The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-12-18
Smooth Streets Tempt
The Men With Autos.

We admit that the smooth new
paving that has lately been laid on
some of the principal streets Of Pen
sacola is a severe temptation to the
owners of speedy cars to tune their
joy wagons up to concert pitch and
whirI over the fine, level surface at
a rate Of speed much higher than that
which the city ordinances permit. And
as the paving proceeds, taking in prac-
ticaIly every street Of Importance in
the city, including Palafox. the back
bone of PensacoIa's business quarter,
the temptation must inevitably be in
creased for these lovers of swift auto
/ transit over the new speedways.
There is good ground for the CON-
plant, embodied in an interview in
the news columns of yesterdays
Journal, which one citizen makes con
corning the operations of reckless au-
toists. While the majority Of Pensa-
cola men who drive autos are discreet
/ in their manner of proceeding through
I
ed during these days of Christmas
/ buying, now and then a fellow gets
/ a bit elated as he feels his wheels
I go up against a smooth, even stretch
/ of street and he just naturally yields
to the honest inclination to show folks
what that machine can do.
! The streets of a city where there is
as much passing and crossing as there
| is today on the streets of Pensacola
I at Christmas time and at every other
time, are no place for a speed of 20
J or 80 miles an hour-or 20 even. The
man at the wheel knows this well
enough He will curb that baDker
| ing for more speed and that not un.
/ laudable desire to hit I'D the pace
TO his machines maximum if he re
| members to put the other fellow in
his own place for the time being. real
| izing that the haphazard running of
automobiles is getting to be a men.
] ace in all the cities nowadays and
! that in many of them scorchers are
! being somewhat severely Disciplined
Zelaya should have done it a wear
ago.
Now they've got Teddy and his
African shooting in the moving pic.
lures. Who had teeth big enough to
/ pose for the films?
The ultimate consumer of Christ.
mas turkey viii pay enough. hu,
Thanksgiving prices will not he ex.
acted Let's give thanks for that.
The shop windows of Pensacola
never were more attractive than thew
are today; and the shop counters. like
the windows that index them. never
held more good stuff than they hold
today.
The return from EIba' should in.
clude stop in New York to see the
anti-race suicide mother-of course
with an unpTOnOuncabIe nana-vbo
has brought 20 boys and girls into the
world in 20 years.
OAtNdSO I ulNSISitNr Nlltl he start
ed, has applied to Mr. Rockefeller for
another million dollars Hayi1r form.
ed the habit of million-dollar aifts
and the Standard Oil having cleared
Up $S0,000,0oO this year, compliance
should be easy for the oil king.
No, We don't think there's one scin-
ITALIA OF truth in all tbs news3arar
talk about the speaker shaving on
those picturesque Sa-loways OF his
Without EN- Uncle Joe" woUI5n,+
look ferce-and the Lord only knows
the fierce look is getting to be the
speakers strongest weapon now
Former President Melville o. Tnv
ais, of the Big Four railroad WIN
knows the Buckeye State pretty VII
is quoted in Cincinnati. the beason,-
tiers Of that road which ~Cbrrlfz.,
Warmer skinned. as having said thar
there is no law in Ohio to punish .
man for being a d-m :oOl." Accord.