THE WEST ATLANTIC CITY NEWS
i Pub,l»hetl Tuesday at 12 W. Washington Avenue, Pleasantville, N. J. by
KENNETH W. COLDTHWAITE, Editor and Publisher.
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West Atlantic City Casino.
Absecon—Ellen E. Show ell, at the Postofllce.
Atlantic City—Shore Fast Waiting Room, 8 So. Virginia Avenue.
Pleasantville—P. T. Harris, 3 S. Alain St.; H. W. Fenimore, 35 S. Main St.:
Ted Merrick, at Electric Station: E. P. Hamble.ton, 101 N. Main St.; Charles
B. King, 421 N. Main St., or at the olllce, 12 W. Washington Ave.
Somers Point—Joseph Green, Higbee Ave and Shore Road; A. B. Lingo,
Shore Road and New Jersey Ave.
Linwood—AlcCartney’s Store;
; MAKE ELECTRICITY AVAILABLE TO EVERY
‘ * i HOME
, Unprecedented strides liave been made by the electric
utilities of the United States in carrying electric service
throughout the country, but the industry will not have
achieved its purpose until electric service is made avail
, able to every American home.
The goal of the electrical industry is to make electric
service available to the homes of the entire nation in city,
town, hamlet, and on the farm. ‘
At present every city of 5,000 or more inhabitants;
97 per cent of all communities of more than 1,000; 40
* per cent of all communities of more than 250, and 20 per
cent of all hamlets of less than 250 have been reached.
Electric service is one item on the home-maker’s
budget which costs less than it did before the World War.
HOME OWNERSHIP
Sweeping over the world today is a movement that is
destined to accomplish more toward promoting world
peace and more toward bringing about universal pros
perity and happiness than any other factor in our civili
zation. That movement consists, figuratively, of a wave
* of thrift, riding the seas of human endeavor with steadily
gaining size and momentum, ever onward to its ultimate
goal—the land of home ownership.
Everyone is vitally interested in this movement.
Everyone is doing something to stimulate and to encour
age it. And in so doing, each person assumes part of the
^ responsibility that rests upon all to see that the people of
the world have the opportunity to afford themselves the
comfort and protection of homes of their own. For thrift
and home ownership arc inseparable. .
From an economic standpoint the value of home
ownership cannot be underestimated. /People who have
bought homes have little difficulty in establishing credit
with merchants and, as a general rule they are careful to
maintain sound credit standings. Home ownership sub
stantially increases the buying power of the community
and the nation. From a business viewpoint it leaves little
to be desired.
Socially, the advantage of the home is inestimable.
The owner is a part of the community because he is .a
shareholder in it.' He pays taxes direct and’reaps the
benefits iherefrom. Life is fuller because his interest is
keener. Home ownership marks a man with his employ
ers and anybody else with whom lie comes into contact as
a man with an aim in life and a capacity to accomplish
that aim. It is a certificate of character and self-reliance.
CONSTRUCTION ACCURACY
It takes a pressure of fifty-one pounds exactly to
crush an egg shell, according to tests they made the other j
day in the United Slates Bureau of Standards. And the j
intriguing angle of the story is that while the shell eol- j
‘ lapsed at the fifty-one pound 'point the inner membrane I
of the egg remained unfractured, so delicately was the ex
periment conducted.
The Bureau of Standards is not concerning itself
with ultra-scientific refinements in the manufacture oi
omelets. It was demonstrating before the recent Pan
American Industrial Conference a machine which
measured 200 tons as the exact load required to demolish
a square-foot piece of timber. And the whole ineidenT is
only an illustration of the degree of accuracy with which
construction standards, at some not distant time, will come
■ to. be gauged. ,
The newspapers which carried the egg shell story
carried in the same week the announcement that Penn
sylvania has passed a State-wide enabling act authorizing
every city, borough and first-class township in the State to •
regulate by ordinance the construction, sanitation,
occupation, ventilation, water supply, toilet facilities and
drainage of alLbuildings used for human habitation within
its jurisdiction. The further the State authority is to go
r ra laying down safely minimiuns as to housing construction
the more important it becomes, in the very interests of
that general spread of decent living conditions for which
nil housing laws are passed, and in the interests of sound
building, to provide for the elimination of unnecessary
expenditures through the establishment of accurate
i. standards for strength of construction materials.
PAVRISES NOW FASTER THAN PRICES.
While prices have remained on a comparatively high
level, the family income goes about one-third further than
it did at the beginning of the war before prices began to
y, rise, according to the National Conference Board.
The purchasing value of the dollar as measured by
living costs for the American wage earner and other per
sons of moderate means stands today highey than it was
during the last two years, the board asserts, as the dollar
is now worth, on the basis of present living costs, 61.1
v. cents as compared with the pre-war 1914 dollar. It was
the lowest in July, 1920, when it stood at 48.9 cents.
“The purchasing power of the dollar,” the statement
by the board says, “has been thus enhanced by the steady
decline in average living costs throughout 1925 and 1926,
which last April, however, were still 63.7 per cent higher
than they had been in 1914, just before the war. But the
average weekly earnings of industrial workers, owing to
higher wage rates and more steady employment, at present
are more than twice as high as they were in 1914, so that,
in spite of the higher living cost, the wage earner on the
average draws weekly pay of about 34 per cent greater
purchasing power than he did before the war.
Living and Loving
v-' gy M VIPGIMIA LEE VjT
CULTIVATE INDEPENDENCE
j If you had but one virtue to 1 mpart to your child what would
that virtue be? Right now I would say: Sturdy independence. How
many failures may be traced to t ho fact that people are not taught
in childhood to be self-supporting. The world owes no one a living
who is not willing to work for it.
Read the following letter and reply, please write me again as
see if you think I am hardhearted her address has been lost and I
in the advice I am giving the want to answer her.
^My Dear Mrs. Lee: I have a
great trouble and can’t tell what
to do, so am seeking your com
forting help. I haven’t anyone
to ask for advice.
“I have a husband and five
children from 12 years to three
months of age. I also have a
mother who is 70 years old. She
hasn’t any means and she is hte
problem. I have one sister who
is ten years older than I am.
She has a large family, too.. She
kept my mother for ten years
until this winter and then mother
came back here, but she
(mother) can’t agree with anyw)f
her sisters (six of them) Tior
either of her sons-in-laws.
“So mother is living alone in
rented rooms. Now her sons-in
law both refuse to help her. They
insist that she find some work.
My husband will pay her rent,
but don’t want me to do any
thing else for her. She can go
anywhere and do anything she
wants, but I think she is too old
to try to do any work* but my
husband insists she can do some
thing to help herself if we pay
her rent.
“N.ow, what can I do?
“I live in the country and
can’t get any work, and he sees
that I don’t get but the money
from a few hens, about $3 to $4
a week. I have been sending
that to mother, and because I
don’t spend it on myself my hus
band don’t like it. But the hens
are stopping now and he won’t
give me any more money unless
he knows just what I am going
to do with it. Until this trouble
concerning mother, my husband
and I were very happy together.
Now life is a torment. My prob
lem is—a dependent mother and
no way to keep her I have
threatened to leave my husband,
but don’t know what to do. The
children make it so hard to
decide.
“Can you tell me if I could
take them away and then get
him to help care for them? If I
was to go to mother I could get
work. I think he should give me
some money every week and not
care what I do with it.. I work
very hard. Am I right or is he?
Can you help me any? If so I
surely will thank you very much
ror 1 am greatly troubled H. J.
You have my entire sympathy, H.
J., hut I can’t help feeling that
your mother must be at fault as
she can’t get along with anyone. I
think she would be very much
happier if she could get some work
to do to.help herself, and I would
urge her to do so if she is not too
feeble. I think your husband is
doing his part in paying her rent
and the other sister’s husband
should, if possible, contribute a bit
although he supported her, you say,
for ten years. Would it be possible
for all of you, including your
mother’s sisters, to get together
enough money to send her to an
old lady’s home? It requires at
least $300, but women are cared
for in lovely places which are not
in any way like charity institu
tions.
Don’t consider for a moment
leaving your husband and taking
the children from him. They the
his as well as yours, you know.
Try to look at the problem from
the reverse side. What would you
do if it was your.husband’s mother
that couldn’t get along with any
one, but expected to be supported,
and ask your husband to look at
it from this angle, too.
Will the girl signing herself
“Lonely,” with the initials B. B,
and who sent the stamped and
addressed envelope, for a personal
The Ocean County Health
Association has elected these
officers: Mrs. Charles Pack, of
Lakewood, honorary president;
I Charles A. Morris, of Toms River,
! president; William L. Butler,
Beach Haven; Dr. Joshua Hilliard,
Manahawkin; Dr. Erwin Hance,
I Lakewood, Vice-presidents; Mrs.
| Sarah P. Cox, West Creek, secre
tary and Mrs. H. K. Bisbee, Toms
River, treasurer.
In nearly every South Jersey
resort this summer there is to be
made an effort to keep beaches
; clear of broken glass. A number
of resorts have passed ordinances
providing fines for throwing any
glass on the beach, hut it has been
found that, much of the glass is
thrown from passing .boats and
the resorts will watch for tl?is.
Talk of New Bridge r
There has been a renewal of talk
of a bridge between Ocean City
and Longport. It this bridge is
built it will frring Ocean City and
Atlantic City about four miles
nearer each other ^>y road and in
effect will make the two resorts
so near by car as to be practically
the same, so far as the residents
of one visiting the other. The
^company interested in the project
has obtained an option on an island
in the Great Egg Harbor Bay and
the new bridge would join the
structure which now stretches
from Somers Point to Longport.
To now go from Ocean City to
Atlantic City, it is necessary to
cross the Great Egg Harbor Bay
to Somers Point and then re-cross
the bay to Longport. These two
bridges are free from toll and the
question has arisen as to how
much traffic a new bridge on which
toll would be charged would take
from the present route.
If the State w'ould build, instead
of private capital the new bridge
would form a link by direct route
from the North Jersey resorts to
those below Atlantic City, a« the
roads running through and to the
cities below Ocean City are of
concrete.
Deer are so plentiful on the
“plains” between Barnegat and
Chatsworth that several have been
hit. by automobiles at' night when
the >animal8 strayed on the road.
Crabs are in the Barnegat Bay*
and are of large size.
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OPPORTUNITY
YOUR FAMILY DESERVES
THE BEST HOME
WHY NOT GIVE IT TO THEM NOW?
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$500 DOWN
Really Buys a Home. y
Each home individually planned and worked out ft
with years experience. y
BUILT—A Guaranteed Roof, Cemented Cellar, X
Electric Wireing and Fixtures Complete. Interior Walls, y
tinted, with living and dining rooms Craftex sidewalls, -i
Sand Finish Ceilings. Floors finished, three coats shcl- (1
lac, best grade. Heating plants, Richardson & Boyn- *
ton Co.
Built-In Kitchen Cabinets. Built-In Sink, with
swing faucet. Out-side wash paves, where you need
them to water the lawn. A Fold-a-Way breakfast nook
in kitchen. A Built-In Iron Board, Sargeant Hardware
throughout Front Door Lock set Solid Brass, cylinder,
Pitcher Handle.
(YOU’LL APPRECIATE THE DIFFERENCE)
In the Heart of Pleasantville. Electric, Gas, City
Water and Sewerage. Close to all trolleys.
The Down Payment. Balance per Month as Rent.
MOVE IN
WILLIAM C. LEAR / §
, BUILDER AND OWNER X
22S LINDEN AVE. PLEASANTVILLE, N. J. i
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CARPENTERS’ BUG & LOAN ASS'N
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ISSUED
JULY
and
JANUARY
Everybody Invited to Subscribe.
Fixed Premium on Loans.
July Shares Now Ready
Meets First Wednesday Evening
Each Month at
the pleasantville national bank
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NEW JERSEY ROAD MAPS
Free Copies May Be Obtained—
Recent Work.
Revised road maps issued by the
New Jersey State Highway Com
mission are now ready for dis
tribution. All who desire a copy
may receive one free of cost
through the mail by writing to A.
Lee Grover, Secretary of State
Highway Commission* Broad
Street Bank Building, Trenton.
Applicants are requested to
write their names and addresses
plainly to lessen delays in deliver
ies.
In this edition for the 1927 sea
son, the Highway Board has had
included the recently completed
links in the State system, the com
pilation being made by W. T.
Campbell. Attractive photographs
of road views are given on the
cover and interesting information
presented for the auomwbilists on
the mileage of the different routes.
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Mrs. Short—“Here's an invita
tion to Mr. Long’s wedding. What
on earth can we send them?" Short
j —“He lost a $10 umbrella of mine
a tew days ago. I'll make him a
present o£ it."
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A "prof" was calling the role for
I ho first time. "Mr. Lientz?” he
asked. "Is' it L as In Luke?”
i “No,” came the reply. “It’s Heintz
| as in ‘Baked Beans’."
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"Are you the plumber?” "Yes,
mum.” "Well be careful about your
work, all my floors are highly
polished and in excellent condi
tion.” “Oh, don’t worry about me,
mum. I won’t slip. I’ve got nails
in me hoots.”
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Indulgent mother—"Helen seems
languid and disinclined to do any
thing. Her system needs toning up;
I shall give her some iron." Father
—"Good Idea! Give her the flat
iron.” , : .A
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Ho received this telegram:
“Your wire’s mother is dead. Shall
we bury, embalm or cremate her?”
Whereupon he replied, ‘‘Do all
three; leave nothing to chance.”
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"Well, how is your son getting
on with his medical studies?'’
"Very well, thank you," replied the
proud mother, “he can already
cure very small children."
-$4.
"Banks are great conveniences,”
remarked the bandit, "Yes," re
plied his pal, "it makes it much
easier, for us to have the people
deposit all their money in one
place Instead of compelling us to
rob each of them separately.”
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From Now On*
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What?
HAVE you planned what shall follow his school
» days? Whether he seeks more education and
training, Whether he will start working for some*
one else, or whether a business of his own is the goal—*
there is but one sure road to Success.
Teach him now to save money—to save it here, nof only
where you know it is safe and earning interest but where
the habit of thrifty saving is definitely encouraged. Bring
him in today.
$1 will open his account]
COME AND GET ACQUAINTED
OFFICERS
President .John F. Pyon
Vice-President ....Chas. S. Adams
Vice-President ....Alvin P. Itisley
Cashier .Geo. H. Adams
Asst. Cashier .Osborne Ware
DIRECTORS
John F. Ryon
Geo. B. Jeffers
Lewis B. Ryon
L. D. Champion
Chas. S. Adams
Geo. W. Leech
Alvin P. Rloley
James S. Ryon
The First National Bank
OF PLEASANTVILLE, N. J.