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THE DESTRUCTION OF FISH Thirteen menhaden fishing steamers were visible at one time from the beach last week. Tie total fleet numbers considerably 'more. Besides these there are schooners, •loops, and power boats of different kinds in large numbers fishing all the time. Then there are everywhere the great pound nets which are catching many tone of fish daily. What the immovable pound nets do not get the vessels of different ltinds~do get The fish cannot escape. When a school of any kind is sighted, they are •cooped up, every scale of them. If they happen to be food fish, and they can be got to market, they may -go there and be sold for food. If there is any difficulty about reaching market, they are ground up in the various factories and used to flavor a lot of raw dirt so that it may be sold for fertilizer. It doesn't require much 4& the substance to make the dirt odorous enough to capture the agrioulturist'e fancy. iln the spring as soon as the fish begin to appear in the bay for the spawning season, the small boats and their capacious nets are after them and if a single fin escapes it is not Hie fault of the fishermen. In the foil when the fish are gathering in •drools for the great journey south, all sorts of boats are after them, and if any get away it is miraculous. How long can this kind of thing be kept up before the fish will be absolutely destroyed ? It is true that they are wonderfully prolific but the chase after them grows every year and the appliances improve until they are more effective every year. There is s limit. If the people of the country were getting the fish fy food at reasonable prices it might be accepted as a justification, but they are not What fish escapes the factory are •old at almost prohibitive prices. We have a very broad Fish and Game Commission at Trenton, so broad minded that they cannot get through an ordinary door, so broad minded that the protection of the fish means Oothing to them nor does the great saaort industry of this slate, for which the fish within our waters should have some protection. There should be a concerted effort however, to secure the state's aid to stop the ceaseless slaughter. LOOKING TWO WAYS AT ONCE The persistency of President Wilson and his understudies in endeavoring to persuade the people of country that two diametrically opposed theories regarding the proposed League of Nations are both correct, is amusing aa well as annoying because it conveys the idea that, in the opinion of these people the intelligence of the American electorate is very much below par. The first theory is that the League of Nations will provide all the force necessary to enforce its decrees, OMt it is in operation and tire United Steles a member and the second is font its acceptance by this cmrtry wfll forever step the sending of Amartenn troops across tho sea. President Wilson has himself urged bote p roll Is pnrfoctlr erifote to everybody teat if ths United States were a msroksr of fos I mgci and force wore nseemary tp —force its. team, the HMJWfi voted certainly be atftel op— te ea—riteate the aid *f

i Great Britiaa's Prime Minister, I Lloyd George, who is busily engaged in securing Great Britiaa's new possessions which have come -to her under the treaty, make this perfectly j plain in a recent pronouncement to the British House of Commons, as fol- ' r lows: He said, "Take Armenia. What are ! ' the three powers that are available? . The United States are out. They are * the only people who could at the pres- ' '* ent moment grant any assistance. j " France could not. She has -to witoj draw from Cilicia purely because she has not got the forces available to \ hold her own in Syria and Cilicia. ; II We are full up. .We^have got Con- . T stantinople. We have got Mesopotamia. We have got Palestine and to ' a certain extent we have difficulties j in Persia. Italy has ^ot her diffi- 1 cutties,, too,, mucn as she can manage. There was only one power left that ! had any force and^no entanglements, j and that was America." You will recall ' that Walson proposed to the Congress that this coun- ' try should accept a mandate f->r Armenia and if / this had been done ' what would hava been the first step ? 1 It could not havp been anything else ' excepting the sending of a part of the army and navy and marine corps to * Armenia. - < , , , .

REPRESENTATIVE BACHARACH ' TO BE RE-ELECTED 1 Congressman Isaac Bacharach, of ' Atlantic (Sty, who has just been re- 1 nominated by the Republicans of the 1 Second District of New Jersey, has 1 proved himself a busy and creditable ' 8 Representative. His appointment to ' B membership on the Ways and Means I 1 Committee was a tribute to his ability 1 and efficiency. This committee is the ' '' most important and powerful in the ' 1 House of Representatives and has 1 B charge of the framing of all legisla- 1 B tion for raising revenue necessary for r running the Government as well as 1 legislation bearing upon taxation and ' B tariff questions. No other committee 1 B of the House has such power for good 1 ' or evil in so far as the economic wel- 1 B fare of the country is concerned and 1 ' it is therefore most essential that men 1 f of sound business judgment shall be 5 made members of it. B Congressman Bacharach demon- 1 " strated his ability and fitness to cope 1 with the important questions that 1 come before that committee. He is • r the author of a bill for protection of ' ^ the chemical glass industry and scien- ' * tific instrument industry. The Congressman is a 100 per cent. : American and al through the war sup- 1 1 ported the President and the Govern- ' B ment. He. carried three of the four ^ counties in his district for re-nomina-1 tion and will undoubtedly be re-elect- * ed by an overwhelming majority in B the general election in November. — 1 Camden Post Telegram. 1 •*" Was your heart touched in some , j great patriotic "drive", did you pere haps say, "Well, I can stand a little t more giving," and did you contribute e to the "Near Blast Relief*' when you r heard how "the poor little Armenian [r children" and other children were dy- , e ing? e If so, you are interested in the fine . 1 dinner parties given "to high officials ■ - of the Allies", at which the Near East e Rfclief money was spent There were . e Russian singers and Russian dancers < b to make the dinner cheerful. There . e were not present at the dinners, how- 1 1 ever, so far as- is known, any starved , i Armenian children. , i In connection with this particular ( b charitable affair six Americans are ( t locked up. How many do you sup- , l pose would be locked up if it were ■. b possible to identify and punish all the , swindlng, wasting, stealing and gen- , t eral rascality that went on in the , » name of sweet charity and "pure pat- ] riotism" ? — New York American. j ; CARD OF THANKS The Fair Committee of the Wild- , 1 wood Athletic Club takes tins means , ? of publicly thanking all those who ( ' so kindly contributedgSOds-and^as- ( sistsnce in helping to make the fair ■ so great a success. \ ( f Through the kindness of farmers t throughout the county the green j grocery counter was made to net a ^ e very nice sum toward the building ^ fund. a b _ 1 b I IN MEMORIUM < 1 i In loving memory of our dear wife , 1 and mother, Linda Morris, who de- ] ' parted this life October 1Mb. 1*1*. , Husband and Son. , " I0-lS-tD-lt- IMS [ Ths msn without a dtetete ate is \ , Btotel ifr Rnllil Money baa , , Its irtpsr ptees and Is a te-k , , Mad te «!■«■ te stress. r Mart mw w*b fos 8ssss*y Treat , . ^ i

SOMETHING ABOUT SHARKS * ! ' 1 Rev. Dr. Howe had a great exper- ' iehce and exhibited skill in ' hooking and landing a shark a couple ' of weeks ago, at least nine feet in 1 length and weighing over 800 pounds, ptpbably 860 pounds or even more. 1 The scales upon which it was weigh eo ' capacity for recording the weight j to 300 ppunds only, but it was perfectly clear that the great fish ' weighed considerably more than this. ' Dr. Howe wis fishing from the end ' | of the -fishing pier and struggled with his catch for a long time. When he 1 had succeeded in getting it up to the ] pier and in sight, pretty well tired ; out, he gave the basket containing the 1 portion of his line which was not in action to a man who carried it to the ' beach and gradually assumed control ' of the catch, Dr. Howe, finally yield- J ing the entire line. Then began the effort to get the fish ashore. Dr. 1 Howe getting on the beach and again 1 assuming charge. Even greater skill 1 was required at this -stage of the pro- 1 ceedings because the surf had a ten- 1 dency to roll up fish and line in such ( manner that a rally on the part of 1 the fish might have secured his free- ' dom. He was finally grounded, ' however, and gaffed with a large hook, after which- a rope was attached and 1 the combined effort of five men re- ' quired to pull him ashore. Later, ' when he was opened the character of ' the food upon which he supported life disclosed, the food in his stomach consisting of small fish, including, one . skate. Pier fishennen are of the ; opinion that this shark has bothered ] them all summer. Many a line has < , bitten off and many a hook lost | ; some large fish which could not be checked by the light fishing lines us- - ually used. Dr. Howe has provided , with a heavy line and hooks i to meet the emergency and finally won Some Philadelphia paper telling a brief story of this catch at the time it happened, headlined it with"Msn Eater Caught" and of course people were duly impressed and treated themselves a few shudde?x about it. Such a statement is alperfogt specimen, however, of unadulterated moonshine. - There are no man eating sharks in the waters of this' section, probably none that would attack even another fish . of any size unless it were wounded. At all events it may be safely taken j : for granted that they will harm noth- • ing but other fish, unless perhaps they wounded themselves. Further- 1 more, the large varieties are rarely found near shore, unless physically out of shape in some way. Their natural habitat is in the deep sea. , The specimen caught by Dr. Howe, , would have had one big job on hand j if the notion had ever taken him to , , attack a live man or any other big , . living thing. In the first place he , would have had to, as a first prelim- . inarv, turn ovjsr on his back. Then He i would have had to focus his jaws and j 1 snapping apparatus quite carefully be- , fore he attempted to snap and then if i 1 his proposed prey refused to remain , 1 in one position until he could pull his , 1 stunt, he would never reach him. , 1 In the time it would take to try all ( of this maneuvering, he could catch a j cart load of small fish, if the fishing 1 were good in the deep water in which j 1 would be likely to spend most of , • his time, The Century Dictionary . : says that the. name shark may have , been first fised to designate a greedy , 1 man. We cannot deny that we have , sharks of this kind, but very few ( 1 of them. We seem to run to gudgeons ( and stickers more. Some of them , came to the surface not long ago. ( Greed, However, is the significance of ( the name, shark, and the distingu- , 1 ishing characteristic of the fish as well 1 as of the man to which the name is applied. Some one said that the catclT 1 was quite mild in his demeanor after came to land, liked to have his stroked and relaxed and almost 1 purred when it was done, The shark of the variety which fre- " quents our waters would have no inclination to attack a live man and would probably observe considerable caution before he would bite even a dead and motionless body, because it is not in his line. His business is v getting fish and he probably utilizes the currents considerably in doing this. 1 fishermen who have caught different varieties, small and large, will tell you that the shark arrives at the bait by a more or less indirect route, probably on the drift of the current or perhaps by means of suction. , When he feels the nip of the hook he apt to dart ahead after his first shock in order to loosen the hold on ; and get -an opportunity to snap , at the thing which holds him and i probably pains Urn. Albert StflweU, te thia rity. was one te ten pi mint a number te years ago, when ths UghtaUp open whiA he 1 ill the per Into the cold ; waters te te son. StUwetl re- i ■steel these for iii—ein hones or lingie. shagtec te a fo>r m mmm- '

boat, in -command, aa we recall it, of Captain I¥ank Eldredge. He said at foe time that there were sharks around to aome extent but they made no effort to bother him. When they became too curious and drew too near, he merely splashed foe water and they left wife great dispatch.. Incidentally Albert kept his nerve intact throughout the ordeal and spoke, of it immediately after the landing, with a nonchalance which seemed to indicate that small affairs like this' were all in foe day's work. He re-| turned to duty when matters were re- ] arranged and he is still one of Uncle | Sam's faithful employees in this most j important service. The books say that there are fifteen different varieties of shark and those which are regarded as dangerous to live humans are found in the tropics. The instinctive dread of the critters which practically everybody feels is probably based upon foe stories of what they have been known to do in tropical waters. If we were disposed regard all fish bearing the name if shark, aa man-eaters, we should |ave to include the pike, which is sometimes called rf fresh-water shark, because of his greediness. It occurs to us that the .drowned which have floated in our wata week or more before coming eshore, rarely show marks of having disturbed by fish of any kind. UNCLAIMED LETTERS The list of unclaimed letters remaining in Cape May P. O. for week ending October 13th, 1920, are as folAnderson, Mrs. Catherine Ballard, Mrs. Mary Cose, Mrs. Daisy R. Edmonds, Frederick D. England, James M. Getz, Mrs. Eleanor Gray, Miss Elizabeth Greenfield, Mrs. Harold Jamison, J. S. Leeds, Billy Murray, James Smith, Mrs. Mary Smith, Mrs. Beatrice A. Townee, Miss Turner, Clarence Weldon, Miss Ella Windutton, Miss Rose In calling for the above please say advertised. Sol Needles, P. M. PROHIBITION HAS COME TO STAY Women voters are not in favor of the revival of the liquor traffic and ; desire the enforcement of Jie prohib1 amendment. Political leaders 1 of both parties are beginning to realize this. The Atlantic ocean is con1 siderably wetter than Governor Edwards now desire to be. Cox would 1 on the wet end of the issue if could. County prosecutors are \ and more inclined to see that the respecting liquor are enforced 1 whefoer the Federal agents perform • their duties or sot. Other countries are preparing to follow the example of the United States in enacting pro- ' hibitory laws. The administration officials wnll find ; it difficult to alter the conviction of voters that they have connived at the violation of the constitutional amendment by releasing from bond great quantities of the stuff on flimsy pre1 texts. Their failure to take adequate steps to enforce thenaw is patent to all observers. If they have deluded themselves with the idea that their ; course was %-inning popularity, they beginning to discovert that they mistaken. PLAN WORK AND SAVE Start the saving habit and open an account with the Security Trust Co. A Strong Institution. A 6300 FRIEND A good friend stands by you when In need. Cape May people tell bow | Doan's Kidney Pills have stood the test. Mrs. Mary Denk of 615 Broad — St., endorsed Dean's four years ago

and agaiu confirms the story. Could you ask for more convincing testimony? "The use of Doan's Kidney Pills, which I bought at Ware's Drug Shop, has done me good.' says Mrs. Denk. "I was suffering with a weak back and when I did my housework and brought my back into use I suf- , fered terribly wtth dull pains which 1 took the life out at me. After using ' Don's Kidney Pills my back felt ' etronger. my kidneys acted regularly and I folt better to every way- I am glad te say a word of prates tor Don's Kidney PUla. as I know them te fee n grand medicine." The above itetsmint was glien Vthmry IK Uli and n July M. MR Mre. Dank said: -1 never Kidney Mte. I tew treat expariNW there ts nothing tadirhr kid eoi pk-tot" are 4 a ns'irt. mates ME teste On, Mtn. Mete. N T.

PSj A J fn nun 1 1 III III! IIIIIII "'g S NEW PALACE § - ■ ; foot of washington street j te ' p dtelillliiliiiiui Ill J E THIS WEEK'S ATTRACTIONS g J MONDAY and TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18th and l»tt g ■ J. STEWART BLACKTON Presents M 2 "Passers By" . ■ p With HERBERT RAWLINSON I ^ From the Famous Stage Success by C. CHADDON CHAMBERS jf ■ Added— RUTH ROWLAND in "-RUTH OF THE ROCKIES" ■ Chapter 3— "THE TOWER OF DANGER" ~ ■ z J WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY, OCTOBER ,20th and 21st n ■ Real art Pictures Present MIRIAM COOPER in j "The Deep Purple" | ■ Added— SELZNICK NEWS SPECIAL COMEDY | ■ -■ i, M FRIDAY and SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22nd and 23rd H 2 "The Law of the Yukon" I, ■ A CHARLES MILLER PRODUCTION Based on the Poem by mm ROBERT W. SERVICE " ■ ■ Does Life Ever Seem Humdrum? Maybe you need a little ■ excitement in your life, and a change of scenery. See the Bi £ "Law of the Yokon" and get the thrill. g ■ Added— MARGUERITE COURTOT and H GEORGE SEITZ in "PIRATE GOLD"— Chapter 4 ■ ■ ■ >-• ' — ' KMwawBSMsasBsasasanaiMi ■U ju ■ Cape May's Bright Spot ■ 1 €r^e I I Liberty Theatre | I — — i s * — a H PROGRAM WEEK OF OCTOBER 18th ^ a "w g| MONDAY— ETHEL CLAYTON in | jfi "City Sparrow" ^ ™ Added— MACK SENNET COMEDY— " IT'S A BOY" .■ S — — — * | TUESDAY— WILL ROGERS in | ~ \ jjj "Cupid the Cowpuncher" ijj Added — 3rd Episode "BRIDE 13" ® WEDNESDAY— DOROTHY DALTON in H ■ "Back of The Man" £ Ifi THURSDAY— BRYANT WASHBURN in Lf| ® "What Happened to Jones" J J FRIDAY and SATURDAY— H B "Parlor, Bedroom and Bath" £ !fi with an Ifl , * All Star Cast ® ■ It's about a zippy little wife who thought her husband couldn't be too wild for her. Bi a; i ■ Coming ■ a Annette Kellerman in 2 f "What Women Love" ^ SBBBtfiBBiBtfiBMiatfiBfiBifiBtfiaBiB"

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