The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-11-14
NEWS AND VIEWS
BY STATE PRESS
Strenuous Work for Pensacola.

Strenuous Work for Pensacola.
THE interest being taken through
out the North in Pensacola and this
immediate vicinity, nowadays, is sim
ply. amazing" is what d Pensacola
Journal man was told Saturday by C.
C.. Packard, editor of the Louisville
& Nas1ville's magazine, North and
South. In all the large cities east OF
the Mississippi and north CT the Ohio,
at least, if not in all the larger cities
north of the gulf states, there is a
belief that some one of the gulf coast
cilies is bound to reap big advantages
from the Panama canal, and Pensacola
is believed to be tle one, according
to Mr.. Packard. He points to the
mammoth excursion which the Louis
vile and Nashville road recently
brought into Pensacola as one proof
of that great interest-an excursion
which required seven sections of from
ten TO a dozen cars each to bring
down from Ohio. The road expects to
bring down another from Ohio river
points On November "a, which may be
even greater. The rate charged was
extraordinarily low, only 50 per cent
on one-fare for the round trip, with
a twenty-one day limit. Pensacola
is distinctively the Louisville and
seemed determined to do some siren
nous work in building up lis southern
port and the territory tributary there
to-Jacksonville TimeS-Union.
A Boom for Winter Lawns.
The subject of winter lawns has
been taken up by the Pensacola Jour
nal, which says every home in that
city which has yard room should have
A,-rN0 nE To
vile and of every other city in the
state. In this climate it is easy to
produce a Sward which will keep
green throughout the winter and add
greatly to the appearance of the
premises. All lawns should be fresh
ened up in the fall.-Jacksonville.
Times-Union.
Lee County Still Democratic.
The democrats were somewhat I'M
easy about Lee county in the late
election, as it had been reported that
the socialists or Koreshans, would
cast a large vote down in that end
of Florida, but not a single democrat
ic candidate was defeated. all receiv-
ing good majorities. The Fort Myers
Press did excellent work for democra-
cy, and gave the full returns in its
last issue in excellent tabulated form.
Jacksonville Metropolis.
Is Florida "SoIid"2
The republicans are not limited to
Georgia in their examples of repub-
lican inroads in hitler& solid demo-
cratic states. Florida, too, has pre-
cincts that departed from the faith
of the fathers.
Daytona gave the Taft electors a
majority; Cocoa precinct, in the same
county, did the same thing; several
precincts in Walton county are report
ed carried by the republicans; the re-
publican candidate for congress in this
district carried his home county, Mon
roe; and EuStiS gave republican ma
jority. The vote in some other pre-
cincts in various parts of the state
was uncomfOrtably close.
These results were doubtless due
more to democratic apathy than to
republican gains.
By the time the next campaign
rolls around, it is hoped something
will happen to induce more activity
on tle part of democratic nominees in
Florida counties.
1t should be an unwritten law of the
primary system that a man who re-
ceives a nomination devote some of
his time TO a canvass in the interest
of a full party vote in the general
election. In very rare instances was
this done this year.-Tampa Tribune.
A Dangerous Proposition.
An effort made by a Tampa attor-
ney to enlist the aid of the circuit
court in compelling the board of coun-
ty commissioners to iscsue permits
for carrying pistols to a considerable
number of Italians should call for
the most careful consideration. Just
now, the sentiment throughout the
state. among law-abiding people every
where, is for a strict enforcement OF
the statutes against the carrying of
deadly weapons. If anything, the re-
strictionS should be made -Iore draS-
tic than at present. The law permit
ting the county commissioners to
grant permits in Suci cases as they
deem proper is a dangerous one, in
that such power may be abused,
largely through ignorance or careless
ness on the part of the county boards.
The Tribune can see no good reason
why any number of Italians should
be permitted to bear arms in this
community. When it is considered
that the law is but lamely enforced
as it is, it would seem indeed a Sc
riouS proposition to extend indiscrim-
Notable Health Record.
shortly after the beginning OF the
present session at Sumuerlin InSti-
tute, the remark was made in our
presence that there had not been dur
ing the intermission rron May till
September, a death among the five
hundred pupils who attended the
school the previous session, says the
Barlow COurier-Informa1t On care
full investigation we found that not
only was true, but that there had
been no death among the students
during the entire previous session.
This covers up TO the present time,
a period of nearly fourteen months.
during which the angel of death has
not cut OF one of this sple ibid band
of five hundred boys and girls of
which this community has so much
reason TO be proud. The record is a
remarkable one and speaks volumes
for the health of Barlow and the SAN
itary regulations and conditions at
the institute. IL any comuunifv or