The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-01-05
FOR GREATER DEVELOPMENT

A very general satisfaction has been
expressed because of the election of
! Paul p. Stewart to the presidency of
! the Pensacola Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Stewart had not anticipated the
nomination, and the election came to
/ him as complete surprise.
! But Mr. Stewart is not of the calibre
which shirks responsibility, or seeks TO
evade public duty, and on his cleo
| ton Tuesday evening, gave assurance
/ that he would bend every effort toward
/ making good in his new office.
! No one who has followed the career
| of Mr. Stewart since his coming to
| Pensacola can doubt that he will fulfill
the duties Of this Office. as he has full
| filed every duty which has come to
1 him. with ability and conscientious APP
plication TO the requirements of the
| position to which he has been elected.
Since coming to Pensacola in 1917.
Mr.. Stewart has been identified with
many public movements, to each of
which he has brought rare executive
capacity and unusual qualifications for
! leadership.
| The same gifts which made him of
such value to the United States ship
ping board during the world war, and
which have placed him at the head
Of one of the largest business enter
prises in the south, specially fit him
| for public work.
| No office within the gift Of the pub
| lie is of greater Importance than that
of the presidency of the Chamber of
Commerce, for in it's leadership are
centered duties which carry with
them an obligation of many kinds to
the city.
| The man who assumes this leader
ship needs something more than abil-
ity and willingness to act. He needs
1 tact and firmness of character
com bination which is rare.
In his own private business affairs,
as chairman of the industrial commits
sion of the Chamber of Commerce, as
well as chairman of various commit
/ tees on which he has served, notably
the Y NJ. c. A. campaign and the
Armistice day committee, MIR. Stewart
has worked always with quiet deter
! mination and we'll directed effort to-
ward whatever goal was set for him,
and no one who is at all familiar with
the success of these efforts can doubt
but that the year Of 1922. under his
leadership, will mean direct results and
real achievement for the Pensacola
Chamber of Commerce.
Also, it was to Mr.. Stewards SPLEEN
| did Executive ability and able leader
ship that Pensacola was largely in
debted for the visit Of the National
Editorial association to this city last
| March. As chairman of the committee
which RAISED the $1,000 fund for the
entertainment OF the association, MIR
| Stewart not only was instrumental il
making the visit OF the members a
pleasant one, but because OF that visit
Pensacola was given wide publicity i'll
newspapers throughout the country
and for this assistance not only the
general public. but The Pensacola
! Journal, which is q member OF the
association. is indebted.
In a public speech made in 1918,
member of the Pensacola Shipbuilding
company made the statement that the
selection of Pensacola as the location
of the plant was made by Mr., Stewart
after he had made Investigations in
| many sections of the United States
And that this site was selected because
| 1t was felt that here were advantages
to be found in no other city.
This faith that Mr.. Stewart had in
Pensacola was justified an evidence
of which is the fact that in spite OF
handicaps imposed by the vicissitudes
of reconstruction, the Pensacola Ship
building plant is one of the few such
enterprises which has survived the
turbulency of after war conditions,
holding out promise, even in these
difficult times, of future rehabilitation.
That faith, which has never failed
him, he will bring to bear on the prob
lens that will come to him, and which
he must help to solve for the munich
pality as the head of its chief COM
mercial organizatian, and Pensacola is
fortunate in that leadership.
But while Pensacola is fortunate
that Mr.. Stewart has been placed in
this important position for the COM
ing year. and there is a very general
feeling of satisfaction among the raem-
bers it is felt that Mr.. Stewart, too
is to be congratulated on having sue
ceeded a man who has built so well
and so firmly
The year 1921 was the most success
full in the history of the Chamber of
Commerce, not only in achievement,
but in the spirit which was generated,
and the answering devotion of the
president, his kindly nature and IN
failing faith, not only in the righteous
ness of his cause, but in the men
whose official head he was, was re-
fiected in the cooperation which was
given him. and which went far toward
the success of the commercial organi-
cation.
In succeeding Mr.. Hoffman, the new
president finds the ground we'll pre-
pared for the work that is. before him,
and which he will doubtless carry for
ward in such way as to make 1929
stand out as the greatest year of ac-
tivity for the Pensacola Chamber of
Commerce.