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EDITORIAL PAGE of the CAPE MAY COUNTY

CATE MAT COUHTY TIMES oil ox ted with the Sex Ixl« Cli Rerlcw. Pebmarr. 1*11 WILLIAM A. HAFTERT

Publlmhed Erery Friday by the CAPE MAT COUMTT TIMES CO. (Uoorporated) Atlantic Are. and Eighth 9t. OCEAN CITY. N. 3. South Landis Avenue SEA ISLE CITY. N. J.

Philadelphia Office—71: Mutual life Bull din*. A. F. Smith. Adrec*Unc Rapt sees tatiep. eubecripUoa Price. |1A* Per T< la Advance. Advertlaln* Rates Furnished Upon Application.

IS TEUKPHOHE KATE HCSEA8E JUSTIFIED! The Bell Telephone Company Is askin* for an increase la telephone rates la mil of South Jersey. The plication Is now before the Pu Utility Commission, which Commission In telephone matters as m rail-

gas. water, electric light, etc., has charge of the fixing of rates. The application for aa Increase may or may not be Justified on the part of the Telephone Company, n only fair that the civic

small, without a profit is Just a possible aa it Is to escape deal

on the amount of capital in I la its South Jersey equipment most certainly entitled to sack > as will allow It t^ earn on the other t be shown that there It

B should be denied. The pros and cobs will be beard before the Public Utility Commisi and until rueh time as the Ccnunlsston sets on the application tor aa . It nould appear only Just md judgemer*. and keep an

▲ Democratic contemporary asserts that the farmers are paying the brunt of the heaviest taxes in the history of the Nation, and this is cited as a reproach to the present National Aimin'MraUon. But the fanners arc not paying any considerable amount of Federal taxes. Practically all farm machinery, fertilisers and binding twine are on the free list—pay no customs tax whatever. Few farmers are paying any Income tax sad those who do pay are not paying Urge emourts. Ask the first tan fanners you met. tc whom 'hey pay their tare*, and ihey will tell yon they pay to the county tax collector. II It be true that the farmers a*e bearing the brunt of the heaviest taxes in history, that Is no cause for criticism of the National Government. Moreover. If the fanners were paying Federal taxen, the high^axes of today would not be chargeable to present Administration. The high Federal taxes are due to the war. Fart of that could not have been avoided. But an extravagant and Inoompetent administration during the war made thore taxes much higher they auould be. From an; viewpoint it does not lie wlthii. the province of a •complain of high Federal taxes.

ANOTHER VIEW OF COURT HOUSE The Cape May County (Janette fen with the TIMES on the Court House alterations. Editorially the Gazette last week "aid. The Gasette this week prints as extended, carefully studied, but utterly unconvincing argument from the pen of Freeholder Kay In support of the proposition to practically eliminate the revered old court-house building from the public ey« In present or future disease this question the Gazette wants it distinctly understood that It makes nc attack oa Mr. Kay or any other member of the Board of Freeholders— tbe»r honesty or Integrity Is not be doubted—but in this, the meet Importer• county movement of there la too much at stake to wamat silent acquiescence on the part of

the public

With all that part of Mr. Kay"* article which alleges a most Imperative need for larger and more convenient quarters for the County Clerk's office, as well as tor new and ivenient quarters tor the County rm Demonstrator. County Tax Board. County Superintendent Schools, etc. this paper is fully and heartily In accord. If we wei to criticize his contention In this respect we would say that h. stated rather than overstated the crying need In this direction. The county la now paying rent for at

Musings of the Ofiice Cat

Arbitration Is what you be! In if you can't lick the other fellow. George Boeder believe* that many motion pictures should ue listed as raw products. • Well. I should hope to proclaim It from th > bouse tops, said the stes Jack aa he painted a sign on the rent

An Ohio doctor says we'd all Hw longer If we ate nothing but peanuts, rhubarb and green vegetables. Maybe. But who wants to Hvs

that kind of a lue?

George Ro-s thinks a lot cf people rill never enjoy life unUl they c an money as easily as they spend **G A up. Clara, get up xt once, tan has Jest broke n Into the bosm Tm up. deer. I'm up! But wt have yon done with the rouge hot.

I'd like to know."

public building and the working dirion.' In the Clerk's office aro s ly deplorable. Whether It I iro.ooo or I1M.000 ac

lem should be made—^ad we firmly believe that every lailvtanal

t-house bal’d!ng will heartily approve of the expenditure, providing the architectural lines and fronts of court-house and County Clerk's s are not destroyed. The drat lags for the present Clerk's office were made by Freeholder Champion himself, as an architect, and carried under his supervision. If there is a more artistic or pleasing-to-the-eye "froat” In the State of New Jerf It has never been our privtlej nee It. And when it cornea to the sacred old court-house building we doubt the ability of the best architects in the State to excel It In point of attract!veneea. The county owns ample ground on which to meet n modem office b< Ing whiih will comfortably bower

It would not be quite as Imposing grand as a court-house with a Dickey in front of It. Not In many years have we i the Intelligent people of the county so practically unanimous ns they are In their expressed desire to save from vandal hands the front of the courthouse snd Clerk's office buildings.

Magfeborkood Joy*

CHEERFULLY DOHE The "Breeders' Gazette" recc published a vigorous editorial favoring tax reduction and paid a deserved tribute to the effectiveness of National Budget Lew but an error was made in regard to the origin of the law The statement was mad* that President Harding forced the budget system on Congress. J matter of fact, a budget law wee pataed by the Congress of wnleh Mr. Harding was a member, but It was vetoed by President Wilson. The new Congress made some char - as in the Mil and passed It again, and it was signed by President Harding. There was no compulsion whatever. The Republican Congress heartily in favor of the measure also was the Republican Prcsld Both bare since co-operated In Us enforcement.

Black Sambo's Philosophy

De single man has got dl> advantage: He kin go ter heaven aloe hUe de married man ha* somebody

>r tewrirv hi_

A deck strikes eight. The fading day Sinks Into twilight’s sombre grey. And weary birds to siumbti While in the sky, the sun's last

glow

Tsdee softly out. And thi, nesr’-y

I hear the customary sigh tot testify agin' him

Wert comes the sound ikat s louder Many a man who I* shoutin' hallestlll luis on de hilltops wouldn't hsve a It's maddening. I'm nearly ill »ord ter say ef somebody in de low Front listening to that boy next Joor grounds what knosed him. said

Uadi night at eight, begin to snore Looby dart."

:: Trouble may tea*h tu good 1< A Wildwood newspaper Is running ^ ut roi ‘>' dt Lnwd keep us from even * series of articles on "Cars of House- " tl, ‘ * scholar la dat school:

hold Pets." it has told ail about caring for the canary, the goldfish and the doc. and some Fire Mile Beach ladles are still In hopes It will even i «i#Uy get around to Friend Huntmrd.

asks work for kiss.

the girls who have adopted knta The advantage In winning a p prise is that whe. war Is declared yen still have the money. What kins of a rime did ytm hav la the police court this Homing!

Listen girts—It's far bettor to he able to make up your mind than yior face. imroon sense, aeeordlag to Jess Ludlass. Is the ability to take om and make the best of U. The aviator who "skins the cat" op in the air la a hero to soma p« and s fool to the rest.

ea. says a local wise guy. In ord to get a prencriprion, and to get ov the effects of haring gotten one. he person who Is thsakiol for tks . appreciative of the present, and hopeful for the future need have no e far worry.

If it has to be «om. I do 1L Why not you?

P will

A group of college girts, giving a

their number named “Faith" ns sk er. on the ground that faith could move inounmias

of your troubles aro your own fault. Erer look at it that way?

George Redding

bate the rent collector while you can. In a little while youTl need all of It

for the umpire.

Little did Calvin Coolidge th'sk when he was sworn Into office by the light of an oil lamp soap manufacturing company advertised a contest for slogans. They also made perfume. Hero to s slogan came In which they could not It road: "If yon don't use out perfume, for Heavens —a* use our

The "Infallible law of supply sod etnand" does fall once la : while, tb* experts to (be contrary loot at tbe supply of free advice runniny loom to this country, with practical!*

GASTON B. MEANS to by far the sat popular witness among the Senate Investigators. la hto two trunksof the records of hto spectacular or. Means claims to have enough Informariot to put most of tbe offictoto t.i Washington behind the ban.

charges Involving Harding-Coolidge

Cabinet to craft and corruption to Indicate that the famous private to not Muffing. Born on t. North Carolina cotton plantation.

Mean* Is one of the

Every aeuzlar who plans an Invest! gallon now wants to examine Meant —they tL'nk hell put them on the

THE OIL PROBE to about ftaiihed. Senator Wvtoh and those with him to the Investigation hare concluded that they have pltobed about all that they can. to view of tbe suits filed In California and Wyoming to cancel t and Doheny 'vases, so they will retire to the background while the Daugherty and Mellon probes occup

spot-light.

COOLIDGE CONTINUES U cool In tbe face of all 1 chargee and allegations that are being hurled at hto subordinates 'a thr course of tbe various investigations at . he Capitol. Tbe President to b - his romnaixn manaavrs Mi Idle West that there is no doubt tha. he will be nominated at Cleveland on the first ballot. THL CANDIDACY of William G. McAdoc does not appear to be gaining man heads ay to tbto part of the country, t ut the former Secretary of the Treasu.7 dedans that he has the Democratic nomination cinched. It to too early to forecast the result of the Democratic race, as Senator Underwood to Jus? as optimistic as MeAdoo. while in scant quarters there to talk of a "dark horse," such as Royal Copdard. of New York. Carter Glam, of Virginia, or s«m Raltoon, of In-

WRj Deut She Froeae?

Fust Jobs pf Big Men By PHXUP F. WUHAN

FROM FLOUR TO COAL At the aga of thfrtaau. be <S«d*m he was use? much eevered with fes dust most of tb* rims, tor the bom were very long and the pay wu r^r small, and he w«s devoting Us tad energies to hfilng • minor cog It tb big machinery of a floor mill at R.

Olive. Mo.

Tor several years lift for hln «u Just one dood off white dust tfte another. Perhaps tUs had some: i'q to do with the change of ocruytta which he finally mafia. He wee: • wort- next in Urn coal mtow. * be *oat three years k IJws With much oxpsrience young, he came bock to Parain> Mo., where he was born, and b*B

lauaeoed at Flat River.

The Icy blasts roar through the trees But the flapper Mist with silken knees Seems Just ss comfy as you please

In all tb* storm.

Ik may be worn, but not when th Enough in shew the peeping skin; A very glowing heart within Must keep her warm.

REGARDLESS OF whether anything to proven Involving Attorney General Daugherty in this or that scandal, hto days in the Cabinet are

Daugherty hoi'’ to the

belief that nothing will ever

against him. but even if the

committee falls to find anything In Ha Investigation, the Attorney Gen-c.-al will step down and out about

April 16th. If damaging evidence to The silence of the night was unbaar out the charges against him is broken except for an occasional murPresident 'VifiUdge may de- mur coding from the p.rch swing. —' before that when • Tolc * from the upstairs front

window said: "Dorothy, why Lake that young man around to

But Bid She!

You can say one thing for ben peckery. says Judge Byrnt. Husbands under a thumb are seldom under

Indletasent.

May lost her little cow It filled her with much grief. For everywhere that Ma; went She could not find her beef.

INVBiTIGATfON of Secretary of tbs Treasury Mellon's Internal Revenue Boreai to being directed by Senator Jim M atson, of Indiana, though tb* probe wav started by another Jim

while tbe Irony —Oousrns. of Mich! ~e Those who

aro aware of tbe Ill-feeling that has existed for s long rime between Watson and Mellon are expecting seme

Interesting fireworks.

Ule girl Nobody loves me

my hards are cold.

Cold-hearto!—Ood lores

on your hands.

Our names are "ITrialhe's Artie

>4 I'm Benie.

One advantage of a woman wearing overall* around home _ that peddlers will think she to the

hired man.

1 was awfully embarrassed ibis nwrntng. . I got a block from home before I noticed that I still had on

bedroom slipper*. What did you do?

I had to limp all tho way home. There to this advantage in '.sing a

street car. when you leave it. you don't have to worry about forking It.

Tbe Court House man who used to

live where the snow fell fluently and drifted deep, says "It to a casr- -» —-

love, if he is thrilled when he

In galoshes."

HARDLY ANYONE to taking seri-

ously the statements that certain Senators are In danger of being asaaeslnated because of their uti.z-ir, upon public officials. The charge "“Mlc openly by Senator Tom

of Alabama, who Intimated

that the bullet which recently hit

Senator Greene, of Vermont wi

really intended for him. Greene wt_ supposed to have been shot during a pistol battle between bootleggere and

federal agenu.

WILLIAM 8. KENYON, former Senator and now a federal Judge, refused to become Secretary of the Navy In tbe Coolidge Cabinet because be to aiming higher. Kenyon would like to be Attorney General, and he also has an eye on tbe Presidency. It to PosMble that Coolidge would offer him the Attorney Generalship, but to that there would be considerable opposition. ns Kenyon would go Into office wfh the idea of making the fur fly her and that might not be so pleasant to l some ot the gentlemen on the inside.

— MJ

the Hack of the bouse so he can see

the *

H may be right that when two are

married they become os on* WHICH ~=T .hi one i, .UH a much dtoomeed quroUon. wcaSj^S l^bJ

IbMt fee i* * vmk

There aro ’**««"* motor cars la tb* UuPad Sut* * cording to Washington ststiru

figure out what your d

Mlntotar's Wife-Wake up! 1 re burglars la tbe bouse. Mintsf-r—WeM. what of ,

Use Harry flrifl. He swallowers tank

J tones—I've known har i

was a child.

James—But I thought

her last year.

W. L. GEORGE AND HIS WIFE Across the Breakfast Table

attractive actresses

same reason that acton tasplr* 6ruBt

than «y othj, of womM ,

GEORCi:: U,<

SSuti^j is.'.jTZi is sir’

Pvery man with any sent^ th f t * h ** ‘* ot “ bdMtfe 1 u * h ' r know so well how toriSHutTflLJ?‘ “ tU * •«*>‘etou« of wou>« ~ .^. G . EOEO - : XSVJfJSi ^ M»i 0 OEOR E E: ' h "'“'’T- •*'’ ,X

ss? ny?

moments of dramatic rmSui * } tr Xl *°- ^ ***■ her on the --“*1 glamour round her. 0Di,,ct - “<1 *U tbto appeals to him and n** never qulte^u^f u « Meat part of 1L *** u *!j expect there are rut tier mn.iJ » woman which attracts a mac ^ sn actress hun^*b?£*£?££* Por '**"**•■ a maa falls in >°"5 of other men He fovro h. P r^ d<d ,I * d Perhaps desired by f even something more TObtto hJi “ ni *f t,UT e And 1 bailey ’’J

^ you say. act to privauiiri M ^

be the one who to ttlax to . 80 * ‘•Mto bHwpMf that be be real for his sakeTaSd Wtj ° w 9* him love her mw “ trtUD,ph lnc "*ros hto self-esteem sed

you. sit