The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-09-07
From the Outside
Looking In.


tee of the Pensacola Equal Suffrage
league wishes to extend its most sin
core thanks to all who have so gen
| erously helped to make this edition
success.
When early in April, at the second
meeting held after the organization of
the Pensacola Equal Suffrage league,
the decision was made to publish an
edition OF The Journal. the Press
Committee had little idea OF the diff
culties which confronted It.
A special edition of any scope is al
ways a stupendous undertaking, but
battle, murder and sudden death have
almost literally conspired to put q
| stop to this work A work that is
presented with the pardonable pride OF
those who have carried it to its con-
clusion
In April the work was laid aside
owing to serious illness in the family
Of the chairman of the press commit
tee. and not until early July was the
work again taken up. The paper,
which w1s to have appeared on indie
pence Day, was scheduled for Labor
Day, two months later.
The work was we'll under way when
war swept over Europe and its blast
ing breath eached even this peaceful
city by the sea.
The sudden depression in business.
already bad here as elsewhere, save
pause for consideration. But already
the work had been mapped out and
nf nd CT
signed, and so with determination to
succeed, IN the face OF predicted fail
ure, the workers went steadily on
1t had been planned to get out
sixteen page paper, profusely Illus
trated, with many local expressions,
departments conducted by local 3uf-
fragists, stories by southern suffca-
gists of neiEhboring states, pictures of
national officers and prominent women
allied with the movement expressions
from politicians and new sraPcr men
and much educational data.
This had been the prospectus 10
which the attention Of the advertiser
had been called. The advertising had
been secured on this basis. The word
must be lived up to the letter. Could
We do it?
We said We can. And We went to
We had only about half the copy in
hand, when like another holt from the
blue came the failure Of a great bank
ing institution, a failure induced sim
ply hy tho panICy condition of the
country at large.
And with bated breath we wondered
How we added and slbtracted and
divided and fractioned those adver-
Users and contributors can never
know, for it cannot be imagined lit
must be lived through to be fully an
preciated.
But the work vert steadily for
ward, we lived and breathed AID had
our being in it for six weeks. The
result OF this work you see today
We believe it is good work We
know that it is sincere work. We arc
positive that it was hard work
One has but to scan these pages to
see with what generosity the mer-
chants OF the city rallied to our cause !
Men who would have given rs . pa ge
cut to a quarter Of n page, those who /
would have given twenty. gave ten, .
others save what they could afford /
but nearly all gave something I
Many said. we would gladly adver- /
tise-we recognize the editions adyer- /
Using value-but we are not able. Hut /.
YOU haze orr Eocd Will And these +
too have our thanks.
To these who have contributed t. I
these columns. tn the women Of the /
heads Of TIE various Departments, We
are grateful
But while any invtdious praise is tr (
4 measure out Of good taste. the cG'- 4
tor OF this edition feels that size must
say word for the advertising mana /
ser. I
Her work speaks fer her in the ad- /
vertistns columns. hut not only here
was her help invaluable Her ready
Wit, her Judgment her time and her
strength were ever at our service. And +
40 the business manager. too who .
worked day in and day out COR the sue
cess of this edition. And TO the cor
responding secretary, who WORKED
with unfla geing zeal. until we wrested
success from the very Jaws oC defeat
But because We wish TO lay stress
on tho splcrdId work of the young NO
men who were most Intimately con
neCted in making a success Of this
WORK. We in nowiSe mean to deprecaite
the WorN Of others, who gave every
possible assistance. Perhaps never in
the history of such an edition. was
there less friction.
To Mr.. Lindsey. tine Prince Of Fore
men. who with patience. unequal
led, measured, and fitted. and under
stood that with a woman. making up
a paper is much like making a dress
we are most grateful.
And last but not least. to Mr.. AIayes
who has thrown open the columns of
the most popular paper in the state
TO the Pensacola Equal Suffrage league
J.