Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-12-24
NEEDS OF PALATKA
HOW MAY PROGRESS
Be BEST FASTENED?
|Questionnaires Bring Out
Many Suggestions to
Chamber
DIVERSIFIED ANSWERS
Longer Term of School,
Bridge, Good Roads,
Cooperation


Men in all walks of Palatka's COM
mercial life have received from the
Chamber of Commerce in the last few
days a postal inquiry reading: What
in your opinion is the biggest thing
Palatka can do right now?" In the
variety of opinions it is evident there
are many deserving community needs
establishing that Palatka is crowded
with progress to the seeming limit of
human endurance yet still rapidly go-
ling forward.
Taken at random from the long list
of replies the following as first in
| lstallment are of outstanding inter-
est:
Herb Wilson: Get our school sit
uation cleared up, especially the pro-
misses made to the teachers. Make
everyone's Christmas merry"
Frank Waymer:> "First, everybody
join in and put over movement to
secure funds for full school term
lin that way make lasting Christmas
remembrance for the children. Ev-
erybody must join in securing it
! Second: Cncerted action on gooC
roads and bridge bond issue. Third
Stop quarreling among ourselves anc
carry on definite plan for action tc
secure municipal docks. Last: Make
a real genuine honest-to- goodness
New Year resolution that each ON
will help any good movement thai
will improve our city and that we will
be more kind and considerate of oul
individual citizens, and then do it fol
a full year in the certainty of desired
results for OUR town."
Mrs. Leo Jacobson: Establish al
office supported by the Rotary, XII
wants and Chamber of Commerce
with the Associated Charities to hell
|poor children and seek employment
for deserving fathers and mothers
/ Let's have this soon through combin
ed efforts of the clubs for year-roun,
good instead of just at Christmas"
Mrs. 8. w. Stallings: "Pay ou
debts and the biggest debt is to ou
future citizens. Give them squar
deal which means education, onl,
possible by the heartiest cooperation
Let's play ball."
]. J. Murphy: Good wide brio
roads,"
! G. w. Loveland: "No communit
can reach its full measure of prosper
ity while its citizens are indifferen
! to the education of its boys and girls
Lets all of us get out and hustle u
sufficient funds to maintain ou
schools for full year and to suppl
ment the measley salary paid schoC
teachers because of our present lac
of funds. Don't subordinate tn
school situation to any other need, n
matter what it is"
H. NJ. Fearnside: Cooperation G
the merchants and citizens in ever
effort put forward for the good q
Palatka. Everything can be solve
once our people see that the growt
of Palatka depends largely on whs
effort they are putting forth. Withor
cooperation we defer prosperity an
! its benefits"
H. o. Hamm: "You ask what
the biggest thing Palatka can d
t right now. There is nothing big
Y the community if the people are ne
t big enough to have full school teri
e and l know Palatka folks are alwaS
f big enough when education is an il
t sue. Full school term and full pa
e for our wonderful faculty is my opil
5 ion of the biggest thing right now
n 7. j. Barnett: 81 want good road
S concrete bridge, deeper river chal
}, mel, docks, better opinions of eat
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