The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-03-30
Through Its Pages Are Mem
tiOns of Men Who Lend q
Liberal Part to Pen
sacOla's Growth
PROSPECTS FOR
FUTURE ARE GOOD
The Story of the Journals Sue
cess Over the Past Score
Years Is an Index to
a Greater Growth
Ahead

Pensacola has n wonderful people.
ways. and the owners are proud to
feel that The Journal has been a part
OF every forward movement and has
thrown its aid to every purpose which
seemed to offer real development.
One OF the most convincing signs
of the growth OF Pensacola in the past
twenty years is the increase In post
office receipts, which in 1898 totailei
$2o.5s3.00. and in 1918 were $134.4323s.
In january. 1919. the post office re-
ceipts were s14,e49.0s and in February.
$11.444.3e
This is an evidence OF the increase
in number OF people who have made
their homes here. either permanently
or transiently.
But it is not the number OF people
a town has, so much as the kind OF
people. The Journal believes that
nothing could better Indicate the KIM
OF people than the business OF a town,
and the business men who are repre-
sented in this anniversary. number are
sacola Progress.
The Rotarians and the Chamber OF
Commerce. the two representative
commercial organizations OF Pensa
cola, and such as they, are made up
OF Pensacola men with high busines,
ideals. and it is these men and these
ideals, who will yet put this city and
section at the very forefront In tb3
life of the country.
The Journal expects to be in exist
anec then and to increase its value
in the same ratio with the develop
ment OF the city.
This was the ideal of the founder OF
The Journal the late Col. Frank y.
Mayes. and it is an ideal that the pres
ent owners will seek to attain.
Journal History.
Twenty years ago, March II. 1899,
The Pensacola Journal came into ex-
istance. Twenty years Is a long time.
looking ahead, but short, when viewed
in retrospect. The time that has
elapsed since the founding Of The
seems brief, but when one
considers what has been crowded into
these years. in journalism. in public
i'm provements,{ and civic progress, the
past score of years ha been fuller than
city and section.
Twenty years ago no newspaper had
ever paid It's own way or successfully
itself Pensacola. Pensa-
.ola's newspaper graveyard was
crowded with journalistic grave.
Then The Journal was born. and with
I came the beginning OF real success
'ul journalism in West Florida.
The story of The Journal is q stor,,
If success. Today few reputable news
papers carry whiskey advertising, par
icularly in the south, but when The
Journal made this radical departure
rom the usual newspaper procedure
t was the only paper in Florida which
ook this stand.
The Journal has set the pace In this
section of the Hate in many other
Ways, but it believes that none OF
hese moves have been of greater i'm
,ortance, than the elimination Of
ads.
In presenting this anniversary edi-
ion OF The Journal. the publishes
,eIieve that nothing could better mark
he progress of this section, with 1ts
teady growth.
1t now stands at the head OF news-
apers Of its class, throughout the en-
ire south.
The Journal makes this statement
-ithout hesitancy. No newspaper oe
NY city of it's size in the state, has
wider circulation than The Journa'.
% newspaper carries more paid ad-
ertising. and none is more devoid e
dvertising which is not fl for pubne
alton.