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Cape May County Times with *»*• Cl’X trbrjmrr. I»l« Published Kvrrjr Friday )«T Atlantic Printing & Publi*hing Company

8ea Ikle City. .V J.

WII.UAV A HAFTERT. Editor «wJ PublUhrr ADOLPH C. W1L8EY. MAn^ln* Editor

PobHratton OfOtw:

TIMES BCILDING. Ill South Laadia Avmur

Soa I** City. N. J.

Ocean City OMco: M2 Aahsry A»rnu» Wildwood Office *206 Holly Beach Avenue

"The Am*, tat kjii is now making vmuUr effort* /or favorable vote by the.people on a new highway bond «Miie oi 530.000.000, which will be acted upon at the (ienrral Flection nest November K. Fndorvement ot thn nrv $30,000,000 bond i- >' absolutely necewary to the fmanctal acheny devised tor exp*-'ding the New Jersey State His;!’ i System and increa inj; it* uphete oi uwfuint" "The merrun from t!« aame mill tax wh. r now earning and miring the $40,000.0"" ^ • e 'will be more than sutikient to carry and retire the j 530,000.000 bond iwue. In coraetjucmr ik-w

SabKrtptfMt pr«, » rw. IUT. “ re ** d *" "^'1 * h '

All—He Oomtr. tUfi: Baanhw* Itau P»r ymr tmo.

• tw onkw. m | "Indeed, conservative and arientitk ctm-.piitatiom

made b} experts show- that the proceed, trom the prewrr mill tax for highways will i>oi only ciesn to carry and retire both the bond issues.' will also leave each year a subvtantiai amount of additional revenue for other highway purposes. "The proceeds of this new 53" "Vi.OOO bond ior will be used entirety tor the acquirement of i nht»o*-way and the building viaducts and ; bridge*. Clearly, all of these a r capital invevtmentui the fullest and truest seme or the expression and juvtifiaWy lend rhemsrlito the long tetm or' the deterred payment method ot financing—namrl-. a bond issue. (The revenue derived from regt. 'ration fees and the gasoline ra* are dedicated to, the construction and maintenaive ot bighwavv.' /

The Present and the Past

The I SOth anniversary of the Battle of Red Bank. N. J., was fittingly celebrated Saturday Similar anniversaries were commemorated in ap propriate manner at Germantown. York and Brandywine, in Pennsylvania, earlier in the namtfc. These celebrations are not only worth while as beautiful, hitroncal spectacle., but they should eaust u* to pause long enough in this hurly. burly, nule (or is it four) a minute, dollar • basing, pleasure seeking age to recall the debt wr owe our fore fathers and to mauid us of ou obligations to posterity. Whik it is true we .an never repay our debt to those hardy, courage©.:, pioneers who. by their roil and sacrifice and Woo-i made po««bl( cut present day safety, comfort, .onsrensewer and comparativelv luxurious living, wr can, by unarl fob service in a score of ways, brqjeath mtething more valuable than dollars and cent*

who follow in our train.

The preservation of things hi. orscal -in Cape Mr - County i* w orth both the time and mattes of thee* who realise the help and iiupiratkiR to be derived from stopping occasionally to f link of those who have paved the way for today. A few month; ago a Cape May County Historical Society war organired, with Lewis Stevens, pt -sident. It fills

’ a long tclt need and holds its

Court House.

This recalls the fight made by a group of Cape

s in the old

Will Sr - * laic Get a Slice?

There will be no joy in Sea J*k City over the; recent announcement of the New Jersey Bell; Telephone Con ;iany that it will «prn« $3,363,11"" lew- construction unles. a small puition of thaf j amount a to go toward, trplacing the prev-m : antiquated equipment with more modern facilities, i The residents of this result have stopped cranking; their autonsobOo and are getting tired of cranking

their Bell phone..

‘ indamemal principle of any budne** should be to take good care of its customers or sub-Tibers. This is certainly being overlook'd by the Bel! Telephone Company m Sea Isle City. A ! : ttle slice of that "three million, three hundred thousand appropriation should lie cut for this resort.

May Countiam a few gears ago to save the old^d^ but what evil it |

Court House building. The victory of that group resulted in the erection of a far more adequati handsome and fitting new .structure than would

have risen under the former plan.

Standing almost side by mde, the old and the new Court House building*, .haiplv contrasting tell the vis tor a ailetit. but impre.- ,vr. story of the

growth of the county.

How fitting it would be it some day the Freeholder* could turn the entire old Court House building ovt to the Cape Mat County historic*! Society for its permanent hejdquarter*

Should. Get in Line

With Ocean City palitr in Cape Mi

Childhood to the beat time to leach Eire Pre-j The person who aroused three rude deelres srae •-ntion nu-a.au res. aa It to to Instill anything etoe | a iunug. romp latent young man. who sat two or n the human mind. Besidr*. w.uj fire* are'.three aeaU from us. Duriag the entire perfortarted by children. !maoce. which was on the whole a fairly good one. I. ,ct. n.itn, U,. eiiur™ 1. lb. “*>• """• >“ lk * >—< " ™ W,b.r and lb. ..tUT.U, .rma-d ^.,„r i “■! “»'> ■ ■»"» - WUlrfM. InMnM 1. tb. «U1 wbWi 1» Ib.lr wr™u | Th '"' *“ t 1 '”'- “ ««

—out loud. Ttur* were several numbers worth

young friend

WITH prohibition, as with religion or education, we have to consider not onlv what good it

5nts. Is-t i

that during this period of high wage, and no-

had been the open -aloon and

the alcoholic restaurant. Dor- anybodv suppose that the United States would have appeared before the world, as the sober natKKi she has become? Every kind of liquor, wine, beers and spirits would base been advertivi in the pre». on thq skvsigns and along the road.t tr I*. \Vhit-

well, Jnotuitien Mm.

friends. The first and second prise eaaays wr.

printed In the Seven Mile Beach Reporter last applauding. We applauded. Bui

being printed In thto paper thto week j ,,0, • ! We first noticed hl> bored attitude when we bappi ned to catch him looking our way. We were

• . ; laughing at the time. Something had tickled our 1,-ue-l by the men of ibr '“““T »« h > dn ’« tta As most of the audl-

Sea Isle City Method to! Chur, h to . -*«.« of j*"** b1 *° to our own

. ' •atiafaetlon that our «»wo aense ot humor was not

too acute, be Interested us and fro - . then on we catch him unawan . dur .if particularly

and will be read by thousands of peoph

Cape May County

A CHALUSKOE

r iXt

County should

in City in the pa wage of measures com property' owners to place fire resistant n their roofs by January 1. 1930.

construct «r«! the spread of

> material* that

Even - possible precaufire should hr lakm.

t a of prime

EFFICIENCY i* based on a philovophy of h which considers first the Claims needs an I •Inerts of the <*brr fellow. TTte men oi the greatest deeds are She men of the greatest faith, and the of the greatest faith are the men who an

—Judge Elbert H. Gary.

"WHAT do wr care for the experience ol other .011 nines and of other generatN-u-Thu; the pat retort of the present generali.m We will learn by our own experience." The amwer tv: "You will.'’ —P. Whitwell. in Jitb.mtica Afro.

in risk* today will have cuatributod > • nteulute safs flying to the tutu; a. Lindbergh says flying os-redan-l with a good pilot and machine I* than au-iwnnblUnn. Better nvaehinea wiU ocean (11 eh is as atouplas a flight ©see the .-’«uw [ • Jisnnel. for wMeh Nortbcii'a (ew years ago. ode rod *60. ooo prtae. Moving pl«iir*w show Lionel 1 Ha.-yiuore holding the reddtot branding Iron, AUoen Pringle provtding the snow-white anout- ; der and quivering Scab to which th ■ "red-hot" Iron will be ap-

: plied.

at I

“Do rw : tiwr. ( Don't let jwher new fail mV; 1 axt *s ray wife to *e* it Jus: u* Origin: "Why. an that's hist why »> «n tang! Quite oft*., the thlap *t •t to eut dlsss:- e*.U and the I birr- « • Eke tot “ with «bf».

the church a few months ago to engsd contest to ral*e money for hat tnstftutlon. The,

ladies willingly accepte-i. and the contest eliwed ,rJed

-„r.l a,„ .US ■*, blr IS. ** ,*. ,l«-

Thtlr tout was about 1326 to the men'a *2t»0 ; Of course, tt waa none of our b»..In««s. No one The victory war apparently ao surprise to the ha- to laugh, even when other folks are splitting ladles. The men say wnlt until next year. t belt el do*. If they don’t want to. But. somehow. The contest created friendly rlxalry and eonald-jth.se bore-' worldly-wlw. heavliy-burdened-wllh-ersbly Increased the revenue of the church, aa no tbel- own-superiority individuals always Irritate regular eontrlbat!ona were Ineludod In the pro-land puule us. We can't understand why they reeds. There may 1«- other ehurthe* la tha county! waste their money to see a really entertaining that can profitably take thto leaf from Sea lali'a.fhow and then swallow it like a dare of medicine, book. 1 We've seen ns man.- shows, we suppose, aa the

• • • average theatre-goer, but we hope some kind soul

DID YOU EVFP FEED an Irrwprunslble desire will "rock" us to sleep if we ever wear such i high to slap a nice, julry iiislard pie against a certain hat we ean’t get a smile or laugh out of a ilean. prreon'e feature- Or like grasping (hat Individual; humor-filled performance. And ditto. If we can't by the hair and pirehlng hto face genlTV. but j show our appreciation of an entertaining number firmly. In a mud puddle. Not to hurt him Just or act by applause. Por the box office Judge* an expire* your g. nt-ra, ,. ,«*ppioval. We did. one actor's worth largely by the amount of applaure recent Saturday stternoofi at Keith's Theatre, he receive* And. if a comedian, b* the laughs

Philadelphia. h* ereetea

branding, will hardly realize that I such sore.ire would havo bee® { : considered natural a few years 1 j ago. Men Were skinned Jlre. ' ) Irupaled on wha ^ abaft* and left ' dying for hour*. At the time of | Henry II. a workman was brandled on the cheek with a hot 1 j M without permtostun he left hto l j parish to find work In another.

bout w'-at a tc.:.r worn* as the first psyrreo: ■ rer five doll*™ A word to ’be ell' »

IBM.

Dove to blind, tiu: tb*

its ire not. Where there's

Henry II. workmen may loophole. ; comfort unit* coal mine worker* -—— . of Amerios. foihldden by court • Boy (to father. sx i injonction to interfere with the “ 1 * <1 b** “ iPiusburg Terminal Goal Cotpor- hoy a step-Hd .'- ; atom's open shop. ! . .. , ^ Iy j, t kr«< That dnjunrtion and others lD ! U will do a good deal to make j j unions powerless. But R isn't job: Something tU"' / I r.. bad a* bring brer.dtd for go- interfering with ot« - !»- Ing out of your p.trtoh to look for | . .. w i work. We do Improve, although! We've nev er ur— elowly. j vocal music, to hr ' ; i to enund Ilk* » « ! *»•" Near RKwiton. Wyo.. Ted Ire; ,, ; killed 116 rattkemakea with a ! Another :hin* a-c •hovel , daylees week

Kactleanakm rely entirely

are

their toe*.

Spirit of the State Press

Can We Stop the Drift Float ihe QrarehesT

.fact. It to (

WASHED IN 11, C. SHORE

I up

. all thi

Kttrtcl!) la,t week"

! Thirty Mill ion Uu Bond Usue

SEDAN BWVNQ eiWim.

an much a queotion of conduct a*

. ., .. js one of convietlon—and when the church Is

1! every *** r ' f not thoroughly "sold- to the outside., be should Statm a elty re o , nf}l ^ mil pwnilsd to become Idvnlltlrd with It.

; ThU. ol course, doe* not refer to that hungry sonl. who feels the need for spiritual guidance, but who at the same time realises hi* own weak- »«•*- -to such every encouragement should b* given and every assistance tendered which will make him stronger in the faith and more de-

voted to the cause.

On the who!#, lit fact that iOO.OPO people left the church last year may not be so groat a disaster as «omr Imagine it to be. Th* "pruning" procaat which has been tei.puru.lble for this, while •nmeiimes a very painful operation, in the end rnfrult* In a stronger, sturdier, htallhier growth. And when the church itself become* more virile, more challenging, and ofien. a program which will really attract men and women who wane to do the great tasks in the world. It will become a gieater foror In human «eiety than ever before.

Ho Thronr For "Slim"

poison and conceit.' which mako. *?.

; tt easy u. destroy '.been Ho with j rhr«e that pervert truth in hto-, lory, religion or otherwise. They r.jy on a poiwjn which to not re-• liable, and are disposed of esaUy ’

A British lady doctor. Dorothy j i Q1 »|1 Tnm L-' Cochran. Logan, swim* the Bn* j In Snell' 1 O" 1 ii*h Channel In IS hour* and 10!

| mlnuus. ruMing Oertrude Ed n l Game ^

"^ord by 1 hour. 24 mln-; M O rdC5 ° r • „ ; utre This di>*w not mean eciipe i Former Provin,. u tag the E to schtevreneat. It! _ ,77T.;u!l depends on wind, tide nod; The I**

wavre, as yvHi know ir you haw j torn

t iw'led that rough, c ; choppy stretch of wat...

: (Toekshoe. ..

Similarly the man who die* I wild Mfe after ** •'

with a "big name" and mlHroo* sene*.

Im-v not n. crewsrily bretoen thrj The Inter- 1 v. record of some poor devil ending i small toroiin the FoUer-s ftidd. AM d>giend*< were mertn -d v ion the tond oi aaiitng each had i of war preps.-'

' by Pc!'

Wild Life Aboif

late i torn ‘'no

and, ground by^ tta-^Be.^

' In the oplnto-

• American ] r It ouat* i ty in 1*2*

Man a labor I

that failure to i

they will res

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