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T the nets, pitchforking the catch, washing out the scuppers, | cleaning . fish for hours gt a stretch-the hardest work you do is made twice as hard if your boots go bad. It‘s cold, wet feet if they leakblisters, | chafed skin, ond aching muscles for hours if they don‘t fit. A real fisherman‘s boot-atrong and tough at every point, made on a good comfortable last-that‘s the new U.S.

rubber boot, made for fishermen. Every U. S. boot is backed up with extra thicknesses of pure rubber and good strong duck where the wear is hardest. Every pair has plenty of room at the tos and is shaped soas not to rub up and down at the heel. Go to the store and see for yourself these U. S. boots for fishermen — any length you want-the Half Hip, the Hip, the Knee Boot. . Ask for U. S. Rubber footwear-it means solid wear and long service for your money.

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CITIZENS MUST Lely A 8 1% ( | du2d BE ABLE To Kes BEACH AVENUE IS HARD SUR FACED. If one were maked one of the most distinct . differences | between — Cape May and any other | seashore reso what would you tell them? Any number of differences to the sdvantage of Cape May could be meno te C A Mayans can satisfactorily answer visitors query on this subject? As I have said before "Cape May 4s not an ordinary city-but a resort." If the growth of ou: city is to take place as rapidly as it should the cittzens of Cape May should be able to tell of the real advantages of | this resort to summer visitors who may want lo know. TEACH CHILDREN ATTRACTIONS HERE Would it not be a satisfactory arrangement to have a series of talk on this matter included in the hir! school education of this city? a subject of civil government-posel bly under another — name-and subject teaches the growing you! to be proud of their home and city. It teaches them the real angle of the progressive movement, ernment grafters. This has hindered the real progressive movement in this city more than anything clse. T people remember some of the happen Inga of old in Cape May and will not Join in a movement for a municipal improvement so rapidly.

time for the proper digesting of all features. RESORT NUT PERFECT At all times the Cape May people should be reminded, that Cape May is not perfect. There are many improvements needed here. However, the urgent appeal for these improvements should not knock this resort for that would make the Cape May people lose some of their pride in the City. To always talk of the fine things we have would make a number of people forget | the urgent need of changes in the city. If we talked of the wonderful bathing beach we have this would make some people forget that the beach should be cleaned of the debris left by the tide and excurmion parties. Where we to comment on the wonderful advantage of having a beach drive and an arragement so differet from any other resort along the beach front wouldn‘t people forget that the drive is in bad need of repair? Other cases of this kind might be mentioned indefinitely but the two are possibly sufficient to convey my point of view. MUST CO-OPERATE In last week‘s issue was a communication by a reader who signed himself as "Optimist." — The ubove might be considered a part of un answer to his oe e e c a tion of all the business men, citizens and people interested in the resort if jthe city is to advance to its just pace. | The good points of Cape Muy are well taken care of in the regular news articles of the "Star and Wave." I might explain that the main idea of my articles are to promote the progressive epirit and to make the way easier for improvements by making the general public see the proper side of the question involved and to secure their bacidng for the projects. Naturally in newspaper writing {every reader does not ugree with the writer of the articles, 1 have had many people agree with my points of view and others disagree with me. I am glad to hear of any comments on the articles-especially criticism for "two heads are better than one" and if these urticles are to do their proper work the general attitude of the Cape Mayans at large must be exPasos In the articles which I have written prior to this week I believe that I have knocked only the . people who are against improvements. 1 . will . con:

tinue with that policy. | However, I do not wish to knock but merely to prove to the people the real need of the projects I mention. PUSH THE BEACH DRIVE PROPos In last Week‘s issue there appear ed the announcement that the Beach Drive had been taken over as a county road from Broadway to Beach avnoue Now that that is accomplished the work to have the drive hard surfaced must be pushed. however, it should be widened to take traffic over that thoroughfare. Some time past I suggested that a new boardwalk be erected on plans stmilar to the stretch in front of the new City Pier. This boardwalk should be built on the ocean aide of the trolley tracks. This would enable the widening of the Beach Drive and also take care of the ever increasing automobile Automobile traffic is heavy batween Windsor and Madison avenues, And it is increasing | rapidly. For that reason the drive should be made wider between those points. Once the hard surface is laid the Beach Drive is going to be hard to have the thoroughfare widened . by the County Freeholders. Why not build that new boardwalk now? This would provide for a real boardwalk, a wider drive and would rave a considerable sum in street paving by having the work done all at once instead of having half of it done now and the the remainder later on. When the road is hard surfaced it is graded to a slope to . the aides. Were the Beach rive to he widened later half the work would have to be grading over the entire width of the drive. GET BEHIND THE COMMISSIONERS To make an improvement and have it half done is but a waste of money. You should urge-through the Board of Trade-- that. the boardwalk be built now so that when the drive is hard surfaced it will be wide. enough to accomodate the traffic, . In the meantime the question of having the County Freeholders hard surface the rond whould notbeforgottenbut should be pushed with all possibleenergy. You should get behind Mayor Melvin and the City Commisaioners and support them in this matter and, in fat, in innfiniinifon Apoeitedier ase maie MEY,

Lec 33 NITRATE PLANT Mammoth | Explosives | Factory in Alabama Built in Eight Months. ALL SPEED RECORDS BROKEN _ (e H Cac a Allies‘ Needs Mad War Continued, Lifting the ban of war secrecy has fust now brought to light for the first time one of the most stupendous feats af construction in biatory-the planaing and building in less than one year of the largest ammonium nitrate plant in the world and of a city around it for the bonsing of fta 25,000 workmen ‘and their families. At the same time [ts revealed one of the chief reasons | why Germany euddenty surrendered & | year ago. ‘The German high command knew that the United States was ready at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to | manufacture 13 per cent of all the |high explosives needed by all the Al led armies on all fronts in the expect #4 drive of the following spring. | The first person on construction work reached !fuscle Shonls on November 24, 1017, On Februsty 16, 1938, ground was first broken for a permanent plant buliding. On October 26, 1018, eight months and eight days later, the manufacturing plant had begun the production of ammo» ntum nitrate. When America entered. the world war in April, 1017, she had no means of producing the enormous quantities of high explosives necomsary to provide the buge army she planned to raise. The very fact that our indus: tries were alrendy worked to capacity providing ammunition to the ailes seemed to make further production for our own use impossible, Prtiiizer Process Turned to War Use ed into under date of November 16, Xd To have general supervision of planning and carrying out the work an or ganization known aw the Alr Nitrates operated the carp, the town and the plant. | It also installed all equipment in the chemical plant. The various other sections of the work were aublet to organizations that were specialfste in the directions to which thay were asked to help. New City Built From the Ground. was necessaty to bulld a new job Weatingbonse Church Kere Com- | pany was called in as contractor, This company also built the buildings of the | chemical plant. Within four months 12.000 workmen had been resembled and a city capable of accommodating 25,000 Inhabitants had been completed, flees, police headquarter, schools, fire departments, hospitals, motion pleture theaters, selectrle light and sewerage systems. The conatraction of the plant proper was begun on Februnty 1, 1018, Just eight months and eight days later the big plant began a steady output of ammontum nitrate. The Plant contains 118 permanent buildings, with a roof area of over 26 acres. o provide the electrie current it to build u steam id electric plant, for it would have taken three years or more 10 Complete the dam and hydro-el der way, Thir plant, built by the J, 0, White Corporation, 1# 008 of the lary. est steam plants for developing ateetrical enorgy in the — Thr output of the plant it 500 tong of atomontum nitrate & 47, 814 this can be produced at Muscle Shoals at a cost leas than one-half the Atabdard Axed price pald by the Government for an. montuin nttrate produced . D7. other methods and one-fourth to one-ffth the cost of other high explosives of equai strength. | Compared with the older urocess of making arsmontum nitrate, the savings made by this plant would have paid the $00,000,000 cest of the sutire plant in about one gad G8e-half years of operation. As a military weepon it fo one of the wisaat and most economical Ld Ditg the war and as a future §99000 ton to the country its vated 6 M00M®

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