The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-04-16
SCHOOL FUND WAS.
$1,000 SHORT AT
NOON YESTERDAY
Citizens Committee Was Organ
lied at a Mass Meeting
Held Thursday Night.
HOUSE TO HOUSE CANVAS
WILL BE MADE MONDAY
Pensacola Faces a Duty Which
Is as Great as During War;"
Says Ed. Malone.

Tomorrow evening should. and
doubtless will witness the conclusion
of the campaign for raising funds nee
essary to carry the public schools of
the city through the full term of eight
months for the grammar and primary
schools and nine months for the high
school as planned at the outset of the
present school year by the board of
public instruction
At noon yesterday the fund was but
$4,000, in round figures. short of the
amount necessary to continue the
schools through the scheduled term
and it is confidently expected by the
citizens committee, organized at the
mass meeting held on Thursday night.
that this comparatively small balance
will be subscribed in the intensiye
house to- house compaign of the citi-
zen's committee which will canvass
the city tomorrow. This committee
held meeting Friday afternoon and
organized with E. R. Malone as chair
man. The entire city was then di-
! vided into zones, each zone being
placed in charge OF soliciting commit
, tee of two, and a whirlwind campaign
will be inagurated early tomorrow
morning and continued until the de-
| ficit in the fund necessary to carry
! the schools through the term is raised.
These zones and committees are as
/ follows: f
! South of Government street, to water
/ front-R F. Mitchell and d. Levy.
| From Government to Romano street,
west side-Dr. J. II. Pierpont and J.
H Christie.
From Government street to Romano
/ street, east side. A. Avant and J.
! w. Malone. --.-,
From Romano to Chase street. west
side-AGrs. F. S. Mellon and Mrs. Paul
| P. Stewart. .r-.-
From Romano to Chase street, east
side-Mrs Wilmer S. Hall and Mrs.
| r. F. Mitchell.
From Chase TO LaRua street, west
side. II. Sheriff. and C. ]. Levy:
From Chase to LaRua street east
! side-Lee Daniel and T. L. Cant.
From LaRua to Cervantes street.
west side-M. E. Clark and Thomas
I H. Johnson.
From LaRua to Cervantes street,
east side-L. E. Began and G. R. Bur
goyne. szs
| From Cervantes street, north to city
limits, east side-J. c. Watson and
Sam o. Pinney
From Cervantes street, north to city
limits, west side-John Massey and ID.
S. Oppenheimer.
Nothing could have more truly il
Iustrated the obligation of every citi-
zen of Pensacola to the youth Of the
community than the chief point made
by Ed Malone in his address to the
citizens committee Friday afternoon
when he said: Pensacola faces
duty which is just as great, just as
vital, in it's sphere as that which was
/ faced during the war, when the boys
of Pensacola and the entire nation,
went marching away to the inspiring
strains of I'VE Won't Come Back Till
It's over Over, There They kept the
faith and we backed them up; and
now we are called upon to perform
ianother sacred duty not. however, of
sending our khaki-clad boys over
4 there but of preparing our boys and
girls for the great battles of life which
, confront them, and there must be no
thought of failure in the campaign
which we are to undertake on Monday
) morning"
, And there isn't going to be any fail
ure. The men and women OF Pens7T
cola are going to respond to this call
as they have responded to every other
call in the past, and the $1,000 denclt
/ in +hA school fund ia going to be ltqul-
. dated by them before the sun sets on
Monday evening.