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CAPE MAY OOTJMTY TIMES GonaolUUUd with th« Sea Ule CKy Rerlew, February, 1118 Publlahed every Friday by the GAPE MAY OOTOTY TIKES 00.

Sea Ule City. N. J.

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TIKE THE LIGHT FAECE WAS ENDED The failure of the electric lights In Sea Isle City to function on Saturday night. July 26. serves to call attention to a farce that It Is high time was ended, leave a seashore resort without light on a busy Saturday night In mid-season U too absurd to < template, yet that is Just what happened. Had the lights failed for a few minutes the occurrence would have been excusable, but to leave the boardwalk suction In darkness for almost the entire evening U an Intolerable condition that shows the company’s operating organisation has a weak link In It somewhere that needs

strengthening.

Last winter Sea Isle suffered serious Inconvenience on more than one occasion through the failure of the electric current, these failures being more frequent than the general public was aware, as several of them occurred In the day time to the very great InvOnvenlence of those using the current for power. The electric company has told of the large sum It was expending to prevent a reoccurrence of these failures, but their plans have evidently not been completed, as the break of July 26 was ample proof. Now it is stated that plans have been completed by which, in case of a break, the boardwalk section can bo switched to another circuit In fifteen minutes, though the balance of the ti be dark, and that the general line foreman will dispatch repair men to the scene of the trouble at once on telephone notice. This promise sounds good, but are prefer to see how It works out. If It Is no better than past performances then It will be up to tbs City Commissioners to make a -direct appeal to the State Public Utility Commissioners. The farce has gone on long enough.

WAYSIDE TEA BOOMS Edith G. Norman, a Mays Landing lady. In a very readable article, has pointed out to ambitious women In this section of New Jersey the money to be made in wayside tea rooms, and it Is a suggestion that might be turned to good account by a good many Cape May County women who reside along the much-traveled highways. Two things stand out prominently today. This Is the age of travel and the age of service. The automobile has revolutionised the vacation period. Comparatively few people today spend their vacation In one place. They travel. They are here, there and everywhere. with the result that the highways are filled with travelers, aud these travelers must eat. but they demand service. The public taste has been wonderfully educated along esthetic lines In the past few years. They now demand the best of everything and are willing to pay for It. It Is Just here that the properly conducted wayside tea room finds Its niche. There are plenty of places where a cup of coffee and a sandwich be had. but they are not tea rooms. Women rule the world today and it la the woman's taste must be catered to. The chief requisites for a successful wayside tea room are house with shade. Immaculate cleanliness, snowy table linen, bright silver, well-cooked, well--aaoned food lr. variety and generous portions, all daintily serv-d surround Inga made bright, cheerful and homelike by the liberal addition of flowers, which can be grown^ln the borne garden. But sry some, conducted along such lines a place would have to charge high prices. To be sure the prices would have to be in keeping with »he service, but It | would quickly be found that people were perfectly willing to pry for the service. If th*y got hat they wanted. The big hotels which furnish the best service are the hotels which draw the largest patronage. When people go traveling they go to spend, but want the equivalent of their money. Along the main arteries of travel In Cape May County there are numerous places where such rooms could be successfully established, all that Is necessary Is for women of business ability and vision and an eye for the dainty and beautiful to enter the

field.

GBEATEB ATLANTIC PLANS UNDEB DISCUSSION Only a few weeks ago we ventured the opinion that Atlantic City would reach out and absorb Brigantine and eventually take In Pleasantvilk on the mainland. Sine then the annexation of Brigantine has been discussed editorially by the Atlantic City Press very frequently, thst Journal viewing the question from all

angles.

That Brigantine will be absorbed by Atlantic City Is as certain as anything which has not taken place can be. It la tbe logical thing for both and both will gain by not delaying the union. Not only will Brigantine become a part of Atlantic, but tbe municipalities south of Atlantic, as far as Somers Point, will become part of tbe .greater resort. And now comes a man from Ventnor ard advocates the formation of a resort -ounty. including Brigantine. all tli< municipalities of Absecon Island au.* Ocean City. At a glance this looks rather practicable. but Cape May County will oppose an emphatic objection to liaving her territory Invaded, there Is to oe any consolidation in which Cape May territory *» to figure, we prefer the consolidation shall commence with Ocean City and move southward. Besides, when Atlantic absorbs all the municipalities on Absecon Island, plus Brigantine, she will have enough undeveloped acreage to keep her busy for a number of years to come.

Punter Should Leant One Killed. It Pro The Beater Is Beaten To Tbe Last Man

moved about by var.ous means of ransporatioi:. nut si! baring the ame objective—deception. In no line of endeavor is there any need of deception In this day. That honesty is the besi policy iss been thoroughly tested out I and he who would achieve the nost permanent and lucrative success. vrill well not only to keep no “P. D." casks standing around. to makt It a point to expose all such casks wherever they may

be found.

£^#Q*r<mrSeeW

80

. X of tchn-

Rubber Jumped to

That made everybody

it went to 81. Now It has reached 81.12. That is because His Majesty's British subjects, who control the rubber market, know how to manage prices. e American farmers see crop price* dropping, and they are always uncertain. That la because farmers who COULD control the price of food have no efficient organisation. They have eomethlng to learn from the Rubber Trust, and a few other trusta. At John Hopkins University. Baltimore's magnificent seat of learning, the able scientists report progress In the preparation of insulin. the remedy for d'sbetee discovered by young doctors in Canada. " Tne insulin diminishes the amount of sugar in the blood, thus curing diabetes. From Insulin, as used hitherto. John Hopkins scientists have eliminated various chemical element*. One remaining 1* called “fractloi. UL" This

highly concentrated lusulln. InJect* d Into the blood of a rabbit, on ,

reduced the sugar In It* blood | from 113 millimeter* per cubic! Single men look forward centimeter to 39 within an hour.! marriage, married men look for

The sentimentalist who thinks | ward to death, i It a shame to experiment with I ^ .. •

| live rabbits would change his ;. Prosperity evidently stopped to

I mind If.he had s father

dying of diabetes.

A town chicken fancier b , „ eon who calls a chlaken a bird "TooYa a bore." said the op, The way to remove your biaS ^ la to put ou your thinku,

Everything wna perfect in Garden of Men. There * u

wn mower.

Jiggs must be etnick quite u often by Maggie’s ugllneae u her rolling pin. ' Tbe first drink doesn’t aiv in lead to another—not If it's whlu

mule.

Doc Hughee eaya

ford to borrow trouble; the in-

terest rate** luu *' '

Ignorance of tM Is 1 no one—but knowledge

callties may.

A fortune awaits tbe man she Invents an adjustable engagrinni

ring.

Country roads are not *h*t they seem to be. They seem lonttj

and deserted.

One thing certain the lose skirts get shorter looks than the

WIDE publication of the far* that American fleet drank a toast to tiiv King and the President at the lormal banquet at Melbourne. Australia, may possibly be propaganda to

'^iUug.

NEW YORK bss found s way to check the moth that ate tbe girl’s bathing suit. Flapper* carry dolls that contain their bathing suits, cape, shoes, stocking*, rouge, powder. Up sticks, cigarettes and

In .l*t Iamlliar ..p.

enl.n Into I1.0 IK. o! tbo nxxl.rn lraite n, oft „, belnn

TOO KOCH FEFFEB DUST Rather a queer, but none tbe is forceful and pointed advertisement of a large bank came under our notice this week, which carries a most opportune truth and part of which we take the liberty of reproducing that its effect may not be lost. Many years ago. tbe advertisement says. In Its opening paragraphs, pepper was under a heavy tax and In the spice trade everybody expected pepper to be adulterated. In the corner of a spice house there stood a big cask, containing a substance like pepper, marked " P. D."—pepper dust—wherewith it was usual to mix pepper before sending it forth the trade. From this text the advertisement makes this deduction: This world of ours contains a great deal of ’’P. D.” The demagogic politician in high office loves to harangue and ceaselessly chatter about the down-trodden poor being imposed upon by the evervicious and predatory rich. That Is ’’P. D." The commission merchant has a cargo damaged, and. as the underwriters question before paying and require tbe formal oath, some convenient way Is found to make It. That is "P. D." A shareholder of a big corporation gets up a rumor of a big combination. That is "P. D.’’ The tipster, or now called "economist.” who can tell you all about the future financial condition* through study of stars or smol&Btacks—that's "P.

D.*'

"P. D.” Is In many places —In books, at board meetings. In Senate*. In Journals. In the landlord's office, in the fanner's market room, in the milkman's pall, in the lawyer's bag. used by the sparkling tielle* at the Royal Ball, in the dens of low dealers and thieves. Some milkmen bang pails of milk down the well to keep the milk cool. Some of them use too much rope. That's "P. D." In fact, if some Just power were today to take all the "P. D." casks in this great shop we call the world and scatter the deceitful contenu to the winds, there would be such confusion tomorrow morning that the whole shop would have to be rearranged. In our smaller world we are all

NOW they are holding bootleggers' bargain days in the Federal courts in New York. Those who plead guilty are fined f60 to 8100. Or. in other words a sacrifice of the proflta on at least five cases.

On Merit, Not Sentiment Election of Widows to Congres* New Order For Women in Politics

Three women will sit In the next Congress. Two of them are "political widows." elected to serve out the unexpired terms of their late

husbands.

However, sentiment has died In politics—and the woman elected to Congrees now—goes there on merit Such Is the political evidence of 1925. One of the widows Is from Massachusetts, the first ever to be from the New England Statea. She is Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers, of the Fifth District. Tbe other is Mrs. Florence Prag Kahn, of San Francisco, elected from the Fourth California District. The third member Is not a widow. therefore had to go out in an Intensive campaign and battle her way to victory. She Is Mrs. Mary T. Norton, of New Jersey—whose husband is alive and in the coopjerage business at Jersey City. While sentiment prompted tb* mndldary of both Mrs. Rogers aad i Mrs. Kahn, at the deaths of their husbands, both encountered strong opposition to their elections which made the campaigns whirlwind affairs and gave to both the opportunity to prove that they were qualified for seats in Congress. Mrs. Rogers' victory at the recent election was most notable. She first went Into a three-corner-ed fight at the primaries for the Republican nomination. She overwhelmingly defeated two strong men candidates. Then into the fight for election against a Democratic opponent. Eugene Noble Fuss, three times Governor of Massachusetts. She defeated him. nearly three votes to one. Mrs. Kahn's supporters are quite firm In the belief that she will be a "real " congresswoman. She was forced to make a real fight for election. She made many political speeches and surprised all by her grasp of national questions and the workings of Congress. Sentiment was forgotten and she rolled up votes on merit—enough to win handsomely. It is true that of the seven women elected to Congress since the Inauguration of equal right, not one has In any way distinguished h.Tself. However, woman has shown herself an apt pupil and recent elections indicate that she has arrived—to make good

Rising A galas! ('(tee Philadelphia Bulletin: Realization that Society must organise against Crime In tbe United State* if the Criminal class Is to be kept within anything lire bound* ha» come to men of influent r and Importance In the life of the countsy. and the plan of Elbert H Gary, beetd of tbe Steel Corporation, to form a National Crime < ommUslon that *h*ii study tbe situation and arouse publl-- sentiment against lawlessness. Is evMenct of the awakened sense of danger. Cape Raj Xeed> Sew Boardwalk Cape May Standard Wave: Cape May needs a new boardwalk and a good one. Anything short of the best possible to build, wide enough to be worthy of the name and with room between it and tbe beach drive topark automobiles would be a mistake, and a mistake difficult to remedy for many years

come.

By all means let us have the boardwalk and a real one—concrete if possible, hut If not that then the best possible. Progress of Self Control Westfield Standard:We constantly hear about the degeneration of young people. Yet folks who utter these lugubrious thought* might chew on the fact, that In one of the leading universities thirty year* ago there used to be "about two hundred of the students arrested each year for drunkenness, but during tbe last ten years the average has been only twelve such

arrests.

Tbe wrong things of the present day look big. but if the wrong things of former days were enacted before us. we would know that tbe world is making progress in

self control. A I tad Same

Free ho nl Transchipt: “ There 1* fear in many communities "giving the town a bad name” by a too rigid enlorcement of traffic laws and regulation*. But those who u*e the road* would be glad If they were certain that regulation- w ill be enforced In all town* through which they and Instead of giving "the town a bad name" such a condition should give a town ■ good name a* a law ■biding community. And It might be asked, of what special account or use U the ordinary traveler passing through a town or city' He lr usually using the streets as a means of reaching some point further on aud cares little about the town nr the people In iU He seldom stops to buy or trade: tbe least he ran do la passing Is to act the part of a genMeman and lawabiding citizen, and If be does not tbe police should not hesitate to

arrest him.

Tbe Rany Hided Bryan

Philadelphia Ledger: More than one Bryan is buried In tbe grave that was filled at Arlington Bryan, tbe orator heard by million* rests there. Bryan, the leader of a vast political movement for half a life-

time. has also gone to

Bryan, the restless politician who three times in his life led his party

and In many campaigns

potent factor, sleeps at last In sight of the capital for eo long the shining goal of his dream* Bryan, the

moralist, ha* llkewl-e go-.c

long home. Still another and later Bryan, the Brj-an of fundamentalism. the leader of a religious movement. has gone to sledp in the Narrow House. Dying'at 65. he was cot old as men have come to reckon human activities. But he had compressed within the last thirty years the work of a half-dozeg ordinary men of ordinary lifetimes.

Hampering Firemen

Trenton Times: At a recent destructive fire ic Atlantic City it is said that so many automobiles

Robert Sbroyer. twenty-eight, beat his wife in Frederick County. Maryand. Shroyer was tied to the whipping post, ten lashes were applied to his back, "with a regulation blacksnake whip.” The wifebeater deserved tbe ten lashes and ten thousand. But It is the first time ic a long time that a white man has been officially whipped In Maryland. Did it really do any good? The man. for some reason, decides to beat bis wife and doe*

so.

The people of a great State, for

mother i flare -her shoes half-soled t*(on

resuming her Journey to the cor-

ner.

filled with curiosity-seekers, soon de< .ide to beat the

gathered at the scene as to Inter- man and they do so.

fere with the movements of the What's the difference? Wby firemen, the engines and the not mnke tbs man work for his supply-wagons. The same com- wife about alx months, instead plaint has been beard in Trenton, of letting a groat State Imitate

that when an alarm of Are is a wife-beater.

sounded there Is a rush of auto- Bricklayers fight masons, union mobllists to tbe fire and the world I against union. There ought to be of the fire-fighter is often greatly arbtTTstlon. for the sake of work-

impeded. jlng people. # There appears to be no cure for, "Suppose presidents of rail-

<*i. 'S;

cers to Immediately on an alarm |

refuse to carry pas-

. — i sengera. How long would tbe bead off all traffic In the direction j p ubUc na,,* i t *

of the fir*, excepting on the part of j Railroad presidents are too Inpersons who are able to show that' telllgent for that sort of nonsense, thev have a better excuse ta tbe j If they were fighting among themnelghborbood than to satisfy Idle j selves, they would keep It to th**ncurioslty. There should be no aelvsa That Is why they are rail-

road prealdente.

curiosity. There should hampering of the firemen.

isS

Aint it funny that

’unny that so many

of our big, financial bugs was born in plebian circumstance— among the common plugs? The Sunday paper tells us rf a Railway Baron's climb from down among the alley rats that ‘•shined" for half-a-dime'. Another happy billionaire is lookin’ back -ith pride to the barrel trot hv step' in—while the other pups was tied! An still another heavy-weight has forged his way to fame—got rich by cleanin’ cuspidors and stay-

in' with the game I

Then—view it from the other slant—we find some grenadiers that's squandered their inheritance in half a score of years! From out tbe lap of luxury they sputter, flash and fizz, to overcome the handicap that wealthy parents is! Their chapter of existence makes a mighty harrowin' tale, from affluence to penury'—from liberty to Jail And then, th dis-illusion—it's too late to make a roar—when we leant the son of fortune is the

offspring of the poor!

Thirty-four Minnesota volunteer* In the Civil war formed a “Last Man's Club." The club has just held Its fortieth annual reunion. Four are living .oife too til to attend. One of tbe three present was unable to stand, so they drank to the last man sitting. One of these days there actui ally will be on this earth some ( last man. woman, or last child. ' For In time this world must die. ! Science and tbe Bible teach It. What kind of creature will that last human be? What shape. »hat ! language? How much will he or

Ishe know?

Will the human race, having moved up to the highest possible point, gradually go back to barjbmrtsm at the end. as the indi- ! vidua! in extreme old age goes I back to childhood. Will the last man know how to talk to the other planets, and will he know Just what Is going to happen to him after he dlee. or will he be like ourselves, still wondering. with only faith to comfort him, and save him from painful thought and speculation?

If annual renewal of mtniap license were required which *,<114 get first attention, the Uzx t *** C Never present a June b'i4 with a r'e knife, warns an Oosi City cfc** 1 'ho knows. !t may tsduce he. make a pie. Telllpg the truth may ‘ the devil, but some folks get plasuresout of telling It te shim some other church member. They are thinking of erwilsf a bust to the man who icrtMcd the Volstead iaw. A bust »ill b* appropriate. Drunk: Hie—'sa funny thin. it when the water — b freezes It always — hlc — f with the slippery side up. The btggast sucker Is the a* who believe* be can conm.uilb violate tbe flab law and not P»‘ caught. A fortune, any* Clint BreckW. Is awaiting the mat *bo cu make last year's hat look just >* good aa *fw. Here lias the body of X He asked the aaK-made mat he hadn’t put more hslr on m top of his head. A former professional has bought a newspaper. will probably give him the tu» of hU life. Irv Fitch aays that dull make the beet wive* because ti are not bo apt to hurt their b bands aa the keener ones mis*

do.

The 15 or 20 of us who are** behind when all of those *h f ’ ™ tour Europe this summer parted, should get together »»■ organize a travel study clun

dl dearie-

ted

1 yri-jhau -nolP* Ml hf*"*

A Fair Q nest ion. Lecturer:—"There Is no loos In this life. When one thing dropped—something else always takes Us place.” Voice from Rear:—" How about petticoats, brother?"

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Engineering Problems

Another London bridge is fali.ng down. Waterloo Bridge, with its 80.000 ton* of masonry, is In danger of sliding into the Thames at any time. Today's bridge engineers prefer suspension to suspense. and build accordingly.

is—Mon. 11—Tuoa. U—WM.

COAL pocket picking may soon bli be aa excusable offense.

The Clean Beeord

Husband: — (helping wooden wadding) "Well all the years have flitted I haven't deceived you

ir

Wife: — "No—John

haven't deceived me—but know you tried hard enough

Sinister

First Bootlegger: (readier .■ newspaper) "It aays ten ^ that with the developnxa science the apan of life * 111 be 150 year* " tf Second Bootlegger: J' 0 ' know anything about lt-

Breke So*.

Sharper;—“Say. Strange! you Uke to buy the »

Bridge—at only 81.9W* ^

any money. I Ju* 1 .. SUtue of Liberty for 860«'

Stay in the Boad

Do setbacks put you for" 3 /; Or do they rend ^ ■> Do obstacles along luce

Cause you to leave

The road builder £ But watch and y«w J 1 ..

And m -bing “V,,I - road . „ His busmens Is to build*

J” All Ib.t b. »*”“ i 110 Is where this road U f

1.61 And that's where he

IS An Obstacle 1* encounter^;

Of course will I «.S4 Yet once laid out. U 8 up v

| « To dear tbe right of *8

® oo Lay out your course aad

It.

kick about your^,

Decide where y° u * .i,. roadAnd then stay In the ^