The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-04
Press Comment
Deserve To Win.

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Deserve To Win.
The battle is over and the women
have won. They deserved to win
They will vote in Florida at the No
vember election. No further Iegisla-
ton is necessary. 1t has been a long
hard fight against prejudice and
against maudlin, senseless sentiment
They will purify the ballot. They
will raise politics to a higher stand
ard. They will cleanse it from the
filth and mud which men have put on
it The hand of God is in it.
Let the women of Florida prepare
themselves to vote in November. They
must register as men must do. They
must pay the poll tax as men must
do. They will, however. have no poll
tax to pay this year because they have
been newly enfranchised since the
poll tax was due.
If the registration officers refuse to
register the women they should apply
to the Courts for an order to make
them do so. They are entitled to vote.
Gainesville Sun.
Financial Centre of World.
The United States is the financial
center of the world today. Despite
the high cost of living which is play
ing hide-and seek with the national
mind, this country was never in its
history in such splendid shape and
the future holds no COLLINS dressed in
dollar marks worthy of serious fear.
The war is largely responsible for
this. Millionaires were made over
night it is true; some classes were
benefited more than others, but living
conditions have been improved gener-
ally and financial worries are at the
minimum. Concidered as a whole, the
American people are in fine shape.
AT present the loans of foreign coun-
tries made by the United States total
0,866,078. These securities in
clude government, state, municipal,
railroad, utility and industrial bonds
and the amounts are steadily increas-
ing. Practically the whole world owes
money to the United States. The coun-
tries indebted to US are Canada, and
Newfoundland, Mexico, Cuba, Panama,
Santo Domingo, Argentina Bolivia,
Brazil, Chile, Great Britain, France
Germany, Russia, Belgium, Italy,
Greece, Rumania, Serbia, Norway,
Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, China,
Japan, Australia, Czecho- Slovacia and
Liberia.
Prior to the war the United tates
owed. money! in other countries to the
extent of several billion dollars. These
bonds have been redeemed. The world
is paying us interest ranging from
five to six per cent. Our financial
future is assured.--Miami Metropolis.
A Pressing Need.
One of the the most pressing needs
of Lakeland at this time, and one of
the things most necessary to the citys
combined growth and progress is one
or more additional first class hotels.
Lakeland has some excellent hostel
ries, but the accommodations they of
fer are inadequate to the demands of
the ever embarrassing throng of tran
sients. In fact by virtue of Lake
lands peculiar location which makes
it the true gateway to all South Flor
ida, it would be difficult indeed, to
overdo the hotel proposition. That
another good hotel, of the Kibler class
Or even Two such-would be prof
stitutions of great public benefit, is
patent to anyone who is at all cogni-
zant of the local hotel situation. There
is talk among men who are able to
put through such a project of pro-
noting a first class new hotel on a
popular stock subscription plan.
making it a community enterprise, in
which the people generally will be fl
rancially as well as sentimentally in
terested. The plan is worthy of all
encouragement, and it is hoped that it
can be materialized. A united and
harmonious effort could easily secure
this and other big things for Lake
land-Lakeland Advertiser.
Planting Blueberries.
County Agent Mathison is very en-
thusiastic over the matter of getting
large acreage of blueberries set out
in this section and already has some
thing like fifty acres pledged to be
planted this fall, with a possibility of
a hundred-acre farm in addition to