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Fronts for Entrepreneurs To The Editor: • This business of changing zoning code laws to effect a new result can only be thought a bad faith. If there was reason for these laws in the first place, what is the reason t(Achange them? Can it be simply (pr someone or some group finding a frustration in some endeavor of their own, ■\o make money”? Or is.it that a change is necessary for the sake of ‘'progress”? Owners of small private homes stand, upon a different footing from the schemers breaking an established zoning code law. I understand (?) that a change is,in the hands of “The People ” A notice is put up somewhere and the presumption is: the people read it and are either for it, or against How democratic. But consider the advantage given to the politician. He knows what he is doing on-the-sly; but the unwise private small home-owner, does not. CHANGING CODES is too often, a perversion. However, the politician presumably isn’t “acting on his own.” He knows he is the “front” for schemers. The greater the knowledge, the greater the guilt. May we both, the naive private home-owner, and the crafty politician, be kept from the crime of hypocrisy. Look around and you can see the results: strangulation of the privacy and tranquility a sentiment people came here for (or didn’t they?) — and the great triumph of the cooly astute entrepreneurs and- the real estate manipulators who work behind the scenes, and make the elected official the pious “front." FURTHERMORE,! can't understand, a complaint in a recent published letter, that Sea Isle is dirty, physically. Compared to a place like a metropolis, Sea Isle is a paradise: but, Die town is dirty, ethically speaking: THAT makes sense! Paraphrasing a recent headline in the Herald: face reality the positive way: do more writing in the Herald about ethics; and keep it, rational ARTHUR MURRAY APPELL Sea Isle City

Do you have or. opinion on this subject?. Write a letter to the editor, Herald and Lantern, P.O. box 430, Cape May Court House, N.J. 08210 * . -•i- * ' Count the Hits

To The Editor: 1 really do enjoy Joe Zelnik’s weekly column. How is this for a iantasy? The county sets up a grandstand in front of the American Legion Hall in Court House and charges admission to “Codrtites” who count the number of hits and nearmisses as cars and trucks speeding up Dias Creek Road and Shunpike try to knock off cars and trucks crossing Stiles and Hand Avenues. There were two fender benders at Stites and Dias Creek Roads within two hours this morning (Feb. 3). One car flipped over.. Maybe a greater fa'ntasy would be that the county erects 25 miles-per-hour signs in a residential area. VIRGINU BOARDMAN Court House

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Ideal Citizens To The Editor: .One of the “Big Ideas” of the Scout Movement is the thought that the scout of today is the citizen of tomorrow. The scouts receive definite training for the responsibilities ahead of them. They are made.to realize that they are being tested day after day. No one can be trusted In big things who has not proved himself worthy in small ones. The boy who does his daily good turn, who takes the Scout Law into his home and practices the Scout Oath in the schoolroom and in sports will continue to do so in adult life. I have been in scouting 66 years, most of the time as a Scout Leader until a few years ago. I would like to share with you an excerpt from a letter I received recently from a former scout who now has a responsible position with an engineering firm in Florida: "WE HAD MANY great camping trips, but when I think back, I learned a lot more than camping from you. I've never forgotten the principles scouting is built upon and even now I try to follow them. Thank you for everything.” This speaks for itself. We know that the Scout Law in its entirety contains all of the elements of good citizenship. The scouts are taught to follow this law in their everyday lives and, with such a law to guide them, there is no doubt that they will be the ideal citizens of the future. Scouting is an organization where the leaders and helpers work without pay to help, teach and train boys in worthwhile ideals and activities BOYS BETWEEN the ages of l 1 and 18 — there is room for you in the Troop in your area. Parents — the leaders need your interest and participation Boys and parents — You can help a great deal in making the 74th Birthday Year a banner one in which you will receive gratification. D | NIEL A hqellering Committee rpan Troop No. 74 North W'ildwood

Herald & Lantern 8 February '84

Lookin' and Listenin' Winter Trees:

Great Beauty By DOROTHY D. FREAS Looking at the trees this month, you will find that they ' have great beauty. The smaller branches make a fine network against a clear blue sky, or else they add some • darker gray coloring to a leaden stormy one. Admiring a lovely green tree, full of spring blossoms, or seeing the leaves turn to scarlet and gold in the fall, is an appreciation of nature shared by almost everyone. Winter trees are something apart, but still they, have great beauty. They are more difficult to recognize, but often we get acquainted in summer with that maple, the rounded^Iobe shape of the sycamore and the black walnut that the squirrels love for its delicious nuts. THIS LAST TREE has spreading branches including some lower ones that curve downward a few feet away from the trunk.. This walnut tree sharply contrasts in winter with its solid round top of yellow-green leaves of summertime. The sycamore is easy to recognize for it carries its fruit all winter. We all have seen these hard balls on the ground in early spring. Dai^c brown and spiky, they have lost all. the seeds that they contained, for they blew all around last fall, looking for a fertile place to land and germinate. This tree, also naWied “plan£” and “buttonwood,” splits off and rejects various size pieces from the trunk and from its larger branches. These cast-offs are found at the , base of the tree, and looking up, you see smooth, light green patches of new surface. THE SUGAR MAPLE is tall with one main trunk and as seen in winter, having no large limbs extending to the side. In winter it also carries many fat brown buds, sharply pointed, which add to its individuality. TTiese three trees and the graceful and feathery weeping willow with its leafless branches, are numerous in our county. 1116 willow relies on year ’round beauty for its value. The maple has a valuable commercial use, often made into furniture. The curly and the bird’s-eye maple wood, which occurs only in a few trees of the specif, are considered special when made into a piece of furniture. Inclement weather, especially snow and ice, curtails our freedom of action in this season, but look out your window. The majority of us in this area can enjoy the beauty of a leafless tree.

‘Watch’ Read To Hie Editor: You are to be commended for publishing the column "Health Watch” which appears in your fine newspaper Dr. Robert Beitmah does ah excellent job in writing it, as he tells it like it is. It could, and probably does, serve to alert our citizens of physical problems they didn't realize they had. I sincerely hope you yvill continue this important service to our community. JOHN HOGAN Avalon

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Sentimental Column ‘Stufato Alla Manzo’ Kills 'Em

By JOE ZELNIK With Valentine's Day approaching, I've been urged to do a sentimental column on lo'e. That makes a good deal of sense for two reasons. First, I’m in the “Guinness Book of World Records” for the number of times I’ve made an ass out of myself over love. Second, I am currently not in love. This combination of experience and objectivity makes me the perfect commentator. A male bias is unavoidable, of course, but most of whr.t I say can be applied unisexually Before offering priceless cdvic*, let me dispense of several love-related questions from readers. R. L. of Nummy: Why on earth did you buy a vacuum cleaner for a lady with whom you had a close pe*sonal relationship? Answer. She had a long-haired, brown dog, and I wore mostly dark clothes. M. P. OF WOODBINE: I’ve seen you in fancy restaurants with attractive women, drinking wine and whispering a toast. What do you say at a time like that? Answer: Look into her eyes and say, “Stufato Alla Manzo.” It knocks ’em dead. W. H. of Ocean View: Should I date beautiful women who always break my heart, or plain women who don’t? Answer : 1 prefer beautiful women who break my heart It’s a matter of economics. You take out a beautiful woman and odds are she’ll flirt with the bartender, the maitre d’, the waiter, even the restaurant manager. This can lead to a free drink, a complimentary dessert or even a gratuitous bottle of wine Measure that alongside a broken heart, which will heal in a few years. Incidentally, don’t you divorced males ever feel guilty about blowing your child support money on a date. No less than the Roman Catholic primate of Englandjias said it’s “good Christian practice” to “thank heaven for the soqnd of beautiful music, the pleasure of a good wine,, and the beauty of a pretty girl.” T. J. OF NORTH CAPE MAY: Could you suggest a Valentine’s Day gift for my warm, cuddly sweetie?

Answer. To ensure that she stays that way, get her a heating pad. ^ M. B. of Reeds Beach: I hate my wife, but I suppose I still have to get her a Valentine’s gift** Answer: Yes. Try sky-diving lessons. B. R. of Cape May: When it comes to love, do you ever wish that you knew- then what you know now ? Answer: No, but I often wish that I didn't know now what I knew then. C. S. of Stone Harbor: My girl has gone and left nfe. She’s with somebody new. When the two of them are dancing, and she whispers soft and sweet, I wonder if she tells him. I bought the shoes on her feet? Answer: Probably. But knowing you, you probably got her those pointy shoes with very high heels and. if it’s any consolation, she’s probably getting painful bunions. THAT REMINDS ME, don’t ever think you’re the only lovesick person. Lovesickness is the third most frequent medical complaint, right after the common cold and constipation, and just ahead of those bunions, which lovesickness somewhat resembles. A bunion is a symptom of a foot misalignment and love sickness is a symptom of a misalignment of the heart. I realized that many of you would like a sharing relationship with “the right person.” Perhaps you’re too fussy. You have to be willing to overlook some faults. Women, for example, should not rule out a man just because he leaves the toUet seat up. Possibly he can be trained. Men, on the other hand, should not disengage 1 simply because they see a women using a horrible metal instrument to curl her eyelashes. They’re her eyelashes. FINALLY. DON’T think you can find love by setting off on a determined search. It^gpesn’t work that way The person who goes to the beach>ith a metal detector every morning seldom finds anythingtait trash, trash trash But one day you leave the detector home and just go for a walk for the heckuvit and, wham, there’s a treasure in the surf. It'll happen. I think.