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Editorial Page of the Cape May County Times

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Cape May County Times

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Sea I*le Ctty. N. J.

WILLIAM A- HAFFEBT. Pre*W*r'

RAT THOTPE. Treaeur^r and Oenee.l MinfcC" LORIS V AKQEX'IKB. Barrewr •»< AdreriUin*

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AOOLPH C. WILCET. UlnKlrr Editor ♦ Publication Office: TIMES WILDING, fill South lAndln Avenbe. 8m late City. N- J. Ocean City Office: SSI Aabury Areeue . Wildwood Office: fiMt Holly Beach Avenue

•tsr?. price. In Cape May. Cumberland and

c County. $100; Elaewbcre $2 00 per year

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of'Wonders

•The transformation* that can be accompivbed with paint and brush arc little abort of marvelous ifik little judgment is used in selecting the color df paint. Just as soap' and tvater, a razor and t& right. kind of clothes can make a tramp look Itte a millionaire, so will the right kind of point transform the exterior of a dirty, dingy dwelling ifltt. a thing of beauty. Cape May County roads and retorts, too. will sever become truly beautiful until numerous ■npeny earners inve* a few dollars in paint. Pirnt up—if you own a property in Cape Mat .Gotmty that needs it. Paint not only improve* tbe appearance of a (Ridding, but will pay (or itsrll several times over by "saving the surface."

witli outstretched palms, seeking contributions for something in which they had no mremt." It is unfortunate that visitor* to Cape May! County should be “held up" any day by the “rag day" way of obtaining money. No one questions the worthiness of the motive* of those organizations which resort to rag days. We have never | heard of a tag day that was not held for some excellent cause. Objections are based upon the method of getting the money. There has been consideraoie unfavorable editorial comment regarding tag days in newspapers outside of this county. We have, also, heard more than one summer visitor complain, sometimes wrathfully, of being “held up" on the road by tag sellers. Few persons who purchase tag* in strange communities do so cheerfully. The process is too much like a “hold up." in which the victims who refuse to part with their money, are emharassed instead of shot. Rather than subject themselves to emharassment they usually pay. But they don't forget. Our county can only grow by making and keeping friend*. We must do nothing to offend ©r irritate visitor* if we want them to come back again. Every community in Cape May County should place a ban on tag day*.

Stray Cats Should Be Disposed Of Sea Ule City ha* for some time suffered “epidemic" oi «tra> cats. We would not have ihe feline wiped trom the face of the earth. We Believe it to be. when properly taken care of, a'tuetul animal. The cat's pursuit ot its mott incient and delectable dinner, the mouse, would item to justify its existence. Those that r ir large, however, arc a menace. : Stray cao> are not only a general nuisance but, Because of their ability to carry disease, i dangerous to the public health. Homeless cats those neglected by their owner* should be humanely disposed of by the municipality.

Suppress the Forest Fire

The suppression of the forest fire ev*T is eatpha sized by Presidmt Coolidge in hi* proclamation *• of American Forest Week from April 22 to 28. ^ht warning is a timely one Tor Cape May Coumi. Only a few days ago fire swept 125' Jem of standing timber and 25 acres of gnat in Ae Clermont section. Only the efficient work of *- fire companies and other volunteer* saved many S ^roperr.o and prevented the spread of the blaze t over a greater area. Fires that destroy our forests not only endanger tjvfia. buildings and crops. They keep our wood land* acruhhy, unproductive and far trom attractive. The value of our woodlands and the safety *•1 hi the people and properties near them depend lirgely upon the prevention of forest fires. , ! Healthy woodland i« an asset. It furniahr* employment, provides material*, conserves soil and *'*trr. gives health and pleasure and beautifies, ■y Fire is iu most formidable enemy. Forest fire*, like those in other places, are usual

ly caused by pure carelessness and neglect. Section Fire Warden Allison Ludlam saw the one a!

Clermont start from sparks from the locomotive of a Pennsylvania Railroad train. A slight precAutiou on the part of the railroad would havi

jerkened m thr sparks.

'Marche* cigarettes tossed carelessly aside. f(ict)uentiy result in disastrous forest fire*. Another cause is the bon-fiie that gets away from the fellow who »tam it. Losses of thousand* of dollar' occui each year in New Jersey because

Build the Community Hall This Year

There is no public place in Sea Ide City where isitors may find shelter and comfort and rest and enjoyment during Stormy weather or dear. There » adequate place for band concerts, the present outdoor location being far from satisfactory. Thi resort has no information bureau. There are suitable rooms for meeting* of Boys' Clubs. Then is no really adequate hall for indoor sport*. Their is no place for community event* any time ot the year. In *hon. Sea Isle City has no com munity hall. Thr Commissioners recognize the need at j Community Hall. They have given it consider able thought. They lyve even had plans prepared for such a structure. But there the project rests The Commissioner* have the power to erect a Community HaJI and nothing they could do wo -Id stand as a greater testimonial to their progressive ness. Knowing how urgent the need for such i building their course, in tl»e best interests of the city, should be to proceed with the project. Build 'he community Hall this year.

This Week By Artkmr Mniiam*

Washed In

By C SHORE

THE CONS-RUCnON OF A P17BUC PLAZA, dock and swimming pool .-long one of Stone Harbor’* beautiful basin* I* contemplated. It la proposed that the Innovation aball bare a frontage sf Beventy-fire feel. Tbia may be more than adeqoaie for tbe present, but la not too great for tb< future. A swimming Inatruetor would b>- engaged and •afegtiarda for thr protection of both children • nd adult* catablUhed. A fee for the u*e of the dock and pool would be charged. We predict that when the Improvement broom*-? a reality it will be one of the moat popular pfa.-ea In Stone Harbor. Tbe revenue should take care of all overhead and eventually pay for Ha conivtruction.

GEORGE N. SMITH. PRESIDENT OF THE Wildwood Title and Trust Company, told me other day that an: general depression throughout tbe country aboold benefit. Instead of harm. Cap*May County. H<‘ reason* that when money 1* plentlfur people can tourney to distant point* for their vacation*, bpt. when It I* scarcer they rauit rbooee nearby Tenorta. We agree with Mr. Smith.

CAPE MAY COUNTY 18 IDEALLY LOCATED. The most populous section* in the country, with | their million*, are within comparatively abort j dlatnni'. fr'nn out shore*. Thoae million* need rarreation and mu*t folks, some way or other, find money for reeroawon. even when It means sacil-

flclng necessities.

Why shouldn’t they, for recreation, after all. i»

. Every jwr.un wti WDoticd sect in,, , fife*. A ir« •AVe Itut or lv I Os totaling into the thi

. r- near or who enters i hiv part in preventing pent in playing safe may property and woodland

well.

Tag Day.* Should Bi Bannet’

Ot'K PROBLEM IS TO TELL THOSE MILLIONS about our ad'antages rn a truthful. Impn-sAlvc and ronvinriug manner that will make them wai com,- here Instead of going elsewhere. Among I ho*.- million* are millions who know nothing next to nothing about Cape May County resorts.

The Ocean City Chamber ni Commerce ha* asked thr City Cammiseioner* to prohibi. tag days in that retort. Thr action resulted from an cdirutial that appeared in the Ocean City New* la»t week in which tag day* were condemned at a poor, though ea*t. way to rai-r monrv \oj ■ good causes. The editorial ua» prompted by a tag day held hv the senior das* of Ocean City High School to rai»r fund* lor thr trip to VVash- . ingtun taken annually by the graduating class. President Fred Manor, of the Chamber of ‘ Commerce, in rxpre*»in^ hi' opposition fo tag

SMITH TOLD ME HE MET MANY PER enjoying th,ir flrat viidta lo Wildwood last i They Included several group* who had ar* ji utloued si Atlantic City but who had nothing ahum Wildwood until last ye

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ADVERTISING, sponetble for my dtasert thi* evenlr

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Dr. Frank Crane i

Pin Pricka

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dripping away the atone. It 1* not the big that we here to tear H i* the little thing* We ought at to on that our dally inter,,™ There la reriral of the hope that n fot ,| p ^ nleasast Prr.ident Coolidge will consent to {^{jltlng run fdf a second election thi* year. Krerftmm A nos* be me.nt ” ^ “ when he said I do not choosedaughter* Kverybddy knowa he mean* It On* aUyed at home when be aays nos he doe? not up a career to take ca want any of hla friend* to lift a mother to her old age; finger to nominate him | moved to a tor city, raj

But the oil scandal made* a 01I-! fereaee to the situation, and everyone of Intelligence reserve? theright to change his mind

• otlon ’picker* and alripper*.’ replacing human finger* with m»- ' chlnery. are now working In northwestern Taxag Thi* I* good new* Prosperity 1 for farmer* depend* on machinery, i on doing with the earth's product? what Ford. Brat dW with avtomo-

The oh' woman com pi a Unuaily of the 1UU her May-at-home daught her and enlarged upon tl tte daughter she Her, Wbe* she dted and her read It waa found *b<every cent to tbe daug had moved away and n the one who had given

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A father and four a

had stepped from the . beaullfully | FROM THE TIME WORD OP THE HOP-OFF colored page to our table and was.lasi dteappe.-r-1 of the German-frleh fliers was broadcast until It Ing down what one of our ypungalera calls "red ] becjlnl4 . kB0WII th( ., h><) ufely rrxched the little l * n *' . I Newfoundland Isle, there were few folks In this No. I shall not tell you the name of the iraga- • .... ..... u.. ... ,t, pro?.,.. I.rl .m » l '» k “' ,M ' ■ Any wise housewife knowa that ihe advertlalr.g | cage, iy awaiting new* of the flight. When their

ife landing waa announced America rejoiced with

iru inouBSDVi rnuio am nave prodneed wUh old sledge hammer < method* No human band louche* the Iron, until a tall young Scandinavian run* hla keen blue ey ; along the fin I* lied rail and signal* another man. who straighten* It.

Sit men. some day will run a 1.000 acre farm, and multiply It* crops by ten. Don’t worry about over-population

In both newspaper* and magatlne* U as worth reading aa the new*, articles and atorle*.

ARE

HOW RIDirrLOL'SLY INEXPENSIVE some of our most valuable convenience* and luxuries and necessities. -One dollar a month will supply any family with mure current Iwues of the best magaiine* than they can read. An equal amount will keep them In touch, through the newspapers, with the actlvilla* of their own particular communlliea and the world at large. A iwo-eent stamp still convey* a communication from one end of the country to tRe other. Bi • id L back to five cent* -r loaf. A dollar and a half continues to provide individual iranuportatfon to and from the sv.Jshor. lor ja.rtoy ? oultngjdw mg, ihe abmmer month*. Did you evpr atop to think fhal this newspaper give* you in new* and feature? (or two cent*?

the nation* represented by the Intrepid airmen. Courage U universally admired, regardless of nationality. Th* three men who made the dangerous flight .rom Europe to North America wear the badge of eourm-e and will he royally received wherever they may Walt - when they reach the United States.

OF INTERNATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE 18 AN scblevement so heroic by men who. hut a few short yean ago. were fighting each other In the ekte*. Only the healing of old war sores and the prevention of new ones can make another war imposMl-U. A long step toward normal relation* between countries that were once bitter enemies is taken when Aten from those countries face and conquer death together.

Spirit of the State Press

The Infant death rate is down to Pennsylvania and New York. And that’s tbe most important ••crop news” this year. If only civilization took as much Interest In babies as It doe* In young dives, pigs, boll weevil and corr borer.

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Consider Nature’ rundlty. Mr Rtogllng shows you this year a sea-elepbant weighing four ton* that eat* S per cent of hla weight, or 4M pounds of herrings, at one meal. Any one of a dozen fishes In one generation would fill all the ocean* And Mas of the world solid with fish If they and their descendant* all survive. Tbe elephga* on the other hand, fire* a hundred years and only has two .or three children at roosL Wise nature.

Tbe father took sick a best years of Us life slaved until the debt w. away. While the other were along in their ea had missed aa education, off fa Is marriage, had the career he had piano At his father’s death round that be had left to be divided up equalt] the four boy*. Whether we can t toll out of the Justice of of the Prodigal Son. there tog truer to human nat As the screech of a Iq is velveted Into a woodwh by distance, the Irritall rough place* to persona) to fade in thoae afar of. The small Impenectloa one who May* at home dent and continuously Rich gif's are counted only when giver* _ hut wh-.a they prove Ini j A* time goes on too smah Irritation* loom lar thr essential tmmolatton TU pin-pricks outweigh

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.. proximate!)' 100 students In the commercial work The Prohibition Qne*Uon Igione at Middle Township High School next *eai. Caldwi'I Progre**: Ther»- 1* some dlfierence of I ^ , own BUch ^ W oodbine, the comm., rial opinion c-hetber the prohibition question to a ^ would undoubtedly be popular with a large political l*?ue. One thing 1* certain. Reference percentage of the student*, and their parent*, lo prohibllinii 1* to be found in every emu* of j ^ ppeniB l0 regrettable that In a school which any of the large dally paper*, and In moel of j j s ^ aundard In other waya. the pracllthe other papers and periodicals. Probably lh*' UB ef u i. commercial course should not be In-

lengthleM discussion of the whole subject both;

pro and con. ever published In one Issue l* to be i ' found In the current number nf one of the mnga-j Kanagtn

line*. It to evident that Cacta are stubborn things., A ,i wi nc city Pneas: There is abroad In the

perusal of this article will easily vonvince ctt | specially among the property owning claaa.

•’ , sub conscious feeling that city affairs could he

• ’ana4a has hanged George McDonald. forger, confidence man and j murderer. His young wife, saved ! from the rooe by public appeals.! ' sent him word. "I shall never ceaae praying for you." She. poor woman, will have time to keep that promise In her life Imprisonment In Canada it means life Im-

prisonment.

Musings of t Office Cat

one they are stubborn In Diore *ena«a than

In tbe first place the fact* about prohibition »«'«,„ at considerably leas cost than they not easy to determine. Inwetigatora differ ] jack of application of private business methods to In their Information and finding*. Oen-rally they ) |hp adtulntetratlon of the various municipal desee Just what they start out to find. • Faet*:’ »*» I pannierne. variously interpreted a* to what they mean. To j , n , he , ver a^ r judgment the tax dollar doe* the "dry” they indicate prosperity sobrlriy. Im-> nol go a* far as a privately spent dollar, proved condltldn* especially fat the working man. j Cincinnati. Ohio, found a remedy In the adop-

Sparing that woman Is a step toward civilization. Once thousands a year «ere hanged for petty crime*. 1- ace the ezprisaton. ' A* well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb.’* Children were hanged and quartered to Franklla’a childhood. 'iviltzatton’’ has stopped hanging children, and gradually will ■top hanging women, and finally will stop hanging. And men. astonished. will see crime diminish.

"Father” began the

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Tom Wlae is deal. Shepherd of the Lambs’ Club, and a good actor. ; Years ago William A. Brady asked j this writer «o see Tom Wise In a play called "A Gentleman from Mississippi” that Brady was producing.

•vnd about everything that i* d.-*l:ab!e. To th: Uon of pj, n . j, j, authorize • wot" they show Just the opposite: Increased , , n N>w ]rney „ ld C-ape May. a near neighbor, drunkenness, moi. death* lion, -Icohol. Increase , ,, w orkJn|r MUl(fac ,orlly under It. of crime dlareapect for law . and about everything j What „ bad ln Cincinnati 1s told by that Is undesirable. "Fact*" apparently are 'eryj rbarlpJI p Taft, son of United States Supreme elusive thing? when the ,jue?t(on of prohibition *»(Court Justice Taft, a prosecutor of Hamilton -onrernrd. The big "Daillee" so powerful and «n- Coun , y w hlch Cincinnati to located.

“I want you to do something about Georg' ’Huh.” grunted the o “Want lo get married, eh "No. father." went on h Uful flapper. “We were aecretly aiz week* ago. you lo help me get a divo

You aay financial brought you here?” asked pital visitor. “Why. that’i possible:” "U's. ■ fact, thought." the patient. "I was cro* other side of the atreet ope of my creditors and other creditor on Uk oil While I was trying to r car hit me."

This writer told Brady. “You have a flrat class play, and there! to to it a young actor playing a] minor part. Jumping over chair*, etc, that Is golnr to make a auc-j ce?s. You ought to make a con-! tract with him.” The young man’s name was Douglas? Fairbanks j

An anniversary la an for sharing one’s grauti the good friends who ha one cause to be gratefnl.

Strains of music from phone are sometime* * 1 tbe neighbors.

luenilai In molding publl, opinion, never mtos a tbanee to charge every evil to prohibition, if a blug can not be directly connected with tbe -Igbteenth amendment. He remote connection I* at east Implied In spite of all the paper? have to •ay .-igalnst the principle, the sentiment In favor if prohibition continues to increase. If one to to ludge from the election returns where they bear in the subject. A*, for instance, in thr elect >f congK-Mmen at Urge. In thoae state* that e ^ ««*• |£°,i Time will protfe Ihe . iutb about prohibition, perhaps to the satlsfacilon of all. and there will be plenty of time before the eighteenth amrndmem !« repealed, for the p Inrlple to Juatlfy or

condemn tteelf.

What’i Wrong. Woodbine? »pe May County Gazette Twice wlthl few weeks the volets of Woodbine ha’ nd a proposition to include a conut se In-the high school at that borough, difficult to understand 'be uttltude of cltir-en

Curtailing Pern J Liberty

Caldwell Progre**: Fifteen men were fined a dollar each, the other day in Essex Matket court for smoking In thr Fourteenth Street station of tbe East Side subway. Why I* the personal Hlierty ol fifteen men thus Interfered with to this five country? Did they not have the same right i in the subway station Zi any one elae and was It their .own affair If they wanted to smoke? hap*, though the papera do not ao atate. there were httndr>.da of other* In the same atation at that same time, who did not want smoke In their noKlril?. and who had a right to he considered. Every man’s right ends where R Inlet feraa with hi* neighbor’* right. The right of both'In common. then supersedes the right of tbe Individual. Tbe right of society to always paramount to the

right ol any Individual.

What Copper wrote about the ' laM noble red men will soon be ! written of the la*t wild horse*. Not long afterward, thanks to the motor truck, will come the last I of the lame horse*. In the State of Washington a thousand wild horses yesterday were being driven toward Yakima, their hide* to *?e sold, their flesh ! led to fox farm*, or fed to dog* and chickens. Th* carcaine are : worth $3 each.

He waa a ktod-he»rti gentleman, and It upset

see the poor little chap c •’What’s the matter,

man’” he asked, sympathet

“ITn lost, boo-boo:"

"Lost? Nonsense. You

A big candy factory I* closed In New York City, called "a menace health" by Commissioner Har-

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give up hope so

you live?”

Don’t know.” whined ster. “We-we’ve Juit moved c-csn’t remember the rddrr ’’Well, what to your ua “D-Don’t know.” , "Don't know**' exclaimed

gentleman.

“No,” sobbed the boy. gut married again tM* mol

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Woodbine's young i

New Citizens Rldgewoud New*: Vienna supplies mother*, re ’ gertHe** of their wealth, with complete, free out : fits tor new babies. j Thi? Is called a ’Tompliment from tbe city t< , the mothers of new born cirisen*.’’ We’d call i j "aocialLm.” or worse. In this, country, and. o | course, lt'8 better to have mother* worried an' ; poor babies miserably uncomfortable him to le

Buy pure candle? from shop* |

! and manufacturers with eatabllah- j ed reputation? All *ort* of ira»h 1 i* fed to children. A certain clay mixed and flavored and a little in- i • ferlor chocolate i* sold for pure i ! chocolate. That crime should

; mean twenty yea- in Jail

working the

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One sure way to turn iced;' Be late to church There la no way lo peel for law except

the example.

Mom men find it easier t 0 lake »o step* backward than to take | me forward.

Many an old-tltne cllngH now ha* granddaughter?

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( public schools, education free eted .socialist. and an attark an* we shall ret used to other got used to that.