EDITORIAL PAGE of the CAPE MAY COUNTY TIMES

cape KAY COUHTY T1 Consolidated wit* th« 0M U* City Review. February. 1*1« WILLIAM A. HAVTOT General Manager Published Brery Friday by the CA^E KAY OOT7KTY TIKES CO. (Incorporated) Atlantic Are. and Bsbth St. OCEAN CITY. N. J. Weet Jersey and Landis Area. SEA ISM CITY. V. i.

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“If it’s Vet in the It Didn't

The circulation el the CAR KAY COUKTY SKES fa kifnr than any other newwnpwr in Cape Kay Connty. Adwtfaen are wdccme to isjyeet mx antetiptfan records and an invited to seethe

Thursday.

KEHACE At the meetlnc of the Board Freehold ere last wees, the remedy one of the real menaces with which the county la confronted w Ject of much discussion. It fa the heavily loeded motor trucks that use the county's bridgM, the loads many times exceeding the capacity ot Che bridge. The menace lies In the fact that the bridges are giving away tinder the strain, causing conata ment of broken planka And at least one serious accident Is the direct result of e truck breaking < rough the Cormm’s Inlet bridge, beocming stalled, and having a passenger car crash Into It. The tendency shots to be to toed motor trucks to the very limit of ih-lr carrying eegeelly; and truck builders are constantly making them larger and of greater carrying capacity. so that the proposition works In a sort of endless chain. It is manifestly unfair for one troth owner's profit. In a heat make the taxpayers of the county pey lor the damage done to the bridges over which this truck p pass over some brides It muat If It uses the roads of Cape May County at all. for this county Is o bridges. The County Solicitor «m in Riving police power to the bridgei'•rider*, and have them etofi all overloaded trucks from using the bridges. The weakness of this U the fact that <be bridge-tender cannot be at both ends ot a bridge at the and therefore could not atop trucks until they were actually upon the •'ridge, and the damage, perhaps, already done. If the State police could be enlisted. *nd If they would follow the course of overloaded truck* and nab the drivers of a few .with arrest ard fine lol lowing, the pructioe would soon be broken up. And U mu thought that the owaer of the truck «l*aye to blame—on the coetrary » is frequently the fsjue hi* employ who by -vdl ng t few >-sira tous u> the load hope to save a '" r «nd trip, or get away with *ork. The menace la a real one to the ‘ •'unty. end prompt end decisive sc ""n is necessary to curb It If wo an «o have uesble bridges this summer

THE Common Connell of Somer '"I-. N. J., I* ronelderete. Instead •>f obliging Its tows policemen to lug dMinkm men to tho lookup. H has provided him with a motorcycle and •‘decar. ThUr makes It fine for the policeman and fine for the drunken tuan. The policeman Just tumbles ,h * Prisoner into the eldeear and * heel* hlr away Uke garbage. This

SOME of the towns in New Yor* 8, *t« have a Web coming bee* me Governor Smith signed the law wh.cb "Mala tbe MuUan-Oage Act. it '“•■ana that In the future all fine* "discted for liquor vtolaHone will go ,0 the federal government. At the 1 “* t *«rm of court Orange County "I'me benefited to the eatent of *3.000 by fines of this v ha racier.

AH EBUCATIOHAL CAKFAIGH The possibilities of using advertising columns of the newspapers in an educational way has been worked out by the Pennsylvania Railroad system In a way that Illustrates the Ibllity of this form of publicity to secure the co-opeiatlou and sympathy of a usually antagonistic public. The Pennsylvania Railroad Is laying Its cards on the table, face and letting the public In on some of the problems that confront a transportation system, and the result must nqpeeearily be a better understanding between railroad and public, and a more tolerant attitude on the part of the latter. The very life-blood of a seashore county such as Cape May County Is In Its transportation system, and we arc prone to forget that a railroad.' like any other business. Is operated for profit and cannot accede to all the demands of a section that real!zee that frequent and fast service means a great deal In Its develop ment. The wonderful efficiency of a railroad was dearly demonstrated recently In the disastrous Broad Street Station fire, when the huge train shed was completely demolished, putting out of bualneas one of the great terminals of the country. Two days after the fire trains were running into the station again, and Within five days practically normal service was restored. On Tueoday of this week a bridge burned down at Folsom, between tbe shore and Camden, and with Its r-tal reeourcefulnee*. Pennsylvania Railroad sent Its trains practically on senedole time by another route to the shore. The smooth-working machinery in the operation of a railroad through fires, storms, peak rush summer h and other unusual conditions, forms an Intereating.story, and tbe public's acquaintance with this story must Ity result In a better under-

FOBD'S PHEHOKEHAL

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Rumors of third and even o* fourth parties In the next political campaign fly about In the pre« the third party U> be led by Senator Boagh. the fourth by Henry Ford, they say. ' Senator Borah disclaims any personal ambitions to such leadership, and says Harding viu be renominated with the Eighteenth Amendment as an Issue, as the Senate will hare Mlmlnated the World Court Idea by the time the campaign is under way! Henry Ford is saying nothing. He is busy at present celebrating birthdays. Friday was tbe twentieth anniversary of tbe founding of tbe Ford Car Company, and July 30th Is bis own sixtieth birthday. It is curious to realise that this ■t»«w started to make bis fortune at forty. Twenty years ago Ford wts a master mechanic who bad worked diligently over his Idea of a motor cor ana was going about among bis friends trying to muster enough capital to cmnmerclallse It. Today his company has more actual cash In Its treasury than any other corporation In the country, end his company'* origins! capital of one hundred thousand dollars has Increased to two hundred million. What he will do with hi* moneypower. or. rather, what bis moneypower will do with him. will beer watching. -

vWE are vnry proud of our sonnets In tbe New Jersey State Prison, ittlnk they are the best little convlctr on earth. For severs] years they hsve bass making our auto license pistes. The outelde world doesn't know how much our convict* amount to as criminals but tbslr handiwork In the license plate line Is known as far away as the distant Islands of the Pacific. Tbe announcement Is made that the Hew Jersey convict* have Just been given the contract to maks 340,000 license pistes for the state of Virginia. Virginia can make its own President* but evidently she doe* not knov much shout making auto tags. 8< our convicts will help her out.

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN could not get tbe president!*! train to wait for him, but the Reeding Railroad was more accommodating and held a train ten minute* for him so that he could be it tlm* for the marriage of bis granddaughter, a courtesy which tbe “old Commoner"

To ba "among (base present" 1* not always a sorisl dlatlactioe; but '<■ !>• among those pleasant Is always a dlstlast _

girl's desk ran crest* as much «*nmmt end speculation as the discovery of a brenb In the office waste basket, gries Dick Olden, with e case In

Big Events in the Lives of Little Men

taMmiaE — old-timer Is one who can remember when it was good manners to ask your guests to excuse the light when you took it out of the room. OFFICE. STORE AND Restaurant Eq.'vn ent Hat MS. rati anl teow StaaTlnhM vmm. cart Ola: ate: coMPLgre‘*grocK WEJSSMAN « An* St.. M Sd St. Phils. -W. TMwmr B.mi

SPECIALIST in Chronic Diseases nmsiM wWSSTasT? JT* siSaS & Sft DR. IMHOFF S-KOar. Uth A Spruce Sts, PkOa.

One frequently hears tbe complaint voiced by the very young members ef the community that they are fed up with the small town and that they long to get out into the big world where they could do things and «|-

Joy life to the full.

Only experience can teach these Juvenile hopes and aspirations are to the majority of cases doomed to bitter disappointment in the reallratlon of what tbe great outside world held* In atom. The majority of this Juvenile a,my of longer* after life and excitement come to the stags where they would give anything to get bsfk to the simpler pleasures and reel friends of the small tern, only to find that they are carried by a current which renders the backward swim a feat Impossible of accompllshPerbape the restless youngsters are old enough, and big enough and know enough to care for themselves, but It usually 1* the case that those who brag about be lag able to care for themselves are tbe ones who need the most restraining. While those who have gone through the experience can sympathise with those who chafe at the confines and restrictions of a ‘Tittle b’ -X.” yet they can rtsure the young people of today that they have In that ‘Tittle burg" nearly all the things and nearly all the opportuntth* which the young folk* of a couple decades ago thought they hsd to go to the b'g city to get. Young folks of today have pleasures and opportunities many fold g.eater than those which wer*> presented to tbs young | folks of yesterday. In ths ‘Tittle burg" today are all ths things that would hsve made contented tbe young folk* of yw-terday. The gill or boy ©.' today who hasn't, an automobile in tbe family feels that Provident* has been very unkind to him. In day* not so very long ago the two-horse rig that could be driven with one hand was thought quite sufficient for a Sunday afternoon * pleasurt. We didn't get quite eo far, along on tbe road, but tbe time did not drag on our hands and the rood seemed short enough. When those now In middle sge were young there were no moving j picture theatres, and unlaes they moved out of the "little burg" tbry had no r'oance to ee* a good sho». but look.ng back through (be year*, the little family partlee sad tafly pulls, almost never heard of now. seem to have been far from uaplees ant affairs and to havs poss< *—d

pleasant feaurce.

We got along pretty wall, with all ovr handicaps, end there was fat more aoclablHty when there wet* fewer plarae to go than there le sew when even staid folks wfee eer* raised under the mure prussic eoedi (Ions of a couele or threw dsce-lee agu have been partldly carried ewey by the growing erase (or amusement, to be entertained, to be doing ejmetblna and to be going somewhere.

OFFICE CAT

Small Sea Isle City Son—"I say. Daddy, when people go to heaven do they become angela right away, or have they to pass a lot of stupid examinations first?” The easier the girl is to look ut. the' harder she Is to get at, many have learned to their sorrow. A pair In a hammock Attempted to klas. And In lees than a Jiffy •»IH1 nil paflooi -^UA Correct this sentence: “Oh. Mamma." walled the small boy. "I’d rather M dead than have my curls cut off." "We sell stamp* with a wnlle." say* a drug store ad. George looks pretty sober on all tbe stemps we’ve ever

bought.

Lawyers are addicted to long sentences. but they seem to get over It when they become Judges. Nowaday* Just as soon as you have found a way to make end* meet, some goof comes along and moves the

No wonder we have burglars. We know a family which hangs the key on the mall box when they leave the

house.

Bachelors are unfortunate, thinks 8. Fredericks. They have no homf to stay away from.

GEORGE BENSON UPHOLSTERER 600 EIGHTH STREET OCEAH CITY, I. J. Formerly with

Triolet cm Wit Tis hard to have to alt and write Of things that must be funny. Of Jokes and rhymes that must delight The while the sun Is shining bright. So that Is why I don't feel quite— Well, cheerful, debonair® and sunny. •Tis hard to have to sit and write Of things that roust be funny 1 A lot of us lay up money for a rainy day and then allow ourselves to be fooled by the first sprinkling cart that turns the corner. Do fiance smell? rays the heading In "The Literary Digest." Well say they do! It Is not wise to tell everything you know, but some people can't help It If they talk at alL

Smith’s Ser?ice Garage Cape May Court House Swtk* Ph*a* 4-R-2

LOOK beyond ths purchao# pries! Tire costs figured at the and of service will

Goodrich SilvcrtovvnCoimTim

and in a short time you will have a car of your own. Then all “out-of-doors” will be yours to enjoy with your family. Think of the comfort, the pleasure and happiness which will be your*. Buy your car under die terms of the

A man will go Into a cafeteria and play around for ten minutes wslllng on himself, and act like he enjoys It. observes s local housewife, but Just lot him hsve to get a glass of water at home and he makvs a roar about It.

tyPeAlyffyiHJiatefflarv For as little os $5, you can select the Ford you want and place your order at once. We will put this monev in a local bank for you —at interest. Eacn week you add a little more. This also draws interest. Soon your payments, pity the interest earned, makes the car your own. Come in! Let as give you full particulars about this new plan. Cape May Court House Garage FRANK EVANS, manager CAFE KAY COURT HOUSE H. J. FOCER & MECRAY CAFE KAY, I. J.