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WEDNESDAY, APR. 1, 1925
RETIREMENT OF MOORE
IS CAUSE OF REGRET
It is unfortunate that
David IJ. Moore cannot see
his way clear to remaining in
Council until the program he
has mapped out for enlarge
ment of the Casino and the
improvement of the beach
front generally has either be
come an accomplished fact,
or has been started well on
the road to fulfillment. The
plans outlined by Mr. Moore
for the improvement of the
Casino and beach front in
dicate that he has made a
close study of the situation
and is possessed of a com
prehensive grasp of the city’s
needs in the important mat
ters to which he has par
ticularly addressed his at
tention.
Council has taken the
necessary steps towards rais
ing the appropriation neces
sary for the consummation
of the plans designed by the
First Ward Councilman and
there is every reason to be
lieve that his program will
eventually be pushed to com
pletion, even though he is no
longer a member of the city
administration. But thought
ful citizens would prefer to
have a man of his great ex
perience in matters of this
character see the work which
he has begun brought to a
success!ui ciuse.
And there is another con
sideration, purely political,
urged as a reason why Mr.
Moore should stand for re
election for the long term.
His supporters at the elec
tions last November waged a
warm battle in his behalf,
bringing him through to vic
tory by a narrow margin.
Some of them have expressed
themselves as being of the
opinion that Mr. Moore owes
it to them to continue for at
least a portion of another
term.
But the genial representa
tive from the First Ward
seems determined to quit
public life when his term
comes to a close this year.
His constantly growing busi
ness, he declares, demands all
his attention, and he feels
that either his work in Coun
cil or his business must suffer
if he were to continue to play
an active part in the city
administration.
Under the circumstances,
leaders of the First Ward
are looking about for a can
didate to . succeed him. Up
to this time only the name of
Wilmer K. Clymer has been
seriouslymentioned. Whether
or not Mr. Clymer would con
sent to enter the race has not
as yet been determined. Mr.
Clymer’s business interests
lie in Philadelphia and he is
there daily attending to them.
Whether or not he would be
willing to sacrifice from his
leisure at the shore the time
and effort necessary to aid in
the transaction of the city’s
business will in all proba
bility be learned in the very
near future. The June pri
maries are approaching, and
it is high time definite knowl
edge was at hand regarding
candidates for all the offices
to be filled in November.
POLITICIANS OF STATE
LOOKING TO ATLANTIC
Roc k-ribbed Republican
Atlantic County is surely
coming into its own as one
of the chief factors to be
taken into consideration dur
ing the Gubernatorial fight
that now looms ahead. The
G. O. P. lines may waver in
Camden, in Mercer, in Essex
and elsewhere throughout
New Jersey, but in Atlan
tic they are always tightly
drawn and it is to Atlantic
more and more that the State
chieftains look for aid when
the battle threatens to be at
all close.
The fight scheduled for
next November promises to
be as warm as any within the
memory of the most con
firmed old timer, and the pre
liminary skirmishes of both
great parties have already
been staged on Atlantic’s
sands. The Democrats chose
the shore as the most fitting
place to bring out their en
trant, A. Harry Moore, and
expose him to public view.
The exhibition was not the
success they had hoped, due
to an unfortunate slip of the
tongue on the part of the
Jersey City Commissioner,
but such as it was, it was
staged here, which is the
point at issue.
Then came the genial
“Tom” McCran, the Pater
son political past master, as
the effulgent star upon which
the eyes of hopeful Republi
cans throughout the State are
fixed, and his bow to a shore
audience was much more suc
cessful. Of course each of
these gentlemen must yet
contend in their respective
parties at the June pri
maries, but it is almost a
foregone conclusion that they
will be pitted against each
other when the flag falls on
the marathon into which
recent legislation has con
verted the Gubernatorial
caiupaigii.
As if this were not enough
political distinction to bej
visited upon Atlantic county,
we are now told that State
Senator Emerson L. Richards
may manage the pre-primary
campaign for former At-i
torney General McCran, at
least in this section of New
Jersey, and that Charles L.
Lafferty, chairman of the At
lantic County Democratic
Committee and a growing
power in State politics, may
perform similar duties for A.
Harry Moore, the Demo
cratic nominee. The Demo
crats, of course, have about
as much chance of making
any serious inroads on this
Republican Gibraltar as the
proverbial snowball in the
nether regions, but if there
are any votes lying around
loose Lafferty is liable to cor
ral a few of them, and the
fight for that reason prom
ises to be a little more in
teresting than usual.
Politics is incense in the
nostrils of the citizenry of
Atlantic, and the politicians
of this neck of the woods
dearly love a fight. So true
is this that since the De
mocracy is unable to measure
up to the capabilities of a for
midable foe, the rank and file
of the G. O. P. may frequent
ly be depended upon to start
a ruction among themselves.
If by some alchemy the
politicians of Atlantic City
were forced to choose be
tween the removal of the
ocean and the abandonment
of the political game, the
chances are more than even
that they would decide in
favor of dispensing with the
salt air.
PRIDE URGED AS BAR
TO MOTOR ACCIDENTS
Urging the slogan, “Good
Irivers don’t have accidents,”
a publication devoted to the
automotive trade advances
the excellent idea that pride
must be made to act in reduc
ing automobile accidents,
where laws have failed. Not
until the drivers of motor
cars reduce accidents of their
own free will are they ever
to be reduced, is the conten
tion advanced in favor of a
crusade to be waged by
civic organizations, news
papers and other agencies in
every community under the
slogan quoted above. And
the arguments submitted in
favor of this contention are
irrefutable.
These arguments are to the
effect that a man’s pride will
restrain him from forcing
his way down a sidewalk
crowded with school chil-1
dren, knocking them right
and left; that a man’s pride
and good sense will prevent
him from getting off a street
car backwards, from falling
down elevator shafts, from
stumbling on the sidewalk,
from doing countless other
foolish, stupid things that
brand him as an incompetent.
Yet the same man, given con
trol of a motor car, may be
come a different person. He
seems to become the slave of
the machine and seems to try
to pass on to the mechanism
the fault that is his.
It all simmers down to
this: The truth of the motor
ing situation today is that
nearly all accidents are pre
ventable. They are caused,
save for an infinitesimal frac
tion where the machinery
goes wrong, by poor driving.
The good driver handles his
car according to the condi
tions that surround his path,
and when there is doubt as to
those conditions he governs
himself accordingly.
Today there is too great a
disposition on the part of
drivers to pass too much of
the traffic responsibility over
to the police, and as a con
sequence the police can’t
handle it. The driver must
take back that part of the re
sponsibility that belongs to
him and then, say those who
are urging the “Good drivers
don’t have accidents” cru
sade, we can do away with
half our traffic police and de
crease the number of acci
dents by a big percentage.
A child darts off the side
walk directly before a car.
The driver passes the blame
to the child. If he were a
good driver he would have
had his eyes on the road, both
sides of it, and if children
were in sight would have had
his car under control. Ex
tenuating circumstances can
and do prevail in instances of
this kind, but too many such
accidents are preventable. A
car slides into another and
the excuse is that the brakes
didn’t hold. There are mighty
few brakes which all of a sud
den decide not to hold. There
are few steering gears which
go wrong all of a sudden.
Most steering gear accidents,
so-called, are due to the
driver’s inability to take the
necessary action at the speed
he was traveling.
Above all things the “smart
driver,” the “chance taker,”
should be eliminated, just as
the “smarty” has been elimi
nated from polite society.
And it was not the law that
brought about this latter
elimination. It was public
sentiment and the pride
aroused in the heart of the
“smarty.” So it is by pride,
rather than by law, that the
deplorable number of acci
dents and their consequent
fatalities and damages may
be most surely decreased.
LEEDS IS HAILED AS
NATIONAL CHARACTER
When the Governor of a
great State, the vice-presi
dents of two great railroad
companies, the president of
the United States Chamber
of Commerce and men dis
tinguished in other walks of
life gather from many sec
tions of the country to pay
tribute to Samuel P. Leeds,
we may well believe Elisha
Lee, vice-president of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Sys
tem, when he says that the
energetic president of the
shore Chamber of Commerce
is no longer merely an At
lantic City man or a Jersey
man, but a national char
acter.
we all realize that men of
Mr. Leeds’ type are rare, but
he has been here so long and
has so impressed himself on
the affairs of the community
that there has arisen a dis
position to take him too much
for granted. He is actuated
in his manifold activities for
the welfare of his community
by the sheer joy of the great
labor his work entails. He
never seeks credit. Rather
does he appear grateful for
an opportunity to plunge
whole-heartedly into every
project that has a bearing on
the progress, the prosperity,
the well being of the resort.
But that shore citizens
deep down in their hearts are
fully appreciative of the ef
forts of this sterling citizen
was plainly evidenced in the
magnificent demonstration
staged in his honor at the
Hotel Ambassador last Fri
day evening. No more rep
resentative a gathering has
ever assembled at the shore,
and this despite the fact that
the element were distinct
ly unfavorable. It was a
wonderful outpouring of
community spirit, well
worthy of the occasion it
typified.
The mere mention of
politics in such a gathering
would have been an affront
to the occasion and the man
the occasion honored. Sam
Leeds and politics do not mix.
He’s too useful a citizen in
the sphere he has created to
limit his activities, to impair
his tremendous influence by
dabbling in the game of
politics. Not that Sam Leeds
would not make an excellent
legislator in either the State
or nation. He has all the at
tributes, but his talents are
productive of far more good
in the field he has chosen.
Without any definite knowl
edge on the subject, it is
nevertheless a safe predic
tion that the political bee
finds no welcome in the vicin
ity of the Leeds bonnet. He
is having too much fun and
his accomplishments in be
half of his city are too great
to endanger them by any such
experiment as his entrance
into the political arena.
Uncommon Sense
By John Blake
DREAM STUFF
It is often said that the world’s
great men were great dreamers—
a saying I believe which has done
a great deal of mischief in the
world.
The use of the word dreaming,
and the use of the word vision
are extremely common.
And thousands of young people
Who like to sit and gaze into the
future, their minds drifting here
and there and imagining vain
things fancy that they are either
dreaming great dreams or envis
ioning great enterprises, when as
a matter of fact they are merely
wasting with half numb minds a
great deal of valuable time.
The men who have got things
accomplished have not dreamed,
nor have their mental processes
resembled in the slightest degree
the process of the dreaming mind.
Possibilities do not flit across
the mind of such people as do
the curious shapes and peoples
across the mind of the dreamer.
These possibilities are worked
out definitely, beginning with an
actuality and working up to a
possibility.
The man who dreamed St.,
Paul’s Cathedral, Sir Christopher
Wren, did not see it when he was
asleep, and hastily rise and set
a rough sketch on paper.
He worked it out feature by
feature, and there was never a
time he was not extremely busy
when he was at work on his plans.
No vague forms of words came
to John Keats as he worked in
the apothecary shop where he
was apprenticed as a boy.
■tie read widely and constantly
of the work of other poets, and
when he started to write he de
cided on his meter lengths and
verse forms, and put his odes to
gether as carefully as the layer
of a Mosaic floor sets his little
fragments of stone or tile into
the mat which covers the floor. ,
Nothing is really won by star
ing out of the window and wait
ing for great ideas to come.
Ideas come from the inside.
They are suggested in the first
place by the thoughts of others
who have' gone before—spoken
or written. Then they are turned
over and over, growing like snow- *“
balls in a really creative mind,
till when they emerge they are
in a form a little different from
anything that has ever emerged
from a brain before. If this is an
interesting form, and one that
will be useful to others the time
has been well-spent. If it is not,
only the time is lost required to
put the snowball together.
Those who find it necessary to
dream had better do it at night. -
And if they will be careful of
what they eat they will not need
to do much of that.
Faithfulness To j
Duty
Not only in the face of danger,
but every day in the year as well,
women and children should be
first. Faithfulness to duty is
shown by a steadily growing re*"
serve fund at the Ventnor City
National Bank for emergency
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