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FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1917

Permanent Road Paving The ecomony program of the Board of Freeholders, fostered by Director Rutherford, iu the repairing of County raids for this year is a most excellent move. The plan to use any and all ’ money given- the County by the State, for a permanent surface on the Main Seashore Road is a still'better move, and cannot be carried out too soon. The necessity for a permanent, hard surface on this main artery of travel, especially in the winter, cannot be overestimated. Many times during this winter conditions made this road well-nigh impassible, witb mud when the thaws came, and such deep bard irozen .ruts in the colder weather that navel by auto was unpleasant, to say the very least. With.the 5,000,Ooo^road law of Governor Edge’s passed, aud effeclive, andjthe monarchist! powers of the State Road Commissioner,removed, there is no reason why C ]>e,May County would not get enough Stale aid to be able to undertake the re-surfacing of this,road at once. Director Rutherford goes to Trenton on Monday to ascertain how much the County will receive of the Slate money tins year. With the prospect of all of this being spent for permanent paving|ouj thc_ Main Seashore road, let’s hope that he comes back with a big wad. War On Our Coast It has developed at the meeting of the County Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, that a great number of requests were being received by the resorts of Cape May Conn, lor leases of cottages, providing lor the payment of rental for the cottage “if there is no war.” Fostered by an editorial 111 the “liiladelphia “Evening Bulletiu.'’ ou Match 19th, telling of the possible destructiuii uf our Coast resorts by the Germans, the Philadelphians who normally make up our summci population arc getting scary. It behooves everyone who lives ou the coast to at once and with ail the force of his manhood or womanhood to dispell this ridiculous idea Uiri this coast will be in danger in case ol war. Germany's bands aie fully three thousand miles •way, and the only instrument o. destruction that she has access to the high seas with is the submarine—and this so far as danger of bombaidment is concerned might as well be armtH with pop-guns for all the harm that can be done. Rather is the danger in the more populous centres, where bombs can do a larger amount of destruction, and hit at the vital parts of the action. Our little Jersey Coast has so little to be the prey of Germany iu comparisiou with the more populous centres that talk of "war clauses” in rental k-ases should be treated as a joke. In war the desire of the enemy, as we understand it. is to strike where it will do the most good. The munition plants, skip-building yards, etc., in and about Piiiladrlphia would, therefore, logiutllv. be the first places to be attacked. Our own little gun testing grounds would not be tempting trait—the places where these gnus arc made would be the centre of attraclioi. or the Kaiser and his cohorts.

d that the failure of riled power he asked at foreign countries . oountn cannot but i fight” speech is the ted the rest of the ■e tine spirit of the . one thing that can

C. F. SCHUCK.

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Newspaper Talk Those who know him, extend their sincere sympathy to Henry Rohner, the Philadelphia merchant and Sea Isle City cottager, who «tands charged with being disloyal and traitorom to the country of his adoption by being the innocent carrier of smuggled goods from the interned German raiders at the League Island navy yard. It was reported this week that the charge, with the resultant newspaper notoriety, has broken down Mr. Rohner’s health so that since then he has been unablc_lp attend to even the ordinary duties of his business. This is simply another example of the harm the wild statements published in the daily newspapers can inflict It so happens in this particular case a prominent man was implicated, so that,regardless of the consequences to the individual, it made a good “war story,” and as such was deserving of scare heads. Who of us who live on the shore will forget the way the newspapers played up the shark scare of last year. Two or three bathers were killed by sharks (perhaps) and for day in and day out the newspapers were filled with such shark stories that the business of the seashore resorts was seriously affected. Nothing was said^ however, of the bathers whodtown each year through their foolhardiness in venturing into water too deep for safety, though the sum total that lose their lives this way each year is far greater than the loss through sharks in a century. Sharks made good newspaper talk, however, so the consequences were not considered. Similarly with the infarti'..- paralysis of last year. Infantile paralysis i:, a disease as old as mankind, though not known by any other name than “summer complaint” until medical science discovered a better sounding name a few \ ears ago. A few cases mote than usual were reported last >ear, however, with the result that the newspapers played up the stories, and soon the disease became general. Parents living in a street where a case developed would have thought nothing of it, but the newspapers were not content to allow anyone to remain in ignorance. Then the parents in alarm took their children and fled to another neighborhood, or ^y, and the disease witb them. No wonder it soon liecame general, and everyone became panicky. Infantile paralysis made good newspaper talk. Sbonld we go to war witb Germany, and it looks very much that way just now, some fine day a German submarine will stick-ils nose up at Absecou Inlet, of some of the other Inlet* along our South Jersey coast, aud a shot or two will be fired. The next morning headlines three inches high will tell the world that the Jeisey coast has been bombarded.and you wou’t l»c able to get a visitor here for the summer if you offer him the entire coast as a gift. Newspajicr talk will kill the resort business deader than ever be-

fore.

In the present war crisis, the nation normally even tempered and calm thinking, is aroused and ready to fight at the drop of the hat. Feeling runs high against Germany, because the newspapers have told us that Germany is a had, had country, and that England, despite the part she played against America on two memorable occasions, is a goody, goody little defenseless country that we should sympathize with and help. And we are doing it Henry Rohner was born in Germany, but was as true an American as any one—far more so, perhaps, than manv American born. Because his drivers, at the request of the Caponn of one of the raiders, carried some ship clocks to a third party, however, the newspapers found an oppor tunity to play up some local color in the war situation, and soon had Mr. Rohner making bombs to blow up the navy raid, and smuggling ammunition aboard the raiders, aud almost had him a German army officer. Free speech and free ptess are two of the grandest and most sacred of American rights, hut it would be well, very often, if the news columns or the daily press, especially those of Philadel-

phia, were muzzled.

Here is an attempted commendation of the financial policies of the Wilson administration

during its first term:

“Charged with responsiblility for the revenues of the nation, the Tressniy Department Juring this adininistiation has put into oprratiou a new tariff law and the in.onte tax law and many

other internal revenue measuirs.'’

That is a ratlin left-handed compliment. “Charged with tesponsibilitv foi laising •.evciiue,” the administration repealed tariff duties which

eflectively imposed taxes upon 1 ers, and then enacted not only 1 law hut “many other internal revi

which imposed new tax burden up>n uni 1 people w ithout even then laising the lands ik xaxy tor the maintenance of tire government.

Communications Ed. Not*.—The publication of a communication in the Cape May County Times must not be construed as an endorsement of the sentiments expressed therein. The columns of the Times are always open for the publication of any signed communication.

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Editor Cape May County Times. | Dear BirrKindly allow me, through your rainable paper, to express my hearty appreciation to all those patrons who visited the school last week in accordance with the State-wide' invitation extended by Dr. C. M. Kendall, our Bute Commissioner of Education. While an open Invitation Is always held out to the friends of our local school, few avail themselves of the opportunity of seeing the pupils at work under ordinary conditions. Last week, however, quite a number of ladles visited the school at different times; and a delegation from theMeeslah Lutheran Church, composed of Mrs. Ankele, Mrs. Clarence Pfeiffer, Mm. Robert Stevens, Mrs. Frank Fowkes, Mr*. H. Asser. Mrs. Peterson and Miss Ttllie Cronecker, called Friday afternoon. After Inspecting the various rooms they found themselves Just In time to sample the fudge made by the cooking class. What their opinion of the visit is, I don't pretend to know, but I do know that If they could realise how much it means to a pupil to have his parents and neighbors come In and see him at work, they would certainly come more frequently in the same kindly, interested way that was the rule last eek. When a parent shows keen and kindly interest In the school, that parent's child feels that the school Isa good place, and he Immediattly tiles to show bis appreciation of It by doing his best. By thus dolne h's best ne becomes a credit to himself, the pride of his parents, and a splendid asset to bis country—In other words —a good American citizen. Yours very truly. JOHN H. CARROL. March 17. 1917.

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REAL NOURISHMENT. Hygians Tips For the Wise Mother to

Follow.

It la not enough that the body should be supplied with the kind of food for repairing It and with the kind of food to keep it warm and tc give power to move. It must also have lime, Iron and common salt to build up the cells and to keep them In good coodltlon. Bones and teeth are examples at the cell* which require lime and which not he repaired without 1L Milk and eggs are the best sources of lime for the body. Other lime giving foods are buttermilk, prunes, beans, cottage cheese, celery, spinach and cauliflower. Blood cannot he kei>t rich and red unless tbs body makes dally many mil. Uoos of red blood corpuscles. Iu anaemia, where people l>ecome pair and 11stIcaa. the supply of red corpuscles la usually greatly reduced. Iron giving foods are whole wheat bread, egg yolk, cabbage, oatmeal, dried beana, celery,

Nerve and brain cel la cannot be made unless a substance for building 'hem known aa phosphorus la supplied In sufficient amounts In the food. This substance la moat abundant In spinach, buttermilk, cottage cheese, asparagus, cauliflower, cucumbers and celery. Some people boy lime. Iron and salts at the drug store in various medicines. Others get them from fruit* aud vegetable* As a general thing our Instincts . lay be relied upon to supply the organism with the necessary amount of com-

mon nit.

The human machine, like the steam engine, needs to be kept clean. Cellulose. a substance familiar in the long string* of old celery. In lettuce and In cabbage, la not used by tbe body for food, but dean* out the digestive tract. Among the other vegetable* containing cellulose are carrots, green corn, potatoes, parsnips, fresh beets, squash, lettuce aud lima bean*. A day's meals should contain some meat or eggs and ml'k, starchy vegetables. bread, butter, one vegetable which gives Iron and one vegetable or fruit which gives Ume. Tbe phosphorus la usually Insured by the milk, eggs

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