The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-03-28
THURSDAY. MARCH %, 1912.
Better Than a
City Beautiful.

Nashville women have organized q
city beautiful association, and have
gone to work in earnest to accomplish
what the name Of the association inn
plies. The association has decided TO
make Nashville the Red Rose City and
70 secure funds for carrying out thc
plans other than what the residents
are supposed to do. Red Rose Buttons
which all loyal Nashville people are
supposed 10 buy and wear, are to be
sold.
The association has twenty-five vice
presidents, all ladies. who will make a
campaign and offer for sale the butt
tson, which are said to be very pretty.
The buttons arc sold to adults for
the same buttons for themselves at ten
cents, the funds going TO the associa
ton to help make Nashville a city
beautiful
An organization with a worthy
cause. you must admit.
1t occurs to The Journal that most
great reforms begin with woman. and
there is nothing which woman wants
more than to have her surroundings
pretty and attractive. But the absence
of some things are more attractive
than the presence Of red roses.
We are referring to the disease
spreading househy and the annoying
mosquito which spreads disease almost
as much as the fly does.
The Journal would like to see the
women OF Pensacola form an organiza-
ton similar to the one referred to in
Nashville, ard work on the same
lines. only put of until the fall the
planting OF flowers. Right now the
opportunity to make Pensacola city
beautiful and a city healthfill lies
within the power Of the women.
If the women will join In the move
ment already begun. Pensacola will
within a few months, be absolutely
free from fiies and mosquitoes. The
women can organize an association
Z with some twenty five vice presidents
dividing the city into districts with a
vice president in charge of d district
and in this manner the whole city may
be freed from unsanitary conditions
and breeding places for flies and
mosquitoes.
None of the advertising which Pen
sacola has already done will be hall
as effective as to let the report &c
throughout the country that this is q
city free from flies and mosquitoes Tho
year round. It viii make life here
even more delightful than it now ii
and the health OF our people will i'm.
prove and there will be no deaths from
maIarial and typhoid fevers unles.
contracted in other localities.
This is an opportunity for the goos
women Of Pensacola to accomplish
something that will be Of lasting
benefit to the people. If the Nashvill,
women feel that it is worth while t
make their city garden Of red roses
Pensacola women win serve the cit,
and her people hundred times Oh
much by beginning the work suggestet
today
Buttons OF an attractive nature bear
ing the words Pensacola, City With
out Flies or Mosquitoes" would max
q splendid button to be worn by every
one and would find a ready sale.
Pensacola has the best women in TIL
world; they have never been behind II
movements for the civic improvement
6f the city; they have always bee
leaders and never followed behind, an
The journal calls upon them to tax
the initiative in this matter right away
The Journal win give them all the co
operation and assistance it can in it
humble way.
What say the women?
The girl who gets a nerfect hushan