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The Herald and The Lantern

Wednesday, October 2S, 1980

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Why Does Man Imitate Cain, Forget Abel? By H. Oirlimfr In that council and sardonic musical play. “The Threepenny Opera." by Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill, there are two main songs by Mack the Knife, the well known boastful one about himself and the other lesser known bitter one about society, the “Survival Song." part of which follows * ' Now those among you full of pious searching. Who leach us to renounce our major sins. Should know before you start your heavy preaching Our belly's empty! There it all begins' "Your vices and our virtue are so dear to you. So learn the simple truth from this our song. Whatever you aspire, whatever you may do. First feed the faces, and then talk right and wrong! “For even saintly folk may act like sinners. Unless they 've had their cus^miary dinners!" It is a pat but partial answer to the cause of human depravity, for although a lot of evil is bred in poverty, not all of it is Most of the crime in the streets may be but how about crime in the suites 9 That carried on in the ^corporation offices of Wall Street and other financial centers when the well-heeled and well-fed often conspire tosteal from the rest of us? Not long ago an appalling thing happened in AtlanticCity when a crowd of merciless and cowardly onlookers applauded the mugging of two people. MORK RECENTLY AN EVEN more incredibly thing happened in Chicago, when according to the Associated Press. "Some of the dozens of bystanders lauglted and jeered as a man with one arm in a sling frantically tried to climb out of the way ol a subway train roaring into the station" killing him What makes such cases of man's brutality to man KVKIt possible 9 It is a question to confound experts in sociology, psychology, ahd religion. 4>eaders in the latter field maysay it is the Emergence of the Old Adam. They would be more accurate if they said the Old Cain Man's inhumanity to Man Started w hen the Race Began Yet know we'fcell that.we are able To imitate not Cain but Abel But that verse is only- the description of the problem not a solution Why do we EVER imitate Cain instead of ALWAYS following Abel?

K. LfalieChrismer iso resident o/Washington Street. City's Change Of Character Is Saddening

CAPE MAY’S FROG HOLLOW and the site of Us new pumping station was underwater, along with portions of many automobiles and several homes. The crane and mobile construction office at the pumping site

(background) were sitting in water for more than 24 hours before portable pumps finally drained the basin. This was the scene Saturday afternoon on Benton Ave.

TORRENTS OF SEA WATER ftood down Grant St. into Cape May from the overflowing banks of nearby Cape Island Creek and the South Cape May Meadow — after the

John Andnit neighboring Fow Tract area of West Cape May (background) went under during the storm late Saturday morning.

by Joseph Rush The voters of Sea Isle City are vitally concerned about the change of government vote Nov. 4. There are claims and counterclaims, exaggerated * figures and dire predictions to all from senior citizens to families just starting While we are concerned about the cost of a councilmanager form of government we are just as concerned about what our present commission form of government is costing us 120 9 percent increase this year in taxotf: local purpose tax increased 16.2 percent Above these concerns, however, hovers a feeling of uneasiness, alarm, and even sadness at the loss of something vital to our town. A few years ago we were a clean, open "isle of contentment." a “family playground" which is-why so many of us made Sea Isle our home. Today it is with remembrances of things past. WE ARK, DISTRESSED as we see our city experience a

John H. Andru* II

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change of character; a change that is not progress but an unfettered growth of questionable multi-unit buildings approved by a commission form of government devoid of sensitivity to the welfare of Sea Isle; an administration lacking in responsibility to the people it governs. An intolerable situation awaits our summer visitors. Our culture is being bulldozed and piledriven. We were once a lovely city by the sea but by the alchemy of gold we are tietrayed and the quality of life becomes less.

Joseph Rush is a resident of Pleasure Avenue.

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A Look at Bond Fund Review Process

New Jersey voters confronted with state bond authorization referendums may not realize that approval of such bond questions is only the first step in a lengthy process required for authorizing expenditure of bond funds, observes the New Jersey Taxpayers Association. Voter approval merely allows the state to create debt for the general purposes specified in the bond law passed by the legislature and approved by the governor. BOND FUNDS must be appropriated before they can be expended. Rarely is the entire bond issue amount appropriated in one legislative act. Usually there are several appropriation bills. The project list is next submitted to the State Capital Budgeting and Planning Commission which analyzes the proposals and approves a list of projects for

recommendation to the governor. THE NEXT PHASE involves the legislative branch and begins with introduction of a bond appropriatjon measure or measures. Procedures have been established in the Legislature that would provide for review of a bond appropriation bill by the appropriate standing reference committee in the house of origin, or to the Revenue, Finance and Appropriations Committee, or possible both committees. However, some bond appropriation bills are never reviewed by any standing reference or finance committee but are considered by a special committee known as the legislative bond oversight or “watchdog committee”. After passage of a bond appropriation measure by both houses, the Governor determines whetter the bill should become law.