OCEAN CtTV HENTTNF.I, THURSDAY. APRIL 19, 1923

r yyuiv Oce an City Sentinel Printed end PoLUihed Ererj Tkureder K " OCEAN CITY PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO. Sentinel BnUdins. 744-74, Aebnry Avenue. Oeenn Citr. N. J.. Telephone 1IS-J P. J. EVANS, Editor LEWIS L. BARRETT. Cenerel Bueineee Meneier Thie Company merrtri the rliht to reject eny edrartMnc. ^ ^ rhte rule will be etrictly adhered to. Job work promptly done by experienced handa. ■J THURSDAY. APRIL 19, 1923 OUR FIRST CONVENTION During the coming month Ocean City will commence its career as a convention city. i This announcement was ma.le at the last meeting of the Chamber , of Commerce, when the Information was volunteered, that sixty men | would meet here in conference for a week, prior to the Northern Bap- , tist Convention to be held in Atlantic City. Th$ importance of this pre -convention gathering may not have , dawned fully upon those who heard the announcement. The fact l that the visitors will number at the most, about sixty persons may , have appeared insignificant and hardly deserving of the name con- , vention. But it should be explained that the sixty represent practically every State in the Union. Moreover, they represent the strongest v denomination numerically in America. <• Furthermore, the sixty persons aia the leading factors and the executive officers of the said denomination. They practically guide „ and govern the actions of the body and on their recommendation the n place of meeting for the national convention is selected. t From time immemorial, the Northern Baptist Convention has c been held in different parts of the country', an effort being made to t arrange the place of meeting in the East and the West, North and t South, in alternating years. South,

During the post few years the convention has been held in Cleveland, Atlantic City, Buffalo, Denver, Col. It returns for the second time within the space of a few years to Atlantic City. The sentiment has been growing among the leaders of the denomination, in favor of selecting two permanent meeting places for the convention, one in the east, the other in the west. The convention has grown to such proportions that few cities can conveniently accommodate it. To hundreds of laymen and ministers, the ten days of the convention constitutes the only vacation they are able to take during the year. This is particularly true of the delegates coming from rural sections of the different states, occurring as it does before the heavy duties of summer harvesting begin. Preparations are made through the Spring for attending the convention, the trip anticipated with eager delight. Thousands of laymen and as many ministers attend the convention annually, for part or the entire period. In view of this fact, Atlantic (Sty is being considered as one of the permanent places of assembly. There is a feeling prevailing however, that Atlantic City, is not the most desirable place for a religious convention. The pavilion on one of, the piers provides ample room, but not an ideal environment for the convention. Among the leaders who are acquainted with Ocean City, the conviction has been growing that it would be the ideal place. It provides sufficient novelty and interest in its natural surroundings , to make an ideal vacation, particularly for the vast majority of delegates coming from inland city and rural districts, and not too much to detract from the appeal of the convention and its purposes. A suitable convention hall and suitable hotel accommodations only are necessary. By next summer, when the High School with its spacious auditorium is completed and the Flanders Hotel operating, together with the large number of avenue hotels which may be opened in time, Ocean City will be in a position to invite the Northern Baptist Convention for 1925. No question can be entertained but what the character and reputation of Ocean City, will appeal to the leaders of the denomination, before they have been long in the city. The importance of this small p re-con vention gathering, for which • oc iropuiuuMT oi uus smaii pre-convemion gauienng, lor wnien

Dr. Milton Buck and Clayton Haines Brick are making arrangements, to be entertained here during the coming month, can be readily appreciated. The sixty comprise the leaders of the denomination. By their recommendation the parent body will be guided in its selection of future meeting places. If as suggested then the city will tender an official reception and entertainment as suggested it will obviously impress them in our favor. COURTESY IN HUMAN AFFAIRS ! IS IT A LOST VIRTUE ? A group of business men of the Kiwanis pursuaaion. were seated around the breakfast table in a northern city hotel. Out of that meeting sprang a movement which has spread over the United States and Canada, and seems destined to heconie an International institution. The hostelry in question was respectably its appointments comfortable, the food good and properly prepared. But it was served with so market! an absence of any thing bordering upon common courtesy, that the party entered into a general discussion concerning the value of courtesy in business. One of the party conceived the idea, that it would he a good thing if the one thousand Kiwanis Clubs througout the nation, undertook to sponsor the setting apart of a week, to be known as Courtesy Week, in which to emphasise the worth of courtesy in the common affairs of every day life. Kiwanix International, adopted and endorsed the suggestion, to the end that the present week is being observed in every city where there is a Kiwanis Club, as Courtesy Week. The time is opportune, and the effort worthy; for courtesy is fast becoming a lost virtue among English speaking races. Someone has said that "the decadence of courtesy among people in the common walks of life, is inseparable from a highly developed form of democracy and and that the most democratic people are the 'east courteous." The writer who is a man of extensive travel, furnishes an interesting catalog of the nations with which he has hail personal experience. Curiously enough we find that the nations which prior to the war were considered the most autocratic in their forms of government, are mentioned as excelling in courtesy, while the nations enjoying the most democratic government, England and America, are the lowest in the degree of comparison. Although an American, able to trace his lineage back to the Mayflower pioneers, the writer is compelled to admit he finds less courtesy practiced in his own country, than in any other. II true it is an indictment calling for immediate attention end' reformation. It may be of course readily seen how a false and foolish ! interpretation of the spirit of democracy, bow a stupid and illogical !

application of the principles of democracy, may lead to the desuitude; of epurtesy. It is not difficult to imagine how n certain /type of mentality and ! tcmpcrment, will act under a distorted conception of the basic principle of the American Constitution, the equality of all men before the ~ law. Says John Smith: "Don't our glorious COntitoosion say ax all men ix equal? 'Course it does, then why in Sam Hill should I kowtow to any guy? Not me— no sir-^-e." r. This may be an c uggcrated case, |^\-crthele.-s it enables us. ■• after the manner medical men do in the case of disease, to study the minor symptoms of the delusion in the light of it. Mr. Smith makes the common error of confusing politeness ami servility. A person may be polite without being senile, courteous and absolutely free from sycophancy. In fact the most courteous man is the most manly r> |>e of male, ami the most courteous woman the most womanly type of female; whereas the sycophant of both gondei is a hypocrite. r Because all men aic equal, it gives them no warrant to lie booruncouth ami rude. Rather the know ledge that all men arc equal, i r should create in nil a clearer conception of the essential dignity of : 1 nature, ami foster in logical sequence a deeper reverence and | ' respect for human nature. -O Another sweeping assertion made by the writer before quoted ish ' not so easily explained. He declares that the most highly educated . i ■ and civilized races, arc the most discourteous, while obversely, the j ' r nations supposedly low in the scale of learning and civilization, are the 1 ' most courteous. In proof he compares the Chinese with American-, ami the natives- of India with their rulers the British people. Here however the writer is perhaps in error, and has fallen a 1 victim to the besetting sin of unconsciously "begging the question and I confusing the truth to defend an hypothesis." Arc the Chinese essentially courteous and polite. We are well! acquainted of courso with their elaborate ceremonial forms of address 1 , and speech. But may it not he that the Chinaman speaks and acts'; thus, because he knows no other way, and is blindly following the - conventions of the race to which he belongs. .It must be remembered : that the Chinaman speaks and acts just as politely and courteously, ' to the man ho is about to assasinate, as to his closest friend. ( The fact of the matte ris we are under no necessity to copy other , rVUIV ; — : " t ....Arm .

-- nations, hut we are sadly in need of reviving the art of practicing a d little more courtesy in the common uffaire of life, nor should educn- ; >t tion and learning make us less pleasing to associate with, than semi- «" civilized and illiterate races. * If it is the truth that less courtesy is practiced among the Anglo- ° Saxon race, than less favored people, it is certainly not due to their: ° greater learning. Education should make gentlemen, n When all excuses and apoligies are said however, the truth rer- mains, there is far too little courtesy infused into the daily round of life. The experience with which the Kiwanians met in that northern >" city hotel, is by no means an isolated instance. In the modern store, goods are almost thrown at you. Seldom e can a store assistant be found who will put himself or herself, to a ' trifling inconvenience to accommodate you. In attending to your - wants, they deport themselves as if it were beneath their dignity to attend to you, and you should consider it a great condesension on their f part. I In the office, courtesy is becoming as rare as the Dodo, ond cour- - tesy almost as extinct as as the Dinausurus. t Undoubtedly, the hurry and stress of modern life is to a measure accountable for this. Very little leisure is left for the common am- - enities of life. A smiling face and a courteous tongue, are difficult - to maintain with frazxled nerves. We arc too busy to be kind. J The period of unprecented prosperity which America has enjoyed - during thc last decade, is also unquestionably to he held responsible i in a large measure, that courtesy has almost become a lost virtue. To quote thc words of one who was perhaps more truthful than dis- : i creet, "You don't have to fuss with people to do business these days." j s Exactly, but none is oxkod to "fuss," but rather just be civil. On . , the other hand, be it remembered the offenders are not behind the : - counter or the desk. i Prosperity has begotten a certain quality of arrogance and domi- I neering insolence in customers, that they treat office and store at- j - tendants as if they were machines, operating for their benefiit, not , human beings with all of humanity's emotions, susceptibilities, and , sensitiveness. Which all goes to prove, despite our anti-Teutonic pre- i i judices, that there is a little Kaiser in thc weekest of us, and a bit of i judices, that there is little Kaiser in thc weekest ot and bit ot

, Prussian ism in alL Kiwanis International has acted wisely in soliciting the co-opera- J r tion of the Christian Church and pulpit. Christianity of all religions ( i is the most ethical. Courtesy Is one of Its cardinal virtues. Its ] ' Founder was the incarnation of courtesy. "He." said the French , ' sceptic, Ernest Re nan, "was the most perfect type of gentlemen the 1 world has ever known, thc purest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the pure." If it is true therefore that Americans practice less courtesy In the common affairs or life than any other people, it Is a fearful impeachment of the quality of our Christianity, wc who profess to be tlic most Christian nation on earth.

White House Doesn't I Tempt Mrs. Ford -I base no desire to live in the , White Hon*.", aays Mrs. Henry • FunVas4nterylewed bore about the liwllh nil 111 i hi for her husband. , "Moo»4tnow where ft surfed and 1*0 not wen interested." says Mr.

Misses Graduation to Attend Sick Cow SMI Otto Wenger, of Itoylestor. n. t'a_ t roar years ago an Immigrant to America, worked hard for grxrtna (ton clay at Axrleultural CoOege Thla row took sick ou the eventful j morning so OUo stayed wlih ber mi 's . til she was out of danger— -which was too late for htm to doc his new h*w*'^tittWn»«raceQlc pUffonn.

The Careless Smoker Given f A Severe Reprimanding By State Forester C. B. Wilber 1 ■ CARELESS SMOKERS SAID To BE CAUSE OK ONE-THIRD OI ? THE FOREST FIRES WHICH OCtTK ANNUALLY— K1WNAIS ,, CLUB WILL ATTEND FIRST M» 1- CHURCH SUNDAY t

I The careless smoker who pays i ; no attention ax to where he throws .'the lighted end of cigars or cigarettes, ax he tlrfvex along in his ' (automobile or tramps around the woods, wax severely brought t<« ■ i task by State Forester C. B. Wil- " I in a most interesting and inextractive address, delivered before . the Kiwanix Club nt their last noon I luncheon. The careless smoker, whether of I i the male or female species, is the I I direct cause of one-third oT the , | heavy toll of forest fires! which , from year to year. The reprimand was there though ' j couched in the most polite language possible. Mr. Wilbus is deepi j concerned over the rapid deI pletion of our forest lands, because : he understands ax only one who | has given the subject patient I thought and study can understand, Ithe heavy financial loss these fires! •ire to the couniry and to New ! Jersey, a state peculiarly well ad-! | npted t» he very productive in ! timber. He made a strong appeal to his. j to be extreemly careful of ""the disposal of lighted cigar ends

| and matches, as they passed thru [. j forest lands. j. ] State Forester Wilber began Lis | address by exhibiting several specimens of lumber grown in New.. '* I Jersey, showing the superior qualT | ity obtained from trees properly ! planted and protected over the lie1 glected kind. f Forestry, as Mr. Wilber clearly l proved, is a question of increasing n importance in a country where timj ber is in so great a demand. Lumn j her was one product for which no a j substitute had been discovered, r 1 Discussing the subject from four 0 angles of thought, (1) Recreation, (2) Timber Supply, (3) Local In-. * dustry, >4 ) the land itself, he proceeded to show how Uie state of - New Jersey was being affected by the depletion and particularly, the e neglect of its forest lands. i As Mr. Wilbur said the crux of tlfc whole problem is proper fire ' protection. Nkjmosl one-half of the land in 1 NewJeftwgjs forest land. Of this s two mill ion acres; nearly three- - fourths are now lying idle or almost so, because of past cutting , and forest fires. This idle land could all grow timber at a profit j 1 to .the owner and benefit to the ! ! State if, it were given protection from fire. Very little artificial planting or expensive treatment of any sort would be necessary to bring it back. ( 1 New Jersey now imports nine-, 1 tenths of the sawed lumber she _ ■ uses and two-thirds of all the for- • f est products used in the State each j [ est products useu in UK oun uui ; i|

year. In addition to the tremen-' dous export of money' for purchase ( price that this entails, Jerscymcn; ' pay not less than five million dol1 annually for freight charges i alone on imported timber. The for-! . est lands of the State, if protected j , from fire and brought back to pro- , ductivcness, could produce annually practically all of the timber need1 ed in the State at the present rate - of consumption. This could be act complished under fire protection in not over 25 years on piuch of the area, and in from 50 to GO years on the most backward areas; and meanwhile, the quantity of timber produced would be continually increasing and the necessary money export for timber from outside the I State would be reducing. ' "The product of the forest touches every individaul's life 1 1 every day. Timber in the whole ! I country is growing scarce. Under 1 1 present conditions New Jersey con- 9 sumers must import more and B more from the Pacific coast, or ? further and tie subject to both ■ high freight rates and rising prices 9 as timber exhaustion grows nearer I A home grown timber supply is a I good business proposition for the I State of New Jersey. The crux of 9 the problem is adequate fire pro- I taction. "Putting the forest land of the I State to work will mean providing I local timber production which we , I need, stimulating rural industrial!! (Jevelopment in the timber and 1 8 J woodworking industries, which will B be a real help to the State, using 9 vast areas that are how lying idle g , for productive purposes, and pro- fi viiling recreational facilities, which 1 B the Metropolitan nature of the'! State's population more and more p makes a necessity and which only X the forest can provide." * j The present week is being ob- B i 'served by Kiwanis International as fl "Courtesy Week." j , The suggestion was made that j I Handler make "Courtesy" the N * i subject of his discourse at the 1 1 ' Sunday evening service. Dr. Hnn-jfl

sidlcy consented, upon thc under- n x ' standing that the members of the date¥Trchesiral concert changed PROF. ROBINSON ELECTED TO' fe MEMBERSHIP. NATIONAL * ACADEMY OF MUSIC | , i Announcement was made in our, I last issue that "the Ocean City Or- 1 h chestral Society would give a first: i- class concert during the month ofj i- April. It aranspirex however, that Frie day. April 27th, the Sunday School I 0 of thc First Methodist Episcopal! t Church »tll present its annual in-' In view oKthi.x- fact therefore, j 1 thc Orchestral Society has decided - to postpone its concert until aj a week later and give it on May 4. The changed date may prove wise j s , in more than one respect, the j f weather by that time being probsjably a little more clement for aj -

i concert on the Boardwalk- Thc i extension of time will also permit , s the Orchestral Society to extend its j - program of classic and first class •' chamber music. Information comes to hand that: the director of the Orchestral So-! "iciety. Prof. Charles W. Robinson. 1 has been signally honored by being, ' elected to membership in the Unit'',de States National Academy of; " Music, New York. Only musicians of the highest. ' ! merit are admitted to this Acad- • emy, which has its headquarters i r. in Carnegie Hall. New York. VISITOR COMES TO STAY j f Information comes to hand that, ( a little visitor hax made her ap8 peaarnce at the home of Mr. and; j Mrs. J. Edward Voss. via the; f ■ Stork line, Inc. , Dr. Herschel Pettit was present as chairman of he recepion cotmmittec, the auspicious event taking; I place at Scotch Hall, Wednesday ; | night. ' -X Our informations adds that thc j ■ little lady tipped the beam at 8bi ; j ! pounds avoirdupous. Mrs. Voss, who is the daughter of City Commissioner W. H. Camp- . hell, is reported to be doing splenI I didly and baby as well. . Mr. -Voss is identified with the ( <• cial staff of the First Nationul ' and a highly esteemed resi-! ; i lent of this resort. ADVERTISE IN THE SENTINEL'

POSTMASTER SMITH SENDS RESIGNATION BUSINESS PRESSURE MAKES IT IMPERATIVE FOR HIM TO BE FREE MAY 1 Thc report that he had sent in resignation ax postmaster to thc Department at Washington, has been confirmed by B. Frank Smith. . Mr. Smith desires to relinquish ; all duties by May 1st. In anticipation of another iwstmaster being appointed. Mr. Smith had made exj connection with his business as a real estate broker. | Plans had been made in fuct, fully expecting he would be re-| I t

lieved of his duties as postal several months ago un®hr I reusing position, and he ha, i*' complied to sacrifice privBk> ' f™*1* in Preference to hi, o)T^! duties. nl0«l The time has arrived, how^. when Mr. Smith finds it imper"£ 1 to ^ frec to devote his entire^ 0 to his private office. '■ He has therefore communis with Washington rd,uestine tu he lie relieved by the first of toming mm. a Two-handed Eater " Doctor — "Hero, here, little W a You shouldn't be eating that cZ It's too heavy for you." • Boy— "Aw, I'm using both - 1 hands to hold it."

^ I A FIRM GRIP gj on the future is obtained by regular deposits with the I B First National Bank. It is possible for everyone to eul3',; Interest Paid on Savings Fund Accounts 1 First National Bank j.| OCEAN CITY,N:J.

A Bank Account for Every ( Little Boy Every little boy, as well as every big boy, should haw a bank account of his own. It instills saving ami promotes thrift, i New nccounts nre welcome and invited. 3% Interest Paid on Time Deposits * OCEAN CITY TITLE & TRUST CO. Ocean City, N. J.

< j ©cean City's Gburcbes First M. E. Church First Presbyterian Church Eighth Street and Central Avenue. Seventh Street and Wesley The Rev. Dr. John Handley, Avenue. Pastor. The Rev. Chas. F. N. Voegelin, Sunday sen-ices, 10:30 a. m. and Pastor. 7:80 p. m. Sunday School, 2:30 Morning worship P- m. Bible School 2:80 Mid-week prayer meeting. Wed- Friendship Bible Class for nesday, 7:30 p. m. Men 2:30 Mary of Bethany Bible Class for Women 230 (U Senior Christian Endeavor Intermediate Christian Endeavor 2s4® Holy Trinity Protestant chH,u«. r- . \ , Endeavor .- . »•« Episcopal Church Evening Worship ** ' Northeast Corner of Eleventh Midweek service for praise I Street and Central Avenne ~~~ " and prayer, Wednes The Rev. Joseph W. Watts, A. M. " days Vf P' ? Rector " A Homelike Church, with a corsmd.7 ifcr™,, dw 9:30 a. m. — Sunday School. 10:45— Church service. Mil 7:45 p. m.— Vespers and ad- Til dress. Holy Communion first Sunday of each month, 10.45 a. m. Saints' First Baptist Church Days and Holy Days, 10 a. m. _ .. ' Street and Wesley Avenne. The Rev. Milton George Buck. CI Partor- ^ "The Church with a Cordial Welcome." St. Augustine's Church Anbury Ave, near Fourteenth St. Prayer service Wednesday evenThe Rev. Thos. F. Blake, Rector. in«. 7:80. Mass at 10 o'clock, followed by Christian Endeavor, Sunday «:50 Benediction. P- ro. Mass Sunday at 10 o'clock, followed by Benediction. x Muss Sundays jit St. Joseph's Church, Somers Point, at 8 o'clock.