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VENTNOR NEWS i Established 1907 (Som£ss Point Record) Official Newspaper of Ventnor City Published Every Wednesday by Amusement Publishing Co. - Atlantic City Office: 606-508-510-512 N. Tennesaee Ave. / (Atlantic City, N. J.) Telephone 1890-91 . Ventnor—5210 Ventnor Ave. (Ventnor City. N. J.) Telephone 8090 Subscription Price -$1.00 Per Year PayabU in Advance Single Copies _Two Cents ;'-*!( Editorial Staff Charles Scheuer Arthur G. Walker H. C. Test Carl M. Voelker Ruth Osborne Ewan Jane Miller Lionel Scheuer Business Manager On sale at stands of the Union News Company in the Eastern District. “Entered ae second-class matter July £7. 1907, at the Post Office at Atlantic City. New Jersey, under the Act of Con gress of March 2, 1879.” % - This publication is free and inde pendent. It is not controlled by trust, j creed, advertiser, political party, mil- j llenalre or anybody or anything except , Its own conscience. The Vrntnor News has the largest circulation of any weekly newspaper pub lished in New Jersey. Owing to its large circulation, the VENTNOR NEWS goes to press in three sections. The first section on Monday morning; the second, Monday night, and the third. Tuesday noon, which will explain why it is occasionally impossible to print late news which breaks subsequent to Tuesday noon. F. COLLIS WILDMAN. Circulation Manager. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 29, 1922; PENNY WISE AND POUND FOOLISHj .This is no time for the prop erty owners who are the tax payers of Ventnor to be penny wise and pound foolish. The ap proach of the new year, with its change of city administration, should be made an opportu nity to look over the economic condition of this fine resort and to institute fiscal reforms which will give these new officials at least decent opportunity to show their ability to bring more and greater glory to Ventnor as a city and as a resort. The property owners of Vent nor might as well reconcile themselves to an increase in taxes to at least cover a frac tion of the tremendous increase in value of Ventnor homes and investment projects which has come with Ventnor progress. It is without the bounds of reason to expect that there can be a constant and increasing valuation in the real estate market and in return on real estate investment without some commensurate levy for pay ment of the bills for the im provements which have made such increase possible. The incoming Mayor of Ventnor faces an Herculean task in the mere matter of deci sion as to the improvements which are absolutely necessary that Ventnor may climb to still higher plane of admiration on the part of those who believe that it is the greatest family resorton the Atlantic seaboard:1 In the name of all that is logical, let Ventnor citizens give the encouragement toward such improvement which can be ex pressed through support to financial measures demanded to make such improvements. We of the Ventnor News feel the odium of a share in the disgrafe of admitting that Vent nor City at this very time has! not enough money in the city! treasury to give Ventnor suchj absolutely necessary improve-j ments as street signs, street] paving, Boardwalk repair and other essentials of ordinary growth. Matters of progressive upbuilding brought before city officials have been shamefully neglected, not because of any lack of spirit on the part of those who guide the destinies of Ventnor, but because the very meagreness of the budget absolutely precludes any action involving expenditure. There is such a thing as cutting off the metaphorical municipal nose to spite the equally metaphorical municipal face. Let the taxpayers of j Ventnor show by their support j of budget measures proposed! by Mayor Marston and the men who are to be his official supporters in carrying forward Ventnor improvement that they appreciate a clean bus iness administration which does not shirk the responsibility j involved in public expenditure when such expenditure is for nothing but the public good. THOSE MAIL BOXES AGAIN Federal Post Office author ities are giving notice to effect that the patience of the Depart ment is reaching an end in the j matter of installation of mail; boxes or slots for reception of ! letters and papers in the house holds of both Ventnor and Atlantic City. Direct and rather drastic orders have come to Acting Postmaster Moore to effect that unless mail box orders are complied with within a few. weeks deliveries will be cut off for those who have neglected to comply with the Department demand and that they will be compelled to go to the Post Office for their mail. It is with idea of impressing importance of mail box installa tion on those of its thousands of readers who have neglected to heed the expressed desire of Post Office officials in the matter of mail boxes that the Ventnor News again calls atten tion to the necessity of com-| pliance with the order. In-! vestigation made by the pub-! lisher of" the Ventnor News elicits the information that the1 mail box order is issued not; directly in the interest of the carrier, but in the interest of the entire service and especially of those who receive mail. “The letter carrier has noth ing particular to gain through the placing of receptacles for mail,” stated Acting Post-1 master Moore. “He is paid! for an eight hour day *nd not) for the ampunt of mail he delivers. ; “The real saving comes to the Department which seeks to so allot the time of its carriers that it can give the maximum in service-and num ber of deliveries. Every hour saved by carriers gives opportu nity to use that hour for better ment of mail and delivery service. , * _ . “We have succeeded in so arratnging our deliveries that we can deliver not only the accumulated overnight but the first morning mail arrival. But this work can serve no purpose if the carrier on early deliveries finds the people in bed and is forced to return the letters for delivery on a later round. By simple installation of a mail box or a mail slot in front door these early deliveries can be made and give us what we are after—delivery of mail in time for the breakfast table of every body on Absecon Island.” That is what Mr. Moore says. He wishes to impress the fact that the mail box dictum applies not only to Ventnor but to every section of Atlantic City. And he lays stress on the fact that it is no fad of the local office but a carefully considered order on the part of the Federal authorities in charge of the Postal Depart ment who will see that it eventually is enforced. DEATH IN DARKNESS Crushed and bleeding forms of women or children dragged from the smashed wreckage of a motor car may be needed properly and finally to bring to attention of officials the necessity of drastic action against careless contractors who fail to mark with danger signal the debris or materials piled upon Ventnor highways during building operations. Then, mayhap, the actually criminal responsibilities will be placed and a campaign started to forestall rather than to mourn. All over Ventnor are heaps and piles of brick and stone and lumber either without lights or so insufficiently marked with red lanterns ?as to be a horrible and constant menace to auto mobile drivers. A crash into such an obstacle must almost of necessity be fatal to one or more. A half dozen rounds made by a city patrolman and the subsequent arrest and punishment of those responsible for this condition would do the work of reform. How about some action? THANKSGIVIN’ TIME "Every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of his labor.’ ‘Vf! • •- • * \ -Eccl. III., 13. When fields are full of fodder-shocks An’ all the shocks are full of corn, An’ when the frosted pum’kin mocks The golden glories of the morn, An’ every night thtfiarmer locks His turkeys tighter in the barn, An’ when they all go up to roost As high as ever they can climb, Then we are apt to think it must Be purty nigh Thanksgivin’ time. But when the corn has done been shucked , An’ pum’kins made up into pies, The farmer’s turkeys likewise plucked, An’ both are dressed, but not likewise, An' when the gobbler’s done been cooked, „ Whence many pleasant odors rise, An’ nothin’ has been overlooked That.’xhilarates an’ satisfies— Why, then, I guess no one misdoubts Thanksgivin’s here or hereabouts. ■ V ? •svi'iii. . / \ • ,'V-; An' when they bring the turkey in * All steam’ hot an’ brown an’ rich With ev’ry kind of seasonin'— Burnt brandy, pepper, sage and sich An’ things ’at only wimmen would • Know how to fix to make ’em good. It’s plumb astonishin’ to see How good we all feel inwardly, As if we’s made just thataway A-purpose for Thanksgivin’ day. v Sence I wuz born bald-headed I Have scarcely seen such pum’kin pie, Nor mince nor apple nor sweet cake, 1 Nor nothin’ as our folks kin make; HfV. An’ when I’ve thought of what I’ve et I’m glad I’ve let but little spile, For I have thought, an’ I think yet, ^ When I’ve been dead a good long white.. My‘jaws’ll rattle with regret, j An' when Thanksgivin’ comes I'll smite, i i „ * V» ? * }i ’ ! f > •%>' l ?■■■ * '£* € j l ■ ‘ 1 . ' c Wisdom and Humor By Chakles Schxub A BOOBY “Why, the fellow kept asking me, his host, if my witticisms were original. What does that show?” “It shows he is a man who has read very little.” THE RETORT COURTEOUS Mr. Snarler (stumbling over rocker)—Confound that chair. I wish it was with the devil. Mrs. Snarler—Don’t wish that, dear, you might encounter it again. ' A LOVING HEART Wiggins—Dear old boy, if you and your- wife are perpetually quarreling, why don’t you sepa rate? . Henpeck—What—and leave her without the pleasure of somebody to scold? Smith—"I can give you a good prescription for your cold ” Koffman—*'What is it?” Smith—“A little whiskey.” Lushton—‘‘I can give you a better one.” ‘ \ Koffman—“What is it?” Lushton—“A great deal of whiskey.” 1 MYSTERY EXPLAINED “What is the reason that there are so many working-men’s associa tions nowadays?” asked Pete Amster dam of Gus de Smith. “I suppose the reason is because the workingmen have gotten out of the notion of doing work nowadays.” l _ "Tell me all,” he urged. “Not now," she answered, shyly. “You can begin," he suggested, “and,claim the floor again tomorrow.” He cited the United States Senate by way of precedent. The Colossus of Roads—Coxey. fiiitimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiimtit WINCHESTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS LONGPORT, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. Country Boarding and Day School. Thorough preparation for all the larger Schools and Colleges. v" All our teachers are gentlemen and specialists in their respective branches. Twelfth annual term now in session. For information and circular address the headmaster. DOUGLAS HOWE ADAMS . * Haverford A. B. Harvard A. B. > Bell Phones 7168—7290-J PRESCRIPTIONS When you need a doctor, you want the best When he orders medicine, he wants the best, When we supply your medicine, you get the best - We call for and deliver prescriptions promptly Phone 196 HARRISBURG DRUG SHOP Southwest Corner Harrisburg and Ventnor Aves. niiiM»iimiimiinnMmnmumnnmnniminuitniiiiiinniiiiiiniiiiinimuiniiiiniiiiiiiiniiiuuiiiiniiiiimiiMmiiHi)umtiiiiniiiitniiMiiwiii Don’t Overlook Victory Bonds Redemption Date ' • | December 15, 1922, has been set by the United States Government as the day when Victoiy Bonds (serial letters “A” to “F,” inclusive) will be redeemed in full with accrued interest—after that date interest ceases. We will be glad, to collect these bonds for you—and cordially invite you to deposit the proceeds to the credit of your accouht with us. The Ventnor City National Bank f Atlantic Ave. at Surrey Place VENTNOR, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM l National Bank with a Savings Department