The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-09-17
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate
his country depends.-Disraeli.
y. of F. Is the State Builder

y. of F. Is the State Builder
Fordas biggest universities at
gainesville and at Tallahassee Some day these will be inst
uton inevitable Efficiency education well as economy
nd the Of the times will force these two institutions into
me- 1t was mistake that ever made them two Florida must
Use out of her lethargy. Florida will rise.
If the Fordans Of 1906 did the vision, they did
ot they will day In the future mighty popuous
will will weld these
wo institutions into
If be great state builders not be blind to
Who the future build themselves greater future
The old adage comparisons odious is true only within
wholesome not odous Comparisons are spur They
Intelligent and the alert mind ahead Comparisons odious to
ne lame and the weak the stupid and the lazy good bust
for bankers to figures of strength business
books of rating to the respective merits of
rsdt integrity enterprise institutions
with whom they best may trade be unwise
state that is ambitious and proud of its to resent the
comparison that reveals better road to a finer future?
greatness
ory let look the ledger of national e take invoice
ind and why and where going He
ho bunders along preudces by
ght Of recedng past is not building firm foundations for the
uture.
at the opposite of this country We boast of having
1921 We became state in 1915 Fory-four years later
Washington became state Florida had at least 4year start
the state of Washington addition which had infinitely
onger territorial period for formation.
Nine before Washington was admitted to the Union
When it still territory it ranked 42nd in the list of states
nd territories population while Florida ranked 34h Ten
alter when only old as state had gone
hose reduced two points and 32nd place in
Ilation.
In 1920 thirty years Florida still the 32nd in
population and far-off Washington the thirtieth.
Early it's territorial days 1862
dAlene and the Puget Washington territory took
he Thomas jefferson commonwealth idea of education and
ounde her territorial university which has become the great Uni
ersty of Washington fast growing to be of the great unive
Gties of the land.
territory meager popula
on recognized the trend of the times and opened its
wealth college recognizing the efficiency and the
we'll the infinite educational advantages of coeucaton
Every the Massachusetts, Rhode Island
leccu New York and New Jersey alone excepted all have their
universities Of these exceptions Connecticut and
Jersey maintain their state agricultural colleges.
There in the Union that admitted AFTER
Florida Every Of these 81 younger built
university the efersonan principle long before Florida
founded hers Most of them building their commonwealth
college in territorial days.
Florda's university is the youngest
just this Slow tady behind the
getting commonwealth All the
younger which ahead the
built their great universities
hereby eliminating duplication of and maintenance
and recognizing advance the inevitable citizenship of
xomanhood which has come to pass
recognizing advance the inevitable citizenship
manhood which has come to pass.
It left for Florida the of the state institutions
be BORN with all the examples of before her. ignore
Of the time and build institutions
multiplying and subtractng educational advantages ad
illustrative efficiency day Florida will get
lions into one bound to come and the sooner the
the cost.
University Virginia by jefferson and
which the pattern which other states have copied
ago coeducaona The earliest of state UNIVERSE
les have been least progressive They have followed the
lent rather than the most modern form.
of this division
ae university the states colleges Tallahassee and at Gaines
e their divided form Foridas greatest asset They
would be infinitely greater asset they
Thomas jefferson the state educating
1eop at public expense all the from the to the Phi D.
Thomas Jefferson the farseeng and the most
zeal philosopher OF democracy the world has ever