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CLASSIFIED , ADVERTISING FOR SALE - FOB SALE — Tbrev Pipeless Heaters. Call 525 Washington St., Cape May. 10-9-20-3t-1584 FOR SALE — One Horse and Wagon, cheap. Apply E. W. Springer, Cape May Point. 9-25-tf-3074 FOR SALE— VERY REASONABLE Broadway dwelling and business Property. Apply to A. R. Hand, price and terms. West Cape May. CAR FOR SALE — Scripps- Booth Roadsterdn good condition. Apply 606 Washington street, Cape May. 10-9-20-2t- 1576 LADY CANVASSER — To Sell BuTterine. Apply to Chamber- Bros., 822 Mansion St., Cape May, N. J. _ 10-9-20-lt-1574 FOR SALE— Small Four-Cylinder enclosed touring car, just out of shop. L P. Griffen, R. D. 1, Cape May. 10-9-20-H-1586 FOR SALE— Shetland Pton.e, (Two ■i Years Old) and Cart. Very gentle, can be driven by any one. Apply to L Tennenbaum, Cape May, Nv J. 10-9-20-lt FOR SA LE — Parker Bros. Hammerless double barrel, 12 gauge shot - gun, good condition. Sold for want i > . of use. Address 1645, Star and 1 Wave Office. 10-16 20-tf-1645 < FOR SALE— One No. 8 Kitchen \ Range, only used one year. Reason , for selling, must have double oven g » stove. - Same is for large house and ( large family. "Apply t Jpseph , Stites, .Cape May City. Keystone ( 1S4-M. 10-16-20-lt-1647 FOR SALE — Desirable West Cape * Map residence property in most el- 1 igible location. Perfect order. Ten 1 rooms and bath. Basement and in- r door toilet Reasonable price. 6 Elasy terms. Apply to A. R. Hand, * Star and Wave office. tf 0 — — — t FOR RENT i' FOR RENT — Apartments, Broadway e and York avenue, West Cape May, e N. J. Five rooms. Apply to A. R. u Hand, Star and Wave. 7 f «R RENT — Furnished. Apartment, ji our rooms. Use of bath. 667 a ' Washington St. e

FOR RENT — Furnished, Five Rooms. Gas for cooking. Also coal stoves. Rent reasonable. Apply Florist, corner Broad and Bank streets. l(F16-20-2t-1646 FURNISHED HEATED HOUSEkeeping apartments. Two rooms or more with bath. Also single sleepingrooms. Hot and cold water. Mrs. E. Turner, 823 Washington St., Cape May, N. J. 10-9-20- lt-1587 WANTED WANTED — A Small Furnished House by the" year. Apply to 1650, Star and Wave Publishing Co. 10-16-20- lt-1650 WANTED— Saleslady. -Beet Salary for right person. Apply at once. Brown's, 417 Washington Street. 10-9-20-lt-1582 WANTED — DOUBLE BARRELED gun, 12 or 16 guage State condition and price. Address Star and Wave Publishing Co. WANTED— GIRL TO ATTEND ■tore and keep books, apply 3146 Star and Wave office. 9-18-20 MONEY TO LOAN Money for Mortgages, Contract Work, AU Business Purposes. C. H. LARGE Pierce's N. J. WANTED— LABORERS —WHITE and colored. Good job. Good pay f 100 or more men needed. Apply Associated Contractors at the New Hangar. 9-11-20-3079 LOST LOST— A Yellow Dog, Part Collie. Named Prince. Reward if returned to Win. Major, 649 Broad stroet. 10- 16-20- It 1651 LpST — Merchants National Bank card case, containing sum of money. Liberal reward if returned to 1580, Star and Mtivu. 10-9-20-21-1580 J5S.SS REWARD— For Information leading- to the arrest and conviction of party stealing *80.00 in eneh. S Gold Watches. I Lady's Nock Chains, 1 Watch Chain. 1 Diamond Pin. 2 ' Pair of Oimie l Bar Rings, fram my bw. R mtm Maoriothi ls-s-ss-insn

SERVANTS — PUBLIC AND OTHERWISE I BY GUY MORRISON WALKER (In the Nation's Business) "It is almost impossible to get a ' good servant these days." ."Yes, and when you get one It is necessary to pay three times as much - as before the war." l, "Well, I would be perfectly willing e to pay the price if I only could get a 1 good one." How often one hears a conversation ! like this. It expresses the almost uni8 versal recognition of a condition '• known to exist and the general readi- • ness to pay almost any price for serv- , ice" f Our ideas of good sen-ice have changed much within the passing 5 years. We no longer scatter dust • with a broom; we attach a vacuum - cleaner to au electric light , We no longer ip the city carry. in . coal to the kitchen range; we turn on I the gas. Wei cannot imagine ourr selves going back to the .coal range, f the smoking oil lamp and the well in the back yard, j Our household servants have an ' easy time these days, yet we willingly pay them thkee times the price we paid when their work was thiee times | harder. It is a strange quirk of the human mind that makes us willing to pay more for human domestic service and at the same time" oppose violently ■ higher payment for our mechanical servants. Over there in the corner is [ the gas range, working at the same old wages. We recognize that the has to have higher wages 1 to purchase the things she needs and ' at the same time refuse to recognize that the eoet of living for the company that produces the gas has gone up just 1 much under the same economic con- 1 ditions. I was surprised recently to discover 1 how much my monthly bills for gaso- 1 had increased in recent years. 1 Now, I can get along without my auto- 1 mobile, but the gas range in my kitch- 1 is necessity. We pay the price ( the things we do not need and kick ' on a living wage for those that give.us 1 the things we need to sustain life itself. I Some years ago, in a little pamphlet 1 entitled "What Shall We Buy?" I call- 1 ed attention to the position of public * utilities in our social economy: "To 1 the extent to which the use of their 1 is imperative (that is, a serv- \ without which people cannot get 1 along), to that extent is thv sum nec- c for their sunnnrt a tar urmn I f _ essarv- for support a 1

the people, a tax even more impossible I s to escape than those imposed by cities j t' and states, because the laws by which j they are levied and collected are nag tural instead of human." _ Paying three times as much for one servant, how can one expect to ride 1 ,r down town for 5 cents when the street car company is paying its men 60 to' r 65 cents an hour instead of 20 or 25 | cents as when the 5 cent fare was fix- I •j ed ? What right has one to get gas at j - the old rate when coal and oil are costing eight times as much ? It cannot be done and the attempt e to do so is starving our public 9ervantc r to death. One real trouble is that our public 0. utility operators are such creatures of routine. They do not know what the F economic laws of public service are " and they really seem to believe that these economic laws are in suspension or they have not entirely ceased to j exist to operate. The salvation of the . public utility business is to lay down j hard these economic laws and force j ! the communities to realize they are in J . constant operation. Public utility i ) owners and operators have been afraid ' r bo let the laws operate. While sub- j 1 ) mitting themselves to the law of de- 1 ' mand they have been afraid to pass it i on to the people whom they serve. j ' The plight of the public utility com- i ' panies is largely due to their fear to i 1 take the steps which they have a right to take for their own protection The 1 ' courts here have almost uniformly ' held that where public service commis- ' ' sions or other commissions interfere ' in the matter of management or rates ' ( they are bound by equity rules and ' . cannot either fIx~6T-ftnp&se_rat£s that ' will bankrupt companies. The chief 1 trouble has been tljat the owners and j managers of public utilities have I known so little of their rights they have not known how to move, or if ' L knowing they have been afraid to act ' • according to their legal and ethical ~ I rights. One of the handicaps in the public ' . utility business is that the original 1 I franchises were sought by sod granted ' to promoters who had little or no 1 knowledge of the operating conditions ' ' of such public utilities. These men ac- ] cepted franchises that contained many i ; foolish tf not h^ewBde conditions. 1 Such franchisee ought never to have ' bene accepted, bat it ma* usual in 1 these hays to acoopt aay Had of a 1 fma^iee and *<a igao* the uawork- 1 ehto i mil i in Mi* i 1 h i IReek *

of the bad feeling in connection with E public mflity business has been du^j They'd Accept Anythiag^ It was wrung for the constructors of ptrfvlk utility properties to accept frana chiees containing uneconomic and foolish provisions. The public generally has ignored the fact that franchisee h contain many uneconomic things and when public utility companies fin3 it impossible to comply with the terms a of franchises, it has left the way open for the demagogues to charge public utility companies with bad faith. My own experience has been that it is unn necessary to accept any such franchises and I have seen Bankruptcy after bankruptcy follow after those who did. e People overlook the fact that a franchise is nothing but a license or pert mission to render service. If the serva ice is paid for it may or may not be .of value, but there is no obligation on ^ anyone to render service at less than j cost or at a loss. It neither ethical nor logical to expect that sendee will be rendered at a loss and no one is j able to compel it. A franchise is absolutely worthless unless it gives a j right to render service at some price above cost. There is, therefore, noth5 ing to be feared in boldly junking or } ignoring a franchise which is no longer an asset but liability. All that ! you need is to exercise a little comr roon sense and show this to the people. ! Public utility companies should call r the attention of the people to present I condition? and 1 have no doubt the . people will respond, for there is no | population that does not know that the [ reputation of its city is better for havi ing a public utility in it than has been I and is a conspicuous financial success , than to have added to the list of cities j, , in which the public utilities have failed and gone through bankruptcy on P account of short-sighted antagonism. - If the people of any given community give the public properties fair treatment and permit them to be successful it is a good advertisement for £ their city and makes it possible to raise additional capital for improving or expanding service therein. If, cm the other hand, the public attitude toward public utilities drives them into bankruptcy/"!? ?pot only deprives the people of that city of the sen-ice they be£n getting, but makes it impossible to i-aise capital to furnish the. service that has been de t roved by unjust treatment. The people have not realized before that it is this very treatment that is now making it difficult, if not impossible, to raise - 'capital to take care of their demands If : ; •

j j service. , j The trouble with most cities and . towns is that they fail to realize this. ! [ If by impositions you bankrupt a pub- ! lie utility your people are compelled .sooner or later to tax themselves to , make up the deficit between what the . i sendee they have received has cost , and what they have paid for it. , j In a case which 1 am now handling I a property was forced into receivership . by regulation and imposition. It was . . I operated by the receiver at continuing , ! deficits because he was unwilling to (attempt to raise the rates to a point . where the income would pay for the sen-ice, but now the court has ordered * 1 the sendee discontinued and the prop- , erty junked. The people who 'Rave re- , lied on this public utility for sendee | , now find themselves compelled to secure a large sum of money in the shape of a subsidy or bonus to prevent this property from being junked. The sum. they are now required to pay is really nothing Btft a lump sum, the difference between the cost of the j sendee they have received and what I they have been paying for it. j In the case of the Connecticut Shore Line Railroad the people coi^d not ! the economics of this and refused j to pay the deficits. The result is that the property has been junked, the rails j taken up and sold, the power house ' dismantled, the care gone, tftd not j only is the community formerly serviced by this sixty odd miles of railroad now deprived of the sendee, but the values of property along the line been lost. The people now find that it is impossible for them to regain these valexcept by voluntarily assessing themselves a sum ten times greater than they would have had to pay if < they had only paid what the service ; had cost when the road was there. Two years ago the motormen and '■ conductors on a street railway prop- : erty that I control, in a city famous j 1 for its lumber industry, ran the cars ' j into the barn and quit work. That ( ] I evening they published in the city pa-'! ! j per - a card to the public substantially ; follows: "We have not asked the |< light and railway company for an increase in wage? for we know that at j ; the present rates they cannot afford pay it. You people who work in 1 the mills are getting three times as 1 much wages ' as you get a year ago. ; Yea cannot ask us to furnish you < Kreet railway service at our oM wages when we cam quit ear railway jobs ; and ga to the mills and get the same ,

1 wages you are now This is enough^agi» bo increase the rates' F to Che light and railway company in' - a sufficient amount so that it can pay - us as much wag us for furnishing you r street oar service as we can get by i going into the mills and working with I you." A Popular Increase ' Needless to tell, such a card as this | caused excitement throughout the city. MiH men, store keepers, laborers and everybody stormed the city hall and demanded that the rates be raised whatever amount that might be necessary to enable the light and railway company to pay the street car men as much wages as they could get if they went to work in the mills." The city authorities thought this a splendid opportunity to make a public demonstration and so they refused to act on their Own responsibility, but called a special election on five dayp' notice, and it seems as if everybody in the city hustled to get out the. vote, for the increased rates were carried in a popular election by a vote of three to one. The owners and operators of public utility properties should take advantage of the present situation to show the people how by foolish regulation and the imposition of extraordinary and unfair taxes and of burdensome conditions they have simply been taxing themselves , for they now find themselves compelled to pay rates extraordinarily higher than were the previous rates in order to cover all these impositions that they themselves piled onto the public utility companies. * B. T- HAZLETT GOODS and NOTIONS ROYAL WORCESTER and BONTON CORSETS NEMO CORSETS : for Stout Figures FULL LINE OF LADIES' SHIRTWAISTS and SILK HOSIERY 323 Washington Street Cape May, N. J.

BIG RUMMAGE SALE St. Mary's Halljj ! Rear of Catholic Church FRIDAY and SATURDAY October 15 and 16 squeEzed to death When the -body begins to stiffen and movement becomes painful it is usually an indication that the kidneys are out of order. Keep these organs bealtny by COLD MEDAL The world's Standard mrsdy for kidney, liver, bladder and uric add troubles. Famous since 1696. Take regularly and kaap in good baalth. In three eizee, all druggists. Guaranteed as represented. Lnah far iba a— Oeld M.dsl — awry baa sad msls»MMks Seasoned Cord Wood Delivered any length, • any quantity : HENRY SEIGFRIED 549 Elmira Street Cf tfcr Kijiius, a*M 143-R i

[ ANNIVERSARY SALE | 1 PRE-WAR PRICES 1 will be in effect on many articles E . during this sale. I d Men's Fleece Lined Shirts and I ' Drawers, Best Grade 85c Men's Union Suits $L98 to $3.29 $1.00 Neckwear 78c $1.00 Silk Hose ' 78c One Hundred pairs of Women's $7 to $10 High Shoes $5.98 s Exceptional values in Pumps and Oxfords. M. C. FRYMIRE 323 Washington Street IF PRESENTED BEFORE I OVEMBER lrt, 1920 THIS COUPON IS WORTH $1.00 IN TRADE when presented as partial payment on any pair of Men's or Women's Shots Only one Coupon redeemed on each pair of shoes ANNUAL INVENTORY SALE commencing October 11 and lasting one week only.

Melbourne |Flour, 95c. sack, - $15 per bbl. Oats $1 per bushel; Extra fine c can Corn, crushed, 15c can; Sugar 16c; 10 per cent off on all Dry Goods, Rubber Boots ' and shoes. We also have a lot of shoes I which we are selling below the [ cost price. Now is the time to get your ; Underwear and Blankets for winter. R. T. Johnson Est. Erma New Jersey A. H. Swain, Manager COTTAGERS TAKE NOTICE Send it to the Laundry. You can have your Bed ; and Table Linen laundered special. You ere assured of ; first cla'S work and your wash will be laundered by itself, not coming in contact with other wash in any part ef the washing or ironing process. A trial bundle is solicited. TROY LAUNDRY 295 Congress Street 495 Washington Street 19lh Ssasae under sum ' - gimsnl Hanry E. Balm, Prop. « . • .