The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-10-27
"AND THIS is FLORIDA"


know land where the hand Of
God Himself has fashioned a shore
Of marvellous sweep. where gentle
trade winds signing through majestic
palms Groom q ceaseless obligato, and
where beaches of dazzling white,
stretched against background of liv-
| ing green, slope down to the ever rest
less seas.
This is Florida. where day by day
the earth is kissed by sunbeams that
caress. and where by the night spirit
of romance walks beneath a moon OF
tropic splendor
This is Florida. where the gorgeous
poinsettia flashes its crimson petals
and where the wide winged heron in
sharp outline against sky Of purest
azure.
This is Florida, whose smile is as
fair as on that day when the first sun
pushed back nights curtain and fleck-
ed the horizon with crimson streaks
heralding Creations dawn.
This is Florida. where natures
richest gifts have been showered with
lavish hand and where myriad charms
beckon the weary and the worn.
This is Florida, the Glad Land,
whose outstretched arms beckon in
willingly that the world may come and
know the charms that are hers.
This is Florida, broad in her reaches
and laved by two seas.
This is Florida, rich beyond count
in hidden wealth, whose soil puts forth
a golden harvest and to whose deep
harbors speed the richest argosies of
commerce.
Where yesterday the crafty aborig-
Inc with steaIthy tread stole through
tangled growth and sent flaming shafts
to spread destruction among the strug-
Cling colonies, today humble wheels
of industry. Where winding paths
lost themselves in matted vegetation,
highways of brick and smooth asphalt
stretch invitingly. Where the smoke |
from the Seminole's camp-c fire lazily
waited heavenward, today rise the |
chimneys of industry and where only |
the shrill of night-birds broke the ST.
lence, now chime the babel of cities, |
modern and proud and new, resplend-
ent in their garments of youth and
jealous of their strength
This is Florida, to which the world /
has come and fingered and praised,
to which the weary and broken have
found the way to regain their vigor
and to shout afar the virtues of this
land upon which Nature has smiled
Florida strides along with the vigor
Gus, swinging pace of youth, in time t
with the spirit of progress. a song Of
joy on her lips and in her eyes the
light Of determination
This rs Florida, the playground of
the world. yet not a playground en-
tirely. For here industry and COM
merce rank important. Florida's broad
ranges provide grazing ground for
countless thousands of cattle, Flori-
da's forests ring with the axe of the
woodsmen and the melody OF the saw
breaks the silence of their fastness.
On the bosom OF her streams float
valued cargoes and at her wharves
are stalwart and her daughters fair
ard their eyes peer fearlessly into the
futue.
Florida's past is but a promise of
her future. The achievements that il
have been hers are but the foreshad-
owing OF those to come Her feet are
cased in Seven League boots of pro-
gress. and the coming decade will see
new Florida, better Florida, the
flush OF her youth replace by the
healthier. more substantial glow OF her
maturity.
This Is Florida. the land Of promise;
Florida. the worlds plavgl ound Flor
ida-the Glad Land.-SIianli Real Es-
tate Journal