CAPE MAY STAR AND WAVE Saturday, February, 8, 1919

memenmuit ALBERT R. HAND, President. A. L. EWING, Adv. Manager. BUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE This paper is entered at the post» wifice as second-class postal matter, STAR & WAVE PUBLISHING co. Merged in Star and Wa~s..._.... Forms close Thursday evening. Out st town circulation delivered: Satu days. ______________ FACTS ABOUT THE COUNTY vo. CATIONAL SCHOOL The County Vocational School is under the control of a County Board of Education, appointed by the Judge of the Court of Common Pless, in the county in which it is located, and this County Board of Education consists af five members, fust ms does a city ‘The County Vocational School is under the supervision of the State Commissioner of Education, the State have the approval of all three, in order that the school may continue and receive state and federal aid. You will see, therefore, that its status is precisely that of any public school with an additional responsibility to a Fed: eral Board. The value of its work has proven to the farmers of the county, as is shown by the resolution pass unanimously Saturday, January 16th, 1919, by between 200 and 800 farmen at a meeting of the County Pomon Grange, commending it in the highest terms. The value of its work was prover

whatever. If & city or town desires a school in earpentry or any of the building.trades er any other trade and will make the pices, if the circumstances favor ft. Agriculture and home economica are the first vocations selected because they constitute the voertional comer stones of the whole civic edifice. Destroy the practice of these two activities and you destroy the whole world. Build up such practices and make them more efficient and you stimulate energy in every other line. For a generation the cities have been — rapidly growing. in population, and the rural sections ms rapidly diiminishing. There is less population and fewer acres cultivated in Dennis ‘Township, than there were sixty years ago. There are fewer acres cultivated in Upper Township and probably in Lower. In Middle, there has been no less in population and probably not in nereage cultivation, because of activities at Court House in other lines of work, but there has been no appreciable growth in the farming sections. The Vocational School is developing an interest which is helping to keep the boys on the farm and to stimulate interest and ambition of all farmers to excel. There is no possible doubt of this. ‘The per capita cost pupil is less than that of any achool in the acd The plan under which it is being operated is that laid down by the Federal Board for Vocational Education, mnd endorsed by the State Board of Education. ‘The project method . is exclusively employed, . by which is meant that the student nclects one or more certain projects, as potato raising, orchard workpig raising, or any farm activities, and under the guid

{ance of the vocational teacher, developes this project, every care being tak» en to make it as profitable as possible. The best proofs of the [student will be the exe product and the profitubleness: of the venture, The work of the school continues the year aroun In houschold arte, definite courses of study are formulated and these are carried out in the houses of the stud ents, in the Vocational School or high school kitchens, or at such central places as may be selected in the thinly populated centers. The plans of the Federal Board are wiso the guides in this work. The brief resume of the activities of the school during the last year is |given below: From July 1 1917 to June 30 1918 Enrolment. . Agriculture. Under Mr. S. D. Einstein, teacher.. 89 Under Mr R. E. Reeves, teacher ...45 104 Enrotiment...Houschold Arta (Miss Olive Douglass ... Miss Elizabeth Deacon . Grand Total for Year...... 358 Supervised. practical . projects . in | Agricalture _...... 12 | Members recruited for U. S. Boys Working Reserve _._____________59 Members recruited for N. J. Junior Industrial Army _____________._ 42 Number of fruit trees srayed under vocational supervision,._______ 2206 Number of sars of corn teated under vocational | supervision, _______. 6010 The entire cort of the school was undoubtedly saved by this attension to the charneter of seed corn planted. Number in attendance on lectures | given in different parts of the county {during the winter coursesUnder direction of Mr, Einstein, 687 Under direction of @ Mr. Reeves ...152 Total Number of boys and girls entered for Annual Agricultural Contests at County FairMiddle | and | upper | sections . of county, __._.._--- --___-----170 Lower Sections, .. 110 Total_____. ___... Number of girls entered Annual [Household Arts Contest ..............- 318 Total entries in contests ___. 598 The enteries in all departments for By Mr. Einstein-Eldora, Woodbine Dennisville, — Goshen, | Diss _ C: (Green Creek, Swainton, . Burle

Court House. By Mr. Reeves-Erms, Cold Spring, |Fishing Creek, Rio Grande, West Cape oa By Miss Douglass-Eidora, Tuckahoe, South Dennis, Sea Isle City, Woodbine, Our students took four prizes at ‘Trenton State Fair, in October, including the first prize in corn, for the entire state. Our students exhibited at the annual meeting of the N. J. Horticultural at Atlantic City, in DecemA pair of piga of fine breed was purchased in the spring, from which six pige/ were produced during the year and sold to the boys, who were students of hog raising. The old pigs were killed and sold n , and the entire transactjon yielded a profit to ‘the school. A group of "farmerettes" six in num ber, were secured from State head [quarters of the Women‘s Land Army [and housed in the Court House rooms jof the Household Arts Department, in August and September, and they proved very useful to such farmers as ob{tained their services. The vocational teachers instructed {therm in their duties and assisted them jvery materially. | These are but a few of the many facts which could be given to fllus{trate the character and success of the work. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, AARON W. HAND, Secretary. -- megeTWO SMALL FIRES On Wednesday evening twosmallfires broke out, but were quickly: sabdued by our alert Volunteer Fire Depart ment. One of the conflagations was at the Power Plant, and the other at ps Skating rink. | Little damage was ione, Lud vour in Hides, Skins, Tallow, Raw Furs, otc. to the KEYSTONE HiDE COMPANY, neaster, Pa. 8. M. Livingston, Bupt. They wilipar top caste market prices . Satlefno: (oo quartnieed" Wrtle ot Alephone for prican Sipping ige free on request 1-11-19-4

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All who enjoyed the entertainment at the Pier on last Wednesday evening will feel like thanking Mr. HentyShapiro. representative at Cape May of the Jewish Welfare Board, through whose agency and influence the entertainers were brought here without charge to the community. Mention should be made of the Section Buse Band which furnished the splendid muric concert on Wednesday evening last. — This band is always heard with pleasure, as is also. the orchestra from Section Base. It in stated that we should no longer say "Section Base" but Cape May Navy Yard. We shall wait awhile before giving up the old and popular name. The Baptist Church suppers are still attracting a goodly number of soldiers and sailors twice each week, . It would be exceedingly strange if these fine the service and to the people of Cape May has struck a sung, as the anying goes in an inadequate electrical equip or gotten around somehow or other What are > difficulties for | but strengthen will power and to develop ingenuity The demobilization of the Wissahickon Barracks which is now in progress and which will be practically accom plished within | the . present . month though m necessary part of the pro cess involved in the return to peace {nevertheless brings. to Cape | Ma hickon boys lon our ‘streets, in our stores, . restaurants, churches .. and homes. Something of real life wi have left us when the barracks mre closed, as they will be in a few weeks er as soon as the Government can di

pose of the valuable materials atored baad On the other hand, we must try to a. fay with the homes and communithat will reccive these . embryo mation. yes, and with the sailors themselves. When the War ended, the spirit went out of the training camps. There seamed no reason for the drills and the daily routine. . There was nothing else to do but to go home, and that is what Wissabickon is doinggoing home. May the homecoming be worthy of the boys. . And, while on this subject, what is Cape May going to do in the way of extending a formal welcome to its boys when they come home? Something worth while, no doubt. There is a disposition on the part of some people unwisely to discriminate between the men who went to France and those who remained at home; between those who saw active service on the water and those who were in training in the various camps and schools, as though the men who were in active service were more heroie and more patriotic than the others. The fallacy of this is readily seen as soon as one gives the subjoct careful thought. Those who »nw active service had mo chole about the matter at all, just as those who remained at home [had no option, All drafted men, all who volunteered, presumably expected to see active service either at home or abroad, the great majority in all probability being eager to get into the midst of the fight. That they did not get in is no fuult of theirs, We should therefore regard all our men [as the patriots they were and [equally entited to honor and gratl [tude, — When they: come — home . we should think f them as soldiers in [common cause.. This in the thought {running through the brief address of {Secretary of War Baker when, of !January 18th, he presented . twenty (five Distinguished Service Medals ‘eightcon officers of the United Stater {Army, two Civilian Aides and five of | feers of Allied mations, Before pin ‘ning the medals on the breasts: of ithoxe officers and men, the Secret said: "When we think of war we usual {think of the battle-front, and in t war we usually think of the trenc and its dangers‘are known to us all The other aide, however, does . no s ms full comprehension therefore I

particularly glad on this occasion 10 have an opportunity of suying a word about the other side, . There in no rivalty of merit between the soldiers lisbaiinbandiindLouliied perform. their services here and the . soldiers. vho performed theirs abroad.. They vere all soldiers, and the first maxim of the aoldier‘s culling is that he tes ‘his duty to the best of his ablity | where thone charged with the reon‘wibility of final direction designat his -daty to lie. That errors are maie in those designations goes without say[to: but in the exercise of as imprtial ‘and uncolored judgment as was sossi‘ble in the War Department, the best interest of the nation was alwau the guiding principle, and as . theromilt of our judgment a very large rimber sof officers of the Regular Amy of large experience ware designatd to do duties in this country. L ethaps more than anybody else, am aalified to speak with authority of the plendid ‘spirit with which those ordes were accepted, the superb energy, kill and devotion with which those dures were preformed. | "I trust that one of the sults of the awarding of the Disnguished: Service Medal to men in ti country will be that it will attractpublic attention to the value of t? services rendered here; a general acceptance: {of the true. feeling. thatservice is {service wherever lirmgingin thatthe ‘spirit of that service, + quality of {devotion and its success ‘¢ the things .that make up the contoution of the ;giver rather than the prticular place or the particular form which the in-‘ {dividual activities we permitted to take." The war has held to nccentuate | a conviction, or peps it would be {better to say a fling, which was! growing before thar began, that a number of people tited in some form ‘of- organization, could . accomplish much more thi the same persons working by thereives. . This convic-| ition or feeling HMalrly represented by the old motto, fulliar to every Amerfean, "United ® stand, divided bist fall." It reotes no argument, of! course, to pre the value of organt- | tl

merely aet: Te a Ade if each man did as he pleased? in accordance with his own judgme the result would be only a mob, fere is needed in an army a unifieemind and the machinery for carry$ out a definite plan, It would be a reat mistake, however, if we allow ourseives to think that Individu effort is of little or no account. inddual needs, so there must be n inddual meeting of these needs. Not on our wounded men but all our m. returning to their homes and en< droring to find their proper places am in industry, must be treated as Help must come, if at afrom individuals, — Organized &f- #, good as it is for some things lsks down when it comes to inédual adjustments. ‘The old truth it no two persons are exactly alike 1 a vital bearing on this subject. y attempt to treat men as cogn in \chinery is doomed to failure. Take for example the caso of a unded soldier. He should be dealt h as a man whore case is different m that of any other man on the e of the earth, not only physically, tempormentally, | peychologically Ferent from any other man in the rld. The physician who deals with a man though he were case number 101, be given exactly the same treat nt as the hundred who preceeded i will fail to do for this man what ‘needs and deserves. . The nurse + waits upon him should not regard ! as a "case" at all, but as an in‘{clual man who requires special! #y and special treatment. | Those | + have to do with his re-education ald alwayn keep this fact in mind Till not be necessary to remind hi fer and mother that he in different £ other boys in the service or who h fought for their country, . They I him as "John" or "Henry" or "Ham" and will always think of ms different from their other basa * us by af means have our or wations and learn how to work ‘ther for a desired and, but let un keep ever in mind the compli-

| mentary: truth. that. we are individs uals and must be dealt with as such we scould not Tose the finer tin ‘which bave so much to do with that reat subject we call personality, -» o awiLp wood COMMUNITY COOPERATING. The Jewish Ladies . of Wildwood called a meeting at the home of Mrs. Konowitch on last Saturday. It was well attended and many results developed. I It was unanimously agreed by all present that everyone was going to do all they possibly could do for the bo: at Cape May. ‘The following com ‘mittees . were formed-Newspapers, Hospitality, Auto Rides and a Committee on Entertainments. Much enthusinem prevails: among the Wildwood folks and a great deal can be expected to be done by them. ---smse WOMENS COMMITTEE TO MEET There will be a meeting of the Woman‘s Committee of the Counell for National Defence in the Merchant‘s National Bank, on Tuesday, Feb,, 11th at 7:80 P. M. At this meeting it in all ‘hose E4 polu fxprvatned blunks or boxes make a final report. mommmwncommunand HUNTING WILD BIRDS IN — PLANES BARRED A8 UNFAIR Hunting: wild ducks or e dUd sirplance is taking C3 whiais advantage of the birds and has been banned. The director of military aeronautics has issued an order forbidding the shooting of wild fowl with machine guns form the airplanes and has directed airplane flights along the Atlantic const or any other place where wild fowl may be found "be conducted in such a manner as to interfere as little as possible with the habita and feeding of the wild fowl." Commanding officers are directed to enforce the order and bring offenders to trial. ion of the war department was called o it. NOTICE The Philadelphia Press will be de417 Washington St. 28-19 24

SUNSHINE — SOCIAL The Ladies Aid Society of the Hap: 1 "harch held a Sunshine | Socia t Thursduy . evening . which . was #oly attended and streatly enjoys pecial feature was the ver : instrumental . nnd by some of the enlisted men. The Social hour und the refreshment w attied to the pleasure of U ng. The Novel Method for rain ing money wis most succesful. .- Al ready some two hundred dollarx ha been realized, and the return ure not all in. | The ladies greatly appreciated the help given, expecially that of the musicians, in making the social suc a splendid success. — The Society is on of the efficient organizations in th is already planning for other social events that every one wil enjoy, Y 4 ew -@4gm --- ~ RED CROSS NOTES Certificates of service will be award to any member of the Cape Maj Branch of the American Red Cross, who has served the Nation through the A. R, C. for 800 hours in ait of more . consecutive . months, April 6, 1917 and January 1, 1919. ervice may have been rendered fm ide the workroom or outside the worke to The Wool dptuet May Crom Branch of has been signed the lolol A of shoulder shaw from the twenty-five pounds of wool, which was in stock in this department when a national inventory was taken. There shawls will be used in Belgian rellef work. committee . earnently . reques the carly return of all the socks ‘a which wool has been given out; that the socks may be put in use while Miss Helen F. Clarke the Ficld Secretary of the Civilian Relief hike in ve ment of the Atlantic Division of the American Red Cromx has heen look Ing over the work of the department in Cape May County. The relief work aecomplished has been mort ratisfectory and eredit is largely due to the efforts of the Chapter Chairman of Civilian Relief, Mre. O. L. W. Knerr, Intertemm6mormmentmmmed GEORGE C, CLARK George C. Clark died at his home on Congress Street on Thureday at ? lingering flinees of x tan ya an was beige n in Cape May, having spent a portion of his life here, . He leaves a wife and three children ta, mourn his loa. a

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