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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
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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
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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
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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
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!
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
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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
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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
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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.
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