The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-11-26
Politics, People, Persiflage
Comment on Subjects in Which You
May or May Not Be Interested. About
People You Know and Ought to Know
BY BRYAN MACK

One doesn't have to go back into his
tory more than twelve or fifteen years
| to recall the treatment that was accord
| ed the public from the agents Of public
service corporations. 1t was brazen
disregard of the publics welfare and
this resulted in these public service cor
porations getting in bad with the pub
| lie. 1t was natural that the people
would resent the treatment.
In some cities the heads Of the public
service corporations continue to treat the
public as they please, but times are
I changing. L have always been known as
! an enemy to public service corporations,
! and 1 admit it, but that antagonism was
in each case justified by the attitude of
the officers of the public service cor
poration.
! Here in Pensacola, I am pleased TO
lsay, the managers Of the gas company,
the electric company and the telephone
company are men of the highest order.
They are fine citizens, earnestly working
for the upbuilding Of Pensacola.
! 1t means more to a city than most any
other thing to say that the public utili-
ties are managed by men who consider
the welfare Of the public, and 1t is with
| genuine pleasure that I can say this
about Pensacola. Time may come when
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public utilities on the matter Of service
and rates, but SO long the Gas Com
pany has H. G. Gross for it's manager,
the Electric Company has Jack Holtz-
claw, and Colonel Peel is manager Of the
Telephone Company. I will know that
the public will be treated courteously at
all times.
| The gas company has voluntarily re-
duced it's rates, which, so far as my lin
| tied knowledge goes. is the first time in
the history of the world when a pri-
vately-owned public utility voluntarily
reduced its rates.
| There is a good lady who calls me IN
| every time there appears anything In the
paper against the Republicans. She says
| know more about the Republican party
| than do about the Democratic, and In
Inmates very strongly that what I don't
know about her Republican friends
would fill a library.
She has been a Republican for eighty
years, she says, and knows that the Re
| publicans are better than the Democrats
but she doesn't know why she has this
opinion. Since I know at least one good
Republican l think shall disappoint her
| by saying something nice about Re-
publican this Sunday morning.
! This good Republican is none other
than Fred Cubberly, district attorney
| for the Northern District of Florida FRED
! is Republican because. his father hap
pened to be in Indiana instead of Ten
nessee when the war between the States
was declared.
| Fred's father came to Florida 81 years
ago. and Fred has been one Of the few
| consistent Republicans ever since he be-
came Of voting age. I never have been
| able to understand how a fellow could
live in Florida 81 years and be a Repuo-
lican, but as there are several other
questions 1 have been unable to fathon,
I am not losing sleep over the Repubn-
can situation.
When it comes to knowing Florida his.
| tory, few men in Florida are Fred Cub
berly's equals. He is we'll read on most
questions, and Is a most delightful con-
Iversationalist. He was district attorney
from 1909 to 1914, and IS now serving In
| the game capacity as appointee of
President Harding, and is giving salts
faction, which is going some for a Re-
publican in a Democratic state.
1t would be unfair to write about the
district attorney without mentioning his
assistant, for the duties Of the office
have so increased that the assistant now
lis quite as important as the chief. 1t
!clways does me good to see q young man
| make good In any line Of endeavor, and
Assistant District Attorney Earl Hoff
man is making good in every sense of
the word.
I He is a Pensacola boy, and is making
good right in his own home town. which
lis harder to accomplish than making
good among strangers. Ones playmstes