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Oce an Cut Sentinel Printed end Pohllehed Ever, Thnrede, OCEAN CTTV PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO. r. }. EVANS. Editor LEWIS L. BARRETT, Gonerel Bollnni lUunr I V Tkdf Cmpur^innut the rlrbt nOor^enr^edrerilein*. ^ ^ FEBRUARY 15, 1923

GEORGE WASHINGTON FATHER OF THE REPUBLIC Happy the nation whoae ancestors were the aristocrats of nature. Such ancestors stand as eternal sentinels, guarding the liberties of the aaticn. Suth men rebuke, and command, and commend, the nation perpetually. Our civil fathers were east in a heroic mould. They were men fired by a world-wide purpose, which came from the threshold of the infinite. Guided and sustained by that purpose, they took possession of) this continent, and laid down the foundations of a world empire, — the The product of their life is grand; but grand as it is, it is no more than a prophesy of what shall be. We have not yet reached ultimate America. We have not yet reached typical America. 1 The prayers of George Washington at Valley Forge, have not yet been answered; they are still before the throne of the Eternal. God ' feels their strong pulsations, beating in unison with His own purposes ' for America, and He is keeping them constantly in memory, for the coming of the right time for consummation. ' Our portrait of Washington must of necessity be the merest char ' coal sketch— an outline and little more. Nevertheless we hope to show the real Washington, and not the traditional Washington, the histoid- ,h cal Washington, and not the idealised Washington ; Washington the * man. and not Washington the myth; Washington as seen in the oiear, j a

open sunlight, and not Washington as seen through the haze of eulogy. ! Every attempf to stiffen and polish, this plain, honest, God-called j 1 farmer, who was faulty in grammar, and elliptical in spelling is anil injustice to humanity. Let us keep Washington human, for there is It as much inspiration to noble living and noble acting, to an exalted 1 patriotism , and to high ideals of service, to be found in what Wash- i fctgton WAS NOT, as wall as from what he was. 1 j George Washington owed nothing to noble birth. The light of e no ancestral glory haloed his brow. He was not a brilliant man; his was not the genius of intellect^ was the genius of character. And , there la Infinite comfort in that fact. Intellectual genius is granted y to few; but genius of character is attainable by alt All cannot be , great; but all can be good. George Washington's early- education, was very similar to that t of Abraham Lincoln. Neither of these men saw the inside of an j, ' erahy. Washington attended a low grade of private school, taught by perish sexton. He acquirde a rudimentary knowledge of the three ° IS hut never studied grammar. In his brother's house he mastered ;Ue geometry, and that was all the schools did for George Wash- u Deprived of educational advantages, he trained himself. At the age of seventeen, Washington earned his living as a surveyor of public * lands. He followed this profession for a period of three years. K During these three years, George Washington built up the splen- * did physique, which stood <0 nobly the strenuous times of revolution. * »> "mm Hwii -11 nooiy uie strenuous umes of revolution.

He stood forth, six feet, two inches of superb manhood. The profession also shielded him fro.n the perversion of his moral energies; * made his practical; it made him familiar with fatigue and exposure; I t taught him to accommodate himself to limited fare, and to camp' tfe; it made a soldier of him in preparation for the great mission of ds life. At the age of nineteen, George Washington applied for a eonr aission from the colony of Virginia, and entered Into the French and ndian Wars. Later, Washington accompanied his brother to the West Indies. Fhfle there his brother died, and George Washington came into posbudon of his estate, which included Mount Vernon. At the age of forty-two, George Washington became a member i f the first general Congress of the colonies, and two years later, ■rough the influence and good offices of John Adams, he was selected ommanderin-chiof of the American forces. Under the old elm tree, which still grows on the common in CamIdge, Mass., George Washington took command. America needed as a leader, a man reared under her own eye,' to combined with brilliant talents, a character above reproach, and ■orge Washington was the man. George Washington remained at the head of the army for seven lis, during which time he never stepped once, over the threshold hla home. The history of those seven years is written in blood and tears. In * I battles, George Washington revealed a degree of military genius, thy of a Napoleon— the battles of Trenton and German town, just S fat latter years In creating America's foreign policy, he revealed a ree of statesmanship equally as great. ' The romantic story of George 'Washington crossing the Delaware, A stormy night in raid-winter, has only few parallels in history, ^ ®f which is perhaps the story of Napolean Bonaparte crossing the 4 HIl " I This above all should be remembered of the immortal Washington, •triotism had in it not a similacrum of self-interest or selfishness. v> For his services during the Revolutionary War, he received no ! t< me ration whatever. He fought not for glory; but for a cause. 1 Hie most perilous years in the history of our nation however, were I v y]

the four years following the Revolution. This pepod, John Flske named, the "Supercritical Era." The war was over, true: a new era opened before America. War had united the States; but now that war had ceased, the States were in danger of falling further apart, through' internal rivalries, disruption ami jealousy. -- The Articles of Confederation were too indefinite, anil tco feeble, to hold the States in unity. The Continental Congress had very limited authority. A burden of ilebt was crushing every noble ambition and aspiration out of the heart of the infant nation; the soldiers who _ had fought and won freedom for the nation were compelled to go unpaid. It is impossible to exaggerate the problems and difficulties of .this period; yet many Americans labor under the delusion, that with r the close of the Revolutionary War, our civil fathers enjoyed a season of political millenium. There was financial distress, and industrial chaos. Civil War broke out in North Carolina, and revolt in Pennsylvania. Suspense and haunting fears prevailed, until the great Convention which consummated in our glorious Constitution was called. George Washington was elected chairman of the Convention, and when the Constitution was finally adpoted, George Washington was elected the first President of the United States, with John Adams as Vice-President. George Washington did not seek office; the office sought and found him. Every office he held during the long period of public life, was forced upon him; and he accepted not for the honor, or to satisfy a lust for power, but from a sense of duty. George Washington served his country as President for eight . years, the limit of presidential rule for any man. Washington then retired to the privacy of his home in Mount Vemon. When he died, all America mourned him, and nations abroad 1 shared in the sense of irreparable loss and bereavement. The flags of France were draped in black, the flags of Great !

Britain floated at half-mast. For as Goodwin Smith declared: "England realized that George -Washington had not fought against England. [J but against lie. rye III, a tyrannical German who occupied the throne t. of England." « George Washington has not done with the Republic he founded, n God of our fathers grant that he may never be done. When this Republic breaks with the father of the country, and it abrogates the principles and ideals upon which it was founded, the e doom of the Republic will be sealed. The finest tribute we can pay to his memory, is to retain unimf | paired, the ideals of government for whicn he lived and fought. NAILING A LIE TO THE COUNTER , We are frequently informed that "every knock is a boost." Doubtmuch depends upon the nature of the knock, and where it lands. ' Personally we question very seriously the boosting value of a ' I when it assumes the form of a deliberate wilful lie, and a base- . less fabrication. It is for this reason we take occasion to expose and deny a wicked v rumcr some person has been circulating, concerning the Flanders ;c j Ocean City's great community enterprise. The rumor has been circulated to the effect that J. Howard Slocum 1 has practically severed connections with the Hotel Corporation, and It : will not undertake the management when the structure is completed o I and reedy for occupancy. n

The author of the rumor presumably thought, knowing how the I public end particularly the stockholders, had grounded their faith in . I I the ultimate success of the undertaking, upon the fact that the hotel > | would be under Mr. Slocum 's management, his wilful perversion of' 1 1 the truth would prove a veritable coup de grace. Panic would seize the stockholders, and our esteemed friend would the satisfaction of wagging his wise head, and remarking oracularly "I told you so." Fortunately however, the rumor came to the ears of a Philadelphia gentleman, who is proud to be identified with Ocean City, ami its . enterprise, and through his kind offices we became acquainted } j with the baseless story. , j Now as a matter of fact, Mr. Slocum and the Flanders Hotel en- I terprise are so alosely related one to the other, that it ft practically impossible to think of either one apart from the other. ' M Mr. Slocum's name has become a synonym for the Flanders, and ( the other hand, a letter addressed to Mr. Flanders, Ocean City, .1 would infallibly reach the hands of Mr. Slocum. I Mr. Slocum for the present, lives for the Flanders. All his in- ' 4 are centered in the project. | Mr. Slocum is president of the ci. juration, and will be the man- 1 of the hotel as soon as opened to the public. If tfeere was as great a probability that the author of the rumor to the contrary, would e acquire the habit of telling the truth by the coming Bummer, as there c Is of Mr. Slocum being in management of the Flanders Hotel, his redemption would be assured.

Aa authority for our assertions we might quote z paragraph from . the most recent statement published by the directorate of the corpora- ' I tion. f! The operation of the hotel will be conducted by the Hotel Company under the management of J. Howard. Slocum, who for many years has been the manager of successful hotels. Mr. i Slocum's experience of nine years at the Hotel Marie Antoinette, New York City, and seven years at The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., where he made many friends and a permanent following assures the success of this great entf rprize. Mr. Slocum organized and opened The Greenbrier and ,j successfully managed it for seven years. Under Mr. Slocum's administration The Greenbrier was brought to a position of I prominence second to none in the hotel world, and known among the tourists as one of the finest kept and best operated hotels ; ; in America. While there, Mr. Slocum met and cared for asj' exclusive a clientele as any hotel can ever expect to have. The proof of Mr. Slocum's satisfying a most exacting clientele is i in the fact that his patrons return year after year, and that The Greenbrier grew in patronage and popularity during the ! years of his management. Work proceeds rapidly in the construction of the hoteL The steel framework of the Fifth and the Sixth stories is nearing completion)! and the piling being laid for the stores and the swimming pool. The plumbing contractors are on the ground, laying down the ' sewer facilities. I Thedirectors have uwurded practically all contracts, so that no delay may (^experienced as each part is completed. The contract for kitchen equipment has been awarded to Messrs.! Cladd & Company, Philadelphia; for refrigerating machines to the I Mark Machinery Co. of Atlantic City; for refrigerator boxes, to John 1 Pivezey of Philadelphia. The contract for all internal furnishings has been awarded to the ' well-known firm of John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia, at a said sum to exceed $100,000. I And be it added, J. Howard Slocum is daily on the ground super; vising all details. ( ^ j |

Reminisence Of A Visit To London From The Pen Of Mrs. T. Dowdney Clark " INTERESTING RESUME OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND'S 0 GREAT CATHEDRALS AND ORGANS. SHREWD, BUT KINDLY THOUGHTS RELATIVE TO MEN AND THINGS f

h Mrs. T. Dowdney Clark's letter, n containing her impression- of England. ami of England's capita! has Several reader? have expressed themselves eager to read what n Sir-. Clark thought of the land < and the people who are related to ii us by a thousand ties, and yet are 1 „ so dissimilar. As in all previous letters, the 1 reailer will find in the acc mpanjV ] ^ tag one, some delightful human ■ , Human interest makes 3 strong : j- appeal upon the writer, and her observations of men and w omen, with/ their peculiarities and idiosyncrar ' I ies are always charmingly sympa- 1 1 thetic and kind. i t Mrs. Dowdney Clark is one of 1 | those rare writers, who is gifted c with the power of faithfully ana- , lyzing human character with all t ' its vlnrine inponomitie- w-irbont . glaring incongruities

F being cynical, or censorious. d.; As a traveler moreover, MYs. ie Clark saw behind bricks and stone, the motives and the impulses I which actuated the builders, for which reason her letters are valu- ^ able contributions to epistolary lite Editor Sentinel:— In this, mf third special letter, . I will try to write about London. But when I think of it 1 hesitate, because being the largest city in the world, how can T in a few letters do it justice; its immensity : and its history: its great buildings. 1 ■j I will therefore just write of!' . what I saw and heard on the way. 1 t London, as we view it, is particu- 1 lar'y the creation of the present ; time, showing very few traces in- . deed of the antique yesterday, to : I I j which it belongs. In the sixteenth !c j century it really consisted of the r j little cities of London ami West- v I minister. ! Back in 1135, Saxon London fell c to the flames, while the Great Fire I ! of 1666, completely erased a great , 1 number of the old land marks. The |

e system of building leases makes I London really reconstruct itself, f " about once a century, though of \ j course this is not everywhere at f i the same time. % i This trip was my fifth one to t j London. Twice while I was there c 1 before, the fog was simply terrible t for awhile, and once I could not i see my hand before my face. All c . traffic was suspended, anil I sat for nearly an hour in a cab before \ ;it was safe to go on, but oh! when I. the sun does shine over there how i it glorifies everything, and how h . England becomes. » This time however, (with the '' exception of one day), the weather ' was very bad, rainy and cold, and » 1 hotel seemed positively chilly, k , and the bed chamber like tombs. 1 ' Americans felt these conditions but our English cousins T ! thought it quite all right, because ; P they are not accusomed to as much ja C We gadded just the same how- j w j ever, trying to make each day | C count in sight-seeing. j t» I spoke to the manager of ourjp!

V hotel about having a little fire in - the grate in my room. He laughs ed and said. "Why of course you , can have that, but for Heaven's I sake. Mrs. Clark, don't ask for a t private l«ith room because most. a room with bath, and we haven't t enough to go around. You folks must 1* forever bathing in your' s country, and 1 can't for the life of -. me sec where you look any cleaner i then we English do." We laughed together over that, and 1 readily t admitted we didn't. However he saw that I had a i nice cozy little open grate fire - j every night, and I studied, -tread and wrote up to the small in much comfort, all for the r trifling, extra sum of thirty-five I cents per night. - On Sunday a number of us at-; ! titer tlilisv find fnnnit i« ! it Abhev. and found crowded |

with people. 'We heard an excel- ' s. the light of the world." My atis tuition was somewhat diviiled how- , ( >r ever, by a funny looking, but very | 1- well dressed old gentleman, w-ho; t- was sitting directly in front of me. ; , He was totally oblivious of his;, surroundings, so interested was he! J V in what the minister was saying,' L and about every two minutes he ! would ejaculate in a low. but very 1 ' t audible ami fervent tone, such - words as "bless the Lord" "that's' f my sentiment," "Thank God for j ■ the truth." "Never knew it to fail"/ f "Hallelujah!" "Saved a sinner like / . me," "glory, we must be lights in 1 1 ■'the world" and so on. i Now as a Methodist minister's '.daughter. I was used to the ejacu>j part, but when that was nci by stroking his hair and grubbing his chin, the combination unusual, and very funny and soon I was wholly absorbed in the old man. His ilaughter sat beside 1 him, and gave him many sly little • digs in the ribs, and twice I heard whisper "Oh father, do stop."

without success, for be never 1 her punches or heard her What characters one meets going along the path of life; one thing certain, that old man absorb- - ed the whole kernel of divine truth that morning, and 1 came to real- ' ~ • ize as never before, what the word ! concentration meant. 1 always love going through Westminster Abbey, the earliest beginnings of the Abbey are lost iin legend. Its present greatness ; is due to the piety of Ed- . ward the Confessor, whose building was finished A. D. 1065. Henry commenced the present building A. D. 1245 and successive) 1 carried on the great work. 'It is in Westminster Abbey that ' .Britian's Monarch.- are crowned. , building and the Houses of j certainly loom grand 1 and big before the eye. St. Paul's ' 'Cathedral is simply magnificent. It , 1 built to the design of Sir 1 I Wren, the first stone I laid in 1675. It is the burial j place of many noted men, and also

(ontains memorials t,i the Duke of t Wellington, ami I.ord Nelson. Here we heard "Big Ben" clang: out its ponderous tones, as it ' struck the hour. g I visited the Temple Church also.' r which is one of the circular j ^ churches built by the Knights of Templars in the 12th century, for/ the protection of the pilgrims to' * the Holy Land. The circular chair " el remains, but the rest is entirely I ' rebuilt. 1 certainly enjoyed going/ through the magnificent Roman/ n Catholic Cathedral of Westmin- - U The beautiful St. Edward's Tow- / •s er. which rises to the lofty height j 1 of two hundred and eighty-four/ .( feet, has in the Cross at its sum- 1 ,1 mit a relic of the Holy Cross. ) 't I wish I hail more time to dess cribe theso buildings, and what ' r they contain. From an architvc « >f tural standpoint the.v are superb. » r In all the cathedra!- of Europe and -- ■I the British Isles. I found magnifi- ' y cent organs, in fact after having - lieen in forty-three cathedrals, and hearing .as many organs played, .» e it seems to me the organ in St. \ I. Peter's Cathedral in Rome in the t II most powerful, though. 1 e I never shall forget the Sunday / c morning in Piza. Italy. We arriv l ed at the cathedral when evidently jl /the "organist was an a rampage" r as one tourist expressed it. 1 t '' i know it seemed as if the power in j that organ would nearly shatter < e the building, and fell the worship- , t ' pers. besides splitting one's " car j j * I drums, but it didn't and 1 am still i t H living to tell the tale. / 5 1 For sweetness an.l beauty of j " I tone. I love the organs of Sans t jSupice Cathedral, in Paris, and t !ithe Cathedral in Antwerp. Of I ' course we took in Buckingham George IV. King Edward VIII carried out t ■ many important improvements, I jand it has been entirely tefrontcd i

1 The state apartments simply magnificent. : . :. James' Palace is the roy|, t residence of H. R. H. the Pri„„ of Wales, and it was erected bi , the celebrated Dutch artist. Ham r Holbein. The King holds his levie, r here for the Diplomatic Corp- an< rl the Army and Navy. / Writing of St. James' Place, re - minds me that naturally, <d a«ke< ' "'any questions about the Kin, : and Queen, and particularly about 1 the Prince of Wales, who seetni - so popular. I asked people in diff erent walks of life, so as to get . an all around viewpoint, and I I t heard nothing but their praiseei r sung every time, and they seemed - 1m? immensely proud of their i I had great fun one afternoon, [ armed with a note book and pen- - cil. climbing up on top of busier . going different routes. Whenever I i saw I could, get near the driver 1 i ■ him a good tip ami got loads ' i I rixle until I thought I couldn't . stand the jolt another minute, but ■ when by nightfall I had ridden on ( different busses and at last arrived at my hotel, I had a note ■ book nearly full of information; so ■ 1 felt amply repaid for a stiff and ■ I lame body. ' You know when you want anything in this world you have to 1 go right after it. One poor ' elderly soul 1 met. who was a tourist like myself said to me, "1 ' made a great mistake in not taking this trip when I was well and strong am! younger. I kept putting it off ami now 1 get so ; tired looking and hearing explanations. thai all I can think of in a ' littk? whil" is just my weariness." I told he: I would only take the automobile trips, and very short v - Ik-, but I thought, perhaps it is •• . '.'.:e lie.-t thing if 'tis possible, • ff a long planned trip too long through physical or mental : infirmities it may be too late for i one to enjoy it, or death may come Continued on Page Five

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