EDITORIAL PAGE of the CAPE MAY COUNTY TIMES

CAPE MAY COUNT 5? TIMES Con - olidated with the Sea Hie City Review, February, 1918 WILLIAM A. HAFFERT

General Manager

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ABOUT SUNDAY CLOSING Considerable excitement bai occasioned during the past two because of the attempt to doss or partially close three pleasure « In Plttagrove township, namely t reton Park. Rainbow Lake and Union Grove Lake. The action demanded would evidently much tighter than is the practice In the semi-religious resort of Ocean City and perhaps Ocean Grove, and surely tighter than Pitman which was started as s religious centre exclusively, says the Elmer (N. J.) Times, In an editorial last week. A little calm reasoning Is needed in handling this matter and It appears to us that the excellent township committee will be guided by the rule of reason, exercising s mild diplomacy In appeasing warring factii ns. These resorts are patronized about equally It Is said, by Jews and Gentiles. The Sabbath of the Hebrew ends at sunset Saturday so that there Is no good reason In law or practice why they should not observe Sunday In harmless leisure or Innocent amusement. The Sunday of the Gentiles Is protected In that religious sen.^va are not to be disturbed or those who wish to observe the strict Sunday religiously are not annoyed or hindered. Any action taken by the objectors in Plttagrove will not change present Sunday observance In the least although action might be taken which would drive those who go to the lakes, to some other resorts. The managwnent of the parka are perfectly willing to cut out dancing on Sunday, It Is said, and also willing to prevent baseball games, otherwise they feel end perhaps properly that tolerance should be the watchword. Nothing whatever can lie gained by an Intolerant attitude on this sub-

ject.

Hundreds of people who attend religious services at some per .d of the day. use the balance of tb» «Liy for motoring to some resort where they can relax and meet In social gatherings. This is beneficial Instead

Pause a moment to read the following extracts from the report of the Grand Ju-y of Cape May County, for the April-term of 1921: "We find that language is inadequate to properly exprees conditions as they exist within the conflm the County curing the past several years. The administration of the County affairs has been conducted In DISREGARD OF THE LAWS enacted for the government of the Board of Chosen Freeholders. "Open and flagrant vioUtlons of the law have been wilfully and corruptly permitted;an extravagant program of public Improvements has been Hid out and Connty moneys expended without regard as necessity for the public improvements and the ability of the County to finance the same. "This Iniquitous condition is not of today, but is the growth of a system that has grown up in the management of the County affairs during the past several years to that extent that many of the public servants, disclosed by the evidence before us. have lost all sense of moral terpltude for the sake of obtaining some gain or reward."

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RECOMMENDATION NO. T—"By reason of the large number comprising the Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County, combinations hsve formed for the purpose of carrying out the extravagant program above referred to, and as a result thereof some of the members of the Board who have not been actuated by corrupt motives h» * been led on by the combination in omission? in the discharge of their public duties. As s result, we therefore recommend the: Immediate steps be Instituted to submit to the citizens of Cape Msy County the adoption of the act providing for a small Board of Freeholders. realizing that the smaller Board elected by voters of the County, Instead of wards and districts, would result In the sslectlor of men known throughout the County for their honesty and Integrity, and not swayed by local conditions and influences. resting the responsibility for the administration of the County affaire upon the shoulders of THREE members. lastead of fourteen."

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You are now being asked to sign a petition to submit to the voters next November the ENL/ROEMENT OF THE SMALL 3-MAN BOARD to a Board consisting of five r”embers. This question Is being agitated by men who undoubtedly have selfish motives—political or personal—and who hope to gain In political or personal power by the addition of two members to the Board of Freeholders. If you have not been asked to sign tbs Five-Mat. Freeholder Petition you probably will bt: at least you are almost certain to hare the question before you at the election next Novem-

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Uncommon Sense iohh^laxx

ax nrvBSTMKv, TT TOO an c* , * foe »>•»> — nZ,.. 'OTfclj,

When you are. turn back to conditions In 1921 and remember that EVERY MEMBER added to the present three-man Freeholder system Is Just another step to the old log-roll-ing condition, termed by the Grand

Jury as "Inlqultlous."

FOBD DOESN’T

WANT IT

SCHOOLS ABE FALLING DOWN

W hen a member of the State Board

Education expi

this vein Is it not time the taxpayers took a more vital Interest In their school affaire? "One-third ot our high school graduates cannot pass examination In arithmetic, English grammar and composition— examinations which children of the seventh and eighth grades should be hie to pass." U has been author! lively stated that an astounding!? large percentage of high echoed graduates failed In their entrance examinations for admission to one or another of the State Normal Schools In June, the results proving conclusively that something is wrong with our high school system, the teachers or

Of the three w»

OFFICE CAT

inclined to believe that the blmne its primarily with the first mentlored. But whether It does or not, the obvious fact remains that our public schools are costing the taxpayers altogether too much money. We cannot go on at the present rate of expenditure, let alone exceed it. as so many faddists and unpractical school people are apparently preparing to ask. School expenses. In one guise or-enother. represent more than half of the total of our tax bills. And yet over a third of the high school graduates applying for admittance to the Montclair State Normal School a few weeks ago, failed to attain a passing average, all falling In either arithmetic, spelling, English grammar or composition. "Teaching the young Idea now to shoot" Is costly, very costly. In New Jersey, and apparently the youth of ttu State Is not taught to shoot as straight as lt| might, at that.—Mt. Holly Mirror.

Another good endurance test Is a .nree-yeer-old son who develops an

appeUts for water at 2 A.M.

John Maher thinks a bachelor is a man wise enough not to get married

until thirty, and then too wiae. One of the two things e young girl

thinks about Is the man she might go

with next.

Have ycu ever noticed that the man who kicks the most about hard work does little of It? Many a poetic girl who raves over violets and lilies knows exactly what to do with a good dish of ham and cabbage, says Bob Plerpont. Yea. chimes In Foster Ooslln. but If she is not watched she will mines the ham and make slaw of the cabbage. It la unreasonable, however, to expect the farmer to keen on raising cats white the city keeps on raising

Ooch!

The sun was hot upon the beach, Her su't was little sister's. They thought she was having a w6nderful time, but All Is not bliss that blisters.

Henry Ford, who has Just celebrated his sixtieth blrthdsy. has given an Interview to Charles W. Wood which appears In a copyrighted article In Collier's Weekly, Issue of Aur : «t 4. In this Interview, he connrms what we said a short time ago

that he does not want to be president! more than a silk hat. s cane and a of the United States. He even admits P»lr of spats to make civilisation.

! that he Is not the kind of a man for

of Injurious to humanity and whethei t |, B | Qffiee One nice thing about suburban U Is good or bad. on Intolerant atti- 1 , he of Amer ica want i • ’ rmrd u more ,hiu >

tude on the part of strictly religious! to make mr prudent or do they Just ,bree fe * 1 persons will not change It. but rather „ Ilnk lh „ y in y , nqU i re , Ford. "Does tend to create animosity toward the| BnyU)<1y w , nt to m , ke me an admiral

church. ot a|) arc hblshop?

Tne Times does not make any plea • , kBOWi l( , h * people don’t, that for or against pleasure resorts but lhal my k |„d of a Job. It Is taking human nature as we find It ,„| y la | k drafting me as It and governing ourselves according!). ,, irymg t„ make me a volunteer.

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Dr. C. W. Way thinks It taksa

From what we know and hear, we imagine some people measure that three miles In the wrong direction. Man spends half his life cussing the old fogies end the other hall worrying about the rising generation. Children are an educational force, at that. No parent could keep up with the new slang without tbsm. A lot more kicking la dons by the tongue than the foot, thinks George

Ross.

This Js s life of Ups and Downs— So reads the motto of tbs Elevator Boys' Union.

When Adam found he was nuked he probably felt no mors conspicuous than a modern man In his first pair flr *-

of knickers.

Borne people ,ln an effort to "bring home the bacon" spill tLs fst In the

TIDE TABLE FOR AUGUST

Some Moden. Marvel*

The guy who

Kulnbows" and never g*-u tired or

discouraged.

The bird who d'-i larns he Is geiting by "Forever Blowing Bubble* " The fell.jw whose Ingenuity get*

him a line on how to ezlsl "Always

Building Castles In the All "

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Not Envy. Y' Under*land out rovvt Johudse's roll

»y In my s< ul.

Mur I would like a p' eitul lot To ha»r h* much as Jobudee's got 23 Thuis.

If truth ware told "The ten bosk# J' rl - I have enjoyed most." "would III most ‘J Uncases Include the check book " ( 27 j,| on '

!:* rues'.

Mice are gieat file advertisers 29 Wed.

A Dirty Trick “* **• ’ A "**■“"

First Gold Dust Twli

sake a clean-up?

Second Gold Dust Twin—No. Lux Knees (see latest fashion) are gone | tor , y minutes’.

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Why do homely girts make the beat stenographers? asks one of the magazine scribes. That’s an assy one. Brother. Because they don’t waste looking In the mirror every fifteen minutes. When they're busy they forget their physical and pfaysioiogl cal shortcomings.

» your salary. , * a Way of findia, ost Tbs value of ■ t be kapt a secret. £ “ r is dl^oesd to conS

Baa of _ t*0 corporation be directs U abaod or fstag behind, w it u Z tag **ood. they are eager to hire tta ■on that to making ft go ahead. There to no eomgetittoc so kem M *!od ml"*?!?* fW ** ,rrTlr " to ordw to

Barber, finishing haircut—"Wet or dry. air?" Patron—"How in H do politics concern you?"

Beautiful Tb'^iHt for Tuesday It must be tough for can nib# is and heathens who have nothing to do bnt wait until they are discovered. Evolution: The world's most popular monkey business. Generally speaking the' most often ia the one that "I’d Just aa soon sleep In an upper berth as In a lower." Darn it. The craze petered out before any prominent evolutionist ever thought to experiment and see how long monkeys can dance. This Is the worst Jam I ever got Into, said the fly as he slowly climbed ont of the praeervee. One thing prohibition has done, thinks Bi'wgrd B. Arnett, to to have maoe the three-mile I

The employer is a fool who Ira nan go, from whoee sen-lew b. l And be know* tbc

have to let Mm There will be plenty of other mm ris will take him. Consider yonreelf aa an tnvwtmat Be a solid Investment first, one which there cannot possible be uj loss. Be a paying Investment. H* And yon wfll never lack for espial which will come to you la the fos af wagas or salary, bnt Will COM If ft were r la the bank to year account c*ir Jeasnuao

Speaking 'U hear about the fellow who carried his -Iraretlss la his whisky flaak ao that hL mother wouldn't know that he smoked? If you don’t believe courtsey will pay Just try It once end eee.

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house, the wife think* there are fifty j *1 Frl. 11:37 11:47 6:43 6 09,"

of ihem The above tides trs for the be»cb Fold has annexed a rail-

front; for bays and back Wat- r* add ■ *««l mine and a glass factory.

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It's a hard world, and on days when you wish to relieve your grouch on somebody, not a book agent

appear.

A young country girl was taking her first ride on the train. The con ductor came through and said "Ticketa. please,* and after much embarraatonent she give It to him. Soon after the train boy entered her and said, "Chewing gum." and she said. "Ob. goodneaa, do I have to give that up. too?" Brains make s man smart and i • voolen underwear.

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