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EDITORIAL PAGE of the CAPE MAY COUNTY TIMES

CAPE MAT COTUTT Consolidated with the Sen tele City Serlew, Febru&ry, 1118 WILLIAM A. HATFERT Oeoenl Muecer Published Erery Friday by the CAPS .MAT OOUMTT TOILS CO. (Incorporated) Atlantic At*, and Blrbtb St. OCEAN OTT, N. J. South Laadls Arenue SEA ISLE CiTY. N. J.

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Entered at the Post Jttca at Sea We City. N. 3^ Matter.

oomlng of Christ, the first Sunday after the full moon that falls on or next after the 81st cf March is oomThls year Easter Sunday comes uausually late, and because of this the season of re-birth Is more generally reflected In nature than usual. Fo* Easter is truly the time of rebirth—all nature springs forth In a ae r glory, grass turns green, trees ^rout and nature awakens after Its w* liter’s sleep, as if to codmemorate the awakening of Christ after his three days' sleep in the grave from Good Friday to Easter Sunday. For everyone Easter is truly a time (or Joy—Joy in the birth of a ■ew nsason. and Joy in the feast which la the very foundation of Christianity in that It furnishes the Infallible proof of the divinity of Jesus Christ in his

MEET TUESDAT

Delegatee tor the NaOoral Convention* of the various parties will be elected In New Jersey next Tuesday, April 88nd. Opportunity Is thus given every man and woman cit'aen of legal age to declare their Interest in the future welfare of the country. The real menace lies hero at home In our Indifference at the polls rather than what Is golag on at Washington. Hamilton P. Kean, Republican National Committeeman for New Jersey. and an outstand.ng supporter of Calvin Oooltdge from the flrot, has been trying to arouae the Interest of the voters of hU party, through advertising and publicity, directing attention to the similarity of the present situation with that of several times in the past. He recently likened President CooUdge's difficulties to those of Abraham Lincoln. We might take our readers back ther to the time, ISC yean ago.

en Washington

For us. at the seashore, t

i for

* scans t it means the awakening from war winter of inactivity to another aeasou, store promising than the last la huslrew and real estate developsnont. Easter Is now recognised as tbs official opening, or at fore-ruaaer. of the somm< ■with the Influx of visitors and the «ene-al hum of activity that is so In «ontrut with the The TIMES wishes to fll Its readers a happy. Joyous Easter, with a full measure of all the good things, physically and spiritually, mean for happiness. We wish to all of you a most successful and proe-

ot our readers who reside In the city, sad spend their summers at the ■boro, we wfcn that the visit this 1 yoar wiH* bring greater happiness than the one before in health and

relaxation.

To all. then, we wish a JOYOUS

EASTER!

MORE DCPEOVED

"The greatest danger to this new republic will be the

of the voter*."

Ominous head shaking and plainre walls are futile. Protesting aval's little unaccompanied by action. Our birthright of suffrage— the first rudiment of popular goverulent. has assumed a destructive list esneas through our carelessness. Indifference and selfishness. All too

Uy imbued

with that Internal Idea, "What's the It Is the duty of every good citlsen to belong to a party and to partlc' pate In his party activities. The Primaries offer you this opportunity by giving you the privilege of log In the nominations of those who are to run for office in the final elections. The work of getting public officials is not all done on election day. It begins In the party primaries and conventions. Affairs in Washington are not going to he very much different until our "agents" there get the positive word from homo that we are thoroughly disgusted with their failure support the constructive efforts of Calvin OobMdg*. These "agents,' our Senators and Representatives, have climbed the lad.1i Into their present high the ladder &way and disappeared over the wall Into that dismal labyrinth of political chaos. The Sixty-Eighth Congress been in session over tour months. One appropriation bill (the Navy), the two billion dollar soldier bonus hold-up has beew dragged out. and there la evidently little chance remaining for a tax reduction biU. What a record. Deluging Senators and 1 with appeals by lette: and telegram has proved Ineffective. What our "agents’’ must hear la the through cur primaries next Tuesday that we have confidence In Calvin Coolidge. thereby Indicating to than th»t there Is still further chastisement coming to them at the polls this Fall unless they f»ll Into line with the President's program.

umert will be short and to tb* and will consume little ttme la tN* drafting. Mput of It In fact, will 1* dictated by toe President next’

ONE OF TH_

prints a cartoon showing of Senators, each with a magnifying glass spying Into Urn affaire cf tbs one .’net In treat of him. ~ '

TT»e action of the New Jtrsey State Highway Commission. In Alia* tie C*ty last Saturday in taking over two new routes, known as the Harding Highway, from Pennsgrove wonth. and the unimproved sections of the road from MUlv.ll* to Westwttle. with the promise of hard-sur-facing as soon as money 1* available, and assurance of Immediate and ads a big i of the Coun-

ty.

Eventually It means that there ■will be a hard-surfaced route to PhU--adelph by way of MiUrtUa. and a hard-eurtaceo route to Wilmington way of Pennagrove. from Mvsry mectloa of Cape May County This County 1* faring w roads, both la the County and leadlag to the County. While aoi think that the work of the State Highway Commission la slow la Its bard-eurtacinr program, every year mm new mileage added to the h*rn- . MZrtfexd highways In and adjacen! to this OstatyThl* year the portion of Route 14, from the Main Seashore Road, according to announced plana. Is to be

First Jobs of Big Men By PHILIP P. NOWLAN

CCOLHXWS CAMPAIGN ■ agers have ceased worrying about the Cleveland nomination at \ are concentrating on patching up various factional differences within the ~

unit front at t

cUmailon may not be possible of Senator LaFMlette'a Wlsoon-

-ohanan\

n delegates altered folk

following, but the first bel* Sjd to renew Itforyour a tell the story. The Mg * ua ,0 it wr you.

toe picture—not only Is

over-run with private detective*, prying here and there, rifling film end

tigs tors of thS'lnemUcetera. AN INVESTIGATION In Or

baa lost 1U old Ume punch. so many so-called levee _ going on here now that only n few have any Importance. The ran are lost In the shuffle, and at knot *

or four which

stuff at he beginning of the have drifted off Into a final A FEW WEEKS AGO It * ed out in thL, column that of LAbor Jamew J. Davis la the only

Cabinet who baa not

by some kind of scandal, Davis Mill holds that record, but no oae ka when he will tall off. So far be co ducted hia department In a high

Musings Of the Office Cat. Whiskey will drive any man to I Iter. If you dent believe It t reecriptloo there and as* 'em fall. "Well. Becky." aaM the cigarette salesman, as he stopped the c* mile from town, "rouTl have Camel If you d< ' “

OjEfe The only women I can trust Are the two Keeptes stirtag at am From the r “‘-

Corrert this sentence: That's all right." smiled the bankm. "well be

Happened in Hr. Lakr’i Office The tweet young thing had brol If glasses. She took, the remains of them back to the optometrist, bare broken my glasses.” A* "do 1 have to ha examined all aga'a?"

•Tie

No," he

groceries li honeymoon

a begins to bring home netcad of Bower*, the

PralM John *rom whence oil blcmgs flow; pralM John who oww here bek>v *

Now. WiUle. be e good boy. then on your birthday you can have your

appendix taken out.

1 will give my love t in whom I have no confidence. But 1 m

Wiping your Ups when leaving a date keeps them from chapping.

Replies to Attack On Monquito Work (Communicated) April t, 1884. To the Editor of the Cape Mi County Time*. See Isle City. N. J. Dear Sir: I trust rw will allow me apace In your valuatK paper to answer the letter of Mr. Charles R. OonOag. which war published la the TIMES last week. Mr. Clouting states - ditches on the southwest eM* V the Sea Isle pike run through a piece of meadow that is practically dry - Tbis observation must have beet made from an automobUe on tb pike, as these m^rshee have hni from two to five laches of watei standing on them end are only dry. from a mosquito control standpoint, during a couple of w*< a la midsummer and only then when we do not have rale. It U true there are natural dit In thla section, that dial* the waters but they are ueeiem la training the surface water that remains In the low pieces. It Is also true that we are obliged, at time*, to dig ditches through high and dry meadows In order to reeeh an<* drrin the water from the low places la back. Practically all of thi ditchea that have been placed la good hay meadows have been at the request of the owner*. W* are not only willing but gUd to have the owners cooperate with us In laying out the ditches so that they will be placed to their advantage. The statement that 816,-

ensUy be ssea and rensgnle.i I suppose^ Mr. Ctcutlag bed sentence. 'Try and breed them •elt water," put ta large type *■,

machine golag. this U only a part of the work being done by the coma'aMon. The culverts and tide gates along the Delaware Bay Shore have already reclaimed hundreds of acres of hay; meadows for the farmere and have greatly reduced mosquito breeding In

=ui rmrek meudems * Cape m.t I wouM be pleased te knee anyone writ* to as who wishes any tnfo r rastloa te ratufis te the mosquito or the wor* of th* OosHMsatan/ Thanking r*n. I Very truly yesue, AiAK «*P. SWING. Secrt try Cape May County Man PALERMO The Baptist Mite Society met at he boane of Mrs. EUa Clou tiny on

Mr. Clouting la r asonably safe in offering a reward of ten dollars for moequlto larva found In the sMt ponds but this absence of breeding Is not because mosquitoes do not breed l in salt water but owing to the salt pond being full of hungry minnows (KUllftsh) that feed oc the Urea and also because the sides of a salt pond are, at a rule, too perpendicular to allow hr a soluble place for the. adult n osquito to lay her eggs. It wo. 1 Id not be necessary to have] water 1st ted as mosquito Urea

risiUnc

AlbsK WeDa and son. Vnil'm.. spent Friday svsal&fc with Mrs. Wells’ pareaU Lera. Mr. and Mm Walter Mick, of Bridgeton, were vtrttlng hlc sister. Mrs. Rty Adams. Sunday. Mias Sophia Headley, of Bndreton. spent the week-end with rela-

tives here.

Howard-Ooutlug and Mbs Lroma Clouting enjoyed the week-end with friends in Pfctladetpkte. Mrs. Dickason and fiuaily. of Bridgeton, spent the te* of the week with Mr. and Mrs William Adams

HARRY DAOGHKRTT sits ak la his apartment at the Wardm Park Hotel her* and plans what he of * girt will do to hie opponents te the Sea-

n . Admiral (on slitp rmcsklrir to bis

public life in the caimtre. 'hST pro- f:~>—° ne man win b* gli ™ *£ ^‘E/SeTtesw “jrjK jssar 01 " me Ub -

The first evidence of this was

his revel*ilon that the animosity of (wtM ^ wrath)—VTho

Sailor (calmlrl— -trick Henry.

L extended to May's Landing.

ambitions hsrd-s this year, including a section Ocean City, la Sea lal* City and 1 WUdwocd and Cap* May.

What the world reaRy needs, says Sheriff Redding, is better traffic regulations la the one-arm restaurant*

i Dry Goods Store

There Is many a real business manoe bound up Is the history the five-and-ten-eeat busteeer America, though to date the public has been told of few of them

that of F. W. Wool worth.

The man who bought out one ofl Woolworth's first enterprises be It ui and later amalgamated It with his later and more successful ture. got hts first Job In the good* store of Moore A Smith. Watertown. N. Y. For something like eight years he worked ther*. ilk* any other young man In th* dry good* business showing little evidence except to those who knew him beet of any extraordinary ability or

Mesa

Then bt went to Wllke*-Bi Pa. where be Joined Wool worth In a five-aad-ten-cent enterprise, buying him out three years later, and building up t-e buslaera until he was finally running a chain of stores located In various section* of the country east of the Mississippi. It was ta 1918 that be merged ab business with that of his format partner and became the vlce-preel-deat of the Woolworth Company. Fred M. Kirby la his name.

_ _ by n _ .. -

the Pennsylvania Senator for a fed- 0 id timer Is one who can .. eral appointment. As poe newspaper mMBbet when a beauty parlor didn't small of cigar smoke. Goaklp docra't~Uft __ and U dregs down good people. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE is expect- _ _ . . ed to sound the keynote of the Re- Trappca, Bj Hccxl publican campaign in his te«ech be- The tourisi Lad stopped In a email fore the annual luncheon of the A*- rural ittage. He was preparing to socle ted Press In New York the lat- renumt his Journey when he noticed ter part of this month. The speech the tot** constable watching will probably be an outline of the ac- narroW.r. compUsbmentn of his Administration "What’s tb* speed limit here to oeree as a sign-post for Rcpoblt- asked, thinking It wise tc be precan spell-binders daring the cam pared. paign. It was at this luncheon last "Never ye mind, young »NI*r.' year that Preelder.t Harding plied the rustic cep. "Jest /ew launched his campaign for the world t* git out o’ this tows w Jtout bein'

court.

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A Cm A kim la su-.h a little thing. A dash, a Gaah o' Joy. A brush of Ups. of finger Ups. Pray whom does It a&LO) 7 If osculation Is a crime. T. be a criminal all the time; A dainty Mia*, a moment's Pray what's the harm in