. He also
states that 1--WE in Florida have
to check up on ourselves every
once in while to be sure we
are doing everything possible to
entertain our winter guests"
I wonder if our kind friend
and advisor realizes there is a
vast difference in the length of
season here, which at best is only
about two months, compared to
the long season of from six to
seven months down there. How
we'll they can afford to check up
on themselves and they owe it to
us. Furthermore, don't think
our friend used very strenuous
efforts trying to find sources OF
entertainment up here, for l GER
tainly do not think we lack them.
(Some folks are just impossible
to please.)
In rounding up his epistle, he
evidently ran out of things to
knock our kind friends up here
about, so he threw off on the
weather. (How convenient. the
weather sure does catch it, That
hands me big laugh. Presume that
| he rushed back to Florida to be
soothed and kept cool by the gen.
tie breezes of his electric fan.
A native Floridian will always
try to make one think it is cooler
down there in summer than any
place else, but still | notice they
all get out of there at the first
sign of heat, but believe me, they
do get sore if you argue other
wise.
Well, all | have to say is
others, l am sure, will agree-it
is hot up here; / would hate to
think what it is down there. Re-
CARELESS, however, of the heat
during the day up here, we are
always glad to crawl under a
couple of blankets at night. Won
der if they can say the same?
He also states there are fewer
people here this summer because
we are neglected. How pitiful!
This is not so. 1t is true, there
NAV be fewer tourists this year,
as that will happen anywhere. 1t
happens in Florida and they know
it. Some seasons anywhere are al
ways better than others. Fewer
tourists does not imply that it is
on account of lack of courtesy
received here. It is simply that
people are restless and they tire
of the same part of the country
every year. / like to vary from
time to time. We had a great sea-
SON last year, and l haven't heard
many complaints this year.
Finer people than our North
Carolinan friends never want to
meet. They are kind hearted and
generous and go out of their way
to make US feel very welcome and
at home and | do not admire our
Florida friend in the least for the
attitude he is taking in trying to
poison the minds of those of US
who are very well satisfied. To
me, every knock is just a big
boost. If you get to the bottom
of things as rule you will gen.
erally find that the trouble lies
with the "knockers" themselves
and not with the people or the
place. If the truth were known,
this party has personal griev-
ance and just wanted to give vent
to his. feelings. Now, that it is out
of his SYSTEM hope he feels
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