The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-11-17
Peoples Forum
Pensacola. Nov. 18th, 1922

| Pensacola, Nov. 18TH, 1Szz.
Editor Pensacola Journal:
You have written editorials about our
| schools and education in general, so
| I know you are trying to help us solve
our problem.
1 don't know of anything that should
| interest US more than schools. Good
roads are mighty fine, but good road
will only last 10 to Is years, while an
education lasts a lifetime.
| Some Of the money now being spent
on roads (Gulf Beach road for instance,
which is neither an inlet nor outleD
would have been we'll spent on school
| faculties, and helped US to get teachers,
rather than losing some Of them when
their salaries were cut 10 percent, which
seemed wrong. 1 haven't noticed where
any Of our politicians had their salaries
cut. Won't it be fine when we get poll
| tics out of our school systems?
The school superintendent told the pa
irons (before the present term started)
that the text books would not be
changed this year, but they have. The
freshmen going into high school can
not use the Latin, History, or English
books that were used last term. The
! books average $3.50 each which has
been hard on some Of the parents. who
are trying to keep their children at
school, and keep them up to the Ameri
can standard.
I see where there is a balance of $23,-
schools are enabled TO continue for the
complete terms.
The fact that some people refuse to
pay their taxes and get by with it is a
reflection upon our state, county and
city governments, and it is also a reflec-
ton upon those who fail to come up
with their taxes. 1 believe that the
school children of today will not, when
they are grown, be caught attempting
to shirk their duties as tax payers. Pos
sibly If those who are evading paying
their taxes had been trained in well
equipped schools directed by competent
teachers for eight or nine months each
year they would have quite a different
viewpoint as to their duty to their gov
ernments.
In yesterdays Journal there appeared
some verses by Berton Braley under the
head of mo Use At ALL" and one of
the women readers of The Journal sends
in postscript to mo Use At All"
The question of a Jackless Jill and a
Jillless Jack seems to be quite a prob |
lem, and leads, according to the last
word of the postscript to a very unde- !
sirable end.
Here's the original poem:
I started out in my career
To get the money while I could,
For though the poets scott and sneer,
To have a bunch Of kale is good.
And in lifes swift and busy whirl
I gather Jack with all my skill,
But failed to win me any girl,
And what is Jack without a Jill?
What though my balance at the bank
Be beautiful to gaze upon,
I find my life is bleak and blank
without a girl to spend 1t on;
So though I toiled with all my might
To put the cold cash in my till,
I find my work is wasted, quite;
For what is "jack" without a jill?
Put money in your purse; twill give
The laugh to want and hunger dread,
It makes things brighter while you live,
And pays to plant you when you're
dead;
But having money lacks in pith,
1t brings no fun, no Joyous thrill
Without girl to share it with,
For what is "jack" without a Jill?
And here's the postscript:
Since 'kale" it takes to live or die
To win the stuff I'll surely try,
But speaking now of Jack and Jill, i
Life without Jill to Jack is mil l.
I'll turn the query from front to back {
What's life to Jill without her Jack?
AS { fact mean to truly tell
Life would be little less than H.