Ventnor news., July 23, 1924, Page THIRTY, Image 30

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To build a more powerful nation by developing its citizenry has been Mr.
Macfadden’s life work. In May, 1924, he took his family to Washington to
show United States Senators that he had done his part. This unusual photograph
was first published in the New York Times and is now appearing all over the
world. (Top to bottom: Bernarr Macfadden, Berwin, Mrs. Bernarr Macfadden,
Byrne, Helen, Byrnece, Beulah, Braunda and Beverly.
A Mistake Quite
Worth the Making
Cub Reporter Goes to Wrong
Address and Finds Something
New in Exclusive Manors
The cub reporter looked around
him as he nervously waited for
the appearance of the man who
owned the handsome house in
which he was. A bizarre clock
over the fireplace attracted his eye.
The big time piece, imbedded in
the wall, was a Gothic representa
tion of two grotesque figures
carved in metal, each bearing
against the dial. One figure was
a hideous young fellow, blowing
defiantly and as if in pain; the
other was an old man leaning on
a staff with a resigned expression
on his face.
“Well, what do you make of
it?” asked a cheery voice from
behind. It was Francis J. Thou
ron, a retired banker, who for
merly managed the affairs of the
Federal Reserve in Philadelphia,
though the cub did not know it at
the time.
“I think it means that Youth
wears itself out fighting against
Time while Old Age ealmlj
awaits the end,” ventured the
young scribbler.
Mr. Thouron smiled pleasantlj
at the explanation as much to say
“You have only guessed half the
thought,” and inquired what serv
ice he could render the visitor.
“Does a Mr. Strouse live here?
The servant who let me in said
she thought not but wasn’t sure.’
“No, you must have the wrong
house, this is Thouron Manor, 161
States Ave. We have a goot
many guests here but none b;
that name.”
The reporter, starting to go
looked reluctantly at the sof
mauve carpets that sank beneatl
his tread, at the massive perioi
furniture about the room, am
the cool porch encircling half thi
house and within full view of thi
ocean and the Boardwalk. H<
was sorry to leave all this splen
dorous comfort and hunt else
where for this Mr. Strouse, wh<
seemed not even to exist. Mr
Thouron with his ready percep
tion understood the expression or
the weary reporter’s face anc
asked him if he would care to sit
on the porch fanned with invig
.orating breezes.
“If you don’t mind, I’d rather
see more of this house. I have a
passion for handsome furniture,
especially antiques. You have so
many,” said the lad pointing to
some twisted candelabras.
And so the tour of inspection
began through the big house with
its curling halls and airy rooms.
The color scheme was grey and
blue. Everything blended with
artistic harmony. Some rooms
were furnished with circassion
walnut, some in mahogany, and
others in white ivory. There were
chiffonettes gilded with gold, twin
beds beautifully embossed, dainty
night tables, and ladies’ vanity
desks of the French Revolution
at which it was easy to imagine
sat Marie Antoinette arranging
her powdered hair.
“I never saw a room like that
before,” gasped the budding
journalist when he was shown a
bed chamber with seven walls. “It
reminds me of the study of ‘The
Hunchback of Notre Dame.’
This is the most palatial house I
have been in for many a day. Is
it a hotel or a private home?”
“Neither. It’s a manor run vi
the European plan. Our rates
are very moderate too,” ex
plained Mr. Thouron. “We get
the most refined patronage be
cause, located as we are on States
Ave., a purely residential sec
tion, we appeal only to that class;
yet at the same time we are prox
imous to the theatres, the trolleys,
and the restaurants. The Board
walk, as you see is just a step
away.”
“Well, thanks for letting me
tramp through your house,”
spoke the reporter. “I should
worry if I don’t find Mr. Strouse,
I’ve got a good story right here.”
i New Fire Track For City
i -
l The new $16,000 ladder true!
for the Ventnor City Fire Com
pany has been shipped and is ex.
pected to arrive here in a fev
days. According to informatioi
given out by Captain Dave Stew
i art, this piece of apparatus is th(
, finest of its kind in modern usage
Its addition gives to Ventnor th<
most effectively and best equippet
fire department for a city of its
size in the state.
Arrest Speeders with Discretion
{Continued from Page 1)
tant or' neighboring communities
to be afraid to come into Ventnor
for fear they will be fined if they
do not keep their eyes glued on
the speedometer. Any man ex
ceeding the stipulated rate of
twenty miles an hour by just a
few miles should first be told
about it. Then if he is again
caught violating the law he should
be arrested.
“Many people come down here
from Philadelphia, where on
Broad Street they are compelled
to drive at least at the rate of
thirty miles an hour, and come
over the boulevard where they are
also permitted to travel at a fair
clip. It is hard for these people
to adjust themselves to twenty
miles as soon as they get into the
city. Wholesale arrests only
drive people away from Ventnor
and will give it a bad name among
other people.”
Clean Politics Policy of Bach
(Continued from Page 1)
Mr. Bach expressed in plain
language his contempt for corrupt
politics and stated it was his hope
that officials in the future could
keep as clean and civic spirited as
most had been in the past. He
said that he believed the present
administration under Mayor
Marston had functioned con
scientiously and that he knew it
had a good, clean record.
During the past three years,
Mr. Bach, heading both the fire
and police departments, was in
strumental in getting for the city
three new pieces of apparatus, the
finest fire fighting machines to be
had. He increased the efficiency
of both the police and fire de
partments by multiplying the
number of signal and alarm boxes.
It has been due to his efforts that
the fire couplings in this city are
ready to be standardized and ap
proved by the underwriters.
In speaking of the police and
fire departments Mr. Bach said he
felt satisfied that there was no
immediate need to increase either
of the forces. To use his own
words: “I can see no reason why
we should add to the taxes of the
people by enlarging these depart
ments which have already proved
themselves competent to handle
whatever may arise in their line.”
CLASSIFIED
Willie (reading about Olympic
games)—“Pa, what is a javelin?”
Pa-—“A javelin is a spear with
Swedish ancestors.”
BLOND BESS OPINES
Equity isn’t so bad, but I’m
wondering if a steel helmet will
look well on a bobbed head.
LEGAL
SHERIFF’S SALE
By virtue of a writ of fieri facias, to
me directed, issued out of the New
Jersey Court of Chancery, will be sold
at public vendue, on
WEDNESDAY, THE SIXTH DAY OF
AUGUST, NINETEEN HUNDRED
AND TWENTY-FOUR,
at two o’clock (daylight saving time) in
the afternoon of said day, in the Court
Room on the Seventh Floor, Guarantee
Trust Building, in the City of Atlantic
City, County of Atlantic and State of
New Jersey:
All that certain tract or parcel of
land and premises situate, lying and
being in the City of Ventnor City, in
the County of Atlantic and State of
New Jersey, bounded and described as
follows:
Beginning at a point in the West line
of Oakland Avenue (fifty feet widej
one hundred fifty feet Southwardly from
the Southwesterly comer of Oakland
Avenue and Atlantic Avenue; thence ex
tending (1) Southwardly along said line
of Oakland Avenue (the same being
parallel with and distant one hundred
twenty-five feet Eastwardly at right
angles from Nashville Avenue) fifty
feet; thence (3) Northwardly parallel
with Oakland Avenue fifty feet; thence
(4) Eastwardly parallel with Atlantic
Avenue sixty-two and one-half feet to
the place of beginning. Being Lot No.
, 8 in Block 11-B, plan of lots of James
G. Scull, Tax Collector.
Decree approximately $5,305,83, be
sides interest, costs and fees.
Seized as the property of Nathan Joffe
i and Ida E. Joffe and taken in execution
at the suit of Prescott Land Company
and to be sold by
HOWARD R. CLOUD.
Sheriff.
Dated July 12, 1924.
, Lewis P. Scott, Solicitor.
Pr’s fee, $22.26
Ventnor News, 7-28-80; 8—6-18-20.
| Edge Clarifies Ram Treaty
(Continued, from Page 1)
this much-mooted question. The
placing of all vessels of American
and foreign registry upon a par
ity in the jurisdictional waters of
the United States will greatly
simplify enforcements.’
“Mr. Wheeler, in a recent ar
ticle, says the following which
certainly cannot be misunder
stood :
“ ‘In the long run, prohibition
will work out just as beneficially
on a ship as it will in the State
or Nation. Though it may not be
a wise policy to insist upon the
exercise of all the legal power
that we possess, or upon the en
actment of legislation which will
prevent foreign ships coming to
our shores from possessing liquors
on the high seas outside the
three-mile limit, as proposed by
the measures sponsored by the
shipping interests; yet, the
United States of America cannot
afford to back down and sur
render her sovereign rights to en
force her own laws simply be
cause the liquor interests in some
foreign country object.
“ ‘The harm that would come
to the United States from the
adoption'1 of such a policy of
winking at law violations would
be infinitely greater than any
money loss or international diffi
culties which may arise. A nation
which has the moral fibre to de
stroy the beverage liquor traffic
should have the moral courage to
enforce the laws to make a con
stitutional amendment for pro
hibition effective.’ ”
“In the light of the above,
further comment would seem
superfluous.”
Before leaving for his two
weeks’ sojourn in Maine, Senator
Edge stated that he was satis
fied with the way his campaign
was progressing.
He explained that he had been
very busy recently in different
parts of the State, and that spec
ial Coolidge-Edge Committees,
with hundreds of members, have
been launched in Essex, Hudson,
Camden and Mercer Counties.
These committees are operat
ing harmoniously with the regu
lar county organizations and are
enlisting the active interest of
many men and women who are
not members of the county com
mittees.
“It has been very gratifying
to me,” he said, “to find these
regular organizations, whose
members are selected by the Re
publican men and women voters,
uniformly backing my candidacy.
Not one County Committee has
PERFECTION!
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gone on record opposing my re
nomination, and many in one way
or another have demonstrated
their approval.
“I will return about August 1,
and be prepared to co-operate in
every possible way with the loyal
friends who have so unselfishly
back my candidacy.
“While I am away, Mr. Kean
will perhaps take the public into
his confidence and tell them what
he really has to offer.”
Following is a recent letter re
ceived from Senator Edge:
Hon. Charles Scheuer, Editor,
Ventnor News,
Ventnor City, N. J.
Dear Mr. Scheuer:
Supplementing my letter of
recent date, an outstanding ob
jection to creating the precedent
established by the British Treaty
is the encouragement through one
method of setting aside decisions
of the Supreme Court.
It appeals to me that this point*
deserves special emphasis at this
time. Frankly, I do not believe
the critics of my vote against this
departure know the real facts
surrounding the incident.
The employing of a treaty as a
method through which to circum
vent or render void a decision of
the Supreme Court is almost on
a par with the basic, fundamental
policy of LaFollette, i. e. to give
Congress power to overrule or
reverse the opinions of the coun
try’s highest tribunal.
Conservative citizens are pro
nounced in their condemnation of
this, the main issue in the La Fol
lette Platform. Yet the La Fol
lette critics show the way and de
nounce any one who for this and
other clearly defined reasons, re
fused to be a party to such a
subterfuge.
Very truly yours,
WALTER E. EDGE.
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Philosophic Theory and -
True Observation
(Continued front Page 1)
duced is neither habitual nor
quite practicable.
Even M. Tain/e might have
been a little startled had there
fallen under his eye the gibe I
saw ascribed recently to a French
woman of literary note, at the ex
pense of a fluent rival: Affaire
d’atavisme, ma chere; son grand
pere’ ’etait barbier. The gen
eralizations, vaguely enough
comprehended, of the evolution
ists, must be having an influence
that cannot easily be estimated.
For one thing, it is pretty clear
that they are not strengthening
the sense of personal responsibil
ity; but are producing in many
minds a dreamy fatalism—opti
mistic or the reverse, as tempera
ment and digestion may deter
mine—which can hardly fail to
affect conduct. If this be not an
unmixed good—what a delightful
surprise if it were!—it can be
accepted with resignation by
those who believe that the mis
chief of it will be tried out in
the slow furnace of experience.
If the principles which we
amuse ourselves with turning and
twisting under the electric lights
at the club table shall prove to
be all that their discoverers think
—as farreaching and imperious
as they imagine—duty and vir
tue and my accountability for
myself will not be abolished.
I shall find in practice, how
ever, much my alieux may have
influenced my tendencies and in
clinations, that I shall largely suf
fer the consequences of my own
acts. If I learn that tough les
son soon enough, the long back
ward receding line will not wholly
prevent me from deciding what
those acts shall be.
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