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ATLANTIC COUNTY’S HOME WEEKLY
Pleasan trill*
Linwood
NortKfield
Somers Point
Copyright. 1924—All Bights Seaemd .
Ahusbhbnt Publishing Co., of Atlantic City
VENTNOR, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J„ WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20, 1924 Two Cents per Copy
China Should Have
Discovered Europe
So Think* Our Columnist Who
Also Adds That The English at
This Time Show The Most Zeal
In Re-discovering America
—
By A VETERAN SCRIBBLER
We may take it for granted
that every nation dislikes to foe
“discovered.” To suffer this car
ries with it the imputation of in
feriority. There is always a cer
tain conceit and assumption in
the act of discovery. It says that
we who make the discovery are
known, and we condescend to in
troduce you into the circle of the
world that is known. Often the
discovery is nothing more than
an exhibition of the ignorance
of those who make it; but .this
does not trouble the discoverers.
The sublime conceit of the
Greeks that all outside their own
confederacy was barbarian was
hot disturbed by finding in Egypt
a civilization older and a-refin e
mentisuperior to their own. The
early adventurers and mission
aries who penetrated China
really thought they were intro
ducing to the world and its priv
ileges a land whose people had
been highly organized thousands
of years before Europe began to
emerge from 'barbarism, who had
discovered gunpowder, and in
vented printing, and knew how to
make porcelain. It was China
that Should have discovered Eu
rope. The Parisians in modern
times are the successors of the
Athenians in possessing this pat
ent right of discovery. The Pa
risians are, perhaps, the only
Occidental people who are abso
lutely indifferent to the piretense
of outside people to discover
Paris, and show no sensitiveness
to foreign opinion of their city.
We in America have been a good
deal discovered, and ought to be
used to the process' by this time.
The Indians were unduly thin
skinned under it, and perhaps
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Harry Coulomb Gels .
Important Office
"V- -
Harry Coulomb, of South Nash
ville Ave., has been appointed
First Assistant Attorney General
of New Jersey. Tl>e appointment
of Mr. Coulomb has elicited great
approval among the Jersey judi
ciary to whom he is known as a
lawyer of exceptional ability. The
post carries a salary of $5,000 and
runs for five years.
Boatload of Bananas
Aground Off Brigantine
Half a million green bananas
bound for New York went aground
on the south bar of Little Egg
Harbor Shoals when the fruit
steamer “Amelia” stuck fast in
the sand during the recent blind
ing snowstorm. The vessel is ex
pected to be floated before the
cargo ripens.
YELLOW CAB Company. Mar.
6000. Quick Safa Service—Adv.
“Bur Coal Now” — Riley Bros.
Mar. 1266] 116 N. Brighton. Adv.
A
MADRIGALS
By ROY COMFORT N
Will begin serial publication
in the Ventnor News next
week.
Ventnor Citizens
Seek Ford Agency
Prominent Owners of Ford and
Lincoln Cars Present Petition
—Mayor Marston^ H. G. Har
ris, Noted Realtor, and Fran
cis Croasdale, Well-Known
Editor, Lead Signers
Owners of Ford and Lincoln
oars living in Ventnor City and
vicinity seem seriously intent
upon securing a local service sta
tion according to a petition which
has been actively circulating i
among representative residents,
ever since February 16. The pe- !
tition, which is still being cir
culated, has already been signed
by Mayor Marston, H. G. Harris
and Francis Croasdale and nearly
three score other men prominent
in Ventnor. 'Hie full text of the
petition, which is self-explana
tory, together with the present
signatures reads as follows:
Ventnor City, N. J,
February 16, 1924.
To the Ford Motor Company,
Phila., Pa.
• We, the undersigned, residents
of Ventnor City, N. J.. and own
ers of Lincoln or Ford cars, do
respectfully petition the Ford
Motor Company, Phila., Pa., to
create, maintain, and provide us
with a Sales and Service Station,
such as is now enjoyed by every
(Continued on Page 4)*
Seaside Trust Co.
Io Central Location
• .4
Nawly Chartered Institution Will
Build at Ohio and Atlantic
Are*. — Capitalized at
$100,000
Atlantic City's youngest bank,
which plans to begin business on
or about April 1 at Ohio and At
lantic Aves., has' an unusually
strong personal organization be
hind it
Judge Theodore W. Schimpf
will head the new institution as
president. Martin Harris, pro
prietor of the Hygeia Pool? and
Chandler Stewart, local agent of
the Cadillac car are vice-presi
dents. • Warren L. Ridgeway,
president of the Oliver Guttridge
Co. is treasurer, and George E.
Morstadt, now assistant cashier
of the Chelsea National Bank,
will act as manager. •
The Seaside Trust Co. is in
corporated by the State of New
Jersey with a capital of $100,000
and a surplus of $160,000, and
an expense fund of $10,000. The
directors are: Louis Marx, glass
manufacturer; Meyer Marx, re
tail shoe dealer; Frank Cham
bers, local agent for the Frank
lin car; Louis Reppetto, Prose
cuting Attorney of Atlantic
County; Charles Lafferty, Demo
cratic leader of Atlantic County,
and Harry L. Godshall, prominent
insurance broker.
Postmaster Perkins ID
Postmaster A1 Perkins is tem
porarily absent from his office suf
fering from an attack of grippe.
Although confined to his bed, Mr.
Perkins is expected to be back on
the job by next Monday, accord
ing to advices from his physicians.
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 PISH
MARKET, 2707 Atlantic Avenue.
Phones, Bell—Marine 2180 and
2181*—Adv.
TOMORROW’S
$5.00 Gold Piece and Apollo Theatre Tickets
Will Be Distributed to
TWO OF THE FIRST TWENTY PURCHASERS
, in the following store*:
h. s. Witten
6409 Ventnor Avenue Open 8 A. M.
FREUND BROS."
1006 Pacific Avenue . Open 8 A. M.
D. S. MITTLEMAN
242S Atlantic Avenue Open 7.30 A. M.
The amountjttf your purchase refunded in addition if
you are a subscriber to the VENTNOR NEWS.
Nnt week's prises will be distributed Thursday, Feb. 28
These are next week's stores:
^ ~ JOE MAZZA, 5218 Ventnor Avenue
' X B. SCANLAN CO., 1917 Atlantic Avenue .. -
COLUMBIA SALES, 2018 Atlantic Avenue
For Further Details See Page ,11.
Photo by Fred Hess & Son.
Ventnor City's new high power Pumping Station, a monument of architectural
beauty and mechanical efficiency, blending with peculiar charm into the exclusive
villa landscape of residential Ventnor.
EDITORIAL
Owing to the large circulation of the VENTNOR NEWS and
the voluminous nature of the publication, it goes to press in four
sections. The forms for the first section close at noon on Sat
urday. The last section, containing the latest news goes to press on
Tuesday night. As the first section, closing dn Saturday, contains
the editorial page, it is occasionally impossible for editorial com
ments on news breaking subsequent to Saturday to appear in the
properly classified editorial columns.
It is a well-known fact that some people have a way of saying
the right thing at the wrong time and in the wrong way. This is
strikingly exemplified by the tempest in the teapot that a morning
contemporary is trying to create by attempting an alleged forum
on the question of whether the taxpayers of Atlantic City should or
should not permit the purchase of the Rendezvous Park site for
Convention Hall purposes.
Up to date, the Atlantic City Commissioners, very wisely
heeding an editorial which appeared in the VENTNOR NEWS
several weeks ago, seem to be very much loathe to plunge the city
into an unwarranted expenditure, especially as it is now plainly
seen that the eight million dollars required to complete the Con
vention Hall are not within the reach of the City’s treasury. The
Cleveland, Ohio, correspondent of the VENTNOR NEWS was the
first to furnish positive statistics as to the exact cost of the Cleve
(Continued on Page 4)
Local Sherlocks '
Sniff Out Booze
“Up With the Manhole r* Cries
Lodovico and Follows the Pan
gent Scent of Liquor To
Hidden Still in Margate
j Two fifty-gallon stills, 1550 gal
lons of mash and a quantity of
moonshine liquor were found by
Margate police assisted by County
Detectives Louis Lodovico and .
Valentine Hoffman in an old one
story shack at 224 Jackson Ave.,
Margate, Friday afternoon.
I Chief Deverau, of the Margate
j police, had been on the trail of
i the moonshine plant for several
! days, but was unable to locate the
! illegal distillery although he had
| an approximate idea of the loca
tion.
Detective Lodovico, of the
“sniffer squad,” when called on
the cases, ordered, as his first Step,
the manhole of the sewer taken
off, and from the direction in
which the waste appeared to be
flowing from the stills, deduced
the exact location of the house.
The two stills were found in
operation by the police, but no
one was found in the house which
is said to be owned by Alexander
Rothman, of Philadelphia.
| Council Approves
Gas Company Plan
_
Authorizes Laying of Ten-Inch
Main in Ventnor Avenue Pre
liminary to X Re-surfacing—
ff ^po^Accepted
Preliminary to the resurfacing
of Ventnor Avenue that highway
will be torn up for a considerable,
| period of time to permit the
j installation of public utilities, per
mission having been granted the
Atlantic City Gas Company by
Council on Monday night to lay
a ten-inch main the full length of
the street within the city limits.
Resolutions were adopted au
thorizing the mayor and city clerk
to sign the necessary papers in
which provision is made for the
posting of a bond for $10,000 in
demnifying the city against loss
through faulty filling in of excava
tions. The street openings will be
limited to three squares at one
time. The work must be finished
or discontinued on or before May
15th. r
(Continued on Page 4)
Fred Stein Introduces
Henry the Eighth Stunt
Ever-original Fred Stein, de
signer of the exquisite La Vic
toire Products Shop at 4010
Vfintnor Ave., has something new
that has not yert; been under the
Ventnor sun. He is adding a
restaurant dansant where one
may pause for a passing hour to
dine and dance as Bluff Ring Hal j
did when he wrote “ ’tis my past- j
ance to dine and dance.” There
i will be inimitable mnsic and the
matchless food of La Viotoire_
something long needed on the
lower island.
— THIS WINTER’S COAL —
Austin Coal Co. Mar. 11,—Adv.
Today’s Editorials Page 14
WASHINGTON
* the bottomless can
SCOUTING AROUND
THE WALKING CLUB
WOMEN AND NEWSPAPERS
Concern Felt Over
Marston’s Candidacy
Besieged by Friends For State
ment of His Position Mayor
Declines to Positively Com
mit Himself at Present
Ever since the publication of
an editorial in the Ventnob
NeWs entitled “Marston’s Sue- ‘
:essor,” the Mayor has been be
sieged by friends and supporters
who have endeavored to obtain
from him an emphatic statement
is to whether he would or would
not again stand for election.
With a unanimity of opinioi^
paralleled- only by the almost
unanimous vote that announced
his election, the Ventnor voters
are practically all to ia man in
favor of a second term for Al
merin Marston.
Considerable anxiety has been
expressed over his successor in
the event of the Mayor declin
ing to become a candidate for a
second term. It is the general
opinion that Mr. Marston has so
thoroughly fulfilled the require
ments of the office that it might
be difficult to secure a man of
equivalent calibre. ,
In an exclusive interview with
a representative of the Vent
nor News, Mayor Marston
said:
_ “It is far too early for me to
give a definite reply to a ques
tion that will have to be con
sidered by me from many angles.
(Continued on Page 4)
No Tail light; Plenty of Em
Leroy Gale, 2421 Arctic Avenue,
is being held under $500 bail by
Supreme Court Commissioner
Herbert N. Voorhees. He was ar
rested by Ventnor Patrolman
Hayes on a charge of transport
ing liquor.
. Gale was originally placed
under arrest for driving a truck
without a tail light and with only
one headlight. He was held under
$25 bail .for a .hearing before
Judge Endicott on that charge.
At the time of the arrest the
officer discovered ten kegs of beer. •
alleged to have been consigned to
an Atlantic City firm from the
Adam Scheit Brewery, Norris
town, Pa.
Acting upon a report of the
analysis of the beer made by Dr.
John M. Arleth, of Atlantic City,
showing a greater percentage of
alcoholic content than allowed by
law, a warrant w*s issued and
Gale taken into custody.
He will be given a hearing be
fore Commissioner Voorhees at 2
o clock at the Guarantee Trust
Building.
SAVE MONEY
BUY JUMBO PEA COAL
Phone, Nep. 267, Avedon—Adv.
On and After June 4th
The Price of The
Ventnor News
will be
3 Cents Per Copy
Annual Subscription
$1.50
delivered to any part of the
United States.
Classified Advertising Appears
On Page 26
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