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CAPE MAY COUNTY TIMES Consolidated with the Sea Isle City Review, February. 1918 WILLIAM A. HAFFERT. General Manager Published Every Friday by the CAPE MAT COHSTT TIMES COMPAHT (Incorporated)

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“If it’s Not in the Times —It Didn’t Happen”

A POWERFUL DRAMA IN REAL LIFE In the itory of the murder fcy Israel Gifford of his son. William, in Woodbine las 4 , week, is Afolded drama in real life that is more powerful and pathetic than any ever penned in fiction. t Picture the love of an eighty-six year old man for his granddaughter, so great that he deliberately kills his only son. to save the child from that

son!

As the story unfolds we find a man. separated from his wife, the father of a little child now ten yukA's old. The child has lived with her grand father for the past seven years—since her early babyhood—and now the son demands that the child be returned to him. The son is addicted to drink, and when under the influence, is very abusive and quarrelsome. Living alone, he would deprive the child of the companionship and care of the grandfather and an aunt. One can almost see the loving grandfather who has been both mother and father to the little child, picturing in his mind the child crouched in the corner in fear and trembling while the father threatens her. in one of his fits of drunken passion. Or perhaps pictures arose is 'Ai mind al the child being beaten, the little body scarred and bleeding—f offering written upon the usually care-fm and happy features. Or perhaps even a lifeless body! Beset by these thoughts he rises in the middle of the night, and in the heavy snow we see an old man of eighty-six painfully making his way two miles to his son's house, by thr tame path that he traveled so many times in visits to his son whom he dearly loved—and there taking the son’s life, so that he may not be able to carry oat his threats against the child. Then picture the aged man behind prison ban, day and night torn with the thoughts of his deed, and between the love he held for his only son. the love he holds for his granddaughter, and what he believed his duty to them both. Of course, his act was illegal. Ho one has a right to take another’s life, regardless of the circumstances. The law must take its course, and the aged man must stand trial for murder. But there is not a mother or a father, who knows the details of the case, whose heart will not go out to the bent, aged man, who now bears the stain of his aon's blood upon his head.

COSTLY SCHOOL ELECTIONS

Mandatory legislation is still getting in its costly work and the latest illustration is the new law regulating school elections. Under this law the selection of members of the board of education in boroughs and townships is conducted on a scale almost as elaborate at the regular general elections and with a corresponding increase in coat. Heretofore, all that was necessary in the way of a ballot at a school election was a small ilip of paper which, around here at least, answered every pupate, low a complicated ballot must be used, all of which will add to the cact. Candidates for the board cf education are also required to file petitions nmilr to those used in general elections. , In communities such as those of Cape Kay County all this seems unnecessary. In nine out of ten school elections there are hardly enough voters present to select a chairman and tellers. Frequently elections are held tc appropriate thousands of dollars for school purposes and the voters who turn out tc authorize the expenditure can be enumerated on the fingers of the two hands It seems foolish to go to the expense of printing costly ballots in view of these facts. It is simply another illustration of the evils of mandatory legislation over which local authorities have no control and no «ay further than to pay the bills.

ARTFUL DODGERS

A so-called "Art Alliance" in Philadelphia has been taken to taak by one cf its memben for activity in carrying oc propaganda for the release of men convicted .{ interfering with the prosecution of the war. This "Alliance." whose spokesmen have names with a distinctlv-for-eign spelling, issued an appeal for the pardon of the convicted men on the ground tnat they were sentenced for merely expressing their opinions. The gentleman who has condemned their propaganda ventures the assertion that not one of those urging pardons had any near relative on the firing line from Flanders Field to Montfaucon. And in this he is undoubtedly right The people who are now asking lor the pardon of enemies of the Government are pretty generally people who were themselves against the Government during the war. THOSE SELF-SUFFICIENT politicians in the Republican party who go about declaiming that the party must become progressive and constructive or P Te w, l r ** * f-iril party chould refresh their memories. Practically every progressive and constructive movement in the last 60 yean has been either initiatft, or made effective by the Republican party. However, neither the Eepublican nor the Democratic nor any tmrd party can suddenly bring about the Millenium. J . jl 1 ? "Ported that the Council and Assembly contemplate striking Mr of Hltlcm5 ' " th * beart of the covenant." as Mr. Wnaon styled it. It was this article which even the so-called "mild mavalioniata’ were unwilling to accept. Rut the league could scarcely be deader if it should have its heart removed tJ**?* 1 - nTcr ’-ridge* between Mew Jersey and ,nterrt * ,e tom “!**>oiis but the two states Will nev’er get together on the hquor question. Gcrrmon Pincbot and Silzer are a million U “‘ addresser of the twToov^on

Skeeter Sends Some Valentines

Feb. 13. 1923. Dewr Skinny: I've got a bunch of Valentines to send. Don't you let on who sent them, will you. Here's one fer my darling teechor: The measles and Teechera both are a peel. Between this pair we don't get no

rest.

If I bed my way I bet they would

no

and

Where I'd like the

teechera to go.

You must of heard about the Governor sending the Highway Commission a Valentine. This la what he

eys:

The old Highway Commission the Governor Ares. He seys they are bums an a bunch of big lyres. The new one be aeya must chuckful of life. The! klr . - road scrapers insted of a Imife. Uncle Harry mat °op If he thought a rabbit’* foot wax rood luck. Pop sed be sure did fer bt carried his pants pocket an Mom thought It wuz a mouse (40 cents saved.) Freeholders, Skins, are fellers elect every year to take the blame fer everything. They tried to get out of it last time by calling themaelvi County Commissioners but yu n< Skins, the Grange got them mixed up with tbe Dock Street Commissioners. fety sake they call themselves Freeholders agin. A Freeholder’s life would be one of gleat ease If it wasn't the public they had to please. Give us new roads, give us new schools. Build us s building to keep all the fools. Give us-more comfort down In our

jail,

Give oe a-yacht the ocean to sail. Then yu kin give us s lower tax rate, Fer we got the gimme's, thet's no

Kiwanians Back Recreation Project At Weekly Luncheon on Wednesday Ocean Citv Oreamraticn Hears Welfare Speakers

Want Modern Centre

. PSTEVCT tktir wni™ no! !. a, tknt . mui hu P«U0." tu perfect], Ike* dry sLetm., .k., W, u bo^S^ timJ , °| LI ? CS . ltAKES rtr “ r ^'Uor/i and so also do court runes at VJ* w *‘ tned jrry and it was thiroughlv mixed, consisting of four women, seven white men and one (olorrd ^ / They stayed out all night aim still were unable to agree. ^ SOME SIMPLETON naes up and wants to know if the X on the license pUl« of commercial can means s vote for Henry Ford. “

Have yu heard about them trying to take the kink out of the road to Atlantic City by bonding a bridge at Beesley's Point? I thought I'd drop a line to tbe feller with tbe 40 " on bucks. Bridges and road*, taxes an bonds. Put down tbe bridge where it belong*. You got tbe dough, so you better begin. We'd like to use It before we're old men. , Last week our Assemblyman sen' a Valentine to Trenton lor be wants Ave freeholders lusted of three commisaloners. Freeholders ten. freeholders three. Upon bow many kin we agree. If yer bill's parsed well have sum

fun.

Four thousand candidates next election will run. Thet will mean we'll let up panning our neighbor* long enuff to the candydatee two fere' (meaning two cigars fer one death.) Don’t a year make a lot of difference Skinny to the Roselle Robbers? (Last Summer) Bumming on tbe boardwalk, other place to go. Hook a bunch of sweaters when yu need tbe dough. (This Summer) Bumming in the Court Yard, what a sorry tale. Instead of dames an liquor, breaking stones In jail. There wux quite a discussion If yu could buy an auto fer 2 thousand dollars tbet would be as good as a Ford. Insted they decided to send tbe Sheriff a Valentine. 2 thousand fer just one car They sed wua too much dough. Fer as long as y 4 lire In Court House You must learn how to Go Slow. Auat Em has gone Into strict training fer the Legion dance. After ■upper nhe takes off her shoes and ■tarts the vtctyola. The r«eeon she takes off her shoes, she Is trying to be llte on ber feet. When th ■ music starts she jumps srou.'. the room waring her arms like the ladles do when they want the msti nun to ■top. Hbe wyr It's classic discing Kin yu Imagine a classic dance, at Rio Grande Pop Bey* she ll be tae real valentine that night. 1 son of encouraged ber by telling ber Laura Jean Libby an Dorotby Dlx an all them fancy dancer* started to les a how to dance with their feet Ant. Of course as yu get better yu V,n learn how to dance wtthoht yer feet like Eva Tanguay and Inadore Dun can fer they dance without enything Sometimes she tries to kick loo high an ahe'li cum down on the Aoor with a bang Insted o! looking happy Ilke tbe classic dancers do. *he get* up an rubs the sore spot Dicnb a* yu are. Skinny, even yu no It min t polite to rub where yu fell In coni paay. I'll tell yu about It next week. SKEETER CAPE MAY MAN SHOT Mr* Mabel Russel. SO. of Washington avenue. Cape May. shot Raymond Bradsay. 30. of 1003 Lafayette street. Sunday morning. Bi adways condition Is not sertou* Mis. Russel I* held under |:&U0 bail. As tbe result of an intestlgstion by Prosecutor Eugene Cole and SherIff Redding to learn how a patient In Mace'* Hospital received a plsto! wound In the left leg and lung they discovered that tbe patient. Brad way. wa* paying attention to Mis Kerr the daughter ol Mrs Ru*«e| who h separated from her husband against the mother's wishes When he appeared near the mother'* bon,at two o'clock Sunday morning she Bred five shots at him two of which ‘f, he Victim He applied to j Marc • H-sipUal for treatment and itbe case was reported to the snthort tla* Biadway left the hospital Mon da> but Was held under |ioo ball a* material wrinam.

OCEAN cm— "The physical upbuilding of the child Is the greatest problem In America today. Physicians and physical trainers recognise that l^e -Jfare of the average Amerlr-_ child Is of Abe greatest Importance, and they have set about to develop healthier, better .and more highlytrained youngsters throughout the co-operation of the famed Recreation Centres." So spoke Dr. Fred W. Msroney, former preeident of tbe New Jersey Interscholastic Physical Trainers' Association. at the weekly luncheon of the Qcecn City Klwanls Club here Wednesday. Dr. Msroney. who Is at present director of phys'cal training In Atlantic City’s Public Schools, atknitted that the Recreation Centres were vitally Important In the development of tbe American youth. The Ocean City Klwanls Club, of which Dr. Minot Standard Is president. has been one of the principal organisations backing Mayor Joseph G. Champion In his Aght for a modern recreation centre for Ocean City. The City Commlasiou through Mayor Champion and the resort organisation has appropriated 836,000 for the building of a recreation centre on the Old Camp Grounds, located between Fifth and Sixth streets Already eight tennis courts have been built upon the grounds, with six more under construction. The -new Recreation Centre, according to city ofAclals. will be situated next to the new $360,000 Ocean City High School, construction upon which will begin within the next few weeks. When the Recreation Centre Anlshed it will be one of ‘the Aneat In South Jersey, according to Mayor Champion. IL will contain a gridiron. baseball vie mond s' path track. William E Massey. Jr., former Princeton University hurdling champion. who is to coach the Ocean City High School track team next season, also spoke on tbe Child Welfare problem. He admitted that the addition of a Recreation Centre would develop greater athletes In the near

future.

SWIFT TO SPEAM HERE OCEAN CITT— Richard Swift, an ofAclal of the Atlantic City Electric Company, will address the Young Man's Progressive League here March 6th, according to an announcement made Thursday. Mr. Swift's subject will * — ' Lightning.**

C. or C. MiaES EBOItmm ocean cm— The Ocean City Chamber of Commerce has psased s resolution that never again will It bold a meeting on the 13th o.' a month. This month's meeting held last Tuesday. February 13th. was attended by exactly thirteen members.

POLITICAL GOSSIP

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place to Sea Isle Junction lahed. fue road tram South Sea vine Sea Isle Junction Is already under conslderatlon. It would bring Woodbine four miles nearer by road to the

•eaahore towns

The farming element, especially since the advent of tbe Ocean City Farmers' Market, are very much in

favor of this route.

Of all the municipalities in tbe County we must hand the "palm" to Woodbine for el vie Interest. On Monday evening the Borough Hall was crowded. What eeemed remarkable was that the meeting was of no particular Importance and the

weather outdoors

Concrete Blocks

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Good Eats Always AT Chandler'*

Idle Dollars mean Idle Men Yon owe it to ytmnelf, your ndcblmr, yoar town, country and tbe world, to GET THAT IDLE DOLLAR OF YOURS TO WORK.

Open an account in your fit* derived will lurprise yon.

WE 80LICIT CHECKING AID SATl COUNTS OF ALL SEES.

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