The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-04-25
TALKS
FLORIDA WORK
Vice-PreSident of Florida Devel-
Opment Organization Tells
Bankers of Needs.
SEES BIG PENSACOLA
Bankers Close Convention With
Banquet at San Carlos After
Two Days Session.
SEES BIG PENSACOLA

Speaking before the Florida Banhers'
Association at their closing session
yesterday, William l.. Wilson of PAN
anna City vice president of the South
ern Development Organization, de-
clared that Florida should become one
of the leading industrial states of the
union and that Pensacola Should be
the biggest furniture manufactu
city in the country. Mr., Wilson said
in part:
The greatest problem confronting
us today is the use IF which the great
amount of unused land shall be put
1t will be physically impossible to get
it all in cultivation in the life time of
any of us here present, but it is per-
fectly possible to get it in use by rang
ing cattle. sheep and goats. The better
lands can then be developed for farms
and the poorer lands made available
as they are needed.
In speaking of the tourist business,
Mr.. Wilson said: do you bear in mind
that every tourist is a potential resi-
dent of Florida and treat him as such.
or do you try to get ali MS .onev on.
his first visit. -
I'VE want to attract the man of
moderate means who is anxious for a
home. Florida has suffered from a lot
of crooked land schemes in the past.
This sort of thing is practically over
now, but you bankers must watch very
carefully less others are started. No
land should be sold unless it is suited
for the purpose to which it is to be put.
This industrial future of Florida is
in our own hands and we can make it
one of the biggest manufacturing states
in the union. Factories can be built
and maintained much cheaper here
than in the north because we have
IL months of even working tempera-
ture.'l
Mr.. Wilson said that Pensacola
should become the largest furniture
manufacturing center in the country.
He said that lumber is plentiful in the
vicinity for the manufacture Of the
cheaper grades and that mahogany and
other hardwood now passing through
the port should be diverted and used
in the higher grades.
TT is true there is lack of skilled
labor Mr.. Wilson said but Grand
Rapids had no such skilled labor when
it started to make furniture. The hand
leap can be overcome.
THE time has come for us to clean
out our own dark corners. throw the
skeleton which has been in the corners
out of the window, and then tell the
rest of the world about it.
There is no use waiting for Santa
Claus. He may not come. We have
the money and the brains. Let us get
busy and do the work
G. G. Ware of Leesburg was elected
president of the Florida Bankers AS
sociation at the closing session of the
convention yesterday. Arthur Living
stone of Madison was named vice
president and George r. DeSaussure of
Jacksonville, secretary treasurer. This
s.Mr DeSaussure's 18th term.
J. S. Reese. president of the Citizens
& Peoples National Bank is the Pensa-
cola member of the executive commit
tee, the remaining members being DR..
l.. A. Bize of Tampa, T. P. Denham, c.
p. Kendall and A. P. Anthony of jack
sonville.
Charles A. Faircloth of Tampa, was
elected state vice president of the
American Bankers Association in
Florida at the meeting of that organi-
zation after the Florida Bankers had
adjourned other officers elected
were: Member Of the executive coun-
ell. J. A. Ormand Of Mariana; mem
ber of the nominating committee,
John T. Dismukes of ST. Augustine;
alternate A. P. Anthony of Jackson
VILE: vice president national bank Sec
ton. J. s. Reese of Pensacola: vice
president trust company section, Will
liam o. Boozer of Jacksonville; vice
president savings bank section, j. W.
Malone of Pensacola. viee-president OF
state bank section, George E. Nolan of
Orlando