The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-10-05
THE OPEN FORUM.

Major Ralph Greene is authority
for the statement that the city COM
missioners have declared that they
.are willing to cooperate with the
public health service, but that SO far
they have expressed more willingness
than has borne out in CO. operative
action.
No one has to do more than take
walk of few blocks along the city
etrects to see that the city commits
sioners are sadly lacking in their en-
! forcement of the laws which govern
sanitation.
1t is easy to express a willingness
to cooperate, but by their works we
shall know them The Journal has
long been an advocate for the fran
chise for women. And The Journal
believes that one of the first notice
able results will be secured through
the woman vote, will be the enforce
ment OF the laws governing SANTA
ton.
At meeting of the women of PEN
sacola, held under the auspices of the
civic committee of the Pensacola
Woman's Club, for the study of the
city administration and its methods
! of procedure, there was strong SEN
timent expressed for better Pen
sacola.
Women are born housekeepers. And
the sanitation of the home comes
directly under their supervision. The
women of Pensacola know what it is
to wrestle with a city administration
which has laws which are enforced
"whimsically." This is the word
woman has TO express the law en-
forcement Of Pensacola. And it is
good one.
OF what possible use is it for
one or two or even dozen women in
neighborhood to keep their prem
Uses in sanitary condition, while on
either side of them there are others
whose premises are in such condition
as to make them a menace ITO the
whole neighborhood?
There are laws in Pensacola which
govern the conduct of every depart
ment of the home. ALI of these laws
do not relate directly to the home,
but many are indirectly connected
with good city housekeeping. They
include sanitation in its every public
| phase.
Women have long realized this but
they have been powerless to act Now,
with the ballot as their weapon, tne
women as well as the men of Pen
sacola, are prepared to fight for en-
forcement Of law. It is not the pur-
pose of law to get itself written into
the statutes. Until the law is vital
lied by usage, it is dead letter.
Many cities in Florida have had
Y11II3 i~ir
every one Of these cities have profited
through the woman influence. That
Pensacola women intend to use their
vote to make Pensacola a cleaner and
better city, is evidenced in the in
terest which women have already
taken in public affairs.
| The women Of Pensacola, having re-
ceived the ballot, are preparing them
selves to exercise the franchise in
| diligently. They want a clean Pen
sacola. from both the physical and the
| moral standpoint. And they are going
| to use their votes to that end.
Women have gift for detail Like
| children, they are good at asking why?
They are asking why, now And
they are looking for an answer to
that question. They see themselves
! and their husbands and brothers and
sons taxed, and they want to see re-
suits from this taxation. They know
that these taxes go to support the
city and county administration and
towards the enforcement of city and
county laws. They want to do their
part with the men OF Pensacola to
make this better home town. For
there is no other kind of town worth
living in.
The movement towards understand
ing of the city commission and its
duties and problems, the men who
are placed at the head Of the various
departments and the way in which
they perform their duties, is good
for the men and women as whole.
The Open Forum has long been adj
vocated by The Journal as a means
to an undertaking of civic, state and
national affairs. The civic committee
of the Pensacola Woman's Club has
taken the first step towards this end
and it is one that might be followed
with profit by every organized body
in the city.