■ •')'! FOUR * OCEAN CITY SENTINEL, OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, AUGJj'ST 24, 1922 ' , ' 1 ■— r ■ ■ ? . . " . — '

Ocean City Sentinel Primed and PublMud Ever, ThoruUr •• , OCEAN CITY PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO. Sentinel Buildimr. 744-T46 Aeburr Avenue. Ocean Cit,. N. J , Telephone 1SS-J P. J. EVANS. Editor LEWIS L. BARRETT, General Buelnaaa Manaaar • • TTU.Qul« »"> he alrirtl, adhered to. I Ji» ^ork promptly done by experienced handl. _ .AUGUST 24,4922 Entered at the Poet Office at Ocean City. N. J., at aecond data mall matter. OCEAN CITY— 1925 This is ®o prophecy. The prophet has fallen upon evil times. His office nntl functions are hopelessly at a discount. Seldom can he ( attract a corporal's guard for an audience. The war produced a wonderful crop of prophets, who predicted; ' all manner of things as the outcome of hostilities, the end of civiliza-j lion and a return to primitive savagery, the doom of the human race,, the conquest of the Anglo-Saxons by the Asiastics. and finally the end j of the world. The end of tW world schools of prophets however are still in j evidence, with the only change that they have conveniently moved the' date forward s few years. | This is the most remarkable characteristic of the esehatological 1 school of prophets, their wonderful adaptability and resourcefulness. Jf time repudiates their prophecy ,they move the date on a few more • years, nothing dismayed. One London divine, predicted , the end of things would come upon thirty-six different times. The prophet has gone the way of all flesh, and the- old world still revolves upon its axis, smiling at the man in the moon. For which reason we would make it clear, that we would not essay thr. role of a prophet for any consideration. We would not dare claim to have received a vision, lest it should prove an hallucination, and mistake perspiration for inspiration. In writing of Ocean City in the year 1926, we shall attempt no more than a forecast of what Ocean City may become, and should become by < 1925 if the citizens rightly develops its potential wealth and facilities- : and avail themselves of the opportunities now thundering upon their For sometime past our public leaders have realized, that the one thing above all which Ocean City needs, at this stage of its development, is the patronage of a wealthier, and a more leisured class of people than it now receives. Ocean City might grow and expand, as it has through the yean, , until every inch of the island, is covered with cottages, small hotels, and business houses, and be a very wholesome place to live in. But it would -not be a wealthy place. Nor could it be a very modern : place. As a city of cottages and cottagers, its revenue by taxation would be far insufficient to provide for the city, modern public utilities, ^ and modern streets, without increasing its taxes to a prohibitive rate. - Ocean City has unquestionably arrived at the stage in its growth, when it must secure a wealthier patronage, and a year-round patronage, , and in consequence greater public revenue, if it is to expand into a > modern city of metropolitan character; and not remain a large and ■ thickly populated village of summer cottagers. I To meet this demand, the campaign for an Ocean Front Hotel, < recently brought to a glorious consummation, was an achievement of . the highest quality of statesmanship. I A The abolition of the toll on the automobile bridge, will not very ( materially effect the advent of this leisured class oyfcatrons- as it would « not have hindered their coming, had other inducements been in evidence, except perhaps for the resentment every true born American feels, r against an institution of a feudal origin, and a relic of mediaevalism. i Bufit will very materially affect the class of people, whose oecups- r tfen and profit it will be to entertain the leisured ones; and it will , materially affect tourists, who are themselves a valual le source of business revenue, and the most efficient media of publicity and C advertisement i In his suggestive brochuree, entitled "The Psychology of Comnym- a ity Advertising," William Beatham states; "One thousand dollars spent In attracting transient tourists through a pleasure resort, will reap a greater results by way of publicity and advertisement, than tens of i thousands spent in other forms in common practice." I By next season, we are assured, the Ocean Front Hotel will be ready for occupancy. '< t The leisured class however, must have entertainment and recreation, o This is an essential and undispensible as the Hotel. The hotel will not keep the mlong if the city has no attractions and " entertainment for them. They have the leisure to play, and the money s to pay. They will not remain here to vegitate, and languish of ennui and monotony. v Nor would it be desirable, and to the advantage of the city if they s eould be induced to remain in our hotel, under such conditions. The old proverb, "Satan finds something for idle hands to do," is o as true of millionaires as paupers, of octogenarians as It is of schoolhoys. , There is a very beautiful and picturesque lake resort in one of our e northern states, which has become known as the Monte Carlo of Ametica- d The resort possesses three magnificent mammotjrltotel*, one of which j Will compare favorably with any in New York. f The town is a hotbed of license, and a colossal gambling den, and 1 that, because it offers absolutely no other form of recreation and amusements. , - Golf has been dubbed, variously as "a millionaire's game," and "a c lazy man's baseball," often with a sprinkling of anaemic wit. There is a psychological reason however, behind the preference a shown by wealthy persons, for the game of golf. With the exception of 1 a small minority, who inherit millions from their forebears, millionaires, Y and men of wealth- are all men who have passed the heyday >f yjung manhood and middle age. c The frontiers of middle-age are crossed, before they attain to the i dignity of being numbered among the leisured class. To such persons therefore, apart from its peculiar fascinations as i a game, golf offers them all the physical exercise and exertion, it would be prudent for them to undertake. Furthermore, golf is the one gume, i in which the middle-aged may with immunity participate. in whkh ladies r may share. In fact like lawn tennis, golf is presriptively a family gyne. i in .which all members of the family may engage in friendly rivalry; and c Ocean City does not want bad enough- even the leisured class .unless i they ore of the moral calibre significiantiy designated as family men t men who cherish their families, and honor the sacred traditions of home- r It is therefore a matter of infinite satisfaction to learn, that synchronizing with the building of the Ocean Front Hotel, there will be the t building of Oeea« City's Country piub, with it« unparalleled recreational facilities. , It is to be devoutly hoped however, that the people of Ocean City | will, with the same degree of statesmanship as demonstrated in the hotel i

campaign, identify themselves with the Country Club to the extent and numbers, that they may exercise proper power over its administration, . and direct as nuyiy of its benefits into Ocean City. We confess some apprehension over the rulBofw not without foundation, thst a sister resort is making e>Vry effort, to\. secure u much of the benefits and advantages as possible of the Club\ln favor Of their own city. But Ocean City will not increase very considerable in wealth nor, r change its character of a cottage village very much, if the wealthier i. section of its population continue to live in hotels, even though they live there the greater portion of the year, which is extremely dubious. Men and women may spepd considerable time In toitels; neverthe- _ , less a hotel, even the best, is not a home; and the i^ftority of people like to feel they have a hgme, even though they are in no danger of r wearing it out by occupancy. Ocean City desires that the clas#it is endeavoring to allure here-' >• | by means of the hotel, should build their homes here. We dream of e j seeing large areas of available land, dotted over with palatial residences, | beautiful lawns and landscape gardens. 1 ; Ocean City offers every* inducement, except good streets. In pros--j peering for ta place in which to build himself a home, the man whose '.j means gives him the privilege of choosing tlie locality, is invariably as 1 . much influenced in his choice- by the condition an dthe quality of the 1 | community's streets, as by, any other factor. «j It is highly gratifying therefore to learn that two of the most 1 »j infuential civic organizations in the city, The Chamber of Commerce, and the Taxpayer's League, have commenced the agitation for wide. 1 j hard kprfaced streets. , k In appealing to the Board of Commissioners to take the matter of i »j the street* under advisement, these two bodies are doing both the | Commissioners, and the community a valuable service. 1 1 XPiey are educating the general public to the urgent necessity of ■ , paved^Hgets^jnd preparing the average taxpayer for the expenditure, 1 • ti e i iprovement 'will entail. There are two methods by means of wmcn this expenditure could . | • be met It could be met on the 'assessment basis of three thirds, the I > abutting properties on either sides of the streets assessed a third each ' - of the cost, while the city defrays the remaining third. Even if it were necessary, as Mr. Sutton suggested at the last > | meeting of, the Chamoe.-, to osiers the property owners for the entire , r cost of the improvements, it would be a splendid investment, resulting i • in a large increase to the valuation of the respective properties, bene- ' r fiting from the improvements. 1 The other alternative plan is to increase the valuation, so that the ' ! borrowing powers of the city might be increased. This of course can - ( - be done without increasing the taxes. If for example the valuation of , r property was increased fifty per cent, and the millag? decreased fifty per cent there would be no insrease of taxes while the bonding powers ■ . of the city would be increased in equal proportions. ' At the present time it costs the dty approximately 226,000 in ] keeping the streets in repair. This amount in interest would secure i sufficient money, to practically pave every street in the city. ' Whichever method is adopted- this is certain, people of means will i . neither.be coerced or cajoled into erecting expensive dwellings, where 1 there are no good streets. This year Ocean City is beginning its career, as a center of out- j - door athletics. The dty is erecting a number of tennis courts, which ] > when completed will compare favorably with any in the country. The 1 I courts are being built under expert supervision, and suitable for nat- ' 1 lonal tournaments. By the coming of next season, the ball park will be 1 ■ of equal merits. There is not upon the coast fadlities for acquatic sports, equal to what may be found in the vicinity of the Yacht Club. , la it desirable that Ocean City should develope into a national . center of out-door recreation T More than one person we have heard I expressing some doubt j ' From the view point of publirity and advertisement, there can be f question concerning the desirability. The town or dty famous for = athletic enterprises, has more free advertising than any other. More ] newspaper space is given to sport than any other department of human) 1 endeavor, not excepting politics. £ We have beard it argued however, that the establishment of Ocean < as a great sport center- would bring into Ui dty an element utterly incompatible and irrecondlable with its social character and traditions, element which they designate as ."sporty." There was a day when the term "sporty," was a synonym for athletic. A sport was an athlete, and a sporty person one interested y in athletics. In that sense the word was used by novelists of a past generation. But today however, the term sporty has acquired new connotations^ the end that it is generally applied to a person of vulgar pretensions, of very questionable habits, and dubious morals. , Now as a matter of fact a real athlete is not in the remotest degree 1 " m that usage of the word. He eannot be an athlete and ! sporty. Athletics demand regular habits, clean living. Neither man nor! can remain long in a physical condition, in which they can ! actively participate, in athletics, and dally with vice. Modem athletics for this reason are produdng the finest specimen.' of physical manhood and womanhood, the world has ever seen. Deprive human nature, during the first thirty yean of life, of its athletic interests, and It will be deprived of ite safest outlet for the J expenditure of animal energies, which without athletics, would be< to infamous and demoralising channels. There is infinitely less j peril of a young man or woman, going astray, with baseball, or tennis example, than there Js in the tmxfcrn dance hall where the amorous 1 over the half-dressed. Criminological statistics prove- that less offenses are committed against the accepted canons of aex morality by athletes, than by any other class of people or profession. Instead of being undesirable, men and women of athletic interests and predilections, would be most desirable; consequently it is devoutly ( Ocean City will develope ite possibilities, in this respect to the highest degree of excellence. Another very desirable objective is receiving the consideration of j ( public leaders, a short route on the Pennsylvania Railroad System . into the wider world beyond. This may, without a shadow of doubt, just as the hotel, be brought j within the realm of actuality, and by very much the same methods. Agitation in part; yes. Propaganda; yes. But agitation and prop- j aganda of itself ^ill not suffice. The officials and the ilictorate of the railroad company hare as their first consideration- the interests -of the wtod^utldeH. If Ocean City, by developing its own resources to the I degree, that itjs able to attract sufficient people here, to make a short route into the dty a paying investment for the railroad company, the short route will be made. In faet twenty short routes will be made, if necessary to meeMbe requirements of the traffic Into the dty. The hotit campaign will do more towards bringing this desired . short route into existence, than ten years of agitation and propaganda. \ Without laying claim therefore to prophetic unction, if Ocean City I will grasp the opportunities now knocking at it* doors, and with enter- ' j prise foresight, and the spirit of venture- develope wisely her resources, forecast may be attempted of the year 1925. A resident population ■ |

il of twenty thousand, a resident*! districted palatial residences, providi, ing some means are proviubd to prevent promiscuous building in the same locality, u-'business section capable of accommodating the - increased population, and educational plant capable of meeting itfie f requirements of the cit)*; and the Summer. School, which might be r developed into a permanent Nonnal College, athletic and recreational fadlities, of national and international re piste- three ocean front hotels -, of metropolitan proportions and appointments, and modernized public r utilities and streets. All this can be accomplished without departing e in the smallest degree from 'the hirtqric^raditions of the dty.

DROLL PICTURE OF : AN AFRICAN CHIEF : : DRIVING "UN LIZZIE" ; — — ■!) DR. MOORE DELIGHTS PARTY » , AT HOME OF B. F. SMITH; f * TALES OF AFRICA s 1 — i_ i A number of friends gathered at i the home of B. Frank Smith, last 1 , Thursday evening, agiong them 1 being the families of Rev. Dicker- j 9 ' son Moore, formerly of New Jersey I Conference, and of • Mr. Thomas 1 '• fc. Wright of Cinrinnati, Ohio. ' ! Mrs. *ohn Cooke, of Atlanta,;, Ga., who is an excellent elocutionf iit, gave several fine selections in ^ her usual skillful manner. Mrs. ' Cook is a daughter of the Rev. 1 < Moore and retains her love for her ^ I . birth state, although she has spent t married life in the South. Heri , daughter- Marion, is staying with £ , her, and is one of our typical B Southern daughters. Miss Helen Daniel, a vocalist of . ; rare ability, sang several selec- [ tions. Wherever heard she is pleas- ^ . ing her audiences. We regret that her stay in Ocean City is limited. | ,f Following this came delightful ^ word pictures of Africa, given by g both Dr. Bryom Moore and his ' charming British wife. r i" Dr. Moore, who is the son of t j Rev. Moore, went to Africa some j eighteen years ago. M^s. Moore ( ^ spent practically all of her life'] - Their home is in Salisbury, Rhodesia, a dty of about 6,000 inhab- , I ' itants. A photo of their dwelling, ^ , reveals a beautiful concrete struci turc- surrounded by a large lawn, j showing as pretty an effect in ( landscape gardening, as we can j i!find in our own section. Adjoining j } the lawn is a tennis court, with a £ . ' rest retreat built to resemble a j | native house, having its pointed ^ * j dome thatched with grass. / f ' 1 African labor in that section Is furnished by the Kaffirs, > and is • • 1 1 very cheap. The kaffir men work , I ; for the whites, rather than the > women. Living expenses are higher I ;here than there, espedally the r

! cost of meats. There a chicken ! can be purchased for a dime. They j | I do not have such a wide range in - wearing apparel, althotigh their I ' stores carry quite an extensive line ' "Tin Lizzie" has penetrated even the remote sections there, and Mrs. "Moore gave an amusing picture of an African chief with his scant rai- ' ' ment, seated behind the steering gear of "Lizzie" and getting the . ! "go" out of her. The natives often j present laughable pictures. They are happy in their one- ; - piece suit, if they can top it off ! ' with a discarded silk top hat fttmi 1 some Britisher. | The flora and fauna of the coun- j ( . | are wonderful. The Capo lil- ; lies which grow wild there- are our j cultivated callus. Practically a j 1 hundred varieties of wild flowers can be found on on acre of land.'". big game is found within a ; 1 very short distance of the city of i ' Salisbury. The Httle company felt that the evening had been well spent, and; I will hereafter thing of Africa in a personal way. thanks to Dr. and Mks. Moore. BIRTHDAY PARTY Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Wright; of Cincinnati, Ohio, gave a dinner ; party .on Saturday evening- at the; Hotel Oxford, in honor of the birthday of their children, Lucy' and Gregory. 1 After the dinner the party of I nineteen guests, were delightfully entertained with solos, rendered by 1 Miss Helen Hovey, granddaughter of formfer Governor Hovey, of Indianna, and Miss Sara -Frances Johnston of Mississippi. ( Miss Daniel has studied vocal music, at the College of Music in { 1 Cincinnati and in Chicago. She is now studying in New York. Miss '.Johnston also was a student at the ' College of Music In Cincinnati. young ladies have been gifted nature, with wonderful voices, and proved to their audience- that ' they have mastered the technique ' of their art. Miss Daniel plans to - ' study in Europe soon. i'* Mr. and Mrs. Clarence A. Price and family of Hamilton, Ontario, been visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. Galloway, of 1620 Asbury AveI:

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