The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-11-22

| Mayor Bayliss has an idea that it viii
| benefit West Florida to have delega-
ton from Pensacola and other Wes
| Florida towns and communities make {
| trip this winter to South Florida points
| to "sen' Pensacola and West Florida
to the people wintering in Florida ani
| to bring about a closer and friendliel
| feeling between West Florida and other
sections of the state.
Jacksonville has just completed a trir
| of this chara cter. The special train was
| known as THE Florida Friendship I'm
limited" and of the trip the Jacksonville
Journal has the following editorial COM
ment:
Nothing great was ever achieved with =
out nthusasm.-Emerson.
THE FLORIDA FRIENDSHIP
UNLIMITED.
Yesterday morning one hundred and
forty Jacksonville business men re-
turned from a weeks tour of the east
coast cities which concluded day in
Havana, the purpose of which was to
foster Florida friendship and promote
the ALL FOR FLORIDA campaign, unit
ing in that enterprise the cooperation
of all Floridians. It was great trip
and for it's purpose it was great sue
cess. The trip will result in much socd.
upon many communities. Everywhere
they We're made warmly welcome. This
in itself was we'll worth while. Every
where it was made plain that these
Jacksonville visitors were not out to
shout for Jacksonville or to develop any
spirit Of sectionalism or rivalry bat to
spread the good gospel of fellowship and
to try to cement in an enduring Irisud-
ship all sections of the state.
This was the second excursion of its
kind conducted under the auspices of
the Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce.
The first covered the principal interior
towns and gulf coast ports. This COW
cred the east coast cities and commu-
mites Stops We're made at ST. Angus
tine, Hastings, Daytona, New Smyrna,
Titusville, Cocoa, Melbourne. Vero, Fort
Pierce, Stuart, West Palm Beach. Fort
Lauderdale, Miami, Key West and Ha-
Vana.
In each aspiring city the unlimited
frienship seekers were not only made
officially welcome but warmly welcome.
1t was an inspiration No one could wit
ness the developments exhibited and the
progressive spirit back of all this deVel-
opment without having a full faith in
great Florida future.
Particularly amazing were the devel-
opments of Daytona, West Palm Beach,
tOFL LauuerOaIe ana AlidIlI anu the Va
cinity of these cities. All of these towns
are building park like Daradtses in
which to live and labor under the most
ideal conditions. Miami. with her water
frontage, her causeway and rockribbed
shelving shores is making q city so
beautiful that it resembles a great
worlds fair. It is a worlds fair city
and with tusti1able pride she Is asking
the world to behold her wonders and the
1~ll Go, T;os 1ra mo
to look upon 1t with coveteous wonder.
Her realtors are the synonym of opti-
mism. Six miles from the courthouse
vast sums of money are being prodigally
spent to park and beautify that which
actually SELLS for astonishing figures
They are laying out a town for a mill
lion. No city of $4,000 people anywhere
in the world has such a showing. Miami
calls herself the Los Angeles of the east.
a claim that is not made without some
measure of justified hope
All this is a welcome sight to every