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EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE CAPE MAY COUNTY TIMES

fUMT. OCTOBER !!

Cape May County Times ; i WI ,Q thn County, on the o*«r b*nd. r—null i fill o-a Ul* oir HctU*. f i i ml " il“l f«nily his *rn not only tl* ndividuU rr-

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Atlantic Printing & PubiUhing Company” » ril ,h " •< *«■.*«!. ™, .hr Sea Ul* City. N. J. j other resorts and eventually find the one moat WILLIAM A. HAfTtRT. Editor and PubUaher ior ,hcir P*”>cular requirements or pocket

ADOLPH C WILBEY. Manaictas Editor

PubltcaLoc Of6e*:

TIMES BUILDING. 211 South Landis Areaue.

Sea Isle City. N. J

Ocean City OfBee: C22 Aabury A recur WUdvood Office: 2205 Holly Beach Atvsue

book.

And there will probably be among the friend* ' oi that family tome folk* srho, in the due courv ; of event*, will not like the resort, but who will find their way to the very resort their friend,

.first visited.

price, is <ape May. Cumberland and No individual who lives a selfish live in am IW-Wt Cocaty. tt»; Waawhar. g.0» per year rommun!tT ^ „ iait ^ „ fb. P*wt omre. » | powible No community in Cape May County that gets the idea it wants to live for itself alone

will reach its proper growth.

California’* tremendous progre* n due largely to its foresight in advertising as a State. It* lead mg cities rdverthe heavily iadmduaUr. and the two methods form a profitable combination. ^f a State can benefit by genera! advertising. |

The County

Baseball League

The first season of the revived Cape May County Baseball League closed Saturday with oc apparent dificrences that will tSt~t the confinuatwn of the circuit in 1928. Of course there were tome quart tU tome heated

a of untairnesa and un-

dunng the season. Although these

are unfortunate and to be avoided if at all po* ••Me. they are but to be expected ronsidermg the intense interest manifested in the race and the regmabie habit of see humans to wear smoked gUars when looking for our own taults and per feed) clear, though somromr magnified ones

Wt-"- » arching for the other fellow'*.

Baseoa 11 perhaps due to the length of its season. as well as its numerous oth-r cosumendable qualities, is the most popular of all sports. It i* a fins game to play and an equally fine game to watch- It has an uncertainty that is intriguing and its unlimited possibilities for ‘.atting, fielding and base running thrills give fan stad player, alike

their “money'* worth."

A League is, without doubt, the idea! tray tt secure, hold and increase interest in baseball ir soy County, with two provisos, f'ne n that every team abide strictly by the rule* of riw League TW second, that not even the tips of the finger* erf the gambling element be permitted to touch

ere u no reason to believe that a resort County uld no* prosper by its wise toe Think of the great amount ad vert mag Ctpr May Counrv would receive annually, in addition in budgeted County advertising, if every busim man os firm inserted in a!! advertisement* tsrv* ^rnptr* or publication* for out-of-the Count) dismbutsan. after the name of die resort the* or urnilar words—"Part of Cape May County's Famous Bathing Beach." This suggev not original with us. We ha* heard k from more than one sourer and it's a valuable one for those with vision enough to we what it can accmnpltsh for the County as a whole. For general County advertising is bound to rebound to the benefit of every resort in the County

Purchase erf New Fire Apparatus Justified

The recent purchase of new fire equipment b\

This Week Jb Artkmr Bnaimm.

Musings of the Office Cat

The Aar 1» par * LB Ud« bahiad MUrta.

It is quite obvious that if

* break iAtaguc rule* every other team in the circuit is handicapped. A team winning the championship

unfairly does not. after all, win at all.

It should be just as dear that once the tentacle* of the gambling element wrap themselves around any team all sportsmanship and fair pl*> are purhed as far aside as expedient to the “beat’ interests of the rambler*. The gambler carta noth mg about victory for victory'* sake, He care* nodi . mg about the team for the tram's sake and nothing about the community it represents for the community's sake. The gambler wants the tram to win because he will low money if it doesn't and win money if it does. In nine caws out of ten, which estimate may be conservative, the gambling element will break any Ixague rule |f it seer a fair chance of getting away with it. in feeder to pocket another batch of unearned dollars. Tb» is not a subtle criticiam of the Cape Ml County League. To the best of out knowledge the teams obeyed the League r-ira and the gambler*

had nothing to do with them. It

warning, tor nothing *> ill kill the interest of both player* and fans quicker and result in a speedier deatti cx the League itw.J than one or fhr cither

or both, of these mrnarr*.

league game* ate always luotr interrsting than the free Iwtcr variety. Next wann Stone Hxtbor

and Sea Isle City should

Sea Isle City was more than justified at last week'* Ocean City fire. Performing smoothly under the most severe test to which they could be pm thr new apparatus, according to the testimom of (><ean City men. saved that rtwsrt thousand- and thousands of dollars worth of property low. The chronic knocker, who srith bis hard work ing hammer often tends to act as a community balance wheel, may ask what this has to do with

or mote teams' 'Sea Isle Gty. The answer it. Sea Isle City may

oex* tn the fire line.

It's a rather grand and glonout feeling for Sea isle Gty residents to know that reposing peacefully at the fire house are two swift and powerful media' .cal fire fighter* that. capably manned, are ready to match their vlerk red bodies against almost any fire that may r-ar its fiery

head.

And by no meant to be scorned, their presence should cause * downward revision <>• irmirance

Congratulations. Not Sympathy. In Order

The natural immediate emotional reaction upon

thaw who witnessed Ocean Gty's spectacular contUgritKKi Tuesday evening, of last week, or who read or heard about it the next day. was sympathy. Ocean Gty. however, neither needs nor dewrves sympathy, admirable as such evprrutons

may be. Gmgratulations are more appropriate Had the fire occurrd before the dose of the son. resulting in the burning of large and a loss in business by those who owned leased the shoos and stores, sympathv would

indeed, be in order. Had their hern a low of life

had roar iv families who could ill afford such

calamity hern made homeless, too much sympathy

could not be showered upon the resort.

111 '£bt j Instead, the season w as over, stocks were de1*' S r j picted or had beer* removed, not a person was rr ** r (kilk !. only a very frv homes were burned and of jpiactK-aily alt of the property swept by the Ware

into a fairly active period. This not only means a steady income for many who would have otherwise been out of work, but will result in better business for the merchants as thaw who

Just as many events which have all the marks of being disasters and nrar-tragedics in individual lives often turn out to be the very things that could have happened to us, venture to predict, will the fire prove

Ocean Gty.

Do the

Job Right The desire of the Sea Isle Gty Commissioners to replace the present unsightly electric ligf’ and :rlrpnonc poles on I-sndis Avenue with electric light standard* i*. in itself, commendable. To do •n, however, without first widening I .and is Avenue, would be expensive folly. The bald fact is landis Avenue must be widened some day. Increasing automobile traffic has doomed narrow streets in all communities where there is the slightest chance of making them wider. Municipalities from one end of the country to the other have condemned entire Mock* of buildings m provide an adequate outlet for growing automobile traffic. l.andi» Avenue aim needs new curbs, but to place them without first widening the street would, likewise, be extravagant waste. If Sea Isle Gty i> not in a financial position to widen 1-amiiv Avenue at thi* time, the electric standard and curbing projects should be dropped until the entire yob c. i he done right and with-

out waste.

WASHED IN Ht C SHORE

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May G» nty Baw l

■ Advertising • Every Resort

* well covered with insurance.

I"hc ennfUgratmn. therefore, instead of *eav* blow to Ocean Gty. will prove « irstnnaMr value in speeding up it* develop.™ I In the first place it will aid the movrmcr |« permanent beach front line, a* the Hippm !Theatre was one ot thr chief ohstadr* to thr r . I fl the sevnrvi place thr N.tmandie \nd '

PKOBABI.Y r*W PEOPLE In Cap* Mar County know fbat there Uses in Avalon a man whi hobby to the arowtna of thr must beautiful dahlia* to be found to these part* If you *r* • lover of flowers it would be a treat to have Samuel Jibuti lew or l h show you the handsome creations that deteiup from time to time under M» expert Mr shuftlewntth does not raise the dahlia* to sell or to place OB exhibition. althoU«h he was persuaded to put eome m th~ rscani Hewer Show St the Cape May County Title and Trust Company building, *t Court House and received the award

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tn them, of course, but—Jimt supposin' they true. And the Hallowe'en pranks that some of e boys—not us. to be sure—played. Fashion* sre changing In Hallowe'en a* In Ot» or American institutions. In some communities, least. Now-a-da ya. parades are the thing, with chance lot the youngsters and the oldsters, too. they are *1111 young enough It. np'tlt- *«> vein prises with cleverly liar. Laome or grotesque coaHnliowe'en la stretched over sere ml days tn Cape May County. Thu year the four communities that will celebrate with parades are striving hard to surpaaa each other. They are so scattered that almost every county resident who desires iand who do-n tj, .pee m least «^of,tbe«. Many folks «SH see three. Ocean City's or Cape May Court Bouse' on Friday evening, the litk: Wildwood's on Saturday the mb. and Cape May

on Monday, the 21st.

FIRE PREVENTION WEEK has slipped Into e past until another year. Fir* has not. Day and nigh'. It will be constantly at your heels, grimly waiting for the slightest chance to lay Hs red Angers on your shoulder sad blow Its fiery breath on your home or business, your loved ones or employee*. Fire never sleep* and wants only the opportunity to catch some one in your family or organisation off guard so that It may strike. Keeping Are away from a commor.lty by vigilance and the removal of every poeslble Are haxard not only prevents loss of life and property, but eventually cuts down the Insurance rate. A VETERAN NEW YORK Are fighter, now a resident of Cape May County, told u* the other day that most people can stand a lot more smoke than they tnlnk they can. provided they don't get panic stricken. A person In a smoke filled room has. If he keeps a cool bead and breathes regularly. says this veteran, a far greater chance for ••wgape than a person breathing la hurried, panicky garpa. Isn't this true of other crises? The mol orlet who lost* his bead and lams on the brakes when his aulo skids. Instead of trying to gradoaily drive out of It. ts apt to wake up tn a hiMpiial. Thr baseball pitcher who fear* that the ildablr slugger facing him will drive the man base home usually tosses one over that Is

knocked out of the lot.

THE SAME VETERAN described to iu a horrible fire In a New York factory he helped to Aght years ago. Although then* was a ledge over three feet wide running si n* thr side of the building to within eighteen Inches of a not' building tn the rear, the fear-craxed worker*, mostly women. Jumped from the window, dropping ten stories to be splattered on the paving below. They could hare stepped out of the windows, walked along the ledge and climbed to safety to the other building. Score* of persons were killed they failed to keep their head*.

Spirit of the State Press

"Personal Liberty" in Colleges

* j Caluwell ProcTM* tt ha* been said that If a •O MANY <a«» on our j young woman wirhes to amoke. that to her bualpt'* There ahould Icr- j ngly fastidious about the character of students b-eebalt from sxtnndii.K : admitted, and are likely to put the hers higher We were torn betwe- i each year for several years at tonal. Ohio W»n-

XAHSAS AMD FRANCE

—The Difference—

j On either ride of th» Santa Fe •express, la which this la written. I the com fields and fannh

; Kansas fly past. It is a

i unlike that through which the , i writer drove a few weeks ago .a , France on the way from Pari* to see Clemencaau in hta little eotjtnge on tha Atlantic at Lajard.

rot far from Bordeaux

The trip through France, made In an automobile, was ns rapid ' as this trp by train. In Franc* you drive your automobile fast as you like, hut take care 1

you hurt nobody.

French roads are wide and straight, the cxr used by this writer came from Nice to Paris. 906 kilometer*. MO mtisa. In one day and did euaiiy the 400 miles from Paris to Lejard bet eween breakfast and dinner. French drivers go rapidly, but carefully; If they hit anybody the law hits them. A member of the Chamber of Deputies went to Jail for a year, all the Influence of hi* friends could not nave him. ~ struck a child. B. Forman. Rochester, N Y.. car tell you of in Preach chauffeur accused of intoxication, arnt to Jail for ten • year*. He killed a child, r Forman saw the thing happen. Here In Kansas you eee grant tractors oroviding power, machinery cutting and binding corn, great engines binding, threshing wheat, and tying the grain ' seeks, nil tn one operatlo.i In France occasionally would see a peasant and hi* « .. cutting their grain with sicklei tn small field* of irregular shape Kti.d* were harvested with • scythes. Here and there team, of horses drew mowing maehti ' Power driven agricultural I chlnery was not seen betwefc

Paris and Lejard

Where mowers had passed . |you might see old grandmothei and her little grandchild * to «*uf aa .them In aprons held by the left

band.

A hundred such glaan jaeen in a day's drive. Th- j wtri Inw fortunate than Ruth, theii gleanings meagre. There was n< Boax to command hto young men {saying. "Let her glean ever among the sheaves and reproact • her not: and let fall also aom< of the handfuls on purpose fo , her and leave them that she raa; *>ran them, but rebuke her not With hand rakee the oi' g andmother and the HtUe gir could have gathered all the glean logs In a abort time, hut tha evidently was not allowed. Glean Ing most be doite by baud, th old body must stoop, and stoo; all day long to pick up ntra: • straws. When th# grain had gon from the field an old sbephen would bring hto little hand o 1 sheep These would walk thn the stubble eating the over-rip | grain that had fallen from th • ear*. Other bands of sheep le.by an old man or woman will dogs t help, ate the grass atom the highway edge. No sheep eve strayed onto the road before th automobiles. Dogs prevented tha and the sheep seemed trained i Beautiful animals, admirably kep j—they waste nothing In France Here in rich America you rid mile* through unending field* o com or grain, pass groat herd of heavy steers, deep In grass an> tens of thousands of acre* no

used.

In France they use every foo ;of ground, waste nothing, no : foo l or human labor, men am women work long bourn, worl bard with patience. The old pheasants' houses an i beautiful and old. their animal* well cared for. Along the coast of Brittany and the Vendee, men ! and women and children work side by Side. Men repair, at tow 'tide, their fish nets colored light blur The fishermen any "Ash like rotor " On the flat lands you >aro little mounds of salt taken from the nrean hr Imprisoning I waters in shallow pool* for etap- ; oration. ! Once "La Gabelle." a heavy tax on salt, dressed th* mtstrewaea of Ftenrh king# and made life easy , for throe lucky claaawr. royalty, clergy and nobility It was death | to the peasant to escape "tn Gabel!#" by taking hto salt from

are better now The ecptng In Ht. Drnta. oae bone* were not ring the Revolution

Th# romance still .

she can serve hart twice » and get away with It

You needa't take a a vice to flatter him. j-jk *i g

That play had i Ing—everybody wu

It was over.

A Uttle false ~m

About the happtos’ pny» M ioae woo don't amoDB' i and don't gtre a dtogbu*:

Dr. Franh Crane Says

The Echo of Applause

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