The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-05
ON
PRESENT AND
PAST OF CITY
TO WRITER, HAS
BEEN PASSIVE IN THE PAST,
BUT, REALIZING ITS OPPoRTUN-
tiles AND ADVANTAGES, is
NOW AWAKENED TO ITS BRIL-
LIANT FUTURE.
(By Gilfllan Scott.)

liAC SlQe tries UTMOST 10
loaf, while the other side resorts to
force to keep it on the move; the re-
suit being frequently a free-for-a all
fight which does everybody a whole
lot of good.
Even as verbs are active and pas
sfve SO there are active and passive
people; and it really looks as if ma
ture has especialls planned matters
so that the passive ones shall provide
an outlet for the energies of the ac-
tive ones.
Take an inventory of all the peo-
pie you know, and you will find here
and there a hustler, a worker, per
haps a veritable fighter: by far the
larger number, however. you will rec
ognize are passive souls, taking life
as they find it, and satisfied to sit
with folded hands and watch the
wheels go round.
Is it any wonder that the hustIers,
with the added energy arising from a.
life Of action and the keenness derived
from forever being on the alert, be-
come their servants. and only ask not
to be kicked too hard or too often in
the same spot?
Now, this is not a sermon, nor even
a lecture, but it represents thoughts
which arise unbidden when consider
ing the past, present and future pros
poets of Pensacola
In the past, Pensacola has been
passive, and, had it not been for the
mustn't stand still in London spirit
which some of the boys have intro
duced during the past few years 1t
would still be lying, like a lazy, over
fed hog, alongside of one of the most
wonderful natural harbors in the world
Nv c1-s TO +, oil 60 ay,I
drink and sleep and initiate the cos
ter in the Gilbert and Sullivan coup
let: when the coster's not a-jump-
ing on his mother. then he loves to lie
a-basking in the sun" The only OBJ
lection being to the word Jumping
which is too fatiguing to bear even
thinking Of
The only way in which the mustn't
stand stilr' game can be played is by
constantly launching out into new en-
terprises.
In spite of old King Solomon. who
didn't know it all, and is credited with
being the originator of the saying
There's nothing new under the SUM-
also of the other pessimisttc re-
mark of a soured oil dgentleman that
"al1 is vanity and vexatoin of spirit
there is something new coming along
all the time for those who have eyes
to see and ears to hear.
Nature is impelling man to advance
ment whilst the grosser animals, in
Guiding some species of man, are APP
preaching extinction, and, under the
marvellous influence Of education, the
world is getting better and more re-
fined every day
One of the latest and greatest meth
DDS of combining education with enter
tainment is known as the Chautauqua
method The Chautauqua is the out
come of years of experience and earn
est thought by some of the cleverest
brains in the States. Business method
has gathered from all parts Of the
world the very best talent available
for amusing and instructing a public
which has had its mind prepared
by education to appreciate such tai
ent.
The success attending a Chautauqua
wherever held, is a convincing proof
that the public not only appreciates
but demands that kind of amusement
1t is one Of the surest indications of
growth that Pensacola, has shown
when the announcement is made that
the city has at last determined upon
holding a Chautauqua- There are
thousands of persons in the city who
those thousands. as well a forS Others
there is a great time coming.
From Monday. the 2sth to Saturday
the 31st of this month will be a great
gala in the city There will be two
enterta inments every day
for the whole six days
Every entertainment will be entire
ly different from the others: and each
will be in the hands of star experts,
who have been selected as the very
cream of public entertainers from
the thousands of aspirants
for such honors.
It would require several sheets of
the Journal to give details of the
work accomplished in the
larger cities by the clever folks who
are coming here to delight the crowds
who will flock to the Keyser audi
toriunn, which is 70 be specially fitted
up for the occasion.
To hear and see so many bright.
particular stars in the short space of
one week is new kind of joy for
people: and it won't he linn
tied TO Pensa cola people either; for |
he railroads are going to run cheap |
excursions from scores and scores of /
places. bringing other thousands into /
the city to take part in these historical |
gatherings.
The only matter for regret is that /
here Is no fine public building capable /
of seating four five thousand peo- |
pie in Pensacola. This is going 10 he |
he one real trouble; where to- put the |
people, when they come, as come they /
will
To have the entrea TO twelve grand I
performances for three dollars IL
immense Pensacola has
never had anything like it. and She /
will he that next year will see |
] six weeks Chautauqua held in a /
building large enough To hold .hs /
thousands who will come from all