The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-03-25
FLORIDA AT TOP |
IN LEGION AFFAIRS
Shown by Psir-up List of Adiutant-
Pensacola Should Emulate Ex-
ample Of the Tampa Post.
(Ey VIM. a. ELLis)

With a zeal for accomplishment
that has won the plaudits OF the whole
nation, Florida has stepped to the top
OF the list IN American Legion activi-
ties as shown by the paid up member
ship on the books Of the national adj
iutant.
1t is the same spirit that has made
Florida garden out OF a jungle in the
last quarter of a century. No man
could have attended the department
convention at Palm Beach without
feeling that in such atmosphere was
the life of a nation. It was the purest
America nisn-4unselfisn devotion TO
duty even when it meant n sacrifice
a subduing Of individuals to produce a
harmonious whole.
One of the most remarkable in
stances Of this kind was the phenona-
email growth of L. s. S, Tampa Post
No. Of the American Legion.
Growth of Post.
From a post that was Insignificant
in comparison with posts in smaller
towns it has grown to the largest in
the state, has It's own band that has
never cost the post treasury a cent,
maintains paid service officer to
help veterans secure jobs and adjusts
their claims against the government
and has become q. real factor in the
civic life of the city
West Palm Beach, a town Of less
than half the size of Pensacola has its
own club house and banda club
house approximating very closely in
cost the new Elks club. Sarasota, De-
Land, Lake Worth, and a dozen other
towns even smaller, have live posts
and units of the auxiliary that are
making history in the southern part
Of the state.
There was shown throughout the
convention an optimism that would
have driven the worst pessimist in the
state to cover. in the first encounter.
When these posts told of their sue
cesses the delegates from Pensacola
had to sit still. What is the reason
for this? Why is it possible that the
men in this end of the state are in
active? Can it be possible that we are
not as much interested in the develop
ment Of our state as our neighbors to
the south of us? Are we selfish, and
want TO work only for personal gain?
Victories of Peace.
Buddy the victories of peace are no
less glorious than those Of war; bat
ties with ignorance, inactivity. and
failure are no lesSbftter and fatal than
those with Huns; the result of the
first is destruction, want degradation,
and suffering which ever way the vic
tory goes: with the last, to fight is to
INSTRUMENTATION rs opposed to de-
struction. And the glory of winning
in the fight for civilization is greater
than any that sam Woodfill or Alvin
York Or Major Williams could win on
8 thousand battle fields in France; for
what we do now is the building up Of
the country and ideals that America
fought TO preserve.
Let every man who wore the uni
form. every woman, and every one who
gave 4 boy or girl TO that service get
behind the thing for which these
heroes of the war did SO much, and
push it 50 high and make it go fine
and strong that everyone will be proud
Ito say that such an organization is
working his town. Let us put every
ounce OF our strength into the build
ing of the legion with the greater Wis
ion in sight of building of citizenship,
honor and respect to our city.