The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-11-03
By BRYAN MACK

There are some very kind people in
| Pensacola. They know how to be neigh
| borly, and it is good to live among such
| thoughtful people. Ever since I hade a
distress cry for a house in which to live,
| the good people have been hourly calling
over the phone telling of different places
that would suit our little family. We
have a house nova little doll house,
and that is all, but it is large enough for
US, and to the people who have been
kind enough to make the suggestions we
want to thank most heartily.
The nights mail brought the following
to my desk:
Pensacola Journal:
Ever since your policy of initiating
vice and magnifying evil, by filling your
paper with such news items L have
considered cancelling my subscription.
My idea of buying and supporting a
newspaper is to discriminate constructive
thinking and 1 find no such thinking in
your paper.
The article in which you make your
mistaken witty quip at the expense Of
a prominent, respected, and successful
business man has made my decision fin
al. 1 refer of course to Mr.. J. S. Reese,
the president of the. Citizens and Peo-
pies National bank.
Enclosed you will find signed check.
please fill it out with the amount owe
two months L think-and remove my
name from your circulation list
Miss Kate NJ. Smith"
1925 N. Spring"
Now regret losing Miss Kate as
reader of The Journal for a good many
reasons. First, because she is mistaken
about The Journal Initiating vice and
magnifying evil" The Journal does not
do that, and on the contrary believes in
destroying evil and condemning vice.
The searchlight of publicity does more
to correct evil than anything else, and
the world is getting better all the while.
EVIL cannot be corrected by shutting our
ewes :" it and permitting it to go on I'M
checked. : lSslk
Inch Miss Kate says she wishes to
support a newspaper that dissiminates
thinking, and that she does
not find any in our paper. This is a
mistaken idea on her part. A newspa-
per should print all the news impartially,
just as it happens, and discuss public
matters in a way that will make the
people themselves think. The opinions
and bias of an editorial writer are some
times accepted by the reading public as
law and gospel, and frequently these ed
itorial writer's help mold public opinion
for good, but the editorial writer who
can write to make the people do some
thinking for themselves is
the one who serves most.
But the final straw that caused Miss
Kate to fall out with The Journal. she
says was my mistaken witty Quip' at
the expense of Mr.. J. S. Reese, presi-
dent of the Citizens and Peoples Bank.
Mr. Reese, I am sure will not agree with
Miss Kate about this for he knows how
to take little pleasantries, and is such
genuinely fine character and so loyal to
that no one would treat him
With disrespect. There is less deception
about Mr.. Reese than most anyone l
have ever known. He is just exactly
what he is, and has built himself up to
he position he now occupies by his rug
yed honesty and bold fidelity to prin-
ciple.
One Of the things that Mr.. Reese has
q happy faculty of doing is strengthening
put differences between cliQues and fac
tons in organizations and among pso-
pie, and If Miss Kate doesn't get in a
good humor with me I am going to tell
dr. Reese on her, and I don't want to
oe a tattle-tale.
Sam Kropman is one of the finest
boosters West Florida ever had. Year
n and year out, Sam has travelled the
territory from Pensacola east and never
'or moment has his faith in the uIti-
nate development of West Florida
vaned in the least. I met him in Allan
a several months ago and he was en-
Enthusiastically telling people with whom |
e was talking about what a delightful |
ountry West Florida was
1 remember seven or eight years ago