Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-02-24
Notes From
Wildwood City Hall
By A. F. LEIBY

Inc LulTu FeDEudIy mSGlluS VI thC
wildwood City Commissioners was
held last Tuesday, the 21st day of
this shortest month of the year. While
the session was not as lengthy as
that of the week before, neither was it
as exciting nor as interesting to the
general public. Last week four new
ordinances were introduced and read;
this week there was only one, but it
was so long and so full of technical
terms that the reading of this elabor-
ate measure grew monotonous and
produced a comniferous effect upon a
couple of well-known citizens, who
dozed off into seemingly reposeful
reveries.
To relieve the tedium while this la
bored effort of the city clerk was in
progress certain pairs of eyes were
noted to rest their glances, betimes,
upon the city clock and upon the two
commodious calendars, both very fine
specimens of the printers art. In
scanning these charts of time it was
noticed that but one week more re-
manned of the second month and that
the labor of removing another leaf or
sheet from the tablets on the walls
will soon deyolve upon the city clerk
again. The flight of time is frequently
conceived of as flowing smoothly on
and on, like an endless river-and
sometimes swift,
CAS- was the flow
OF Iser, rolling rapidly"
Whether time moves slowly or
rapidly depends to a large extent upon
the experiences and observations of
each individual wayfarer, here
But here, upon this bank and shoal
of time"
At any rate, nearly one-sixth of the
year 1922 has already slipped by and
soon a new page will be turned on the
calendar.
The present calendar has been in
use since the days of the Caesars. 1t
is said of julius Caesar that he found
the calendar of his time so illogical
and confused that he determined to
make a new one. To this end he
sought the advice of S~osigenes, an
Egyptian astronomer. The calendar
as arranged by this scientist was com
paratively simple; but Augustus Gaze
sar, the successor of Julius, is re-
sponsible for introducing a complexity
which has remained these 1000 years
and from which there is now much
agitation for relief. Professor Barton,
of the University of Pennsylvania pro-
nounces the present time code as an
unscientific calendar. He further
states that those seeking a change
naturally look tt astronomers for
leadership and advice. If the change
is to be made it must be by agreement
between nearly all of the nations.
Reform of the calendar is now en-
gaging the attention of the Interna-
tional. Astronomical Union, and it is
probable that at the next meeting in
April something tangible may result.
A sharp rap of the Mayors mahog-
any-colored gavel at 2 o'clock IN
nounced the opening of this weeks
meeting and the city clerk was Don
thereafter enveloped in the maize of
the minute-reading process, from
which the Mayor mercifully rescued
him some fifteen minutes later. The
reading of the minutes of the previous
week was halted. To economic time
and spare the clerk, the Mayor an
notnced that the minutes would be
open for inspection after the meeting
by any one desiring to examine the
record. Then he called for reports.
The city clerk began at once to read
the report of the Department of FL
nance for the preceding week:
Poll tax receipts ......... $1.00
Property tax receipts..... 94.43
interest 80
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
streets ............. 411.6S
Assessments-gutters .... 14.13
Total tax receipts 49,. .$522.14
Water rent receipts Sit 20.32
Off and on fees .......... $50