The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-10-20
PrNsACoLA MAKES THE GoAL


with more than its allotment Of pa, o25, Oooo0,
Pensacola and Escambias county went over the
ton Yesterday in the greatest drive that this sec
ton has ever known, and every citizen should
take take the highest pride in this fact For it
was no mean achievement.
Hampered in every way, its fighting forces for
the Liberty Loan campaign disintegrated on ac-
count of sickness, with but one day Of fair
weather, and but four days in which to accom-
istered more than one hundred per cent patriot
isn-the kind of patriotism that spells victory
or the allies.
Since the entrance Of the United States into
he world war, Pensacola has never failed to make
the goal. In every drive the allotment has been
more than reached. Bnt what has been accom-
Iplished in Pensacola during the past week has
been well night miraculous.
When the members of the Liberty Loan COM
mittee were asked to put aside their efforts in
behalf of the loan and to concentrate on the sup
preston of the influenza in Pensacola, they met
the request with brave front Headquarters
were turned over to the relief committee and day
by day, hand in hand with the emergency work
ers they fought to check the disease, at the same
time keeping as closely in touch with the Liberty
Loan work possible.
When, the disease having gotten under con-
troll, they were able to open headquarters again,
they faced the necessity Of accomplishing in
hours what they had looked upon as a difficult
task to put through in weeks.
But these men did not falter. They relied upon
the spirit that has placed this city at the fore
front in every drive. And they were not dis
appointed. They called for volunteers and the
volunteers responded. Men, realizing their re-
sponsibility to their government at this time
when the whole country was resting under the
handicap of disease, went out to make possible
the impossible
1t was the same spirit that sent the American
forces at Chateau Thierry on to victory It was
the same spirit that animated the French when
they gave their death1ess words to civilization
They shall not pass-and held back the German
hordes. 1t the same spirit with which the
Britisher held the Huns at bay, and kept them
from the channel ports. It was the fighting
spirit, which defied defeat
And that spirit won the day for Pensacola and
put Escambia in the high place where it ba-
oneed
And Pensacola is proud. Glad with the sense
Of work well done. Realizing, as never before,
that there is community spirit that is strong
enough to cope with any situation, and which
may be depended upon to meet every demand
But Pensacoa's pride goes deeper than that.
1t is concentrated with the realization that the
men who went out, many of them just up from
beds of illness, tramping through the rain, work.
ing day and night, put this drive through, SUBJ
scribing themselves and inducing others to SUBJ
scribe, and the men and women and children who
made the success possible by subscribing to the
foan, many of them doubling former subscrip-
rions, did this not with the narrow idea of plac
ing Pensacola in the lmelight, but with deep
sense of their duty to their country, and to hu-
manity, that freedom may be secured to the peo
pies of all nations for all time to come
The trials that Pensacola has passed through
during the past few weeks and the way in which
those trials have been met and overcome are
cause for the deepest gratitude of the people as
well as for great pride.
Pensacola has been weighed in the balance and