The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1921-04-25
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MORE siMM ERINGs.'
BY GiifiIIan Scott.

If Mary Pickford called upon any Of
you fellows of the Pensacola Chamber
of Commerce, handed you a bouquet,
and implored you to kiss her. what
would you do about it?
If your own pet, personal under
taker sent you whispered message
that he had just received a coffin
full of Manhattan cocktail. and begged
you to come over and judge whether
it was more than one-half of one per
cent, what would you do about it?
If the city commissioners announced
themselves penitent referred the L. &
n. to their first letter, invited you
all to partake of split banana ice
cream at the city hall, (being the real
" logical headquarters of the city
Chamber of Commerceo and asked you
to advise them as to the quickest and
best way to get action and start labor
to work on the city docks and belt
railroad, what would you do about it?
Of course, none of these miracles
will happen. They never do.
What happened is that, on Saturday
evening, at the end of perfect week,
when | was just about all in, and look
ing for a blue Sunday of perfect rest,
mine enemy, who demands articles,
handed me letter, on Palafox street,
which he was about to mail.
It was addressed to me and had a
two-cent stamp on it which / at once
appropriated as my rightful fee.
It contained a verbal bouquet so
flattering that, had its bearer been the
aforesaid Mary, / tremb1es to think
what might have happened. But.
thank heaven, it wasn't Mary, lit
never ISL
Following the bouquet came re-
quest that I get busy and do some
more simmering, the subject this time
to be ''Why Pensacola Should Remain
in the State of Florida"
My immediate answer to that is
Let the other fellow explain why
Pensacola should not remain in the
State of Florida"
When we have that explanation
printed in our newspapers, we can an
swer it,
Pensacola is proud of its established
name, Pensacola, Florida, and is quite
satisfied, thank you, to have it remain
so.
Pensacola, Alabama, won't do at all,
at all, Uh, hur! Nothin' DOM
Tourists come to Florida, not to Ala
bama.
/ came to Pensacola because it is in
Florida. Here is my own illustration.
In 1910 was living in Montreal,
Canada. 1t was my fourth winter
there and ! had had enough snow and
frost to last the rest of my life +
walked into the Fraser Institute and
asked for the superintendent.
II want to read up on Florida, what
literature have your"
I'VE have three books by unbiased
authors, and / have been studying
them quite recently because I would
like to live IN Florida myself"
Good. Then you can tell me ex-
actly where to go. / have looked
at the map and can see | have the
choice of either the Atlantic coast or
the Gulf coast. I want sea breezes.
Which coast do you adviser"
Il advise you to avoid the Southern
part of the Florida peninsula and To-
cate in the Northern portion. You
might choose between Jacksonville on
the Atlantic side and Pensacola on
the Gulf, but Jacksonville is twenty
miles away from the sea, and ozone
ewaporates within three miles; so, If
you want real sea air and ozone, go
to Pensacola But take the three
books home and you can judge for
yourself"
/ thanked him for his courtesy and
friendly advice. read the experiences
OF men who had investigated every
nook and corner of Florida, and agreed
with my adviser that Pensacola, Flor
ida, the most northerly city in Flor
ida, on the north shore of the Gulf
of Mexico, facing due south, and re-
freshed by the soft southern breezes
straight from the Gulf, was an ideal
place to live.
I wrote the Pensacola Chamber OF
Commerce and received a beautiful
book of photos and statistics, which
contained advertisements of The Pen
sacola Journal and the Fisher Real
Estate Agency, both of whom respond
cd courteously and encouragingly to
my letters.
The late Frank L. Mayes and Will
liam Fisher welcomed me on arrival,
and Pensacola has treated me well.
am much better in health than / was
ten years ago and attribute the i'm
provement to Pensacola's sea air and
pure water.
But" you might say, "all that has
nothing to do with the bookkeeping
arrangement which would designate
Pensacola as of Alabama"
Hasn't it, my friend2
What did I go and ask for at the
Fraser Institute? Didn't / ask for
literature on FLORIDA? Ell?
Did | say ALABAMA chump?