OCEAN CITY SENTINEL, THURSDAY, JULY 5. 1923 THREE

Oce an City Sentinel Prigfld »nd rubllntwd Entry Thuraday OCEAN city printing and publishing Co. NVw Jrrawy. Tnlnphona r. 1. EVANS. Editor LEWIS I» BARRETT. f>nnral Huwtr " company rroervra tha rltfit to meet any ad("banara of advertising copy moat bo at thla oilier l,„r than Tumlay noon Thia ruia will ba atrictly THURSDAY. JULY S. 1923 Enb'od at the Boat Office at Oman City. N. J., aa The Iiirthday of a Nation On the Fourth of July, 1770, the greatest republic of history was born. In the course „f an address, delivered at the laying of the cornerstone of tlte new wing of the Capitol, jt,l) 4th, 1851, Daniel Webster, of honored ••This is tre 'lay of the year which anaounccd t„ mankind the great fact of American indcpeiMifaf! This fresh and brilliant morning liic- -ea our vision with another beholding ot the birthday of our nation, of recent origin, now among the most considerable ami powerful, and spreading from sea to sea over the continent. "On tlte fourth day of July, 1776, the representative.-! of the United Stutes of America, in Congress assembled, declared that these colonic:- are, and ought to be, free and independent stutes. This declaration, made by most patriotic ami resolute men, trusting in the juitii-e of their cause ami the protection of Heaven—and yet not without deep solicitude and. anxiety — has now stood for seventy-five years. It was sealed In blood. It has met dangers and overcome them. It has had dot radars, and abashed them. It has had enemies, and conquered them. It has had doubting friends, hut it has cleared all doubts away; and now, today, raising its august form higher tlian the clouds, twenty millions of people . contemplate it with hallowed love, and the world beholds it, ami the consequences that nave followed from it, with profound admiration.

"This anniversary animates and gladdens all American hearts. On other days of the year we may l«e party men, indulging ia controversies more or less important to the public good. Wc n.ay have likes and dislikes, and we may maintain our political differences, often with warm, and sometimes with angry feelings. Hut today we are Americans all; nothing hut Americans. "As the great luminary over our heads, dissipating fogs and mist, now cheers the whole atmosphere, so do the associations connected with this day disperse all sullen and cloudy weather in the minds and feelings of true Americans. Kvery man's heart swells within him. Kvery man's port and bearing becomes somewhat more proud and lofty as he remembers that seventy-five years have rolled away, and that the gerat inheritance of Liberty is still hi. — his, undiminished and unimpaired; his, in all its originul glory; his to enjoy; his to protect; his to transmit to future generations." It would lie instructive to add other excerpts from the speeches and writings of distinguished Americans. Of greater interest however, it may Ire to quote from an Englishman, the Honorable James Bryce, former Amhaxsudor to the United States from Great Britain. "This is a memorable day to Englishmen as well as to Americans. It is to us a day both of regret and of rejoicing; of regret at the severance of the political connection which bound the two branches of our race together, and of regret even more for the unhappy errors which brought that severance about, and the unhappy strife by which the memory of it w ri:> embittered. But it is also a day of rejoicing, for it is the birthday of the eldest daughter of England — the day when a new nation, sprung from our own, first took its independent place in the world. And now with the progress of time, rejoicing has prevailed »vcr regret, and we in England can at length join heartily with you in celebrating the heRinning of your national life. All sense of bitterns . has passed away, nnd been replaced mpathy with all which this anniversary ""an.- to an American heart. Fngland and America now understand one another far letter than they ever did before, la 1776 there was on one side a monarch anil and a small ruling caste, and on the other aide a People. Now our government can no longer id: represent the nation, and across the ocean a people speaks to a people. 'We have both 0|iip, uiwi that most notably within recent fnnthn, to perceive that all over the world toe interests of America and of England are fbstantially the same. The Sense of our underlying unity over araiuit the other races and forms of cixlliza'•i"n has been a potent force in drawing us to-grtht-r. it fj, huM that the Fourth of July is a day of happy augury for mankind. This is •me because on that day America entered on a course nnd proclaimed principles of govern - "*at which have been of profound significance for m iC.Md. Many nations haVe had a car- **' 'i.iquest and of cj*ilizing dominion; °ut to make an immense' people Brojpero us, "*ppy and free is tr-'">Tiojiler''and grander achievement than the mostlifflliant conquest* •bd the widest dominion. A Timely Message let reverence for the law be breathed bj fv*r>- mother to the lisping babe that prattles her lap; let it he taught in schools, nemin•ries, and colleges; let it be written In primfr-. spelling hooks, and almanacs; let it be Preached from pulpits, and proclaimed In legislative halls and enforced in courts of justice; short, let it become the political religion of the nation.— Abraham Lincoln.

" The Light That Failed" ' With all proper apologies to Rudyard Kipling. we have ventured to borrow the title of: one of his most popular stories, convinced that throughout the vast realms of literature, we could not find n phrase which with greater . aptitude describes the quality of service this ! resort is receiving from the Atlantic City Electric Ipght Company. "The Light That' b Failed." Of course there are scriptural quotations which we might plagiarize, as for example, "And darkness covered the earth." The np- , plication however, would not be as accurate; betnu.se it does not appear that other places' are subjected to the same inconveniences. At the last meeting of the Chamber of Com- ! mcrce, this very defective and inelficient scr- j vice came under strong censure. No speaker departed from the canons and conventions of | polite speech; nevertheless words were not minced, nor were tlte facts camouflaged or ex- ' e aggcratcd. ^ Last Saturday week during the busiest perI iod of the evening, when merchants and places i I of amusement needed all the light possible, i tlte city was suddenly plunged into darkness, f .. and remained so, it is said, for a period of , - over twenty minutes. We did not time the ' ,- period; but we were beginning to wonder if U the plant has suddenly been blown into non- . existence. ,1 It might he thought of course, that the peopie of Ocean City should have Itecome thoroughly accustomed to such occu rrettces,-byNth i s time. Last season we hail quite u series' of. such experiences; and very strangely^ they in- |. variably occurred at the most inopportune j |. -time — nt least to ourselves. / ,t Protests were made by almost every civic e organization in the city. Committees were ap- 1 lf pointed 'to interview the company. We were j e solemnly assured the inconvenience would not j c lie repeated. We were assured that nothing j ,t less than an earthquake, could cause more than a three-minute delay. Officials of the company orated, with great unction and volt. uminous technology, about "automatic switch- .. es" costing $25,000 to install, and a host of other npplmnees and improvements which had

le been made. e Finally we were assured that the Atlantic lt City Electric Company had taken a paternal interest in our welfare as a city— had in fact fallen head and ears in love with us, and was II anxious to assist us in our growth and pros- _ perity in the most nltrustic manner imaginable. ic Notwithstanding the light failed, to the exj tent that we might perhaps with profit to ourg selves, as n convenience in the case of emergency, induce a candle manufacturer to j. build a plant here. "Accidents occur in the best regulated famf ilics," we are informed by the proverbist; hut le when the accidents are'of frequent occurrence, ^ doubt arises as to whether the family is well regulated. le A well known proprietor of one of the thenn tres on the Boardwnlk, did not in the remotest ;g degree exaggerate, in the hypothetic case he presented, of what might have happened the Saturday in question, and what may happen / nt any time under similar circumstances. On . the evening in question, apjhpximntely fifteen / hundred people were seated in the theatre. ( Suddenly all lights are out. The entire place Is plunged in darkness, even the exits. For twenty minutes the people sit there, | each minute seemingly as long as a century. Let it he supposed that in the audience there | had been a woman or girl of a hyper-nervous and hysterical temperament, who unable to en- ._ dure the tension any longer, had given vent to a loud scream. Such a thing is so common, it is a womler of wonders it did not actually happen. Immediately there would have been , a stampede for the exits; children and women h might have been trampled underfoot in the rush, and mapy injured anil killed. It would have been beyond human skill to j have prevented a calamity of unspeakable horrors. Furthermore there are economic considera|t tions of vital importance involved. Merchants pay high rents for the privilege of vending their merchandise on the Boardwalk. Under h the most favorable circumstances possible, the (, season is abort, ami meagre are their opporh tunitios of making the investment of money and time profitable. To be plunged in dark- !_ ness for the better space of half an hour, durI ing the busiest period of the evening, of the most profitable day in the week, means a serious loss, which cannot tie regained. Finally we have the Hotel Flanders ap- , preaching completion. For a season the diij rectors of the corporation deliberate!, whether 'e they would Install their own power plant, or ir purchase current from the Atlantic City Elecn trie laght Company. Some men we are inh formed faeorite the first alternative. The ex|t perienco of last Saturday week has perhaps j convinced others it would hare been the wiser e Po|ic>Be that as it may, an interview was arrangeil with the officials of the company, who assured the directors of the hotel corporation, " that they would be given service as perfect as [ humanely possible. With that pledge, the di|H rectors decided to buy their current for the hotel. Imagine the condition of things, in that mammoth building plunged on a Saturday evening for twenty minutes in darkness. Conr fusion and chaos, and thoroughly disgusted ' patrons. That, if graver consequences were r avoided. \ No man can accuse the people-of this resort of -a Jack of patjencm 'TTTeF hare been tolerant anT long t suffering. Nothing seems capable of improving matters— promises ad nauseam appear to be the only result j There is a limit to endurance, and no cens sure can be hurled aaginst the Chamber of ,- Commerce, for determining to seek redress by appealing to the Public Utilities Commission, e In point of fact the step has met with unit- venal approval, and no single person has been t; heard to speak of the action of the Chamber if of Commerce, except in terms of praise and commendation.

Jazzing Up the Police! ( Lost week we found occasion to write of f "Law Enforcement Plus Common Sense." Furt ther consideration of the subject, and further e inquiry into the circumstances which led us ( r to indite the article, have not in the remotest s degree changed our. opinion, y Wc anticipated some comments and were t not disappointed — some favorable, some not, ( some wise, and some otherwise. I s One person however in the course of eon- - j vernation, gave expression to the phrase which :i - supplies the caption for the present article. ; ; "The police need some jazzing up!" I ?' Exactly! We will agree that the police j do need some jazzing up — for the sake of ;| - ! argument. j ( - But there are two ways of successfully jaziU: , r ing up the police. It can lie done, as was at- ^ f tempted at the meeting of the Chamber of , t Commerce, on a recent Tuesday, by construe- J - live criticism. Constructive criticism is a prerogative which ' . belongs as an unalienable right to every rate J s payer. The municipal authorities, down to ! tlte most recently appointed official or officer, f '• j are the servants of the people, and the people ' '» exercise the right to call upon them to render f i an account of their stewardship. ei If the police officers were informed, that nt f ! the meeting in question, they all came under _ condemnation, the information was false. Indiscrimate censure was by no means the tone | of the discussion. So much for the first method of "jazzing j . up the police." There is however another method, equally as effective, if not more ef- . TfcCttvc, of jazzing up the police, BY MAKING j e t IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE FOR THEM T<) { J FAITHFULLY PERFORM THEIR DUTY. ' J That is to say the most successful way of : j helping the police, is by ourselves obeying the. e law. Under the best possible circumstances 1 , j the duties of a police officer are not pleasant. ! : U ! No police officer with a vestige of red-blooded i j c manhood in him, and a modicum of common ■ e sense, finds pleasure in arresting people. Far . \ l_ less pleasure docs he find in arresting people j j with whom he has lived some time, upon terms i j ,( nt good neighborliness and friendship. i ,1 He knows well by so doing, in the proper |

performance of his duty, he has made an in-ji c verterate enemy of the person arrested? and 1 ] enemies of the Intter's friends. I • ,t It is granted there are exceptions; but the j , IS exceptions prove the rule. In general the j 1 average police officer prefers to live in un- : broken friendship with the public. It is an utter mistake to imagine that law 1 is primarily anil essentially punitive. Rather law is fundamentally preventative. Laws .ue ( made, and law enforcement officers are ap-l« n pointed primarily, not to punish criminals, but ; to prevent people from becoming criminals. , ( Consequently wc can l-est help the police} ^ officers to properly perform their duty by i B obeying and respecting the laws. lj The problems arising from the enforcement of the trnffice laws, furnish a striking exi ample of what is meant. i( Before John Smith purchased a Ford( he entertaineil very pronounced views concerning o driving an automobile. Spee<l maniacs should l>o hung, drawn and quartered. He chuckled : n with infinite glee, when a traffic officer held n up a driver, nnd made him conform to the: t rules of the road. Had he the power, John \ Smith would have decorated that officer with j the legion of Honor. p The tires of John Smith's Ford however arc ' very little worn, nnd the paint very little j ^ tarnished, before he develops into an inveterate speed and road hog. When commanded to obey the rules of the , > road by an officer, had he the power, that unfortunate creature, would have been hurled into the darkest cavern of the infernals. And ^ * in some unaccountable way, John Smith's nrn rogance increases with the quality of the car he drives. If by any chance he should arrive lC at a Pierce-Arrow or a Cadillac, he is firmly 0 convinced he is above all law, and the misguided officer who dares to call him to order, is a hopeless fool or imbecile. ^ We are apt to forget that long residence in ! g a place, and social prestige in the community, ] do not of necessity give us a right to disre- ; £ ganl the laws of that community. It is this , which makes the duies of at police officer far: more difficult to perform, in a small town r" than in Atlantic City. * It is a town where everybody knows every- j " body, and hail each other by pet or abbreviat ! ed names, we are apt to presume upon that | 1 familiarity and friendship, nnd imagine that j if it suits our convenience to disregard a certain law, that the officer should turn a blind : p eye upon the offence. Enforce the law by all means upon strangr erhs; but don't we pay the policeman? The| \ audacity of the fellow to presume M could i P arrest us." A police officer swears in taking oath to perform his duties impartially, and know no | P favorites In the enforcement of the law. whether the offended be a street sweeper, or the president of a million dollar corporation. " A police officer should be courteous and ° gentlemanly, even when enforcing the law. It ' Is as obligatory upon private citizens to lie P courteous and gentlemanly, towards the offi- " cers of the law. Under his uniform the police man possesses the same number of bones, the same emotions and susceptibilities as Mr. John D. Rockefeller. The moral of the story therefore is obvious. " The public has a right to censure and criticize a police officer, when he fails to properly perform his duty; the police officers have as great a right to expect from us all the assistance r possible, in the performance of their luty. j! America's Natal Day The United States is the only country with i- a known birthday. All the rest began, they >f know not when, and grew into power, they ,y know not how. If there had been no Inden. pendenee Day, England and America combined i- would not be so great as eaelp-«rtttally*---i«l. n There is no "RepubUcan," no ^Democrat," on rr "the Fourth of July— all are simjUy Americans, id All feel that their country is! greater than party.— Jamas G. Blaine. (

'guards rescue miss lawless in heavy undertow 1 f'arruthers, and Crissey l-aunch Life Boats and Brought I-ady Ashore Caught in the grip of a heavy! undertow, against which she Strug ■ gled heroically hut in vain. Mi.--lawless of Fourteenth •street, sought to attract the atten"Ition of the guards on duty on the j beach near the vicinity, Sunday af- ■ The lady's cries drew the atten-, ' tion of Guards James Camithers • , ami Robert Crissey. who immcdi- 1 1 ately went to her rescue in the life ; boat. Miss Lawless was brought safeI ly ashire. in a much weakened conb dition after the struggle. Early in the week. Life Guards! Harold W. Furlong, and Walters,: stationed at the Fourth Street Sta-I tlon. succeeded in rescuing Mrs. J. Phillips, of Philadelphia. Mrs. Phillips had been raught in the undertow, nnd became utterly! ; exhausted in her efforts to swim } ashore. However, the Indv soon revived, | , and was able to return to her home ' Blonde Bess Opines "It's been just nbout long \ enough now for a lotta June : brides to learn that the little circle of gold on the third-digit | of the left mitt is in reality a I Houdini defying handcuff." >j ki'lnn 1. Thsi nil lh»i certain allcr. j ! IS trri in wniih. besinniwr nl live Inter- , i 1 £, ,*S SriSriJrtS I I I in tj» lajMi *eoo»^WHth- ■ j Own'aiz.^ew Jr^nr. ^nJcwnJ tying Ihe j j final I*aaage. ^ Q CHAMPION WM. H CAMPBELL E. A. CORSON c CoT"-"*to*" |

TRY A CLASSIFIED ADV. !

Otr'of Ocean CUy.' New Jarlnr* h'J.l t ' j ** " JtARRT A MORRIS. ' >• j HARRY A MOItRIS. ^ ' !*?n'otr'lhe '^.'""nf ' s| "n Tv'r n «!r « n?|r h* n".!l \ e vi<l'nic'thc"irrm- a'rij cnndtllt,^ tor HTML ^ Sect ioh t. Thai the Allantic^ City^ HntL l.l AT.nJTTrld" ilM 's'r^'Tnj"fnn"Vin" e! private i.miertr nt tin- Atlantic CiitrR.il- | rnud < ompany on the nnrtheart aide lT^uC.',^in!"wllh plan and Jha't1^*!^". or ald-j j raid' Cianpany^ latt kna*n l-i-t nitice a.in ! •TrectaTnd" ijiMtt "reatle ""life nisi con- « j venical t.j|j hty ic jrl|.c^ a^ l^er yM* . , . SLdTMlT power "and' a'utlirity. and | 1} ; R.t'iYnrMl rtmpunr. Ur°n " I

n | Railroad ( ..mpany ahall indemnity nnd i a ' aave harmler.r the City of Ocean City, in j the manner nr the trnvcrnins htaly of lltia ; 1 i city nm'y he liable or may he compelled to ' j nitre of the track herein nuthorired. ^

©lj? WraiiFr ^tnr? CtKTRAUT LOCATED lit AMERICA'S CMATI5T f AMU.T »E5Q«T r[ VISIT OUR NEWLY REBUILT STORE [j Brighter Lighter Bigger Than Ever | EXCEPTIONAL VALUES IN I BATHING TOGGERY DRY GOODS LADIES' WEAR CORSETS NEW— OUR MEN'S WEAR LINE NEMO CORSETS DE BEVOISE BRASSIERES I u C. Ellwood Carpenter's C^B° NOW OPEH SEASON MEMBERSHIP RATE , Individual, (One Penion) $5.00 Couple, Ticket 7.50 -j Family Ticket (Five) .... 15.00 <5, 1 DANCING FVEBV N,CHT ANn DANCING 1| unnxrinu SATURDAY AtTKRNOON Extraordinary Orchestra of Eight Selected Mnidcians CHILDREN'S DANCING CLASS Every Thursday Afternoon at Three 1 LADIES' CARD PARTY Every Tuesday and Friday Morning- at Ten ! HAROLD S. ROBINSON'S Studio de Dance HIPPODROME PIER Ninth and Boardwalk Grand Opening SATURDAY, JUNE 30th, 1923 JACK (TED) LEWIS' FAMOUS ORCHESTRA \ Thla wUI he a Gala Nicht with Saarealca. Naratliaa and RahlhiUaa Daacea The Studio has elaborate plans for unique entertainments " during the coming season. }. JOIN FOR THE SEASON \ n iDaaciaa laatrwUaa by Appalatairali i. Invitation Card* for the Dance on Friday Evening, June 29th, r, may be hail by applying at the Studio.

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PORTLAND CEMENT~on(^ 2% of home building cost NO home is built today ' '"W=j without Portland Cement. Kaf y. -■ -■jj| Yet the cost of the Portland Cement used in the average i home is only 2% of the total ? afl That 2% adds to fire protection, to health, to permanence. Your building material dealer is a merchant of necessities. His advice is sound — on types of construction, on brands of materials. ATLAS PORTLAND CEMEMT WP "The Standard ly Which all other makes are measured "

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