The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-09-17
THE PENSACOLA JOURNAL, SUNDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 1922

THE PENSACOLA JouRNAIa SUNDAY MORNING. ~
known His name ipersable He rises higher and higher
a e @ Of M @ as n b ne t 81 p above
the understanding Of his colleagues that he unable to
the legislators of Virginia his infinite wisdom of his
lofty plan
everlasting glory of neigbor north Georgia
established 1875 her great college, the University
of Georgia, Jeffersonian lines.
regrettabe that with such splendid historical start she
should still be the last to throw the doors Of her
wealth college Her last session Of the legislature
recently closed debated the question decided protect the
of Georgia by denying them the privileges of the GROWING
educational institution of the state.
the leadership of Ethan Allen the second
colony to the infinite wisdom of the effersonian
1871 the Green Mountain state created her state
ves the legislative recordof the time records o render the
state respectable"
than them
selves They founded by territorial pioneers.
Jefferons democracy above
the intelligence of her voters Therefore, if democracy
ng Pe0e sey s M b
lot the terate mind So becomes the states safeguard
give its voters much enlightenment they absorb So
the school where child rich poor could
to read and write and cipher So the high school
idea that would lift the alert mind and the awakened YOUTH the
searching student into the attitudes of knowledgecay the
youth far his mental capacities would take him.
great conception building proved be the
greatest asset state that has tried it. Early its history
the University of Michigan through legislative enactment made
those state who cared to to her hospabe DOORS
of the alumni of that university made
ago interesting that of all the
Michigan had educated of them continued
live in Michigan and invest in that state their intellectual citizen
ship They built state strong agriculture industry and
of ncacuabe benefit to that great state Today that int
tuition boasts of 1900 students Other great state universities
that have followed her pattern show what the state university
doing for the states respectively.
The University of Illinois has student enrolment of
10000 Minnesota $1,000 Wisconsin, which founded
after Florida became boasts of students today
The young state Of Washington to which have referred and
which into statehood Al after Florida today has 5000
students and that university building that great state strong
California which is Younger state than Florida has de-
veoped her commonwealth college the largest university in the
United States with $4,000 students Columbia University
alone excepted.
Even the sparsey populated states
building up industrial commercial
with amazing strides and chiefly through their state universities
both of which older than Floridas i
University of doing wonderful work build
that remarkable Lone Star empire.
forging ahead Out of the ehargy of years Ar
awakening her undsurbd of great pote
a wealth through the and class at Fayet
Vile
Louisiana is putting not endowment maintenance
fund.- pure building fund.- $15OoOO0o into her state
versty at Baton Rouge
Florida needs Burbanks highly developed horticultural
in state university will develop them Florida is
grow must solve marketing problems commercial course
university will do it. We need chemists to anaze
soils and fertilizers we need we need
owand from tangled of seitropcal
dure refined fedswealth producing land
All this be found in the marble corridors of boastfu
is to be found along the city curb 1t is not to be
the wharf the freight sheds 1t is not the product
These things
found in the in the class where
cultivated mind directed these great themes and where
the awakened youth inspired to meet big problems in big ways
and solve them.
So it only duty but the enthusiasm
more the obsesson of loyal patriotic Fordian to be
University Florida and to help build that unver
that the states greatest asset do it's great work to the
fullest of it's Unreasonable to overtae the hardness we
shown meeting needs and lift Florida from the
both the of the Union into at least of the
first which she capable of becoming and which her due
RidinO the NeIUSDUDeT