The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-11
PRESS COMMENT
Roads in Florida.

| Roads in Florida
Some months ago the Times Unior
1 opposed Mr. Miller's plans for raising
! money TO build roads but it did not
oppose his enthusiasm for good roads
OF underestimate the advantage such
roads would be to the state. We wish
Gu TO see the people of Florida driv-
| ing over hard surfaced roads they had
PAID for-not over those to be paid
Tor IN future- We preferred to see this
generation practice some degree OF
seH-denial If necessary to have good
roads rather than pass the burden on
| down to the next. But all that is his
| tory. -
Now Mr.. Miller has plan for build
! ing roads that would furnish as much
money or more than would have been
spent under the bonding plan. If this
| plan is successful we will have as
large or larger mileage of good roads
and as good roads as we would have
mad under the other and the beauty
of 1T is they. will be our roads, fully
paid for and not dependent on the fu-
ture for pax. And we will have wasted
no money on interest.
the attention as yet that VOID Justify
us in approving in full all it's details
but we approve his purpose and we
rely on the legislature to do the best
that can be done for the state. This
seems to be an unusually good legis-
lature. 1t seems to be composed of
men who take practical views of ques-
tons and decide them from the stand
point of good business judgment.
One suggestion we make as to the
bill that will provide for road build
ing is that a much heavier license be
charged for heavy trucks than has
been charged heretofore, especially
trucks used for commercial purposes
They do much more damage to the
Froads than is done by pleasure cars
or the smaller cars used for business
The state of Florida provides a road
bed for them and they should contrib
ute their share for building roads and
keeping them in repair. They are not
now contributing their share.
AS we have said in a previous edi-
toriai, we make this recommendation
despite the fact that selfishness would
prompt us not to do SO. The Times
Union uses trucks in catching trains
outside Of Jacksonville and in deliv-
ering papers along sixty or seventy
miles of route. We would be among
those who would pay heavier licenses
and we would be willing to pay them
because they are just.
No one is more earnestly desirous
than the Times Union to have a good
system of hard surfaced roads in
Florida and weAare ready to help any
proper plan to secure them.-Jack-
sonville Times Union.
The Bad Old Times.
Old men are always expected to laud
the old days and deplore the degener-
ate present. Even the young. during
the period when youth most feels the
burden Of the world on its shoulders,
have tendency that way.
Well, the other night there was a
reunion Of veteran New Workers to dis
cuss "Old Times and New" It was
"a foregone conclusion that. the new
would be roasted to a turn. What
happened was about like this:
A reformer, 70 years old, noted for
his zeal in assailing the morals and
the manners of the metropolis for
two or three decades, confessed that
moral conditions there are better to-
day than they used to be.
A physician, aged SO, told how in
competent municipal health officials
used to be, what ignorance prevailed
regarding hygiene, and 'how danger
Gus epidemics. now curbed, used to
take their heavy toll.
An octogenarian physician testified
to a remarkable improvement in the
disease and mortality rate.
A patriarch of II praised present
day transportation in comparison with
the slow, awkward vehicles of early
days.
A famous and scholarly clergyman,
aged IS, rejoiced in the knowledge
that in his lifetime steady progress
had been made against disease and
vice.
1.-THE world do move Don't believe
the pessimists and cynics. Evil ex-I
lists, and Is strong. and gets the upper
hand now and then, but never for
long. Good, in all forms. is stronger.
After every relapse progress is re-
sumed, with little net gain.
Don't despair for the next genera |
ton. Our children shall see better
things than we have seen. and have
a better chance, and their children
shall be still more fortunate.-St. All
gustine Record.
Farmers Can Now Secure Insurance.
That farming is the fundamental in
dustry, upon which all other industries
and all prosperity Is founded is COM
Ing more and more to be recognized
The time was when 1t was thought
could be farmer, but 1t is I
coming to be recognized that 1t takes
brains to make good farmer as much
DR. more than to make a success OF
almost any other business. The time
was when farmer might have any
amount from few hundred dollars to
my number of thousands Invested in