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CAPE MAY COUNTY TIMES

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1926

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UVIMG BEYOND „ T ha\-c brm damorint; for and THEIR MEANS if the program of the State Engilt become a notoriou, and """ is *"”**** in » broa < 1 - w-ell-established uct that while the^ m,nded W * 5 ^ * u K« ,ionf Federal Government has reduced !nad< ' “ mav necJcd ' loc » 1 taws been living tvithin ^ buds«, the average local and woodt ' rfu,1 >’ b government live* far beyond

it* means.

Department ot Commerce figire* show State governments , spending money faster than they collect it, and out of forty-eight States only seventeen kept within

, their budgets in 1925.

POTATO PRICES AND NET PROFITS In Aroostook County, Maine, upon the northeast tip of the United States, they grow their

potatoes big.

This year, Walter Christie, of Presequc Isle, in Arrostook

NEW JERSEY S i County, produced 154,000 barrels HIGHWAY PROBLEM Potatoes on 1100 acre*, which

NVw j™ i, mniromtd .dil™’ 1 '‘ n "" k “"'’ “ a hichwa, problem of Urge di-j 3 " iWraKC

; men«ora and ooe ,hai will retire j ^ “>« ”1 Feodocmilltont if dollar, fo K>lvr. Th,. “'S ^ ■O'"** * * 1 ™ * b >- i> dirfowd ,o a „,mm.ry of ,h, sdli, « *> « ‘ 1 b *' reI '

report which State Engineer W.

G. Sloan will make to the State Highway Commission for a comprehrniivr Sute highway sjstem. Condensed in a few words there is now in the populous districts of the State more traffic than the roads will carry and that traffic increasing by leaps and bounds

I the county l for

52.974.00 t the work.

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i wider i indulged i question. i of it being surmuo Now the proposition e facts.

Christie apparently stands to dear $354,200, surely not a bad

year's work.

Every so often a story of this nature is printed in the newspapers and travels half around the world. It has Quality called human interest that makes a news story' good. It picture* man

each week. How to meet the situation has been the study of the State Engineer and he will make known his conclusions to the

smmission in a few days.

To start with Major Sloan would provide speedier end shorter traffic routes * j seashore points. The seasho/c traffic is tub-divided b) him into traffic to

the neighborhood of

Asbury Perk; to Atlantic City; Cape May County, and he would provide arteries of travel reach these districts by the most direct routes and with the least delay. To accomplish this end he will advocate the construction of roads around the great centers of population, where traffic is congested and the separation of local and through traffic. The centers where Major Sloan would ttn-

tor in his battle with nature. And it seems to show all the farmer needs do is walk into his fields a.ul pick up the dollars, that the farm is a gold mine needing wily to he promoted and exploited by its owner. The trouble wirh such a story is that the battle nerds a background. It makes no mention of the bad years for Aroostook County potato raisers, and there have been several bad years since

1920.

And the fanrer knows, too, he is getting but 83 cents for his dollar when measured against prewar prices, as is shown in the report of the .Agricultural Department of the federal government. Up to October 15 a decline of 4 per cent, in the average of farm-product prices is re-

*rambfc tbr local and throotb | T 1 * I’”' *’ 1 ,,n " ,ti&c am Sea- Brunswick. P.„r.jcn>l« «“> >* ■>»“’’ *> 130 "• ,,h son Aabury Park, Son* .Ambo,,!*' P" ”*' P'«” uk '” “ in0 - PlainfeU, ilo rinown. atiH. and k tan»a ». tta too, Newark and Camden. ThiaP*™" for h« dollar work will con many milliom. bur "dreo k- -"!» d* ""*«

the Seale Engineer believes it will ku, with

be worth all its costs- and that it; cannot be done cheaper at any IT is not strange that when the time than the present. The .Cam- court of last resort has been den loop is already under -xi- ■ reached and the ptisan door* are struction. Major Sloan wt *ld | y* wm ng for Anthony J. Bullock

This Week By Arthur Briibanr When S. 0. Gets Busy Lafayette Young Drink and live—or Die T Chinese Punishment

Musings of the Office Cat

Island in the Caspian Sea tonified the inhabitants of

tk u.

It

shook land about, changed the nlght’i dark clouds into flaming

color.

Slowly lh! superstitious inhabitants will get over the shock and forget It. And by this time, probably, agents of Mr. Rockefeller's Stan- | dard Oil have been instructed tc stake out claims on what is left of that island The Standard Oil men read in the paper. ; "EruptIons from the volcano con- ! sisted ot great columns of oll- ' soaked earth, accompanied by ] sheets of flame 300 feet high." The passing oi Senator I-afay-I ette Young, of the Des Moines capital, following closely upon roe death of Colonel Nc’.aofi. of •he Kansas City Star; Frank A. Munsey. of the New York Sun, | and Victor Lawson, of the ChJ- ; cago Dally News. Is a lose to of keeping high tone in localities sincere and useful newspaper where sordid commercial Intrusion wf > rk ln ,1,e United States is resented. j Lafayette Young devoted hi# New York l«.l eoiboriile. MJ 1«. *”■> »" tbet tbe decUlm U Ibe moet over- S 'f,” whelming vloer ler ,eel.« o! ^ ‘ bulldlngv tbal ,,er be, been made “kenua a

A JudgclcNN (nnnty

Cape May Star and Wave:

Legislature has recessed until January 11th. leaving Cape May County without a Judge and with no hopes of getting one so long as Senatorial courtesy gives the Cape May County Senator the

hand.

Governor Moore insists.

Helping the Shore

Pleasantville Press: The action o! the Reading Railroad In planning a branch of its Cape Mayline to the wharf of the Cape May Lewes ferry, should result in a big traffic from the Southern States to the South Jersey shore

resorts.

A ferry trom Lewes to Cape May would save the trip both by 'ape May County Common-train and auto through PhiladolPleas bench Senator Bright re- phia or Wilmington.

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xmmrj ano w struCTWn. .Major oioaii

This i* something I rcm edy the South Jersey situation | pj^, 0 f insanity should be nod the people can. a primary route between Perth i nised. It is not surprising that rfchs know n to tile j Amboy and Cape May. cutting j p^pje daim that justice puts who lie ready to do i the distance between South Am-, hinders when the criminal at I people demand • hoy and Atlantic Gty by sixteen har has plenty of money. If Bul1 this report can !»■ nnlrs. A Bordentown-Seaville t and his lawyer* can get awat

^! primary route i* also advocated , ^tj, the game they are attempting d | and traffic on the White Hone : the charge ran be truthfully made »- Pike would he relieved by that |,hat justice only has put on route, a* well as the construction j blinders, but has gO’-e stone blind, [of a Camden-New Gretna parallel| Had Bullock committed his das-! j highway. tardly crime in some sections of The time has come, in the | the country’. courts would I opinion of the State Highway! have been saved all the trouble of st j Coewniasion when New Jersey - trying him. Much as such highf mus , hid earnestly against the re- j handed methods are to be dees'sorts ot Long‘Island. Connect!-iplored, they are enewnaged by S. cut and Westchester County . N. i just such delays of jtulicr as has it'Y for metropolitan patronage, !h n witnessed in this unsavory bland that i* why »tre» » bid on case, and should Bullock be sent i providing Kbrrally lor tbe outlet to an insane asylum, advocates of k 'Troni the metropolitan district i summary justice will be supplied .t * .broiffh Newark sod the .Amboy*.' with a strong argument.

mains firm In refusing to confirm

tbe Judge.

Had the Legislature adjourned instead of recessing the Governor could have made the appointment ad interlt As the matter stands tbe situation must remain as is. Last Monday the Grand Jury was forced to return to make turn on indictments made week—a costly proceeding to county and one that should have

been unnecessary.

It looks to those who If it will be necessary- «o place someone else In Senator Bright's political shoes before Judge Eldrodge can again preside over the

Common Pleas.

Death For Bandits

Philadelphia Bulletin: —Enactment of a law making banditry a capital offense when arms

used in the commission of

crime, with tbe Jury being given the option of fixing the punishment at death ot life imprisonment. would be favorably endorsed by a Urge body of public m. Senator Salus. stirred by.

booling <>t two detectives ia

istrict this seek by a gun-1

says be will inroduce such t at the session of the Legis-

late! e at Harrisburg this winter. Director of Public Safety Ulliotl will also ask sterner punishment

legislature for habitual . He wants a lew raodel-

in this country.

The New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce is of the opinion, however, that it cttll will be ne-

cessary to amend the state stitution before toning will possible In this state,

other developments follow this de-

Under the Supreme court ruling j Dr science and can, by xoning regulations, j fw . bJe human ima5 , natlon can

form no conception of the uni-

One-sixth of an Inch yearly seems small. But that would a foot and a half every centuand with such a sinking I Pike's Peak would be below the

n’egsi A,lan:lc Ocean In much lees time

than it took the horse i one-toed animal.

see that the right sort of buildings are put In appropriate places. It is the culmination of ten years of court consideration on this subject With New Jersey, Georgia ana Maryland squarely standing against zoning. Pennsylvania has been wavering. and seacoasi States have been Interposed agalnst the movement to m ie xoning general throughout the land. It is In ending the question of the ur.ronstitutionnlity of tbe toning Uw that the Supreme court has rendered its greatest service. It establishes firmly the soundness of the action of 600 municipalities that have adofed zoning ordinan-

There is a boat service between Baltimore and Love Point on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay and from Love Point to Lewes is a railroad, hut the county

far from being good, at

least a part of the way, at present. Members of the Delaware Legislature have promised to build a boulevard across the State so that traffic will be all that can be desired. Arriving at Cape May. the autoist will find the beginning of a series of Improved roads the entire shore front of

roalngV Greatest Victory Customer—A: you showing

Atlantic City Press: With the 1 Jour spring un erwear? The. Chinese have found itenision of the t'nltod State. R,J SaleOady—1 hope not. ( necessary in some places to decision of tbe iniied Mates Su-j | vive ancient methxls of punlshPretnc Court in upholding the con- :: I ment. One. most unpleasant. InstituUonality of zoning in Euclid.] The expression heard most 1 creases the criminal's ears to a Ohio, a new procedure Is looked about this time of the year gigantic size. Six arrows arv for by proponents of this method among the young is: "I want." j pushed through each ear.

verse. That is easy to believe. When Professor Mlchelson. o( Chicago University, a great scientist. was asked. "Do you think 1 might by careful study get some idea of modern mathematics?" he replied with characteristic modesty. "You might; but I can’t understand it.” All we know is that It is a very big universe, and that we are small microbes on a little grain of sand. Nevertheless, we have a right to be proud. 11 only because we can actually

. think about it and try to under-

| stand It.

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The World Goes On

. They had another unpleasant I punishment in the dtys of the

Empress. The criminal : stretched out an sawed in lengthwise. That has not

York, which makes it tence on a criminal wb

I The wise deplore smoking by

A *iOTM MU u, that *- »,11 nol md far .t lr>*'

mmommim ^ . HZ'ZZ Z' »! New u a PP ears , ‘ ,at t * ,frc will be time for a number ot generations • wompn have b p^ n ndatory fo carr >' on the accumulated knowledge and follv ot their tathers j chl j (ll . en haxe Bt | east Ife sen- and ,0 tnake experiments of their own—the sum of which process is j a chance.

kas had j known as progress. j But. after all, it la the infer fcl- Whether the scientific gentleman may be mistaken a few months] dividual woman's business to de-

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will hr sub- i t'tate Highway

CAPE MAY CITY'S Pm*iw 1“ uve League asks for greater progress oo the Cape M*"-Lewes ferry j ei and suggests that such a course « brine financial support. Tbe stand I «i

Tbe old s a paraly

other does rot matter. j ci de about smoking. tance of the statement lies in its psychological effect.; ..

that the world will spin on, bearing countle**

hanging men, is in itself a stimulating one. Christmas

nnception of a world that would end in a few years o f 0r

nrld would surely end in a short time, men ot former: H f hemsrlve*. why keep any accurate record of liistorv ' <• n cMrnMvr scientific experiments? Why bother about i ft * il conditions greatly? Why begin long-time project- 1 nt when there would be no time to complete them ? 1 i that the world will go on, to *11 practical purposes. ^ |(

the Chrtat-cbild. *o help

so sweet;

the holly we lay at Hii

E. Z. Fox says a lesslmUt la an optimist who •->nd -avored to practice what he preached. Barber shop* for men have been turned Into bobber shops for women. Ed Rice says blessings often uime disguised, but It’s different with cures. Member* of the Drive and Hug Society Mill refuar to bothe night was made for sleep. “I am going to the uosi ltal for i operation tomorrow." "Well. 1 hope everying comes it all right.” Roland Mason says you can lead a hen to her nest but you can't make her lay when -'gg* are sixty cents a dozen. 'Why are you weaiiag that string on your finger?" My wife's away and I prom ised to thlnX of her every day." One thing that Adam escaped what that Eve never taunted him with the number of men who had proposed to her. One reason, says Capt. Maher why young people don't slay at home nights any more is because they are afraid to be alone In the house. While he have no personal experience In such matters to speak our observation has always been that being kidnapped at Aimee Semple McPherson age is generally pretty co-operatlvt. "Mamma, what are you going to give me for Chrlstmaa?" >h. anything to keep yon quiet." "Well, nothing will keep me quiet hut a drum."' Christmas Poem Mary had a stocking once. And it was made of wool: Oft a merry Christmas morn That stocking. i» wse full. How came that stocking to be full? Because at Christmas dawn. When Mary rose to dress herself. She pulled that stocking on. Mrs. Shy was about to ent?r the Big Store In quest of lingerie. When the floorwalker opened tbe door with a flourish, and said. “Step in.” She bbished. and wand?red to herself: "How did that slick old softy know—what 1 wanted?" From an old sweet heart of mine Came a Christmas card today. And time went spinning backward To a certain day in May. The trees were sweet with peach bloom And o'er bead the azure sky; I was her on Host own. She. the apple of my eye. But she wed another guy. And my apple sauce was pie! Unde Ike's Christmas Song Touch up de fiddle Fo' dt Chrts'maa dance— Sachet down de middle— Watch dem dark I .ns prance. Lawdy, goodness, massa. How my hopes de 11T; When you comae an' sees us dancin' I yells “Chrl'aa gif." Please, Santa Now Christ mat: draws near us. St. r<ick listen in On your radio up at the pole. jAs the many entreaties for presents begin. I You perfectly splendid old aoul. | But when you appear, and not even a mouse. U stirring, pray heed this one prayer ! Of that oft-martyred bozo, the man of the house. And bring him a tie he can

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