The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-08-10
GETTING READY.

Association, which convenes in Florida
next March. The organization is COM
posed Of about five hundred editors
and publishers of the United States,
numbering some of the most promi-
nent in this country.
The first stop will be made at Pen
sacola, the party to come by train to
this city, direct from Chicago. At a
recent meeting in st. Augustine when
the itinerary was mapped out it was
decided that a feature of the OPEN
ing meeting in Pensacola would be an
address by Gov. Carey A. Hardee. The
delegates will be met at Pensacola by
committee from the state press as
ISOLATION.
The present plans contemplate an all
day stay in Pensacola, with a visit to
party will leave Pensacola in the eve
ming going on to DeFuniak. They will
probably make short stop-over in
Milton.
Breakfassing in DeFuniak. they will
go to Panama City and nearby points,
then on to Tallahassee. arriving there
the same afternoon. They will leave
Tallahassee that night and arrive in
Jacksonville the next morning. spend
ing the day and night in that city.
Going from Jacksonville to st. Au-
gustine, business session of three
days will be spent in that historic
city, following which the guests will
board a special Pullman train as
guests of the Florida Press Associa-
ton.
The first day they will visit Palat-
ka, Gainesville and Ocala. The second
day: Leesburg and other Lake county
points of interest, spending the late
afternoon IN Lakeland and proceeding
to Tampa, where they will leave the
special train in Pinellas and Manatee
counties, returning to Tampa after two
days of travel They will then board
the special train and leave for Fort
Myers. returning VIA Bradentown, Ar
cadia and Wauchula.
They will then abandon the special
Pullman train and via automobile
routes will visit Orlando, then leave
for Daytona via DeLand, and Sanford,
thence to Cocoa, Rockledge, West Palm
Beach and on to Miami, where they
will spend two days and adjourn.
Nothing of greater Importance to the
of this city and section
has ever been planned. The first i'm
preston made when coming into a
state is always a lasting impression
Upon how Pensacola acquits itself in
enter lining these distinguished guests,
much will depend.
The convention will meet in Florida
next March, so but little more than six
months remains to get ready for their
coming. Not one moment OF delay
should be countenanced. Every effort
should be put forward, and at once, to
see that Pensacola is placed in such
condition as to make the kind of i'm
preston which would give a fair esti-
mate of the possibilities of this port and
the Improvement already made here
Taking Palafox street as a test, we
would point out the many improve
ments that could be made, with very
little outlay
One has only to look at the San
Carlos hotel, which has been so recent
~ renovated. to see what it means to
the appearance of any building to have
good scrubbing or coat of paint
From the San Carlos. on down the
street, certainly to the federal building,
a few hundreds of dollars spent in the
renovation of buildings, would make
returns which can hardly be esti-
mated
People are not so much interested
in how many buildings you have in a
city. or how high those buildings are.
as the kind of buildings you have. And
some of the buildings on Palafox
street are a disgrace to the town.
These building do not need mending
so much as cleaning-they need to be
cleaned up. given fresh lease on life.
What is true of Palafox is true of
other streets.
Today Pensacola is known as the
City of Billboards. That is the high
est claim it is able to make, when it
comes to architectural beauty.
When the publishers visit Pensacola
they will find here a city unique in
many ways. with a number of enter
prises and industries which cannot be
duplicated anywhere in Florida.
They will find here the greatest
naval air station in the country and
the most modern Notifications on the
gun. They will find the greatest
fishing business in the world and the
two of the greatest pine products
plants in the world; a great steel
plant. which has already
turned out ten mammoth vessels and
is now engaged in other construction
work; one Of the largest chemical fer
tilizer plants in the south. and many
other developments and industries.
They will find a city of historic in
terest. stepped in tradition, and made
more interesting by story and legend.
The impression that they get of
Pensacola will be striking because it
cannot but be so, with the many in
teresting things we shall have toI
show them.
But it must be remembered that
their visit to other cities will take
them to other scenes of interest and
Pensacola will be com
pared to many other cities in the
state, some large and some smaller.
We do not need to emulate these
other cities. We have enough OF VAL
ue that is our own without seeking to
be anything that we are not. But
what we do need, is to show our
selves in our best light.