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Established 1907
(Somess Point Record)
Official Newspaper of Ventnor City
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AMUSEMENT PUBLISHING CO.
V* Charles Scheuer, Founder
John D. Scheuer, Editor
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WEDNESDAY, DEC. 30, 1925
THEVENTNOR NEWS
Wishes Each and Every One
of Its Readers A
“Happy New Year"
TIME FOR US ALL
- TO TAKE STOCK
: Once a year business es
tablishments take stock, weigh
resources against liabilities,
turn back the old pages and
put pen to new. Each year the
well-regulated business strikes
balance and starts again, not
over again from the old be
ginning, but fresh from the old
year s uiubii.
Once a year the individual—
serious minded man or woman
or ambitious girl or boy—
takes stock, stock of happiness
and the health and wealth upon
which it is founded.. Each
measures with the yard-stick
of conscience the component
elements of these two great
pillars of life; health of body
and mind and spirit, and
wealth of experience, mental
resources, friendships, the will
to do, and self-esteem.
Inventory is important to
the corporation and to the in
dividual because its points out
basic truths. First, perhaps, is
that life is growth. Another
that the matter of our growth
is in our hands. And still an
other that we may guide our
selves to a more productive
and happier future by knowing
and correcting the mistakes of
the past.
To “Know Thyself” con-'
tinues to be the first rule of
happiness and success, which
are one and the same. Honest
self-examination is profitable,
but painful, as most unaccus
tomed exertion is. Probing a
lazy mind, a sore conscience or
. a hollow- tooth is unpleasant.
But it is absolutely necessary
to prevent further decay and
eventual dissolution.
Experience exposes the weak
links in the chain of life as in
the chain of business. Inven
tory is the reading of experi
ence. It must be done honestly,
courageously, without self
deception. Or else one day the
chain will snap.
And so, at this New Year,
let us take stock, nor fear to
know our weaknesses. Know
ing, we may correct them, and
build stronger and surer, hap
pier for ourselves because more
useful to others.
PROVINCIALISM OF
THE MODERN DAY
One would think that in
these days of broad-mindedness
and progress that there would
be no showings of smallness or
provincialism, but an example
of this has been brought to
light.
With the opening of the New
York-Absecon Boulevard a big
celebration was arranged. A
long string of cars made a tour
up the new road on the day of
its opening, a luncheon took
place at Lakewood at noon,
and in the evening, a big ban- ,
quet with close to eight hun
dred diners, was held in one of
the beach front hotels of this ;
resort as a climax to the day’s
celebration. Men prominent in
official life were present and ;
spoke at this banquet and ■
everyone declared the entire
celebration had been a wonder
ful success and a fitting pro
gram of events to celebrate the
completion of the giant road
way contract.
But an editor of a small
weekly paper up the State has
found room for complaint. He
expresses dissatisfaction with
the affair in the following
paragraph in the columns of
his paper:
“The greater part of the
road runs through Ocean
County. At the meeting and
banquet at Atlantic City no1
speaker was listed from
Ocean County. This brought
about much comment and
many considered the omis
sion a direct insult to Ocean
County. Perhaps Mr. Buzby
or other members of the
committee can give some
explanation of the apparent
slap at the people of Ocean
County.”
Such a statement can only
be described as ridiculous.
Ocean nor any other county of
the State was overlooked pur
posely by the committee in
arranging the program. True
there were no Ocean County
speakers at the banquet.
Neither were there any At
lantic City speakers at the
banquet, with the exception
of Mayor Edward Bader, who
welcomed the visitors to the
resort. The speakers consisted
of men who had a big part in
the building of the road and
j men of State and National
; prominence. True, there was
| a speaker from Cape May
County. He was selected by
the committee to tell the diners
: that it is the hope of the en
i tire southern end of the State
■ that this boulevard will in
■ time continue on across from
, Somers Point to Beasley’s
Point and then on to Cape
s May Point at the soifthern
end of the State.
There were many guests at
i the banquet . from . Ocean
County. They were not only
entertained at this affair'but
remained for the week-end as
guests of the committee and of
the resort’s hotels.
The editor of the up-State
paper will have to discover a
more logical fault to find with
the program. There is no ex
planation due from Chairman
Buzby or his committee. No
one was “slapped in the,face”
and Ocean County residents
have no cause for feeling they
were insulted.
With the opening of the New
York road we are more closely
related than ever with the
North Jersey territories. We
have neither time nor room
for bickering today. We
should work hand in hand and
not criticize the methods of
our neighbors.
GREAT PRESIDENT’S
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED
If New Jersey never has
another great figure in the
political history of the world
it can well rest on the laurels
brought to this great State by
the man whose birthday was
celebrated by numerous cere
monies and dinners throughout
the Nation on Monday of this
week—Woodrow Wilson.
Ihe celebration of the late
President' Wilson’s birthday
this year is a most appropriate
one with the World Court—
one of his greatest dreams
—looming up over the horizon
as the best and only method
of bringing “Peace on Earth.”
Many of President Wilson’fe
most quoted remarks were
made in speeches delivered in
Atlantic City. He was a fre
quent visitor to the resort and
greatly praised the city as a
rest spot.
Probably one t>f the finest
statements ever made about
him was the impromptu one
minute talk delivered by J. C.
Nugent in 1919, in a vaudeville
performance in San Francisco.
Since that time Mr. Nugent
has delivered the monologue
countless times and has had
many requests for copies of it.
Recently he allowed it to be
published in Variety, a theat
rical trade journal, and it is
reprinted here at this time as
being appropriate to the
occasion:
“Woodrow Wilson, if I may
be permitted to be serious for
a minute, is now so far above
partisan politics as to make a
reference to him permissible
as a personage apart, so I will
say—I passed lately through
northern California, a world of
mountains — contemporaneous
mountains of the minute, if I
may say that like that—melt
ing away in the distance as
they receded, as some great
men do; but one mountain
seemed to grow larger as' you
left it, standing alone, deserted,
majestic, eternal;—Mount
Shasta!
“And I have dared to think
that to us and to our children,
as times goes on, and particu
larly as the idea gains ground
that this world can no longer
exist as separate nations but
must sooner or later act all for
one and one for all and some
phase of the Wilson World
State dream be realized, where
by we shall get rid of war and
its unintelligent waste that
when that time comes, history
will not give the credit to any
of the Misters of the minute,
but to the originator, now
standing alone, deserted, ma
jestic, eternal, but standing
now and always for the highest
ideals of American statesman
ship and world statesmanship,
a man whose name will be im
mortal when the rest of them
have been forgotten, a man
whose dreams were greater
than his mistakes! Woodrow
Wilson!”
1926 A BIG YEAR
FOR RESORT C. OF C.
Unless all predictions prove
'alse the coming year is to be
me of great importance to the
Atlantic City Chamber of
Commerce and that organiza
tion is going to achieve much
For the benefit of the resort
luring the coming twelve
months.
With an increased member
ship, with Wm. S. Emley as
President and W. Lane Dilg
reappointed as secretary and
with a new plan of procedure
to bfe followed there appears to
be nothing to hold up the
workings of this active as
sociation and they are ex
pected to do great work during
the year.
President Emley is to be
commended on his announce
ment that there will be a Fall
Pageant in 1926. Although Mr.
Emley has not gone into defi
nite outlining of the plan for
the 1926 Pageant he has made
public the fact that the Cham
ber of Commerce wrll back this
big festival. This announce
ment alone will do much to
quiet throughout the nation
any doubts in the mind of the
public aroused by the, so
called, “expose” of a New York
newspaper syndicate.
Although the announcement
that the city would not ap
propriate $50,000 to the Pag
eant this coming year would
have been a death blow to the
affair in many places through
out the country, it is taken
with calm by the new officers
of the Chamber of Commerce
who will merely use good busi
ness sense and methods in
making the affair pay for
itself.
Atlantic City cannot do with
out the September Pageant.
It is the biggest event on the
whole calendar of the year for
the city and to disband it at
this time would be a great
catastrophe. The Chamber of
Commerce has been the prime
mover’back of Pageants in the
past and the citizens of the
resort are looking to President
Emley and his colleagues to
put over the 1926 affair in a
manner that will not only
overshadow all previous at
tempts but, at the same time,
set the Pageant as the greatest
event of its kind in the whole
country. They can and will
do it.
RAILROAD PROBLEM
IS SERIOUS ONE
Mayor Bader, according to
newspaper. despatches, has
made three New Year’s resolu
tions. These are construction
of the proposed convention hall
on the Rendezvous Park site;
completion of the city street
paving program and advocacy
of the relocation of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Station in a
more convenient building.
Of these three points in his
program for 1926 probably the
most vital and important to
Atlantic City is the last—the
relocation of the railroad depot.
Just last Saturday another
serious accident occurred at
the crossings on the Northside
when one of this city’s real
estate dealers narrowly es
caped death as his car skidded
into one of the safety gates on
the railroad crossing. This is
not the first accident to have
nccurred at these crossings—
nor is it likely to be the last
Traffic is greatly impeded on
Arctic and Baltic Avenues asa
result of these crossings *and
the values of property in the
vicinity are held down by the . -
proximity of the railroads.
Mayor Bader and" his fellow
commissioners will have
achieved a great point during
their administration if they
can succeed in having the
Pennsylvania and Reading
tracks removed from the
Northside. It is a problem of
vital importance to the resort
both from a viewpoint of
public safety and resort
prosperity. -
Uncommon Sense
By John Blnka
A FLYING START
^ It is never necessary to wait
until the first of the year to make
New Year’s resolutions.
Planning to change one’s life
is far more important than plan
ning a change in a house.
And no house owner would
think of beginning tomorrow on
a change in his residence which
he had not thought of until today.
New Year’s resolutions are al
ways useful, if any real attempt
is made to keep them.
Better even a month of careful
living than none at alL
* * *
The man who begins today to
think about what he is going to
do next year, and starts to do it
so that he can have a little pre
liminary practice is far more
likely to go clear through the
year than the man who wakes up
New Year’s day to say to him
self, “Henceforth I am going to
cut out bad habits and behave
myself.”
* * *
In order to avoid failure with
its consequent despondency, in
keeping New Year’s resolutions,
it is always a good idea to map
them' out in advance, and to con
sider ways and means to keep
them. .-Ml
Then when they are once made
they will last longer—perhaps all
the year around.
J> *
Happy New Year!
is an appropriate greeting to
the person who has regularly
deposited a portion of his in
come in this Bank throughout
the year. We wish you such a
Happy New Year this season
TheVentnor City
National Bank
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