OCEAN CITY SENTINEL, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 19-23 — — ^

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THURSDAY. MARCH 15, 1923 Estend >t thv Port OSco oi Owm City. N. J-. »• -coni cUm moll ■»«•». • THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL Prof. James M. Steven* superintendent of public schools, carries a beaming smile around these .lays, and an air closely resembling the ! -conquering hero" variety. Well Indeed he might, for thi* week he has seen the fruit* of two J years of diplomatic campaigning, in behalf of the children of the tlty. , Ocean City will In. the not distant future have a High School an.l educational plant, to the value of half a million dollars. An ocean front hotel, costing "in the neighborhood of (1.490,000. and a school of I the above mentioned value, are no small achievement* in one year for a city of its permanent population. Both structures will be of rare architectural beauty, and adornments to the city, in addition to their strictly utilitarian worth. Prof. James M. Stevens is to be congratulated. Committed hody and sold to the future well-being of our children, and through them to the future of Ocean City, (because no city can rise higher that the intellectual and educational .status of it* children), the worthy educator has waged a heroic fight, not so much against active opposition, perhaps, as against civic inertia. We take pleasure moreover in congratulating Prof. Stevens upon the manner in which he has conducted his campaign. Throughout his patiencr has equalled his tenacity. With rare tatt and defflomacy, he has never allowed a favorable opportunity to advocate his cause escape him, stooping never to trick or subterfuge, but appeal ing always to the good sense, and the finer instincts of the cltisens of the community. We take pleasure further, in congratulating the members of the Board of School Estimates upon their constructive and truly states manlike policy. They have adopted a comprehensive program deserving of universal commendation. When it became known that the contract tenders amounted to more than a hundred thousand dollars above the appropriation, to be perfectly frank, many strong advocates of a new school, entertained grave fears concerning the ultimate fate of the project. No person thought for a moment the project would even for a ' Mason be abandoned. But fears were expressed that certain featur- - es included in the very beautiful design created in the fertile brain of the architect, Mr. Vivian Smith, would be eliminated, and other expedient** adopted, in order to bring the cost of the structure within hailing distance of the appropriation. Nor were the fears without foundation apparently. If rumors may be credited, it was suggested that the swimming pool and tlie gymnasium might he eliminated, and that other economies, such as the use of inferior materials, might be adopted. We cannot help but expressing our admiration therefore, of the courage and statesmanship displayed by the Board of School Estimates. As a matter of fact expediences of the character suggested, though they bear on the fact of them an aspect of wise economy , are of the very essence of waste ami extravagance. So many popie apparently fall to realise that the school curricula of the present age demands a very highly specialised and scientifically constructed plant. IT* school curricula of today could no mere he taught in the little red school house, than swimming can be taught in nn attic bedroom.

The Board of School Estimates therefore are to be congratulated in having departed from the old traditions, and in having committed (themselves to the building of a school plant which will reflect credit upon the city, and be equal to it* needs for years many to come. The elimination of the swimming pool and the gymnasium would be nothing short of a crime. There are some of course who deplore th# Importance attache I to athletics, ami physical training, in the present day school, ami regard them as luxuries if not folly. Five minute*' conversation with a reptuable educator will convince the critic* of the fact, that ho much attention is devoted today to physical training and athletics, as a very necessary means of preserving the physical stamina of the child, under the exeesaant nervous strain, and expenditure of nervous energy, entailed by the intensive studies of the present day curri, ula. The upkeep of a half million dollar school plant will, of course, impose very bunions upon the community. Ferad venture this will prove a gracious ministry and a real blessing in disguise. The burden of maintaining a first-class iastitotioB, devoted to the cultivation of the finer instincts, devoted to art* and letters, has saved many a city from being helplessly engulphed in sordid materialism. This is a peril which threatens every community, experiencing a period of great prosperity. The people become money-mad, to use a colloquialism. Signs are not wanting even in Ocean City, of perils immanent. It would seem a* if the only thing worth living for is "p utting across a big deal." Arts and letters are at a discount, the aesthetic side of our community life hanger* and thirsts almost to complete exhaustion. It would seem aa if we possess only one standard of meaurement* with which to guage the progress of the city. — increased values, r . Even our prescriptive virtue* as a city, among other cities, are otpitahzen in terms of marfcbt prices. A stranger might I* inclined to conclude that we are proud of the city's moral tone, and reputation, its fame as a temperate. Sabbath -observing city, not for the sake cf those virtue* in themselves, but for the. service they have done, and are noing. in alluring people here to purchase our houses and lands. Camouflaged it as we may, the petil is immanent, and. as said; the burden of maintaining the new school may prove a valuable counter-irritant, and an unmixed blessing in disguise, j? Prof. Stevens and the members of the Board of School Estimates have made provision in the plans for its development into a real community center, capable of supplying the city with some of its j mast urgent Reeds. For one thing it will include an auditorium capable of seating 12.000 people, with stage appointments suitable for the presentation of all forms of entertainments, musical, literary, or dramatic of modest pretensions. Thi* ti one of the crying need* of the city. The Chamber of Commerce has one committee through ; which it cannot possibly function— the Committee on Conventions. There is only one convention the city could entertain as at pre sent situated, that of the Heroes of the Revolutionary War. Furthimnrc, the library, the swimming pool, ami the gymnasium, will be at the rerviee, not only of the students, but the entire community. Finally the new High School will provide all facilities for the State Summer School. It may be that the average person does not

realise tHff publicity and the prestige Ocan City derives from it* Ijummer School. _ — . The students ore drawn from almost every state in the Union, and are eminently of that class of people who, returning to their • respective homes, will proclaim the virtues of Ocean City as an ideal _ " vacation resort, among the very class of people we desire to have a* visitors. By virtue of their intellectual and social standing in their respective communities, tliese student* will reach the most desirahv T clientele, as no other form p ( publicity and advertisement can A school of Its character, or a college, were it never so small an.l unimportant scholastically, add* a dignity and prestige to a city money cannot huy It introduces the name of the city into circle? ' w hich rnnnot -lie reached by any other means. FOUR - — — si oners of Ocean City, N. J.,

TAKE ("ARE OF THE BOY. THE MAN WILL TAKE CARE OF HIMSELF. f The above paraphrase of an old proverb relating to pennies and dollars, has 'become (he slogan of the age. Not a day too soon have legislators, sociologists, and educators, come to realize that the boy I problem has t«comc one of the most serious confronting the age. The ! enormous increase of delinquency among boys of the teen age. th« n I w ide-sprea.1 scale of pornographic fiction, the fold emanations of f j minds wallowing in sexual putrescence and the exhibition of certain class of moving pictures, which are no other than a subtle glorification of crime ami lawlessness, are making, in the words of one educator of national fame, "the duty of raising children the most difficult and heart-breaking of all duties incident to mmiern life."' y The problem is being made trebly .lifficult and embarrassing. , ix-cause of the vast amount of idle theorising, and hollow religious p cant that is being introduced into the discussion. Pedants may pile . our literary shelves with volume after volume of psychological dissertations upon the subject, and moralists may prate all they will about the "all-sufficiency of Divine Grace;" as a matter of fact. i theories avail nothing unless they dovetail with experience, ami no I ( buy will be induced to test the "all-sufficieiicy" of "divine grace." un- | less he finds unmistakable evidences of it* ! "deficient influence in _ the life an.l conduct* of the men who preach and advocate it. The boy problem is a man's problem, a he-man of the calibre of s W. J. Strandurtx, who appeared before the Kiwania Club ami advocated with the convincing eloquence of experimentation, the virtue* r of the Boy Scout Movement, as an agency of boy culture— a means . of making good manly men ami citixetis often out of very unpromis- _ ing boy .material. When will governments, and legislators, devote as much time j ami money to the breeding of good men, as they do to the breeding s of good hogs? If a disease broke out among hogs in any part of the I country tomorrow, in less than forty-eight hours, the entire machinery federal and state governments would he on the spot in an > effort to save the hogs. An epidemic among the children of a eom- - munity would hardly command attention outside of the county. Hogs i are evidently more valuable than men, for hogs mean dividends. r Mr. Strandwitx. in offering a strong belief in support of the " Scout movement, spoke from experience. The Scout movement has unquestionably proved one of the most valuable corrective, edueas tional. and men-making agencies ever applied to boy life. It em5 braces all the virtues of the Boy Brigade movement, without the ob- ' jectionable feature of nascent militarism, and a score more of its ; ( own. As a Scout, the boy is trained in the most effective manner , e conceivable to submit to authority. He is taught to appreciate the - value of discipline. He is encourage,! to participate in out-door , sports. A love for nature, and the lower orders of life are fostered s by the knowledge of nature's complex operations, and the habits of lesser life. The Scout is given some training in a dosen of the in- » dust rial art*, which he will find useful in later life. He is warned - against the permieiou* effects of vice open and secret; taught to resJ pert the law and the institution* *f hi* country. Quite an extensive , 8 knowledge of civics forms a part of his scout education. Above all In the varied interests of the Scout Movement, .he is provide,! with a i natural outlet— a safety vahie if you please— for superfluous phyi sieal energy, which without. ' would invariably lead to infinite less! t worthy practices and habits. Unconsciously the member* of a troop develop* among them- j I selves a fine quality of esprit de corps. Each boy feels he is the; 8 custodian of the troop's honor, and they of their own will, without; f instruction, will eliminate all undesirable out of the rang*. c A sounder foundation for the building of a manly character could j ' not be laid. ' An effort is bring made, we learn. to establi*h the Scout Move- 1 f ment here in Ocean City. The cit, could not lend it* support, mora! j 1 and financial, to a more patriotic object. If nothing else, it will tend 1 to prevent much ,.f the rowdyism, and the wicked destruction of pro- : perry, the like of which has been repeatedly complained of thi* winter. , Incidentally, too, we have learned that an attempt to develope the j Scout Movement here in Ocean City was made several years ago. 1 Why did it fail? Probably Mr. Strandwitx unconsciously diagnose j the cause of failure in his address. ' . , l:.., *k, ■

' There is only one way of helping the boys of a community, the way Mr. Strandwitx and his co-workers have followed in Camden. t The people of Camden evidently believe their boys are worth i r saving, ami are not reluctant to spend money toward that end. . Imagine an appeal bring made to the members of the Rotary Club j alone for the vast sum of (20.000 towards making good citizen* out "f of its boys. Half measures, aryj a lukewarm patronizing support, R will avail nothing. The boys will not respond to formal patronage.. a If they are not convinced that the men behind the movement are absolutely devoted and sold to their welfare, and are not lending the prestige of their names to the mowment, merely for social uggran- * disement— the cheapest of all form* of advertisement— they will not warm up to it. To succeed in Ocean City, the Scout Movement obviously needs a brother, or at least a cousin, of the man, who headed the movement in Camden. Purthermore, a* Mr. Strandwitx very clearly Indicated, the leaders of any boy organization, call it what we will, must be men whom ^ j the boys may look up to as moral, ideals, who the boys may in a r boy's way. lionize and copy. Be it remembered, the average boy is a severe critic. He is ini_ srinctively censorious. He has not learned yet th art of compromise to the extent of hi* seniors, and any moral lapse on the part of the ,s men who profess to be hi* mentors and guides, is vxited with sum- ^ mary condemnation. Ie The counsel, "do as I tell you to do, ami not as I do" the boy v. will not tolerate. The imitative faculty is developed to the highest i, degree, the reasoning faculties are in process of awakening, conse•h j quentlv he will not tolerate a hero with feet of clay. Givri the support of men of Integrity, who are not afraid to ' 8- spend a dollar or a thousand if needs be, and the Scout Movement r- itself has sufficient in it to oommand the undivided allegiance of the iU boy, and make of his a fine specimen of manhood. An Eagle-Scout, y. the highest honor that can be conferred upon the members of a troop, >e constitutes the very finest type of manhood and citizenship to he deotjamd. _ - \ ' a *. 1

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MASHINGTON GAMP CELEBRATES ITS 21ST ANNIVERSARY — ; t Splendid Program of Music And * Literary Entertainment With Refreshments . 1 This week Washington Camp ; : No. 75, of the Patriotic Order of c ' the Sons of America, will attain • unto it* majority. Twenty-one j , years of real patriotic service in v the community constitutes a splen- , ' Although the Camp has not* fig- : [ ured in any spectacular manner be- j i fore the public, its service has t*en : . i mine the less valuable. In fact ' ( it* service to the city has been aH c the more valuable because through ; : the years of its existence it has al- i r ' *• ays stood faithful in its alle- j > ( fiance to the principles which eon- , . ■ stitule American democracy. Free ! ; , ' .lorn of religion, without the tyran- | ny of the priest, Bible, the flag, and . i r Protestant Christianity, these are < 1 the cardinal principle* for which i f the order stands. Through the twenty-one years of I it* history who can tell what ser- . vice the Camp has done, if only in _ the education of it* young men in | those things which make good dti1 Friday, March 23rd, Washington ■ ; Camp No. 75, will celebrate its an-_

; niversary and coming of age. in .n j f fitting manner. j I1 A spleudid program of musical and literal;, entertainment lias f i been arranged, one which promis- " e» to tie of a high order of merit. Vocal .-olos will 1* rendered by ; Dr. J. Thoroley Hughes, and Lewis Candy. Those whe have heard these vocalists anticipate pleasing f I selections. Instrumental music will be pro- j ^ ! vi.led by an orchestra, which also j f promise* to he of unusual merit, j Mr*. Nickerson will Al heard in't one of her clever readings. j { A humorist, by name Mr. Sharp,; j ' also scheduled to appear. Those j who have heard Mr. Sharp before i declare his contribution to the pro- ; gram will' more than repay the j ' j price charged for admission. j v Lastly, but by no means least in ' i interest, Roy E. Darby and Lewis' : ' are booked to appear in a ; 1. comedy sketch. The Histrionic j . abilities of these two comedian*; needs no introduction in Ocean ■ City. More than one entertain- i j ment in the past have been saved •I from failure with their clever im-. • J personations ami light comedy. It 1 hi* stated that -their sketch for the i coming anniversary Is one of the i ; best in their repertoire. In addition the program incluile* ' r several . speakers wro will address j . the gathering. i ; Following the entertainment re- i I I fre.shments will lie served. The - 1 ifcmir.a! charge of 35c will be made ! | for admission, tickets being on sale ; l j by ali members of the Camp. Re- j -j member the date, and be on hand ,

a splendid evening at > .."clock j 1 i prompt in the Hann Building. The committee in charge of af- I fair* are Messrs. Bakelev. Pileggi CANDIDATES FOR EXAMINATION Announcement Is made to the effect, that there are fourteen apj plicants for the examination, to be ! held Saturday, for the position of j mail carrier. j The report i* made upon the auIthority of the local secretary of I the- civil service board, Parker j Miller. W. A. Dresser, the representati ve ; of a New York newspaper, wa* a ; visitor during the week. CITY OF OCEAN CITY. N. J NOTICE TO C ONTRACTORS CONTRACT No. 737-B Sealed bids or proposals will lie receive.! by the Board of Coram!*- f

t sio.ien. ». u.™. «. j., at offices of the said Conitmv,,i0— ' in the City Hall, Ocean City, N j flnrch 20th, 1923, at the hoUr 0J ; d.00 P. M„ for the building ajy, construction of a frame l«ailtjjtJ_ located between 5th Street and Jij Street, cast of Atlantic Avenue, jj .the City o^ Ocean City, N. J„ described it. lie specifications. All bids must be made on tie forms provided, cover all it^ , ..ntainrd therein ami be accomp**. ied hy cash or check certified by a New Jersey Bank or Trust Coa puny, in the sum of (250.00, pa, | aide to the City Treasurer sf , Ocean City, N. J., without coo* tion. A certificate from a sad* factory Surety Company, coveria, the demand* of the specification must lie attached to the bidding beet. The successful bidder vii! i Ik- required to -furnish within to 1 1 10) .lays from the date of the r award, u satisfactory Surety oi J Guaranty Company Bond, in U* sum of the full amount - of & award, conditioned for the faithful performance of the contract, pop ment of ail bills ami wages, aw will also he required to save th City of Ocean City, N. J., harm- : less from all actions-at-iaw, M ; otherwise, and hy virtue of the Emjployees Liability Act of the Stat* | of New Jersey, or any other tct ' pertaining to the employees « _ ; laborers, by giving Surety Cob-

pany Bond or Insurance. The entire work will !* can? pleted by the 15th day of Jot, i IMS. The Board of Comniissionen reserve the right to reject any « all bids or to waive any infer- ; nullity in any hid. , Plan- ami - specifications ran W obtained from the City Clerk I; [ depositing (10.00. r Dried March 5, 1923. Everton A. Corson, Director of Public Works. r IV m. H. Collison, Jr., ' City Engineer. Harry A. Morris, City Clerk. —Adv. 1-g, k Matthew Savage REAL ESTATE n 805 Third Street OCEAN CITY, N. J.

BEAR IX MIND THF, FACT " j IB 'h»t your estate will he safeguarded — have the very best ' ' IU] attention and rare when you place it hi the hands of the j i H FIRST NATIONAL BANK a* your executor. Now is a good time to consult us about it. I First National Bank ! g OCEAN CITV'.N.J. |

A MATTER OF "WILL" Why not make a simple will? — appoint an efficient executor— and your estate will be disposed of as you "will it." The Ocean City Title & Trust Company would be glad to act as your Executor. SC. Interest Paid on Time Deposits OCEAN CITY TITLE & TRUST CO. Ocean City, N. J.

Ewing T. Corson REALTOR 7S7 ASBURV AVE QCIAN CITY, N.J.

•All business transacted through this office is in aomrdance '"thth • following Slogan "This office does and mam.a.ns strict I» . i, I broking ' business and is in no way interested in personal »p<<riri^. R-M« . A Rale completed on the above-prwpipal profits both Seller and Mj* Write for listings and maks your headquarters with I Clayton Haines Brick REALTOR 111 EIGHTH ST. OCEAN CITV N.J.

ji MONEY TO LOAN ON MOHTQAOE I No waiting for two weeks to know if you can get it; we ran ttn« I once. Bargains in Bay and Ocean front properties. Choice cottagez » . I sale. Also lota for Investment and for improvement— the cwncs ■ ! Ocean City. Apply to J. M. CHESTER & CO, Ocean City. HA

GENERAL HAULING Sand Gravel Top Soli WM. HAYES, 233 A.bury Ave. the Whole Dinner Hot . Thtt*i bee* ota ill the heat it retained andpat to wort Mm no other m,,.. bickuh^, fcr d» nc *£»£ "th™" . , . &«L not rad, > City Gas Light Co. 839 ASBURY AVENUE