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s CURRENT NEWS Mugita Lonyport Ocean City Abaecon aatSBaaemaa. 1 miIT Q OA Page riftebn ATLANTIC COUNTY’S HOME WEEKLY CURRENT NEWS from PleaaantriOe Linwood NorthfieM Somers Point Copybioht, 1924—All Rights Reserved Ahusbhbnt Publibhino Co., of Atlantic City VENTNOR, ATLANTIC CITY N. J„ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1924 Two CENTS PER COPY Vol. 17 No. 59 Prevailing Culture of the Leisure Class Has As Its Professed Object s Marked Desire to Give an In tellectual Lift to Society— Is the Feminization of the World a Desirable Thing for a Vigorous Future? By a Veteran Scribbler Give the men a chance. Upon the young women of America lies a great responsibility. The next generation will be pretty much what they choose to make it; and what are they doing for the elevation of young men? It is true that there are the col leges for men, which still per form a good work—though some of them run a good deal more to a top-dressing of accomplish ments than to a subsoiling of dis cipline—but these colleges reach comparatively few. There re main the great mass who are de voted to business and pleasure, and only get such intellectual cultivation as society gives them or they chance to pick up in cur rent publications. The young woatien are the leisure class, con sequently—so we hear—the cul tivated class. Taking a certain large proportion of our society, the women in it toil not, neither do they spin; they do little or no domestic work; they engage in no productive occupation. They are set apart for a high and en nobling service—the cultivation of the mind and the rescue of so ciety from materialist^. They are the influence that keeps life elevated and sweet—are they (Continued on Page 31) Ventnor Gambler Gets Heavy Sentence ■Judge A. B. Endicott Metea Out Limit of Law to Leon Wei ner, Who Regarded Ar rest aa a Joke Thirty days in jail and a fine of $200 was the penalty imposed upon Leon Weiner, proprietor of an establishment at 7 South Lit tle Rock Ave., who was arrested and convicted of operating a gambling game in Ventnor City. Weiner, who had previously been warned by the police to dis continue the operation of punch boards and other gambling para phernalia, was finally brought (Continued on Pago 4) Finnegan Fined * •allure oi (ieorge innnegan, Atlantic City electrical contrac tor, to pay the required fees and secure necessary permits for tije installation of electrical wiring at 8300 Atlantic Ave. resulted in a fine of $25 being imposed upon him in the Margate City Police Court by Recorder Voelker last Thursday. Orrey C. Hills, mu nicipal inspector, appeared as the complaining witness. Constable Charles- Miller apprehended the defendant in Atlantic City on a warrant. "Buy Coal Now" — Riloy Bros. Mar. 1266; 116 N. Brighton. Adw. Today’s Editorials Page. 7 WALTER i. BUZBY SARAH WEST LEEDS LOYALTY TO HOME BUSINESS SMILE AT THE WORLD COMMUNITYLOYALTY SENATOR EMERSON RICHARDS The Paradox Of Emerson Richards Recent Slap at Samuel P. Leeds Strangely Discordant with Sen ator’s Customary Cultivated Cordiality Senator Emerson Richards, socially oiffe of the resort’s most popular and cultured gentlemen, a man of diverse and distinguished talents, a musician of note and a personality beloved by many friends who .have enjoyed the affability of his association, seems singularly to lose his qualities of complete courtesy when distressed by the atmosphere of political headquarters in the Guarantee Trust Building. Once within the precincts of that Circean area, the Senator seems to suffer an inver sion of his better nature and the consequences are most paradoxical in pronouncement. Last week, acting under the in fluence of an apparent pique at the action of Samuel P. Leeds in choosing to retain his particular sphere of labor as President of the (Continued on Page 4) Beachfront Park For Ventnor City Condemnation Commission Files Final Report on Mitcheson Campbell Properties Fixing Price at $19,200 The joint condemnation com | mission appointed to evaluate the beachfront properties of Joseph Mitcheson and Luther Campbell, lying between Newark and Phila delphia Aves., sought by Vent nor City for municipal park pur poses, has filed its final estimate at Mays Landing, fixing the pur chase price at which the city may acquire the property at $19,200. The report was made by Fred erick Wyld, John B. Slack, and William Emley, commissioners appointed upon application of Ventnor City. TWO-MINUTE BIOGRAPHIES PAGE 21 OUR BOYS AND THE CRIME PROBLEM PAGE 12 Written Specially for The Ventnor News by B. H. CANFIELD Political Pot Boiling Hard’ i Lively Campaign Under Way Johnson Forces Employing Straight Arm Tactics and Extend War Into .Jitney Camp—Attack Mercantile Appraiser—Bacharach Ticket Strengthened by Buzby’s Candidacy — Clean Government League Will Tip the Balance By A CLOSE OBSERVER The political pot is boiling, but not boiling near so much as it will boil a week hence. The “get even” policy of the Johnsonites by withdrawing jitney control from Mercantile Appraiser Schmeidler one week and the very next week “giving him the count” by completely abolishing the office he held, was not a dip lomatic move on “Nuck’s” part, for it eventually is going to act as a boomerang. In many quar ters it was thought that “Nuck” was getting rattled, for surely someone taking part in those councils held at the Ritz or at the Guarantee Trust Bldg, should have been clever enough to see that this move, coming on the very eve of the election, could not be construed in any other light except as a punishment meted out to “Izzy” for deserting the Johnson forces, especially in the face of the fact that only a short time ago the same commis sion raised Mr. Schmeidler’s sal ary and spoke of him in the most laudatory terms. No part of the public can be made to believe that this was a move for the wel fare of the community. Even well-known Bader men have openly declared the action to be' unwarranted, uncalled for and RICHARD E. SWIFT Richard Swift Resting Well Popular Executive of Atlantic City Electric Co. Stricken With Acute Appendicitis, Pulls Through Operation in Fighting Form Richard E. Swift, Commercial Manager of the Atlantic City Electric Co., and one of Atlantic City’s most well loved sons, whose cheery presence will be sadly missed at the Kiwanis “Band Table” this week, is lying in the Atlantic City Hospital, re covering from an acute attack of appendicitis. Mr. Swift was stricken last Sunday evening. He was immediately rushed to the hospital where Dr. Senseman operated at once, undoubtedly saving the popular executive’s life. Although Mr. Swift is suffering from serious complications due to delay in discovering the ill ness at an early stage, his splen- ] did physical condition and fight ing spirit are ably aiding his re covery and he is reported to bej resting well. The whole city joins in wishing him a speedy con-1 valescence. untimely. I can give no better illustration of thin than a remark made in my presence in a barber shop the other day, and this was said by a man who had declared that he was going to vote for Bader. In a laughing tone this Baderite ejaculated: “It’s a lucky thing for Joe Per skie that he stayed with ‘Nuck’ otherwise they would have abol ished the office of Assistant City Solicitor.” This blunt utterance will give a pretty good general idea of how the action of the three commis sioners is viewed in both friendly and unfriendly quarters. Every body believes that the commis sioners were voting under in structions from headquarters and to say the least the instructions were ill-advised. Not only does it give the anti-Johnson element ammunition for hurrah campaign stuff, but the voter himself is, as a rule, a fair-minded reasonable human being, who will not give his sanction to something so glar ingly irregular. He reasons that if there really was no need for a Mercantile Appraiser why should these men wait four years to find it out. Why should not this office have been abolished (Continued on Page 30) ! Preparing to Treat Repeaters Rough "Suitcase Citizens” Are Being Well Watched by Detectives and Attempts to Ball Up the Local Ballot WU1 Be Se verely Dealt With, Ac cording to Reports Any one with an ear to the earth these days is bound to hear the footsteps of the small army of “Suitcase Citizens” who are daily arriving and seeking resi [ dential roosts in the cheap board i ing houses about the resort, in preparation for the old game of “repeat voting.” It is being well mentioned whenever such infor mation is to be found, that there is a mighty effective organization of detectives at work, carefully watching and noting the incoming of these unwelcome gentry. In the opinion of those who claim to know, any attempt at a whole sale operation of the old “repeat er tactics” is going to be badly foiled at the start, and “imported voters” are pretty sure to meet with severe treatment at the hands of the law if they attempt to vote illegally. .Repeating and voting on dead men’s names, or balloting for ab sentee male or female voters is a game as old as rotten politics, and the methods are so familiar that they are not hard to beat when the opposition has an ade quate force of watchers to keep an eye on affairs. It is reported that a large force of detectives is already in the field, checking up on all suspicious arrivals, and likely developments are looked for in the event of a wholesale attempt to introduce fraudulent voters at the polls in the coming Atlantic City municipal election. YELLOW CAB Company. Mar. 6000. Quick Safa Service—Adv. SAMUEL P. LEEDS President of the Chamber of Commerce Ventnor Mayoralty Draws Candidates New Names Appear in the Lists .As Complimentary Contest .for Marston’s Successor Begins Since the announcement of Mayor Almerin Marston who recently declined to accept another term of office as Mayor of Vent nor City, rumor has been busily at work assisting in the selection of his probable successor. The names of many prominent citizens of the City Beautiful have crept into print, mostly through the hazard ed opinions of admirers or the friendly attempts of those who de sire to sound out sentiment for their personal preferences for the office. ~~— bo far, the name of Hiram Steel man remains the most likely of the many mentioned for the difficult office, judging by the comments heard daily among the citizens of Ventnqr where knowledge of Mr. Steelman’s peculiar equipment for the local office is widespread and well recognized. Frederick Hick man and Carleton Adams have been freely discussed of late and are known to have many sincere personal admirers who would willingly place the garb of office (Continued on Page 4) Steelman to Address Parent-Teachers Ventnor City Councilman Hiram Steelman and Mrs. Joseph Thomp son, president of the Ventnor Board of Education, will be the speakers at the meeting of the Ventnor Parent-Teachers’ Asso ciation to be held in the audi torium of the Troy Ave. School to morrow evening. Included in the program will be a physical training exhibition by pupils of the eighth grade under the direction of Miss Pyle and a whistling solo by Celeste Moghab. Festive Firemen An elaborate entertainment is planned by South Atlantic City Fire Company No. 1, of Margate. The affair is to be held in June. At the last meeting of the com pany President Bye named as a committee to arrange the affair the following: H. Norman Mc Connell, Horace Kean, Albert Hackney, John Strotbeck and Wil liam Maynard. — THIS WINTER’S COAL — Austin Coal Co. Mar. 11.—Air. Pair of Spectacles Uncovers Gem Theft Detective Ulrich, of Ventnor Force, Working on Lone Cine, Bring! Arrest of Pair in Ventnor Diamond Robbery Clever detective work on the part of Special Investigator Adam Ulrich, of the Ventnor de partment, coupled with the co operation of Atlantic City and Camden authorities resulted in the recovery of two diamond rings, valued at $1,000, alleged to have been stolen from the home of Sam uel J. Bogatin, 8 South Surrey Place, and the arrest of Isabelle Thompson and Walter Ballard, colored, of 1220 Baltic Ave., At lantic City. The theft was reported to Di rector Whalen on Friday and De tective Ulrich was immediately assigned to the case armed with the meagre clue that the maid employed by the Bogatins was only known by her first name, Isabelle, and that she had recently purchased a pair of glasses. A canvass of Atlantic City opticians uncovered the fact that the girl’s name was Isabelle Thompson, but when Atlantic City, detectives visited the obtained ad dress, it was found that she had recently moved. She was traced by Ulrich from there and it was then that detectives arrested Walter Ballard from whom it was (Continued on Page 30) Operating lost Kills Single Fare A. J. Purinton Demonstrate* Im possibility of Seven-Cent Fare for Margate and Points to Present Book Concession i _ Mayor John W. Risley, of Mar gate City, made a very strong point at a banquet given in his honor at the Margate City Hall recently of urging the trolley ; company to place Margate City on a par with Ventnor City, the residents of which are able to ride from the Inlet to Ventnor City for seven cents. According to Mayor Risley, Margate is not only contiguous ; to Ventnor City, but it will only be a question of time when the two cities will merge under one governing body. The Mayor con tended that Margate City, which is the natural place for home building for men of moderate means, is injured and retarded in its progress by the double fare. Mayor Risley feels that a united effort should be made by the property owners and residents of (Continued on Page 4) 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—Marine 2180 and 2181—Adv. On and After Jane 4th The Price of The Ventnor News will be 3 Cents Per Copy Anneal Subscription $1.50 delivered to any part of the United States.