The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-10-23
Pensacola Club
Works for City
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others. Centennial excitement has
compelled other interests to which the
club Is committed to take back seat
temporarily, to await their turn in due
time.
The Chamber Of Commerce project
Tor packing plant at Pensacola was
endorsed August 81, and plans made
70 Cooperate in it's establishment.
The city commissioners were enter
tanned at luncheon September 4, and
a better spirit of cooperation in civic
a11airs was developed. On September
IL the scheme was projected and faith
ered or endavoring to secure the Hon.
orable Herbert c. Hoover as manager
OF the Centennial exposition pnder the
name OF a peace victory celebration.
The proposition of creating a sepa-
rate tax district for school purposes
out of the city of Pensacola was pre-
sented to the club October Q. Though
1t had already been the subject before
a mass meeting of citizens, at the call
of the school board, and w. II. Wat
son, of the Rotarians, had efficiently
taken the lead in the movement, it is
nevertheless a fact of which Kiwan-
ians are proud that their club was the
first in the city to give the PROPOSE
ton a formal vote of approval. This
action gave impetus to the demand
for Improvement of the schools. and
has now eliminated in a successful
petition for an election to validate the
proposal. Kiwanis will be in the fight
till the schools are declared winners.
AS late as the 10th Of the current
month, important financial organiza-
tions of the city appealed to the
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the county commissioners to accom-
plish the immediate completion of the
Barrancas road in the public interest.
The standing already acquired by the
young club was well acknowledged in
taken. While the result is yet pending,
in the woodpile will be smoked out be-
fore Kiwanis gets done.
What, then, does the Pensacola
Kiwanis club stand for? Action. more
eloquent than volumes of words. de-
clares that it stands for cooperation
for the public veal. Ten standard
projects endorsed in sixteen weeks is
a good record, and the work is just
beginning, for only today for the first
time is the body recognized as par
of the international movement. If il
can do so much before endowed with
the breath of cooperate life. what will
| 1t do with the strength of full growth
| It may be said that new broom al.
ways sweeps clean, and the truth Of
| the aphorism must be admitted. II
lgauging the future of Kiwanis here
however. it must be remembered thai
| 1t has been deliberately organized tc
Include the younger business men o.
the city, the men who are full Of
pep an enthusiasm and ambition, the
ones who have their fortunes largely
yet to make. To have such men early
awakened to the mutual advantage Of
/ co operation for the upbuilding Of
| their common center of activity seems
pledge enough that Kiwanian enter
prise will not lag long as one thing
more can be done to make Pensacola
a world magnet. And as the appre-
citation of the value of the cooperative
| spirit grows in it's members, they viii
not only continue to work well among
! themselves, but will unite better and
better with all other bodies that work
! to the same ends, and thus command
/ the favor of the entire citizen body
toward themselves and their activi-
, ties.
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