The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-08
PRESS COMMENT
Why the Opposition p

| n anpears that opposition from
some secret source has appeared al
Tallahassee to the bill urged by the
South Florida Press association and
approved by the entire State Press as
ISOLATION, calling for the publication OF
the records of the meetings of certain
county and municipal officihls, not
now required to be made public by
publication.
| The bill purposes that in the future
II will be impossible for any of these
bodies having to do with the appropri-
| alton or expenditure of the peoples
| money, to make any disposition of
funds without full publicity being
!, given to their intent and to their COM
pleted act,
Every tax payer has the right, and it
is his duty, to know how his money is
| being spent. 1t is his duty to hold
the official having charge of it in strict
watchfulness. He has a right to know
what is intended to be done, before it
is done, not to have to wait until it
! is done to find out.
| Every honest official (and the ma
jority Of them are honesty has a right
to the oversight of the people on what
has the right to demand that they
take a certain share of the RESPONSE
bility done.
| The only way both these can be at
tanned is by newspaper publication.
The bill requires the publication as
| legal notice to the public, and as legal
protection to the official, of the min
| utes and records of the meetings Of
certain public boards, and officials. 1t
is a good bill. Its spirit and intent is
good; and there is no reason why it
should not be passed.
The ST. Petersburg Independent
goes so far as to say: why any pub
lie official should object to the publ
cation Of his reports (and he is sup
posed to make reports) is hard to I'M
derstand upon any other, hypothesis
than that he fears to lay his acts out
in the light. This objection is equiva-
lent to admitting that he is careless or
dishonest-or both. And the more
strenuously he objects the more
strenuously the taxpayer ought to in
sist upon turning on the light
Tampa Tribune.
A Credit To State School
The April number of the Florida
School Herald, the official publication
of the Florida School for the Deaf and
the Blind is entitled 1.-THE Visitors
Number" and it is especially delight
full, the pages being frightened by the
use of many attractive cuts. Pictures
of the school buildings, of the campus,
and Of the students at work and play
are given in this issue, and especially
appealing are the rhymed couplets that
appear beneath each illustration.
This special number of the Herald
is dedicated in verse as follows:
Tourists who yearly throng our
state,
Home friends within whose widst
we dwell
1t is to you we dedicate
The April Herald. 1t will tell
The story of the work we do,
The life we live, the things we say.
We hope that you will read it
through
And come to visit US some day.
Miss Daisy B. Wilson, a member of
the school faculty, in charge of the
musical department, is responsible for
the little verses which add so much to
the appearance and to the interest of
the issue, and the magazine as a whole
is the product of the school-at-large.
1t Is admirably edited, and the printing
was done in the industrial plant of
the school. The Florida State School
for the Deaf and Blind may be Justly
proud OF the current number of it's
M oziy n,,I
friends and well-wishers everywhere
with feeling of genuine satisfaction
in every detail of the production.-st
Auersfina Racnrd