Cap* May County > Hana Newapapet

CAPE MAY COUNTY TIMES

Friday. February 26. 1926.

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VALUABLE CF BOOKS

Tfc€ aatknet’.e coal strike has rnlveml •atMaetloa will be been a booa to owner* of wood-; reit at thr anaoaneMaeat that a

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HaWNQ. m sooth .. BM Mo CUT. ft. I

a ori<*. |L— jar yoor. vood f ,

land la Gaya Mar County, aa It haa enabled them to dittoes of ooaanda of doUan worth of tlmir. which waa only fool for cord

doA.

If troyer foreetebt wu used In the eatUBK of this wood, that la If the timber waa thinned out. (trine that left room to develop, the atrtke will he worth other of dollars In the (really Increased value of the timber left atandlnf. If this course waa then It should be by in future cuttlo( of

1 six hundred million board feet of r and pays more than $46.- »• for It. NIne-tenthe of thia lumber la Imported and haul aa averse* distance of

freight bill of $(.066,660. ThU means ant for every $45 worth of lumber he usee the New Jersey

i $1 for freKht.

y County with Its rap-

copy of the Outt*nber( Bible brou(ht HOC,000 at public auction In the cosmopolitan city of New York. So far aa U known this la the hKhest price ever paid for a slnple book In the history of the world., Seemlncly we may have our battles over evolution and fundamentalism, we may split theolo(teal halts and follow sectarian tain down a thousand different by-pat ha, but when the smoke of r*ll(lous difference* has cleared away, the Book of Book-> still stands as a rock Imperishable In the hearts of the people. The Guitenher( Bible now In poaaeeaion of Dr. A. 8. W. Rooenbach. was printed before America was discovered—when Christopher Columbus was romping aa a boy In the streets 01 Genoa. It was the Brat book printed from movable type, but It eet down Immovable ethlca. Peculiarly. however, while forming the basts of civilisation the Book of Books seems to be net aside In

the members of the Chamber of Cootla a teat that In moat m a handful of mea o Use work, but that iwa a lack of Interest rt of the membership . sad such bodies are

Sea lala ahead In this wooferful opportunity i will have te show t ta the work than

dag at the pr

$.$$.

id;at »1 S the asaalla t mot right. It is oot

raging them, rather It ■glng to them aid (Wee I tocentlva to work. » properly and fuUUl on for which It wai the membership Lust a new leaf aad eater

Into the work.

Is a wonderful opportunlII v* organisation to do i In Sew late this year, iresided and aecrvlrry

tot carry oa. .

the functioning of the govern-

where the construction la largely | ment. Those opposed to capital of wood, and where a vast deal punishment for example point to* of lumber would he used, even the fact that in inflicting the were the outside construction of!death penalty civilisation Alee In other material, pays a consider- the teeth of biblical teaching, arable share of this bill. rotating to man the power of InWltb proper care of our forests flic ting eternal damnation. In that aad with .wforeetrmtlon ot our'no sinner can repent Idle lands In suitable trees under , and ensure his aafety In the other | proper supervision, much of thk.' ' world by sincere contrition per1 umber bill. In after years, ee- 'ected at the Anal tick of the peel*Ur the common lumber. ; c> xk. Another hour of life and

all might be well, these good folks contend In striving to bring an end the offlcUl killing of mankind. Whatever of biblical faith and admonition may he Ignored by government, however.! the Great Book still stands as! the rule and guide of man's prac-1 (Ice. It has thundered down the

it change, resisting all | It Is the book most

widely read, and most often used in reference even In this age of.j

id jam bo;

mild he Ncufjt

produced here at home. Jersey haa t.000.600 acres id which la unsalted or not d for unea other than foreeaseet of this land must grow r or He Idle. Tsro-thlrds of

I that It Is practically unpro-

ductive aa farm land. If fully

ted. protected and managed •rty It would ultimately proI a large part of the timber ■ally consumed In New Jer-

• aey. Yearly the owners pay texee ; oa this unproductive land when at little or no cost It could be de-

duped to yield annual or periodtimber crops at a good profit. A home-grown timber supply

would result lu New Jersey land

receiving a large portion

of the HI.606,006 annually paid

for the lumber we now Irapot Mew Jersey's vest ueUwori

Improved highways, railroads and canals offers unexcelled facllltlee

ting home-grown foreat i to the market qulekly

aad at little coat.

Of land of this character Cape May County has thousand!

d now is the time to start i It productive and aat

large share of futute lumber bills. New Jersey U making gigantic

BY XKABKSB

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TOO MUCH WEALTH SOME STARVE. SOME DON'T TOO MANY DUCKS -AND A LITTLE MORAL Certain ii

Batter out!" Cried the co as he fried the lest pancake.

nectcd with

power comps- T he BOOM TOWN OFTEN nlrs that want B f-.fuMES THE BUM TOWN to control wa- laTER ter p o w e r - carry on sys- -Do 1 hear a second.'' cried the trmatlf mis-, man as the other tsrin announced representation lu arrival. as regards the value of Have you ever seen anything Irrigation. funnier than some men look In Demand for knickers?

Irrigation

An optimist is a fellow who Is

fluences votes for government pl<>Juie< , „ a p unc , ur e control. Hence the attack on tr- lm| . t a blowout.

t It

rigatlon. d.-stinrd to redeem mil-

lions of acres, the most fertile In ghoee are thrown after the the world, and to add tens of mil- br tde and groom. They turatati

Hone to the wealth of the nation. tbe | r own spats!

Farmers know that even where More often the real enumr It rains Irrigation can Improve ibe church Is the one who IS

crop values. within Its doora

1, Is <h.i in , M . h „b .te— the

nner wwm-J” .„, H „ r „ t , wb „ . b-a e™,. „< pol.to* b, r.i-1 in „„ „ one season, instead of one. In

ai'.i!Minn to doubling the site of gome fellows are no blamed potbr crop, a season's Irrigation , j|e thry ll make you slop work more than doubles Its value by to bands with them.

bringing in the first crop much

earlier and getting higher prices Did you see a person In tbs for earlier potatoes. movies get a wrong telephone

number or a busy signal?

This column has already de-

scribed the alfalfa ranch of the All men are BORN free and

Hodge Brothers on the Aritona < desert, where rain rarely falls.

The land there, year In ano W onder why the hours spent , year out. produces^seven^rops^ot ^ p|rk) , ur( . arr on i r about half

All men are BORN

equal. Marriage, as an Instltu-

i. come* somewhat later.

Atlantic City Preus: Shall ocean Ashing as a profitable buslbe allowed to extend Us I.—r. to the ruination of all other

It D alto- fishing Interests? That in sub-

gether fitting It should command ! mance in the meaning of <be pro.

price of any work in j tests filed againr*. the application

the world's hlst-.ry. of pound net fisheries to the gov-

ernment to broaden their operation* along the Atlantic coast.

rggp Hi wnm I The fisheries are private busi-

- ness bodies combing the sea* for

THE OCEAM B0ULEYABD gain. It 1* dollars and cents with , .. 1 them and sentiment plays little At the recent dinner of lbelr pun, shall they put Btoae Harbor Board of Trade. an eB<J , 0 a| , chaD( -„ or

Mr. Reeee P. Rlaley. who bad much to do with the early development of that resort and has done much In the development of Brigantine Beach, in bis address emphasis on the completion

of the Ocean Boulevard

Ocean City to Cape May Point, one link of which has been built.

»Ir. Rlaley is a man of broad

.laion. who visualises the future of Cape May County's coast line and realises that one of the necessities to the realisation of that brilliant future la the linking of all the resorts of the county by a splendid, hard surfaced boule

he content- vard along the ocean front, and

of today and he Is right. Whatever Improvements

dltures, looking far forward lu the held* of transportation, public welfare, education, agriculture, i Industry, commerce and population. The Jereeyman who doeen'

’ swell with pride

i the Jersey

so as he visualises the Jer-.

tf tomorrow. U either Ig- undertsken this Is the major con norent of the facts or Imune to si deration and should be kept to thuslasm. But New Jeraey ha* «he front until It D completed, t y«t met and answered one of « P*r cost of construction

the State’s great fundamental °'* r

dene as wen with the j problems. Underneath the progcocnmltue should j resa and the prosperity Ilea the ■atll It haa been, land. Nearly one-half of New ul with the Pen- i Jeraey U now wild land. Moat of

, this wild land D now waste land,

or them railroad ached- This area of wild land grows i —ip— to the average i larger every year, lu condition For laatanes take the , is growing worse lu usefulness al from Sea Me. Pane-; and capacity U *brisking. It ■ that train bound north, cannot now be used and it will Md to watt at Baa Me , not be wanted or needed for years l (» mlautee. about out-; to come for Industrial, residential, which U altogether un-'agricultural or other similar ThU trail ooaaecu uses. It U natural forest land, te morning uapreas for.lt can and should be used for

ty. but that train U not forest.

What Other Editors Think

Timely Topic* Taken From Leadiaf P«Ukatku ft the

United States

the Junction for some ive or thirty minutes af1 arrives, ell of which

> advantage i City or

. but U absolutely wasted

referred to Mr. Ogden'i

Ah well: blood U thicker than

rubber.—Toronto Star.

A report of the Committee on

New Year resolutions U awaited.— trast to the hustli

Omaha World Herald. j world.

Wonder what the man who South Jersey i* hi located as two- names Pullman cars calls hU chll- eventually In- everything

dren'—ColumbU Decord.

i joying deep sea catches by gathering In the food fish before they can get within reach of private anglers on the plea that they are purveying food to the public? Angry protesters vigorously resen I that. There are other Interests Involved to a great degree in this contest. Seashore resorts have a right to claim good fishing lies 6fl their seafront. Some of them owj their popularity In ■re to the presence of deep sea denixens within reach of the small fisher All of this threatened by the despoliation of the fish supply for thr benefit of a few closed corporations that would gobble It all Greed never yet knew when to stop and It appears to be so In thu case. Coastwise shipping U a unit against this rnroarbmrnt upon waters that ought to be op* n everybody. The goveremen* o It to the whole public to consider deeply before It grants this ap-

plication.

Telling The World t ,.e May Star and Wave: At last the world is going to hear about South Jersey. If* going to be done, and done In a busi- . nessllke thorough-going fashion i by the South Jersey Booster As-

sociation

Booster Association.

South Jersey has been behind j the times. An out-ol-dale. I>ehlnd- i the-tlmes community has a lot of] good qualification*, among them a restful atmospbete in sharp con-1

bustle rushing

Us latent possibilities and opportunities and every organisation and Individual together with the local governments should get behind—but not so far behind they push the movement along 1Q0 per cent. Reasonable Bridge Toll* Philadelphia Bulletin: Intimation that the Delaware Ilivci Bridge Commission will fix a toll snty-flve cent* for automowith a slightly higher rate foe commercial vehicle*, pro*, that the role of reason has follow - ed the dove of peart Bridge councils. ClrrutMtances having forced the imposition toll A the charge l* as light anyone could expect. Twenty years Is the period ir. rhich the revenues at this rate

extinguish

Reconsidering Prohibition New York Times: So long

both parties confess by their . „ _ . ln T[| _. r m tlon or inaction their belief that I alfalfa per year under Irrigation. ^ lo'nJT'as'tlu

national sentiment generally fa- mnr( . than nine sons to the acre . vors prohibition, the drys have Tht . , 0 t a j rout of electric current Doc Way says he has often no real reason to be disturbed. f or irrigating one hundred and wondered who coined the phraae. They know that certain regions flt,y | U ns worth $28 a ton Is *2(0. •• !< |Uln - pretty." Photographer*,

walk In darkness. From time to Any larmer knows the profit In ! wr guess. still not numerous. t h al kind of farming. — . .

recruits, against VoHeadiam are „ A woman spends one-third of

The comparative tm- Mrs. Mary Harrington. of #hor |if e looking for a husband enforcement Is most Muhony City. Pa . had several i an ,| the other two-thirds looking glaring, naturally, in States or In children. Her husband, a coal ; for bargains,

cities notoriously set against pro- miner on strike, went to look for

hlhllIon from the first. Do the work In another town. She gave Her States that had prohibition t-tfore j her children what food she had Him

the constitutional amendment cry and she dial of hunger. think I bought that bag of pea

or a change? Do the farmer*. One advantage I* with the mine I making their own" in peace, owners No ma ter how long; cease to chuekle that they have a strike lasts mine owners, their ( put hooks Into the laws of the wives and children never starve } urban leviathan? That's an advantage, yet pushed ( Prosperous bootleggers and loo far. It can become a dlsad-

speak-easy men don't want to vantage.* -My daughter recites so well

, J—Tw I I'm going to give her a course in hen toM that the poor hadnoti^^eu,,0,, neat year ." .aid bread. Marie Ant.dnrtte wonderer | ^ Ma , aprop will finish

hy they did not eat cake.

shake La, * r ,,h *‘ 1 * n,1 h *‘ r ,,u,,b • , " 1 '““P>ed eating, via the guillotine. She] Many a chicken is lott BUM vas only a poor fool. (ended hearted after she's stewed. An able statesman of her tim i The girl who knows how to do iuggested that the people eat h er own sewing doesn't sow many

s for last week?'

The old-fashioned girl used to - more or lees of a mystery to

her boy friend. But the present

day flapper Is a revelation!

hurt their own business,

clients have established a habit

and perhaps are not great ly

cerned about modi flee tlon or re-

peal. The first step la t

and scare the politicians. Can ll tie done in New York? Even if It Is done, the gain In a State so ; well known for Ita wickedness 1

Show us a S'***-

be Impressive.

cost «f constructing the Inter-j Wet Congress delegation, distinct state span. But preliinmarj es-1 ly elected on the Issue of modifica-

people stuffed his w []d oats, mouth with grass when they car-

ried his head around on the end Rare I

. . few scatter-;° r a P ,k<> - It Is well to remember , Mis* Marguerite Dunlevy and llnintea of the bridge traffic are | I n. s .. . f ! these thingr. even In happy, pros- brother. Rom. entertained a com-

hikh. and it may be over-sanguine me wet* irom me great piock oi mm , 8u ,-.nt„ e™. ™ wo'.b ri? cars dally In the first year, with | believe that a real beginning ha* i F G Bon flig. ln his able Denver 1” traffic increasing steadily until, j liven mad* Election returns are p 0}1 , teji. of truck farmers In the * k

at the end of twelve years, the the only arrows of conviction that wurpass i n gl>- rich San Uuls Valley Demand* have been made for volume will be almost three time* - pierce the ordinary' political hide, |h e government to protect t he discontinuance of the prac-

them against too many wild ye* 0 f making jokes about pro-

Good Vision duck*. Farmers plant miles of fcibitlon and plumbers. Why are pea fields for canneries. Wild the inothers-ln-law silent at such

Father--"Well, what did you ,jucks. ||k e a cloud, eat the peas. a time as this?

"Well, what did

e at the football game?"

Daughter- “Oh. I saw Ethel's w furs and Tommy Dodd's secid wife and a darling coat trim-

•-d with beaver."

Jim Hoffman (to eonremned

that at the start.

Should the figures of the rngi- ! neera be vertfled by actual buslneaa. the receipts from tolls - would begin with $1,500,000 aj** »ear at the twenty-flve-cent rat* ' reach $4,500,000 a year In 1938 j n * and the proposed toll* would 1 1,1 prove adequate to amortlu- thc| , ‘' cost In twenty year*. But bet the twenty years shall have pi

ed the people of either Stat* may I mati): Have you anything come to a clearer realization of say before we spring the trap! Bridge benefits, and to coincident , "Well. *lr. If If* Just the *; objection to tolls on any public to you. I'd like to have a matt highway, and as a result may do under them gallows. If ibsi t away with the levy altogether. 'busts. I'm likely lo get hurl." Sesqui-Centennial Historical Sketches

Stephen Flopkins. Rhode Island

The ducks will be annoyed Men are more modest than woI when R. G. Parv is. Colorado msn. say* a Court House otwervar. Game Commissioner, carries out y ou couldn't find a mao In bia hU plan and sends a snorting. r tght m ind who wouldn't be humming airplane up an.i down aH ham< 1 to walk the atre«U half the San l.uts Valley frightening naked,

the peas.

rage

that

Can you imaglc

those ducks when they see new bird, looking to them as big as a mountain, bellowing and roaring at 100 miles an hour up and dewn the valley?

ON Tuesday. March 2.

day conference will he held In

Trenton to further the building A political campaign usually Inw canal across New ; volves both a shake-up and a — .. . shake-down.—Indianapolis Star.

Jersey from Bordentown to Rati-

tu Ll on. o! th. liaport.nl Smok„ and th. worid tan Ba>. inUnd ,rl,h >' ou - Swear off-#nd you

smoke alone.—Cornell Widow.

, links In the Atlantic

, waterways- South Jeraer 1* vitally Interested In the building of i this canal and every municipality la Cape May County, as well as the County Chamber of Com-

„ „ ... _ mere*, should be represented. Cape May Counjy will re- w< ^ tb> , ^ u]r C) ,y at the Supreme Court of r took ateps to have e has upheld the aanUsee mun ^ tpamy represented The Coo.., Coort 1. ^ W n'.t U o„. o. ' *“ ,o“ta,pon.n> ...p. to tb. d.. id too court. <« ,n-n n N.. ,.t«. Into

step nearer Just tea. HI irtly to be hoped that he

o avrre the mu to him.

Beware of lawyers. So many criminals become insane after talking to one.—Baltimore Sun. When a man says be Just . - turned from Florida, you wonder how.—Fort Wayne Journal-Cazett* Prosperous times are those In wnlch nobody cores how the other fellow get* bis —Baltimore Sun If Jesse James had had the ad vantage of a movie education wba*

_ a bandit he would have been —The

that Imperial common wealth for outlook.

which ahe Is eminently fitted by The reduction In automobile location, surroundings and nat- . taxes may make It harder than

ural reuouree*. ever to get across

li>- and ththan now.

big busy renter* pal! of the Stair voting strength i

j Many a man’s place in history - *iiy. j i* founded upon a sentence In j >ern j which he si ruck the current nail Wai stolon the bred. "Don'! fire umil ! H but I you nc<> the whites of their <•>' *.“ , 'Oin] akr ! "Give me lilierly or glv.- ni. th.was I death.” and "I have not yet begun \ bu*l jlo fight." have proved the touch- -'•I* "spb-ndld ■ Monea of undying fStm*- I«i then I lead

d of the auihor*. j »<•"' It 1* too! Among the signet* of tb-; B ul off from j Declaration of Itidependenre. Hi. the I ihe north-jone hundred and fiftieth anni.'t- ».t-

They havejsary of which will le-

t there, andjtated by the Sesqui-CcntenniaM <•! il tmong them j International Exposition in Phlht- -'m i »e do not I belphta this year, was Slephnt | was be bay or ! Hopkins, of Rhode Island sh e- » e gtpoii fel-!>eu>ark upon appending hi* sisna- •>! d

y apparent- i ui

Governor «>f Rhode i number of terms, ot find public life inwiih atudy. He lefi i engage in mercantile d surveying, the first • ateer which was to into Colonial ptotui-

That’s better than in days, before the French lion, when miserable watched deer eat their c

wild boars root up their gardens, helpless because nobleman wanted the pleasure of killing these animals and would not let the

peasants touch them.

That is one of many things that brought on the French Revolution. To avoid.revolution*, make the masses contented,

Smile awhile—

And while you smile

Another smiles.

And soon there’s miles And ml lea of smiles. And life’s worth while

Because you amlle.

Rcvolu- Some statistical maniac has ewpeasams timated that the bumble be* In tops and this country is worth more than garden*, all our gold. Maybe tm. but. perin **ant- aonally. we'd rather handle the

Id.

They sat together on the sofa 1 admired the new engagement x She looked at the diamond

lethlng

That

ng limes of 1775-76. he I to give to affairs of the I the accumulated wisdom i who has passed through i i political history. He

ivinclng speak-

ve for.

by manufar;:dlo apparatus.* autoovitig pictures. Tha revolutirn might •• movies, and disturb sling stations, would roplr hesitate.

l--,! hi.

lie

r are st'll using old * and are satisfied, lor the world to learn

e larked Ithough t

•rvc* for fanw- than it h, "Sir. your hand t hallenged a bystander. .

own h-re. jklns. with unsteady hand sir territory j th. : t-on to sign the Derla get-together "Tnic. eir. but my h»

May County j n

•My. John. Isn't it dear?" "Only two more payments, tar." he replied. Test T That 'i An Ordeal The supreme tent Of a man's poise And self-possession Is to put him in a room Where two women Are whispering. "That guy's the nerviest fellow a town." "Why?" "Yesterday In- flagged a fire ngine and asked lor a lift. 'Beetig he said, a* we're both going o the same place.' **

street.

ronder If Baary d that as ring, i every minute

-Ighbors by ] He wa* nearly *••' lunty Chamber of I age. but bis an*we very advanced Idea. | apology jor phyncr

But there has been and Is a - That hU spirit was

Another rood leri of blood pres- If children must be ^n and not lack ot close intercommunication *plu- of obstacle-. Is Another good teat of b^ pr ^ ^ ^ ^ e Te r going Ur and understanding between th. .he accounts of ht*

.Mew South Jersey coimnunities. The Mlf-taughi. but in ' Boosiers ate going to change that] be Chancellor of Br

Pocatello Tribune If children must be »

liberal with the money he owe* j learn to be radio announcers you —nint Journal. York Herald-Tribune.

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lave ancestral monkeys On the family tree, lut I'm always striving. A- the swift years pans, r.i live so that the future Won't think that I'm an a>