cape MAY county times Consolidated with Uie B*a Ula CltT Herlaw. ralnuir. Mil WILLIAM A. HAFFERT. 0«nor«J Mw»a««r

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New Jereey Press Association.

Entered at tM Poet OBe. at Sea lain Cltj. N, J. aa Seeond-Claaa Matter.

"IfU's Not in the Times—It Didn’t Happen'

A COMPLETE HEWS SERVICE How many readers of the TIMES realise how complete it* news serrire is! Wc are not given to patting ourselves on the back—or speaking editorially should see say backs !-hut here is a brief outline of what you will find in thi« issue—and in every other issue—of YOUR newspaper. County news? Certainly. Full reports of the Freeholders'meetirjs, the County fcourts. real estate transactions and important news happeni regardless of what part of the County they happen in. Personal newt? A whole page of it every week, from every town srithin fifteen miles of Sea Isle City. Little intimate, chatty items tha. you wffl enjoy reading, about the people you know. Local news' Most assuredly. Eveiy local happening, whether in Sea Isle City or in Ocean City, is covered in a conicnaed, readable way to give the meat of the whole story without a waste of words. State news’ Surely. All the happenings at the State Capital this week, for instance, mo covered by special staff co/respondence—not rehashed from the daily newspapers, but freshly written by one who sits in the front lines at the legislative sessions and knows who’s who, and what’s what Features* A few. But those few written espedally for the TIMES, and not syndicated to any newspaper that will buy them. There is “Skeeter" for instance. And the "Office Cat” Then ther? is the weekly cartoon of some County person. AD fresh. LOCAL features. Of course, we are not pleasing EVERYBODY That simply cant be done. But we IK) welcome suggestions, and yos. criticism. If there is anything in the TIMES that you think should not be there, let ns know. If there is anything »ni««ing that you think should be there, let us know. Remember always, that this is YOUR newspaper, and every last mother's son of us is working to make it what YOU vaaL

WHERE THE MOHEY GOES Many members of the state legislature pay little heed to the general cry for a cat in governmental expenditures to re’ieve a tax-riddea public. Some of them are introducing bills for large appropriations for memorials, public monuments and other forms of sentimental show. One of these is a fcffl which calls for aa appropriation of $200,000 for an addition to the Essex Troop Armory. This is not the time for such extravagance. The tact is the state already owns a half docen armories that are not leing used for military purposes. Few of them are bang used strictly for the purpose originally intended and for which millions of state funds have been spent As a rule they are being rented out for entertainments and athletic games and similar purposes. la fulfilment of the policy of retrenchment as pledged by both political parties in their platforms, there is no better place to begin than with armories for military organizations that do not exist. The state should cease building them for the present or at least until real need for them is shown We may need more roads and more normal schools but if there is one thing that w: do not need above any other it is more arm uric* THE BLESLEY'S FOIHT BRIDGE At last aD of Cape May County is agreed upon the need of the Beesley’i Point to Somers Point automobile read and bridge. Up until very recently there was always opposition horn some quarter or anotner to the project and because the bounty was art a unit ta placing its demands for the bndge before the state legislators, there was not much attention given to

the project.

How it is different. And while nothing can be accomplished this year, the passage of resolution^ by the various Chambers of Commerce, the Board of Freeholders and persona) committee presentations by the County Chamber of Commerce wiD all sow seed that wiD bear fruit in due time. The law miU this year has stopped grinding for new measures, last Monday bring the last day for the presentation cf new bills in both the Assembly and the Senate. And as the buUding of the Beesley's Point bridge wiD need a law pasted t.st. creating this bridge as part of the State Highway system, nothing can be done this year—except the propaganda. And this propaganda should be kept going every any of the next twelve months to every possible branch of the State executive administrative offices.

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Sf Tftes. OP THE oceAfj err-*

tth February 1»J*.

; In WUd-

And n Hurt-Tearing Context Daring Farm and Horn* Week at Manhattan at the agricultural college the borsaaboe pitchers are U compete for prison Why not let the women have i dish-wasting contest says an exchange. Give a prise for the womax s ho can wash and break the moat

dishes..

And then hare a burned » contest by tha hired girls' union. Give the prise to tha hired girt who can turn a J-ineh-thlck sleek into n scorched rubber in the shor,oet time. We know a home here In Ocean City la which the aUteen-year daughter has seven beaus and the i wenty-alxayear-oid daughter never

t Thought for Today

“You can't

Dear Skinny: We spent a h«

wood with out getting run over with a street ear. Thet a something ain’t ! it. Yu no in Wildwood everybody believes in Boosting Wildwood and : putting up • Big Front so there moving the front of Hunt's Theatre ' arouno - -ere the back was. I sed to tne moving man lasted of doing j tbet why don't yu put VP another I front in the back then yu'U bev a good front in the front an a good front in the back. He sed thet'a a good Idee. I'U hunt up Hunt and aee what he aeys. so he left Hunt'# Theater were it is now in the middle of

the car track.

Sumbudy tipped off Captain Soudan he ast the moving man what wux doing. He sed hunting fer Hunt He sed b<>v yu s Hunting IIcanse* He sed I didn’t no a feUer In Wildwood needed one. Well he sed the hunting season is over an yu can't use a license till next fall. The funny part wui the car* wux stopped three days before enybudy new there nr something wrong. There so ■ed to having the trolleys run be-

hind time.

Skins If yu can't get a bunting license what are them summer fellers going to do thet come down here bunting fer Dears? The main industries of Wildwood ie fishing an politics. There alike an there different. The feller thet fishes fer fishes gets in his boat in the summer time an goes out batches a lot of fish an puts them In n barrel. The feller thet politics gets hU old boat out in the fall an ketches s lot of fish in the sticks who put there X's in a barrel. The differences Is thet the feller » in the summer gets paid fer _ fish he ketches but around election the fish thet kin make X's gets paid fer getting ketehed. Pop aeys it's too bad they can't put the fish In the same barrel with his X fer

A D«* tf . 0~ w™, £ ’

Versailles. Ind. Republican. ^

Our father, who ain't much on re- ! Hainan Brick aays the member!ng names, handed us this who pro «t-br bis mistakes is a

news item last week: "What's bis flnancier. name, at Lawrenceburg. who lives

right across tbs street t.-om that fel-. Among other pathetic low who runs the store on the cor- must be listed the effort of s high has sold hie farm to what you i brow professor to act enthusiastic st

call him. out there on Aurora pike." I a football game.

A Prohibition Epitaph A darn funny thing to us is how

Here lies the body of Frederick! the man who chews toba

LeFarge. ; to be hissed Just as often as if he

HU death is too sad foe descrip- were It to be kUsed.

He was killed by the mob in s ter-:

rible charge.

When he carelessly dropped hU >

prescription.

AH's fair la love and the garage

Pride goeth before the blowout.

Fools lav-walk In where ansH We took a package of dull safety f^p- to tread, rasor blades to the sharpener and Money makes the motor go. found, when we got 'em back that Ignorance of the law is no excime they were duller than before. We , on low she hsri »m to he pretty), know one bird who seems just to un- A > Aim mo as is the hand is won wrap 'em then wrap 'em up and five drdlare (at least) In the traffic and hand 'em back to you. coert. _ Sosw are born fuola; ac Unsung Along fooiMhneak and some Amos Tash say. a lot of peopl* 1(JOt Bor Knen %t crB4 j - who can t live on their incomes seen akiAtlne i.are gather a crowd, to be living on wbeeU moat of the

Letters to the Editor DAT IT DAT. Of XTKXT WAT. rr-BOEirnro worn All irosa Mr. Editor: Perhaps our Board of Chosen fn*. hare not observed the 1®. portance attached to the feet that sd from BaHspla^n to th« Head-of th*-River U In a deplorable condition. Conapleoose by theta ah-A aence are loads upon leads of grave] and innuseoraU which hare sot dilapidated be made level, but It still eoattau** slope In about ssraa different di:lions. Without n doubt, it U a troublesome factor to thorn poor unfortunates who mast laboriously travel thU way- We sympathise with them from the bottom of our beam -needIsas to any, they ere to ha

tied.

Mark Twain was e studeat of human nature and oace. upon a time he was heard to ray. "If a mar joee not

Can the flapper make her way' asks s professor She does not have > make her way. She has it.

Ain't ifthir Truth T

Short aklrU on a small girl Make s girl look smaller:

There ae three things a has to hat* in order to iborTmghlyi njoy *atiag s grapefruit -aegar.; orro rob* and s «lvtd imagination

the m Pop took me to a Tall Cedar meeting. Everybody were pyramids. Yu no what pyramids are don't yu Skinny. It's them things tbet the Egyptions stored their Ivory in. 1 guess tket's why they wear em on there beads. They call the Boar the Grand TalL He wasn’t very tell but sure looked Grand it> one of them 'Get Married In SulU." He sed according to the papers eee there looking fer Mummtee In Egypt. There's no reason fer It. we bev enuff dead ones here. I looked around and he wux rite. They call the candydates Saplings. Thet'e fancy word fer poor saps. As it U called a Forest they played Babes in the Woods with the Saps Yu remember bow the birds covered the Babes with leaves. Well by the time fer the birds to cum they were only leavings left. Somebody ast the band to play the Battle Cry of Freedom an they played Nobody Noes How Dry 1 Am. An ns far as 1 could see nobudy cared

ther.

The Grand Tall sed the Hangers need new suits. I thought thet wox kind of personal fur 1 would hate to her my clothes critislsed. How will we get them.” sed the old way Oe* up first In the morning.' Scmebudy pointed out yu don't always hare friends or company stay over nlte. The Grand Tall sed where there's s will there's s way. So I'm just tipping yu off If eny Tall Cedar insist* yu stay all nlte go honlt an put an old suit oh. The teecbers la Wildwood are Barter than our teecbers fer they on't ride In Uxxiea They sey It upset* there equanimity. They make me laf. They seem to think a Lisxie la made fer hauling truck. It wux powder puffs, vanity boxes an goulashes an now It's equanimity*, whatever they are. Just as I told yu last week Skins >unt Em an her feller ain't no more. POr she sat him what hi* intention* were He sed he Intended to get hi* hat an get home soon a* he could Ain't love a funny thing. Skins, yer eeter satisfied until yer miserable an then yer not contented. Aunt Em has derided to ketch one of those L»gtoti fellers at the dance at Rio Grand* 1 jus like to no who the V 00 * goof will be B* good as yu ffKEETKR.

blown." a8o w blowing 'our horns about i and sincerely hope tha Honorable Board will hear them down in CapMay Court House, naff eventually "Brighten the Cornar" la a«r com munlty. by giving the necareery and :h needed attention to the road

A BELLEPLAOf VOTER.

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WHAT HAS BE! Mr. Editor: If it waa loot—why not rcgiars it? If it has strayed—It should ha reinstated. If It was stolao—<j all means find it. But firet, what ha* come of it? Early last spring tha sport lover* of Sea Isle City prgnalcad aa Athletic Association, and aa a result Sea Isle City had a tataly gooff bsaaball team. Some really exciting games were played with laaam aa tar from borne aa Philadelphia gaff Tackartoc. rats all went to proea that San W« City had the material hot needed a head. When it acquired leadership and backing it proved what It could comphah In But once again—what has bacome

of it?

Why did It stop when tha base ball ‘ “ la baseball the only

Why didn't San lale CUy have a basketball team? Wham wao the A. A when the seaaon opened? in basketball, as In baseball. Sea Isis City has the material hot tacks the leadership sad harking. That’s the place the A. A. should have filled. Do you remember back In IflZ and 1>11 whan tha BoDavoa Cafe roofed a basketball cage? Sea L> City boasted one of the beat Means la the state. It can do it agate. Ten basketball games ware played In one weak in Deear, City. la Ocean City more than tan times aa progreealve as Sea Isle City? Of course, it la too tats bow. but H Isfl't too late to maka a pledge: "Sea Isle City shall not pass another winter without a basket tall

PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN

' i No class of rituwns more greatly ! deplore detths from drinking whisky

Make all the men look A doggone sight longer.

Amos Tash says nothing takes the place of a husband In the home like

alimony.

Smith Brother* have now released their or* Menthol Cough Drop* but *hen will they giv* to s tuflering world their famous hair tonic recipe? The world may be going to the

HOW BUDGETS ARE MADE

Tax pa yen anil budgets! What a world of common sense radiates from the two tttlej The budget u made up bj a municipal body, each member of which ha; bees looked upon by the taxpayer as aa official placed ia power to rob the buidea bearer*. As a fact, the general rua of munici pal official* are endowed with common sente sad recognise the grave responsibility under which they tabor. They are ettmens. even as you and L They hare personal interest in the home town ia which they are. grreraDy home owner* The especial article* of common tease float* in right there— the official is not going against hu own interest The taxpayer is aware of thi*. «ad when it come* to a hearing on the annual budget he remains at home with the radio or goes to the movie* with ’he family, leering the budget in officials hands Then when the Ux biD comes >n. the taxpayer indulges in an old-fashioned army growl and pays the mD. And the story b repeated year in and out —Hackensack Republican

A CEHTUBY OF MORROE DOCTRIME

The Senate has passed a biD aulhonxing the coinage of special 50-cert pieces to commemorate the oaehandrvU. enrurereary of the Monroe Doctrine It is a more in the right durctific and enough of the coirs ought

to be put into cmutation te make them familiar to ereryoae The discus- - Tllr mudem man thinks t* t» ^ rtr ,1 sion they would arouse would be «a testrortire reminder of that rveat rou » h,, ‘* " * f b * * alh « •“ “>* h*’k .1 <*, !.mp, r , l" ,’:

b to be In

Just because thingr were different chen you w ere a boy t» no reason to suppose they were better-and

your boy know* it.

*'Average mar. can't love but one w<*nan." says a magazine writer No. not on the average man’s par

' bootleggers, who long ago found oul | there is ao profit In too brazen adul-

ters tic a

I Reaping the standard of the goods up to a certain plausible level is the vary keys.one of the buslnere This was realised quite early in the game, and as the traffic became organised a flat rule was made that while the | stuff handled might be diluted. : far as rdviaable. wood alcohol ai baits must be barred becacae of lu alverve effect on treffe expansion Of tale It has been observed that

liquor sold m a .eapectstle | inal output. <

of Scotch, which

DICOME TAX FACTS revenue officer* are visiting every county in the Lnlted Staten to aid taxpayers in the preparation of their income tax returns for tha year 1S2? Information concerning tha date of their arrival sad tha local km of their offices may he obtained by writing the collector of Internal revenue for the district in which tha taxpayer

Uvea

Forms for filing returns of tedirtdii net Income for tha year 1*SS are being sent to taxpayers who filed returns for the year 1111. Failure to recalve a form, however, fiaaa not relieve the taxpayer of hta obligation to file a return and pay the tax ov. time, on or before March Iff. lt» The forma. 1040A for filing return* of net Income ti.fffffi aad lean and 1040 for filing returns of net Income In excess of *6.000. may ha obtained from collectors of Internal revenue and deputy collectors Return* arc required of every single person whose net Income for IIS? was *1.000 or tnore or whose grow income was IF.0M or more aad of •very married person whose net lacome waa *2.000 or more or whore grore Income was IS.OOO or more. Careful study of the lost ructions on the forms will greatly aid in making a correct return.

AMOTHER TAWWMAW BROOM TO 00

OCEAN CTTT—

Landmarks in Ocean City are fast disappearing Tha march of prog rem is steadily brushing them aside Another one goes shortly. 3otn R Jonas, realtor, ie starting alteration:, on hit recently acquired prop rely at the corner of lib street sad Wesley avenue formerly Hughe* Pharmacy

htaaaatatheirta. ,h * »■ O'***

1 it we* originally kappa' earn"

L. b. avail-1 “ d OCfu, ‘^ b f *»»» aa a drug

‘•tore. Later It irsnard into the hand.

• goo-la i-wer, quilt nblance to the oclg•ciaily In the ins-noc*

able in adequate quantity and ialvl-eV L

quality First-rate rye whisky lh ” **' JobB (inure scar** .we b >gh I* aries wu>.' ,,lr '^ ,J * h ** 1

Alert ana knowing heuttafifiam ere! thJ ZuZmV-

nder the ownership of Mr. Jo*”*

Every t«»i. i,«. k G.<od Ole bomi t-o tn'- re s lire'iby Intrfr*. in Kv. rj ibrng that * g-MUg on Nothing ,-w ! wpre his EwgW Kir .* Eei-er Enr sn.' I •w* a wginr Sew* Mine tuf the Rdi

ment by check U quite all right

Washington (N. J > ptsr

The Eauxg QursOea > s giddy whirl, this Ufa

J'-eph Van 0 Hoffoekre. arch' tect nhen erenpleied will pr©v1d< •parlous qua tiers for Mr. Jc***' r**) estate bust urea There eriU si-' he one additional office on the *•»”■ I ■nitre for t -ofeaeloael of

•"* foe the V. !uiit«-r ! ‘'■nta •reallar animal* •«.- vegetables l iper e.aild but tb v. ’egetabka eat anlmaUulae aimal .«*. Her*» to you. Oie t* 1 hamlll. hacetllt eat ml

j rrobee and txucrobre • < cannibal takre th. .