I 'JAP' '■ f 'v vvN'cv OCEAN CITY SENTINEL, thursday, NOVEMBER 15. 1923

nsj ' v . J. ; -j •M. Publlibar ^S.^MItor ^ ^ "» Leading Newspaper . tbl. paper will to published oatr ertlnia, copy mux to at thla office j ' •toy aoo. or all kinda bliiuM fvralaKmL .tSDAY. NOVEMBER 15. 1923 ' A WORTHY WAY OF KEEPING THANKSGIVING ^ It is unfortunate that, in the mad rush for excitement and sensation, characteristic of the ( present generation, the original significance of : our national festival has become almost entirely . lost. All have suffffered; but none to the ex- , tent Thanksgiving Day has suffered. Thanksgiving Day

The origin of Thanksgiving Day. as a religious festival, dates back long before the ^ English Reformations. To be more strictly » accurate, we should perhaps say "ecclesiastical" rather than religious festival; for al- ; though the church calendar made provision for a "day when praise and and prayers be offered to God for ye bounties of harvest," the occasion become little more tfian an excuse for feasting, carousing, and cock-fighting. Cromwell and his Ironsides deserve the ' credit for having recovered the original significance of the Thanksgiving festival, and for having purged ft from all objectionable practices and customs. Perhaps the grim old Puri tans erred in swinging U the opposite extreme, sad giving to this institution, as thpy did to ; i many another, an aspect of gloom and aoster- i ity which was repulsive, particularly to the;< young. Th* spiritual descendants of the Ironsides 1 whe took possession of this continent, at first I adhered closely to the Cromwelllan ideal ofj' Thanksgiving. Time, however, brought about certain modifications. Gradually the obarrv - ance of the festival assumed something of ail political as well as religious character. Thanks- '« giving to God was rendered, not only for thejb harvest, but also from the growth end pree- P peeity which had attended the nation, and for P the blessings af pe** and liberty. It became *> also recognised that a measure of wholeaome'P pleasant was not incompatible with religion J " end that the nnLlaet fen. „C -• • tl nobieat thanksgiving was

that which manifests itself in practical philan i thropy, in the fortunate sharing with the un- [ fhrtanate. Some of the oUeet and moat worthy 1 - ehaHttas of our nation were born of this i thanksgiving spirit. Now it was a wise man who first said: t "Charity should begin at home." The proverb, ' t however, has been sadly misused as wickedly • misinterpreted. The proverbist never in-c tended, when he said, "Charity should begin k at home," that it sbaold never extend its oper-.o •tion. outride of the home, or never be found a at home by the needy. If in no other this is an aspect of the Puritan ideal of thanksgiving lf1 which deserves reviving. u Post Commander Elmer Jackson Pearl has ea cnaceived a scheme by means of which thisjr may be admirably accomplished, and our T thanksgiving spirit directed into worthy ehan-'s nd*. Who is more deserving ef the nation's !C gratitude than the men who fough) for us m ai the great World War? in From a thousand pulpits and platforms, <* prayers will ascend to Heaven in thanksgiving Pl to God for victory over Kaiaerism, Prussian "

autocracy, and tyrrrny. This U well. "Lovest thou Me?" asked the Saviour to his disciple. Receiving a reply in the affirmative, the Master added. "Feed My lamb.." Otherwise1 paraphrased the Great Teacher said: Show thy love and gratitude In tender ministries to the/ helpless and the unfortunate. Twenty can-': turiea have come and gone since the words i were spoken; but the principle embodied re- | mains unchanged: Service to the less fortunate i and needy is the genius of true thanksgiving. . Considerable publicity ha, been given to the . Home for Disabled Soldiers, founded by the I P"* of the American Legion, of this and i other neighboring counties, at Manantico. Dis I guise the fart how we will, it stand, everiast- . tally to our shame that the American Legion has been compelled to plead for charity in be- ( half of their helpless comrade,. The disabled c soldier should be the nation's guest of honor. r and not an object of charity. Too well have , we as a nation deserved the cynic's jibe: "Be- 0 fore the war nothing WAS too good for the l •oMier; now that the war is over, nothing IS too good for the soldier." Be that as it may. Commander Pearl has * developed a scheme, by means of which the p people of Cape May County, may make up to 0i a measure the nation's negligence. ,w Mr. Pearl is mailing out a latter to every T church in the county, with an appeal that the ec Thanksgiving offerings this year be devoted co toward, the LagtanHaa* fa Maaantico. Could ex a worthier cause be presented to Christian ; pi charity? We think oat, and hope that every jdi tfc®*h ta the county wffl consider the appeal jth i,- ' £

.•▼orably and, that the offerings this year will '•* | be very generous. j Well may the disabled soldier say: "All this - I suffered for you; what are you doing for THE OLD Oil RTHOl SE Sentiment in these days has fallen into dis- ' credit. We pride ourselves upon being un emijnently practical people. No pawky luguhrous sentimentality about us if you please! Vtili- ~ ] tarianism Ls the hall-mark of the age. We ! have Vanished emotion into limbo, and have , generously legacied all poetry to romantie . , school girls and old maids. ; But have we? Fiction writers, dramatists, | (and song writers chuckle to themselves over iour conceits. Novels and songs in which the ( . element, overflows are the best sellers, j jand the melodrama with ocean, of tears and the happy ever ending are commanding the 1 | heaviest box receipts. As a matter of fart, we boast of our freedom from sentiment because wV fail to dls-i' 'criminate between sentiment and sentimentaljity. Sentiment is the salt and the honey of life. It is an expression of the spiritual and"'

the aesthetic In man— the one factor which dfff" j farentiates him from the animal to which he is *! physically allied. Sentimentality on the other hand, i* monstrous rharucalure of sentiments, i Our noblest and best institutions are all founded upon sentiment, and are perpetuated "jby the transmission from age to age of that *1 j sentiment. Our Flag, for example. Intrinsi-i-jeally, what is it? a few yards of fabric dyed1 ,r ' red and blue with a certain number of small patches cut Into flvd corners sewn upon It. To I e'the untutored savage of the Congo, a replica i - : of Old Glory woven out of the finest silk would ' ' r \ mean nothing more than a prettier substitute I - for recti or grass with which to drape his 'I - ; black body. i ,j It is the sentiment behind the Flag that!" >! sends a thousand thrills of unspeakable pride ■ • jand joy coursing through the body veins of I I every true American. Now the question arises, what is behind all 1 i I this agitation and protest against the pro- ' posed rebuilding of the oh) courthouse? Is it 11 /sentiment, or is it merely sentimentality. No person can deny the fart that the old p structure is by no means in keeping with the j growth, expansion, and increased wealth of the < county. One hundred years ago the old build- " jing was doubtless something to which the peo-'11 iple of Cape May County could point to with 11 pride. Today it ia, in comparison with other b nearby, revolting to every aenae of , ai 'proportion and beauty. Furthermore, if the f' j courthouse is no longer able to accommodate'

,ithe rapidly increased business of the county, - Ha practical value as such is gone. -j When sentiment is allowed to stand in the r way of progress and development it become, a 'j specious form of sentimentality. | To the contrary, we are prepared to admit ;1 : : that as a nation we have preserved far too 'few of the old landmarks— relic* of a bygone ' and style of architecture. The vandal hand ' of commerce has been far too eager for ruth- < and thoughtless destruction and many an j' ,old building of rare historical value has dls-i* appeared to our shame and regret. « The question, however, arises, has the old 1 'courthouse any historical value, or is this eon- r in the records its houses? Frankly, we " cannot regard the courthouse ta the same cate- 1 | gory as the old "Head of the River" Church at . hoe, the old Quaker Meeting House at" 'Seaville. or the brick PrPesbyterian Church at." iCeld Spring. Hallowed memories linger n around these which cannot by any stretch of * be said to be hovering around the fil old courthouse. Probably there are more peo- w pie striving to forget the courthouse than theee 6| n anxious to retain memories of It

The suggestion has been made by several - persons in our hearing that if greater accomt mods tion is required, and more office capacity i ! to meet the growing need, of the county, this r;ean be provided for without destroying the 1 1 front appearance. But would this be a profit- j - able investment? If the old courthouse, for! i any reason above the sentimental, ig worthy of • preservation, it should lw preserved in its en- ' tirety.|Not a nail or screw should be removed. As a latter of fart, all over the county, and ' in fart all over this section of the State, we ' far too many patchwork structures. The ' I attempt to graft a modern front to an old body, or a new body to an old front is neither 1 architecturally pleasing nor economically wise. < ! ,n vie* of lhe foregoing, we are led, there- ' fore, to two conclusions. Firstly, the present courthouse is no longer able to cope with the e need* of the county, and it would be nothing h : short of consummate folly to patch- work the r fold structure into an eyesore. At present, al- ll .though of an obsolete style, the building is « something of an architectural unit Secondly, if toT my hi,torif>| „lu# or „ worthy sentiment, the old structure should be 11 : preserved, thei^ why not have it removed to an- n other locality, renovated, and used as a museum : where old records ^nd relics could he housed. |w iThe second alternative we suggest is. of course, sr conditioned by the fart whether or not the old 'el courthouse has any real historical value. If C old building of fifty or more years werejee preserved merely because it is old, it is not in difficult to Imagine what will be the aspect of H things eventually. 'm

11 WET OR DRY? -The proverbist of antiquity 1* reported to have said: "Of the making of books there is * no end." or something to the same effect. Had he been an American, he would have milled : "Of the making of laws there is no end." But there you are, a, long as doctors - continue to practice, men will die. and as long '•.as lawyers 'are sent to the Legislature, laws " will multiply with the pmlignus fecundity of. ' the house-fly. The output of law, is so large, one of the problems facing the authorities Is that of finding place to house them, and the problem fac ing lawyers I* that of finding time to read them. To digest them ia utterly impossible A brilliant lawyer is he who had read all the 1 ' titles. I ' It requires f>50 large volumes to hold In ' printing form the Supreme Court opinions on questions of constitutionality. When the ' •»ets" hax-a wearied of testing the constitu- , , tionality of the Eighteenth Amendment, •'AO ' more volumes will be added. The mischief of it is, however, that law- 1 -enforcement has not kept pace with law mnkf. ing- As law makers, we lead the world. Some

one with a passion for statistics has diseoxr ered that we manufacture fifty new laws to one < by any other great nation in Europe. When II Uncle Sam does a thing It ls done thoroughly. ,1 On the other hand, when it comes to la* • t enforcement, in comparison with other nations, we are a joke, and our crowning jest is the 1 j 'enforcement of Prohibition. I Shakespeare wrote no comedy of errors and j farces and folly to equal our enforcei ment of the Eighteenth Amendment. As soon I as it became law, we ransacked the country I . for ex-brewers, ex-saloon keepers, ex-bar-room I r bullies, and ex-bootleggera; and appointed law- J enforcement officers. Having deprived them of ; : 'heir livelihood, a paternal government seem- | . ingly thought it should find them other em- i ' ploy ment. ' The saloon was licensed and protected by I the State, bootlegging is licensed and pro-, tected by politicians: a distinction without a | If, by accident, a real honest man ! c became an enforcement officer, he ia devilled by s politicians until he is forced to retreat. j., long live the poor ignorant foreigner* He Is the politician's last hope. Arrests must be „ made, and houses raided, of course, to justify « the existence of law-enforcement officers. Here £ ignorant immigrant becomes a boon and a Raid him, fine him, imprison him, .and thereby divert the attention of the public tl from the "big fellows" who grow bigger by [J 1 bootlegff^gE_apd the corporations who operate

The trend of recent elections seems to indi-, e c,t* » toacthm in favor of the "drys." The i Camden results offer a typical instance Very probably this reaction will become even more , pronounced— for a period. > The Phenomena followed after the Civil i . and the Abolition of Negro Slavery. For [ I several years grave fears were entertained that one State after another wool d re vert back and . favor the restoration af slavery. All fears, j : however, proved groundless, and the fears • entertained by many, and the hopes enter- i by others that the country will ever ' repeal or even modify the Eighteenth Amendment will prove as groundless. In point of the thing ia impossible? , The apparent reaction in favor of the "Wets" ■ is no other than an expression of disgust on! ■the P-. t of the public, with the inefficient man- j in which the taw is enforced. Thousands: ' expressing themselves as favoring a modiof the Volstead Act. not because they would personally avail themselves of the modior even deairw It, in a spirit of revolt ">

against the injustice arising from an improper d enforcement of the law, whereby It ia made for ,. th* "eh man to have hla cellar, while the poor y m"n eannot own a pint, and further made a possible for politicians, and men protected by # politicians to accumulate fabulous wealth in _ defiance of the taw. ri Enforce the law, and the law will he f respected. "TALK IS CHEAP" I But not in the Halls of Legislature! No, . sir! In Congress, talk is an expensive luxury. . and unfortunately most of It ls mere drivel. I A gentleman by the name of Roger W. Rus conctoded from a dose examination of the Record, that every congressman relieves his burdened brain and bosom of 18,- ' 000,000 words annually. This must be recorded. of course, or otherwise his vanity will ' greviously offended. It costs the nation, or rather the taxpayers of the nation. 19,000,000 ' print and circulate the Congressional Record, or approximately 60c a word. (| Every time a Senator or Congressman rises | his feet and ejaculates "Ah!" hang goea 50c. i he repeats this twenty times, the taxpayer* r" ; must dig up a |10 bill. ^ Quite a number of our legislators have, it) would seem, a penchant for quoting poetry, It L ; smacks obviously of literary polish. Mr. Rus claims that the amount of poetry quoted in costs the nation about 12,600. It costs nearly 6100 to record the chaplain's openprayer, and 1200 to call the roll in the House. If we mistake not, roll calls are fari more numerous than prayer*.

t 1 This Week j ! B, ARTHUR BR, SHANK j J f HENRY FtlRD, ACl'TE STAGE * FARM HOI SE CONVERSATION , r AN ELECTION STARTER SECRETARY WEEK S POSlTliiN , f Henry Ford's public message tn'i Mr. W eokV Secretary of Wnr. will > I I interest politicians and farmers. > - Ford invites % libel suit b> his s ( blunt statement that Week.- i- sell- * ing Muscle Shoals piecemeal to pre- - - vent Ford's producing cheap ferti- ' , there for farmers, thus interfering with the fertilizer trust, which practices extortion notori- V , ously. u Ford's talk is blunt. Exery real d newspaper in the United State- 11 will print it. Weeks, accused of ' destroying what might W ma.le > i "the greatest munition plant on ' earth, our greatest assurance of victory, in case of war," to keep from gixirig cheap fertilizer tl to farmers. tl tl

e President Coolidge knows that .. this statement will be discussed in every farm house in the United' e States, and believed by 999 out of ;l 1.000 farmers. After tbis attack on Weeks, Ford . . will he bound to enter the 1924 election as a candidate against the • Republican party, and let farmert decide' between him and the Republican administration. Ford couldn't possibly do less. , It's an interesting situation for ! Mr. Coolidge. also -for Mr. McAdoo. i The sane decision that ninety per ■ ..cent, of the people who own Muscle Shoals would advocate would let ' i take the plant ana show what ! can do about his promise to supply cheap fertilizer and send cheap r power 200 miles in all directions. Any Republican who thinks that. Ford would poll a small vote a- an ' j independent Immvs httir about nolijtics or the present mood of Ameri-i," can farmers and workingmen. j Se. retary Weeks won't sue ' , Ford for libel. Hell ask J Congress to investigate Ford's charges. This shows a Christian '• spirit, for no charge could be more , serious than Ford's accusation ' •gainst Weeks. «, Pord, who pusses rapidly front cage to another, like the boy |i' at the Zoo, now announce- a plan to let his employes share in the ei profits of his railroad. He will help them buy profit- *' sharing certificates in instalments from their wages They max get w their money hack any time, but pl keep their certificates, not sell >3 them, "unlesn-to fellow employe- "

Whatever you may think of " Henry Ford, you must admit that | ( -I the problems of this country woul.i [ " „ be simplified and the security of those that have money increased, if " other big employers understood a- . Ford does the handling of work- s llngmen. • "Milk from contented cows" U a 1

f well-known, ingenious motto. 1 1 | "Work from contented workmen" , Content. d runs don't kick or buck, j : John D. Rockefeller, Jr., has i given #500,000 to the Zoological . Society, promising to duplicate that " amount. K. S. Harkness gave ' J 1 00.000, the estate of Mrs. .K. K. ' Thompson, #50.000. The work of the Zoological So- , 1 ciety is done scientifically. It iloes not merely collect elephants to!J 1 rebuke men. It .allies on udniir- I , able. |H't mat lent, scientific work. • I days to come not one of the;| . specimens in the Zoo will be left i alive on this earth. All .. ill have A gone to join the carnivorous dinosaur. great airk and the dodo. This if ,Js (he time to gather information.; Mr. Francis (>. French, who hasi * H. Vanderbilt for a cousin,: , and other Ticli folks, having lost ! "s his- money in Wall Street, starts : s driving a "checker" taxicab. His • home is one furnished room, "al-j!j though his family has houses in; New York, Tuxedo, Newport and i The society reporters weep oxer i •> this, of course. But, rich parents b! that spoil children please notice1 this young man's first day of in .ion mis young nian s nrsi qay ot i '

t real erlueation will he his first day f 3 'on that checker rah. He will learn , I ! that if you don't steer straight, you f will bo 'humped. And as he counts!' up his .lay's profits, hell realize | that a dollar means something. j 1 { REAL ESTATE i TRANSFERS Fktolllr Tru.1 Company. Ks'cr. A.,iru.ts II Mur|,hv. WOO S E 10 fori „[ fUl'wrf" a l,:'? "i, '^A ,nd ^ '"''"j-A'.o.r 'lc "(Aw £?' 0|rt*" L. Sir.nsr « ' J'Sin IV K„. « .. .1 , . k.1 " ^ ! IV K„s. «*_ „ V w ,

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