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MJEAN CITY NEWS
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WABfl BEAM
Jfott week Ward Beam will
r once again preside u mijor doma
virtue beach activities ind his re-
Lypim M bach initmctor will be
by hundreds of visitors,
> mny of •wham he wu lnstnimtni
bringing to Octin City,
i hu been • living ti\af
or the laart, hu fur-
I column of interating pubbrought
favorable reto
the city and has tnter-
! thounndi of viritora, miny
wbpui ^vent
with the re-
Meiiing—better health,
ul Bum u • mort inteictt
[chancier as'dt from hi* beach
i ko3 booMJng proclivities,
ii'an example of how a man
get tnVmott out of life, by| tmguishable. But let a playful
companion grab a shoe and thrsw
hn moM predom met,
Ji h intimating to make * comi
between Beam and the
.''buunen man of his age.
no apring chicken—we
hit age in yean, but
y n^ntion the fact that hi
inum of brevity that has been
reached in the bathing suits worn
by the exposed SM. Nine out of
ten gamient!, appreximately, are
like the wire fence which protects
the property but doein't ob-
«fUM tht view. Thii, too, without
need for die police or anyone
else to preserve order on the
shores and keep them devoid of
unseemly rumpus.
Feminine feet, however, refuse
to come
cloisters.
footed,but their older listers and
their mothers insist on Aon, Let
a shoulder strap slip from its
moorings and drop, and embar-
Tssment to the wearer u indispack
such stuff, it will not sell.
Here ii where production enter!
iii. The products must be of the
first quality.
Seconds and thirds
must be kept at home or thrown
a»aj. After producing high grade
stuff, then eiitefi the problem of
grading, packing, labeling and
shipping, and if these latter are
properly done, thl fanner's mar.
keting problem will largely solve
Itself, and he will be his own
helper.
Merchants used to My that!
goods well bought were half sold.
High grade farm produce, fruits, j
berries, etc., closely graded, pret. 1
tily
packed snd appropriately*
labeled tre half sold.
Seldom is!
the market for such
produce j
glutted.
Our farmers want to discard at j
once the idea that any old thing
will sell. Let them confine themselves
to high grade fruits and
vegetables, study Pacific coast
methods of preparing for market,
grading, packing and labeling, and
they will find their marketing
problems will largely dissolve into
mist and the receipts will be
arger.
OUT OUR WAY
out of their rubber
Children swim bare.
it out of bounds, » to speak, aid
the air resounds with squeals of
discomfort and irri&tion.
Women know—tht
fastidious
•that fashion has decreed
they must be like the peacock,
whose feathers, the legend runs,
droop the minute he eyes his exposed
feet.
Iliey have crammed
their Trilbys info casts never
fitted for human wear so long as
their feo might conceivably pass
for the bound exttisnities of the
heathen Oiincc-
Therc is nothing to be done
about it. No one would advocate
the practices of the wives and
daughters of Georgia crackers, but
somehow or other it sesns a pity
a comely and shapely auss must
scoot into hiding the moment she
loses a bathing shoe.
Maybe
there orta be a law.
AMEKICAB IDEALS
This country never faced such
a period of prosperity as appears
to be ahead of It. And therein
lies our greatest danger.
Can we as a nation keep our
head and not become soft and discontented
?
Will we In our quest for more
of the nimble dollars allow political
sdotnsayers to undermine our
government with visionary schemes
at public expense F
Will material prosperity give
us the "swellhead" and cause us
to feel that we are too "important"
to attend to the troublesome
little affairs of government?
If this attitude overtaka us,
look out for trouble.
As individuals we are "small
potatoes in the scheme of ecoi^S'Gtntnd
Avenue, between
i, and Thirtyjourth
^ which ahu calls attention
j
to that section
f Occur City, which ia
time the •ewer!
street.
hard sur
waTt be placed
['octo'put it ui
Atane
if the
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OBJECT MSSOH
FOB PAHKEHS
Last week more than one hundred
Cumberland County fanners
made the journey to New York to
how their produce arrived in
market, how it was handled, how
it was sold by the commission
men and how it reached the consumer
through the retailer.
Not only did these farmers
learn all this, which was invaluable
to them, but they also had
an opportunity, while making the
rounds of the big markets, to see
how growers in other sections
graded and packed their produce,
labeled it and otherwise made it
attractive. We dare say this part
of their trip was an eye-opener
to them, hut should be worth
many times the cost, as they must
have learned a great deal that
should be money in their pockets,
provided they "go and do likewise."
We wish some of our Cape
May County fanners had been
included in the number f for tiiey,
too, would have learned tome
things worth dollars to them in
serving the resort markets.
In the last issue of, this paper
si fajiuer writing on oyr tam page
cUhwd that the marketing problem
Wtt the big question confro.-nting
farmen today and not
pndtetion, and asked for help in
tmrketint hu produce. Our film
editor, while admitting thai marketing
wnibig question, Hated
that production—that i» as to
quttitj—tin entered into the
U
and «o far » quality is
M
right |he
ramie development.
But if each individual does his
part to maintain American ideals
Ufa sound conditions in governtr.ent
and industry, "small potatoes"
will grow into big potatoes
and our national "potato crop'
(stability, security, prosperity)
will be on a safe and enduring
ems.
The feat which Colonel Charles
Lindbergh accomplished is typically
American.
Nothing could
better illustrate our spirit of in
dividual initiative and enterprise.
Every American might he called
a pioneer, for every Amerion has
the right to strike out with his
own ideas in whatever field of en.
deavor appeals to him.
It is this priceless heritage of
freedom and opportunity for the
individual which each of us should
strive to uphold. Our government
should alwayi be maintained
en a basis which protects and encourages
the individual
rather
than on a basis which restricts
and destroy! experiments, growth
f*nd ambition.
AN editorial writer gays feminine
modesty demands that however
abbreviated may be the bathing
suit, the feet must be covered.
The wielder °' the quill is altogether
mistaken. The average
woman's foot is so ugly the is
ashmed to show it. By the same
token many of the sex might keep
their limbs covered, far they are
just as ugly as their feet.
AN insurance company tells ui
Alt baseball, hunting and golf—
in the order named—are the three
matt dangerout tporB. We alwayi
^ h h
thought
something the
gh ^ g
nutter witn golf—benig a. how
the Scotch gavt it to UJ.
MOST certainly pedotxians
Views and Reviews
Eespect for law
Philadelphia Lodger: Tie doe»
Irlne of respect tor law eniBiei.
nletf
before the Penhiylviuii.1
Bar Association by Manrmf Genera!
Bargem is OS old as eiviilsation«,
it is, in Wet, the founda-
,llon ol all elvlliiatloB,
Our
early MaiiBmen nw it in tte
easia mst of liberty only hut of
Uie permanent development of
Its nation. It waa ittwsed by
Wsshineten In frig Farewell Address.
Lincoln's advice in
diireelian is fflfflfUaf.
Must we destroy the germs of
splrllunllly In youth while revealing
Mlence? Is it a logical neeestltyl
It is a question many of u?
are ukiag,
H our young men are fed on
'utter futility" and other formulas
of pessimism what wonder
ttat
Bome of them live up the fnraii?
w e ieek happliKiS IB life—#«peei«I.
fU
f
lf
iatlgfaoUon of
Mt,| Bvem8nL j ( happiaeM Is "our
i,,,^.,
snlj ani Blm'wai somB
jhi|q»6pberi nave WU us—If seriyije
of the spirit is a flne aspira-
Itloni lfllffi ta naily to M a UfB
h
i
But in Uiise days it Is, un- and •pltBdid adventure, how are
fortunately, one of thoiK turula- young men to realiie It by being
mantoiii, wftlch,
commonly ae-itola that life is nothmi hut a
'"(rMsltsry iUusion" and tnat they
are ainply a "nero accident" In
cepted In principles, are negleet.
ed in aellon.
It Ig seneraJly
known thai the lawparticular
iawg— la evaded with
a iiangenus sompiaAency, afld no!
&¥adeu only but ridicu!i>d, as
Mr, Sargeni polnuvl out.
It must be reeogniied ae a
seHouii oondltion when the nation'*
ehief law officer is forced
to ndniH to th@ ]awj#m of a
Btate that "day by day, besatisfBCtlon
what then is toe da»-
Bpriiig Ihat can lift us up and
lighten the way for us? If there
Is nobody home when we come to
the end of the lane what Is the
use of making the journey?
Clean Streets
Fieasantville Press: A city with
dirty streets is like a man with a
dirty collar,
, Sre you one of those thoughllest
people who strip covering!
from packages, envelopes from letters,
banana peels and wfiat Dot,
and then toss them on the sidewalk
or in the gutter, to become
an eyesore to every person who
has any civic pride?
Having contributed four •hare
of litter to the gutter, do you
turn around and blame the "Administration"
for dirty streets? A city
administration cannot keep the
streets of that city clean unless
"an abyss of nothingness"? If life the citizens cMperate.
i|Cape May Court House Linked
To Philadelphia By Family Ties
eause some one pays for it and
bsoause tho great body of lawabiding
eitilena is complaila&tp?
the tow is "jgerod and mocked
by fllp^Bt writers and cabaret
perfonneiip,"
AttoRney Geaerai may poaproMhltlen
laws. But bis (win
se! of respect for th% law may
wall he accepted in soncral sense.
(From "Men and Things" in Philadelphia Bulletin, July 2)
Cape May Court Hettae. which
this wsek dedicated a qusrteMir.
B-mllllor, home for the eouniy
eourlj and other ofliees, Ii one
of the thriving communitlM of
Bouiheaitern New Jersey, proud
of iu public school buildinca,
. business MUUetureB and Brtmte
tlbly hive been referrins to the!boni«.
But there were many
~ 'iiin fill it WM Uie Court
Home, and a little more- The
fact U that it might never lave
He and others ot uln profession! been "The court Rouse." and
know itihat disregpeei for one law j night always bave remained
"MlUdletown" al It appeals on
breeds digreBpeet for all,
Yonng Mm Are Committijuj
lolddt—TOy!
W. D. Moffat in Mentor: Life is
so inieregUng—so full of wonderful
and beautiful thins—that the eyes
of youth should be looking forward
is It with eager expectancy;
and yet young men, siileen to
eighteen years of age, with all the
glowing pnspect of life's ad.
venture before them, are committing
suicide!
the earliest maps of South Jersey,
liad not Daniel HamJ, in
1T4S, given an acre of hla land
to Cape May County for the erection
of a county buildlBg,, The
name Mlddletown was eontisued
lor many years after that and
officially reeognited by the postal
autihorltloB Ions after local eut-
(uni' establlsned it as cape May
Court House, rinaHy local nntlment
jtrtvailed on the Fast Qffieit
Oepartment to adopt their idea.
Cap* May County iwas set, up
Many of them are young stu.' In Ills, but the drat court of
dents, and they leave behind them record was bell In 16)3, when it
the message that they have found ,sa£ in Oose Hall, the home of
life "utterly futile,"
.Colonel Daniel Coze, ft son of
They and life futile at eighteen Or, Con, of London, South Joryears
of age! What Is the answer jsey'a iai^est landed proprietor.
to this?
I who was surgeon no Charles II.
It cannot he that "much learning For rears «fter Cape Hay courts
ith made them mad, 1 * for they held
their sittings In private'
hath
bave only jost begun to learn.
Then what have they segno to
learn that they should desperately
toga their enaaees away at n early
a day*
Wo And that urns of then bavs
steeped themselves In the pbilsss*
phy of tig hour—served, fresh from
present-day laboratories and lee.
ture-roomn.
Life, 10 I read, la simply a
"transitory lUtutaB" and "man U •
mure accident." A tueher of
UioittaiKli or itBdtntl tells them
that •ralilton iaa defense nnschnn-
Inq,"'a "flctlon far u inner teeh
Us of Inferiority, which man baa
tmllt Jnat to IMP up M esHran. 11
Another tedttur tells ns life U
~ "little, lominmu meteor
dwelling*.
Tbe first settlers of Middletown
Included direct and near
MiMS of Pilgrim •took, who bad
east over from
Hunehntetti
and Bellied. In 1712 It. Bret
ckniek was opened bjf Bwrttots,
with Bev, Nathanlol Jenkins, a
Welsh preacher, from Phlladel-
Vhta, in obarge. and in 1741 Mill
iittll JMptist eoBanntioii in the
irood* mear SeuUi Jersey's gnat
•wulp tad grown HINDE enough
to erect a brick «dnM. IB jtlo
Mi M*f Court Home, a name
• '-'*--J •atabliahed in loaU uae.
ild to bvrs.Md mlMIAt
Tea yaan later anottsr
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this country?
.;'•.'.
Italian—By air.
'-:'-:<
Judge—Plying maehias!
Italian—No, Btork,
A forty eent moBkey wrtnt M
stop a forty thousand doIUr md-;
ine,
CorfBot UilB ...mtcna: ip;ij
home early, mother.
There is no static wbta. ia^pj,'.
niss is being broadcajL
A mansion is a house
expect you to use the gtieit Itnt
I release i
fellers that he sends
lo Jail, what you should do Ui to
curtail your awn importance, any
guch a Justice don't amount to
much."
"Oh, is tlat so!" says
I to blm, and hit him on the
nose wi(h vim, "If that's con
tempt of itals here cotut," sayi
I, "I'll be a dead game (put,
I've got contempt {enough for
you lo multiply that enuk by
two,"
That Judge, he stepped
upon the bell, and that hew
come I'm in this cell!
A wholesome triend ami neigh
for Is Granny Mlcklgshonei her
wit is like a sabre, her mind is
all her own. Although
nearly eighty her step is light
and gay, and problems, deed and
weighty, she settles every day.
It may seem ratter silly to folks
who do not know, but w6en the
way 1B hilly and rowfl are hard
to hoe, we neighbors, doiene of
UB, go talk to Grtitmy then. You
see, ehe lives above us, advUmr
•to us men, "My friend," she'll
say, "donlt worry or wnek your
piece of mind! it doesn't pay to
hurry or glance too mudi he*
hind! In tarly days our trouble*
were ninety limes tfce stse of
these poor little bubbles that fl|t
baron yow eyesl
Wi smiled
and worked tiie harder, we aaos
about
h
about our chores,
h
even when
y^
hen
the kuder WHS nearly out of
stores!
If folka Jiad gone to
fussing and fntttnf every time
III luck began Us muailne when
I was In my prime, lien when,
by all that's Mr, could we tan
done a thlntf
For yea misfortune,
solely, had center of the
ring!
We took thina u ttey
lit us and did «• besTw* «oBld|
WJISB some mew spider bit u» ws
keBton.sawtaajiwodl
tween.
One thing that poitla «^»1
married man is why em
isn't rich.
Isn't Vice President ftmrto,
even KOIDK to swear any won,*
break the stillness of tai
presidency?
Our idea of the most Ii
fellow In the world is tti'M{
who takes his girl on
coaster and tells her to 6oH
ly to tie rail so she wirf
oat
'
Trampi "Oh, I fwl fuanyipaV
Ted: "What dfcl you ealf
Tramp: "Nothing Majba
whyl"
Vermont paper: "The
the ehurch was followed
improper reception at Un ggjp
home,"
Aj
—— 'fi'a
tea
have to be vwj-lg!^
very mean to be missed
are gone.
Hoping without
futile as waiting for
ithout planting.
No one ever won an
with a taiicah driver af
phone operator.
Prof,! "What raw
Imported from Praneer
•Indent! "Plays and •
Many a key to
left to nut In the Wet-:,
I toil, a fountain pen^ig
|bslf filled with ink>-*»l»Wjr
An easy MyerTrBanatt;^
buyer.
Boatman (to _. .
must ask you to VT.V-i
as tt» Boatleaks,"
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ItsTroubles
With Bathere
Many Think Bathini Suits
Art Intended For Shopping
CoitumiM
Saturday
woman hather In her ab
hrtvlated
costume la
pore ridiculous every
Mr, and Mrs, A, Plummer and
children have leased the Xeiley>cot
tais In Pine Avenue, for the
month of July, This Is the Prat
visit to Wildwood of Mrs, Plum,
mer, who had previously gone to
Atlnntle City for vacation days,
Mrs, Henry U. Chalmers nnil
daughter. Miss Oertrude Chulmers.
returnal from a i.Dlendld trip to
WiiHliiiiKioii and polnta iiouth, on
Fj-idny, nrroiniMHliil by Mls« Margiirfit
SchonntiliJ, who has been her
EUf'sl tit the Crest
JoKeiiii R. Bennett and family,
of North Philadelphia, mntared In
ihis resorl Friday evening, Uikine
the Wnldnian rot
to capaelty on every trip, and
there seemed to he no let up
either night or day.
Last year's record was smashed
to pieces. There never were
such .jiowiln in WlMwopd before.
Tin boaeh froiii end to end was
une iniuia or moving, laughing,!
happy joy ridden pi'oplo.
Ini
bathl w
HOIS, aaumering alone I
ihe haaeh, or IsunElng together I
By quick notion with the I dred free seats, a general ad
^
nilMslou of ten eeuis should 4ie
asked, whirt in tte long run
will work moM.satisfactorily and
should be the means of drawing
bluer bouses. Children without
guardiana fthould not toe ; admitted.
Pew people will miss the
concerto and become
regular
then Is
time of Ihelr lives. The weather
man was kind and nature was at
Us beat throughout. The Beach
Patrol was iliusy keeping eyes en
tho bnlhera, who would venture
loo far, o» LJlu BUrf Was Very
iatlsfled with her dgmain on the
biseh, Ijhe parades the alreelii,
about the stores and i.
becomlnsjinji, ( n f Aft
Young Avcnun fnr 1 lm Permitting the swimmer a
day. Not Jihi, ,„„,„„
| treaehBKiuii dare beyond the eon
lollem about the s
- Msses at the postofflce in utter
dlsmgsrd of all feminine decency,
IB high Seel boots, bracelets and
* a neck chain, madam bather lie.
UJMB that ,tbe seashore In her
nBdevous wheresoevor she chooses
to go, and forgets evemhini else,
" In, spite of the fact that, beyond
'tt» boundary lines of the heaeh
fiBnt, ihe Is out of order on the
streets of the city, unless dressed.
Mayor Sofroney, of Sea inie city,
•• dtelared it a problem, when the
people of that beautiful little city
arose In arms about It, There is Bo
jnsbiem to it. He has but to 4e.
clie the quesUon once and for
all time. Precisely so with
all the other mayors of all Ihe
other seashore places wherever the
woman bather is a visitor. Un.
less she can decide for herself to
->nss properly on the public highways,
then, it is, in fairness to
womankind, that the mayors shall
< be her judge.
There are ordinances controlling
. Uie bitntrV coatumei off the
' beaches, ordinances restrictlne certain
modes of nttlre on the public
highways In the resort cities. At
least, Wildwood has such an orahunce,
and at this time It needs
strict enforcement. Women, when
accosted by a protestor, complain
of the men, when as a matter of
fact, It is due to herself to lee
that, as ever since the world began,
woman is the leader of all
Ben. In whatsoever ihe prescribes,
it Is the man who respects her
law. To suit her moods, the manufacturer
makes the bathing suit
shorter and shorter, iln spite of
It, she Bnds material left to roll
the edges. Accordingly, woman «et«
' lie dictates of fashion and men
"•'• tallow In her footsteps every time.
The men have nothing to do
with It, The matter of decent bath.
lai suits belongs to womankind,
l-.Wd the men will alwayi respect
• ;*llr:
lea Isle City doesn't ask for
Bore than is hers by right, where
y« laws of decency are concerned,
A bit of news, boied and set on
ttt front page of this paper,
hMlud constructive criticism that
U worthy of carrying farther. There
It prevalent a sense of sympathetic
sndentBBding which should hertaie
contagious with the mayors
of all. seashore cities, and they
should cause more rigid enforcesent
of the regulations,
v Mr, and Mrs, Patrick Mclntyre
' and family opened their numninr
'callage in east Pine Avenue thin
week for tbe season,
Mr, and Mrs, 6«rge Annesley,
of west Pine Avenue, are entertaining
a number of friends from
central New Jersey over the holidays.
Sir, and Mrs, C. C. Farvm, of
Norrlntown. arrived here Friday
evning on their regular yearly
visit to Wildwood for the Fourth.
, Stopping with Mrs. lue Iramhle,
thiy will enjoy ihe week-end colehratloBs,
Mr, Parvln Is a memoer
of tbe Norrlatown Police Depart-
Bent
5fr. mid Mrs, William Haas, of
'hlludolphla, are Ihe holiday suo»t«
of Mr. anil Mr», (iforcc Taylor, in
he Cliiyinn Apartmenlg,
The .I.H'kmn nriiB rompnny ho«
HnoB of the •.». No acclrientB
wef« riiporlsd,
Tho amunements were taied
beyonil capacity for two days',
Liiif upon line of parsons awaited
hln or her turn to ride In the
It la
have
nttroctlvo
electric i tMJIlU of ever lha cpnater, Bsvsign
nt the corner of their build.