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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE CAPE MAY COUNTY TIMES

FMDAT, OCTOBEE 1«, nj.

Cape May County Times WtUifj with Sm w* citr Itortow. Fatouan

Pot>lihb*<] Entry Friday by tbc AHar.tic Printing & Publishing Company

8«a Ul- CUy. N. J.

WTIJJAW A- HAFFERT. Bdilor and Publlaher ADOLPH C. wElsEyT Maoar'nc Editor

Publication OflW TIMES BTII-niNG. SH South Landis A von no, Sm Ul* aty. N. 3. Oomb City Offlcs: <22 Asbnry Armor Wildwood Offte*: SM£ Hoilj Bract Avmur

A writer in ‘ Editor and r’uWither" ha*

pihd a liat oi 135 "Wcsr*" that are obv ——j— ,— eithr r nationally or in cert an. *• t .-•n* or crtict dt pre-schon! clinic tupcrvisioo.

the country. Many oi them can well be di»pe tsed with. One, Itowerer, which cannot » being em-

«m one end oi the country to the

If the checking of a menace that destroy* *562.751.460 worth of property a ul take* 20.000 lives in this country in one year—the record fire during 1926—is not worth the serious tenner: of both young and old. v.r can think oi

noth, nr that h.

Authorities esrimate that 759t oi this waste iouU have been prevented. The prevention process cannot be accotnpliahed by the authorities, nor die fire companies, however. Everyone must do hh or her part. That means you. as well as your

Although some comaamhir* hate »"t yet t»cognired the need, it is just a* ewmnal that they have—or be near a community that dors pre-school dime at it is to have ga* or do

Carelesaness » a national vice. It cai

dents of every' conceivable kind. Most fires are exuard by carelessness You can’t r op your neighbor frem being cardeas about fire. You can stop veuracli. Noe for just a day or a week, but for

every minute of every day ir. the year.

T7»e disastrous fire at Ocean City Tuesday

evening, with property lowes ru ining into

milliom. tells far more impressively why every pracaunonary measure against the dread menace should be taken by Cape May County residents than column after column of facts and figures, Kid editorial comment r* Id. Whether or not carr'.■mmm or negligence played an important pan

in the origin of the Ware that swept away

few hours theatres, hotels, home*, stores and a

pier, we do not know at this writing.

We do know, however, that no resort in Cape May County can afford to have another such fire, for, bad aa it was, only the heroic and efficient work of the heat of fire companies from many aertiom of this end of South Jersey prevented it from destroying many other block*. You can d^ your part in preventing fires in yo-ir community.

by New Jersey if but a portion of that amount^ had been spent year* ba-k in health work among feeble-minded, convict* and tnor on* and their parent* when they were babies. Oiief among the activities of the County | Health League i* the pre-school clinics it super Five such clinic* were conducted throughout

the County the pa»t year.

They have made weak, under-nourished children strong and healthy. They have halted trouble* and cured minor defects that would grow chronic and perhap* incurable. They have given . advice to young mothers and older ones, too, that has proven invaluable in properly caring for their babies. They have undoubtedlly hern the main factor in saving more than one baby's life. We need bridges, better road*, civic improvements and 1927 conveniences, but far greater is the need for strong, healthy boy* and girl*, who will grow into strong, healthy men and women and have strong, healthy children of thei Among the various phases of the work of the Health I-eague are the combsting ot tuberculosis, responding to emergency calls and making ad vis visit*. Of major impottaui.' howr -er. is it*

Good Hews For Motherv

A FrieadlT FighL Be Beady For War. College* And Men

Dr. Aycock. chief of Harvard's

lofsettle Paralysis Commission. reports that the paralyat* *er>»,o| ,!»

! has been clammed, and a aaitsA'e i ___ animal h sought to produce an! Bertha: “And ibt, antitoxin. Dr. Ayeock agrees with their engage®**- *

Doctors Ftexner and Nuugeht, of (they V*

1 the Baekfeller Iwtllute. that the; Gladys: "Well, thtr . I germ is so small that It would are telling everyhod; pass any Alter mat can be aade.;

^ , ,» Statist 1»» tell u* r. •

other animal | ns longer sad shir: ! will supply the right serum for growing shorter

antitoxin, rvod then aatl-*l*iaao-.

ttun 1st* will roa and another, .... ... heavy load of fear will have been reached a point m 1 ’. .■. %1 i lifted from the hearts ot mothers, kiss our wife'* gii!i ^

The big automobile «*bt. ex T ; perted when Ford starts rolling

A Heavy Blow For The Sport Skeptic* By winning the world’s championship in four consecutive victories over Pimb.ng the New York Yastk «s did much more than ■irmonsmle tbrii the national sport. Theirs was a real piece of service to organ.red baseball. p The skeptics, the Mpfiperitics snd the perpetusl I croakers were dR on the job The scries w a*:,

•B >

fixed. It wa» *j>rr to [O five games to get the big Sunday gafc. It would travel the entire seven-game route because both owners and player* wanted

the extra "dough." And so on. and

on. Well,

Spirit of the State Press

of them.

But It It aomr time gtnc* I have seen any meek, at hast In the flapper age. What

Thr Gaaoline Tax

Nut ley Sun If ft were possible to get at the

collective truth about the gaaoline tax we venture become of IhemT”

, . J?' 11 ” '~" a u, ■ , s - e-"' 1 ' lb, rtd,, nu ih.r. .1. . «™,1 m.nr

despite the fact the receipt* nMrt raised a million gpd a half dollars so easily, j ^

of the fifth contest would have probably reached Most motorists ta two short months have almost m *’ n ‘ ' fp ’ a ' >0 *”* <*iV»i)lX>00 forgotten about Us existence entirely: Just at on** who have s certain dignified reserve

present the oU companies are being forced to do uaed to be considered suitable for their sex.

-— ..— *■— for the government aolunaleiy or unfortunat, iy, this

will he a r*w Of the gres: .. .

friendly enamlea’ flgnt. noeordlag know It. to Alfred P. Sloan, Jr . president j

of General Motors. | A actentU: di«v<. Ford will mah* a good car. slowest thinkers In. of good value per dollar of price. That’s the kind of » f'9X and will sell s great many Of his that can't be proved * ;

new cam General Motor* will Intersection. cjaliaoe to acli great .umben of

it* can In the various Price “We uaed about »t U*

■ coal last winter.” I "We burned six."

The real flght will W. as it "How lucky Ot!j should, to Increase quality, while of out* burned.''

cutting cost of production and giving the public the b*a«0: vd

lower eobts.

‘ 'It 1m

i and older

The only i

-pie get of the ’

They Came. They Saw And Were Conquered

The Ocean City Kiwani* Club and the 'Te-

through discolored and poorly foaiacd

E*er> big sporting event i* fixed. Every man who hold* a public office a a grafter. Every man or woman Who stands for something fine and decent is a hypocrite. Every ardent prohibitx*mT ha* booee in hi* cellar. Every girl on the *tagr n no good. Every film star is a* fart ax the Broadway limited. Every man has b» price. .And «■ «t

and so on. and so on.

We sometime* suspect that mo« of these people who view life with xoch dirt irfed vision are merely judging other folk* by what the* would do if they were in other folks' *hors. Some, of course, nay have chronic indigestion. They never see the beautiful sunset because there happens to be a rotted tree stump or an unsightly building between them and the glorified j horizon. One actor whose performamr u a trifle t under the average will spoil an othriwue enter-; (mining and well acted (day or motion picture.! Thru home *own i* a terrible place to live

lot ot fra*

“ntaaknewt" does

Doctor* who my c*uU:a dangerous have b-*t tisfa A Chicago woman eomjUai!

, n»rrv.ttn»x*f Mr hi lx to vuitsgo wuiuxu coc*,., ADOCPOT permxnen ^pi »very lime she klxMd h-

■nt* of that resort are to be congratulated for ■nrorhneas and efficiency' with which they cted e role of host to the New Jersey State van* Conv-ntioo a few dan ago. It was only Bugh prrastvot effort on the part of the Ocean f Club and tbc influence of Kiwams t»oven*or 1,'vub T. Bingham, oi Millville, that the I**, as secured by the Cape May County reSi**r Kiwems oifioals doubted that Ocean r could handle the convention Then the Ki-•-'unx <,ame and saw and were .om|urred by pn City's evident ability and w hede-heartrd vitality The hundred* of buainets and pro Mtial m*.n from every sec?too ot the State, |P aaxvnpani'-d by their wives, returned to

that the tax may be paid, but they

• III figure this extra expense into the aelling price of the gaaoline ao that no real reason for ln)uatiee ran be found. It won't, bt long before thlx tax la ■ 'opted by New York and every other Stats, for obviously la the only way tn «hlch cry man • bo uses the reads can be taxed for Jnet exactly

uae he maks> of them. xSi.t

“Maidens Meek"

Westfield Standard An attendant at a recent

to appeal t - the average mat

that a girl ahow a little “pep" or vivacity. The result baa been that a very large numbar of these older maidens meek remain unmarried Perhaps they are as well off. They seem perfectly well able to care for themselves. The ideal of merit maidenhood disappeared when the girts qnlt staying at home, and went to work tn offices and factories, it la somewhat hard preserve the o'd ideals of meekness in thoae

tacts, where a certain degree o,

> in i

hurch aervlce remsrked as he was leaving thsi

place of worship, on one line la a favorite hymn However, when a girl begins to carry • bleh reads. "Strong men and maldena meek." i aertiveneaa into her social relations, .he ta apt to

arqulre a shade of hardness in manner that la not

■ many strung men lately." he pro-

reeded. "The colleges and athletic clubs are full

at all fascinaMni

WASHED IN B, C. SHORE

DO YOC REMEMBER many yean ago aa you

because nobody jurt quite suits them They have | .tapped upon thr platform to recite or declaim, bo use tor tbc churtbc became they ate burdened bowed prettily.-or rtumally--to tjw fiends with a few member* who havr no r.gh, to be on *"*’ * r ’ d ^ ^ " ,br

pedant audience Some of our friends may read

the church roll. And » on. and so on. and on. ^ UMlmlIy tol , nnt . Ww 4oub1 lf , ny Fortunately for the average man and woman. 0 f our srtll. if they should we hope for the trouble lie* with these unfortunate* and not ! no tolerance. Aa to the others, meaning prob with the world. There is a lot of ugliness hnd » w r you »• apeak with f- ■ and trembling B» crookednes, and l»d ,n the world. But there .* " *' ,h “ ta '» *«’- «-*«»« « i . , atlek to It. If you do n< *>ta column, and • lot more of thr beautiful and honct and good. r>Iinol „ (ht moar0 , Bn , reuon. The folk* who get the mn« out of life and put mhy JOU do no i hewiuttbr moat in—do *o by concent rat mg on the gooi u> so. We promise to read your letters with

aa much 4* poiatble. Fortunately for Ig comparatively few

*port for *pott« *al

untesu .:re not on thr level.

Inst you.

we will bold nothing You may now pro

■hy a peremptory order should not be leaned for him to call the election. The Borough Clerk wvnt to Trenton on October 4. without a lawyer, filed

•ad

the 1

art and.

. They

•heir please

Take the Sign* Off the Tree*

A MATCH May B* Down. But Not Out mil Jones" sign on display In the win >v main office of this Company "Oban* revs niton Week every minut.- of the gear.'

hy Boya ieahhy Girla

■SO: 0 *

Luther t "mg prai

mu rued the prr Ihr thr tree* alimg j he, •nth unsightly jtlv* of the Count) : He further rr j J

tor • hi

a reply and after being informed by (he Court that they did not care to have him read the reply to them, returned home, still unperturbed. The reason given by Mr. Quick In his reply (or not catling the election was that It did not contain the signature* of the requi d "twenty per centum of (he persons qualifying to vote a the last general .letiion. m shown by lb- registry of qualified votera." Aa twenty per cent, la twenty cent.. It looks, at this writing, ba though Mr. Quick ha* emerged victorious, aa (he Boston sports writers would probably put H. The remarkable thing to us about the v hole L>i».la not tbi most Admirable manner In which Mr. Quirk has conducted himself, but the fart that la iheae day* anyone can be kidded Into believing Coinmlmlon Government to be superior

to Cuunrilmanlc.

If »e •era going to ad ocale a change of government anywhere, we'd lay go the limit and make It City Manager That, to our Idea, is the only bu*lnsee-llk* form of government, lor It placws the mpoustbUlty upon one anan and then pro*e«da to pay that man a aalqnr comtnenaurate to thr 1 asks Involved In managing a city of that particular else Durely. the iabprrr la worthy of

a* feet and hands. j gp exchange A busy man ahculd Imre hta style* “meve In tM* >a ear always at hand, to save hta » w jatna a lot. The c time. A family needs two earn, eat are prepared for hill at leant. And the* means no axtrwvaganee. far time la worth aav- j Perhaps Sinclair 1/ In*, and. unlike horns, cam do meaner than any of anot eat when Idle. jtera In kb book*.

This country need* 20.600.000 cam now. and. altowtng five

f“;. “l h “ r . i"! din, ah, lorr.1 tttvana fi.000.w00 new car* a year . -i,,,—v « r im,-.... • ,'.-i tnd-lnltely. There will «>. (4eoty ‘“i. Bl *f , r d j , h " I h l u ^' of buainaaa for the man able to. tried 10 kl ” h "

the right car for that car’s!

right price.

Mr. and Mrs. Joewpb Mack, krrreWd for kiming lb a tar. recovered *2.«76 damagee when they proved they were martlet. Deanocnarattons of affect I >n In pohlic are forbidden because (hey are vulgar, or auppoeed to be. and act a bad example. Would Mr. and Mia. Mack have gone to lall had they klaeed ten days before their marriage?

Study Theae Fou. Modal I

Grneral 8unwn.-r»ll tells the country to be ready for war and warns "three months’ delay may be fatal." In Europe. It la said quite calmly that "Germany will probably not go to war with Po land before m2."

This

It the world goes to war tt srtll prove ft* insanity. | It baa done that often j country doesn't want **ar. but 'sometimes It can't he avoided. The United Stales should be j ready In the air and bel»w the : water napeetally. And there : should be a separate Cabinet offl- ! cer, wMh complete control under I the President, of the natlona! air 1 force.

Dr. FranK Crane Says

Modesty la one of '>J characlrrtsisr-- of tni' ' A great man can t»>< ^ coanaandatlon or av r-*r for popularity than -** •aid that he D mod*- _ This has been a of Preside ot CooU-U- h avoided the spot:i*t: ut

Ity. HD recent '

did not

dent again should !* utn face value. It D :!>• “••'T.

i International Harr crier ComIpany has a machine for picking i stripping and cleaning cotton ! that will do away with old{fashioned hand picking. That wtU cut the production : curt of cotton down, for the ; "stripper" will strip five bale* of (cotton a day with only two men : on the machine.

■Dn

.KVELANl> OHIO r

ilong the Ji >lr. Op

sictan. thinking

I^SSONS IN fe ntlng planned for debutants*— onaltc teach* r* will make girls walk like dense*." any* u newspaper headllnr. We’ve been und-r the tmpreartoa the modern girl was more late rested in "feinting" than fainting, and as for walking like goddwn. the revelations of the on*-piece bathing suit sort of makes us feel the teachers might aa well give up right now with

about ninety-on* per cent of ’em.

If accurate, that news is more , Important even than any otbet : new* thU week. It might t«t porarlly domoralia* the Southern ; labor market, but w|U «-n*b!» - American cotton growers to cnPrt* with cheap labor in Egypt the Sudan. India and elsewhere.

of a

achieved the »e n ’' lartty. desire* to »i. Another man »•'" all kind# of pl*u ,!l '-' all sorta of popul-

of Walaa. Of eoure- -• ^ no credit for heina - jf a kins, but hcredit for got alopP'M .

naa luanss.—■ - thing at th- rtgii' conduct hlm*»R = , decorum In what*'-' may be ptored . to be credited *H- _ Uon of being bo:« D entitled l«i Hi ‘ . caring for the parlor place ** f " g : well liked not _ tha British D'tthe t'ntted Stan -

Preaident Lowell,

ctvw this good advice: "Don't take advice too aeriouaiy " He tell* young men they must educate tbemaelvea "A col I eg. cannot educate the eTOdant." Teachers can hand you knowl- : <■«»«*, but can', make your brain

To tboae eh-- ■

(Dempsey

| a surprise. Tfc )

bruiser. The) » | find him gent!' J everybody and

that of a «en' feet lunate In 1 and altogvUi* ■

EVEN before be 1 . jai Wildwood, where : lured, after hit plat

Gablet

as out of Dr. Mace Hospital, he was taken, critically ine nose-dived near Wildwood . E H. Cole Avalon aviator

The •orst of college in Utte: A half-baked boy lives surround'd by other half 4>akrd boys when he oug^t to be itrfng

learning to be a

The fourth n-' baa recently tan baa been 1“

He tak.i

of Cane May C

’ounty's first flying Held,

s that aa soon a* he D able to pass a lamination, he will buy another plane r flying. Bark bom* and walking with

f t Matches, hta dr-clato.

ertooely An able eduewm A boy needs ten ynsrs eer the harmful lufluei

tea a >ol of credit. He cad the courlace of aevrre critictem. to inat this county greatly needed. Alenture waa marked by two tragedies. ’ his fault. Col*, with hi* partner c, Clarence Jooes, who was decapt-

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