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“ Puts City On f| Sporting Map Owner Hughes of Eastern League v Intends to Make All of Us Real Basketball Fans I By H. C. TEST There is a man la. Atlantic City who proposes to make all of us real basketball fans. By Christmas he intends to have us going around waiting for basketball'nights, and by New Year’s a lot of us who believed basketball was something you carried home will know the names of the seashore basketball stars and maybe laying a little bet on our hpme team. ; Personally, I am hot much of a sport follower. In my youthful days I could wield a rather wicked , hand at stud poker and I once won the booby prize in a club pea-pool match. That let me out as a sporting ' proposition. But R. Thomas Hughes, present owner of the Eastern League franchise for Atlantic City, has started me on : i".-, the way of being a real basketball bug. This young and ardent sports man started me on the way when he gave me a pass for the Eastern League ’ <" game on the Steel Pier last week. When I made the trip to the pier I believed I was doing Mr. Hughes a favor. When I came away 1 knew that the favor was the other way. This little screed is not addressed to the dyed-in-the-wool basketball fans. They are already so deeply 1 inoculated that they probably will figure that I am taking a lot on my self to write about It at alk And what ,• the sporting'writers of the town will say about me will be a-plenty. T> Byt to others who are looking for -i£\ *jal fun and excitement 1 commend basketball. If there is any errant doubt get out the old bus some evening and see those Eastern ■'V>’•“ League stars play the game as .it -5 should be played.. I’ll be there every playing night from now on and will stand ready to listen to an argument I ' from anybody who doesn't think there “are more thrills to the minute in basketball than in any other game (Continued on page 4) jLions to Have Big Night Members of the Liens Club of Atlantic City are preparing for one of the greatest events ever. / held by the organization at the Breakers Hotel this evening. The entire Egyptian Roof Garden of the Breakers is to be turned over to the Lions for their Ladies’ . " . Night and a program of entertain v; \ ment arranged by Sid Strouse, j’i chairman of the committee, and Harold Brand, Lion Tamer, will make the occasion notable for its novelty. A number of notables will be among the guests of the occasion. Tax Payment Due Second payment on taxes are ., . due on December 1st and Tax Col lector Scull announces that after that date the penalty of 8 per cent, will be added to the tax levy. Collector Scull also wishes it to ' be known that no new tax bills are being sent out for this second payment. E. B. Yellow Taxicab Co. Phone 000—Quick, Safe Service.—Adv. News of the Sport and Basket Bali World, including new Eastern League plans— on pages 22 and 23. Motor events and tours on page 19. ■rr City Gets Good i Pricefor Bonds SeconcT National Bank Successful Bidder for $100,000 Issue of Five Per Cent. Water Bonds, Offering a premium of $1557.96 and accrued interest the second National Bai\k of Atlantic City was the successful bidder on Mon day night when Common Council received bids for the sale of $100, 000 worth of 5 per cer^t. Water Bonds. Five other proposals were presented,' ‘ The Boardwalk National Bank, of Atlantic City, with its bid of $1,290 premium was the closest competitor of the successful bidder. Other bids included R. M. Grant & Co., $310.60 premium; Union National Corporation, New York, $520 premium; Ventnor City Na tional Bank, $1,100 premium; Metzler & Co., New York, par and accrued interest., By offering to buy 99 bonds for $100,657.96 the successful bank provided the entire amount of the amount required for- the work set forth in the ordinance to be done, at the water works.* The basis of interest according to banking calculation is 4.85 %. In the absence of President Gumphert the gavel was wielded (Continued on Page 2) School Head In Boy Plea Miss Anna Williams, President of Ventnor School Board, Favors Boys’ Band and Playgrounds s A plea for the boys of Ventnor was made Saturday by Miss Anna Williams, president tof the Board of Education, to a representative of the Ventnor News. The matter of immediate concern to Miss Williams is the continuation of the Boys’ Band which made its first public appearance in the Armistice Day parade. This band cannot continue, she says, unless the people -of Ventnor will back the project with their financial assistance. It -seems that the funds already contributed for the training of the band are exhausted, and Herman Fiedler, who is instructing the boys, has not been paid for three weeks. - '"The point is this,” Miss Williams said, "boys, must have some form of entertainment. And we must give them something that interests them. Now if there is anything that interests a boy in the way of music, it is a horn. Give him a horn and a uniform with gold braid on it, and a boy has an incentive for learning music. Such training can be made attractive to the boy in his formative period of life and will have its influence in after years." She deplored the fact that boys have no playground of their own in Ventnor. “A boy seems to have no place,” she said. “His noise and hilarity are not wanted at home; and on the street he is in constant danger from passing vehicles, or is asked to move on. Even the beach is not his. He cannot play ball on it, and he is considered, an annoyance even there. What the boy ought to have is a place over on the Heights away from everything and everybody—a place (Continued on page 27) Seasoned Cord Wood — Any Length. Phone 9. Borton Coal Co.—Adv. Smart Folk Din« and Dance in the Sver-Popular LATZGELLAR.—Adv. ^ THANKSGIVING DAY There are plenty of things to be thankful for— t - . ' " Hunt’em up! ' ;’r And-there are plenty of people to be thankful to ■ And plenty you can make thankful to you And plenty of kindnesses you can do— \ ' Hunt’em up! ' , ^ - ' ' ■ —Charles Scheuer. & \ . ' ■ • > ,/ , ,, Ex*Postmaster Harvey Thomas Strongly Endorses Moore lor Postmaster ■■ /■' -1%\ '■ —— --— “ ; Newark, N. J., November 24, 1922. Mr. Charles Scheuer, Editor Ventnor News, Atlantic City, N. J. Dear Sir: . , . • _ j Inasmuch as everybody seem? to be saying a nice word or two about Frank Moore for the Atlantic City Postmastership, here’s my say if you want it. And what I say Harry Bacharach can add to if he will, and Mr. Loudenslager can easily augment. Just get them to tell you how proficient they consider Moore. If either questions his proficiency I’m willing to use a few old Review expletives in saying what I think of them. As Edge used to remark daily, I carpet-bagged my way into Atlantic City in 1910 and a couple of years later was made Postmaster. I didn’t know a thing about the work involved when I took hold and am frankly ashamed to say that I knew but little more when I quit. I was there a year. When my appointment was announced Frank Moore called on me. I was appointed by a Democratic President at the request of a Democratic Congressman, and naturally, I assumed, in my eagerness for spoils, that my job was to kick out all Republicans and put Democrats in their places. I had never met'Moore but I had determined that he was to go. So when he called I was knocked cold by his generous “I’ll be glad to stay with you, Mr. Thomas, until - you feel you understand some of the requirements,, and I will be glad to give you my resignation whenever you wish it.” I said to myself “this is easy,” and two weeks later I took hold with the intention of letting Moore stick around ten days or so and then booting him out for a. good Democrat. He stayed all the time I was Post master, and a right good thing for me it was he did. It took me about one day to realize I couldn't get along without Frank Moore, and I'll bet a shirt it didn’t take Bacharach or Loudenslager one minute longer to reach the same realization. I never met a more willing associate; I never was teamed with a more energetic or\ industrious worker; I have yet to come in contact with a more scrupulously honest official. ‘ > During the year I was Post mastfcr more than a half million dollars passed through the office—I was responsible for it all. Yet, and perhaps to my shame, I had at no time the slightest idea of the magnitude of this responsibility. In the vaults were thousands of dollars worth of stamps, and in the banks thousands of dollars in money—this at all times. I left the job to Moore. I never signed a check or acknowledged a stamp return from Washington. And at the end of my year inspectors went over the books before the transfer was made to Loudenslager, and their report showed an accurate balance to the cent. That was Moore, and above all else it satisfies me that he is efficient and proficient. It is all right for rivals to write about being on the job at six o’clock in the morning and working until six at night, and about discipline and service, and such stuff. To me these things are but routine) No matter who is Postmaster this routine is purely a question of mechanics. The office will turn over day by day in a regular mechanical way. That fact is assured. But it isn't assured that everyone in the office will work in harmony with the boss, except this boss is liked and admired and trusted. I’m not vain enough to think the Atlantic City force at any time liked me, but I do know they were satisfied when they learned Moore was to stay. They had visions of a general clearing out at the start, but from the moment they knew Moore was to be continued their hope of a square deal returned, and I feel safe in saying Atlantic City got a pretty fair return for my year in the job. It seemed to me Moore was always working. He was there two hours before me in the morning, and if I dropped in at five-or six in the afternoon he was still around. I never felt the least disturbed about going away for a week or two at a time. Moore’s loyalty to me and fidelity to the office were always beyond question. He had no use for my peculiar politics nor for the things the Review was striving to do, but he was four-square as an Assistant Postmaster. He knew the business and he carried it out. In my innocence I cannot understand why there should be the slightest thought of opposing Moore. Of course the Civil Service examinations will make it difficult for anyone to get ahead of him, but why, if Atlantic City wants an efficient man in an efficient job, whose exper ience, above all else, makes him'the man for the job—is anyone else talked of. ‘ , ■T Yours truly, HARVEY THOMAS. Deliveries at any time desired daily and this insures Ventnor householders the best service for all kinds of sea foods, if orders are given to the CHELSEA FISH MARKET, 2707 Atlantic Avenue. Phones—Bell 2180 and 2181.— Adv. ■ \ , ,:v ‘ ■ ■ - - •••*. :■*- r V\.0 'r. \ ' • , j : ■ : PHONE 3113—P ACKARO TAX I—3114. Reliable and Quick Service.—Adv. BOARDWALK BOOK SHOP 503 Boardwalk — Phone 3545-R Everything in Booka. — Adv. Cornerstone Laid Sunday rhrongS''' Attend Community Church Services in Ventnor Theatre and Witness Impressive Ceremonies Physical laying of the cornerstone of the edifice being erected at Ventnor and Victoria Avenues for the Ventnor City Community Church last Sunday was the climax of intensely impressive exercises held at the Ventnor Theatre in which an exceptionally large number of persons took part. Mem bers of Atlantic Commandery, No. 20, Knights Templar, in uniform under command of .Qeneralissimo Robert W. Bartlett, were special guests. Rev. Marna Simmons Poulson, pastor of the church, garbed in the uniform of the Knights Templar, conducted the services which lasted over an hour. His sermon "was in the nature of an exposition of the aims and ambitions of the modern church in its application of Christ's teachings through service to humanity. The pastor was assisted by Rev. A. A. \yard, of Ceylon, WI19 read the scripture lesson, and ReV. Eugene L. Nixon, of tliis city, who offered prayer. - 1 • - ■ Organ numbers by Prof. James E» Corbett and vocal numbers by Mrs. Ida Taylor Bolte, and a quartette including Mrs. Bolte, Mrs. Charles P. Tilton, August F. Bolte and R. E. Boyce, interspersed the services. Mayor A, W. Brehman, chairman of the Building Committee, an nounced the lisL of articles placed in (Continued on page 4) ^ Thanksgiving Service Joint Thanksgiving Day serv ices will be held tomorrow morn ing at 10.30 o’clock at St. John’s by-the-Sea Church, Sacramento and Ventnor Avenues, the congre gations of St. John’s and of the Chelsea M. E. Church uniting for a service of prayer and thanks giving. Rev. Harold S. Laird, of the Addison Henry Memorial Presby terian Church, Philadelphia, will preach the sermon. He will be assisted in the service by Rev. Martin, pastor of the Chelsea Church. The offering will be given, to the Atlantic City Rescue Mission. New Steacy Store / Opens Saturday Ventnor is to have a new and extremely progressive establish ment on Saturday when the famous Steacy Bon Bon store is to open 9 branch at 5207 Ventnor Avenue. Steacy Bon Bons and the Steacy establishment on the Boardwalk of Atlantic City are almost too well known to need comment. In the new store, which will be in direct charge of Mrs. Winfield Steacy, 'a specialty is to be made of furnishing special confectionery favors for the many fine affairs given in Ventnor and Chelsea. Mrs. Steacy intends to make the Vent nor store headquarters for the study and production of the fine favors which mean so much to the success of the modern affairs. CANN^L COAL for the fireplace. Austin Coal Co. Tel. 865.—Adv. DANISH COOKING SCHOOL Classes. Specializing Desserts. Tel. 8207-R.—Adv. Furnishing Finest Food—The ALAMAC LATZCELLAB.—Adv. ISa.' I Boom Brehman . for Assembly Popular Mayor Urged to Become Candidate If Recorder Corio Leaves State Body Mayor A. W. Brehman is being groomed as a candidate for the State Assembly in consequence of Assemblyman Joseph Corio being named as Recorder of Atlantic City. Ardgnt supporters of the mayor insist that Ventnor should be recognized by the county leaders and that Mayor Brehman would bring credit to Atlantic County at the State capital. When asked what his attitude would be should Mr. Corio step "k out of the running at the next election Mayor Brehman guard edly replied that such si con tingency had as yet not arisen and that it might be premature to discuss the matter until such time as an official announcement ) had been made by the popular Assemblyman. .. “If the many friends who lu»e importuned me to become a can didate still feel that way about it when the time comes I will give the matter due consideration,” answered the mayor when quote, tioned touching the matter, r “I would naturally consider it an. honor to serve the county in such an important office, and if sent to Trenton by the electorate of At lantic County I would represent : them to ttn^ very' best of my lability. At present, of course, j there is nothing to say.” Walter Jenkins, former member | of Council and present member of the Board of Education, heads a coterie of the mayor’s friends who insist that he aspire to the office. 1 Perkins After Bandits Former Sheriff Alfred J. Perk ins, head of the Perkins .Bakery, wasted no time when it was re ported to him that drivers of his .delivery wagons had been held up on the Absecon Boulevard. Sheriff Perkins, with George Mathews, manager of the Perkins Bakery, made an early morning trip and when Walter Kehoe, 18, of the Bronx, New York, hailed the car, promptly arrested him. Kehoe claims that he only was seeking a ride but his story is being investi gated by the police. __ * 1 Shoot Up Avenue * Police both of Ventnor and At lantic City are on the hunt for members of a motor car party who fired a fusillade of revolver shots while their car was speeding up Atlantic Avenue early last Friday morning. The crack of revolver shots aroused residents and a motorcycle policeman chased them' to the Atlantic City line without being able to overtake the speed ing car. Officials of the Police Department believe that the shoot ing was due to over-supply of spirits on the part of the mem bers of the motor party as no harm resulted from the shooting. Fresh, Tender Baby Lobsters, Me— In the ALAMAC LATZCELLAR.—Adv. Phone 781S-W — HARVEY TAXI— 7587-J — Catering to Commuters —Reliable and Quick Service—Adv. Today’s Editorials Page 12 Penny Wise and Pound Foolish Those Mail Boxes Again Death in Darkness