The developments, if carried, will mean additional employment for hundreds and will start a new impetus throughout this section, in anticipation of which Sebring also in planning extensive hotel additions in time to be ready for the influx here next fall and winter.
 In speaking about the Scenic Highlands and its future, Dr. Dewey says:
 As a special student of the problem during the past year, I give you my conclusions.  After seeing during the past 50 years thousands of places in a score of countries, I am profoundly convinced that this Scenic Highlands may be made world-famous as one of the choicest beauty spots and ideal locations for winter, or all-year homes, to be found anywhere on this broad earth. 
 Many years ago Florida meant simply Palm Beach and later other East Coast points on the American Riviera.  Then the West Coast and its charms were discovered and entered into vigorous competition.  Last and best came the Ridge, but even now many who think they know Florida have not yet discovered the Scenic Highlands.
 There will always be those who prefer the sea level and other whose faces will always be turned towards the hills.  But Florida has 1,300 miles of seacoast and only 80 miles of the Ridge.  It has 35,000,000 acres of flat land and only half of one percent as much in

its famous Ridge.  So the law of supply and demand is all on our side if we shape our future wisely.
 Nature has given us this land of perpetual June with its 80 miles of hills and lakes and orange groves, but we must do the rest.  God will give the increase, but we must sow the seed.  Not many years ago these hills were barren, sand-covered waste, thought quite worthless; but wise men planted citrus and already our groves are an admiration of the world.
 While Florida has vast agricultural possibilities and the golden apples of its citrus belt are a gold mine, its most valuable and most sought asset is beauty, and in nature this always means hills, lakes, and trees.  All three are as necessary to the ideal landscape as are three legs to support a table.  We have the hills and lakes, but except for the money earning citrus we are shamefully behind in the forest and ornamental trees.  Some 40 years ago Mayor Marks of Orlando was sharply criticized for spending so much in planting trees along its streets but they have given his town its well deserved name, "The City Beautiful."  Many towns, which without trees would be commonplace and wholly unattractive, delight every visitor today because someone a generation ago planted live and water oaks along its roads.
Florida in recent years is preeminent among the states in taking a broad view of the future.  It gives power in its city charters to zone and regulate matters where personal greed or total lack of aesthetic sense might injure the good name and the best interests of the community.  Whatever may be done in the less important sec- ...........