The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-06-13
HELPING TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM

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The Community Service for Pensa-
cola is an assured fact. There can be
no question of its need. and the fact
that 1t Is the organization SO filing
this need, makes 1t certain that the
association win become permenent
Pensacola asset.
II there were no other reason for the
continuance of the Community Ser
vice in Pensacola than that to be
found in the monthly report for May,
recently published in The Journal. that
alone would be sufficient guarantee of
the usefulness and need of club ac-
tiv1ties.
Included in this report was the fol-
lowing statement.
Community Club activities, month of
May:
Number of men using club for rest
or comfort station. approximately 1,500.
Number cots used, 1873.
Information and assistance rendered
to 1000.
Parcels checked, 700.
Number Of men using games at
club, 1000.
Number letters written 500.
Employment found for 80.
Think Of what this clubroom means
to these men who come as strangers to
Pensacola Think of what its lack
would mean. However we may choose
to look at it. IL Pensacola is to be-
come a great naval base, we must fur
nish healthful recreation for the men
Of the service who make this port.
Men high in official position have
paid their tribute to the work of the
community service. and none has been
higher in praise than. has Secretary of
the Navy Daniels who in a recent
speech in Washington, said:
Il am glad to pay my tribute to the
service that made the community a
part of the army and a part of the
navy as truly as if it all had been in
uniform.
TT is my sincere hope tht America
and especially Washington shall get
behind this great movement, to con-
serve the best of the by-products of
the war by their moral and financial
support. You could not do better
service to yourselves. Let us all face
the seriousness of the present condi-
ton in America and rally around Com
munity Service which shall go a long
way to help solve the problem"
But the Community Service is no
longer combining it's work to the SER
vice men. It is reaching out and car
rying its message of Americanism into
the homes, 1t is making civic life clean
er and better and more healthy and
wholesome. in every way.
The Playground work for the child
rem is not the least important of its ac-
Invites. Pensacola has some of the
most beautiful small parks in the coun-
try but until recently these parks have
been used very little for recreational
activities. And yet that is what they
were meant for when they were laid
out with so much forethought and care.
Primarily they are breathing places for
the people.
The Playground work is not only to
make the children of the community
happier, 1t is to make them healthier.
And this 1t is doing.
The Community Service clubroom is
meeting another need in the commun-
ity, which is of great Importance; it is
becoming the focus of club life in many
ways. In the clubrooms the American
Legion, The Pensacola Woman's Club,
the Tennis Club. Business and Profess
sional Woman's Club, Girls Athletic
Club. and many other organizations
hold meetings.
The Community Service has come to
stay. 1t is too valuable to the COM
munity to now be denied. 1t deserves
and should receive the cordial support
of the community.