The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-09-23
PENSACOLA AND
PENSACOLIANS

PENSACOLIANS
Keep Up With the Style.
The Pensacola Journal says the
''barrel-hoop hug" is harmless. Maybe
so; we've never tried it; the old
fashioned kind suits uG-Apalachicola
Times.
So We Have Seen.
Pensacola put up a magnificent fight
Tor the navy yard TO be kept up there.
but to no result There is such a
thing as fighting against insurmount-
able odds.-Havana News.
Has Many Friends.
A dozen men have been suggested
as candidates for congressman from
the state at large, but we have yet to
hear OF one who measures up to
Mayes OF Pensacola. Pensacola under
ordinary circumstances is not entitled
to the fourth congressman. but the
tor should win in a walk.-Plant City
Courier.
Not Likely.
The Pensacola Journal IN its issue
Of last Wednesday has a red hot edi-
torial about the cold storage trust
and prosecutions. You had better
editors will accuse you Of being
socialist.-Noma Record.
Nearer Home Than Geneva.
The paragrapher of The Pensacola
Journal must have been think of Ge-
neva when he wrote Some fellows
think they are sowing wild oats when
dTTCf {nor 80 hnr
selves."-Geneva Reaper.
Thinks Him Easy Winner.
Hon. Frank L. Mayes, editor Of The
Pensacola Journal, has been suggested
tor congressman at large, and we
would like to see him get in the race.
He would be an easy winner.-Lake
City Index.
In its Sunday issue the Tampa Tri-
bune attacks the jury system. Is the
jury system any more rotten than the
other branches Of our courts? 1t was
not the jury system that freed Wheeler
from a charge of murder. When a
lawyer addressing a jury in his best
oratory and tears in his eyes tells that
jury that he would not be represent
ing the prisoner if he was not con-
WINGED Of his innocence, why not
brand that lawyer as a cheerful liar
instead Of an able attorney?-F1orida
Advocate.
Plenty of Them Now.
From Pensacola comes the infor-
nation that red snappers have been
unusually scare during the past month
and this condition causes some dis
comfort and displeasure TO fishermen
and those who particularly like this
fine fish. Bad weather in the gulf is
said to have caused a small catch Of
snappers and the one vessel coming
amount OF the fish was almost "eaten
up" by hungry dealers and prospec-
tive consumers. Probably the snap
pers are still waiting to be caught in
the usual large Numbers and before
long the reports from Pensacola will
be telling of record catches and boats
loaded to the water line with the
finest kind of red fellows. ready to be
shipped to hungry patrons in the less
favored sections of the United States.
-Jacksonvills Times Union.
Preserving the Roads.
The Pensacola Journal has a very
timely editorial to the effect that II is
useless to build good roads unless
they are maintained in disable condi-
ton. The Journal says: ITO build
keep them in good condition is an
other, but each one is very necessary
and unless the roads are to be kept up
there Is little use of building them"
The observation is strikingly appli-
cable to the roads of Hillsborough
county. Some of the best paved roads
of this county are rapidly being re-
duced to q condition worse than the
ordinary sand road. Deep gullies
and depressions have been washed or
worn in them until they have become
both unsightly and dangerous.
Unless breaks of this sort are filled
in at the time they appear, they grad
ually become deeper and wider and
the result is that the road Is render
ed well-night unfit for use.
Some of the paved roads leading
out of the city are ribbed for long
distances with heights and hollows
and running over them IL like running
over big logs. placed at uneven dis
tances.
The time to repair conditions like
this is when they first become ap-
parent. Why wait until the road
is ruined before putting in little
work on It?
As The Journal says, there is little
use building roads unless they are
to be kept up in good condition. 1t
is worse than a waste of money to
permit the paving to be washed and
worn out before making repairs
Tampa Tribune.
Nursing Mothers and Malaria.