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EDITORIAL PAGE of the CAPE MAY COUNTY 7 TIMES

CAPS MAT COUMTY TIMES Consolidated with the Sea Isle City Renew, February, 1*18 WILLIAM A- r r AFFERT General Manager Published Erery Friday by the CAPE MAT COUMTY TIMES CO. (Incorporated) Atlantic Are. and Eighth St OCEAN CITY, N. J. West Jersey and Lendls Area. SEA ISLE CITY, N. J.

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"If It'i Hot ill the Ttoto— It Didn’t Happen”

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HESBT HAY

STAXT sohh^hg If Henry Ford's plsn to buy oil fields and put gasoline on the market for users of Ford cars at qfx or eight cents a gallon lower than It pan he bought else vhere gees through he Is apt to start something with the powerful Standard OH Company which Is hardly what you might call an unknown or Insignificant concern. It would probably mean a fight to the and when it earns to cutting

Correct this sentence: "l don't care If we don’t have no guesta," declared the wife; “we ere going to use

best napkins anyway.”

prices, it is probable that the Standard Company could play a pretty strong hand at that game.. The situation is referred to la the last issue of the Oil Trade Journal

which

'If Henry Ford makes the retailing of gasoline and motor oil a part of Lia Ford service in the United States may expect to see profit margins in the marketing business considerably narrowed.” The Journal adds: “Once In the retail marketing bnsineae. it Is hard to tell how far Mr. Ford would go If he devoted his ingenuity working out more efficient and economical method* of handling gasoline and motor oil. It is quite tain that he would force all other marketers to meet his pricea. .This would cut deeply into the profits of the big Standard Oil marketing organisation. as well as the large and

THE CRIPPLES

PIVE MEM

VERSUS THREE

Sentiment, generally^ tbrourhout 1

the County seems to be In favor of! ~~ retention of the three-man Freehold- j CAR1MG FOR

er Board. Tae Question whether this Board shall be retained, or a five-man |

Board shall be substituted, will be' Just where do we gat off on this voted upon at the general election on j ooniu and pension question, a paper November 7tb, but the advocates of j out West rises to inquire. It refe the measur have, apparently, been to the latest proposal of a baby bom unable to stir, up any great enthual-! to be paid parents who will he asm. ' I swell our population We may also The pet argument advanced In have a wheat bonus l favor of the five-man Board U that loss the grain-growers have sustained. It will cause a reduction in talariet, s raisin bonus to help out the ratantbe three Freholcers each now .eceiv- growers, and a soldiers’ bonus to adIng $3000 annually, while the five just the compensation of those who men would only get 91,600 each, thus went to France while others took giving greater representation at leas advantage of tba situation to proficoat. I tear at home. This is a deliberate falsification, as ; This paper says that all we need the law to reduce salaries goes into now is a taxpayers' bonus effect in 19<6 whether there are the difference between the taxpayer's three men on the Board or five men. ‘ Income and the am (hint of his taxes. From s money-saving point of view j One half the country will present!} three mvn would save the County in he payng bonuses or pensions to the salaries 13000 a year over the five-' other halt and pretty soon the whoh man Board. i country will be either drawing a'pen It has been shown in previous artl- slon or holding a government job* dee dealing with this question that Then we will have the perfect col the.e is not a single argutient^ 1 try and nobody will'have to toil, favor of enlarging the Board -nd' Do you know that at the present many good, logical arguments against time it costs every man and It. But no one seems particularly $•! a year to keep up the public concerned either way—least of all payroll? Thera are 3,700,000 govtbe three Freeholders now In office, eminent Jobe, costing os over three And it is because of this Indifference' and a hal. 'billion dollars a year. that those who, tor purely political 1 — reasons, favor the larger Board may El-FVEB GOOD yet swing the question at the Novem-1 . ber election. ^ TO™ Only two years ago the County! Thera ate now about 3.700.000 voted to 'to away with a large Board public servant upon the national, of Freeholders, and thtp year the state and ™nnift|t f i payrolls of the small three-man Board took office; United States, according to figures before they have been In office nine' just compiled from the « - Thus months, the voters are asked to out of every twelve wage^earners one change to » larger Board. For what is paid to regulate the Uvea, liberties purpose? Who la back of this move?'and pursulu of bappinam of the reWhat is their object? Have they matnlng eleven, the taxpayer*' interest at bean, orj But this la a misleading eeUmatlon have they some personal xxe to and does not sum up the predicament 1

(by half. There are hoeU upon boats

Theac ere queetoins that the voters of reformers, lobbyists and petty phllatould seek to have answered before osdphers. each working on salary to casting their ballot on this important regulate at least eleven lives within

| hla personal circle end thousands without It. who are never palA by the Government agencies employing

the other 3,700.000.

At the preaer.t rate of incr'tse «. public servanu it is only fair to assume that within 100 years the tables will be reversed. Then eleven out oi every twelve wage-wamera will be in governmental employment. This may bring the twelfth man whe feeds and clothes them a few problems, but It will not be a patch on those accruing to the remain.ng eleven. Fancy the troubles of eleven public employees who may exploit only one dti/en W be shared -monj them! The twelfth man might enjoy many benefits.— New York World. •

WELCOME, MR. DIGRAM

The TIMES welcomes the nea-eet addition to the ranks of Cape May County Journalists. Mr. Albert, !. Ingram, ol the Camden Courier, who this week -took title to the Ocean City

Sentinel, at Ocean City.

Mr. Ingram has purchased a splendid newspaper property In a splendid, progressive town, and the future of his publication will be Just what be makes It. With his ground-work of aixteen years ol experience In active -ally newspapt' work. it . Is safe to say that ibis future will be a newspaper that will be a credit to himself, to the town *n which It is published, and to the County of Cap. May. Mr. Ingram will find that all the newspapers in this County are woikiag In harmony to the common good «f the County, and while a keen rivalry exists among them, it is a friendly one and is based on an unwritten code of ethics of honorable practice, and ialrnesa In all editorial and busi-

ness relations.

Welcome. Mr. Ingram.

Magnus JohnaAi found that hay vote wor*b more than the straw vote. "Two spartbwa sat on tbs sldswalk In front of tbs City Hall apsoalng this morning; call the X. K. fL.: shouts Mayor Fitch.

It Is said U

raaAi the t*-y«t In

newspaper* every day.

about sixty days those will contain the obituaries of men who played Beau Claus while’smok-

ing a cigar.

Some folks are so efficient they never get any work done, snaps

Maybe men would weep, too. if it would secure for them the things they waiR.

The aviator'* i He gave a Joyous shout, "For once.” he cried, “you eee.arrwm Who's glad he's down and out:”

Tomorrow is the fie* that Jumps r; the kiss that almost was; the promise that forgot Itself; the mirage hope's desert; the fakir’s trick 1 * the Grand Fade away. There Is only one Tomorrow, and we aever catch it until it Is Today. ~?- Mother—Tommy, what are you do-

ing in the pantry?

Tommy—Oh, Just putting n few

A man out near Goshen asked bis

beet Mend, the following question:

"Is there such a thing asA

td .an

procedure. It ha* been the rule for many years, but the only difference for the next two years win lie that the check-mating proeeaa will have to be done with greater efficiency ami

who never scolds her husband?'* Intended to gii

"Yea.” says he. ”A widow."

After all. it's talr enough. If the approaching car U running without I'gbta. nb doubt tba driver Is lit up.

’prove] to the posal to taka t the court on i

the world com frreslaent has & court slide Into this country la expected to let until Congress Ooolldgv. 11km from trouble as that the world

with political "This leu me out." said the convict blow him back as hs sawed his way through the lest

bar In his oeU.

Couldn’t Bast Dvotby Mrs. A. U. W. writes: "The other morning when my neighbor's child t over to see my little girl I said to bar, ‘Why are you Just up. Dorothy? Ladle was up with the birds

this morning,”

"I woks up the blrde." responded

Correct this sentence: "You owe me nothing,” protested the farm*; "my chicken* had no business in tba

highway." *

A visitor threw an afternoon paper Into a flivver the other night, relates J. Archer Stackhouse. When the owner demanded an apology the visitor explained that it waa the ofilF

an he aaw.

IT HAS BEE1 and denied froi rotary of the N the Cabinet, circles (be stal Denby's resigna in the near fu, Of his immedtat, described as p. inaccurate or li

The girl on Minerva Street rays that tome, to her brother. U merely

- merely the result o! rightly directed energy. I'd rather be a little fish— I've alwaya envied him: No mailer what is going on He's always In the swim.

Now that President Codllge ha* his hands on the wheel, says Sheriff Redding, be must expect a lot of

advice from tbe rear seal.

The divorce waa granted on tbe grounds of Intolerable cruelty. Mrs. Snyder told tbe court, among other

Some men have honor* thrust upon them gradually and son,* get them all In a heap. In the latter cUa* in

John R. Cleary Jt., tbe young editor down and setUe.

QI ,11. WodiM. 11. Th , u

,™,1» pr-ld. u , ,b, N.» „„„ |ru , , hl9 ,

Jersey Frees Association, shot tly back

afterward waa nominated for Mayor! —

of Madison on the Republican ticket 1 ^ ,h,u * ,h# r,no * ,B Jb11 «»d U., w—k ... U, Mia, I "• ““1 1,

rior™.. Loul,. Pnrail or ltOT1 bkrt|

It look, ,. 1, Cl—rj la h—ded IB , tb „ ,0. . I, BO „„ tBl

rtmight for trouble of one kind or | back seat to do the driving,

another.

has been generally believed, though nothing official was forthcoming from the White House, that the PreM-ent

Hons, but so DM upon this viei authoritative s

PROMINENT CmZENS who never took a drink In their Uvea and prominent citliens who are always looking for a drink (asd seldom getting It) are flocking Into town to see wh*t happens during the two prohibUkm conference* which ar» about to get under way hers. The first conferono is a private affair, which will be attended by religious and civic tenders who will «g, t ary attempt to repeel or liber-JUs the Volstead Act. The second conference has been called by Pro 4dent Cootidge to map out plans for stricter enforcement of the dry law through eo-opemttoa between * States and th* Federal Oovapm In addition to worrying over Uqnor problem, the state gornr

trta day from mom u a

his weekly

With wtto and babe he plod.

me to Washington will disc urn i migration and dope questions.

TIDE TABLE FOR OCTOBER

PUBLICITY C

,,,,1 Administration ■“» cm had the efl

Street to sit up elusion that the wrong with tb< tion after all. idge and Seer el Mellon hasten** be known tha’ fundamentally x try economically was going to ti spite the preaei believe that tbei "calamity how! provctueM In t uituaiiob wU) 1 buckling down i talking about “I

of the farm Well j con thing lituaCool-

let It thing couutblng t. deTtaey much : ionic sr by in by

A writer says homes srs cleaner

than they were a generation ago. Ah.

well; they are used lees

Speeding at tbe turn of th# road ,

things, that her husband hit her injha* been known to turn an automo- '

the bakery and broke her gas range, bile driver Into an angel, say* John | If Ford w is has to run. he nead not From Hartford (Oran.) Courant Bayrea jwatt for a rrUls. h will romv later.

SECRETARY MELLON likewise believes that toere will not tx, any so-called radical legislation In the next Congrees. There la no way of determining Mellon's basis for thD belief, but her* la the way one Conman. who v.;!ds tbe same view, explained U to me: He figures that Republicans, despite .heir small piur- ' lea In the Hovse and Senate, will be able to so completely control the ‘ r committees that It will be eriremely difficult to get both houses to agree to any place of legislation that Is not all wool and a yard wide This will b# a'tompllshed through tbs control of tbe joint conference committee* which meet In secret to put bill* In shape for final enactment after they have paaa* Thai* U nothing particularly new in such

me)

high low A.M. P. M A.M. P.M. * 04 *.36 3.0? 3.43

0.33 0.66 10.00 10.30 10.84 11.07 11.16 11.63

13.03 H.l«

The above tides are for the beach front; for bays and back waters add

forty minutes.

36 FrL

31 Wed.

1.43 4.11 4.61 6.30 6.19

as brightest t bough u Ja fs* dark, lot it ***«» never eaa find a pencil and t*i

TIMES TYPE TALKS Cotnlxt M*3 Ordtr Conpetitioc Let Thu “Go-Getter* Go Get

the Baaneat lor Yon

TV, -uk* „ -p^aur- 1 a. uk-nM.

ef 1000 advertising bulletins In bonk form string complete and iDtttu

ing information regarding ever-thing In mmrbsBiUsi

T*# "go-get u," of tba mail-order bora* Is n Ugb-prlced order***]

. rtollArt »

U gets the orders. _ __ .

roguiarly and talks to all memb«ts at the family.

It telte them of the wonderful merohaadte* val*

buy by mall. U mhow. bearmiuJ 111 Mirations or sketebee of nw»t Item, and should tba mother or daughter wish to see sampltv ol l*T goods, they ar* furnlohed all neatly "pUksd” at tbe edge* » nd ° n T lth ' ,nU BO<! «»Ple«e deecrigtH-ja of the good. no la 'go-getter” goes Into every home whether that of • fanner or . poor router. A one cent poet card brings U>« any family ready to sell them anything and everything. Thta "go-gcucr” costa th* mall-order house about three

year for each family viuied regulariy.

The local merchant can use a "go-getter” that t*lll go gd il> r h" for him In ht> community. Thla "ro-geuar" will ""W 11 ,or tl!f merchant faithfully every minute of th* day. It will tab* lbt W _ right away irom the "go-getter” of the mail-order house at » B "^ of only a fraction of what |t noeta the atoll-erdor houei lc *** "go-getter" at work In that community. ^ In a>.d(tton to telling tbe bom* folks about the IB,rr rt<I offaringv. a tell* them about tbe prompt and personal service ^ and also extends a eery cordial Invtutior to visit the star* “> lusfset tbe new merchandise which arrives dally. , , This "go-getter" calls every week, at eaah homo l» ' ,, * l m It pteeeaia the laleel store-news regularly which tho h< n,r to for end read with Intarael r% , H bungs the people into tha store where other ■» w,, ’* 0 ‘ ,l r nrr . *#en end examined. It gets them In the babtt of visiting !*> f ''

aud they coon become pennanent cuatrarors.

This "go-getter" Is simply Intereeting advertising build ln ‘ roguiarly to tb* people of your commuplty tbrougb the il0U,r i LET THIS "00-0ETTER” 00 GET THE BUBIMES6