‘CAPE MAY sr Fes Sp) WAVE Saturday, February 1, 1919

CAPE MAY STAR ; ANDWAVE ALBERT R. Pre President. UBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE This paper is entered at the postaiffice as second-class postal matter. STAR & WAVE PUBLISHING co. 627 and 620 Washington St. Deean Wave Established _..----I Bitar of the Cape Established.___L Forms close Thursday evening. f town. circulation. delivered Saturs FROM EXC While we are advised by administration claquern that the Fourteen Points are sarred, the | response . of Becretary Daniels to Point Four calling for "the reduction . of | national armaments to the lowest point conwistent with domestic safety" is a recja ie Uimed. states suast "thie (women navy: in the world, while Secretary Baker asks for | the Enpbtemad Ce o c e munion with representatives of George Sylvester Vierick during the "he kept us out of war" campaign, at the very time Republican luaders were being indignant Mr. Machinvelli must toss in his grave bnvmmbteret Ahtioiiio Abitinslioned as a diplomatic Barnum he was in the ene ring cireus class. There were three million wage earnars out of work in the United States before the war began under the existSag tariff law, which fosters foreign and discourages domestic | pesce-time production and employment, and there will be four or five million men out of work under the normal ‘operations of the law, if it is not repealed, before 2820, because while we have turned leur attention to war production the alien producer has grabbed our markets. ‘The alleged statermen who over Took this overshadowing fact are sowAng wind from which this country may reap the whichwind. Taming a bolabeviki by feeding him 4s a-good-deal:like calming a wildont by stroking its for.

MiGndiniened dist iivadiriats ateriizad aad Armenia hangs in an uncertain balance" complains Secretary Redfield. The gentleman, like some other paychlogical stateamen, worries a good deal more about what is going to happen to Mesopotamia than what is likeAy to occur to the United States if it eannot be saved from the theories of the demagogues and the pedagogues. The New York Herald refer LJ Henry ._ Mr White is a Republican only by Presidential brevet. What shall it profit a nation to help "Fun the whole world and lose its own independence , We are the apostles of publicity, al zight, being the only nation in the world that hid ite war casualties from the people so successfully that up to the very moment the total was anmounced the American public believed that the number was only one-third the true total. The world is growing better. The German bolsheviki continue to bnarrndiratiidbtt authentic Auriedicecied and get about 10 per cent of the votes | when elections are held. . It is char- | acteristic/of the revolutionary radical | that his noise is in inverse ratio to | his numbers. | ---me«_-- i The dear girl who appeals so pit-| eously for sympathy for her racking cough, is often the same one who puts on her extra low-eut waist in cold, weather, The people who shiver when the . thermometer drops five degrees are often the same ones who leave a horse standing out in winter weather bikin zo blanket, The politicians are getting oad welcome home . the . soldiers, . with speeches proving that the aforesaid politicians must be elected to care a the soldiers‘ interests. If some people would keep their mouths shut a larger portion of the time, there would be leas danger of their swallowing the "Ac" germs.

WITH THE CHURCHES FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | cotta Avenne and Gueny Street W S. Catlett, Minister Classes for all 1 Proc ad [Bible Class with intoresting discussion f the lesson. Worship and Preaching at 7 1. — Subject-"Meeting a Cris ylly." New and a vening Song ce. Praise and Prayer Meeting Wednes» M. Afournenkcold invited to all Miinbint i Herbert Jackson Itoot, Pastor Sunday, February 2nd, 1919 9:80 A. M. Prayer Meeting in Upper Room. 10:80 A. M. Public Worship with biss £ M. Prayer Meeting in Upper Roo ‘T:80 3 M. Public Worship . with sermon by Chaplain Steiner. Wednesday, 7:45 P. M. Mid-week Prayer Meeting. | _ CHURCRSOF THE ADVENT | Rev. Paul Sturtevant Howe, Rector 8:00 A. M. Holy Communion 10:80 A. M. Second Service anc Sermon. 7:30 P. M. Evening Prayer. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Decatur and Hughes Streets Rev. Curtis O. biipiitneed Minister Sabbath Services A. M. Morning Worship , P. M. Bible School. T: 80 P. M. Evening Worship. Week-day Services. 7:80 P. M. Wednesday, Prayer Meet7:80 P. M. Friday, Y. P. S. C. E. Mr. William McLennan of the War — Camp — Community — Service ‘preach at the Old Brick Church, Cold Spring. A social will be held in the chapel af the church on ‘Toe

under the muspices of the Bible School. Enlisted men cordially invited. « Everybody welcome to all services. Seats free. ---«m64s --- LETTER FROM CHARLES SMITH Jan. 4 1919. "Bouilly, France, 10 miles south of Verdon. Charles H. Smith Sr., Hotel Devon, Cape May City. My dear Dad: Just a few lines to let you know that am all right and in the best of health at this writing, and have been all ng. — I have been so busy that I have not written to anyone, but as we are now settled for a few weeks I will write often. I have had some very mice trips in the past few weeks. Been to Paris which is 160 miles from here, to Metz, Sedan, Montmeady, Toul, Nancy and Veiton in Belgium. I have covered ten thousand miles in my cadilac cight. On December 21 the car I drove led the way from Verdon to Sedan for the King of Italy, of course I drove it. I expect to go back again to Paris the 1 have. gone: this for without a scratch which is somewhat of a miracle as there were quite a few lives lost in the last days of the war. It is all over now but the returning of the boys which will be‘in the spring ‘and that will be some day for un We all have had enough and waht to | come home. Bye Bye Your son, , I rles. Intrmtomms ct. verrmmmmend LUE PRINT PENCILS, beit grade Add 5 cents for postage. Any amount. — STAR AND WAVE PUB. (CO, CAPE MAY, N. J. ~ L kes Tallow, faw P Furs, etc. neystonk moe COMPANY, ncaster t pay top orals masket pride Aatiiscdon‘ eum Mitte or telophone for pricer Whig t Ing tage froe on request 1-11-19-4¢ | | eer Ln w Livingston, Bupt.

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Uy uetual count, 517 persons attended the Army dance on Suturday exon, January 20th. Un last Wednesday evening, When hickon depfeated Naval Air Station with the score uf 80 to 14. . In a previous sea al Air was the win ner. — lt will be necessary now to have a third grime. A cordial | scelcome | ix given . Mr Henry: Shapiro, the mew represe tive of the Jewish Welfure League, who suceceds Rubbi Eckstein called to another field. Through the courtesy of Chaplain Steiner the War Cmp Community representative was permitted to address two or three hundred of the men of Wissahickon Barracks | last Sunday .- It is surely a privilege and honer to anyong to meet so interested und interesting .4ptPup. A meeting was held this week at the office of the War Camp Community Service of the representatives of the Red Cross, the Knights of Columbus, the Jewish Welfare League; the National League for Woman‘s Service, the W. C. C. S., together with the Naval Chaplain of the district, for the the various agencies. . It was decided to meet again in two weeks. With the prompt action of the City Council endorsing the project of reconstructing the stage at Convention Hall together with energetic efforts of Mr. York/and his men during the past ten days, it looks an though it would be possible, unless unforseen difficulies prevent, to stage the first entertainment on the week of Washington‘s Birfhday, . This proposed entertainment will, in all probability, be a musieal comedy and will cover three nights so that an opportunity will be given |everybody to attend. . Further and more particalar announcement will be made later. | The Wissahickon boys will be wel comed again in town after their two (weeks‘ confinement to barracks on account of quarantine. A lady of intelligence, experience understanding and charm-as a mat-

of fact two ladies of intelligence, perience understanding and charmin a recent conversation with a certain pathy, and | the evil. of | misdirected sympathy.. For example, it was shown t people with automobiles going to or coming from the Hospital are in the who are met on the way shall ride, even though the recovery of these patients from their | disabilities of the individuals who had been guilty of this unintelligent sympathy, if indeed it is unintelligent to do what he heart prompts without making full | investigation. On the other hand, if might be asked why the Mospital authorities have not told the citizen just what they are trying to do. If the citizen is chargeshle with carelessness or lack, of thoughtfulness, he hes at least erred on the right side, for it is better to show one‘s compassicn, even if one does make a mistake than always to permit pity to evaporate through always questioning whether one may not be doing more harm than good by trying to help a fellow being stand on his fect. If the Hospital authorities do not want the patients to ride to town, why not, following a suggestion just made by another mere man, fasue a ticket to the patients who are permitted to ride, with the understanding that those wh> cannot show such a ticket or pass .re supposed to be out to practice waiking for their health. Possibly . it would be enough if alt automobile drivers would ask patients whom they meet if they are permitted to ride. ‘The point is that there is need of a good understanding on the ‘fart of the non-Hospital public of [just what the Hospital staff wante [done. what it doesnt want done, what [help it would welcome and what is an embarrassment, | The public wants to {do whatever it can for our wounded |men whom . it likes | tremendously.. It ;doern‘t want to be in the way or become a nuisance, as it may casily do if not instructed. It wants its sym pathy to be intelligent, so that nothing is wasted, particularly so that good Jand not harm may result.

Complaints by. both enlisted. men and offices of overcharging and even worke offences are. daily. incresming und should be boldly d and mot, if the reputation of Cape May im & place of fair dealing in to be maintained. — It cannot be that this conduct general. ‘The writer of these words Ii iw lived here since October and has yet to he overeburged for anythingwhen th st to the denter hs been taxen into account, It in clear, how» ever, that others have hud a different experience. — One person states that after leaving a certain store he found on the goods he bad . purchused a price mark considerably less than he d and had paid, Others huve been charged more ns have paid for the sume s purchased practically at . the same time, | It is a current statement that when a man in uniformportlcularly . an . officer-or | a . civilian stranger enters a certain place to make a purchase the price automatic milly goes up. These statements inay be exaggerated, but they are too common and too definite to be entirely explained way, There must be some fire where there is so much amoke. The best cure for this state of affairs is, of course, for those who are in the habit of overcharging uniformed men, and | strangers more . tham residents voluntarily to stop the yractice. That would be at once a happy and a perfect cure. ‘If that is not done, it might be well for the Board of Trade to use its influence against the dishonest dealer and in favor of hose who are trying to play fair, The reputable merchants might form an alliance to oppose every form of graft. In this connection it should be clearly understood that the War Camp Community Service is distinctly charged with the duty of protecting the enlisted men from extortion, and this it will do even to prosccution in the courts if it can procure the needed evidence, tho‘ it must be granted, that for the sake of the town and, indeed, for the good of all concerned, this should be done only when otherand quiter methods have failed. . In some towns soldiere and sailors have been warned not trade in certain places. These are [but — suggestive of the ways and methods by which persistently unfair dealers may be brought to book. It is carnestly hoped that the first method — mentioned-the . voluntary

change of ways- will make unnecessary any other effort or any further mention of an unpleasant subjéct. It is doubtless too . much | to ex pect that when a lerge | number . of people are gathered together for any purpose | Dame Rumor will long be absent. Certainly she is at hand and extremely | active. hereabouts . Her efforts ure not always directed toward spreading evil tidings-sometimes her reports are barmless and often extremely amusing. | Frequently, how» evet, she starts reports that cause both annoyance and harm, largely because of the additions that are made to the original story by the Dame‘s helpers and friends, who by long practice and out of deep sympathy with the old lady and her methods, are [able to further her plans by ways of which their author had never dreamed. It woud not be best sort of tactics to oppose the Dame directly, as her tongue is a most skilful werpon that no one has yet been able to meet and, besides, it contains a deadly poison give them currency, and a story that is not peddled around soon dies for want of breath, | Besides, the Dame soon grows discouraged over a place that does not treat her rumors serMay as a Rumor Factory, That may be one way of putting the case. It would be better, however, to stick to old belief that Dame Rumor is responsible and meet her the way that has been indicated. She is a persistent old lady but she is not unconquerable, The new club for soldiers and sailor at Wildwood, which began its operation last December, is rendering fine service to enlisted men, in spite of the hundicap caused by quarantine. The club in lobated at 26, Spicer Street, and more pleasant quarters it would be difficult to find anywhere. A permanent hostess is present all the time, and in addition the ladies of the committes in charge take turns at welcoming the boys and otherwise

Service cdorses the club heartily and giver a dittle financial ussistanee, but this is small indeed compured to the [service rendered by the group of Wild wod people who have given both rgon ey and time without stint. "The following in the committee in charge of the clubs Miss Mary Baker, Chairman; . Mix.. Kenowiteh, — Vice e rc a wser; Mrs Coney, Sceretary; Mr«. | Wood, Mrs. Austin, Mra. M , Mrs [All, Mrs, Barnett, Mrs. Clark, | Miss Baker and Mrs. Kenowitch are I members of the Cape May War Camp |Community — Service Committee . of | Women. a -a 4 --- WOMAN‘s COMMITTEE OF COUN. CIL OF NATIONAL DEFENCE OF NEW JERSEY ‘The following telegram win received from Grosvenor B. Clarkson, director Council National Defense, January 14. We endorse and ask your support for the eampaign now being conducted by the American Committee for Relef in the near east to raise 80 mil« lion dollars to relieve the unparalled distress among Armenians, Syrians, and Persians. | This Campaign has governmental status in that the Relief which in the near east can be financed by private contributors alone will be administered under the supervision of Herbert Hoover as director general of International Relief, Prealdent Wilson has just called the appropriation maked of Congress for handling fund relief is not intended in any way to take the place of the subscriptions being asked for rellef and re-habilitation in the near east. . The Tocal committee will in the near future place boxes in the most convenient places for the reception of gifts, either money or otherwise. .* This committee will wait upon the public for their | subscriptions, — and pledges. — This committee should have the co-operation of the citizens in goneral. The local committee ds in charge of Mrs. A. R. Hand and Mrs. H. S. Rutherford. ememprineaacommenend AEROPLANZS SCARE DUCKS, Gunners have been complaining of the wildness of ducks which come into the sounds along the const and one explanation given for it is that they are being gunned from government meroplanes, and scared out of their wite. The modus operandi is describ ed as follows: An meroplane flying at sem notices a large flock feeding and swoops down

toward them. This alarms them and oe Sao ufficient to bring them with» in ringe the aviator fires his machine wun into the thick. of then and un« doubtedly does big exccution. . He then woups down . to . the sur of the water and guthers up ul he ean of the Jain, . An aeroplane flies more pwifte ‘than n duck nnd a flock cannot. get ance the chase ix on. 11 in not difficult to hoagine the fright which the monster plane inspires in them, — -a +4 JEWISH WELFARE VAUCDEVILLE A splendid v sowhow under the — auspiees of . the | Jewigh Welfare Board and the Jewish Welfare Brunch of Philndelphin and Cape [May at the Army Hospital and Wiscke ‘Hef to many of our sailors and wound» jed soldiers. An audience of about 1500 [attended the performance given at the [Barracks. — The Army Hospital boys, ‘were out strong numerically as well as with their husky cheering voices. |_ The program presented to the audi|ence professional actors who had considerable experience with Keith Circult. Mr. Harris, the funny Black Face Comedian put his met over in great style. . Laurette, the comic fuge gler won the audience over with his cfever tricks and the funny mannerfams, . Petrice and her partner Eddie Sullivan even great like a house on fire. Her violin playing was superb and her dancing bite were dainty. Eddie at the btmind played for all he was worth. This act marked the closing of the show which lasted for one hour; the acts were full of life, enthusiasm and ‘the night‘s enjoyment meant the same to the audience. ----n4um-_ The girls who dance best get the most invitations, but the ones that can make thore crisp breakefast muf~ fins are likely to put in the order for the white satin dress with point applique Ince and cut en train. The war hasn‘t crippled any of the women, but they are doing their best by wenring high heels to mequire doformition as a substitute. American. soldiers unconquerable? The girls at home don‘t think so. So far as heard from, the publishers of school geographies: have raised no objection to the extensive changes in the map proposed by the peace con ference, which will necessitate new textbooks for all the schools.

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