Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-01-03

tlue." senator wells regretted anu ue-
plored the sad fact that there are fstoo
many such logs floating loosely around
in the political waters OF New Jersey"
The idea he wished to convey Is that 1t
requires moral courage of a very high
order to be able to say firmly yes when
the occasion for right demands it; and
to say mo- absolutely when a wrong
proposition confronts. 1t vas highly
complimentary to Mr.. Bright when
Mr.. Wells declared that Cape May
county's senator possessed this rare
power OF saying yes or mo- as the DC
casion might require. Senator Wells
set the audience in a roar wnen he re-
lated an anecdote, symbolical Of his
own modesty and his own personal es-
timation of himself that he is not 1.-THE
only pebble on the beach," A sup
posedly confirmed bachelor and wom-
an-hater fell q victim to the wiles Of a
fair charmer in Wanamaker's store in
Philadelphia and eventually married
the young woman. On learning of this
metamorphosis, a male friend of the
converted bachelor expressed to him
undreamed-of surprise and astonish-
ment. After the proper ex plantations
were given, this friend of the one-time
bachelor wanted to know how the new
alliance was prospecting? SHOW are
you getting along, asked the friend;
how do you like your Wanamaker Sc
lection?" Well, 1 don't know replied
the newly-wed; sometimes I think l
might have done just as we'll at Gim-
belsp Prolonged laughter greeted
this story as only Wells can tell it, with
his quaint sense of humor and his fine
facial mimicry. Notwithstanding the
point in the joke, the audience was
quite delighted and satisfied with Wells
and would have hesitated a long time
before saying they might have done as
we'll by looking beyond Burlington
county for a speaker.
Indeed 60 well were all impressed
with the senator's speech that many
were 10th to leave the hall at the close;
and not a few crowded up on the plat
form to shake hands with the speaker
and congratulate him upon its merits.
Senator Wells made a telling point
when ne declared that it was the un-
daunted courage and bravery of the
American soldiers and their matches
energy and teamwork that "turned the
tables" on the rapidly advancing foe.
He spoke Of the American football spir-
1t and the American ideal of clean
sportsmanship. Qualities like this
are bound to win when great princi-
Piles are at stake. "And our boys are
coming back clean as a TOOTH" he ex-
claimed. "They have fought fair and
square and with manliness, on the she'll
torn fields of France;'' and because Of
this fact we should be doubly proud of
them. MI. Wells created a home-pride
when he told his hearers that
Wild woods best asset-its chiefest
item of valuation Is ''not your ocean
front; not your big hotels; not your
massive piers; but your schools-and
your churches-your boys and your
girls of today who will be the men and
the women OF the future" He laid great
stress on the value of education and
kno Wedge; and referred to
the Wild wood High school building in
terms of highest praise for its size, de-
sign and finish; comparing as it so fav-
orably does with any other similar
structure in the State of New jersey.
"Figuratively speaking" Senator
Wells said, "The American boys took
the old Kaiser 'by the nape of the neck
and the seal of his breeches' and threw
him over into Holland"
The Burlington man is arapid speaker
and is never for a moment at a loss for
a thought or a sentences; and he held
the attention of his audience from first
to last. At one point In his discourse,
he told a good story on himself. Hav-
ing been invited to a certain city in
Jersey to make a speech during a polit-
icsl campaign, Senator Wells was met
at the depot by the mayor Of the city
referred to and escorted in style to the
speech-making hall. or course there
were several other campaign orators
s'on deck' that night, and Senator
Wells was curious to know what the
mayor and others thought Of the Wells
speech. So on the way back to the
station, after the meeting, Wells made
bold to ask the mayor point blank
what the latter thought of the Burling-