OCEAN cm" SENTINEL THURSDAY, MAY 17, 11*23 j.-j FOUR

Ocean City Sentinel PrloUd »d Publl»h#d K..fT T>.»r«UT OCEAN CITY PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO. ^ 8~tiD.i Boiiain*. M*-TM Aw*. °— "**• "■ ■ ' ' lTj.gVANS. Editor LEWIS L. BAHKffT. O— *■» J rhaas** et atnrtUlM copt otom nil rut* will to wltorW to. Job work promptly doto to tojtoitocwl towto. _ THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1923 Eototod •< tto em oa» .. Oto« at,. N J.. THE ANNUAL CLEAN-UP Clean-up Is the or.ler of the hour. One after another, towns and cities are falling into the han.ls of the clean-up brigade. Netghbonng resort- hate announced a clean-up week. Hugh horse and motor wagons, perambulate the streets carrying away winters accumulated '"^Housewives are energetically plying mop and .luster, while back yards ami alleys are becoming Uttered with evidences of their activity. Every hour of sunahine is intensifying the unsightltness of spots, which during the winter months were tolerable. This perhaps is one of the compensations which nature provhles in return for the rigors and discomforts of the winter season. ( Clean-up week is an institution, which should commend .tself to every right thinking citizen. Occasionally a person is found who repents what he or she regards, through some freak of logic, as an impertenco on behalf of the authorities. We recall an Incident which oecurretl some years ago, of a hairdresser of extreme radical tendencies, who sought an injunction against the municipal authorities because they had threatened proceedings against him because of the filthy condition of the yard, behind his establishment. The great majority of people however, hail the coming of Clean-up • week and are prepared to cooperate with the authorities in all reasonable demands. ' Clean-up week commends itself for its sanitary benefits. Setting f aside all considerations of appearance, heaps of putrefying rubbish, t scattered through alleys and backyards, are the most fruitful breeding places for disease. Quite recently we were reminded in a public ?t speech, by one of our local practitioners, that medical science is today . directing more attention to the prevention of disease, rather than to c the cure of disease. Practically all forms of diesase have been traced , to bacterial life, and with tho exception of a few diseases, the germ f responsible has been identified and located. j I Here then we see the wisdom and the necessity of having all alleys a and backyards, kept as free from decaying refuse and trash as it is possible. j '

Here also we see ample justification on the part of the nuthorietis ; s for the most rigid enforcement of Its health powers. In one narrow ; t sense it may be argued, that a man has perfect right to keep his hack j , yard in just the condition he chooses; but under no pretext has he a j a right to do so, and endanger the health and life of his neighbors. r It is the essence of all law, that the moment a man's exercise of liberty is a menace to others, hia liberty and right to liberty ceases- 3 For this reason criminals and the Insane are kept behind liars. The . man who will not be clean up to the extent that his undeanliness is ; fc not a peril to others, the law has a right to compel him to be clean. Again, clean up week commends itself to all right thinking pco- ; ^ pie, as a means of Improving the appearance of a town or city. It ^ was an axiom of the older schools of philosophy, that a person's outlook upon things is largely determined and colored by the moral temper of the soul. To the pure all things are pure. Look for cause to a complain and causes abound everywhere. Without disputing the essential truth embodied in the statement, ! 0 science comes to qualify it very materially. To a far greater tlegree ' 0 than we realize, or even that psychology has been able to ..determine. j 1 are we affected by external appearances. How much the emaciated appearance and the sullen, irascible temper of the average city slum n dwellers, is due to the squalor of their surroundings no man can tell. Yet everybody knows by experience the depressing effect squalor, filth and unsightliness, has upon even the healthiest person. Edgar AJIen Poe spoke with the perfect agreement of common experience and the most modern discoveries of applied psychology, when he sold, that he never minded the rain if he could escape the effects of a rain i fail — mud and mud. If cleanliness is of so great importance therefore in every place j of human habitation, how much more important must it be in a health i resort. The majority of people who come here during the summer months, come to recuperate and replenish their wasted energies. In their condition of health, with nerves all on edge, jadded and tired, they are a thousand times more susceptible to the influence of environment, than the healthy, stolid fanner. The cleanliness of our beach is unquestionably its greatest charm. How much of the prosperity and growth of this resort should be attributed to it, we cannot even approximate. This we know, whenever a person is heard extolling the virtuei of Ocean City as a vacationai resort, whether in private conversation or in public speech, reference is made invariably to our clean beach. But even the most ardent sea lover cannot live exclusively on the sands and if the alleys and hack lanes and yards are not reasonably in keeping with the beach, it will militate very harmfully against the city. The larger the city grows in population and the number of its homes, the more necessary is it to emphasize these things and enforce the laws. We owe this to our visitors. As we have repeatedly stated, the entertainment of summer vaactionists is the sole industry' of the community. From this we derive our living. Even those who have neither house nor rooms to rent, are dependent indirectly upon the summer visitor. A poor summer effects all just as acutely- as it does the hotel proprietor. The carpenter and the mason depends as truly upon the summer visitor as th® merchant and the hotel man; because a dirth of ' visitors will check all building operations. That being so it is a duty incumbent upon every householder to make his or her house us clean and attractive as possible, even though he or she has not a room to rent. Cleanliness in a resort is not only of sanitary value, but is also a commercial asset of major worth an«i importance. The authorities have always Been ready to cooperate with householders. A clean-up week will no doubt be again arranged, when it is to be hoped that every householder will willingly respond and cooperate with tlie authorities to the end, that Ocean-City will this summer present a far more attractive appearance than ever before. A thorough clean-up may further be advocated as a fire preventative. Paper and excelsior, packing cases and other forms of trash, piled in back yards and alleys are big and potent fire hazards. Particularly true is this in sections of the city, where frame buildings are clonal? herded together. A lighted match, or the end of a cigar tossed thoughtlessly away, may during the hot and dry days of the summer, kindle a conflagration which may wipe out an entire section.

KEEP FIT AND UMBER UPl' In another n.lumn wc publish an account of the Gymnasium Club ~ which has l-orn organized in this res-it, with its headquarters at the First Methodist Church. Very largely through the enterprise ..f W. K. Massey. Jr.. this organization has come into existence, founded mainly for the business and professional n:on of the city. ■' An accomplished athlete himself, with a remaikalde. record on ~~ i the track, and a c W-.-ti.rn of trophies seldom seen outside of a rot. '■ se'um, no man know - tiettor than .Mr. Ma'xsey, the inestimable value °' of half an hour spent in mild gymnastic exercises, to the average business man. whose occupation is largely of a sedentary character. Under the vogue of tlie automobile, the average man Is denied even the healthful exercise of walking. The ubiquitous car has become a fixed habit, nisi few think rf walking two or three block-. A mile is considered a penalty, or an affliction of the first magnitude. To use n' riillmiunlism, a person ' may feel wc^nierfully fi: are chuckle over a weekly addition of . avoirdupois. However, every pound, ''.of accumulated 'ndipbue may Is- far from healthful, hut rather a beat * drain upon the physique. Particularly helpful to tlie young business and professional man. should the Gymnasium Club prove. While at college or school, lie was " — With few ex. options -interested in some form of athletic pursuit: but lacking facilities and an incentive? lie has been unable to continue tlie exercise- and consequently unable to escape the inevitable physical ' : deterioration. Tennis, basehall, swimming and other forms of out door sport are in every way admirable; but the average business man has not the time -to devote to such games, to gain anything Ijke proficiency, and ; very few' men can retain long their interest in a game, without l*ing able to give it sufficient time to develop a measure of skill. Furthermore, in a vacation resort, during the period of the year . ' when out-door sports are possible, the business and professional man : ,| has ihe least time and leisure. In fact the season of the year, when • ! those whose occupation is largely tnc entertainment of holiday-makers, ! can find the time to engage in cut -floor sports, little except golf is, , j available. j On the other hand, the busiest of men are able to steal half an ; jhour of nn afternoon, go through a few exercises in tlie gymnasium. [ bv a shower bath, every nerve and fibre in his body tingling, , . with vitality. One of the leading* physicians of our country recently called at-. Mention to the alarmingly high rate of. mortality among middle aged ! men of business. From the age of thirty-seven to forty-seven has he1 come an extremely ilangerous period, in the life of the modern business man. He further adds that death in a very large majority of 'cases, may be traced directly to functional deterioration and atrophy, brought aliout by a lack of the necessary stimulus to functional normalcy, through insufficient exercise. The same authority emphasizes the fact, that year by year, business is becoming more confining and sedentary in its character. Bej sides the automobile, the universal use of the telephone makes it practically possible for a man to conduct a business of national proportions, without moving out of his chair. Offices an<i department stores replete with labor saving appliances, all which tend to make man j more competent in business but less robust in physique. In founding and equipping the local gymnasium therefore, Mr. and those who arc laboring with him in the scheme, are plac- i within reach of the business men °f this resort an inestimable I boon. One thing which ileters many a man from making what use of a ; gymnasium he could, anil desires to ilo, is the fear that he is not in ; physical condition fit for such exercises. The promoters of the local club have wisely anticipated the fearand have made arrangements with local medical men, whereby any person may have a thorough physical examination, entirely free of jail charge. Local praititionera halite expressed themselves ready to, 1 offer their services in this capacity, -to any person desiring to join the l Gymnasium Club. Although by no means as fully equipped at present, as the gym-, jnasium will be, it nevertheless has sufficient appliances to suit all per- 1

>oi» an<l ages. The exercise* may b individual pleases. , e The club has been organized, t: . that i> required now is patronage. .1 pursuaded of its value and service ti

iv lie.' as light or as drastic as thejv the "gymnasium put in order. Ail j ' , If the -men of Ocean City can he ^ the community, nothing can hln- j , I

Jottings From Our Schools Twenty-seven Seniors Bound For A Jaunt to Washington JUNIOR I'ROM WILL TAKE PLACE JUNK 2d. AT ONE OF LOCAL HOTELS—' "TWILIGHT ALLEY" WILL HE REPEATED— PROF. I'NGER DISTRIBUTES TROPHIES TO WINNERS

Twenty-seven members of the ' Senior ("lass r>f the O. C. H. S., nc- > rompanletl by the class sponsor, : Mi-- Harriet Gibhfi will leave next P Monday moming on the 0.45 car, I on the first lap of their ton (Hook-ed-forward to trip to Washington, D. C, capitol of the United States., f A similar trip was made by the p graduating class of last year. The I Pennsylvania Railroad will again provide transportation and the Hoc tel Driscoll, will be the headquar-j tors of the students while in the r capitol. The class this year is , slightly larger than the class of; n ' 1922, -w hich tnadc the trip fty the ! omc route, stopping at "the same 1 '■ i hotel. • Our students will lie nccompan-! ! ied by the graduating class of the Pleasantville High School. The carfare .will cost each stu'"jtlent $19.50. Of course each stu1 i dent will lie equipped with a fewextra dollars for ^in money. The time spent in Washington , "will lie devoted to sightseeing. Many places of interest, including the capitol building, Mount Vcrn- " on, the Congressional Library, the f Bureau of Engraving and Printing. •t Pan-American, Union Building, the Lincoln Memorial, National Museum. the White House, the office building of the Senate and House. - Washington Monument, Old N'ati- . nnal Museum and Smithsonian Institute will be visited. The trips to the various places of interest will be made in busses, j s two of which will be used to ac- " commodate the party. The class will return late "Wed- _ ncsday evening. Those making the trip are: Ethel Barnes, Ruth Camp, Reliccca c Ellenbergcr, Myrtle Endicott, Bel-j va Mumford, Vivian Morton, EliB':zabcth McCullough, Edyth Powell, i , Caroline Rogers, Octave no Riley. 1 " Elizabeth Sinkinson, Freda Steel-! man, Anna Tatten, Amanda r- Wright; Scott Adams, Fred Currie .. George Gardiner, Carl Side;, Earl ' • Seaman, I-eslie Smith. A%y Sutton, Peter Totten, Charles Gibb. " i Fred Pfitzenmyor, Russell I-e Toue mean. Jack Veniablc, Doyle Huff und Miss Gibb; chaperon. H. fi. MUSICIANS PLAY "i WITH ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY ■"I We should feel proud of the

e higli school musiicans who took'; - part in the concert wjiirh was ". given in the Music Pavilion a week; t ago. They helped to make up the j -, fifteen piece, orchestra and t hey j made a splendid showing. Their j I i, names are: Dovlc Huff, Walter | ' 1. 1 Huff, Harlan Huff, Herman Sele vagn, Ira Vincent ami Joseph j e Broadley. n The music which the Ocean City! i- Orchestra rendered on this occas- ■- J 'on was equal if not better than j e ! the music which was given lastj s , summer. f | It might -lie well for the Music; e Committee, whii h contracts for j e I music for tlie coming summer, to , 'turn their attention toward the; i- Ocean City Orchestra. With a j e; conductor like S. W. Robinson andj prnliably one or two outside play- . ei s, this orchestra could produce) i- better music than that which was! K produced the past season. Then too. it would give some of ! n our Ocean City people something) f.Lto do and at the same time would j c net them some cash, with which to i- further theif education, e — IH— A. t. BOAR OF EDUCATION GIVE e MO TOWARD JUNIOR PROM - - The Junior Class is alerady mak- ( e ing arrangements for their Prom,; s. to the out going graduating class.) i- rn Saturday, June 2nd. The affair j GOOD HEALTH is the most) ■' j priceless gift nature can bestow. S. and she offers it to you from her) bountiful fields in WHOLE GRAIN WHEAT. i- And it is tasty, delicious, appetizing and wholesome. Good any- , . where and always. 10 ounces — six ample servings and every servn ing supplies all the nutritional eleI- ments. not merely one or two or j.jsome of them. It is prepared I | ready to eat. y.i Since you must eat, and must |- 1 eat often, why not eat right? Why. la : not choose the food your body drmands? Why nol be well, and fit, i and keen, and fully alive? Of all! rl j the foods you can secure at whatt- ever price you pay, WHOLE; b j GRAIN WHEAT alone, can meet | ' | your every requirement. E. Edwards y Sole Agent ? WHOLE GRAIN WHEAT CO. j Box 82 f' a xi ijj tj 81 K ft

(will l>e given at one of the hotels, which many of our student,. 1 I which so far as yet, has not been to have in abundance. The pup," ' definitely decided. who have a report showing A'n a„ i The Board of Education at their , believed to have made use of UgJ l i t meeting, gave the class a sum spare time in studying ihtir \Z •;»f $50, towards defraying the ex- sons. While those with Cs, jy, for the Prom. and E's, it would he a safc ^ . John rvine, treasurer of tlie class say that their spare tjme j says, this act on the part of the thrown to the winds, Ihinkiog Hoard of Education was a "life- thai luck would bring them ths i saver" for us. -H- | _ j_ |_ -TWILIGHT ALLEY* I REPORT CARDS WILL HE "Twilight Alley," a pretty op,,. PRESENTED TOMORROW atto. wlm h was given by . The report canls will lie issued jonth Glade pupils, May I tomorrow noon in all parts of our repeated tonight in the sch"^. ■high school and will i-e the last to 'ditorium. commencing at s o'clock make their appearance this term. '.The admission will 25 ctnU. ' Reports are monthly indicators of Alien the play was given t«, in Student's progress in high school ! weeks ago, it made such n hit win j Thev tell tlie students, teachers the audience that many request, and parents just what is luring have been made to have the p|», [ | done with the spare moments, Fir*l A COMPLIMENT 1 i j] Slart an areount now with tho Fir, it National Hank 1 First National Bank Jl'ST ONE Just one service — the best we know how to | give. i Just one ambition— to improve it however j we can. Just one result — a host of satisfied cus- ) r j tomers. t-i 3'", Interest Paid on Time Deposits OCEAN CITY TITLE & TRUST CO. Ocean City, N. J.

Where Chinese Bandits Captured Americans J | &xle tJbsfa OOIT JUP6E SCAVER-t BY THE WAV F off liy i- Iminlits ihe Kxpri-ss _ 'A I , "I T; ransrim. linw-rL^sliijivs1 Fhluese Another Decoration Day This Month t ' ' — I I If; ^ ■ 1

©cean City's Cburcbcs First M. E. Church First Presbyterian Church p Eighth Street and Central Avenue. Seventh Street and Wesley g The Rev. Dr. John Handley, Avenue. Pastor. The Rev. Chas. F. N. Voegelin, Sunday services, 10:30 a. m. and Pastor. j 7:80 p. m. Sunday School, 2:30 Morning worship .... ,, — 10:30 I P- m. Bible School 2:30 | Mid-week prayer meeting, Weil- Friendship Bible Class for I nesday, 7:30 p. m. Men 2:30 Mary of Bethany Bible Class for Women 2:30 C| Senior Christian Endeavor. 5:45 A Intermediate Christian EnI ^ .leaver - -a 6:« I Holy Trinity Protestant "tZ? ' ^'..^.sns Episcopal Church Evening Worship '=30 Northeast Corner of Eleveath Midweek service for praise Street and Central Avenue — — and p r n y ® r- Wed"fs i tJEbe Rev. Joseph W. Watts, A. M., ^ 7.," " L A Homelike Church, with a corReetor' dial welcome. Sunday Services 9:30 a. m. — Sunday School. 10:45— Church service. JTJ 7:45 p. m. — Vespers and nd- il Holy Communion first Sunday I of each month, 10.45 n. m. Saints' FifSt Baptist Church wit H.ly Day,, 10 .. T,„. Slrnl „d W„,„ A,„„. The Itev. Milton George Buck, fn Pa8tor' ?U "The Church with a Cordial fa Welcome." lW • • i Preaching services, 10:30 a. m. St. Augustine S Church and 7:30 p. m. Bilde School, 12 m. Asbury Ave, near Fourteenth St. Prayer wn'i<* Wednesday evenit" The Itev. Thos. F. Blake. Rector. . r.m Christian Enileavor, Sunday 0.30 Mass at 10 o'clock, followeil by p m_ ! I Benediction. I Mass Sunday at 10 o'clock, fol- . lowe.1 by Benediction, i Mass Sundays at St. Joseph's Church, Somers Point, at 8 o'clock.