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Editorial Page of the Cape May County Times

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Cape May County Times ObbmIIdait-d «riih »«■» Ule CUy Februarr. ml Published Every Friday by the Adantic Printing & Publishing Company Sea lale City. N. J.

WUJAJI A. RAFFERT. Prealdel.t RAV THOHPK Trrnaurer iid Gttnentl llanacrr 1X)K1N' U. ANQEV1NE. Secre'ary and Adveriialny

ADOLPH C. WILSEY. Man. *fna Edilor

Publication Offlee:

TI*jES BUII.DING, Sir South Ijiudia Avenue,

Sea Isle City, N. J.

Ocean City Office: 622 Asbury Avenue Wildwood Office: 3205 Holly Beach Avenue

Railroad Proves A Friend in Need Although the filling in of the Sea Isle Boulevard. now in course of reconstruction. Ha* been practically completed, the work of graveling is pro-

gressing slowly.

County officials are pressing the construction company, fearing that unless the work i> pushed rapidly ahead the road will nor be opened May 1. according to schedule. Every efiort should I made to have the road completed on time. The day when direct communication be two Sea Isle City and the Shore Road it re-established

Just Think! -

- By Albert T. Reid

THE ANNUAL LOSS lurvim THROUGH FRAUD iN THE US J

u Take care of Flood Control, at pbnn«d; Build the Lakes to the Caean Canal; Provide for our Naval

i’cbtcription price. In Cape May. Cumberland 'n$ A,,,MV c " !nr ‘> u,lklv ,or rrM ; Jcnts oi ,hc rcsor '

Atlantic County. *1j00; Elsewhere »2.00 per year

do business

: City. K. W Jei

at the Poet Ofttce. at

Make the County More Attractive • Cleanliness and neatness work hand in hand to .create attractiveness. A suit of clothes may be old -but. if neat and clean, not unpleasing to the eye.' ft Cities and boroughs and towns are judged, freTjioently the siimr as individuals, by their appear-

.anCe.

It b important, then, that Cape May County .present a clean, neat exterior to the visitors upon I whom we must depend for our bread and butter. • Those visitors have already started to come into Cour countv in large numbers, preparatory to select ' mg cottages and apartments for summer rental.’ ’’‘This number will increase weekly. They will be ^unfavorably impressed by ill kipt builJings, by ■■ streets and highway* duttered with scraps of paper '-and nibbi-l.. by trees and fences and building* ^covered with unsightly signs. It’s time to put our resorts and countryside in * *pk and span shape, and this can only be done by ‘ the co-operation oi the individual. Let's clean up and. wherever possible, p. :t up.

and all who ha*

here.

Without the excellent train schedule between .Sea Lie and Ocean View while the road b being /'■constructed. Sea Isle City would be in a mournful plight. The railroad has proven a friend

fireif

d and the resort should nor forget its generous

co-operation.

Washed In B t C. SHORE

STATING THAT • •EVERYTHING on earth U taxed, except cemeteries. ».here man can at last rest in peace." Edward L. Rice, Secretary of the County Tax Board, urged the Sea Isle City Rotary CIuo. beIor»- which he spoke last week, to take a

■ly Interest In this age-old question, want schools, paved streets, good roads.

Are and police protection and a number of other

£Time and money so invested will return “-ith

*■ heavy interest.

, And. let us not concentrate entirely on the extenor. Folks are sometimes drawn ’o communi*^tie* laying no claim to beauty, because those coni- • munities are frcindly and courteous. Few folia' L have lo be sold twice on a place that constantly i reveal* genuine friendliness and courtesy.

things that mak>' life more worth living wr must, if course, pay for them by taxation. High taxes ire seriously threatening the very foundation of lumcrou* municipalities throughout the country. There are rilies where the burden is so great a -ollnpF. Is imminent. Such municipalities are ■Ither Inefflricntly managed, the coat of operation being exceasive. or the taxpayers are demanding improvements than they can afford, cost of running many communities is high Itecauju’ taxpayers talk much and do little, instead ■f ih.liking constructively, as Mr. Rice advises,

and then acting.

This Week

Of Arthur Briukmnt

HEN HADE 0- METAL THE GEJTEROSITT OF NATURE PLANT IDLE? CERTAINLY A GOOD ITALIAN LAW

T. J. Wensley. Inventor of a mechanical man that unveiled a statue of George Washington, believes that men made of metal will liberate us from industrial slavery, as Washington liberated us from European tyranny.

Dr. Frank

Crane Sa

Singing

Pcowe spend a vast dr money every year In ibteol

But the trouble is they , listen to H. They w la

We like to crowd the bln

snia games, nod we like - Itvsid opera and con--.~ vaudeville and hear them siBut the best pari of sinri the reaction upon the sin-,,

mm.

We are notoriously hod tii We hire choirs la chnrct

■— for “ —’— -

Workers need not fear that metallic “robots" will ruin labor market. Long ago chanical men and women t their appearance In machinery of all kinds. Iriven by steam and ielectricity. One machine does the : knitting for ten thousand women on? locomotive pulls the load of la thousand stage coaches, replaeI Ing 1000 drivers

The perfected machine will no! be an imitation man standing upright on two legs. That position man achieved to look out over high gram for enemies and i prey, in the beginning, and to i look up at the star* later. Mei chanical men can he only an interesting curiosity, not cn industrial success. Science im prove* on nature and do« not imitate It. the ultimate flying machlxe without bird wings or methods will prove that.

> remember t

The New Assistant County Publicity Director

Wiley E. Middleton, former editor ot the Cape j niclpalitie ^ Mat County Time*, ha* been appointed Amlitaflt! c,10 '‘ s * ,h '

i'Fdblicity Director of this county.

TOO MANY OK VS fail tt

ueb thing* as taxes until we receive our tax >111. Then we wait, gnash our teeth, pay It and forget about laxtw until the next bill comm ..round, when the perlormance is repeated. A municipality is nothing more or lew than a big business and must be conducted as such if

stream are to be avoided. Mui be more successful if they capable men they could find to

isllnies and paid I hew men enlarb

A* Cape May Count)- cannot anv mure reach a mature growth without systematic publicity than can a child develop utteiss it receives the proper nourishment the CHMtimi of such an office will be welcomed by those vitally interested in the county's ' advancement. •v Mr. Middleton, a newspaper man ot long experience, has resided in the county several tears, is ' familiar with it. enthusiastic about it and thoroughly sold on its possibilities. The qua!heat; • he possesses seem to peculiarly fit him lor the

.'office.

1 We wish him every success.

New Chamber of

Commerce Membership

*’ Employes* of Cape Mat County may i Sdtgae "Business Sustaining Membership" ■Count) Chamber of Commerce by paying tembership dues for each employee. A num1 such iMember* have ahead) been enrolled hr idea should inert with genrra! approval, r Chamber of Commerce i> constantly vvnrkr the growth and development <.t the county.-

Jrsvor depend* upon the time and

' lar r ’her (

: dol-

opnignauratf with the kind of .mount of work they should perform.

SOME FOLKS EVEN mistook thb purpos* of ir eommmt. which was by no means an attack the value «<f medicine. We were motivated aolely by Interest in public welfare. We believe the health of the individual and the nation i paramount to the interests cf any healing profession. We believe tt lo. be mote vital than most matters which receive editoriala^tentloo in the press and thla without in anf® way disparaging any of them.

Knowing the results, some almost unbelievable, that have been obtained by Chiropractic and Osteopathy, we believe that not only those professions but the public I* entitled to a fair deal on beailb questions. We believe the public are entitled to pass judgment upon healing sciences and this they can only do when they get the tacts without coloring distortion.

From a big orange tree ; Southern California the Riverside Chamber of Commerce sends 126 | ora ns a* to as many newspaper j editors. The tree is one of two ; imported from Brasil by the j I'nlted States Department of Agriculture. Those two trees srt ithe father and mother of all the i "Washington navel trees" that , make up great groves in Soulh- | ern California.

Spirit cf the State Press

Teaching Fair Ay Jstumers U to keep the public convinced that fly-

Bayonne Times: Boys, out of th. j 0 y of the ln * U * ,ul ver 7 und '’ velo J*‘ , * n « J blgbl) dangeious.

hlng. steal 23 pet ccfft. id. the motor oars re- j according to tke-prosecutor a* Kan-’ Suggestive Magaxine*

j Similarly, a few cherry trees. | thought by Lueullus from hit I wars In Asia, are the ancestors of niUlloa* of cherry tree* that i small American hoys climb every |)aar. Buch are the wealth and reneroalty of Mature.

Do It jourwelf. Is the be, vice in physical cultar. Let «u not have so aum , do«e for us. hut do them selves, and we wiil be bef.e It may be pieaaaat is ha masseur or a ;

body, something that ctrcx

the blood rapidly.

Exercise should be taken }i outly, of oeurac. hut the form of exercise Is mild exi which you do ragularly. Irre exercise or exercise one* while is about ma good a, coi

■&

Many people are cotut making spurts toward phj culture, but spurts art not we need. We require reguli Tmke any form of physic*: erelse. any system, for thej unbrace about the samr j. only adopt some system that bring the unused muscle* oi body into play. There is no better bealt fa erelse than ringing. prt». do the singing oureelres. Public school teacher, tri that almost any number of yc can be taught to sing, and it i art that we should all cnltivs There is no - better mask congregational singing The Germans, all of them, sing their national hymn, asd

British

’■ ar,ln il »AuId probably) Northern YMBcy Tribune: We have . ur Church

li d fun bur nrm- thn hc.’xftinctia hav. .. . . .:-r* .

AMONG A NUMBER of my book* l discovered, the other day. one vihlch 1 borrowed several months ago from friends. It was s hook 1 h wanted to read, but Juvt haven't got to it yet. was not lost, nor even mislaid, even though I bad forgotten it wax there, but reposed among several other* which I had placed aside *oi early perusal. Book borrowing is always da..serous—for the person who does the lending. Several ol my oi are scattered over u wide area and 1 have lost alt, hope of seeing them again. The friends whose book I now have, probably have others out. Just why we borrow book* and neglect to return them for long periods, ponlbly never. Is puzzling and irritating. Perhaps It Is because nest of us arc too busy trying to make money to •iijoy It when we do make It and. therefore, do

little reading.

service and the failed fun. but now tb« headlines have, Bn( | o ri , Ilul AaBociatloiub which' praise the good >rm. ' , '! e ’ f il! . wl “ UCh * t0 ,be di *^ ly ot rather than condemn the ••risque" plays, using

tin this way a bit of psychology. We have our

The prwecuioi offers a * dullon. He thinks' moeie

censor committees—but what about the

I*,,, P-mM In 1W. crluiR IV, m d™>C | cl „„. tb „ -111, Icnlentl,- beouim ol ih.Ir ns.. H. pmv— ., ;l , n..Mtnn4«? A ’TUgg." too* k

» « ».« r-m I" !l>. p.nl!«nil.a> p, few or no paroles, as one remedy. He believe, i oae 1b that this plan would save hundreds of boya from)penon to buy.

It. MVi

Ev

^thc pin, jicrrn in ' fluMiirv*

uvt!) bcnclittrd by

THE PURPOSE OK these few patagraphs on what we consider a national evil Is to remind you return that book you borrowed from the Smiths the Browns or the Jones six months ago. If yalf a dozei. prodigal volume* of literature •lid their way homeward after wandering far

♦Id the xpaee thwe paragraph.* occupy will not j feat urn sacrificed In vain. j is the c Even If they prompt me to surprise my friends it i* bel returning th«lr book they will have BCcom-! T * ,c flu

careers in crinn

The five-year term might save hundreds of boys from careers In crime, but we doubt if II exactly the thing needed. We think the youth should be taught a sense of lair play, and if ho acquire* that, he will be no thief. Boya Used to -*** very nice scruple* about where fun ended and crime began, and we think It was the oldfashioned parents who ought to get the credit for this. Our recommended place of application of (he > use of fair play I* the old woodshed Me think a few more trips to that sanctum would save a great deal of time in the penitentiary. The woodshed is a wonderful laboratory

-ach fair play.

which to I

led s

t while.

How the Oil Garg Fooled the People Washington Star: One of the moat shocking r tfct proem phase of the oil scandal ilier if not indifferent maune:- In which treated by the Republican party pres*, y attempt* mad. io xmccal the rource

j SI 1 /:A KING OF BOOKS—is

Two Pitfalls League Must Avoid

•njoj

I of party funds *

manager* fully realized l ing these grca.y oll-sme*

llle cost , apparently a ipere trifle .- ippeti'e. J run "' to the surface rfurii

is sickening, to my

E *pt-

> that

■ public libraries, and

) expensive tor the average young

magazines that ar

bum by the people to rroudoe nitrogen to supply cheap I rtlUzer tor farmers and exploiwrc* a cam

of *

Mr. Rogers remarks that such plant lying Idle Is enlighteninc. It means that the government I* not quite ready to dellv t i plant fiver to the power tn.st.

i the guise of motion picture or ire cheap and wvll within the

on the market art magazines, purse of all.

They are everything that Is sug^reilve and In-

make oxen the "iiiodtoday blush. The pity

And until the power trust gets it. that trust won't let anybody else use the Muscle Shoals pi int.

decent, and are enough ern" mother and father

of it la, they can lie procured for a few cents, lead and thrown away, before the average purchaser. the youth, reaches home. In the so-called "good old days." at lew*!, such things were not ao brazenly offered to the public. They are t-.iderd a menace to the youth of the

present generation.

Let the youth see or hear a thing often enough, and It h'-coim*. not as a shock to his decency, but rather as the commonplace and usual way of

Thanks to- Mussolini's comm m sense, a new law compels met chant* In Italy to mark priccc plainly and stick to the prices. That will increase foreign buyby Americans, who dfi not like to pay double or de>t- half an hour to bargaining cr a trifle. ! Merchants in Italy won’t like I it. but their business and proai perity will increase.

Musings of tht Office Cat

Lasy in April? The chsrp unjust! But the bookshelf H yesn for darkness and dust And the clock that wa* t no sedate and ao slow Tu a new. briaker rhymt Binging "Let's Go!” Laxy in April? I long for trail Through the woods, or field where delight* w fail: Whet a the travel la Ion* you dine or you sup Laxy In April? I'm just w , log up!

Hie.

God 'orbid that our youths ithould think of life t th* terms of these cheap, suggestive magazine*. Cannot something be done?

| Machinery will be devised e. TO . tually to do the *o-cai.cd back | breaking farm work that proud j I nlted States citizens, accustomed ;o„thei r automobile*, no longer ! But nothing should be done j too suddenly, unless the govern- “ < ‘ n .' *• w *IHug to precipitate ihard times over a wide area.

People Demand Tax Redaction

Washington Blar: A United States Senator arus against continued increase in tax levies.

(after the first nt on board'ship): “WhaFs b«* of all my clothes?" Steward: -Where did you 1 them last night?" Passenger: "I hung them that cupboard over then on* with the little round gl door ou it." Steward: "That Isn’t the f board. That's the port-hole'

Blessed Is the man who. h Ing nothing to aay. abstain* fr giving us wordy evidence of

fact.

lib

'that the *£nt]iu»u>

->-»J'iii you can get any liook that you including th* latest, on any subject For if your library doesn't happen to 1 uni* it will be obtained for you. through mty Libia!j, of which, if you live lb <

ars ago that the » t ot the imsginatio! They put it over i Jhelr repute for honor a

oil bcaudai was a

: due to partisan- ;

Wo trusled to ■ meaty. Can the

by the i

He Doints out that about SP.ObO.OOO.OOO a year in taxation is extracted from the American people, with the total 'or 1S2T about 1500.000.000 greater

than the year bet ore.

Flair and local taxes constitute about 25.000,000.000 of the yearly total. He emphasized the necessity of .-'tales, counties and munlcipalltie* lowering their tax rat**, a* well „ the federal

government reducing the federal tax bill.

The city <>: Baltimore, with the aid of leading executives from the largest tax-paying corporation* in the city, worked out a buaiDeaslIkr form of city government which In four years reduced

- trom »:,90 per flvo to #I.3S per

to learn by bluer experience tl low prices do not alwsys n* good value or reliable quality

Po«U

Spring Bucks

are like watchr*.

f]0<

, Newspaper* tell of a baby

Tt ‘ n llm <* In

It* ahori five weeks of life the

! baby* heart stopped heating In a , , struggle against pleuro-pneu Tbe thrifty American has to menu. Ten times it wa.r*- ' ’’

Th* d *“ l ? d ,t „*! rt * , » b >r will live.

Th 4n. doctor * d,d won < i er». There is Ju»t a line about the other. Still w*,k. following

.,'T . b * llJr * w rtl>. she gave her blood In transfusion to aave her,

baby s life. Her name fa Mrs , ‘l' r, b* tLoJn going G E. Olmstcad. and what ’sh T, >* easiest thing to o >1 ten million mothers would i* Kard -n U tired,

elafily. Wsat Nature aaya with «°«

Is. of coo me, •'Summer'? fcc rt : in the spring a young »>

Tke Joy ol Bring aa IM|w I f * nc J r l* DC r ^ . „ —_ "Atter the dull monoty of » Getting out the paper U no picnic thu l * r

we print joke* people u,r mured the trees in May. are ailly;

• • we don't they *av »* »,* . 1 One* upon a t 1,n, , aerlous. T * * 100 article bought by the hou*e« If wc clip thing* from nth.* ^ ** * bargain was somethin*

nla Taxpayer i Lew Angcli -

Aasociatlon. with h* - given a number ana. Kaaadena undernts which were estii.000.000. The Tax-

too U,) ourselves,

we don’t wi

own stuff.

write then

uck on c

An optimist la a person ' iks petunias are

the picture on

which cost lex

than half the

1 ‘ Print cot appreciate re do priDi

Job all day. agar

toting new*,; to bustle. "Tom Is certainly »

* job in the Pom* chap." "Yes; he got that way t

■ributtons, | down loans In a country

the

"Do you t your houseK "No. but .

> butter kai'

Or b