' 9 F0UR - OCEAN CITY SENTINEL, OCEAN CITY, N. J , 'AVCISa.lH.'^fGUST 31, 1922

Ocean City Sentinel PrlBte^ud* Publli)t«a Every Thunder OCEAN CITY PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO. Sen line! Bulldta*. Tlt-NI Ajbory Avenue. Oeeen City, N. J. TelepSuM 115- J P. J. EVANS. Editor LEWIS L. BARRETT. General Bueineee klcani Chatune uf edeertieinc copy moet le at Ibti office not later then Teeedey oOol Job work prcenptly done by experienced hende. AUGUSJ 31, 192 2 athletics— a national asset Out of- the wreckage of war, France has emerged with one firn and fixeil conviction. Four years deluged in blood and tears, has convinved the leaders of France, that athletics constitute a national asset of uncalculablt Fired by the convictions, the people of France will in the neat future take a step in'advance of the entire world, a step which commends itself to every progressive statesman, and every advanced student of social economy. One of the leading Fench journals volunteers the information, that a bill has been drafted for presentation before the Chamber of Deputies, WMch has for its purpose the creation of a new portfolio in the cabinet, which will be known as the Ministry of Athletcis and Physical Culture, and the inclusion in the annual budget, of a definite opportionment to be devoted exclusively, to the development of athletics and The bill in question is the product of a commission, comprised of legislators, publicists- and members of the medical profession, appointed by the Society of Arts and Sciences. The bill will obviously not be presented until the national exchequer will permit. When presented, it may meet with premature death, at the hands of the ultra-conservative wing of the Chamber. Notwithstanding, even though deed, it will go down to history, as She beginning of a new epoch, not only in the history of France, but of civilisation. I twill be the most revolutionary movement in the annals of government, the most sensational experiment in social economy ever! attempted. Whether the bill becomes law or not, it will be the first official acknowledgement, that athletics and sports have as vital and important a place in the life of a nation, as commerce and industry. It Is all the more surprising that such a movement should originate in France, when it is remembered that France is one of the countries, where conscript and compulsory military training has always been 1 enforced. What prompted the movement and the drafting of the Mil, the chairman of the commission, explains in an interview with the repre- : tentative of the aforementioned journal. The beloved sons of France, whom we mourn with a grief that ' will not he comforted, failed not in courage. Future ages will sing in deathless verse of their intrepid heroism. No they lacked not courage. But with the exception of those who were engaged in agricultural pur- ! suits, they sadly lacked the hardihood, and the power of physical endurance, which were exhibited in so marked a degree, in the British and the American soldier. "I attribute the nigged constitution, and the physical hardihood of the British and the American people, (for they are of the soma, stock, with the same habits and predilections), to their love for out-door sports . and an out-door life. e , "In hunting and fishing, and in all forms of out-door athletics, they i excel. They take their games with intense seriousness, train assiduously, as though games were a profession and not a pastime. , -They order their lives with Spartan rigor and self-abnegation. , To the contrary -the amusements of our people are of a sedentary nature, arid within doors. Athletics and out-door games are deplorably ia neglected, to the physical, yes and even -moral, disadvantage of ourij people. During the years our youths are under military training, they , an given a certain amount of physical exerriae, but there is absolutely no incentive to continue their exercises after leaving the service. If our , schools devoted as much time and attention to some out-door game, as i they do to sword practice, it-would be of incalculable value to the future i generation of our race. The Latin races are deterioating by reason of t this, while the Anglo-Saxon races- are improving with each succeeding < generation." The above statement coming from one who is a statesman of wide \ repute, hitherto regarded as somewhat reactionary in his* views, and a' scientist of equal fame and authority, is of epochal significance. ' , A member of the English cabinet, and a representative of labor, r commenting upon the French proposal, ventures the prediction "that the a tfine is not far distant, when every dvillred nation will be compelled, to fa adopt some similar measure." H The movement has been given considerable publicity in the French press; but so far only one voice has been heard in protest- the voice of t a lady by the way, a friend of tbe famous Belgian dramatist and g literateur, Maurice Materiinck. g One argument offered by this lady in opposition to the movement, s might bo given passing notice, for the sola reason it is an argument we . heard advanced some time ago, from the plat$rm_of a great religious ' c national convention. ' , ^ In fine the speaker' with some gusto, and acrobatic gesticulation, 'tl and even more perspiration, which perhaps he mistook for inspiration, affirmed that sports and athletics- have a brutaliring tendency, and that I p in extreme eagerness to win the game, the participants are very fre- j it quently guilty of intentionally injuring a rival on the field. ! j, The argument however, does not stand the acid test The young »| man who is capable of playing the brute on the football held, or in any ' other out-door game, will play tbe brute, with Tiddle Winks or ' p Checkers. As Joe Billings used to say, " Tis the natur of the critter, j tl not the pig^lcin." m Nor does the gratuitous assumption that because the French are a h "non-athletic people, they are all mora artistic and refined," 'hold wr.ler. The lady is simply repeating a common error in mistaking effeminacy m for refinement, and an indolent affected deportment, as evidence of an ai artistic temperment. The yooth and young manhood of our country will compare favorably with those of any country, in refinement, and a cul- b •ture that h inbred, and not the veneer of conventionalism, and senti- n: men tali sm. pi Now in what sense may we enquire- can it be argued that athletics w end sports ere a national asset. ^ 1. Physically. The athletie rennaissance began almost simultaneously in England and Germany, towards the end of the seventeenth ol century, afterwards passing by way of Bavaria into 8weden. ai In Germany the movement was immediately capitalised by the militaristic party, and prostituted to their own 'ends. The word prostituted 71 wry accurately describes what actually took place. 0, The phases of athletic training which ministers, as we shall see, to ui

the development of. th^ moral attributes oil the human nature, were completely eliminated. Emphasis was laid entirely upon the purely 1 1 physical uses of athletics, to the end that Germany in the course of years, developed the most perfect military-machine- the world has ever known. The German soldier became a superb Wtimal. Now it is characteristic of America, that Whatever she borrow * from another nation, she developes in her own peculiar M ay . It was so with athletics; consequently while the average "American soldier wflts tur. nothing inferior to the German physically, instead of being a mere part ®°B- of a machine, a human automaton), in contradistinction the American soldier revealed .a highly developed power of initiative, individuality, and self-reliance- to a decree the German soldier euold not possess, by reason of his training. * 4 Much capital was made, to the discredit of America's young n'tan- ' hood, over the fact that so large a percentage of the drafted, failed to measure up to the physical requiyments. The percentage of physically defective was disquieting it is admitted, and appeared at the first glance, to offer ample excuse for ers the ridicule made of our boast, that we are an athletic nation. k'e Subsequent investigation however, drove the scoffers to cover, ami furnished the strongest arguments in favor of athletics as a national* rar asset, it was discovered that 79 and a fraction per cent- of those m* who failed to meet the physical requirements, were drafted ffom 'e,i thickly populated districts, young men who had received little or no athletie training. Sixty-four per cent had not received a High School ^ education, with its athletie and out-door games, and pastimes. Passing ■P* from the physicaTto the he ^ Social value of athletics, it Is evident that the rising generation. :a! wi" l«v* acquire.! one very valuable faculty, of which their fathers %re n" ' deplorably innocent. nd( The rising generation will know how to play. By this we mean, Wot merely skill in some department of sport- but they will have cul- , <•! treated the habit of taking regularly and scientifically their daily recCd reationTamTxhe -ability to abandon themaflves to their recreations, to the extent necessary to be of recuperaffiffi value. The four govern - *1 ing factors in human life are. Work, Play, Love, and Worship. n The modern man has not learned how to play. He carries his , business worries and problems with him into his recreation and amuseW'menta. He drags the shackles of work with him into the theatre and : the church. The stress and stralh of modem life demands regular periods of * rest and recreation. AU around us we see men in the prime of life. mm who have become physical and nervous wrecks, because they do not t know how to play. » •' ; Athletics moreover foster the development of the co-operative ' >t spirit The athlete learns how U submerge self in the interA* of th. ° teamj The day of rabid individualism and insinularity is past This is <*■ the day of trusts, combines, mergers and monopolies, and the success- I •».ful man in business, is be who can play the game, in his commercial e n relations as he did on the football field. •' John McNeil, the famous Scotch evangelist once remarked, that if U h* h»d Power and authority, he would make it compulsory for t, H every board of church elders and deacons, to form themselves into a |v ' football or cricket team, and arrange tournaments between the elders 1 ot one church against those of another, in every community. ' » The development of a greater co-operative spirit, and of mutual p !- j appreciation of one another's gifts thereby, would prevent, he declared, j - - "much of the petty spleen, bickering and spatring, which has become w - notorious of ehurch elders and deacons." y, t 3- The moral contribution of sports and athletics, to the life of a P1 nation, is equally as great as the physical and social. u f Athletes in general live clean, wholesome lives. H. B. Irving, in ^ . his valuable study of "Criminals and Criminology," furnishes some v( • startling statistics demonstrating that athletes and lovers of out-door st sports, contribute less to the population of prisons and penitentiaries, > than any class of people. th The reason of this is not far to discover. Neither man nor woman, = can remain long in a. physical condition in .which they may actively ft participate in athletics and sports, and trifle with vice. N ' . " The athlete must be a person of regular habita, must be abstemious ™ 'and temperate in an things, and scrupulously clean in his or her person. » ■[Regular hours of sleep, wholesome food, frequent bathing must con. ' : rtitute the regime of an athlete's life. Dissipation spells ruin to the athlete. "Rob the American boy and ' girt," said Dr. Althouae recently in this city, "of his athletic interests i and out-door games, and you rob them of one safe outlet, for the i expedHure of superfluous animal spirits and energies, which without ' this outlet, would of necessity be directed to baser and more injurious : ends." The Reelaimation of the "unfortunate giri," is the greatest problem of government, philanthropy, and religion. ^ Confined within prison walls for a period, when released they | return to the old life and haunts. Christian charity builds homes, and ! reformative schools for them. For a period they show every promise! | of reform, and are amenable to discipline and responsive to kindness j with the return to robust health and vigor, the lure of the night! < with its bacchanalian revels, provei irrestible. A trifle over four years ago, one of the largest Refuge Homes in \ country, located in a western state, introduced an ambitious program of athletics and sports into the regime of the institution. The giris are encouraged in every branch of athletic activity. Out-door sports in particular are fostered. ] Baseball, football, pushball, tennis, hockey, cricket, basket-ball, cycling, and swimming, have been introduced, to the end th^t according _ | the last report, On^y one girt had absconded from the home during °* year. A physiologist would experience no difficulty in explaining the remarkable change. Athletics have furnished the girls with a control- j ing and directing master-passion; given them a new interest and zest) j living; and given fhem new avenues for the dissipation of youthful ! (Spirits and energies. ^ The old Greek savant, knew human nature, who declared, "The j pent up fires of youth, must finS an outlet either up or down, towards eioud crested summit of Olympus where the gods dwell, or into 55 subterranean depths, where lurk the foul demons of sensuality andl — ' Athletics may not add a cubit to the intellectual stature of man or maid. Sports may not add a single cell to the brain. But sports can ij and do assist in keeping the cells healthy and clean. B 'The vigor of the mind, is more largely than supposed, determined jjj the health of the body, and a robust constitution may contribute 2 to the success of a student, than barrels of midnight oil. The IB sqdal .and moral value of athletics granted, their economical || worth is a foregone conclusion. Whatever ministers to the physical and IB moral welfare of a people, must be a financial gain, | ' Younr meojind women of athletic habits and predilections, lovers |§ of the opeit-health and sunshine, make the very best calibre of citizens, In and the most desirable. L It is estimated by those interested In criminological statistics, that Jg per cent of petty criminals, are recruited from the congested areas^lB of our large dtiea; boys and giris, environed from birth by squalor and IE unslghtliness, whose amusements and recreations are confined exclu- H

REPUBLICAN WOMEN GETTING LINED OP i READY FOB ACTION t state organizer outlines n peans and rules of », campaign e Since their Rifrnnchisement, women have proved themselves u ' . tremendous power in politics. paij^of tbe professional politician , and the old-tlmj ward boss; for; ' women Constitute the "unknown , quantity" which they cannot cor,-* ■ ; trol. , Many of the startling and revo- j j lutionary changes, which eventual- ! , , ed during the last election, are at- 1 ' tribute, i to the power of the worn- 1 , The Republican Women of Capc'{ Many County, mean to make them- ( selves felt ami heard during the ( , coming elections, as never before. , The secret of their success and ; , ■ power lies in the fact they take their dvfe obligations seriously. | -ami endeavor to inform themselves in the laws governing the exercise of their franchise. , Miss Gertrude 'Wise, State Or- , , gamier, associated with the Repub- y lican Women's Club, addressed an 'c enthusiastic meeting of workers at t .the Hotel Normandie Monday af-'c " *- j| Miss Julia Scull presided, ami y speaker proved herself an abso- t mistress of her subject. Miss Wise outlined in an inter- j, esting manner, a very effective 0 plan of campaigning. e At every polling station there jj be a lady in attendance', with a complete list of registered q voters, prepared to challenge any t) whose name was not eon^ -e, talned therein. / ,| Cars, as many as possible, should secured, to bring indifferent voters to the polls. Miss Wise V stated that one in -every five women y in the State do not vote; it was P duty to see that not one fail- A

re sivtly to the low dance hall. theVeted gambling dire, and the dime ■ly; show. * ^ ' of It is futtber estimated, that each petty criminal costs the go vomer ment 40 cents a day, during the period of incarceration, or £146 per n It is still further estimated that the average petty criminal, spends, so about ten years of his or her life in-frison, at various intervals, cost- ' fas ing the government thus $1,460.00. It two hundred dollars of this rt were spent in providing for each hoy or girl clean, healthy recreation, in action and convert an embryo criminal and a menace, "into useful y, action and convert an embryo crirmnM and a menance, into a useful iv happy citizen.

|ed to register, any! exercise herji ] franchise intelligently. \ Meetings should be arranged in | every section of the electorate, particular attention bemjf-paid to the ( ijj rural districts. ^ jj ■ | Miss Wise paid high tribute to { ■ Senator Frelinghuysen, declaring" he was the only representative who s ' gave proper coiisideration to worn- , ! en, and the part women play in { 1 ] the economy of the nation's lifo, J - | is his platform. , \ , The speaker strongly jrecommended every woman to give Sen- / • j ator Frelinghuysen, her umlivide<f j This year. Miss Wise stated the " ! women of America have the great1 1 est opportunity to support the men r 1 of high ideals. It was a source of 1 wonder to the speaker, why there . " | should be so much indifference iyid J I apathy manifested among women, ; " j the face of such tremendous is- j " | She sincerely hoped that in the "(near future, the women of Amer- , ica would be so aroused to their; ' obligations and responsibilities that they would be able to make , I 1 their wishes known in govern- j = ■ mental affaifs as never before in i ' j-the history of the world. j | • WINTER ' POPULATION GROWING ' Borton Champion, associated - ' with B. F. Goetz, in Real Estate ! 1 at Fourth and Atlantic Avenue, J has purchased the lot on the east corner of Fourth Street and Central Avenue. He has giVSn out a contract to Otis M. TWnsend to • build a winter home.lwhich he and " family intend to oeOtipy during the month of Oetolie -. Mr. Champion is an uptown working exclusively no.th of Fifth Street in encouraging clients to rent and buy cottages. home will add to improvements ' in this section. Prooi that Ocean is gradual!.' spreading out is fact shown by the continual in- . of winter built homes in | uptown section. Mr. and Mrs. William L. I-ott of N. J., are the guests of Lott's parents, Mr and Mrs. : 1 J. Baral, of 1245 Asbury

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