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KATOX MICH'S 1XACTKALS

On* of th* city a U»* taabiUty of Us 9*f*le *n«3 officials to lickUy *»n*« th* future sad prrrnie for crootA sad erpsasine. If tbe ofl-'iab are disaoBed to tskj- s brood taore rleor of the jroirth of their communitr sad proride i-»r it while it esc be doae with-

resocn »r HIS If theoe STB fhlth-, fcHy followed oat ltl« will had old Cspe May county far la adraaee of its pottiou of today. This afaltaa particularly to Sea Isle City, which ■ held for last .

dreaxaen and spendthrifta. when in reality they are sarin* the future, sad hailed as putdie benefactor? There is scarcely a city anywhere which is not a shining example money could hare been sared by the thousand* of dollar* by tbe exercise of a modicum of foresight. The most prevalent sbortsightednese is the failure to reserve land for park, playground and public buildwhen It is cheap. »cd then buying It up when the value has increased many times. At this time Sea Isle City Is confronted with Just such a problem. Through its contract with the Atlantic City Electric Company. Sea Isle has oo it* hands tbe building used as an electric light plant. and wo doubt many people think the building, should be sold and the proceeds used to cancel some of the city's indebtedness. Mayor Fitch does not take this view of the problem. Instead His Booor. la a letter to the City Cotamiasioner* last week advocated the recaiaing by the city of the building aad its conversion Into s convention hall. This is genuine foresight. This Is looking into tbe future with a true prophetic eye. The Bite of this building, facing on two streets and within a stone's throw of the beach, in a few year* will be valuable beyond compare. This Is particularly tree when It is considered that there are few unimproved building sites In tbe central section of the dty. east of Landis Avenue, to be had at this time and that real estate values are constantly advancing. no receding, and two or three year* from now will advance with a

rapidity

By m mean* should the dty dispose of this piece of real estate. So much for tbe property value aide of the problem. The other side Is of equal financial importance to Sea Isle City. Tbe resort needs a public hall for the housing of conventions aad large gartheringa of people. Atlantic City Is prepared to handle conventions of any size, that Is why that dty gets ao many, and they mean hundreds of thousands of dollar* to her bolt la and busintaa bouses Other resorts and dties all over the country are catering to conventions. To get them there must be accommodations. We have none to speak of at this time The electric light building could be converted into a good convention hall and once It was made known that Sea Isle City had such a hall and an effort was made to bring conventions here, tbe resultant money brought into the resort would soon ptove to be big Interest on tbe investment, with a surplus for a sinking fund. The City Commissioners will do well to give careful consideration to tbe timely suggestion of Mayor Fitch and will serve the best interests of Sea Isle by taking steps to make it

effective.

AVIAHOl FIELD

FOR CAFE HAT COTHTT

That was neither a fanciful nor unpractical suggestion made to the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce by the young Avalon aviator county should have a recognized air held. It was. Instead, a suggestion worthy of nertous coosidera-

diocuased from all angles, ao that the people had ample opportunity to vote intelligently on the question, aad the one-aldedness of the vote leaves no

to the verdict representing

At this time tbe general public is

tlon a* a thing which has been actually accompliahed. but which to of little practical valor except as a war This to a great mistake. When the auto trst came into we. but few Imagined that in a short span of years tbe auto truck would hare largely displaced tbe horse for tracking purposes, but tuck to tbe case aad in an equally short span of yean air transportation will have been so perfected that it will be in general commercial use. This to not a fanciful predict * 1 on. but a toost conservative one. This being assured, recognised air fields or stations, where airplanes and airships can alight, make repairs and secure supplies, as well as discharge and take on cargo, will be as necessary as docks for steamships. When this stage of air transportation to reached air flights win not be haphazard affair*, but will be made by regularly charted routes which win be as well known as are the lanes of the seven seas. Between east and west, north and south, as well ss for transatlantic traffic, the southern tip of New Jersey, which means Cape May county, to admirably situated, both geographically aad . for a field and the time to begin to now. while air service to in tbe embryo stage and let tbe field and its accommodations grow with the Increase of traffic. Once charted as a landing place with the neceaaary equipment aad supplies, the rest will

the real sentiment of the people. Now that tbe voters have express ed their opinion tbe TIMES feels free to aay that It considers thej decided

wisely.

nice, but unfortunately the municipal 1

balance sheet at tbe end of t

all too often tells a different story and the taxpayers can foot tbe bill.

There to no genuine reason why a.

municipality should not be able to j conduct a public utility Just as ccobasts as an individual or a corporation. but as a rule they do not and

that to tbe milk in the cocoanut.

The Lire at i

Tulsa World: There la. perhaps, no ofwalna so perplexing to others as the JournJlaitic profession ~ newspaper man is constantly n the question. "Why do you remain In the newspaper business?" Behind this quc—.oi. is the general knowledge *nat >oui. alism to not a particularly profitable profession, save to the comparatively few publishers who have successfully established great publications. To the men who really ] make papers aad adorn them with ,

WISE legislation for the maintenance of the purity of lie-. Jersey's oyster supply to fully Justified by tbe recent outbreak of typhoid fever In New York, attribute, to shell fish When tbe public was warned to beware of eating shellfish. New Jersey's Bute Board of Health was in a tlon to emphatically assure p that the New Jersey oyster wai solutely free of all perfectly wholesom

EDWARD KELLEHER. Democrat to bom of Camden count. _*d Clerk of the New Jersey Supreme Court. It to berth ntos In Florida. Kelleksr's picture be lithographed and

i ever resigned an easy Job to

e a living by hard work.

Editorial Views

This U a matter to which the County Chamber may very profitaly give affirmative

ELECTRIC LOSSES

SoggestiM To Legislators Ocean dty Sentinel: Many legislator* will need no more than tbs recent election day- suggestion that the country wants no hair-raising, throat-cutting legislation. Tbs tremendous rebuke of radically has changed marr a legislative amMtioa over night.

SHOWS BY AUDIT

CAPE MAY City voters, by a majority of 111. on Tuesday decided to try tbe city manager plan of running if* local affairs Few. if any. municipalities in New Jersey are run unde.- .he dty manager plan and Cape May City's experiment will be watched with much interest. If given free rein, with no secret strings tied to him. a man fitted for the job ought to be able to put Cape May City’s municipal affairs on a atrictly bus!-

Municipalities, like individuals, cannot go on losing in business year after year without reaching a stopping point. Tbe audits of Sea Isle City's finances for the yean 1>22 and 1923 show that this municipality had reached tbe point in the operation cf its electric utility where It was wise to call a halt, and If there to anyone who still questions tbe wisdom of making a contract with the Atlantic City corporation to furnish this dty with electric current, a study of the audita should remove all doubts on that point. For the year 1S22 the corrected deficit was M.254.19. while for 1923 it amounted to 113.490.71. or a total for the two year* of $21,744.90. The*, figures should be sufficient to convince the most optimlstlr advocate of municipal osnerahlp and operation that there «aa too great a difference between the city's elect ri? Income and outgo and that the only sensible course was to seek to reduce tbe outgo and that la Just what

haa been done.

The Clean Tows

Atlantic City Press: Cfcaalium. I baa been said, to next to Godl asm : dirty individual to neither cl* spiritually nor mentally Dir? mak for ruin physically, mentally mon ly. This to as true of a town as an Individual. The dirty tows, t town full of rubbish, of anti houses, of muddy street*, of uwai tary condition*. Is non-pngsaal materially, morally and edueatfow ly. Neither moral nor material ■ rancemest flourish | B dirty, unkem dwellings or In unkempt town-.

What Makes Busiaes. Red Bank Register: Every n* home and every new family * tabltohed within the trading flaM « * town becomes a permanent eu tomer of that town's business r-lr — whether that new home Is wlthlR tl limits of the town Itself or w Mtb< It to several miles distant. The e tabltahuenl of new home* ar.fi tl Increase of population thus breoow of great Importance to busing, m , and to business men's amocist ons

it In no other profession are there ao many ■ exceptional ability. The an varied an to the same end. It Is the romance of tbe boatnem. To put It a bit differently. one gets action every day in the JournalUltic game. And every 24 hours constitute* a new day In nn entirely new wot'd. The physical features of tbe bontnesa remain day after desks, wt chan leal < _

But

The rain came down In s night, but no burning c aight.

Hint to tbe hotel clerk: When an ' old maid apr lire for a room give her ' Suite 1«.

Tbe "sweet heart boh." the In test r girl*, don’t Improve the looks of the fnt girts nny.

Many n family budget has fall* > down because It provided for eu y one of them getting > haircut.

-"What could be

t without a country?”

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"Helk.. is this information7* "Yea." "What’s good for a eoK? ’

There nsrer was a Mg man bora ^ • WasUrn orator. That’s right, they were all habiea.

Relatives, thinks I eraoas who woodar ■astged to keep out of Jalf as long. Tbs firm saxophone arrived in this

ala than the Mayfawur ^Victim—"Cut the whole three Barber—’’What three?" Victim—

Bid* Oeraa City gentleman. "Am . mighty fine thing; de only trouble "bout hltto It’s kin’o’ hard to 'stta-

OCEAH CITY REJECTS MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP

Tbe early biro k*-? the publicity. We read a good deal about the flrtt robin, but nothing about the last one.

By an overwhelming majority Ocean City voten on Tuesday rejected the proposition to acquire the water

Extmfi Christmas Spirit

Cloucter Democrat nuln* Christmas spirit, too. to not to be confused with s big aplurge at Christmas Um*. Individuals should • xpect the bspplnew atmoapher* all t).-ough the year, and Christmas should be * rededlcatlon of oursehen to *.. n * *" od -* lu - generosity and friendliness wherever we mak. contact* with other- Th Cbn-tm*« ,B not l or » day. but for a year *“? • '}' ‘hlngs In our live- Vive life to that spirit. Let u* emphasize them at this Christmas season.Xt

A* we travel our preterful way. with the process of life on the wane, we --' ould try to seem happy •n' gay. in tin face of concomitant pain. . . . For. the neighbors are hungry fer smile, -they crave in our sunshine to bask; W4 fret at the emnberaou.c miles, an* deny ’em tbe pittance they aak? 1 reckon—a shiny, bald head ain’t viewed by Its owner with pride. When our hirsute adornment has fled, there's fact that can’t be denied. . .. But—a song that peals forth in iu Joy from Ups that don’t whisper complaint pioclaims that the singer’s a boy though the Alma-nick growls that he ain't! I’ve reached the conclusion most trite, which ain't Inconsistent with sense—that, our burdens grow more an’ more light, with the increase of smiles we dispense I can’t quite agree with the gi ess that age is all barren an' d'ear. in a world we were destined to bless, while the neighbors are glad we are here!