1674-1 Gov James Coxrk
i.sy dear Jim,
Yours of the 12th.
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she harbo sitraati.on in working out iost anybody T `
with a pair of good oyer and Good horso-nonso can scF99 nil of.'; Mu
the harbor efforts _noir "on tho board" will not bo too much for' r u
iom4. and 11;laui peach.In fact, tri ;,h the bond ;issue oir-r and r
;pith our strenuous efforts to nako aoL e. -pro ;rocs, we °rc
to be far bohind tho &z.T.tlping interests for coveegl years to
Seri: .4" r 'may fle + t
I don't know r' ch about J000ph C._..ars. I think hisz
sLateaent ::sold boar invc ,Ligaticn by one of your innido men...,11V›-
T;ou1d liko to have you put. that talk over on tho radio
rihonovoi you are ready to do so. Our radio carries to i'e-tr
Foundland, South a'merica a-od -?o particularly good in-NoW Englund
and in t e_district around Chi.cagd, Chillicotho,Ghio, Tong Island
and Now York City. ;:'o ve • ulr•eady touched California, Eonsas .
City end Pori:,land,Loo f Th*r aro some spots' on tho continent that
for sono. reason, ' o dor5't't happen to "bump"'Into but so fax .aro
in very good convoction with the "high spots."
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Sono of those days I would like to talk to you send pct
your opinion aiiout'a r•ogiotration offico that would register a1Q,
of the people coming Into tho State of Florida, and take their
finger prints, each:porson to have an identification card from the
'payor and Chief of Police of 'choir hotao town before thoy be allow-
ed to enter tho ctuto.. S think, first, this could givo us an
enormous amount of good advertising propaganda. Even if the pro•.
grime is not carriod thru to a cornplote success at first it would scare
thousands of crooks away , f'r ora the state ' who would otherwiso bo in
the state and, if completed and carried thru, it will make Florida'
tho gre\•root state in the world for peaco and prof erity. The cattle
tick, small -pox andchortago of food and water is frothing as compared
with tho enormous amount of crooks that are infesting the st:ato.
The . trains are loaded with three -ward L once mon, card sharks (the
steamships the sane) and on account of our offorte to extend the
courtesies of the state to visitors, to become at once "easy marks.
t -o have some "inside". nen from Chicago, rashington, Indianapolis,
Lew_ York'and Pittsburgh and the other day they told us that at the
Beach Casino, or at the races, you could duplicate a large part of
the rog-uoa gallery among the visitors. Think it over and we'll talk
it ovor`some of these days.