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CAPE MAY COUNTY TIMES

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER M, 19M

\ WILL SARD SURFACE r comonMo ubxs Thai »h€ State Highway ComnisBon intends to soon advertise for bids for hard surfaOnc the last link of Route No. H—Mays Landing to Tuckahoe—will be good news to the people of Cape May County, as it will give then Ae first unbroken hard surface outlet to Philadelphia and New York, and will furnish the first ! hard surface road to the resorts

of die county.

Whether the visit to Trenton of die delegation of Cape May j oountians last spring had anything to do with bringing about tins result has not been stated, : but die decision of die eocnn sion to complete die toad : die lew welcome, as work will no doubt be complet1 ed before die opening of die next

to put

but t* U they w01

Met bridge

and if

of the |

•paid by

this. As a Boulevard

all die

main Sta>

kh dk travel

years will be

While Cape May County is grateful for this favor, right must not be lost of the fact that there are two other <oads • <-ompletcd, Routes 15 and" 20, : which will furnish die moat direct t roods to die resorts of the County [ from Philadelphia, die South and r Wes;. T’ie needs of these roads r cannot be too strongly stressed before the State Highway Commission and every organization of the county should get'bekmd the for securing them wholeheartedly. — The County Chamber of Coougeroe is ready enlist in fc UK) uld be given united support.

WHAT DIRECT

MKAHKfi HAVE BASE

The primary system was au| posed to put all government in the hand* of die decent and de-

sendabie primary an ■very disease with wfc* government is afflicted.

But it failed to work out that

»ay-

, .Instead of killing'd* _ , monitera, it .Hfis fed them. InF stead of beini: a w which to fight the money power, to be an . which only money power can

■crate.

The recent primaries showed that in some instances it mtny doilao for the few re gsrnered. In several ties not as many votes were cast as there were officials employed in the place of voting. I of eliminating f.-aud from politics the primary system invites fraud and at tinv has the appearance of fraud a necessity. This is done when voters are urged to vote for a c'tain candidate without showing any reason for. the action. But the worst feature about the primary system is die lack of taken in it. This system r does more to disfranchise people by robbing them of all intereat in the proceedings other influences combined. A willingness to vole is one of the chief awets of s people. Any institution which helps rob them of this willingness is pusl ing the whole country bsrkward.

van killed by a trolley line years ago. Now the Pennsylvania want* to-abandon passenger service on die line between Mt. Holly and Medford, and both communities i arms against die pror osition, claiming such a step will be detrimental to the future development of both communities. Before the general advent of die auto we question whether the ger service on this branch for. the coal die engine burned and since the almost uniuto and auto bus there is no patronage worth the name, and why die resident* of dip two iculd insist on the railroad company maintaining « service for which there is no need, and how its abandonment can injure the future of either town is one of those inconsistencies of human nature that is beyond defi-

tion.

Both places have rail lines to Philadelphia, Mt. Holly being on die road to Long Branch; both have bus lines, which have cut heavily into the railroad service to Camden and the distance be tween them b so short as to render it one of thoae instances in which the auto bus can render better service ^than the railroad. We don’t think k will take the Utility Commission long to hand down a derision in this

MORE PAY? TERRIBLE! RELIGION'S POWER.

Men

year.

fact they du not u

iple of die unfairness of otherwise fair people toward railI in this day of auto and bus

&

Views and Reviews

CANNOT HAVE

Boulevard j CAKE AID PENNY TOO

into the

writ for her

urge the

late Boulet^hfare to This stretch

Residents of Mt.\Hollf and Medford are opposed to

. of the Pennsylvania Railroad to the Sute Public Utility

Comnurkui for permission abandon passenger service on

line between the

TLOKXDA’S IX1BN TO'HKN AID Everyone will fed the keenest sympathy for stricken Florida ii the face of the gteat d baste ..ertafa i terribl? id millions of dollars in property

B-

The later in' an iftrignificant kern compared with the death for the monetary loss can be replaced, but die human lives ver. Like all great cstastiophes a like storm may not be experienced in the land of sunshine in another hundred years, and like San Franriscu and Galveston, victims of nature's; frenxy, we may ex to see the stricken districts Florida rise from the wreckage more substantial ajid more beautiful While die American spirit cannot stop dk storm king, it is daundess, and ready to step into die breach and do the work all over when the fury has been spent. / This terrible visitation is anher illustration of what an ? insignifica it pigmy man is when die forces of nature become thoroughly aroused. With his wonderful brain he has been able to accomplish the almost miraculous in science and engineering, long as nature i* quiescent, but when nature becomes aroused all man can do b to bow hb he^fl and wait for the great forces to expend their Airy, trusting in a Higher Power to aid him in the work of restoration. ( Today the sympathy and the purse of the nation is at Florida’s command.

Sarcasm For High-Upe Gloucester County Democrat: The Outlook, a weekly publication In New York city, with a nation-wide circulation. In Its Issue of ths 16th Inst., refers to the Seaqui-Centennlal. In Philadelphia, and the occasion it'enmmemorates. H mentions the fact raala. Michigan. Illinois, Florida and New Jersey, will attend, that on the SSrd inst.. the GovMaryland. Pmtnayl-

- largest

fitting millions of people, which does not cost anybody a penny they choose to use it for ake of convenience

luxury.

•' This- is as It should bq. The bridge should pay for itself, i* a luxury for automobile drivers. compared to the slow and tedious trip by ferryboats,

should be willing to pay for the detect!'

t Upper Burlington County : bisected by several branch lines • of the Pennsylvania Railroad.

1 None of these were ever heavy 00 h, i too. After all, this genera-

THAT there is nothing new under the sun the bobbed hair fad proves. The Egyptian ladies

of quality wore their hair bob- __ bed several thousand years ago, J Mn t ihe facta, first

Are they going to sing national Athens in Independence Halil Are they Journeying to Philadelphia that they may say eye* of ours have rested Liberty Bell?' Are .they going to burn incense Ic memory of the patron saint of the Democratic Party (Thomas Jeflereon)? Think if you will, of a dosen other queetlons. The answer to all of them la. They are not. “The only anthem these pilgrims will sing will be composad chiefly of tha phrases, Bock ’em. Jqek. and Attaboy, Gene, for the occasion of this great gathering In the City of Brotherly Love will be the meeting of Jack .Dempsey sod Gene Tunney in fight for the heavy-weight championship of the world. “We wonder wHat would hapthc United Statee if out cltUenry could for once get excited enough about its government- to about with equal vigor 'Uta-boy. Independence.’ ’Bock 'em. liberty.' Probably it would eyea upon things that will really be more profitable, however, we should turn our speculative happen." Evidently The Outlook not look with favor on the prise fight attraction. But 'The Outlook overlook* the 'act that this attrattlo. will pay the heavyweights big money and help out the finances of the celebration of the 160tfa anniversary of American Independence. It’s a big

card.

Fanning in Cape Ha; County Wildwood Tribune-J o u r n a 1: For many yeare the agricultural IntereeU of the county were sadly neglected. In recent times there has been more interest in the cultivation of the soli. It la a fact, however, that the majority of people do not appreciate the possibilities In this section. It would. In our opinion, be an excellent project for the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce. in co-operation with the Farm Demonstrator and the Publicity Agent to make a careful survey of the situation and nre-

Cape May

sade to discredit the action of the court and to make a drive against Prosecutor Campbell, who Ls blamed for informing the court of the character of some of the men placed on the panel

of Jurors.

The bootleggers now are appealing to the incoming grand Jury ’to probe the costs to the county in the employment of outside detectives to bring about

their arrest.

Poreecutor Campbell replies that tba fines that the gers win have to pay will more . than balance such costs and that the bootleggers know the local

luxuries which we enjoy and not qxpect others to bear the burden. The automobile owners using the bridge scarcely miss the small fie* wMeh ts charged them for driving over the new span. AaA It ^ about the same amount tbtf

p*« via'ferry-

. Unde* the toll system, people who use the bridge the past the most money, which Just. The man who eats the at in a restaurant expects to ggy the most. The man who smokes one cigar a day does no! expect his smokes to cost him ai much as.Ihe man who smokes a

A Keen

Pleasantville Press: Cape May lunty was aroused by Supreme Oourt^itostice Luther Campbell trUfing fifteen names off the September term of Jurors. While the law requires that the list of names for Jury service shall be submitted to the Supreme Court Justice sitting In the county, for the puropse of revision, it is almost without precedent that there Is any elimination of names by the Justices of the State. While Justice Campbell did not give any reason for his action, none waa to be expected, but the atriking oft of the names has caused the large number of bootleggers arrested this summer tc be alarmed »"d to start a cru-

> well that It Is alInipossible for the latter

secure evidence. He also hints that the punishment he hopes will be Imposed will be Jail and that lit kaa,aiMNjexpectationB of breaking up bootlegging in Cape May County until Jail sentences

are Imposfd.

A New Health Drive Philadelphia Bulletin: Wha! promises to be an Important mov« against disease and death is now io be begun by the co-operation of the United States Chamber of Commerce and the members of the Life Underwriters’ Association. and probably their subsidiary and related organizations, to secure the more effective co-op-eration of the cltlaens In gen-

eral.

It goes without saying that every one is interested, but observance of all the rules ol good health Is not any. mor< marked than the observances of some other laws. Good health Is not only an Indlvldukl matter, but’ has many points of relation to the communal welfare, social, economic, moral and physical, that are not to be ignored as negligible factors in our* civic life. Popularizing “health weeks" and "dodge disease" days may be every bit as worth while as having "safety flrvt’’ and "drive carefully" campaigns of preach-

ment and practice.

t exception little higher, aotriway it the only J stand across the Sea Isle really etttrywty, not in but in 1927.

dividend psyert, if indeed they i ^ ar e only imitators in that paid any dvidendc, their chief pur- j rMpf ct.

annarentiv being to * rvr

for the rural HUMAN disposition h tncon-

for the j Bistent. The

Ime of the Amboy Division. | beauty parlor* to^havt permanent

One by one these lines have been

k war

maintain them. The line between Burlington and Mt. Holly

large.

Paying For Itself—At It Should Atlantic City Press: The new Delaware river bridge Is paying for Itself at a rapid rate. The revenue from tolls, because of the heavy (raffle to Atlantic City and other Jersey resorts, is al-

ready a Urge sum.

kink* put in them hair. The of course, it will take several blacks visit the beauty parlor* to j years to pay the coei of con- ■ • ..p,,,' tructlon. but the bridge Is payhave the permanent kink* taken | |n)j for i|aslr Th#( u good fl

the

out. We arc alway* trying to n#nclng> t h e erection of an Im- — —, v , - , , . 1A , drnrt the »«k Of rututc. 1 pabll, -ud b,lU>r d. I WU,.

This Week

Musings of the

By Arthur Brirbane

Office Cat

PIE-EATING PRISONERS.

President of the

United SUtes. we gather from the public prints, are to announce that the rime to not yet ripe tor discussion and to shake bands with

boy marble champions.

Jack: You should have seen Helen run that quarter mile. Delbert: What did she run It

ailroad!

stocks, and| never do, never did. never will ‘do any hard work.

think it sad[ ln ; - . that the men •’ a f k - J 1 * 'J* working on what y° u ^

the railroads

1 d get

one hundred million, d o 1lars more a That would be ’ a great deal less than thirty cents a day average for each man. while the railroads get the hundreds of millions more and have the government and Us Intersts|e Commerce Commission always ready force the public to pay higher rates 1/ railroads need them. The government, compelling the public to pay more for railroad service, without giving the public anything to say about it. should also compel railroads to more to working people withgiving railroads anything to say about It. But government and Its workings are arranged by those that own the railroads, by those that work on the

railroads.

Fifty years ago, fewer than two million women worked for pay In the United States. Half of them were In domestic service. Now 9.040,000 women are engaged in "gainful occupations." That pleases the practical mind. Farmers like to see the horse and mare working. German farmers harness the cow. Our boastful "gainful occupations for women" take women out of their only occupation really gainful of civilization, the production of good children. A young man arrested for robbing the house of Cardinal Dougherty of cash and bonds told the police, "I didn’t dare take the Cardinal's diamond studded gold cross, worth *26.0 was afraid it might Jinx' also left a gold cup. Something told me they used !t in church. 1 wasn't looking for any trouble like that." The modernist will call that ■superstition.’’ others will see in it proof that religion has power

young

criminal who tells (he police, "1 have no religion." To treat prisoners cruel Is vile. To make a Joke of their crimes is stupid. The Governor of New York should tell officials of Sing Sing what he thinks of their Labor Day pie-eating contest, twelve lets with their , hands tied behind .their backs, eating pies, like swine, for a *5 prize. How does that Impress men and women, out of prison, workbuy food for their chil-

dren?

Nigh on to lamp: I know a fallow who Is so w«t that when you blow upon him he ripple*.

The Harvest Mom

The sun has set, but night does

not ensne,

For in the Eastern ah/ the Har-

vest Moon

In splendor rides, and oisr th* land Us boon Of mellow light cornea flowing.

And transcendental beauty to I

N OT becauM- lie considers rules of bcsltli. but rstber because they fall naturally Into his manner of living, duet Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work observe the regulations of simple living. From early boyhood Secretory Work has worked every day. He was born In UWO In Marlon Center, Ps. Upon being graduated from collrgr l.r pracliced rnedIrlnr and in that profession learned that Srlf-lmposed regularity of

ha bit. was of little lor

*1 devote no particular part of the day to egerebe." •—

However, stupid

prison with pie-eating contests

as bad as the prison of

that good bishop. In which prisoners wore iron collars, with sharp spikes turned inward- so they could not He down to sleep, or the Spanish prison In which th: noble-hearted English prison reformer found a man fastened to tta wall, his feet above ground, star-lag. "his face clotted with blood and teare," or the prison mine, in which Peter the Great chained each prisoner to his wheelbarrow, to stay chained night and day until death released him; better than the ancient galley, where the man chained to the oar was released

when he fainted oF died,

I j hand cut off to save time, body £ ^ trown overboard and another

! slave chained In his .'lace. We are sentimental tools our prisons, but we have

| proved.

When men talk of harnessing the electron It should be remembered that Providence does not allow trees to grow Into the heavens, or permit conquering man to move up too rapidly. Air. water, the earth, nature givt us free, and the sun’s light and heat. We must work for every-

thing else.

You read that an automobile engine bad been made to run with the explosive power of dust from a grain elevator Instead of gasoline. Messrs. Noel and Hellbach, Department of Agriculture engineers, showed that ordinary dust might be used, to ereate an

too heavy I drink hut one cup of explosive force greater than that coffee a dar and Hist nl lireasfsvt > of gasoline. , I have never thought much sboul j .. | mIwSl myself jr- what I should do. hut I ..-i-ii.' . r ■ jj-Thurs. rather what I might d >. 1 always 1 nt ' * ctret ^ enterprise have worked everv- day wen as a and energy exist* in the principal tjZaSn I .top grJfH, individuality.'’—Itmn Frai-1 "

Now may the whom too soon The season closes, have hto hours of June. And end hto harvest toll ruktot cooling dew. • The mystle beams gild spire and

-wane

reposed In quiet sleep. They drive the shadows from the country lane, Through many a wt thicket creep. And pausing with i

steep

The lonely summer fields, bereft of grain. The conceited thing! The bride's brain was boj ne by two cute tiny pages. Midway (la.) Examiner. Douglas /Fairbanks Is considering the possibility of making a picture with the Swiss mountains as a background. The native goats be practising more daring leaps from crag to crag not to be outdone by the athletic Douglas. Stepping into a hardware store In a Florida town, a South Canoreal estate victim said: want to get one of thoae thermometers like the Chamber of Commerce here uses.” be announid- ■ -v v '■And what kind fa that?" asked ; the clerk. that won’t go above eighty In the summer nor below fifty in the winter.” •' . Jack—“Will you give me just one little kiss? Just one?" ' . ’ ’111 say T won’t. Yon have asked for a match just now and ended by filling your pockets full of Dad's best clgara.” When we see anyone vigor-—Jy, swinging bis arms while walking. It gives us the impression that he Is being propelled by this mesas. "This is some grate on my nerves," said the plumber when the stove dropped on bis besdl from the second-story window. There are Charleston dancers numerous Around each Cape May town.

Narrow to the way that leads to life, but GUbert Smith says It needn’t make people narrow. That’s different—You think It’s cute to have her slip her band into your pocket—until after you

marry her.

Pity the .poor film star — she never knows where her next husband is coming from. Teacher: Tommy, do yon know why the Fourth of Jnly Is a national holiday? Tammy: Yeaaum. It's In memory of the days when onr forefathers could shoot firecrackers. "Not a peep out of him,” said the Woodbine lady, fixing her stocking In front of the blind

Ed Foster says men who don't pay as they go have a hard time

coining hack.

TIDE TABLE FOR SEPTEMBER , 5astera Standard Tn.». Allow forty-

five minute *—

ularly gr irregularly indulge In door k|K>rh. My uiealv are at ivrragr, never too light and r

and I am lielleved to t

of individuality.”—James Feni-

more Cooper.