The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-08
Press Comment
FIorida,s Fine Climate.

FIorida's Fine Climate.
Tampa is the coolest-measure 'em
yourself" we observed a few days
ago, whereupon The Pensacola Jour-
nal replies: I'VE dislike beirg rude,
but we don't believe it."
Then it proceeds to show us up
and with the single exception of Nj
| ami, which happened to be having
| cool spell, The Journal compares Tam
pa, way down on the Gulf of Mexico"
| with a lot of places like Birmingham
and Mobile and itself. Why not pick
few towns in Canada, or Kamchat-
ka, and prove by a Van Swearingen
analogy that Tampa is hotter'n'elll
But, really, it makes a fine showing
for Pensacola, and we have always
heard that it is a cool town-after sun
down.
Taking it as a whole, Florida, com
pares most favorably with any state
in the Union. from July / to August
81; while for the rest of the year
well the old grammars taught that
you can't compare things that are not
alike.
The normal temperature of any
place is something to make a fine
show, but they don't represent any
thing very definite or specific. For
instance, with it's winter temperature |
running down to forty below, and it's |
summer getting as high as 100, we /
would find the mean" temperature |
of North Dakota about seventy. 1t |
isn't the mean. but the extreme of !
temperature that hits us where it /
hurts.
If the press of Florida would, in all /
seriousness, make a practice of such
comparisons as the one The Pensacola
Journal uses, whereby it shows from
impartial. unprejudiced Federal wealth
er bureau that it was cooler in Pen
sacola on a certain day than it was in
Mobile, or Birm.ngham-and 1t might
have gone much further-there would
soon be dispersed the dull ignorance
than hangs like pail over the coun-
try with regard to Florida's climate
and temperature.
We reproduce the concluding para
graph of The Journals editorial, be-
cause what it says with reference to
Pensacola is applicable and true of
every point on the Gulf coast of Flor
ida. 1t says:
when it is taken into consideration
that Pensacola not only has normally a
low temperature, that the Gulf breezes
are never stilled, and that the people
here practically live out of doors In
the summer months, spending much
time in the healthful exercises of
swimming, golfing. tennis and motor
ing. Pensacola may, indeed lay claim
to being, what it has frequently been I
called, a great -year-play !
ground for the people. Tampa I
Tribune.
Conducted Themselves Properly. 1
Now that the agitation over the
incident of last week has
about subsidized. it is well for the white
people of Miami to recognize that t
during the time when affairs took on C
/ serious aspect, and when a spark
night have started a flame of disas- h
.er to the city, the American negroes. Il
resident in Miami, were loyal to law 4
md order and almost without excep-
ion. obiectsd to the attitude of the
llien colored population. p
Mayor Smith in commenting on the
part taken by the American negro, t
aid. II have always liked the negro.
was born and raised among them n
,ut now I am proud of the attitude as d
;umed by the American negroes of y
his city. They conducted themselves Il
IS the intelligent citizen would have fl
lone under the same circumstances e.
md they deserve credit that they did
lot permit themselves to be STAN G.
,eded." S
The Herald has more than once n
pointed out that there is hardly ever h
inv friction between the American h
,orn colored man and the American Il
,orn white man in Miami. They un- a
lerstand each other. The American
negro, in the main, is quiet, indus
rious and frugal and has the esteem u
# the people of this city n
1t is well to say that the commun- d
Nv owes a debt to the people who did
,ot permit race prejudice to inc.te O.
hem to an outburst of passion over a,
ecent events, and the incident cements .,
he feeling of confidence in the Ameri- Is
an negro residents of Miami-Miami n
Herald. S
Jras Editors to Lensthen Their Visit. II
A few days ago the Times urged o.
hat boards of trade wishing the Ma s
ional Editorial Association, which ~
viii visit this state in March, 1921, n
n visit their section could do the o.
tate no better service at the present h
me than TO try and induce this party
f men to remain as long as possible in w
,Iorida. Their first idea was that the r.
tate could be covered in 10 days, In n
luding three days for their formal a.
BUSINESS meetings. They do not know
ow big a job they are tackling. Let's h,
ell 'em. Let's show them it will take h
nuch more time than that if they ex- re
ect to see much of Florida. q,
The committee of seven from the 81
florida Press Association, which is in o,
barge of the affair, has arranged for d.
tentative itinerary of is days. TINS D:
, not a bit too much The Times h,
yonld urge again that boards of trade y,
nd representatives of cities and sec y.
ions wishing to have the editorial
arty visit them should write and FIR
rye that the stay be made at least al
S days. m