The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-05
FAREWELL ADDRESS
OF JUDGE HOFFMAN
Retiring President of Chamber o
Commerce Delivers interesting
Speech at Annual Meeting.

| In the report of the annual meeting
of the Chamber of Commerce, held last
night at the auditorium in the Brent
/ building, owing to lack of space, the
| address of the retiring president,
Judge NJ. G.. Hoffman, was omitted,
| but, believing that every member of
the organization, and the general pub
! lie, will be interested in this speech,
/ The journal publishes it today in full:
| To the Honorable Board of Directors,
| and Members of the Chamber of
| Commerce:
| Our very excellent director, the Hon.
Fled w. Marsh, on one occasion, when
we were campaigning for a certain re-
suit said, The Judge speaks too much
through the heart and not enough
| through the head He was absolute
| ~ right about it, but how can 1 help
/ it; my heart being so much larger
/ than my head? So tonight, I again
want to speak to you through my
strongest mental equipment, my heart
and not my head. You all know the
omnipotent potency of n bewitchingly
sweet smile when your sweetheart
asks YOU for favor. 1t don't need
any head argument. And she is par
excellence the sweetest sweetheart
who does not use her head but her
heart only when she asks for a favor,
The unremunerated work of our dI-
rectoys and our most excellent com
mitteR members. has been prompted
not by the head but by the heart. II
has been truly work of constant love
and firm fidelity to our own home
town.
The great mass of the members Of
our Chamber of Commerce are dues
paying" members. helping to raise
$4,000 per year to carry on the work
of our Chamber of Commerce, and for
very good and sufficient reasons, are
not able to give more than their much
appreciated annual subscription. This
bulk of our membership is truly APP
preciative Of your good work. They
cannot, each of them, address you and
thank you for your good and gratui-
tous work and so, as the spokesman
for this excellent class of our member
ship, l wish for them. in their name
and stead, to thank you, the Board of
Directors and the committees, and
each and every individual member
thereof, for your splendid work which
has made our combined efforts and
accomplishments possible. You, gem
tlemen, may have lost some time in
your business and even some money
but you have laid up treasures for
yourselves in building up a broader
norbler. self sacrificing character.
When our earthly career shall have
ended, we will leave all that we then
possess, but we will take with us all
that we have ever given away in
money and time and effort for the up
Then, too, the members with whom
you have mingled, are the very salt
of the earth. and of the best men of
our city and assuredly it is the great
est. OF social privilege to frequently
mingle with such a grade of citizen
ship.
Our greatest boon during the year
just closed has been a competent, eff
ficient and hard working office force.
1t would be hard to find harder
working, more faithful office force.
Mr.. J. V. Price, our secretary, has
been of inestimable service to me in
my work. / will give him no more
than due credit by saying that with
out his assistance, I would have failed
in many parts of my work and he is
so retiring, so modest. so devoid of
bombast that his good qualities as a
thinker and Diplomat are known only
to those that are so fortunate as to
be intimately associated with him
Our Industrial Commissioner, Mr.. J
B. Morrow, is, as you all know, a man
OF unusual visions and aggressiveness
and with a disposition to stir UP
things and which all, in the end, spells
progress and ends stagnation. We
are unusually favored in having the
services of such a capable and broad
man.
Mr.. p. w. Reed. our traffic man
ager is much more than just a good
man. / think he will forgive me. So.
here is a secret: One day he said to
me: Judge, I've just turned down
that offer of one hundred dollars more
a month. I'm stuck on this town. I'll
stay" Now. that's an exact reflec-
ton of the enthusiastic fidelity of our
whole office force In their work, in
Guiding our two stenographers, Mrs.
L. y. Conway and Frank Bond
And now. on behalf of Our direc-
torate, l wish to thank our office force