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OCEAN CITY’S HYPOCRISY. The TIMES lias the greate.-t rejrard for Ocean Chy. its people and its city officials. W 0 have frequently held up our bijr sister resort as the example of everything that is fine and goes to make up the Ideal resort. And everything that has been said i> true, for in Ocean City more real live-wire boosters and business hustlers can be found than in any other city of the same sire in the country—barring none. Its Sunday-elo.'ing attitude is hardly compatible with its otherwise broad and open spirit and the arrest of a bruardwalk merchant for selling candy and ice-cream on Sunday savors strongly of hyprocrisy, especially since there is nc attempt to stop bathers or. Sunday, or any other day. from parading the boardwalk and streets with scarcely enough clothing to cover

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The attempt to stop the selling of any goods of any kind, from sugar to ice cream, on Sunday is a revival of the did blue laws, and Ocean City to be consistent should stop the running of trolleys and trains on the Sabbath, and positively forbid the running of its gas and electric light plants, all of which are for the convenience of the public. Sunday bathing should be ftbsolutely prohibited, and all bath houses should be shut down. • Summer resorts have nothing to excuse their existence except the entertainment of the visitors. which make the resorts possible. While Others may n-t slv»> ur views, we believe that

meant that the suit should see the water. Neither can we see any more harm in an ice-cream saloon open than in a drug store. If the lid is put on. it should be put on right That would be the easiest way of convincing the “holier than thou" of the impracticability of the whole thing. THE LACHRYMOSE PRATT. Dr. E. E. Pratt former chief of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, who was fired for officiou.-nes.-. continues to give out interviews seeking public sympathy for the treatment accorded him. His former chief. Secretary Rcdfield. is charged with incapacity and delay. Without doubt the charge is true, and Redfield is quite as inefficient as was Pratt, and should have been canned long ago. But Pratt will get little sympathy by whining. He is reported to have said that he “is considering several flattering offers”. It is suggested that he accept one of them and shut up. The difficulties of framing the revenue bill, which has been waiting upon food-control and aviation for a right of way in the Senate, have been materially increased by the uncertainty of the future of business resulting from the President’s statement regarding price-fixing. The prohibition features thrust into the food-con-trol bill had already added to the confusion of thought on the problem of taxation—but that liad the merit, at least, of being expressed in terms of understanding. The President’s statement was and remains so delphic. in the absence of a glossary, that it is no wonder that lawmakers, as well as steelmakers, find themselves wholly nonplussed.

TROUBLES OF OL R OWN. We can sympathize with the Wildwood Journal. whicn publishes the following item in its last issue: ’The hot weather melted the ink rollers of the printing press, which delayed the issuance of the Journal this week.” Last week for the first time in our experience. the weather was so hot that the printing ink roller* on our presses actually melted while the presses were in operation. Fortunately the mllirs of our newspaper press were not affected. hence there was no delay in our issue. These warm days are trying ones for printers. especially at the shore, where the salt air and warm weather seems to have a peculiar effect on the printing roller composition.

A NEW CONTEST STARTED. Elsewhere in this issue of the TIMES are published details of the new popularity contest just starting. A number of young ladies have been nominated by friend* who wish to see them win. and the merry race for the fine trips to Florida is on. Contests <»f this kind serve a double purpose. They stimulate a feeling of friendly rivalry among the young women contestants, and at the same time serve to develop a feeling of selfreliance and power. To run in the race, even though not a winner, is a pleasure for the very work that it entails. If the name of your favorite young lady, sister. wife, daughter or just friend, does not npp*‘ar in the list of nominees get busy now and nominate her. The contest will start next Monday, ami there is still time to enter. 16 TO I MATCHES.

Sunday should t>»- as widely open as any week day at the summer resorts, insofar as the selling of ice-cream, candy and the like, and the running of moving picture shows and other harmless ami noiseless amusements are concerned. We understand the commands of the Divine Creator, we art forbidden to do servile work on Sunday—unless it !*• necessary. There is nothing in Scripture or in the commandments of God that i-an be interpreted to mean that a person cannot »-at a plate of ice-cream or see a movie show on the Lord’s Day. Many persons, who are stickler* !«-r the absolute observance of a tightly closed Sunday, think nothing of running their aulomnhib - >t. pleasure trips, or indulging in all sorts of amu-'ement and recreation in their awn home- ^ .-t for the entertainment and convenience «4 the visitor. whose stay at best is for but a few short week*, they would exclude the right to obtain ever, a cooling

drink of soda.

Ocean City, in following the dictates of a few clannishly narrow-minded i- doing itself great injury as a tesort. It* otherwise progressive spirit is impaired :n it- effective work by the advertising of the fact that the visitors cannot obtain a box of salt-water taffy or a plate of ice cream without breaking a law. Personally we cannot os much harm in an open Sunday as in an open bathing *uit such as worn by members of the fair sex who never

How many of you have cussed out the sir-teen-to-one match — strike sixteen to get one light — which has recently made its appearance in the American market? With about 59 of its companions it comes in a box bearing a yellow label with a three-masted schooner imprinted thereon, and along the sidi reads. “Made in Sweden”. It is of the safety match variety, and it certainly does not belie its name for it is about as safe as a toothpick. A man pays one cent for a box and jeopardizes his salvation every time he tries to light hi* cigar. Its flame is as fleeting as a Presidential decision. and the Presidential signature to the present tariff law which reduced the duty on matches 50 per vent is responsible for its presence in our market. MrADOO SPONSOR FOR DENMAN. A newspaper sympathizer with the President tries to condemn ls»th Denman and tloethals, from whom, it say*, la-tier things should be expected inasmuch a* Mr. Wilson chose both of them to relieve him of worry and labor. This does not correspond with our information. Coelh J* was chosen, it i- true, and taken from h task in New Jer*ey to undertake the task of constructing a federal merchant marine. But Denman, as we get it. was wished on to the President by Secretary McAdoo. Cleveland Plain Dealer—Contract* for :t.S4u.iHHi pair* of Army shoe* have been let by the government You see bow many men are exj peeled to do some walking.

THIS IS AN ENIGMATIST

Well. nu<] Whom hare we here? Why. thl* l« an Enlematlrt. He look* like an Ordinary Man. art* like an Ordinary Man and ta’ka like an Ordinary Mini, l-ut hr Ain’t no Ordinary Man. takr It from Ua. An Enljanatlsi la a Man Who ran afford an Automobile and hasn’t got one.

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