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Cape May County Times ffcMOiKU.** with 8- w. Cttr Rertow. Febn-ry. 1»» Publiahed Erery Friday by the Atlantic Printing & Publishing '-ompany Sea Isle City. W. 1. WILLIAM A. HAFFERT, Editor and FublUber i ADOLPH C. WILSEY. llanagln* Editor Publication Office: TIMES BUILDING. *11 South Landt* Avenue. Sea Isle aty. N. J. Ocean aty Office: 612 Aabury Avenue Wildwood Office: *205 Holly Beach Avenue Subscription price. In Cape May. Cumberlmd and • Sue County. tliW; EUewhere >2.00 per year

Editorial Page

of the Cape May County Times

Hats Off to the ’ ’ lunteer Fireman Although there was a delay in playing the water on the burning Neptune Department Store early Wednesday morning, the Sea Isle City Fire Department did a remarkable piece of work in eonfining the flames to the interior of the structure. Had die file, which apparently was well under way before the alarm was given, eaten its way outside the building, it would have been a difficult, probably impossible task, to have saved the block. Praise is due the firemen for presenting a much more serious blaze. When praise is being handed out generous slices should go to the Ocean View and Ocean City departments. even though it was not necessary for them to get into action. The promptness and willingness with which they responded to the emergency call displayed that commendable spirit so common among firemen. The fire proved beyond a doubt the necessity and value of Sea Isle's new apparatus and should silence forever those critic-, who declared its purchase an extravagance. It paid for itself many times over Wednesday morning. Modem apparatus, as well a* courageous men. are essential to properly fight flame. Cape May County is fortunate in having an unusually efficient and well equipped group volunteer fire companies. Do we fully appreciate the service rendered and lives risked by these men who are banded together to protect our property without cost? Probably not. • 'One community does, however, for the other evening the Wildwood Chamber of Commerce held a Firemen's Night in recognition or the fire departments of Five Mile Beach. Thau body p*s*ed a resolution expressing its appreciation for their companies' efforts and offering to aid them in whatever way possible. When one considers the average volunteer firr company has little training, compared with that received by the paid companies of the big cities, Hk skill with which they perform their duties is all the more remarkable. We take our hats off to the volunteer fireman.

bv kith Khool -nl pr.mnur >d»»l b°V "I fH- ' There will „1» be 3**™ in the «be.l. end Y. M. C A. Groups. It is useless to n to persuade a child to save a , of his or her money. Youngsters old enough tc know that money has purchasing power have stificicnt intelligence to realize that its value Iks in, the good things of life it can be made to procure for themselves or others. Il the child can also be taught that the spendthrift mutually comes to the . point where he is forced to do without netv^ and only by saving a portion of his money can he be assured of continued comfort and convenience' and financul safety in times of storm and stress he will have absorbed the essentials ol thrift. Bridge Must Come

Sooner or Later

Dl- ippointmrnt was keen among thousands of Cape ..Jay County residents who are aware how vitally imponant to the growth of the County is the proposed Avalon-Townaend's Inlet bridge., when They learned the project is not included i"< the 1928 plans of the Freeholder.. i The bridge must come, sooner or later, and it* postponement for even a year will hinder the county's development. Other 1928 plans of the Freeholders, as outlined in Director Ogden'* re-, prtrt. published last week, are certainly worth- j while. It is to be hoped the county aolons hare something up their sleeves that will cast a few rays of hope among advocates of the bridge.

An Old Friend In New Form

Our old friend, the Cape May County Gazette, j started the New Year by coming out in new form last weet The size of the page is smaller and! more convenient to handle. We congratulate the | Gazette upon its improved appearance and extend that paper our wishes for a prosperous 1928. !

Adding Our

Congratulations Senator Charles C. Read, of Ocean City, Aaemblinian Frederick McMurray. ol Wildwood. Started their terms as reprrsentativis of this county with a host of friends at the State House, TicnUn, Monday, to witness them take their oaths oi office. This paper would add its congraulations tc the deulgc they have received from well wishert throughout the entire county. May the Senator and Assemblyman accomplish much lor this county and the entire state during their terms. And while they are doing their job at the Slate Capitol. let's do ours hack home. Cape May County needs esrry l tive thought and constructive effort for in future development. Put rpossibly can into it.

Thrift Is Not Only Saving

National Thrift Week starts Monday and will be observed in Cape May County with a campaign conducted co-operatively by the banks, the schools and the County Y. M. C. A. JP'ril! i. . .uhjret f,» t „* n . upk , U1 , [llrjl I*- young,, „Jh, gi„ ,h, impMuKr Tf "' M “> bu, , v.gu, Ur. ol wto, ,, „ pr „ m ,„ ]krfc „ r unatr the impression, merely saving. It includes *P«dmg wisely. The present general period of HE"*-* 1 <•' high wages ha, not brought about by hoarding money , but bv sne ''’m. ‘ *! extremes are. of course, dangrr~fh! man who clutches his money in miserly fashion as harmful to society as the man tv| like.water, hither das*, if it reached a nisi,. - would rock the economic boat. The happy me',i' “ » po.iion oi hi. come and spends the other not „„i v , or bu, ,i„ iu„ r ».

Washed In By C. SHORE

not) he would not have been Justified In alvtnx the murder.-** thirty day* longer In «bleh her lawyers might hare cooked up other way* and pan* to prevent her paying the aupreroe penalty. A* long a» the law provide* that certain erimw be paid for by death Governor* and other* to whom appeal* are made on «Kb Mckenlng silly ground* should walk out on 'em. a* did Governor

AI.

bottle* with a bunch Of curtate ring*, that will expiate a lot of thing*. Including thl* column, that have been puaallng our frieno*.

SOMEHOW. WE GANT GET "het" up over General W. W Atterbury'* statement that rail read service 1* ‘iter than It ever was and that the people of the United Slate* know It and want it continued. What a grand and glorious feeling we would have experienced had the p reel dent of the Penniylvania *y*tem announced that railroad service to Cape May County .was to be better than ever before. The United SBstev In general may know the service ha* impro. sd. but we entertain no such notion a boot the kind we've teen getting In Cape May County.

CAFE MAY COUNTY FOLKS whose bo)* and girl* need parental perauasion to study their school lessons might refer their children to 8. Parker Gilbert, or Bloomfield. N. J. Gilbert, who 1 graduated from Rutger* College In 1912. wa* knc»n among hi* clmwnate* as a “greasy grind." I>-*plte thl* humiliating nick-name, the gilt of more brilliant (?) youth*, at the age of 22. he was drawing ftS.OOO a year. He Is now Agriit General lor K'-pajatlon* under the Dawes plan and. according to Owen D. ' oung. chairman of the board of directors of the Genera] Electric Company, holds the mebt important political position In the world. All work and no play usually maker Jack a dull boy. All pl», and no work always doe*. THE GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY of Mr. and V . J. ta-arnlng Garrison wa» festively observed at their home at Erma. Saturday. December 31. Any parlncchip. matrimonial or business. Ihal exists fifty years deserve* to be properly celebrated. We congratulate Mr. and M-. Garrison and any other couple who have Journeyed together past fifty milestone*. There will, however, be tew such nnniveniaries fllty year* from now if the much discussed companionate marriage become* popular.

ALTHOUGH WE DO NOT REMEMBER the near tragedies we have always understood that when safety pin* were ntlU being used to hold our breecb up we took a Were Brody down the stair stej AM-- lhat during the same age our IHUe brouter knocked up for ■ row of nursing

WELA.! WELL’ WELL: So th* Mexican paper* purchased by the Heurst Interest* were lake*. Who would have thought It? Ornately not the llearst InlereMa. Oh. my goodness, ao! For the Hcaret interrats must sell their paper*. The people who buy thane paper* must have their craving for the *en*atlr-v»l appeased. And who cares about the reputation of another country and a few of our own Senators, anyway? Or any other reputation when a choice sew* morsel In at stake? You know the answer aa well a* w# do.

This Week

WORST OP ALL CIDOS THE MICROSCOPE THE nHO , « prater BOOR the whole cow try ehoch"* Mr tb* dreadful kidnapping and murder Aagete* The unkappy f*^obeylng the order* <*«>»* WJnaper. fcarded fclt t *!»•* «» *** crrttdcaisa. aad la mara received part of the body of Mi’ iwal ee-ywr -old daughter, dreadsd. of erima* to k'l-

br punished with utmost severity and when guilt to certain with no delay.

Dr. Frank Crane Soy.

Lie After Dt«,

nptt.taaJ aaan toft in it., of Hfe (1 am not ye. it prtssd at th* only m . : cotasankic sod with It to ts .: I have

The tetroduettoo at the mirroucop* fey tke J .nmaa. (fee sixteenth century. more to advance leart.:«e any other agent, aayu DrMayo. Real learning owes more to Galileo's introduction of (he Mtothc beginning of the

that cause disease D imi-.ruat.

sun* and nebulae. _ the great German actoattot Knack el suggested, men of the future will train on eeye for work, the other for u work, the two eyes dealing with (ha real world afcaut us. Earthquake In Burmah fright ened inhabitant*. - • * lasting tea the shaking. Gnat* tempi* at Rangoon, was badly damaged, but tk-.t will a at shake f-.th la ~ •

OM abuH t dwy n^ and tm radaua > that »w-. fa the bast a» « ecm. ea to fhe Hie si. - de«:i HtijM • BO ear. «» daatk. Thst tec that i

Suggestion For a Hew League j eourrary-rhen Pampble* *nd hJ* crew should b*

Gloucester County Democrat: The New Jersey Wrdoned.

league to Abolish the Electric Chair ha* a very! To bring ... the parenthetical clause slurring comprehensive program for the coming winter It,'^ Um euforcement. reveals the 1* even now rallying Its force to put through the' !>«»«*•' bias of Hr. writer and is on a par with Legislature a law subsiitulteg Ilf. i—rl»»am*WI | lh * «*»«“<'•• generally shown by too many of the for the death penally for first degree murderer*, i * rr * 1 TbU sneering attitude not only \V< suggest the organization of a league a* a ! ^ ibr bootleggers and make* counter-irritant to Three reformer*. Call ll any i 'blorcement more dHfitull. hot is responsible, in suggestive name. But the ides Is to perpetuate: numerous crimes that the names of all Jerarymm who die In the per- ,h “' *«“- MP<rs would lay at the door of profonnanee of their duty We would Include the Mblllon. In limre «f war. many a chaige of names of cltlxens shot down In pn tectlng their! ,r ** ,,on been sustained for a lea* antagonistic home* from second-story men. frrmi porch climb-; 1,,hud '' teward the government and what It to

ers. etc.; bank messenger* who died rather than! 10 < *°-

surr. nder the money of bank depaslten being A* to the charge that the govern mi it poisontransported from one bank to the othvr; mre- i teg nleobol and shooting violator* of liquor laws sengera carrying payroll* from. banka to the far- j In disregard of human life. It h-ts long sin, been lory, where hard-working, boned mm are walling •bo* n 'alladou*. Everyone can know, if be doe*

THE

IDEA BEHIND companionate marriage I* n.ple. It la to Iretally satisfy physical without rrepoasiblBty to either party •uch transaction la e-hviously destined for k - imagine. If you will, the futility of n .-nt.ring a bualneiwi partnership, neither K *tiy reeponsibUliJf, both :vady to cry -r: a- <!lragreements or obstacles bum- • v-.ut ouMne-- - -mid She founded on such a '■ * ar more delicate and complicated •l ip tba„ l.njUnre*. U should be entered I.i!er M-rloitei ai,d dHfermlnatlon of pur-

the envelopes that ar to si.ataln their famiUe-: the brave citizen who refuse, to “rrirk-tiK Up" at

the command of a highwayman. In fat*. *11 men

who fight for their own or that of their employers against the assault* of ...gabond* who stain their hands with Innocent human blood that they may aubsist in Idleneia and luxury And we would Include the i.ames of Ibe women who die fighting for their honor; policemen and detectives who arc mur.'erev* running these vagabonds to their lair or ar* shut down on their heal*. Our pronene** to forget the dead,

and think only of the welfare of :he living, no

■uniter bow useless and depraved tbner lives have been, amounts almost to a national weaknea*. aud such a movement as wc suggest might per-

ern the*

t claim

I he fact that salary

not already, that alcohol for Industrial purpoae* has been denatured for more than twenty years, according to formula* approved by users of alcohol of the Us have been abot by enforcement ofktwra. bv.-n shot in perfurmaaee of duty, than violator* ol thelaw have been shot by enforcement officer*, ll Is nally too bad to spoil the effect of *o good an edlional by yielding to the ever ruling Impulse of the wliter** mtel lo let slip ao opportunity to cast a slur on prohibit Ion. Tic Limit Reached m the Rem or Trial Washington Star: Members of the Jury which acquaint George according u> a despatch, have been offered . r.gagemcnu on the mage, and

free, wilt be offered

i our aympa-

organized society ha*

tbetic Impulses.

The Fly in the Ointment

. aid well Prugrea.-: Many a fine editorial Is spoiled in certain Urge daily paper* by alurrinr i r t?_ r ' nt ”' !° r,tohlblU,m or 10 • 01 »' Phase of it* :

Captain Robert Pamphlet volun- j

welve mile limit with a

s H h- will only appear In

1 a Del ana. I theatre. On the whole, thl* would be ■ n appropriate end of the whole episode. Surely “° * b ‘ th xhr **« »re likely lo aril* will »e more farrtai than rhe trial Haelf. lx couldn't That wa* pi.diably tue most sustained exblblHon of pure nonsense that the country has ever

prisms your fault,

been

n inMwpwu.'f wmting fe r wrong with th* pagan t* >posed u> control earthquake*.

irily sailed iiuld

•oniraband t :he Calbo. ;

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A Wolf i Caldwell Pragire*

j anew the real i

Sheep's Clotiuag Tb* K earn*. fVrm pee y ml) Mon-dollar stake in

Jersey ha*

■erred to bring

■f some of the drvotsee otic* of rhe people who lerrer in the manly art -riered fn the mo net ary id i ha nee lo capllalire whether any one would the spun, or whether

■ the

charges

Fen fundamental tat Christian churches put lightning rods on their steeple*, which

etas strange

Judge Hardy of the Hup*riot Court in San Francisco, says ae could be aboFvbsd here would leach their children, In pre-school days, obedience. truthfulnear. honesty and the Golden Rule. Thai is Just what mother* have been teaching their children for See.ooe yrtra. according to the light of th»ir period, and they have achieved wonder* aim. :y. 1 at ell i gen! Mr. Tex Rickard say# Jack Dempsey will fig hi Mr Tunney again next summer. Or lately, and each of aw-ty follow mg summers until death lo tktsn part. If the crop of fi4« a seat

•tmpleltms lasts.

A cruel government plane tt tax each HO anal 110. Hit that can be made up by speculators prices Mr. Rickard's good fortune Is due partly to the fact tbst men doll enough to enjoy prise fight, are too doll to know when they are being ’•faked." It to believed, la lbe Went, tbai the Tri-Ktatr Color'd* River Commission, reprre.nl lag California, Arizona aad Nevada, will reach aa agreement to start wort os tbe Boulder Dan. t .oject Whatever helps on. Male help* Ihe a bole country. AM ton a will gain by allowing California to ww water and power bow going

to waatr.

The British House of Lords has approved the new and rhanged readings In tbe Church of England prayer hook, but It ha* been disapproved oy House ■ f Common*. Ring Georg* to 4a I.rented beesuae bis oath require him lo stick to that book. Koine low church Britisher* complain that th* new book inoi a* ntriotly -'Protestant" _ I the lant. The opinion of th* .'only authority that really roun lean unfortunately not be ol Dipl agnatic circles in Pekin ai ffwked hy a rtilpment from Tu i-T «o Pekin* "Anti-Opium Mtopoly Bureau" Th. .hlpmei r»* 5J !^ 0 p^nd* of Turkli rpiura. That remind* ytui of <m >wn alcohol proposition, in sMtl pn* New York oabareg keepel i»k-! it prohiblrioo agents boil •4 him. repdied "Ym. f had i

lisxurics m well a> m , Tie time to start tin motf other habits, i. at Thocsore mo»t thrift e

>uld ,

faded la to a atsmoc memory *1U rwtlaae ■ and blare her chU*r»= .=

Musings of tin Office Cat

trath Mta. Orb.*: Wouldti ” ** ftectly lore)) to ha’t * Uk* that’ Mr*. KUdsr: Tto for th* bsatbsa. Whs' » w;th your oM etothcMr. HardcGp: "I Z ■ srefully and go »J-d lbs avoruteg 1 puMH^ “ Few d as gel •*T' V - U ' working tor It. Oolr* a might funn* »* r ' You my a ball tor » ; " Tfesa k ock K ou’ '• Too hunt around » ,r n

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