The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-05-16
PRESS COMMENT
Eight Helpful Habits.

Your automobile can run q mile on
the level on the same amount Of gaso-
line it takes to make a hard start.
An express train Is less expensive to
operate that a local because stopping
and starting take so much time and
fuel.
The hard work Of this world is start
ing things. Once started, it is easy to
keep them going.
The person who has formed no help
full habits is wasting energy because
he is continually beginning.
Every habit is a tremendous labor
saving device.
Here is a list of helpful habits
Granville Kleiser suggests. We have
altered them a bit.
Cd The habit of Punctuality. Make
it a point to be at every engagement a
little before the time. Set your watch
five minutes fast. The only way to
get there soon enough is to start soon
enough. Don't dawdle. Allow for UNI
avoidable delays of transportation.
(2) The habit of Honesty. Just get
into the way Of telling the truth, no
more, no less.
(3) The habit Of Loyalty. Reject
any temptations to speak disparagingly
of anything or ANYBODY to whom you
owe allegiance; reject 1t as an unclean
thing.
(4) The habit of Sincerity. This
means a definite attitude of stunning
pretense. affectation, posing, and
making an impression, as opposed to
self expression.
(5) The habit Of COURTESY To be
courteous once does no good. Unless
you are courteous all the time you'd
as we'll not try at all.
CO. The habit of Cheerfulness. For
pessimism is a pose, and gloom is
usually simply bad habit.
% The habit OF Thrift For habit
is about all there is to thrift. Put a
certain part Of all you get into the
bank and live on the rest. Put the
first part in the bank, not the last.
(s) The habit of Prayer. For prayer
is not going to mean much to life I'M
less it is like daily bread. Praying &C.
casionally is about like eating once
week.
Pin this In your hat until it is alb.
sorbed into your head.-Wash ington
Times.
Florida Should Have Fifty Counties.
Fifty-nine counties must now be
reckoned with when publishers shall
put out new map Of Florida-but
how much better it would be II there
should be nine Of them sold to Ala
bama and the number Of counties in
this state be set at the fifty mark and
stay right there!
II those nine counties for which Ala
bama at first was willing to buy for
two million dollars could but be trans
ferred to Alabama for the five million
dollars which is reputed is the top
set price, three million dollars could be
devoted to the erection Of a magnifi-
cent building for the seat Of govern
ment upon some site contributed by
the county selected by the choice of
the people-and two million dollars
could be at once put into the work
Of completing vast mileage Of needed
hard-surfaced highways throughout the
state-not neglecting the Midway
Ocean to Gulf Cross-State Highway.
To invest at the present time. and
with the present prospective of the
desire Of the people, the sum Of a
quarter OF a million dollars-for that
Is what the two hundred thousand dol
lar appropriation would mean before
the Job was completed-in repairing,
amending, improving. and refurnishins
the old building at Tallahassee, Is con-
sidered by those who have given the
subject due thought a most absurd
proposition. For century the people
of Florida have stood for a gover-