The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-02-17


well as the legislatures. In the state
of Wisconsin there are not less than
forty five commissions all acting UNI
der judicial sanction.
These commissions are making leg
the executive power under score of
different heads. They are putting the
financial resources of the states and
the nation at the disposition of boards
in the creation and control of which
the public has no voice. They are
setting up a bureaucratic despotism,
modelled after that most efficient ex-
ample of modern times, the regime
established by Prince Bismarck in
Germany, which made that nation at
once the most efficient, the most ty-
rannicai and the most dangerous pow
err on earth. They are poisoning the
spring of Anglo-Saxon liberty which
was the inspiration of the fathers of
the country, and the only genuine
hope of it's future. Let the governor
hit this imported monster as hard as
he can, and in his support this paper
is prepared to go as fas "as who goes
arthest."-Lakeland Telegram.
The county commissioners have at
their meeting this week been going
over plans and specifications for the
rebuilding of the court house. Both
are extensive and it Will or should
take many days careful examination
ere any decision is reached regard
ing them.
The expenditure of upward of $780,
600 is no small matter, and if an
,, individual had to make such an out
lay he would take many days, or
weeks. to work out the plan of doing
it. Haste makes waste, and this is
true of adopting plans for the rebuild
ing of the court house.
The mistake made when the road
contracts were let of Incorporating in
the contract any particular make of
brick. cement, etc., which eliminates
all competitiony should be avoided.
If any article needs the explanation
that a cut or description in some ones
catalogue gives, let the contract not
confine itself to this article, but either
that, or some one elses make equally
as good.
All extras should be eliminated. 1t
is going to be burdensome to meet
even the least amount that will be
required, and there is every reason
why extras should be cut. And the
county does not wish to pay a per-
centage on only what the building
costs, and not on what it might cost
if these extras are included.
Take all the time necessary Mr..
Commissioners to carefully check over
the plans, and the specifications. You
are going to expend a large sum of
the taxpayers money, and they wish
unusual care taken in its expenditure.
Errors may be corrected now that if
not attended to, will cost the county
many hard earned dollars in the flu
ture.-St. Andrews Bay News.
Simultaneous with the report from
Salt Lake City that high heels are
about to be prohibited by law in Utah,
comes word from a Y. w. c. A. sec
rotary returned from France that
many French girls are discarding their
slender heels and taking to low-heeled
shoes. "The high heel got its first
blow says the returned secretary
who has had charge of the recreation
for French club girls for the past year
and a half, when a group of us start
ed out for five-mile hike and most
of the mixers had on French heels.
The walking tour was not greatly en-
joyed by the fashionably- dressed
walkers and the next time a hike was
announced, the few available low
heeled shoes were in demand The
Y. w! c. A. bulletin reports that many
French girls have been converted to
the wearing of walking shoes simply
through the sports and walks insti-
tuted by American secretaries in the
girls Clubs. The Utah bill if passed
will subject any woman wearing heels
higher than one and half inches to
a fine or imprisonment.-Mi Me-
tropolis.