The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-06-15
Press Comment
What the Primaries Do For Us.

In the old "destric" school it used
to be the custom for the committee
men to occasionally call on the school
and give them a talk, which mostly
wound up In this fashion: Now boys,
eff you'll mind yer teacher and be good
mebbe when you grow up you'll be
president OF the United States" There
were a lot of pronounced skeptics,
even in those early days. when the kids
were supposed to believe all they
heard; but when some of the men who
were kids fifty years ago now read OF
the fabulous sums needed to conduct
a campaign for the nomination for
president it is to laugh at the mere
suggestion. Fifty thousand dollars
would represent comfortable fortune
half century ago, but this amount
wouldn't buy cigarettes for the COM
mitteemen who were working on the
problem of getting the right man NOM
mated for president. 1t takes at least |
$200, 900 to conduct state canvass for |
candidate for the president, and any |
man who would essay Ea.iona. cab
yass without at least million dollars
at his command would be beaten be-
fore he started. Now, mind you, all
this talk is about getting the nom |
nation. To get elected Is another |
kind Of proposition entirely and re-
quires more backing than dozen ma
tional banks OF the biggest dimensions !
could furnish. II we could resurrect |
one Of these old time "destric'." school
ers and tell him how much it costs to |
even make try at the nomination for |
president, how surprised and shocked |
he would be.-Homestead Enterprise. |
Some Profiteering, What.
Because they bought sugar at "A
cents and 10 cents per pound and sold
1t at 2SNcents one Tampa man and |
three Orlando men are under arrest on |
the charge OF profiteer:ng. The men
are w. B. Coursey. general manager Of |
the Sub-Tropical Products Company
at Tampa, and c. ]. Early, P. T. Davis |
and A. r. McRae, all of the Eatsum
Products Corporation, in Orlando. OF, |
ficials say the meh admit that the
charges are correct-and they also
say that these selling rates are the
prime cause of a. 35-cent sugar
throughout the state. The people NAV
Eatsum products, but it looks as If i
only few would Eastum sugar.
Thorn in Palm Beach Post.
Jim Ham Lewis Prediction.
Jim Ham Lewis predicts the next
war will be between the United States
on one side and England, Germany.
Russia and Japan on the other. Jim
Ham surely is handing the little old
United States some compliment,-l
Tampa Tribune.
The Democratic Party.
The Democratic party may be poor
but it is at least honest. The records
viii show. too. that it is patriotic. Mar
Vicious have been its achievements
both in peace and in war-Ocala Ban
ner.
Farmers Working Night and Day.
Farmers in northern Alabama hayel
been much delayed in planting this
year. because Of continued rains and al
ate spring. But lately they have been
making up for lost time. A dispatch
lated Gadsden, May 28th, states that
armers in that section are keeping
heir machinery going twenty -four
iours day, using headlights on their
FACTORS at night and dividing the dayI
INTO three eight-hour shifts. No men
Ion Is made OF a shortage of labor. If
hese progressive farmers are proving
hat they can compete with the fac
cries and other industries in the kinds
4 jobs they have to offer, it is not
uprising that they have hands,
heir farm machinery going twentyfour
nough to keep their work going for
Yard continuously. while other farm
ng sections are bewailing the short
&c OF labor.-Plant City Courier.