CAPE MAI COUNTY TIMES

Published Erery Friday By T^» CAPE MAT COUNTY TIMES PUBLISHING C<X (iDwrporaUd) West Jersey end Lendie Avenues, See Isle City. N. J.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1917

If the Corrupt Practices Act is not to be voted upon at this session of Congress the Gallinger amendment to that measure will likewise fail of action. But both the bill and amendment will be in evidence when the new Congress convenes; and it is possible that the Gsfllinger amendment will have a life of its own apart from any bill. The subject of Southern representation in Congress and in the electoral college is the most important question of political interest in this country today. It has been made acute by the results of the recent election, wherein a swollen and illegitimate electoral vote has been secured for the Democratic party in defiance of the Constitution. Such conditions cannot endure or be endured. The Gallinger amendment points the way to cure them. According to “ Leslie’s Weekly," an eighthour day is far too long a day to satisfy Thomas Gardiner, of Los Angeles, California. "The length of a day’s work at this time as in all times of the past should be governed by production and needs," says he. "As our needs per capita are about the same as they were fifty years ago, and as a worker will produce more now in four hours than in ten hours fifty years ago, it is necessary to the people’s welfare to have a fouriour work day at this time.” The correspondent, Mr. Gardiner, has apparnever been an editor of a small town newspaper.'" s Af ^h c countr y newspaper fraternity observed a foii^-bour day, or even an eight-hour dav the papers, would be issued only now and then, and mostl\“theu" at that.

More FooHafe Inveatlflatlon A Commission has been appointed t< tigate the high cost of living in New and after considerable expense of cash am matter, the Commission has outlined the mi they intend to pursue in their investigatii ask an appropriation of >7000 from the ‘ cany it out No donbt they will get the $7000. Nthey will investigate. And without a do net result of their investigation will be what any storekeeper could tell them much investigation, and that is that dealers in the State are charging the < high prices tor food products because forced to pay high prices to the midd other States. Thus will close another gation,” and the State will be fy 000 Investigations of this kind are usually a Recently the abnormal increase in the cc ^ news print paper caused such an acute condition that hundreds of newspapers in the country wire forced to suspend publication, and thousands b^d to raise their prices to readers and advertisers. The Federal Government thought it time to take a hand, and they appointed a Commission to “investigate” the cause. The investigation proved that it cost less to manufacture print paper today than it had for years, and when the paper manufacturers were called to Washington to give an accounting of their hold-up prices, they calmly declared that if the Commission did not stbp investigation, stop meddling in their aflaira, they would all quit manufacturing paper entirely. And the price of news pri^t still soars. Investigations amount to nothing. It is an absolute law of supply and demand that fixe* prices of food stuffs, as it does of news print, end high prices always hf.ve prevailed and always sfill prevail when the price of labor is high, and the country is prosperous. The laborer gets a higber wage and pays more for what he buy; to eveu things up, and all the investigations on the fax of earth will not change the condition.

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The Ci‘y Jon^missioners of Sea Isle City have been approached by a committee from the Library Association with the request that the office now used by the Mayor be turned over to the Library, instead of the larger room nowujSM on the second floor of the City It has been proven that tire ^MnngrTConiis unfitted for n4ibui ■ifTl'i fu rrrTYlninr- and winter, the heating facilities being very inadequate during the later

period.

There never has been a factor that played

such a prominent part in the welfare of the city as the Library, and the Com •mi ^ners should co-operate to any reasonable extent to have the institution continued for the greatest good to the greatest number or people. The request is entirely reasonable, and the Commissioners, if they have the interest of the city at heart rather than

their personal comfort, will grant it

Canada celebrated the Democratic victory in the 1916 election by sending us #27,000,000 worth of her goods during November. That made the total of our imports from our northern neighbor for the first eleven months of that year #313,500,000. an increase of #53,000,000 over the 1915 penod #62,000,000 over the 1914 period, and #38,000,000 over the 1913 period, nine months of which was under the Republican protective tariff law. It looks as if the ilson-Un-derwood law has been good pickings for the Cauuclfs, but their gratitude will never reach the point where they will permit our products to enter their market at anything lower than protective rati*. It is a one-sided affair, particularly hurtful to our fimueis, who, in their excitement over war profits, are apparently unconscious of the shin-skinning which Canada is giving them. The war cannot last indefinitely, but Canada’s sales to us after the v ar will, under the present tariff policy, be limited only by her own dsires and abilitv to produce. Arc we going to prepare for competition with Canada ami other coantries before this wav jag b over, 01 postpore tariff revision untii a post-wai depression has put our

industrial oiganuatjon out of tune.

A Menace to the County Cape May County is vitally interested in the work of the Bethlehem Steel Company at Tuckahoe and May’s Landing, as :s Atlantic County, and the County Chamber of Commerce sbocld co-operate with their neighboring county in their efforts to prevent the tract along the Tuckahoe and Egg Harbor rivers being used as an ordinance grounds. The Atlantic City contingent oppose the opening of the grounds because of the damage to Atlantic City that must result from the imxssant noise of the big guns that would be fired all through the day and night testing armor plates

and shells.

This noise would be heaid just as plainlji in Ocean City, Sea Isle City and the upper port of the county generally as in Atlantic City and county, and if organized effort can act as a rc--‘•'-ij’ji ’bf tne jToSnds, by an

— means let us get into the fight.

Down at Cape May the proving ground, are used for testing small three-inch guns, and yet the noise of these gnus was sufficient to shake the buildings in Cape May City and the lower part of the county, and can plainly be heard even up in the upper sections of the county, many of which are eighteen to twenty miles from the grounds. If this be true, how much more plainly will the noise of the large guns at Tuckahoe be heard, especially as they will be sc placed that the sound will travel toward the resorts rather

than away from them.

It has been said in Atlantic City that it would be best to wait until the testing was actually started before registering any complaint, on the possibility that the noise would not be objectionable. If this were done the testing would be started aad it would take years of work in the Courts to have the nuisance abated, and then the

damage would be done.

Obviously peisons seeking health, pleasuie and recreation at the seashore resorts will stay at home or go elsewhere, if their vacation period is to be disturbed by the constant jarring and racket of the guns. We who live hear the year around may become accustomed to the noise, even as they have at Cape May, but to the visitor it would be a constant source of nerve-racking

suui-yance.

This is an important maiter for the County Chamber of Commcroe, or any other trade organ-

izations and individuals, to take up.

The first real step to test the opinion of the country in the latest German crisis came, appropropilately enough, from a Republican Senator, representing a Pacific Coast State. Senator Poindexter’s proposes the immediate construction of a hundred submarines, meeting the issue of the German plaus in term;, of adequate pre-

paredness.

It to a Here* llftot that baata upon the

White Houm

that beau upon a throne. Until ha to relieved from It a praatdant never realizes the unconscious strain that ha has underta The Joyousnew after be baa told down the the contrast between the Ilfs aneceedIna that In the White House aad the life pusaiHl to It reveal to hha the aaturo of what be has goae through. Of couiee It Is pleasant u> be treated 'Ufa consideration by every one I tt to human nature tar the Incumbent to sw Joy the respect that to rendered to the office. Rut there Is an Isolation tor tha president that It to impossible to avoid. He is the only person In the government service who has that kind at Isolation. Few see him except by special appointment The office separatee him from society. There is no. neighborly dropping in; there la a curtain between him and that bodj of men with he was accustomed to associate. It to not true that that keej from knowing what to going on or that it saves him from feeling the shafts of criticism. The suggestion that be hears only the kindly view of what be does from bis cabinet and from those who are near to him does not cover the whole ground. He baa candid friends, and he reads the newspapers. From congressmen end from visitors bo frequently turn their steps to Washington the president hears the news from all over the country. He sees the newspaper men every few days, and unleer be is always using to give the public his view of ig questions be can learn much from them. If ha to open to IsformaOon at all he can exercise very excellent Judgment -s to the state of the

public puts.*.

It to pleasant to dispense the bosuttallty of the \Yhit-» House, because you know that most of your guests win rviber all their lives all the clrcumof their visit The government geoemos with the provident in salary and in paying his expense* of Mvtng. He can mvs a substantial sum each year and still not be niggardly in

hta hospitality.

Three prealdent* of the United States have lieen assassinated, and congress in consequence has thought it wise to enjoin upon the chief of the secret service of the treasury department the duty of guarding the president against aasanlt Three nr more —tperlenead men are assigned to that duty, and they attend him wherever be goes. Of course when he is in the White

House the regular Dtotrtet

who watch the approaches, mttie the presence of the secret service men unnecessary. Whenever the preaidant

goes abroad, however, tbe

ice men are expected to be in his immediate neigh 1 lorbood—in the vehicle is which be Is riding or »n another that follows; whenever he make* a railway

JCWbey tMTere

These esc ret service men become very skillful in detecting the presenee of persons who are demented and who in their excitement may become dan Of course if a man wished to kill the president and sacrifice his own Ufa for U the secret service precautions might not prevent him from carrying out his purpose, but there to greater danger from (h-mected persona than from deliberate murderers. My own Impression is that if there bad been aa great precaution taken when Prealdent McKinley was at tbe exposition in Buffalo aa Is taken today that tragedy would not have occurred. The ansa will In that case had bis band In h's pocket, where be had concealed a revolver wrapped in a handkerchief. If It had happened today a secret service man would have seised the assassin's hand In his pocket, found tbe revolver aud arrested him long before the man had reached a point where be could carry out hta purposeAlthough 1 recognize the net 1 salty of such precanttooa. I am hound to say that they are often Irksome to the president. Tbe secret service men are a* cc aside rate as possible and are well trained men. who mind their bustneea. but that constant dogging of the president's *tei>e arouses in him the uncon acinus Icellug of 1-eiug Bud** aurveU lance aud guard himself rather than

of being protected

An Impression has gone abroad that the president may not leave the conn try There U no law that prevents his doing so. and there ts no provision In the constitution that he would violate in leaving the national Jurisdiction. There Is a ci..iatitutianal direction that tbe vice prealdent eball act for tbe president In esse be is disabled he went abroad In such a way as to prevent his directing affairs b< might well b* beM to have disabled himself, and the vice president might act for him In bis absence.—William Howard Taft In Youth's t'ompanlou

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