The Pensacola journal., 1920-02-27
A MERCHANT PRINCE

MERCHANT PRINCE
There was an old geezer and he had a lot Of sense;
He started up business dollar eighty cents
The dollar for stock and the eighty for an adj
Brought him three lovely dollars in day, by CAD;
Well he bought more goods and little more space
And he played that system with a smile on his face.
The customers flocked to his two-by-four
And he soon had to hustle for regular store.
Up on the square where people pass,
He gobbled up a that was all plate glass.
He fixed up the windows with the best that he had
And he told em all about it in half page ad
He soon had em coming, and he never quit,
And he wouldn't cut down HI, ads one Bit
Well he's kept things hummng in town ever since.
And everybody calls him the Merchant Prince.
Some say it's luck but that is all bunk
Why he was doing business when the times were
punk.
People have 10 purchase and the old geezer
For he knew the way to get EN- to advertise.
THE Devil" in Paatka News.
Don't fail to plant a garden. Help to increase that
ten billion crop few billions next year
1t may be a. tame presidential campaign. but some
of the campaigners already the war-path.
In Russia newspaper cannot print anything
which critcises the government. And yet they tell
us that Russia is free from tyranny
The rising prices have connection with early,
rising. The higher the prices the more the
people snOre.
The St. Augustine Record has well said: Organ
lied government and civilization founded upon
love Of justice not fear of law"
Here is q good one the Lumber Trade Journal
gets off: Even congress afflicted with old man
II. c. L. At least there is Henry Cabot Lodge"
The Paatka News says that newsprint paper
is high that currency printed on it in de-
nominations of less than five dollars would be
loss.
The Tampa Tribune says: I'VE have to think
what these women may do to the South if they get
the ballot without any southern ratifcations"
Some southern states have already shown their
sanity.
Experts have figured out the cost of living in
Washington for the working girl and have placed
her amusements at $50 per year That is more than
five cents per day, literally thrown away. Reck-
less extravaganza, call it,
The Orlando Reporter-Star declares that some
people think that it is h cinch to get out a news
would change their minds. Be good sport, You
have to acknowledge it is lois of fun.
The Jacksonville Metropolis says that when pr-
vate owners get back the railroads they will know
how the Old felt when the prodigal son came
home dead broke. But it must be remembered that
the Old man pretty well fixed. even at that.
About the meanest thing in the world is to try
20 tear down what another is trying to build up
In that great book, "A Sorry Tale-A Tale of the
Christ" Jesus says to his followers You can not
build up by tearing down." And that is as true to-
day as when it was uttered by the Master, in far
Off Gaee.
\ third bank is to be established at Lake Worth,
which is less than ten years old Lake Worth is
of the cities Of the stat egrowing at a rapid
rate and the fact that it has just organized its third
financial institution goes to show that there is
plenty Of money among the farmers and business |
who make the community.