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City Folks Becoming Wanderers Due to Increasing Cost of Homes

More Than 64 Per Cent of Nation's Population Are Paying Pent, Interchureh Survey 8how»— New York City Leads Country, With 97 In Every 100 in Manhattan Giving Monthly Tribute to Landlord.

More than 88 per cent of the homes I In New York City are rented. In the i Borough of Manhattan the percentage < rises to 97. < Nor is this condition limited to the i Metropolis. It is common to most I cities. The people of the United I States who liVQin rented homes are in < excess of 54 per cent of the population, t according to the latest government retains. About 45 per cent own the . houses in which they live. These statistics have been collected , for the survey of city life now being j t conducted by the Interchurch World , Movement to provide a practical pro- | , gram for closer co-operation of I'rotes- 1 1 tant Churches in merlca. And the j survey already reveals .one of the i i gravest problems now confronting the [ [ Rented homes, the survey shows, j • mean migrant families, for the day of ; t the long lease Is passing, and Increases 1 1 in rent cause Increases in moving. The migration of families has shifted and ! ■ changed the congregatii^fc of urltpo , I churches. And too often the family , ' that moves beyond the reach of one : church does not transfer Its member- > ship to another, even -though It attends i that other. 1 1 The moving family, say the workers t on the survey, leaves the church letter, 1

by which membership is transferred, and the family cat behind. If the church did not have more lives than a cat, these survey workers are beginning to think, it would have been dead ago, for, Just as the family "loses" cat, a church loses members, although another church does not gain them. One preacher In a pastorate of 13 years noted 3,000 changes in his congregation. I The present generation of the city, the survey reveals, is a generation of wanderers because of the growing I number of rented poinds and the rising I rents. As a result the family church J becoming an urban rarity. The family in which the father is a founder of I the Church he attends, married to a ; member of the congregation, and with I children baptized by the family mln- : is more and more seldom found. the survey workers report Toe often the Im reose' In rent has | sent the family to another neighborhood, One. purpose of the Interchurch | World Movement survey of the cities I is to determine how. through that efficient co-operutlon of churches J which Is the major aim. of the move- | ment, migrant families may not be loit ' the membership of their respective

DO FISH TALK? Dr. Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, says he is convinced that t fish "talk" with one another. The J ■ ; word "talk," of course, is used merely i [ ' in the sense of communicating by 1 c It is well known that when one's < head is under water two stones struck j 1 together will make a almost deafen- i ing sound. Dr. Bell tried this exper- ' 1 iment with two very small pebbles 1 and the sound they made was like a U vigorous knock on a door. He then , < reflected that a lobster must make an i audible sound every time he clicks his ! claws together.- • ; < So good is water as a carrier of j sound that Dr. Bell began to wonder i if creatures in the sea did not make j some use of this property. That was | years ago, and his experiments have 1 1 continued. "I do not know whether < all fish make sounds or not," says Dr. • Bell in a communication to the Na- i tional Geographic Society, "but there ; are some fish that certainly do." He has listened to them, and has heard sounds like a grasshopper's "chirrup," answered by other chirrups. All fish have ears, says Dr. Bell. , Why, if there is nothing for them to hear? "Of this we may be certain" he continues, "that there is a whole world of sound l^enoath the waves, waiting to be expldred- Threequarters of the earth's surface is under water and has not yet been explored to any great extent." PLAN WORK AND SAVE Start the saving habit and open an account with the Security Trust Co. A Strong Institution. Flirts are not as bad as they are painted.

THE BAND The Band shows signs of j-evivica- j tion. On Thursday. 6th invtTa very I i satisfactory rehearsal was had. Three j members of the Wildwood band fav- I ' ored the Cape May Hand by assisting | | tp make the rehearsal a success, j Only seven members constitute 'the| local organization. The leader wishes i ! it to be known that if there are any j ' band men in Cape May or vicinity, the band would be glad to have them I i come in. Also, if the i any who ! ! desire to learn, the Is <-. • prill be j glad to have a Learner.-' Class. • Join the Band and h: ^e a pleasant! evening once a week. VARIETY SUPPER ! Class No- 3. of the lyrst Pre shy- I j terian Sunday School, will give a ' | Supper" in the basement of : i the church, on Tuesday evening, January 18th, 1921. from -r> to 8 o'clock. : : Supper, Fifty Cents. V NOTICE Why worry about coal wjten you • can geV good dry wood delivered 1 promptly. Order now before bad " weather sets in. Call Keystone 1 807-^.-11 or drop a card to Walter P. ; Taylor, Cape May, N. J. l-15-21-2t "A poet is born, not made," we are informed, but amateur poets should: make it a practice never to be born. The Anti-Saloon League choir will 1 now sing "O Blue Law Land! Sweet Blue Law Land!" A successful magazine cove* is ope e that has very Kttle cover for the girt

CAPE MAY FREE C PUBLIC LIBRARY Cape May's Free Public Library is installed in the high school build- ti ing and is open to the use of a!! of ]j the people of the Cape May High a School section, which Includes Lower 0 Township, West Cape May. South j: Cape May, Cape May Point, and Cape j e Way City. The librarian is on duty i a Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays 1 t. from 3:30 to 5:00 o'clock in the after? j n noon. There are now 3.000 volumes ■ h available. It is being used more and ), more each week, as folks begin to - v understand about it. ( a You may have some worth while 0 books which it can use. <; : f In this country it's "Who's Who."|f but in Centra! Europe it's "Vitch'sit Vitch?" I C In a matrimonial race it is not easy|i to tell when a girl is on her last lap. j t

CAPTAIN BENNETT RE-ELECTED — i The annual election of officers of a Pilots' Association of the Bay and River of Delaware, occurred recently g and there was a very earnest contest over the election of the President. ^ Albert G. Bennett, who was elected for the first time last year in interesting contest, was re-elected r this year with a largely increased I majority, the largest, it is said, which . ever been given a president in the c j history of the association. This is 1 I very gratifying to Captain Bennett his many friends both in and out e of the association because it is an en- [ and a recognition of the | that he has made good during his 1 first year in office and is in a position t i to become increasingly proficient. Cape May will be gjad also because i it is honored in the choice of one of i its most prominent citizens and one of 1 the best of the Cape May pilots.

UNCLE EPH'S SA YIN'S I A feller what never wuz licked ain't fit much. Ef a English sparrer wuz big enough tuh eat they wouldn't be a nuisance very long- They's many a feller whose size saves 'em a lickin". A optimist 'II brag about his commeal mush, if thet is all he hez tuh The dry law hits the chaps what couldn't live with themselves unless they wuz drunk. A pessimest is a feller what shovels beans with a pitchfork, and complains thet they won't stick. Did you ever notice thet ef a grouch to choose up sides he alius grabs the cheerful cuSSes? They, say: "A rollin' stone gathers moss." But I ain't much use for moss anyway. It usually sticks tuh the dead ones. The world 'ain't no use fer a feller

what can't laugh when the joke is on him. 1 A muskeeter bit a elephant once and then went home an', bragged , about it. The elephant didn't know J it. Big-souled men don't even turn , a hair when a slander tries tuh pizen folks agin 'em. A fly what wuz spendm' the winter i in a hothouse complained about his confinement. They let him out an' t he friz tuh death. They's some fel- . lers speechifyin' fcr liberty what wouldn't hev a honest meal ef some . one didn't find the makin's fer 'em. Facts stay by and are not forgotten, A feller what steals or grafts may h kiver his face with his hands, but he s caniwt»hide. The folk- are ont^him ^ The wind may be tempered to the ! shorn lamb, but nothing at all is done r for the silk-clad calf.

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