The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-05-20

Entered as second class matter at the
postoffice In Pensacola, Fla, under ACT
Of Congress. March .. 1879.
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TO SOMEONE.
Sometimes write little rhyme:
And someone murders all my time;
And then write little joke,
And someone queers what / have
spoke;
And then I write a paragraph,
And when It's printed-'tis TO laugh,
For that poor squib is not the same
AS when into the world 1t came.
Prices win not skiddoo until the
profiteers do.
1t may be foolish TO laugh, but
blessed are the fools"
A bare living is what most of US
will be reduced to, after while.
o
What is the use of two-cent coin
when a nickle isn't worth penny?
.
Congress has evidently forgotten that
the people expect something more than
speeches.
The buzzing that you hear is not all
whispers of political aspirations; some
OF it is flies.
Mr.. Bryan may be nursing a griev-
ance, but he isn't rocking the cradle
enough to hurt
Have you planted your garden? If
not why not? You don't want 10
starve, do you?
The National Personal Liberty
League probably has for its motto: MY
liberty, not yours"
The democrats are not having any
scraps. But just wait till things begin
to hum in San Francisco.
Germany wants big army. What
Germany needs more than anything
else is another big beating.
Don't break your neck running after
trouble; you will catch up with 1t
without all that extra exertion-
Now that Lodge is going to make the
keynote speech in Chicago, we feel sure
great will be the harmony thereat.
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ANYHOW. after all the talk, nobody
can deny that Fannie Hurst Is one
woman who knows how to keep a
secret.
Johnson seems to be worrying about
Hooyer's change of heart. Well, at any
rate, there seems to be no danger OF
heart failure.
II girl does not love flowers, chill
dren, old people and home she Is not
worth ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Lake Region.
Not even If she loves lover?
1t used to be that miIlionaires only
could afford to wear old clothes. but
now millionaires are the only ones who
can afford to wear new clothes.
.
Twelve thousand women in Pittsburg,
Pa, have pledged themselves to lower
the high cost of living. That's the way
to swat the profiteers. Use the big
stick.
Longfellow wrote OF learning: ito Ia
Dor and to wait" Had he lived today
he would probably have made it: learn
to wait and to labor while you wait for
labor"
All of the state papers are giving
definitions of cynic. We know. We
know. The man who votes for prohibi-
ton and gets 1t and then wants it and
can't get 1t. That just naturally makes
him cynic.
Cats says that he has been called to
Washington by God. If So what's the
use Of fooling with the voters of Flor
da?-Times- Union. Many are called,
but few are chosen.
Lowden's stock is rising since he re-
fused to accept the nomination at the
dictation of Thompson, Every Amer
lean, democrat or republican, will adj
mire him for this stand against politi- |
cal ring domination.
o
Governor Edwards has declared he
will not accept the nomination for the
vice. presidency. We can't say as to
that, but we are quite sure he will
not accept the nomination for the
presidency. There's reason.
The Dade City Banner has outdone
all OF us. The paper came out last
week in seven columns, six pages,
printed on cream colored wrapping
paper. Commercial. The |
DeFuniak Breeze beaten to it, several
weeks ago.
Burleson's delivery reminds us of a |
joke on Central we read the other day. |
Someone called up and Central an
swered, this was the reply: Never
mind, Central. We wanted the fire de- |
partment. But the house has already
burned down."