The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-01-05
TAMPA TRIBUNE HAS A BIRTHDAY.

/ TAMPA TRIBUNE HAS BIRTHDAY.
! On January first the Tampa Tribune entered upon
its twenty-seventh anniversary. During the twenty
seven years of its existence the progressive south
Florida daily been under the same editorial and
ownership management and has never missed a
| single issue.
On the page with the birthday announce
ment Of The Tribune. is published an editorial on
the fire which threatened to sweep away great
part of the business section recently and in which
all the newsprint in the city was burned. Para
graphically the Tribune says:
When a fire burns all the paper stock in
town and you have to get it by wire from Mo-
bile and Jacksonville. and every other place
where you suspects fellow of having more than
enough to do him night and they all re-
i spond promptly and send coincidence and word
that lit is on the way" it makes you feel like
there's something in this brotherhood Of man"
! after ALL
The entire state has felt deep sense of gratifi-
cation that the Tampa fire. which at one time
threatened to attain great proportions, was so
quickly and successfully checked and that the Tr-
bune's birthday party was not marred
! In making its anniversary announcement the
Tribune says
Running daily from twelve to twenty-four
pages with from thirty -eight to sixty on sun
days, and going to than twenty one thou
sand paid subscribers daily, and over twenty
seven thousand on Sundays The Tribune has
surely grown 1t is hard for even those who
have watched it grow to recognize it as the little
thing which started in Tampa twenty-six
years ago. because of faith in the future of
Tampa. and knowledge that if Tampa made
good The Tribune, which helped it, would make
good, too.
Looking back over the twenty-six years
which have closed. nothing stands out more
boldly in relief. as the thing that helped
make The Tribune what it is than by the loyalty
the faith and the loving standing-by of
friends. II The Tribune should be forced today
to cease existence, we have a reserve store of
friendships which could not exhaust during
more than the lifetime naturally allotted to
man.
There a tlme-many OF them-at the
beginning when the cash to pay the postage on
the little issues taxed the paper to degree that
sleeplessness and doubt almost overcsme the
knowledge that how. some where, there
was the few dollars needed for the moment
They always came. Today the weekly postage
bills of The Tribune figure up to more than all
the real money ever saw in whole year of
first endeavors Today the weekly payroll
of The Tribune totals figure that would have
seemed munificence to during the first years
OF struggles
policy of The Tribune has conquered difficulties
built up friendships. and created the valuable
property which is in being.
From the start the and only policy OF
The Tribune to play fair with the public;
to speak decided yes" no." required.
and to advocate those things in local. county
state and national affairs that are for the good
the constructive upbulding OF the people. There
has never been a time when 1.-The wayfaring
man. though q fool" could not read the sign
board of The Tribune's position any ques-
ton. 1t has stood for something all the time.
It has made friends and it luxuriates in the
pleasure of the thought; il has made some
enemies ard it glories in the fact; it has never
sold itself to benefit friend, and it has never
perjured itself to injure enemy. 1t has hit
hard. but never below the belt; it has gone down
in defeat. but it has been whipped
Ii starts the year. and its twenty
seventh year. With the full determination to
treasure more dearly the friends it has made
to feel more sorrow for. than anger at, the en-
enlies who would injure it. and to give its read
every day the best effort in IFS shop. It has
been under the same editorial and ownership
management since its establishment and has
net missed single issue; and it hopes 10 con-