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ttUBS MUSI UCAnONALWORK ARL M. WADDINGTON, be Strsthmere Lumber Company, results of the World War, since has become one of the allies, has the retail lumber, as well as the eineas men, of Cape May County, tth a very serious condition. Thu e state of affairs as regards their ess prospects. County's beaches, the best along Seaboard, are pMy grounds and at. The salt sea air from the il breezes during the hot summer he moderate Winter temperatures take the cities and towns of this health resorts. tent time, and until the World War sufacture of munitions, ordnance, applies will be increased steadily, g plants will be enlarged. Ship creasing by leaps and bounds, and e to do so in order to subdue the equipment and millions of dollars' ire must be put upon the railroads. t demanding innumerable supplies Our farmers are increasing their ry business subsidiary to the suptatior in the conflict in which we Is taxed for a greater strength/vStewise the physical and mental Bmanity is taxed as never before, called upon for greater efforts week, month to month, and yjar t must fail. x, I write, because passing events t war and we must prepare for it txl at home. The defeated Hun a w, would never surrender to his as not prepared to follow up the under the great physical and menupon it, must have diversion and 'All work and no play will make By.” Humanity must obtain these kd relaxations somewhere. Do we i come to Cape May County to obpertainly do. We are fortunate in DuPont munition plants, the Delapflding plants, and the largest loco* i located within 90 miles of us.

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The National Capital, the Keystone State, with its great steel and munition industries, and the Empire State with its great metropolis, circle around this wonderful play ground and haven of rest. But are they not also fortunate in having our great assets so near them ? We must let the population of this circle know what we have. I believe we should make our seashore resoits known far and wide. The action of the Chosen Board of Freeholders and Cape May County Chamber of Commerce at its last meeting in 'Stone Harbor in appointinga committee for the purpose of planning the moet practical and beneficial course for advertising the County of Cape May, is in my opinion, the most important action taken since the organization of the Chamber, and should have the full support of every lumberman in Cape May County. Our beaches are our asset, and the many millions of people circling this county should be acquainted and educated as to what are the advantages of our beach resorts. There is more danger of too little, rather than too much, advertising of our beach resorts. I hope that the year of 1919 will see our County advertised to the fullest extent, with a plan to continue upon the most up to date forms of advertising year

after year.

As the world conflict continues, and the greater the strain upon humanity, Recreation resorts will be sought Let us be prepared to let the world at large know what we have during the war. and after 1.he war. If we begin to advertise in 1919, we should fed the effects of it by 1920. With the war continuing, we will need the people, and they will need what we have to offer them. . . .. “Business in 1918 is going to be what the business men of America make it" This statement, made by a prominent business man, is ^ true of the retail lumber business in Cape May Ccuntv. It is business blindness not to recognize that unusual conditions now prevail. It is folly not to combat these conditions. The lumber dealers in the fanning districts need not be alarmed. The farmers were never so prosperous. There is plenty of business to be had.

ing material has ever found such uni»vor, as wood, and the desire of the American people for comfortable homes gradually itreaae.< our natural supply of timber. Strange as it may seem, however, lumber today b the least expensive important building commodity on the market Its cost is AMAZINGLY IX)W as compared with other building materials. The lumberman and the building contractors, together, with the real estate men of our respective resorts, must get in close contact with all prospective home seekers and investors, show them plans, give them encouragement, show them for what they can erect the home, which they desire, and the economi* value of building it now. While the cost of lumber now is not high, the indications are that it will increase in coot. We cannot expect a decrease in the demand and price of such an important building commodity, until Europe is reconstructed. National industry has a duty to perform extending far beyond the handling of war orders. There must be sufficient non-war business to pay for and distribute the cost of the war. There must be active exchange in all lines of industry. We must have more business than usual in the lumber industry in order to do our full part. We must continue to create more sales, encourage home building or we will fail to do our part in the purchase of Thrift Stamps, and in the purchase of Liberty Bond issues that are sure to follow.

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There is one MISCONCEPTION, the mistaken notion that LUMBER IS HIGH. The farmer can buy TWICE the amount of lumber with the produce he raises now as he could buy with the same amount of produce THREE years ago. So the lumber yard in the fanning district has a large scope to cover and economic duty to perform in selling bis products to the farmer for

economic improvements.

The retail yards of our resorts have a very small amount of farm business and are not very close to it either. We are dose, however, to a very large number of prospects, who are undecided as to what course to pursue. They are the Summer home seekei and the invertor. Business was never more prosperous over the entire country*. Isbor, skilled and unskilled, never before received such bountiful wages. But the misconception that lumber is high must

be dispelled everywhere.

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