ftfcgc Four

Editorial Page of the Cape May County Times

***** Dwrcbtr

& iir.

Cape May County Times | O—Jfiauu^ wi*fc BM ui* cu» lu-ritw. leUiMrr. i»u

PobIUb>-<] Bvcry KrfcUy hr U»« antic Printing & Publishing Company Bern lei* Ctty. ft- J.

mUJAM k. HArTERT. Edttor *a4 PuMtaher : \ ADOLPH C. WIi-StV. M*aa<lns Editor

PnbUcaittm OTBcc: TIMES BPILDINO. >11 South LudU A«M»ue. Sw i*l* City, N. J. Ooeaa Ctty OfB»: (23 Anbury Avmu>WlWwood OrUoe: 1205 Hotly Beerh A*«JO«-

Whnt Doe* Christmas

Mean To You?

Two week* ago the Children’* Editor of thi* paper anmuneed * antwt for hoy* and girh up __ (e fourteen year- of age who would write letter* wn ’'What Chruttms Mram To Me." !r. an ■rack in (hi* isaue. Harms on the Children'* P*P. the winners are announced and their letters printed. If you do not want to a worth white turn to that page and read them. Without exception the boys and girls stated, their own style, of coursr, that Oimtrn** obarnred to commemorate the birth of Christ and they emphasized the importance to the world of that event. Almost all of them stnwd making others happy on Christinas Day Several quoted the acriptwrr verse, "It is more Mrwrd to give than to receive.” Most of them drriarrd the day to be the happiest in the year. Few failed to enumerate the pleasure* the day hrfd in stare for them. What does. Christmas mean to you ? If you took you) pen in hand to write a letter on that subject what would you fwt down ? Is if jurt holiday? I* it a day for the f >nnal exchanging of gifts? D o you really catch the spirit of "Prate on Earth. Good Will Toward Men." that gripped U. • hearts of the shepherd* that December night ntneurr hundred and twroty-arven year* ago. You probably do. There is tomrthmg about Christina* that geta under the akin, even a tough one, and softens it, if only a link and only for a day. arldom kam without making us just a little br

Ocean City Road / Needs Attention On the first day of February the Sot Isle Boulevard 0-31 he dnwd and work on its recaaNnHt>-o will Mart. During the foliowing three month* the only motor route out of Sea Isle City will be via the Ocean City rood. This highway is la horrible shape and by February lit, ink** it reedvrs mme attention, will br enough to five any motornf

gray hain.

Traffic over the Ocean City road for the thrn has ever been at that time of the '-ear. The road month* from February 1st will be heavier than it should br put in a* good condition as pr>*ublc before the Sea Isle rood dose*. The time to do this is in the very near lutuic j and not February 1st or 2nd.

lor «M|Mrmw Tb. p*o*|« ’ u* over tb* «ad soilhrf N*« Tart aalM bln, tq ~*r granetalbcr* oho dMot UnOer 4an4 Do, c " • eaUlog Mm Saau Claw. «Mrt ■«. about ~S:. ^ ' W .

1 -1" Cfctw ^

Make the

Streets Safe

y

It U to he hoped that the vuBering* of little Nicholas Praaalona. who » m the Ailantk City IIcapital, "here he sras takrt’ badly torn and lacerated, after being attacked by a huge dog. ■ Great Dane, on the Sea Idr City Boardwalk. Sunday, will not be in vain. It they bnng about a *mcter entorcamem of laa* pertammg to do*> and the creation of new one*, ;! neerwary. they may prevent the death of wxrr -hild. Children are more valuahk than dogs, aa beloved a* loyal and Intel hgr ' canine pet* are The streets should be made safe for children, and adults, too This, it seem, to us. need not br a'-comptished by keeping dog* off thr ureeta. No dog lover should be compelled to confine his pet to a small yard, uidru it i* partKularlyr vioou*. I> there any rr*»*i, howrvr- why dogs should not be muaaled while allowed to run lame?

Sea isle

"the

one youngster puts

Mason when everybody is happy and joyful and •elf is forgotten “ How. may we ask. n one be other than happy and joytul when n? TV happsest people in the world art i who are ranatantly thinking oi and doing things for others. The most mwrrabk arc those

who think constantly: of *rlf.

Wl haw never faegotten an arnck b» Atuci Barton we read several year* ago in which that talented oriter told of an old country whose health became so had hr »»» warned V could hope to live but a short while unit** he took better care of hmorlf. TV kind heart of the old Doctor however, was beating too atrongh for the many poor folks he sras serving for practically ' nothing, to lot get them and concentrate on him self. So. he ignored the warning and in rain and has] and snow, in hot weather and in cold, hr traversed the street* and road*- and lived many years. Wc haw a stnpsrKui that had thr old doctor dropped bn practice to worry and fret about hmarlf he would haw hren tar lew happy and would haw died pars before he dsd. The ewe of old Doctor i. not utrmual. In every comnunity tbrte are men and women, t.n heralded and iimmvg. who are folhming the hr*i. they can. the loaotw (aught bv Hr whom thr W

I b'en •ought..

f Chrrir n rtw supreme exangde •»( service

humamts H» entire life w as <<r We weed go no furthr- fh.- , H» h to learn how t.. be l»»fh l.sppv a

tbe middW or tb* nltfat am) lhr.« a purs* fun wtndoss. Tbe uoMetnoo fouod It the e«xi mt>rnu c bU oldest daughter. Then Bt. Nld oiaj «nt *** threw another peon ot gaM for tbe McoBd 4» wt ,.

ooi doesn’t axpee*. to b* on« hundred per

iking »tep» to prr cr in happy all of tb* Urn*. How earn we be

vent a repetition of the near tragedy. An ounce happyT That 1 * asahwr <p*«'>oo » »» of prevention is certainly worth a pound of cure. Ourtng • r«w>l «U*«nMon with a young TlMd

Of mto*. Tb* *rw thing tb* young man wanted

to do sraa to take hspplne* apart and Joe* at It. )u«! aa tb* rbild dot* a dock. But one* be got ft apart he could O't put It together. Tbe same trouble the child 4m* with tbe rlock.

Washed In

By C. SHORE

THIS rOt'NQ MAN riNAIXY decided that

T* A* THE NIOHT BKEOR* CHBIKTWAh ^ ^ h*. there and ail through th* houw. Not a creature tofT Drrfr rx pKel* to be happy neauw be will but you know the reel of It Or nbouH. W. ’•till (a ii be wants, lx*. . ipplnwu, r get a hie* out of reading that poem about ihu frno| BMrv | ]r g^uiBfS Doosn't It really come from tlaw of the year. We hop. we alwnya wtl rnr Lgivtngr Of euuta* w* hare to get U*fore we can It r..!. Wl .1. >w. wl w. w . »» •■> l “ bu „„„ ,, M tW W -kltl. -- .1at Christmas Bee. jtaln happimsw. 11 la oftijr tbe mens* to th* end.

WE CAN REMEMIIHR. altnMI aa M »*»' b«« I

yswtwdar tbe ChrtaSma* Err .4 wsr , Mrthood } THE RM'HBBT UVBB ARK throe that give POT * «•*. We awpited It Then, at Us’ it really j The great*** men are thaw who Mf _ arrived and off to'bed we amurtad. *!»*.(» earflir 1 la nosn* Important way. Cbrt*f. aboae than usual, for Santa, good aaturr 1 a> he U. vrlll w* ohaerre ca Chrlalmas. not only taught this

vital fact. He Bred It and proved It.

THttBE ARC MANY POLKA wt eouroe. who

ran not ee. th»« Why: Bream*- It I* ao simple. All areal troths sre simple Ho ate moM great Inventions. Most groat truth* and InvrUlwns bare not town dl»«werad by nsea and wonivu <4

mighty lutatlset Certainly ’.ever hj

-rate tbe prroeOCo of hl» rouag friends. The told air was t*n*o with the ■ v itement of joyful ant td patio a aa yre Miugr!"! under tb* warm rover* Would we never f to deep? WV tarried but i minute, ft Memed tfc. land of Nod. when wc wet* awaba. n-g-t. thrilled, wondaring wh*t would grawt u* dost l-.o» l>wn was not on th* bortaou when »e r«it'd to MtShet

“f v' , tmi, W ,w, vww *11 - *,.> ib. «.ln •• ,,W. .to - '-»• « a i„,tei«, ib.i IM 1—bln,

pibb*d th* door of tb* front room 'pvii. in one corner w* eewsld gtiapne tb* fait' -utlinr of a hug* Mam, hriUiant attlmd. »e kf» sttbough we caught only a few ahinlBr of.(wt, here and »b*t. through the dgrknaaa Ballet!' t thst »Unt« had not Oicrlmtked Us. my broth, t i t ! returned drewwd tt a Jtffjr and Impattn - ; . sited for Mother and Dad. who anaseboe i-n t arouee (ronr their elumber a* uutokty a. 1 ■ : w.

didn't

from “over feeding.- There are many folks who j are unable to digest their knowledge it la In them but they cannot use It to fuartlon properly mentally or spiritually. It oftan pains them

WE ARE NOT A WHIT OWOSED to the htgfcest and finest of educations. We b*iteve •very boy and girt or man and woman should get Just as lucb education as possible, and that education should not stop with grammar school, high school college It can and should continue until death «. Impaired faeullias halt the process. The only danger Ilea In getting blinded or puBed up by It. Or worshipping It on a pedestal to the exclusion of our physics! or spiritual life. Without faith and lor* and unsaRtebiieas and understanding a splendid Intellect Is worth no more U tan or the wor d thsn U hla wealth or power physical strength Ir faot. without •-hem, kaow ledge Is liable lo become just as ds .gerous as hi- wealth or power or strength. Quoting from a quotation In a recent editorial we read le a magastne: "There are those ‘who know everything and understand nothing and those who know little and comprehend everything.'"

Iky are you doing tl Hi. Nicholas, “don't you .** th»t , wake up th* house* Say nothing, hot give th* t daughter and all wUl be wsll.“ And before tl man could say another word, tbs Ba n; *u * fium this *«oty that we got tbs txvroptwr. of p gifis la tbs night. At another tlma. aroordiag in legend, thr*. v.y, , going le Athena to mbool. stopped on* night »: at 1-, J Nfcboina lived. Tb* innkeeper, who . M , .tri* , r ,VJ t of person, killed the three boys nnd put thnn if.- , Nicholas saw the whole neons la a drum* He «»■ •- th# next moralag. told hint sli about «t. and* tc,> v Then the good anfat prnywd easy aarnaaily that t, y-^ com* to Ills, aad tb* story says they came to Ilf* ,t' ^ on their way. It dosant say what was done to thRrer after that 8t Nicholas was the specs] iiia; n'T; - and was rory c—d to them. 81 N»chola> u. . u V^etwher «. On & Nicholas' Kcr the boy* acC t :ri, - &, uwd to po‘ their HUM wooden shoes by tbe tbst St Nicholas would coma aad toave pro-.- tt tw r . long time B<- Ntcbolac Day was kapt In thU *a; by tw id children In old New York, or New AmstertUr.. », ■ , t , called; but after a whlla tbs fathers aad moik-^ (eat t a that with gt. Nicboias* Day aad Christina* ao clt** ru-tr children were eapectlag rather too maay prsaectt Se tbyi mixed up tboaa two bnlidaya aad the Dutch cMICm r-'j wooden shoe* by tbe fireplace for fit Nicholas or rt.-ut-i, N Ike asm* time that tb* German children la Am- >"■ a, their Chris!mas traaa nnd their proaenu in tncosrr 0; tk j which the Wise Men gave to the Ch flat-child Thr tbs ef M Christmas trees cam* to us from the German*, and Litrcf m ki-jckings came from the way the Dutch childrrr tif tf *: their shoes hy the fireplace When aaoden sfcro *»;» - » worn In New York, the chlM/*n had to hang ihrtr *!ocktip at

Twa* tke Kifht Before Chrotnu Nearly everyone knows Clement Oartte Moor- . «tn the Night Before Christman, but In fear that yo>j ywitruff children may not. we are going to prim th- n: h«rr. Vxn m college rrofeasor In n college for minister* in Nt» V«rt 0! I was boro during the Revolutionary Wax, gradui . r fnw&lg College and wrote n l-.br»w dictionary, whlrb ^rhiy-awtt nev er read, but bis porta be wrote lor children <>n rkrtssw * will be read always Sonar on* got a copf °f tb' N* 3 * ^ know ledge and had It pul into a newspaper in Trrr. S T. il days before Christmas. Tb* posm yon a^ know, or ssk & tm

AH AN EXAMPIX. mT young Mend, nnd maay Other |!k* h|m dsUgbts in tnktn* filmoai ev»tTtbtnc apart that is fine and good and worth living for at-; there be leave* them. H* can't put them together, because he doesn’t understand them, so !ie ihrowv sbetn on the Junk pile as value lews He doe* the same with religions, faith, the Bible, marriage If he could put them together or rebuild them into a finer structure this would he all tight. But hr cant. Tearing down without rrh illdlng la a dangerous proeeas. unless the iking torn down Is n menace to the welfare and ptrgrsns and bnpplneas of '/os* persona Involved D It.

be n taerr

THAT YOCR CHR1HTMAS may o-ie. filled to overflowtng with good cheer Is our

w.th to you.

, why then W* Marne,' i

Spirit of the State Press

■w* sad wood*

hanutifui We strolne* our *1sb mlltsr objects. oW frl .nda wr h*

st-hmgs 1"“' Al tb* y * r f *

Strong Opposition

WoebW Toward Beiform Tvwffti B-Uv , hstr (aade the grroiast progroa la sound rogulaWartU»g Toward Utilerm ZWM n ! tlnn , To tku « a d ih* Nalioanl Conferenro on

THE nRHT filOHT Of- THE •l'»- uy l.mp pirssaal.lll* Prows <)»-* night, so to speak **'j |aiw Hwb »., Ibt Nalioanl Con feelighl. If dawn had not yet ^Mvrc .U.hurm •‘••T. moUlt rttaeJm rt^ngwd from s lusury to « of Cummbwt«ver> cut Uniform Btats Laws ailed us with aw* aad wufider: it was ^ and haw overflowed our airewta and high ! |b , Bs- Assorts I Ion rorommrn.I the

U ways W# tan not now picture Aroeitcan life j b , «tat<w of th. Uniform Vehicle Cod* n 1 * without >4. hat we have never caught up with It. j cs re>ul!y developed by those orgsntsatlona Action *** "' * either as to rwgalafi-n <m as to farllltlro provided ., blll ^,,4 wa , ?4lk# . n i, y a number trf the Legls-

stsi Dtrr.'** below It. srlthout t, “ * • for IU UBS. The insdsquary of bolb «*f »b»^ ! laturos at I heir eeashms .uW yaar. •wled pi." Gate* Ajar." •••*'*;' '“*• r ' ihinrs hamper, the *Be*-|ve»m» of the »«<■>] ^ movwBMrat for greater uniformity ta aaJmcing over the birth of CbrtpT ‘ - ibe tr ^ com r‘but— greatly to an neddent toil ; lr „ dlBB lo t b* cl Urn and towns, many of which mysterious pacagws and the •UWki-y '-’ K «mj > tlMil u tpcrwaMag appallingly | ,r. awkiog atd la harmonising their local regubulgtng » ' ■ • 1 it 5»- ^> F aich-« who will j utlous with thowe communities, fiscrelary Hoover.

‘hey j „ rhalriuan of the National Conference on g reet l»sr* I and Highway Safety, t recently appointed a

thr •*"* ,u ' r ‘' 4a * C B Maeaca. put they ran b* materially reduced commiti*# on Munlrlpai Traffic Ordinaarew and f'*" Tbeli con 1 rots «e*s no . vaua ^ tsumhsr hy dtastir enfom-numt. Including l«u | H-gulstlona At tb* same time s ro omltt** of a» the aver ass m—1- r, youagalaw - r ' [ 1 luiim—l and forfeiture of tb* rtgh' -■> operate | the American Engineering Council working unde: n-a* n.'i n ic* But ran »*'* Joy fo< |b# more serlotw ograa.. Bui ticd-uhtedlj [ tbe susplrm ot lb« UanfcrsBCs. t« developing a

rod.- of bant practice In suwrt signs, signals nnd markings. It U believed that the report of them

WHAT TfOttU* THE

There are opera 10 uolate any art of n

groat

k that if t M hr w

OT THE DA!

B t<

•111

onirftMH*

> uniformity.

ape M.yj

For Ccmpuisory Autmobile Intorancc asbington Star. Premium rales for asUMDohll* llty Insurance have trwa incrwnasd Iron, tea risen per «*wt in New York Ctly. aad the In r.cc -orapaolc* darlaie that Ut* tnerpnees haerf

• of injury

Twa* th* night before carts'mas. when all lkrou*k tl* k*. Not a < real ore was stirring, not even a tnouThe stockings were bung by th' 'h'-nney with care. In hopes that 8:. Nicholas a a would bs Ibcrc Tbe btldrea mare aastlrd all gang In their bed. Whlla vUJoa. Wf sugar-plmss danced In thelrbeahj^^

Aadfinama Ip her hrchbsf. mod,! m mr tap. Had just set tied our brains for a long wlnicts aik-

Whea out on th* lawn there arose sorb a fUltrI sprang horn my bed to ••* whnt was the matt*' Away to th* window I Sew like a flash. Tor* open the ah utters and thro* up the »»sh The' moon oa th* breast of tb* new-fs'lro snow Gar* a luster of midday to objects b*to« When What 10 my wondering eye* should spt'i But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny mlndecr. With a IHU*. old driver, ao lively and quirk. I knew In a moment ll must be Bt. Nirk! More rapid than sstgles hi* courser, they - “

Abd he whistled and shoaled, and called them W .

"Now. Dash*'! Now. Daaeer! Now, Pranccr sod On. Comet! Ow Cupid' On. Doner and BU'rrii To the top of the p-irrfc, to tbe to* of tb* Now dash away, dash away, dash asroy. all. Aa dry leaves that bMoro th* wild hurries"' flr Whan they meet with aa otatacle. mount to th* So ap to the housetop th* courser* they fie*. With the sleigh full Of toyw—and W Nieto.*-. !«" Aad then In a twinkling. I h*nrd «» tb* rwf The prancing aad pswlng of each Utile Iw* A* I drew In my bead and was turning sr-u-'

Down tbe rblmnc-y Bt. Nlcholaa cj

r wtlh a bouM

11# was Orroaed all la fur from bis head And hi* clothes were all tarnished with A bundle of toys had been flung on tat* *»»'*■

hi* »*

i- u- • e« l rf' g tZ.’S-,

Hi* ey»w. how they twinkMIl --—y , HU cheeks were like rones. W* nos* Hb* * rh' ,J HU droll IHU* mouth waa drawn up »»• » , Aad Ike beard oa hU chin wa* as whit* “

hlr lerih ■

TV stump of a pip* he held

And tbe smoke It ewclrrled hU hem! like • ■t«

a broad far* aad n little round M y Tlmt shook. when he laughed like » He was chubby and plump a right Jolly

And I laughed, when I <aw him tc afili 1 - °l" r A Mak of bis eye ar.J a twist .,f bN »»• 8«oa gave me to knew I had nothing t‘< '" '

Ha apoks not a word, bat want straV-ht Aad fitted all th* stockings: tken turned •> And laying his finger aside of hU nose. And giving a nod. up lbs chimney he rose He «pcnng to bi.< sleigh, to hi* team *»’* 1 Aad away tber all flew like th* down ol ■ Ihu I beard him egclslm. 'ere b* drove out Happy Chrisima* to all. and to all •

ku •

ttk»>'*■

f free

IS.0

> M0.fi

1 by Juries, ta c

t la which

An Adventure

“On Tiptoe

A awaahtuckling n < it>^ I the ptrating tJonr on !and . ^ I ing character* the Buccance- .jJgcjiti 1 I - * J r the Fair l ,an ^ I

Second in Command. tt» r * **'

treaa. the Bright-Shining . prIt c— , great ln(eUigenc»e» by w’c *•; whore oidered Uw—^ ^ on among itfi million o« *“ j.^ntcrT-v . low and yen -Knll -* , da.tatdlv pint., and • f-*- 1 ““ rt . r . down ax h» little affairs h" ■ mighty onward-flowing ‘ ur ^ . ir i r *. up-anchor and »w»v on p

White’s great nerial. »*•