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The Ventnor News Has More PAID Annual SUBSCRIPTIONS Than Any Morning, Evening, Sunday, or Weekly Newspaper Published In Atlantic County
Copyright, 1924—All Rights Reserved
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VENTNOR, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1924 Three Cents per Copy
Vol. 18 No. 4
Autobiography
Posthumous Fame
Consciously or Unconsciously s
Real Writer Contrives to Show
Us His Own Heart When He
Writes About Himself
By a Veteran Scribbler
There is a good story about a
first meeting between Emerson
and George Eliot. “What is the
most remarkable book of the last
three centuries?” asked the author
of “Adam Bede.” “ ‘Rousseau’s
Confessions’,” answered the philo
sopher, with a moment’s hesita
tion. “Good! I quite agree with
you; let us sit down and talk
about it.” Admitting the tale to
- be true, we may fairly assume
that neither of these plain speak
ers seriously prized the great
sentimentalist’s revelation of
character, extraordinary as it is,
above certain immortal creations
of the master-minds that will oc
cur at once to every gentle reader.
Taking these things for granted,
they but paid their just tribute to
the fascination which autobio
graphy exercises over all of us
when it is written, so to speak,
with the heart in the pen. Had
Rousseau been left to stand or
fall by his other work, he must
long ago have fallen. Who cares
for the “Emile” which cost him
twenty years of meditation and
three years of labor? Who knows
anything about Le Devin du Vil
lage? His “Confessions,” on the
contrary, survive as the fruitful
subject of many an argument, the
text for many an essay; they form
his monument, shining out fresh
and clear after a century’s lapse,
to be read and discussed, perhaps,
through other centuries. On
either side of him stand lesser
works of somewhat the same
scope; from Pepys, for example,
down to the recollections of Al
fred de Musset’s chere marraine,
Madame Jaubert—a thoroughly
delightful book in its limited way.
It almost seems as if every man
and every woman had the power
of insuring immortality on earth,
(Continued on Page 31)
Allen B. Endicott, Jr., Ill
Allen B. Endicott, Jr., well
known counsellor-at-law, who was
stricken with a heart attack at
his office on Monday and was con
fined to his .home, Suffolk and
Ventnor Aves., under the care of
his physician, was reported as
considerably improved late yes
terday afternoon.
Woodbine To Have
New $50,000 Theatre
Woodbine will have one of the
most modern and beautiful the
atres in the state, according to
Isreal Levenson, who will expend
$50,000 for this purpose. It will
have a seating capacity of 700;
a new pipe organ and modern
features in every detail. Two
high grade Simplex moving pic
ture machines will be installed.
VENTNOR TRUST COMPANY
4% On Time Deposits
Safe Deposit Boxes —Adr.
Today’s Editorials Page 9
THE TROLLEY STRIKE
WE’LL TELL THE WORLD
TO OUR GRADUATES
JOHNNY GET YOUR GUN
SELF-CONFESSION GOOD FOR
THE SOUL
VACATIONS
I AM YOUR TOWN
Edge Entertains
Ventnor Club
Senator Host to Members of Edge
Republican Club — President
Coolidge to be Guest of Sen
ator During Late Summer
Over one hundred ardent ad
mirers of United States Senator
Walter E. Edge were his guests
last Saturday evening at his home,
Oxford Ave. and the Beach, when
the Edge Republican Club of Vent
nor City took part in a reception
from 5 until 7 o’clock. Mrs. Edge
graciously assisted in receiving
the guests.
President Charles A. Knittel
and Circuit Court Judge Theodore
W. Schimpf made short addresses,
to which Senator Edge responded,
voicing his appreciation of the
club’s support in his candidacy for
re-election, and recounting many
of the duties imposed upon a mem
ber of the upper house of Con
gress. The Senator also stated
that President Coolidge would be
his guest at his Ventnor home
during the summer.
Hon. E. L. Sturgess, Collector
of Internal Revenue for the First
New Jersey District, was in at
tendance as the personal guest of
Senator Edge. Walter Tushing
ham, of Camden; Alfred Ingram
and Joseph Campbell, of Ocean
City, were also present.
A buffet luncheon was served at
6 o’clock, after which the guests
enjoyed the delightful environ
ment on the spacious veranda
fronting the sea.
The olllcers of the club include:
President, Charles A. Knittel;
vice-president, Samuel Bater, Jr.;
secretary, Joseph F. Keener;
treasurer, Albert J. Donahue;
executive committee, T. B. Buch
holz, Joseph Oppenheimer, A. F.
Ulmer, Jr., Raymond J. Knittel,
Stewart P. Gale, J. Hitchens, Wil
liam Bater, Louis G. Reda, John
Stringer, Sr., Philip J. Fitzpatrick
and M. De Ritis.
Other prominent residents of
(Continued on Page 31)
Advocate Bach
[For Re-Election
Civic Work of Ventnor Council
man and Chairman of Fire
Committee Assurance of
Council Position
William Bach, now councilman
and chairman of the Fire Com
mittee of Ventnor, has, during
his time of office, exhibited such
energy and perfection that his re
nomination and re-election as a
councilman seem to ‘be assured.
As head of the Fire Committee,
he has come very near the 100%
mark and the Second Ward of
Ventnor may well be proud of
its representative.
Mr. Bach has long been en
gaged in civic work and spreading
the slogan “If you want to live,
live in Ventnor.”
Mould Meets
Mayor’s Machine
Thomas W. Mould, of Ocean
City, was fined $25 last Saturday
by Recorder Voelker in the Mar
gate City police court, after enter
ing a plea of guilty upon a charge
of reckless driving. Mould crashed
into an automobile owned by
Mayor Risley and which had been
parked in front of the Margate
City Hall. He agreed to reim
burse the mayor for the damage
done.
YELLOW CAB Company. Mar.
6000. Quick Safa Sorvioo—Adv.
Brooks Favored
For Freeholder
Prominent Ventnorite and Resi
dent of Second Ward Boomed
for County Board
Ralph G. Brooks, former mem
ber of the Ventnor City Council
and a candidate for mayor in the
last election, is being favored
locally as candidate for the Board
of Freeholders.
Mr. Brooks, who is well known
in Ventnor, has been in the public
eye for some time and has effi
ciently served the- community
with the result that there is a
unanimity of opinion throughout
the entire Second Ward that he
is the logical candidate for the
office of freeholder.
Governor Silzer Will
Oppose Walter Edge
So Predicts Senator Richards Re
garding Coming Senatorial
, Contest
When questioned by a Ventnor
News representative as to what
the probable line-up would be in
the contest for U. S. Senator,
State Senator Emerson Richards,
without a moment’s hesitation,
stated that Governor Silzer is the
logical candidate of the Demo
cratic party for the seat that will
be contested in the Fall election
by Senator Walter E. Edge, and
that the opposing candidates will
be the present United States
Senator Edge and Governor
Silzer.
The Senator further forecasted
that the contents will be a battle
royal, the outcome of which will
be largely influenced by the Presi
dential nominee that will be
selected to carry the Democratic
emblem by the convention now in
session in New York City.
To Hold Tests For
Margate Life Guards
Candidates for the Margate
City lifeguard force will appear
next Saturday for an official'test
in the presence of Mayor Risley
and other city officials. The men
will be required to demonstrate
ability in swimming and .handling
of a surf boat. The test will be
under the immediate supervision
of Chief Charles Miller.
COUNCILMAN ISAAC SWEIGART
Chairman of the Water Committee, who
will extend a public invitation to the
women of Ventnor to inspect the city's
fine water works.
Water Works Open
For The ladies
Ventnor Women Invited by
Councilman Sweigart to Pub
lically Inspect Finest Plant
In Country
Women residents of Ventnor
will be invited to make a public
inspection tour of the Ventnor
City Water Works in the near
future, according to an announce
ment made by Councilman Isaac
Sweigart.
Ventnor has long been estab
lished and extensively advertised
as a resort famous for its water.
In fact the water that is at the
disposal of every Ventnorite at
the turn of the tap is considered
the finest and clearest of any
community on the Atlantic Coast,
so much so that Ventnor water is
bottled and sold in other cities on
account of its great purity.
Councilman Sweigart, who is
head of the water committee, will
afford Ventnor women the privi
lege of making a tour through
the plant exhibiting the tremend
ous improvements that have been
made during the past year with
the result that it is the most per
fect waterworks in the United
[ States.
Pivotal Point Of Labor
(Editorial Reprinted from Ventnor New* of March 28, 1923
by Special Request)
.Evei^r great and excellent thing in the world has had to fight
for its right to live. The building up of any and every beneficent
institution, commercial, artistic, educational, has been a struggle
against misunderstanding, inertia and stupidity. Men often fight
against a thing because they are not ripe for its acceptance. As
a close observer of men and employer of labor for over thirty-six
years, I feel that I am particularly apt to treat the subject in hand
with absolute impartiality, especially at this time, when I am the
executive head of the largest union print shop in Atlantic County.
1 remember reading some twenty-five years ago, that an en
gineer on a fast passenger train became violently insane. The
time on his run had been cut down to fifty miles an hour. It was
very rapid running at that time and it told severely on the man’s
nerves. Suddenly, while at the throttle, reason gave way and the
engineer started to make a record run. He imagined there was
another fast train just behind; his life was at stake and safety
for himself and his train demanded that he should make a hundred
miles an hour. He had nearly attained his pace and was flying
past a station where he should have stopped for orders, when the
fireman, realizing the situation, laid the mad engineer low with a
link-pin and the train was slowed down just in time to escape
wreck.
There is a natural law, well recognized and defined by men
who think, called Law of Diminishing Returns, sometimes referred
to as the Law of Pivotal Points. A man starts in to take systematic
exercise, and he finds his strength increases. He takes more exer
cise and keeps on until he gets “stale”—that is, he becomes sore
and lame. He has passed the pivotal point and is getting a dimin
(Continued on Pago 4)
Property Owners In
Assessment Protest
Ventnor Heights Residents
Charge Discrimination in As
sessment of Ratable* There
Claiming that lots on Ventnor
Heights are assessed for twice as
much as they are actually valued
at, while lots in the St. Leonards
Tract are only assessed for half
what they are worth, property
owners of the area located on the
westerly side of Inside Thorough
fare will file a formal protest de
manding relief.
At an informal meeting held
Monday night a number of tax
payers decided to arrange for a
conference of all owners of land
on Ventnor Heights with a view
of drawing up a formal petition
setting forth actual figures to
prove their claim that they have
been discriminated against in the
assessment of ratables in that
section.
Several cases have been cited
that lots selling at $1,550 are as
sessed at $3,000, while it is pointed
out that larger and more desirable
lots on the island proper and in
relatively the same general area
which cannot be purchased for Jess
than $15,000 are assessed for
$6,000.
Ventnor Legion
Has Forms Read;
Former Service Men May Obtain
Adjusted Compensation Blanks
At Next Meeting of James
Harvey Post
Former service men entitled to
adjusted compensation under the
provisions of the measure passed
by Congress granting insurance
in the form of a 20-year policy
may now make formal applica
tion for the same on forms sup
plied by the government.
James Harvey Post, No. 144,
American Legion, has been fur
nished with an ample supply of
blanks and arrangements have
been made to distribute them to
all veterans who may apply at
the next meeting of the Post to
be held at City Hall on Tuesday
evening, July 1.
Chairman Wright, of the mem
bership committee, has arranged
to have a notary public present
to take the necessary affidavits
of applicants without cost. Mem
bers of the Post are urged to per
sonally file their applications and
also to seek out service men who
are not affiliated with the Post
and urge their attendance in
order that the work of submitting
the forms to the Washington
headquarters without unnecessary
delay.
Commander Brittain is co-op
erating with the committee in the
hope that every veteran within
the jurisdiction embracing Vent
nor City may have the necessary
papers executed promptly and se
cure for them the insurance pol
icy which becomes operative im
mediately and thus increases its
value proportionately.
Healthiest Spot in Nation
The healthiest section of the
United States is the pine belt
along the White Horse Pike near
Absecon, eight miles from Vent
nor, according to Dr. Maximilon
Kern, Chicago dianostician, in an
address made in Cleveland, Ohio.
It is asserted the combination of
seashore and country life makes
toward splendid healths
Action Deferred
On Zoning Law
Ordinance Fails to Come Up At
Final Reading at Ventnor
Council—Delay Caused by
New Legal Phases Arising
Over Recent Decision
In order to permit of inclusions
and eliminations deemed neces
sary to strengthen the measure
Ordinance No. 7, known as the
Zoning Law, Council On Monday
night voted to defer action until
the next meeting on July 7th.
City Solicitor Westcott has been
attending conferences of munici
pal authorities at Newark where
the question of zoning has been
discussed in view of the recent
decision of the court declaring in
valid the zoning measure passed
by the governing body of Nutley,
N. J.
Eminent legal counsel in attend
ance at the conference have draft
ed a general measure which will
overcome, it is believed, the con
stitutional inhibition in the mat
ter of restricting the use of pri
vate lands to purposes conducive
to the general welfare.
The ordinance as prepared ana
passed on second reading will be
amended to conform to the gen
erally accepted provisions.
Action was also deferred on Or- j
dinances No. 11 and 12. These
measures provide for the vacating
of old alleys, and for a band issue
of $50,000 for water main exten
sions, respectively.
Council granted an extension "
until July 15th to Contractor C. L.
Frye for completing the work of
removing concrete obstructions
from the lower bathing beach.
Chairman Adams of the Pier
Committee reported that new
benches would be installed on the
pier not later than July 7st.
. Paymentas of $6,076.20 w
authorized to be made to JE. J.
Holland as the final estimate on
the construction of a 400-feet long
jetty at Martindale Ave.
Council adjourned to meet for
general business on July 7th, one
week in advance of the first regu
lar meeting next month. t
Boardwalk Association
Elects First Officers
Prominent Civic Organization of
Atlantic City Names John *
Misener President
The Boardwalk Association,
which is slated to become one of
the most powerful organizations
working in the interests of At
lantic City, recently elected four
officers, the first named, for a
period of two years and three of
ficers for a period of one year.
After this term there will be a
two-year period, making an inter
locking system.
Following are the names of the
officers: John Misener, of the
Crane Company, president; B. J.
O’Connell, of the DuPont Exhibit,
vice-president; Joseph Hewitt, of
the National City Company,
treasurer; J. A. Pemberton,
Amercan Tobacco Company,
board member; Fred Packer, Ted
dy Lapres, Jr., D. Lamponi, Geo.
A. Bamford, Huylers, board mem
bers.
Deliveries at any time desired
daily and this insures Ventnor
householders the best service for
all kinds of sea foods, if orders