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High Waiter Mark; AT OCEAN CITY By FATHER NEPTUNE

Ocean City Busters, after an extended tour which embraced ^1 Somers Point. ScullvlUe. KnglUh CreA. Mamora. Beasley's Point and Tuckahoc. returned home last erenln* and celebrated the erent with a dinner In the Lunch Wagon In City Hall Plasa. The Ocean City Busters’ Association, as crsrybody knows. Is made tip of individuals who are doing their utmost to stifle progress In the resort and to make It as ugly and uninviting as possible by erecting tenement houses and shacks In the beet part of the town. Their slogan la: "Anything to Move Vacant Ismd." The celebration In the Lunch Wagon .ast night was unique, but not unsanitary, according to the Board of Health Code wh’ch. It must be understood. Is different from the continental radio code, although neither of them can be read by the average cltiien. Music last evening was furnished by the Beasley's Point Jewsharp and Baas Drum Corps. As the name Implies, It eras rotten to the core. The dining room wss profusely decorated with old-fashioned cuspldoree on the floor and crepe on the walls. An excellent terra, consisting of Western sandwiches, ham and beans, eggs fried on both sides and hors d’ouvres was served. The toastmarter wss Clingstone Bellows Gasbag. He spoke for two hours but said nothing. The Jest of honor eras Mr. Blots, the great landscape blotter. Mr. Blots told the diners he purposed to build s slaughter house on the Be^eh at Tenth Street. He wss applauded vociferously—If that’s how you spell It. Announcement was made that steps are being taken to establish an automobile bridge between Ocean City and Longport and also that efforts were being mad# by certain procreative dtlsena *« bring the Penney Into the resort via Winslow Junction and Somers Point This news was hissed. The manifestations ware traced to s group of persons who worked against the city's taking over the water and sewer plants, an act which put the resort back many steps In the march of progress. Attorney Loafwell. representing tin Ocean City Chamber of Horrors, a body which takes the stand that every progressive measure Is done with selfish reasons on somebody's part and besides that Is unconstitutional, was present and extended an Invitation to the Busters to atted the Chamber of Horrors’ next monthly meeting, which will be held In the Discomfort Station at Fifth Street and the Boardwalk. This beautiful edifice, a monument to civic pride, was moved to Its present location last fall At that Urns a deluge of protests almost drowned the city authorities but the magnificent building still stands than s shrine to mou and a shine to others. Whence the Send Come* A tourist some weeks ago was looking at the burled Jetty In front of the Hotel Breakers uptown. I happened to be locking at It, too. "Where does all that sand come fromT’’ ha asked. 1 didn’t know. So we let It go at that. But It was a good story, I thought. I learned that the proprietor of the Breakers three years ago complained that the waves ware threatening the tennis court of the hotel and the city was asked to taka preventive msfisurea. This was dona When the Jetty waa built the piling was eight feet above the surface. The obstruction extended three or four hundred feet into the ocean. Today It is completely covered with saad. High water barely touches the end of the jtrneture. That Informixtion was ths extent of my delving. Yesterday l me: my old college chum. Profeesor Lewis U. Houpt, the designer of the Jetty. The professor is past eighty, but has more pep than lota c<( men 40. Profeasor Houpt Is America's leading authority os beach reclaiming. He served on the Panama Canal Comm 1st Ion rnd has done considerable saving on the Atlantic Coast. He gave ms a very thorough explanation of the subject which I kidded myself Into believing I understood, bnt my brain has proved Inadequate aa a retaining receptacle. He said there Is plenty of sand out there In the waves and that It can be made to stay put It one goes about It In the right way. That's all I can remember, bnt Isn’t that enough? This sand proposition has always been a source of wonderment to the visitor. He doesn't know whether Ooum C.ty is going to wash away or keep on building. But he shouldr-’t worry. Some centuries back the Atlantic used to wash the shores of the land now known as Philadelphia, and at that, you can’t blame the u. ocean for getting away. Who would want to stay In Philadelphia * Just bow long ago the old ocean used to spend his week-ends there mn he figured out If you have a few sharpened pencils at hand and the Information that In ItOI there was • diving board at the foot of Eighth Street, where you now take the car to go to the reeort on the wrong aids of Orest Egg Harbor Inlet. In Ifill Doughty's pier was built In deep water. Ira Champion at that time used to own Simms’ restaurant. During alack boors bis employees used to fisn out the windows If you don't believe that one we’U try to borrow Dawes’ pipe and have our informant take another dr«*m. Where the Decimal Point Reigns Lee Smith. Ocean City’s champion pocket bllllardlst. who can beat Jake Schaeffer If Jake ties both bands behind him and biindtolji him** 1 '. Is selllag Parksrds. He offered me one ths other day ft. fi.UO.SO. I told him 1 thought I could raise the fifty cento, but wasn’t so sure of the telephone numbers on the other elds of the decimal point. Why Bet cm Race>> Our old frlrends the Union Paving Corapan;', marened Into town with a lot of poto and pans for boiling asphalt, car loads of stoaes and bags of cement, tore up all the streets, hired a lot of sectlou boiMr. &sd then went fishing. "0*1 oi. Cm Job." said somebody, timidly. "What’e the huny?“ said somebody else. "we’U be through on tim* Have a cigar." (Mote—Any time you hear a contractor -say he will be through on time you can tell him be can get a bet at unheard of odds by addroHlag K. O. Neptune. Care of this column.) World’s Pay Ground Sweepstakes Our golden-throeled »ong birds are much In demand at the quilting partlea at WPG the** days. They are a Ibcuaand times bettor than some of tbaae Metropolitan Opera barbers wh<Mk> olive oiled larynx gutale from WEAK and other New York atattons. Doc Vail. Eddie Hogan, Rub Nully and Bill Colllaeon are making names for themselves and. Incidentally, putting 0. C. on the ether, or under it—either one will do. (That’s the lowest form of wit) Recently theae roystering broadcaster* were returning home from the World’s Playground (pay ground. If you've been to one of those cabarets where they serve you Ood-knowe-wbst at |J a wat*’. when our b .ndaome City Engineer stepped on his new Dojge. Hum Pontlerre socked his «urt Into his brand nsw Bulck and other Klwaalana. who had gone along with ths sonr birds, etertod la ths chase There Is a question as to who won. The mileage and time also are disputed. Everybody agrees, however, that Tommy Milton, Chevrolet Barney Oldfield and t{p new Indianapolis stare are mere kiddy car driver*.

Thi* Frog Ha* Frog in Throat A celebrated French chef after a visit to America has returned home to Parley Vous Francals and told them that the only thing Americans know how to cook is a steak and take that away from us we would starve to duath. The skunk! Has he ever eaten one of Mike's hot dogs? Has he ever eat down to a disc of Charley Powell's sausages that have been skinned and then need to surround a stack of buckwheat cakes? Has he ever had for a Sunday breakfast a salt msckerml flavored with vinegar? Has he ever had In winter old-fashioned biscuit ahortsaks with strawberries! What does he know abonl old-fashioned chicken potple. saner knot with freeh pork or a ptonked roe shad right from the Delaware Bay? Well, let him come to Oeean City and I'll take him to a little cottage on Wesley Avenue, near Ninth Street, where he can get any of these dishes dishes that Henry Ford or John D. -.roald give half their fortunes to have served to them. A'Mexicans don’t know how to eat The Skunk. How* Thi* For DX? A group of radio enthusiasts were fanning in front of the bank t_* other day, each telling He* about what his particular set would do. It appear*, however, that-all of them got ILO, London, which was relayed through WJB last Saturday and heard Big Ben and the Savoy' Hotel Orchestra. "I don’t call London distance.” said one of the party. *T laid a cigar on my wife’s dean tablecloth last night and got helL" What Good is Power, Anyway? Ocean City's Worst Grouch bad Just returned from New York in his flivver vl. the lake wood route. "Of all the meanest roads on the Eastern Hemisphere." said he, disgustedly, "Til pick the stretch between New Gretna and Adelphla, which Ilea two ml lee south of Freehold, an J that series of bumps between Abeecon and Ocean City. It has been that way for years and we don’t seem to be able to do anything about It Here's a highway leei'lng to the largest city on earth, from two of the moat popular resorts In the world, and the condition of the thoroughfare to a disgrace. The politico leader of the State lives at one end of the road, and although It woiud seem B—entlsl that In order to progreas more rapidly his town should get a better break, nothing seems to be done. Every time I go over those roads I invent a brand new vocabulary of profanity."

Ocean City Civic dob The regular meeting ot the Oeean Oily Cl vie Club waa field Friday evening at the Firemen’s Roosns, dty Hall. It was agreed that the secretary write to the Ooeaa City Chamber of Oommeros. asking its eo-opera-ttou ta planting trots and Increasing the civic beauty. “ * *

to start a move for the beautifying of the old camp grounds at Sixth Street and Asbury Avenue. The question of Easter music came up and tt was decided that this season the Ocean city High School orwm render a program at the music pavilion on This U the third yes

c Club has held this program. > Lotlpx T. Coreon, director of 1c In the local schools, has begun task of rehearsing the local ©ritra for this affair. rofeasor Otto W. Relchley prtnelof the Oeean City High Braoni. the main speaker of the evening, subject being "The Aim of Educa-

tion." He pc'--tad out the the local High School ax schools, and told of the

'hat they can seldom If ever be p

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