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Ocean City Sentinel \ Prlr.r*d and Publiahrd Every Tburaday \ OCEAN CITY PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO. ' Snklnal Bu.Ult.i-, 744-T44 AaboiT Annua. Oman City. N. J . Telephone 1X5- J f. J. EVANS. Editor LEWIS L. BARBETT. Gmral Ha.lne.. Maiurer Tfcla Company reeeree* the rlisht to rayact any ndeertlnne All comaauntrationa to tkla pa par .ill be publithad only o«r tha nama .A«ril-r. , lb la rul.'w'nf •t'riM.ly'adha^d* t™*" ^ Jnb work ..roMptly den* by rvperienrlpj I, a lull K- THURSDAY. AUGUST 3, 1922 SUNDAY TRADING Dr. Dallittgor .the distinguished scientist, was upon an occasion, earnestly entreatetl to submit his name, as a candidate for the office of Mayor of Colchester. At the time the Doctor was engaged in the task , of preparing for publication, his famous brochure on spiders; and inei- j dentally was pottering around the laboratories of South Kensington,,! taking a serios of micro-photographs, which w-ere later included in another work upon the "^nimalcuhr-of Pond and River." "Thank you gentlemen for the honor you would confer upon me," replied Dr.. Dallinger, "but — but — ahem! . — nature never fashioned me ) for the office of mayor, or she would have — well given me a hide as 1 thick as that of a rhinoceros. I understand spiders, but cannot claim j to understand the dear public. You may not know it gentlemen, but spiders are very law-abiding. If the dear public were prepared to obeytoday and tomorrow, 'the laws they made yesterday; if the dear public could be made to realize tkat laws are firstly preventative, and accident-, ally punitive, made not so mueiyto punish the offender, as to prevent him from offending; if every' individual of the public could be made to realize, that it is obligatory upon a magistrate to enforce all laws alike, , ' the laws the individual does not favor, as well as the laws he does favor, that in fact it "is more obligatory upon a magistrate, to enforce the I law he does not approve than the law that he does approve, because . it i.C^e former -he Will most likely transgress, then my vanity might ( pursuadr me to accept the honor. Until such day, I will stick to spiders. Spiders are paragons of a law-abiding race." This incident was recalled to mind, by a phrase in a communica- ( tion sent to our office, apropos the "Sunday Trading" agitation, in which , ( our correspondent claims Ocean City is playing with vengence, the "Spider and the Fly" role, inducing merchants by extensive advertising to open business here, and afterwards hedging them around with prohibitive measures, which preclude them from any chance of securing' a return on their investments. Our correspondent however, does not appear to be well informed t upon the full facts of the Sunday trading agitation, nor in fact of the true version of the spider and the fly story. ( If he will revise his memory upon that classic, he will discover ' . the spider did not forewarn the fly of the fate awaiting it, if it entered its parlor. Had the spider done so, the fly would have richly deserved the fate it met. On the other hand, and to the contrary, all merchants who have opened business in Ocean City, were informed before hand of the re- ; t strictions and regulations obtaining relative to Sunday trading. The I v restrictions are specifically included in every covenant and deed; consequently the merchants tacitly accepted and pledged themselves to obey the very regulations ami restrictions, which they now rebel against. v before they acquired a place in which to open business. r What is the wish of the people? What is the consensus of opinion ? ! "t Shall we depart from, or continue unwaveringly in our allegiance to c the traditions, upon which Ocean City was founded? Mayor Joseph G. Champion and his colleagues constituting the ! , dty administration, together with the City Solicitor, have been the c victims of considerable adverse criticism and censure from certain n quarters, for the sin of doing their duty. f Reduced to the last analysis, that in point of fact is tXeir offence, doing their duty. ^ Ordinance No. 110 of the city code contains the following sections: j (

SECTION 4 That it shall be unlawful on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, for any person, Arm, association or corporation, to sell, or fxpose for sale any gooda, wares I or merchandise not in the nature or form of food and drink (prohibiting always spirituous, vinous, malt or brewed liquor, wine, ale or light liquor) for immediate consumption. SECTION 7 That it shall be unlawful on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, for any person, to expose for sale any candy „ or to make, prepare, manufacture, compound, roll, wrap, box or bag any kind of candy. • SECTION 8 That it shall be unlawful on the first day of the week, ' commonly called Sunday, for any person, firm, association - or corporation, to sell or expose for sale any candy which on secular days such person, firm, association or corpora- " tion, sells or exposes for sale the sawp or any kind thereof, in loose form. ^ SECTION IS That any persons, firm, association or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall . upon conviction thereof before a proper officer having jur- ■», isdistion lie subject to a fine in any sum not exceeding i 1200.00 at the discretion of any officer before whom such person may be tried, and in default of payment of aaid fine be imprisoned in the dty or county jaii for a term exceeding thirty days at the discretion of said officer, and the repititinn of any act prohibited in this ordinance on any day following such conviction shall be deemed a new offense. The law is clear and definite. Mayor Champion is morally and legally, by his oath of office, bound to enforce the law. Mayor Champion has no more right to refuse to enforce the law, than any private individual has to refuse to obey the law. Law-enforcement is as obligatory upon a magistrate, as law-obedience it, upon the subject. We have heard it argued 'rdfcntly, that occasions arise when the magistrate of a municipality, £ay with ample justification pehnit a measure of licence beyond that prescribed by Igjr, trusting to the honor of the persons to whom such licence has been permitted that they will not presume over much, and overstep ti* bounds of decency. As a matter of fact there can be no justification, for refusing to enforce or disobey a law; the only alternative is to repeal the law if unjust, or if it does not meet with the wishes -of the majority of a community. , On the other hand. Mayor Champion has been doing precisely, what those who advance the above argument claim should be done. He has permitted certain liberties beyond the stipulations of the law, j and has done so, "trusting to the honor of the persons to whom such liberties had l-een permitted, that they would not overstep the bounds of decency." To the contrary however, Mayor Champion has not found • them ull keeping within the bounds of decency. Rather certain individuals have been guilty of presuming upon - the city's disposition to leniency, and have brought upon themselves i the necessity of a rigid enforcement of the law. If Mapor Champion has sinned, he has sinned from the si<ie of , indulgence and leniency. In fairness to the dty authorities, it should further be stated, they have not adopted their present attitude from any desire to domin- . ear, or arbitrarily display their authority. Rather they have been : forced into the issue, by pressure of public opinion and demand. The few merchants who are in revolt, seem to forget this 'fact, that for every one person who has approached the city authorities in favor of greater latitude, at the lowest computation a hundred parsons^" have bombarded the City Hall, demanding greater restrictions. Apparently the few dissatisfied among the Boardwalk merchants, have not the remotest colfSption how strong the public sentiment in Mvor of Sunday observance is, in Ocean City. The Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis Club, the Young Mens' gressive League, and various women civic organizations, have all ftme on record endorsing with acclamation and unqualified approval.

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' the attitude the city authorities have adopted on the matter. It is the '(Consensus of opinion, it is the voice of ■Ctll _jjeople. Of course the minister and clergy of the ckv, and their respective | churches, are denounced in terms of unmeasured bitterness, and certain 1 i ministers and church officers, arc openly accused of being the instign- 1 tons and arch-cAispirators in the agitation, which decided the action and attitude of the city authorities. 1 Now strange to relate, some of the strongest ami most aggresividefenders of strict Sabbath observance, are men who are not in the reI motes t degree identified with any church, nor are they numbered among ' the religious. , How can this fact be explained? In brief thus: these men realize that a proper observance of the Sabtiath, is Ocean City's chief financial Coming down to fundamentals, what has Ocean City to sell the | | visitor? What is the city's chief saleable commodity? What con-' |stitutes Ocean Ctor's first commercial asset? Is it not Ian ij) and dwellings for sale, rent, and occupancy? Unj questionably <tls, and unquestionably true is it, that its patrons are all | with few exceptions, persons who faVor the closed Sunday, i Because O^han City has in the past respected the Sabliath, these ; persons have purchased property here. The inducement to purchase | not its bathing beach, not its fishing, nor any other feature of | natural beauty or recreational facility, but distinctly its Sunday ehservancc. From that class, Ocean City has drawn its patrons exclusively. The chief charm of the city is its social atmosphere. The day when Ocean City disregards its Sabbath obligations, it jwill cease to draw further patronage from the very desirable class i of people to whom Sunday observance is a law of life, and furthermore will lose many of those who are, and have been, patrons of_ the city for years past. It is by virtue of the fact" that, among other civic qualities of a .similar character, it has always prohibited the open Sunday, Ocean!. I City has prospered and grown into its present status among the resorts . '

j of the coast; and it will continue to prosper, and attract the same 1 j class of people .only as long as it maintains this distinction from all : other resorts on the coast. J At the present time Boardwalk merchants are. in possession of 1 1 all the liberties necessary to provide for tjie material comfort, of the i ' calibre of Sunday visitor which the city has been receiving, which by j 1 the same token is the only calibre of visitor Ocean City desires, and , |ia prepared to receive; in possession of all the liberties consonant with 1 j the character of the city anil of the calibre of the people who have t made it their place of summer residence; in possession in fact of all J the Sunday traifing liberties, such people desire they should have. : ( The class o^the one day dollar tripper, who has a predilection for , , the open Sunday, Ocean City does not desire, and will not have. The ! i clasa of people whose patronage Ocean City does desire to retain and ! j increase, are perfectly satisfied with the amount of trading on Sunday " j now permitted. J .One fails therefore to comprehend why should some few business s men be agitating for greater liberties, unless it is for the purpose of - ' attracting into the dty a dass of people wc do not desire, who if they j * came would mean the ruin of the dty. _ ( Furthermore, there is more thru a sprinkling of utter selfishness jy ' in the attitude some of these merchants are adopting. They are un- « 1 ilerstood to have disclaimed any desire to have^jcean City converted c • into a Coney Island. They disclaim any desire to have the theatres j I or other places of amusement open on Sunday. Very generous, equiti able and democratic of them. Apparently they desire a monopoly s , in law-breaking. ■ If they desire to operate on a Sunday as on a wcek-tlay, why not !j concede the same priveleges to the proprietors of the theatres? There is no greater evil in permitting o child to riile one of the horses in the j Hippodrome Carousel on a Sunday, than in purchasing a Kiddiear for ' j i it on the Sunday. This however, is a secondary consideration. The primary is the! ' fact that Ocean City was founded upon a Christian recognition of the Sabbath, and is determined to maintain them. Happily, the merchants agitating for the open Sunilay, at least as far as their private businesses are concerned, are in the small j ! minority. This however, they should realize as soon as possible to 1 thlr advantage, if they force the issue through their agitating, the' r city authorities will he compelled to resort to the only alternative, and 1 shut down everything tight. In -point of fact they are being inundated with insistent demands that it should he done. » Some vague rhnpshodinzing about referendum has been heard. The r agitators might do well to realize, that if the question were submitted 1 tomorrow, to u referendum, an overwhelming majority would go on record for a complete "shut ilown," with the liib locked, bolted and • barred. A way out of the twilight ambiguity and misunderstanding suggests • it sal f. 1 We are pursuaded the majority of Boardwalk merchants are ' 1 anxious to conform to the wishes of the city authorities, providing they I are given a clear understanding as to what are their wishes. How far is it required they should conform with the' ordinance? 1 The city authorities-"have l>een allowing a measure of licence above I that permitted by the ordinance. They desire to know what is the measure of licence granted. In brief they desire toVknow how far must they obey the law. and how far can "they disregard the law, and fear no risk of prosecution. If then the, city authorities through their' , Mayor and City Solicitor, made a dear definite statement of their desires and their interpretation of the ordinance, wc are assured the I I merchants will conform. Christian Science Services CASINO CLUB ROOM BOARDWALK and M00RLYN TERRACE Every SUNDAY MORNING during the Season raPocioc? The Public Is Cordially Invited to Attend |

~ SOUTH OCEAN CITY The S. O. C. I m prove m enir-Aazo- |( j nation voted a letter of tKankiUo i the Commissioners for their prompt | recognition of the requests of the ' i" i Association. The trash and gar- - 1 bage is collected regularly, the , I steps, have been put down from the ' ; bulkhead, the lights are being attended to and every one is happy. " | The people of the south end are ; I , doing their share of the work too. i It was reported at the meeting on ithe 22nd that 51st* Street had been! ' ! cleaned up, that "Welcome to South ' Oeean City" signs were ready to . ! lie put up at appropriate places . . j and that d second playground iyi I ! to be qpened at 5!»th Street- — So [ ! much had been accomplished that | j the members voted themselves a j ? I social affair next time. f UNION CHAPEL In spite of the fact that, due to j a misunderstanding, the Union 1 Chapel Was without a minister on ] t Sunday, the morning service was ! j , a very helpful /one. Mr. George]' Pat ton was the one who made the j I service wfyU it was. || SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC 1 Friday the 28th of July saw the > i Sunday School Picnic of the Union » | Chapel at 55th St. So did many | • of the Ocean City people see it for I a parade of three trucks and five , i private cars do not cosily escape ' i the eye, especially if there is a huge r ! on the largest truck saying . "Cedar Beach Sunday School — . : Come and See Us." . j Seventy-five children of all ages i went to Lenape Park at May's i and they all hail a glorious . j time, not excepting the drivers. As I : soon as everyone arrived they ate. . ,Then came a baseball game in : which both teams consisted of boys ' ! and girls. Franklin Dilly made the . • one home run but Mr. Patton and ' I I Miss Lewis, both got three baggers. . j Miss L«wi* made her three bases . j on « bunt. It sounds 'a* if she I were a marathon racer, but she ; j says sjle hsfc never done any Fun- . j ning iNrejfCTor college offices, lfext • wjpe njrkinds of races from a/bag a fat ladies dash, arid a pfize for the winner of each event. | All were glad to get into the lake f after such warm fun and hated to back to earth ex-en with a peanut scramble to indulge in before the homeward trip. ' Mr. George Stewart, a tenor who sings -at the Church of the HolyApostle in Philadelphia truly thrill- I nl those Who were gathered at the Twilight Sen-ices when he sang "Hock of Ages." The tallies' AW of the Union p

Chapel are planning a very extensive fair tills year. It is to last for two days, the 2nd and 3rd, and is being held in order to raise money for the enlargement of the Chapel. BEACH PARTY Mr. David Rank gave a lieachj tire last Monday evening in honor of Mr. Henry Tonilinson, who is I visiting him. The roaring fire, the hot doys andPtoastcd marshmalloxxs iall went towards making it a great i success but they would hax-e been j of little use if «he-guests hnit not entered in to make it an unforget- ! able occasion. Among- those present were: The Misses Mahle and Clara l.umis. Lois Patton. Margur-i let— King, and Messrs. Stacv Koen- ; neman,; Harry McCTure, Bill King | ami I.uther Rank. Personal* Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Topham and Miss Helen Topham of German- | town, havjt-cpme to Ocean City to spend the rest of the season with • Mr. ami Mrs. Vandegiift. Miss Helen Ka.vnor has returned - to her summer cottage after a visit , at Stroudsberg and finds the ocean very pleasant after the'-mountajn j. Mr. and Mrs. Win. V. Willis, their daughter, Mrs. tayton Batton, and her young son, Wm. Lay- : ton Batton, hax-e arrived to spend the rest of the summer at their cottage at 51st and Central Ave. Mr. and Mrs. John Tow-send, and Mr. and Mrs. Byron Klink. have ! returned to their homes in Drexel [ Hill after a month in the Towsend's ] summer home. Mrs. Wm. L Robertson with her four children is x-isiting her sister | Miss Dorothy Hood, at 5100 Central Miss Susanne Lewis has just returned from a short trip to the ! Pocono Mountains. Miss Sue Peters has left Ocean 'Cty for Atlantic City where she itr j nursing at the "Seaside." I The Ocean City Building and - Xoan Association meets on the SECOND SATURDAY of ] every month at 108 Eighth Street. Have you secured any of the FULL PAID stock bears ing interest at the rate of fi per cent, per annum? Stt^R. \ Howard Thorn, the Secretary, I I who will explain. / Adv. BARGAIN I] 4 teres Ground end House I j On Shore Road at Clermont BARGAIN FURNISHED BUNGALOW I I Six Room, *nd Bslh. Hoi *ad Cold Water - Electric Light*. Room lor Garage underneath 74 Sunset Place, Oceaa City, N. J. I DR. WM. H. DEARD0RFF 7«« PHILADELPHIA. PA. Announce* the opening oi an office at ; SIS THIRD ST. , OCEAN CITT. N. J. Office Hour. _ Zn„ *4 .^awl Fri. Taw^TWva^ Set. FOR SALE Mahogany Dining Ronm Suit Pieces Reasonable / Can be Men at 0. C. STORAGE HOUSE, VSr.S PIPE FITTING and REPAIRING Done by expert mechanics Write A. Sentinel Office Are you seeking a higher understanding oi Truth? Read "The Plain Talk Seriesl By W. W. WALTER j Top Floor 705 Moorlyn Terrace • : - -

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