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1 Philosophic Theory
and True Observation
Marry Your Wife’* Grandmother
and You Will Learn the Real
Freaks of Heredity and Get
a Taste of Dreamy
Fatalism
By a Veteran Scribbler
When the scientist remarked at
the club table the other evening,
with a merry smile, that “the only
way to be sure you know your
intended wife is to marry her
great-grandmother,” we recog
nized in his epigram the sparkle
of crystallized study in the field
—closed to most of us—of philo
sophic theory and observation.
Had he cared to do so, he could
have cited pages of Spencer and
Taine, and of profounder think
ers, to show that your wife’s tem
per and looks and availability or
otherwise for domestic partner
ship are due much more to her
ancestry than to any causes that
you can yourself perceive or an
lyze. If you had asked him how,
as a matter of practical prudence,
you are to ascertain the remote
and obscure elements that deter
mine a matter of such peculiar
interest, he would probably have
repeated to you in some other
form the suggestions to the clear
ly impossible great-grandmother.
It is obvious that these
..^thought beyond the reaches of
our souls,” if they do not “shake
our disposition, do occupy many
of us to an extent that would
have amazed and shocked our pre
decessors of two or three genera
tions gone. Heredity and the
freaks of heredity defray the ex
pense of chance conversation in
circles where the grave study of
the elusive and complex facts
from which the principle is in
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Bacbarach Recovered
Isaac Bacharach, the popular
Congressman of the Second Dis
trict of New Jersey, is now com
pletely recovered from injuries
sustained in the recent automobile
accident that resulted in the death
of his friend and partner, J. Estell
Evans.
Dr. David B. Allman, the promi
nent young surgeon who has been
in constant attendance on the
Congressman, has given the as
surance that our representative
in Washington who for a decade
and more has so worthily espoused
the cause of the Second New Jer
sey District at the Capitol, is
again in normal condition and
will be a candidate for re-elec
tion next November.
Patterson in Ventnor
Congressman P. F. Patterson,
Jr., has taken up his residence at
his summer home in Ventnor
where, he will remain with his
family until October 1st The 1
Congressman is rapidly convalesc
ing from a recent illness which ■
has confined him to his Camden
home for several weeks.
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Today’s Editorials Page 9
THE PROBLEM OF BUSSES
YOUR TENNIS COURTS
NO MORE SECRET CONVENTIONS
A CIVIC OBLIGATION
HISTORICAL HALL
Dobkins Studio.
CITY SOLICITOR JOHN S. WE SCOTT
Who will speak before an important
meeting of the Ventnor City Board of
Trade next Tuesday evening.
Clean Politics
Policy of Bach
Councilman William H. Bach
Want* Public to Know He
Stands for Business-Like
Adminis t ration
“A business like administration
untainted with politics will be my
stand as a councilman if I am
elected again next fall.”
That was the statement made
by Couiicilman William H. Bach,
member of the present council,
who has directed effeciently dur
ing the past three years the af
fairs of the fire and police depart
ments as well as having looked
after the welfare of Ventnor
property, when interviewed by a
representative of the VENTNOR
News.
“I am a free leaf,” he emphatic
ally declared. “I refuse to be
iictated to by any power, whether
it be political faction, wealth or
individual. Always have I held
;he interests of this city as para
mount and during my three years
as councilmait I have endeavored
to legislate for its improvement,
[f the people of Ventnor do not
want a straight forward, open,
business like administration I do
lot want to be elected. I want the
public to know that I stand for
lonesty in politics.”
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Safety Islands To Be Repainted
Bids are now being received by
3hief of Police Harry H. Frings,
if Ventnor, for repainting the
safety zones on Atlantic Ave.
Complaints have been received
'rom a number of residents that
vhen waiting for trolley oars they
lave been forced back from the
streets by motorists who fail to
leed the safety zones and pass
lirectly over the street “islands.”
Although the islands were
narked off with white paint a
hort time ago, continual passing
iver the lines by autos has worn
he color off, and Chief Frings
lopes to have the repainting
tarted within the next few days.
Deliveries at any time desired
laily and this insures Ventnor
louseholders the best service for
11 kinds of sea foods, if orders
re given to the CHELSEA FISH
IARKET, 2707 Atlantic Avenue,
hones, Bell—Marine 2180 and
181.—Ad?.
Edge In Straightforward Statement
Clarifies Rum Treaty, Walloping Foes
In No Uncertain Word, the New Jer.ey Senator Make* a Clear
Honest Statement of HU Stand, Showing That The Agree
ment with Great Britain Slaps the United States Supreme
Court in the Face, and is Plainly an Invitation to the
Nations of the World to Violate the Eighteenth
Amendment—Thinks Kean Will be More
Keen to Say Something Tangible Dur
ing His Absence
Ratification by the United
States of the so-called British
Rum Treaty, directly flouting
our Supreme oCurt, has no less
than “invited” England, as well
as other nations of the world, to
deliberately violate the Eigh
teenth Amendment.
That, in substance, is the opin
ion of United States Senator
Walter E. Edge, in defending his
vote against the liquor treaty,
and in reply to the almost daily
attacks made upon him by Ham
ilton F. Kean, his opponent in
quest of the senatorial nomina
tion on the Republican ticket.
Mr. Edge stated to a Ventnor
News representative, just before
leaving Ventnor last Friday with
his wife for a two weeks’ stay
in Maine, his reasons for voting
negatively on the liquor treaty
with Great Britain:
“From the standpoint of en
couraging obedience to law, the
treaty is ridiculous. Now that we
have given Great Britain the priv
ilege of evading the decisions of
our highest courts, we of course
must grant the same concession
to every nation having a ship on
the high seas—the result will be
thousands of vessels filled with
liquor not “an hour’s sailing from
shore,” but tied to docks in every
port of the country.
“How easy for this prohibited
liquor to percolate ashore is strik
ingly illustrated by the frequent
arrests.
“Sailors on four ships in one
port in four weeks were arrested
and fined, demonstrating how this
privilege will be utilized, and yet,
by the British-American treaty
we invite this very thing.
The Senator from New Jersey
then outlined his views on the in
consistency of the treaty, as com
pared to the enforcement prob
lem:
“If a real effort is to be made
to enforce the prohibition law,
permission should never have
been given to transport untold I
quantities of intoxicating liquor j
in thousands of ships to our very
shores. The practical result of
the treaty is almost as repre
hensible as the properly con
demned policy of authorities at
home ‘winking their eye’ at do
mestic violations.
“Anti-Saloon League officia.s
were loud in their praise when
the Supreme Court handed down
its decision declaring it illegal for
any ships to bring liquor within
the three-mile limit—which this
treaty now opens up. Officials
of the Anti-Saloon League de
liberately changed their view
point, decided not to oppose the
treaty, and denounce those who
originally agreed with them.
“Wayne B. Wheeler, General
Counsel for the Anti-Saloon
League, said: 'The decision is a
victory for law and order in its
application to American and for
eign ships inside the three-mile
limit.
“Prohibition C o m m i ssioner
Haynes is also quoted as saying:
‘It is very gatifying that a de
cision has been handed down on
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Arrest Speeders
With Discretion
Poor Publicity for City to Arrest
Everybody Who Slightly Vio
lates Speed Laws is Idea of
Police Head
Chief of Police Harry H. Frings,
in commenting upon the rigid
speed law enforcement, said yes
terday that he did not believe in
wholesale arrests of speeders and
that he advised his officers to use
discretion in nabbing drivers.
Chief Frings stated that many
visitors coming into Ventnor are
not aware of the particular laws
governing this section and that to
arrest them because they uncon
sciously exceed the law by a few
miles is bad advertisement for this
city.
“Any driver speeding along at
thirty or forty miles an hour
should be arrested as a menace
to public safety and we have ap
prehended some twenty of such
autoists during the past two
weeks,” declared Chief Frings.
“I do not want the people of dis
continued on Page 30)
Educator To Address Lions
Jeremiah W. Jenks, Ph. D., L.
L. ., Professor of Jurisprudence
at the New York University, will
address the weekly meeting of the
Lions’ Club to be held today in
the Hotel Breakers. He will
speak upon public administration
in connection with conditions at
he shore.
Plan Beach Party
For Pageant Fund
—
Margate Chamber of Commerce
to Hold Novel Affair Evening
of August 1st
Looking ahead toward the com
ing Atlantic City Pageant, Mar
gate is making plans for its en
try with a monster beach party,
arranged for Friday night, Au
gust 1st.
The big event is being staged
under the auspices of the Mar
gate Chamber of Commerce, a
committee consisting of Messrs.
Hodson, Franklin and Walker.
They have been appointed by
President Riley to make arrange
ments for the affair, to be known
as a novelty beach party.
A nominal sum of fifty cents
will be charged with the purpose
of raising funds for the Margate
float in the Boardwalk rolling
chair spectacle.
Boy Scouts, members of the
Margate beach patrol and other
local organizations have been in
vited by the committee to partici
pate in the party, which will be
held on the Jasper Ave. bathing
beach.
According to information given
out by members of the commit
tee, several unusual stunts are
billed, with plenty of novelties,
including a big bonfire, dancing,
music and refreshments on the
program.
VENTNOR TRUST COMPANY
4% On Time Deposits
Safe Deposit Boses —Adv.
Ventnor Trust Company
Has New Musical Clock
A. huge clock of dull copper and
stained glass, equipped with chimes
that burst forth into music every
fifteen minutes, is the handsome ad
dition made a few days ago to the
exterior of the Ventnor Trust Com
pany. The clock hangs on the cor
ner of the building in such a posi
tion that it may be seen from both
Atlantic and Victoria Aves.
Ventnor to Open
New Tennis Court
Site at Suffolk Ave. and Beach
Nearly Ready for Players
That Ventnor will have as fine
a set of municipal tennis courts
as there are to be found anywhere
on Absecon Island is evidenced
by the work now being done on
the playgrounds at Suffolk Ave.
and the beach, right in the cen
ter of the city, under the direc
tion of a committee headed by
Carleton E. Adams.
The courts are scheduled to be
finished by tomorrow, but diffi
culty in obtaining material and
getting labor may defer comple
tion for two or three days. I
These tennis courts, three in
number, perfectly rolled, marked
with lime, equipped with nets,
and enclosed with wire backstops,
are intended for the free use of
the residents and visitors of Vent
nor. There will be no charge
attached to the use of them, and
the committee in charge cordially
invites the public to use them.
All players must, of course, fur
nish their own. rackets and balls.
If these courts prove success
ful, the number of them at Suf
folk Ave. will be increased from
three to five, according to infor
mation given out by the commit
tee. Then, too, there is another
spot located at New Haven Ave.
between Atlantic Ave. and beach
No. 4, that will probably be made
over into tennis courts. I
Westcott to Speak
at Board of Trade
City Solicitor John S. Westcott
will address the members of the
local Board of Trade on the sub
ject, “The Last Half of the
Future and Development of Vent-'
nor City,” at an important meet-'
ing to be held next Tuesday eve
ning in the Ventnor City Wood
Working Mill on North Portland |
Avenue. At this time the board;
will hold nominations for the of-!
fleers to be elected for the next
term. I
According to George H. Bratten,'
secretary of the organization, this
meeting will be one of the most1
important held this year. Aside J
from the speech by Mr. Westcott
and the business of nomination,
the members will be escorted1
through the mill on a tour of in
spection.
Six Boy Scouts To Get
Trip To Camp Fralinger
As the result of a motion passed |
by members of the Exchange Club
at the recent meeting held at the
popular Hotel Arlington, six Boy
Scouts will be sent to Camp
Fralinger, all expenses to be paid
by the organization.
A collection was made at the
meeting, following a talk by Scout j
Executive Harold V. Feyl, who'
attended the meeting with two
Boy Scouts. A novel meeting will
be held in the near future to be
known as a “competitor’s lunch
eon.” Each member will bring a
business competitor as his guest.
Brooks May Run
For Freeholder
Repudiates False Claim of Morn
ing Daily that He Would Sup
port N. Freeman Parker
Ralph G. Brooks, prominent
business man in the Second Ward
of Ventnor, flatly denied he had
told a morning newspaper he
would support N. Freeman Parker
in the coming election for Free
holder and stated emphatically
that the article printed about his
allegiance to Parker was un
founded and false, in an interview
a few days ago with a representa
tive of the Ventnor News. He
further declared he had sent the
daily paper a letter explaining his
independent stand after the ficti
tious article appeared and asked
to have matters rectified. But not
even the smallest paragraph ap
peared in the journal explaining
the truth.
Though Mr. Brooks did not posi
tively assert that he would run
for Freeholder, himself, yet he
said there was a possibility of his
entering the election race which
this year promises to eclipse all
others in excitement.
“This talk of a few trying to
oppose me has groused my fight
ing blood and if I were certain
that the people of the Second
Ward wanted my candidacy I
should feel it my obligation to
accept,” were the words of Mr.
Brooks. He admitted that a num
ber of prominent Ventnor men
had already solicited his entry
into the race.
“If 1 ran for the office,” con
tinued Mr. Brooks, “I should not
feel that I would be running
against Parker or any other man
in particular, but that I should be
running for the office itself. To
my mind a political job belongs to
no one except the man elected for
it. If I should run and by chance
be favored I should not feel that
I had taken the office away from
anybody. At the end of the term
a position is open to whoever
gets it.”
Ventnor Firemen
Plan Benefit Dance -
Letters are now being sent out
by a committee of the fire com
pany announcing the seventeenth
annual benefit dance to be held
on the Ventnor Pier and Casino
Thursday evening, August 21st,
the money from which is to go
for the support of the volunteer
fire company of Ventnor.
In previous years this dance
has always been a social event of
great moment, and this summer
plans are being made by the men
in charge to secure one of the
best orchestras on the island to
furnish the music. There will
also be special numbers by pro
fessional talent, as well as re
freshments.
Poolson On Vacation
Dr. Mama S. Poulson, recently
resigned pastor of the Ventnor
Community Church, left today
with his wife and family for
Richmond, Me., where he plans to
stay for two months.
Rev. John D. Keith, of Wheel
ing, W. Va., who won the favor
of the congregation from the pul
pit last year, will temporarily
conduct the services at the Vent
nor ohurch.