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CAPE MAY COUNTY TIMES Omaolidatsd with the 8 * lal* Otj Review. Febnuur. 1»18 WILLIAM A. HAFTKRT. General Maaacw NORVELLE WALLACE SHARP 1 '. H. Maaadmr Editor PobUshed Every Friday by the CAPE KAY COTJHYY TIKES COKPAKY (Incorporated) Atlantic Avenue and Eighth Street Weet Jeraey and Landis Avenues OCEAN CT7Y, N. J. SEA ISLE CITT, N. J.

Philadelphia Office—717 Mutual Life Buildtoc. A. P. Smith. AdverUsing Represent^.u>e. Subscriptlou Price, f 1.50 Per Tear In Advance. Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Application. MEMBER United TypotheUe of America. New Jersey Pi National Editorial Association.

Batered at the Post Office at Sea Isle City, N. J.. as Second-Class Matter.

"If it’s Not in the Times-—It Didn’t Happen '’

HAIL, 1923! Soon a Hew Year win be bora. The year of 1922 win be a closed book, with aH its pleasures and happiness, and its pains and reverses, wffl be history—gone into Yesterday from whence it can never return. The clean sheets of the Hew Year in the Book of life wffl open up bafare us. What shall he written in these pages cannot be foretold, but in a large measure the history that they wffl record wffl depend largely upon

We can acrompliih great things, both in a personal and in a civic wsy duing the next year if we but put our shoulder to the wheel and p"* 1 ’

with every ounce of energy within ns.

‘ lA«t year may have been good—let's make the Hew Year better. Last year may have been bad—let’s net allow this to keep ns from fsriug the *ew Year, with a determination to win out in spite of everything

COHGEATULATIOHS EH OXBEX

~ Wildwood is in line for real congratulations on the prospect of •panlion of a newspaper np to the standard which the resort is justly

A company of local business and newspaper men have taken an option «* the Wildwood Journal, and wffl dose the sale by Kay Hist for the plant *4>«rilding. In the company are Harry F. Greaves, editor of the Wildwood Leader; W. Courtright Smith, Kayor of Wildwood; Lanning Hyers, Principal of the ffigh School, and P. H. Jackson, owner of Jackson Drug Stores. To these gentlemen, and to Wildwood, the TIKES extends ft* hot wishes and hop: for the success of the enterprise. COHSEDEE THE ACOBH It is a nut, yet when it falls from the tree it has wrapped up in its dull an unalterable resolution to produce an oak tree. * „ It is a nnt, but it needs only the environment of earth, warmth moisture to accomplish its job. It is a nut, but it never produces a string bean vine, a lem-u tree a • huckleberry bush. It is a nut, but it specializes on oak trees and never fails. - You, too, may be a nnt, but if you have the acorn’s same high purpoae, Abe same ftm resolve, no human power can stop you. " r the acorn; it, too, is a nnt Kore Pep.

OFFICE CAT

Daddy’s Car By “Bat" If you hear an awful smash —It’s Daddy’s car; If you hear a frightful crash —It’s Daddy’s car; In the alley, drive or street. It’s not safe upon ita feet— Other cars are bound to meet Daddy's car.

If you’d be right up-to-date.

—Bump Daddy's car;

If year car will not steer straight,

—Bump Daddy's ear;

Jam his fenders-tbat’s the fashion, n,, n that.

Rub his paint off-then just dash on 1 It’s destruction’a the ruling

LEAGUE gECBET AlYaHIP

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Although there Is no ofOclal announcement of the acceptance of tbo office cf secretary for the Young Men’s Progreeslvs League of Ocean City. It to understood that Walter Allen, well known young man of the city, will take ove the position, despite the fact that Allen verbally declined the nomination nt a recent meeting and to understood to have written a similar declaration to the head of the organisation. Prior to the last meeting of the League, It was practically understood that Philip J. Evans, editor of the Ocean City Sentinel, had unofflctallr accepted the nomination. Evans was considered by members of the League as an excellent candidate for the office, qualifications were, at the time, unquestioned and to quote from a abused phrase, "everything rosy." However, certain In flu appear to have started functioning against Evans and' rather than split an otherwise united organisation, the dlstlngu .shed editor declined nomination In favor of no one. With the written refusal of Ala’s. to said to have been received the refusal o'. Walter Kuehn. a real tate dealer of Ocean City. Elmer Jackson Pearl, president

OCEAH CITY WILL TACKLE ATLAHTIC COT SATH&DAY

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Members of the Ocean City basketball team who have hi cel lent balls daring the pent will tackle the Melrose flee of Atlantic City at the Temple He In Ocean City on Saturday sight, December 30th. The Ocean City team win be handicapped through the ah-

forward of the Unlvsraltjr of Penasytranla, and who has moved to J chuntviile whom he to opening dental offices Scott Adesss probably be switched to fill the place

made vacant by originally played land team. His

will be filled by Eddie Miller, for-' merty of the Eastern League of Atlantic City. With Adams and Captain Leon Breekley as fn. wards Miller at center and Mangold and Murphy as guards the team will present a formidable appearance. The Atlantic City team will start Captain Jimmy Lilly and Jimmy Clark as forwards with Jacobs at ranter and Joe Sharp and Charles Levy guards. The game will be worth while from the athletic starn'Tolnt and a large attendance to expected.

Mon"

League, Informed the TIMES 'Allen was given the nomlna-

end stated nothing

—Daddy's car.

* TAX-EIDDEH AMERICA A lot of taxpayers have little idea where we are drifting; they simply Iomw that we are on our way—just where to they don’t know. Any citizen interested in taxes—and certainly we are all interested in them should and carefully and studiously this plain, understandable and exceptionally alb editorial recently printed in the Hew York Herald; “After a careful study of the tax burdens which this country is bearlag, the Hational Industrial Conference Board found that among the six great industrial nations the United States is second in the fovra it pays. Only tiie United Kingdom shows a higher per capita taxation for 1920-20. with |4S, as against |41 here. “Let it be recalled that a tax bill of $41 a year for every man, wc child in this country is an avenge tax bill of some $200 a year, for American family. And let it be remembered that every dollsr c up In taxes is a dollar subtracted from the driving power of the country’s ’ Ive machinery. “What the per capita tax burden in the United States means is that | last year one-sixth of the national income went into taxes. The national I f income is the value of everything the country produces. Put it another * way; Last year the American people worked one day out of every six days week for the tax collector. “But to say that one-sixth of all the nation's income was swallowed np in taxes does not tell the whole story of the damage thus done to the country in taking driving power out of its productive machinery. A sixth j ot the nation’s income went into the economically destructive tax mill, but | tint sixth did net go directly from the whole country to the tax collector. f For the most part it went in the first instance from the highly active indusI trial centers to the tax collector. “The farms, with their vast production in the aggregate, do not pay a 1 gnat mass of taxes, national, State or local. The timber l«nd« do not. ' Communities of small population units, although bulking enormously in the total, do not. The highly active industrial centers, with their metropolitan , neighbors of trade and commerce, do. Thus the per capita tax bunlen of | the State of Alabama was $26.47, while the pa capita tax burden of the State of Hew York was $148.36 and of Kassachusetts $125.35. “It is easy to see from this that while one-sixth of the nation's income as a whole went to the tax collector, one-quarter or even one-third of the income of the highly active industrial section went to the tax collet tor. In some intensely active centers or industries rs much as one-half the income may have gone to the tax collector. “How it is surplus income out of which productive machinery is kept up, reviewed, improved and expanded. But if the surplus income of the productive industry is thus eaten up in destructive taxes that surplus income no longer exists to go into the maintenance, renewal, improvement ! and expansion of those productive plants to create more employment, more ! production and more wealth ior the public and the country. “It is surplus productive income out of which new railroads are built, mew mi"** de. eliped, new mills and factories established. But if the surplus productive income is devoured by the tax collector it cannot be used to build the new railroads, develop the new mines and establiah the new »il>« and factories that are all essential to continue the growth of the country and to increase the welfare and happiness of the people. “The tax collector has been and still is bleeding American productive industry white. And when the tax collector bleeds American productive industry white this deadly tax scourge impoverishes the American people, whose livelihoods depend upon a prosperous and growing .ndustry; it threatens the country with dry rot and it makes for national suicide.”

Teacher—Tommy, how far have you studied? Tommy—Just as tar as the hook la

dirty.

Clayton Haines Brick says mor has been done for the world b; wheelbarrows than by automobiles. “Henry Ford Is happy,” says i Court House official. “The Kans* boys have got a bonus and Henry will *et half of It." “Two little doss chased a black cat like a streak of greased lightning across the street and In between two building* into an alley,” says an ;e. “In about a second the two little dogs came back into a streak of greased lightning with s dog chasing them between two building*. Life to like that.” Why in Sara Hill a certain party in the office wears wolten socks over their silk stockings to s n Al os Tash notee. Just like wearing gw** over a diamond ring. Even a bad egg will not U fense if you leave it alone. To be college bred means year loaf, requiring a great peal of dtagh, as well as plenty of crust.

We Try Anything Once To develop alertness And poise and other up the sp.nal vertebrae, try stepping on the soap as you get of the bath tub.—Kansas City Chop-

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Darn your hide. Charles Barker, we'll never believe another thing we read in your paper. Wc can’t blame a woman for wanting to be in style, but the great question is. how does she know when le to in style. A man may be able to get credit for bis good intentions, but he to expmted to pay real money for hto coal. He Was There “Oo’s leky honey bunch to oq?" she softly cooed. As he let go his hold on the steering wheel to grasp the opportunity properly, the csr lunged Into e ditch. Crawling out and digging the mud from bis eyes, be gurgled:

ibers of the League

ranted with the secularist posltloa and are wondering why, with due raspset to Allen who to considered a cap hie candidate, Evans was led to pursue the course be chose and announced at the last meeting of the

League;

BEACH PLUMS FOE OCEAH COT IH AKEE1CAH KEHU OCEAN CITT— Ocean City win be repress along with scores of other cities. In a principal food product to be Included la the "AH-American, Meal” and brought to the attention of peo?le in every state In the Union through a plan inUlated by the Sacramento (Cal.) Chamber of <

What has become of the old-fash-ioned girt who wore so many Mss In' the vicinity of her watoi line that you got your hand all scratched up?

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•ft* the Mayor vras p,W' ! * ■toohere of his fhaally with a bbiJ?

“ •om SZ: Ths Mayor —ohm beanttrui p IBi . t out turn ,„4 nmuf a

mA t. AAM MU Hi, JWA. S*M, CUBS ram ramuauFii

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Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kuehn. of -» Kuehn Apartments at Eighth street and Atlantic avenue, Oce*, City, were visitors to Philadelphia over the TuleUde hotidaya. "■ ha recently recovered from . attack of lafiuensa and ■arefully guarding hto move, its out of doors since then. It was thought (hit the Philaddphla excursion might be a good thing tor him. change of atmosphere and surnmndtagr and accordingly Mr*

According to A. S. Dudley,

;er of the

toatton, the food product one obtainable In any part of the United States any dhy In the year from the particular town or city represented on the monster menu, and further It must be an aTl-American product. Canned or 1*1* may be used, but no imported

fraction of a portion of

the commodity.

The movement to national tin II cities have beer asked to sei list of principal food products their sections to the Sacrann Chamber of Commerce. Food experts will be selected t6 prepare which will be later announced

apers and magazt ition from Dudley

received by F. Leroy Howe, tary of the O-t-an City Chamber of who in reply stated that the food products for which Ocean City Is noted are: dams, crabs, oys-

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Captain Jack Jernee. of the Ocean City Beach Patrol, was the victim of

Christmas Day he wes visited by friends, one of whom bore under hto

ta s large parcel.

The fttt was presented sad Jernee fell to work unwrapping It. Box after box was disposed of sad on sack

PEOPLE OF OUR TOWH

Observe Oswald Stupid, the fitfNV Age Advertiser, helping make tl • Town Beautiful by tacking Signs a! over Everything Before Newspaper* were Invented, this was conaidereKeen Advertising, but Not No Mirre Did you ever see Anybody carrying • Telephone Pole home to Raid the Ads oo Itt

by the Ocean City Title and Trust Company, will probably dart sometime In September. 1*33. It is said. Plans are being drawn up by Paul Davis, an architect of Philadelphia. It to planned to hare the trust company occupy the entire two upper floors and an entrance for this department will be provided for on Eighth street. An effort will be made to push the work tn view of the ever increasing business of the trust and title organisation. 40 HOKXES IK 8 CHEVAUX (Continued from pain 1) called upon to go through an Initiation fraught with much wielding of barrel slate on pillow Bluffed trousers. Horseback rides, jrer mountains, plains and rough seas: kitchen police of the potato peeling variety: heart to heart talks with draft board officials and a score or more other tlals will be imposed on the veteran seeking membership in the yoltThe organisation Is highly secret and the above mentioned forms of amusement are not to be taken 1 lit* ally. In view of the executive atmuopbere that hovers above the new - ly -ecelved member. A meeting of the organisation will be held some time the early psrt of January.