The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-29
AS TO LOCALITY.

"An income of $4,000 in the South
is worth about twice what it is is the
great industrial centres of the North. !"
says an editorial in the New York Sun
and New York Herald, and adds that
the South affords Climate and cir
cumstances where housing costs are
relatively low, where fuel bills for
heating purposes are slight, where
warm, heavy clothing is not necessary
and where even food is more plentiful
and generally cheaper.
That the Sun and Herald editor is
right to certain extent is true While
prices are high in the South. they do
not compare to the prices of the north
ern cities, and while it is a fact that
heavy clothing and a tremendous
amount of fuel are absolute necessi-
ties at the north, it is true that in the
South the period when we need fuel
and heavy clothing is very short.
Yet it must be borne in mind that
there are many things to be said in
favor of life in a large northern city,
from the standpoint of economy, as
anyone can testify who has made his
way in such centre, with a deter
mination to take advantage of the
opportunities which are offered.
Taking New York City, for instance,
which the writer of the editorial prob
ably had in mind, while rents are twice
what they are in the South, it must
be remembered that rent of an apart
ment in New York includes lights.
fuel, water, and janitor service, items
of considerable Importance.
1t must be remembered that where
a maid is kept, while possibly one pays
twice as much as for service in the
South, the maid does cooking, washing
and ironing and a whole days work,
at the North, not leaving early in the
afternoon, as does the southern
helper
1t is also a fact that the man or
woman who really wants to econo-
mize in any large city at the North
can find the innumerable cafeterias,
tea-room and automats, food which is
palatable and cheap.
But, on the other hand, there is not
the same freedom of living in the
North. The people are crowded al
most beyond endurance and the tene-
ment houses of Manhattan are dis
grace to this country.
The people of the wealthy classes
and even the professions have a fight
ing chance. But the people of the
laboring class find in the South a
yeritable Mecca.
Here it is not only possible to work
the year round in the open air, but
it is possible to live happily and
wholesomely, at the same time; some
thing almost impossible for those
who are hired in the tenements of
New York or other northern cities.
1t is particularly true of Florida
that this is the Poor Mans Paradise
All that is needed is ability and in
'dustry to make a good living and lead
a life with which no city life can
compare.
1t has been said that if Florida
were cut off from the rest of the
world. the people of this state would
not be dependent upon the rest of the
world for sustenance in any way. And
this is true. There are today in the
confines of this state agricultural and
industrial development which make it
possible for the citizen OF Florida to
be entirely Independent of the rest of
the world, if need be.
Let US tell this to the people of the
United States.
Let us tell this to the people of the
world, if need be.
Let us tell this to the people of the
United States, again and again in
every possible way, and so bring to
this state that better class of indus
try at the north which is "cribbed, |
cabined and confined