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CiPE MAT STAR A3»f ATI Published by STAB AND WAVE PUB. CO. . (Incorporated) j ALBERT B. HAND, PreuideBt CAPE MAY, NEW JEBSEY ILLBONEWING . . . Manager SUBSCRIPTION. PRICk $L50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE TOa paper is entered at the posL Mfice an second-class postal matter. | TH^A^dERICAri PR^S^SS^CIATION 1 Publishing a communication in these columns does not necessarily Mi ply editorial endorsement. Communications will not Be conMdered unless signed." The Board of Chosen Freeholders Is none too largeA petition is being circulate^ thruput Cape May City, and in other parts of the county, whose signers declare that they favor the reduction of the Board of Freeholders in size from fourteen members, the present number; to. three members. This is A radical change, a bad change, and ft is believed to be a change that -the . people of the county do not want, ana will not have if they stop to give • ' the matter tfit? proper amount of j thoughtCape May County is composed of a number of independent municipalities, each anxious for the county's welfare, but primarily interested in its own future. How c9h all these separate independent municipalities J>e represented by three men? It is utterly impossibleThe municipalities will not stand /"To*, taxation without representation; - they are not willing to. take either the chance that a man " from their section and partial to their interests will be elected, nor are they , willing to take the chance that the man from some .other town will be impartial, and accord them the same interest that he will accord to the place from which he was chosen. Under such a law, politics would become bitter, -and dissatisfaction widespread. Nor is it assured that some places, aspiring to greater prominence regardless of the welfare of their fellows, would not conspire to the harm jtheir neighbors.. For instance, "a group in town A wouki confer with a group to town B, name astfandidate from each of their respective towns, and one from Borough C„ w-thCtotakex-clusion of town D, who is thereby cfu out of all representation in the afV fairs of the county. Town D's' mouth is shut concerning the dispo- s sition of the large amount iff -money , it pays each year in cojiftty taxes It»is not difficult to conceive this sit- 1 .nation. Easy Graft One of the glarihg defects of a small board Is thafthfsmaller it is the easier it is for thefrrafteiv-At this juncture, somebody is bound to say "Well, grafting could hot he worse than in the past." It is never so bad but that it might be worse And besides7 there have been as yet no convictions for grafting among the freeholders- Let us wait until ; the smake blows away before - we state the number of dollars thatjjave ; been stolen from the county. But even supposing there was grafting? The proposition remains unchanged that the smaller the public body, the easier for the grafter. Of course, if we assume the honesty of everybody, the small board . might work- And if the; county vvas l lucky enough to secure three men who. could remain unmoved in the .face of opportunities Yar tremendous I profits from deals not entirely crooked, but merely "shady" (and this- would be extremely fortunate indeed) it might work efficiently. But on the other hand, there is something to the 'proposition that two heads are better than one; and by that same ' token, fourteen, heads are better than threeThere is -an undeniable, tendency throughout the. country to centralize power. Sometimes its., a good thing; -more often it isn't. In thig case it decidedly isn't No matter how small a county is? it is always represented in the slate government, and has the right to speak on -the disposition of moneys a part qf which it contributed- But here we have a proposition that will reverse that order of things. Some municipality is going to get cheated out of representation every election. And those municipalities that do would have a grievance and a reasonable one. r- ' It has been stated before, in a far more eloquent article, that taxation without rfpreseatation is tyranny. That is what the small board mea.isWars and rumors of wars are still persisting — and'tKe League of Nations goes merrily on. .7? fS |

AMERICAN FOOD SIDP SAVES 184)00 BABES » FROM STARVATION r Heroic Yankee Women Risk t Lives to Rescue Children, in Service of Near East Relief Constantinople. — How tie prompt action of Charles V. Vlckrey, General Secretary of the Near East Relief, and Harold C. Jaqultb, repreecnta- , tire of that American relief o^ganlzatlon In. Constantinople, saved the lives of 18,000 orphan children and seven American relief workers In Alexandropol. Armenia, Is what all ■ the representatives of the Allied nations In Constantinople are applaud- . Ing today.. For five years the Near East Rellel ; organization had built up a work ol mercy throughout the former Turk- . lsh- Empire and Transcaucasia, to l , point where 64,600 little children were being housed, clothed, fed, ' given medical attendance an*taught, i and over 56,000 others being sup- ; plied with food. Then suddenly, on L February 5, last, there came hurried . cable reports of renewed fighting In Armenia and Transcaucasia, where 1 76,818 of these little ones were loca- * tod under the protection of the Near • HELP! »

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1 East, Belief. Consular representa- ; tlvea left the country. All foreigners i plied onto ships and fled. War { threatened to scatter the work and . render vain the long, paUent efforts ! 1 of the Near East Relief to salvage a whole nation's children. , But the American men and women i i who had cared for these little ones . A were undismayed. They refused to leave under bombardment, with hostile armies sweeping through the 1 streets where, the Near East Relief's i great orphanages ' had " been established, with all supplies cut off and no communicaUon with the outside world, or with that far American homeland whose representatives these heroic men and women are, they stuck to their posts. The last food from America had come In on Nov'eihber 6, 1920. ' , It was not until four months later that the new governments of the Transcaucasian states were • established on a solid basis. But* famine threatened. An appeal was iqade to American philanthropy: "Critical need (or food products in.Caucasus;" the cable read. "No limit to need In Armenia. New government promises I facilities for relief activity than former government." A few days ater, a further plteons plea followed: "Total orphans In Alexandropol 18,000. Supplies In Alexandropol allow half-raUons, April 3rd to 30th. After May 1st, nothing." But this splendid American relief organization had not waited. Food was already on the way. On April 22, Charles V. Vlckrey, general secretary of the Near East Relief, cabled: "Expect ship first week, in May: 1,000 tons rice; 1,000 tons wheat flour; 600 tons cornmcal. corn flour, -hominy; 30 tons sugar; 500 tons beans; 6,000 cases corn syrup, from New York and New Orleans direct to Batum. Additional l.OOO: tons wheat flonr from Pacific Coas't June 1st." >» The seven American relief workers . jn charge of the 18,000'little ones in Alexandropol cabled a lait appeal: "No food at any price. Four days more and we are finished." But when the first relief ship "Quequen" entered the deserted harbor of ■ Batum on May 1. there were just ten bags of fleur l«t. The food ship had come in time. America had saved the day — and the .18,000 little orphan cnildron, who' had suffered so ; much and lost so much In their short? , war-clouded lives, never knew that gaunt hunger In the robee of death 1 had knocked 'at the door of the ori phanage at Alexandropol — and that . America had thrust the bony hand | -way' "It Is the great heart of America that made this work of salvation pbsI sible, " Mr. Vlckrey declared. "The moneytbat sends the bread to these ' children comes from tetf million homes throughout the VnKed States. • It comes from the hearts of the most generous people In the worjd, who . cannot bear to know- that half a world ajray, little children are facing ' hunger' and death/ without helpinr ■ them to. life and happiness." Mr. Vlckrey Is making a nationwide appeal to the people of the j United Statee to keep this great work going. Contributions may be sent to * Cleveland H. Dodge. Treasurer, 1 Madison Avenue, New York City.

GREEK SOVEREIGN i LAUBS WORK OF I NEAR EAST RELIEF it C-SIea Thanks for Christian Liver Saved in "Beautiful Work" of Mercy t Athens. Greece. — The. wonderful 1 . worR done by the Near East Relief organization In saving the lives of . te.% of thousands of Christians . - throughout Asia Minor and Trans- ! eaucasia has received signal recognl- . tlon in praise bestowed by Queen : Sophie of Greece In a cablegram dishatch by the Greek sovereign to Dr. 1 J nines L. Barton, Chairman, and nimrl«« V VI,W.v c ',

| KING" AND QtTEEV OF GRfeECE Near' East Relief organization, j' . .ViadiBon Aye., ^[ow York City. • Her message reads: "Deeply touched your great kind- j | neSs towards Greek war sufferers In i Straits Area and Asia kS&or. Thank j you all most slncerelj. SOPHIE." At the' same time, the Greek queen sent her check to Dr. Barton, Chairman of the Near Epfit Relief Comralttoe, for 1,000 /rones as a contribution to what she termed the "boavtl-fuP-vrferk" of feeding; clothing and housing the more than 110,000 little children whoi have come under the care of the Near East Relief during the past year. Besides Queen Sophie, Admit al P. Coundouriotis, of the Royal Hellenic Navy, who was regent of Greece following the death of the late King Alexander, on October 25. last, has also cabled to express the gratitude of the Greek people for the aid fur-* nlshed the Christian pqpulatlons of Turkey by the Near East Relief. More than $120,000:00 was raised among the Greeks of the United States, In two weeks, and sent to the Near East by the Near East Relief, to be used In helping the widows and i orphans rendered destitute by the continuation of disturbed conditions in the former Ottoman Empire. The funds of the Near East Relief are I gathered by private subscription not ; only among Americans, but among the Armenians and Greeks In the United States, whose countrymen' in i Turkey and Transcaucasia have been Through ' Indescribable suffering. In an official report to CharlOB V. v'lckrey. General Secretary of the ."car East, Relief, Miss Glee Hastings, of Spencer, Iowa,j describes the piti-.'-bl8kCondltlon of tens of thousands of .. homeless,* starving, half-naked ■•efugeos, driven from their homes In iho war area, and huddled in stables and out-hou*gs, or on the bare ground, for lack of shelter. "Xlost of tfiS refugees are country people with almost nothing - except ihe clothes on their backs, stupefied and dazed by their misfortune^. Bread is giveh "only to. women and children at the ra,te of one-half loaf for a person, oaeh day. The milk Is reserved for the- babies and sick. The refugees sit around; huddled up against the walls — women with dull. 3ad faces; little children that are blue • and pinched wlth/fRo cold, and too miserably llfelese^to cry. Ohe family of five sleeps at sight on a bare stone floor, under one thin, ragged halfwomen nre wasting awny with tuberculosis; in another are some severe eve cases, Including two young blind girls, who have no one In the world to care for them. The overflow from these buildings Jive In a wooden shed with the walls and floors gaping with holes where the wood -has rotted | away and in t^nts. Improvised from I •ags and pieces of carpet." A nation-wtde appeal. Is being uade to carry on this work, checks to be sent to Cleveland II. Dodge, ! " " Treasurer, 1 Madison Avenue, New York City. xj. S. ARMY HEAD ASICS ARMENIAN AID Washington. — Major . General James G. Harbord, recently appointed General Pershing's .assistant Chief of Staff, has gone on record In support of the work of the 'Near East Relief in Armento. He says, in a ' letter to the Neai^East Relief: "Of all the heart-breaking distress hat exists In other countries, 1 believe that the Near East Situation should most appeal to our charitable people. There are many thousands •of helpless orphans — children of Christian parents in a Moslem- land, who must be helped by our people if they are to survive. The Armenians have preserved their race, their religion and their language under conditions qf distress for over a thousand "years. They are worthy of a better fate than to perish and 1 believe that will be their fate without substantial financial and moral support from the good people of our country. N, "J. G. HARBORD, . '.'Major General, p. 8. Army.' General Harbord Is one of the : trustees of the Near East Relief ori sanitation, now making a general appeal lor finds to continue Its work unong Ute destitute of Bible leads 3

NEW FEATURES c AT COUNTY FAIR r ~ — ~ '! HORSE. MULE AND FORD RACES j ARE ATTRACTING HOSTS OFa ENTRANTS. . Everybody knows the County Agricultural Fair is tc be on'the Fair J Grounds, Cape May Court House, N. * J-, Friday and Saturday, September g 16th and 17th. Several outside horses, as well as - county horses, have been entered, I according to J- P- Fjox, chairman of . the Racing Committee- | Entries "to the mule race are still open. Here is an easy purse and a lot of fun for somebody. Don't forget to send in your name to the Racing Committee- ; Dr. Levy of the State Board of Health, will have at the Fair, a Fine BaCy Keep Wtll Station, where mothers c an have their babies, under two years of age,- weighed and examined by competent doctors or nurses. Helpy ful literature can also be secured 1 free of charge. Ribbons and photos will be awarded to babies scoring 100 per cent in healthMr. Krouse of Stone Harbor, is in. | i terceding for a two passenger aero- , plane to make flights both days at the Fair. ~ j Here is a chance, for trap shooters, ' both professional and non-profession- • • al, to try out their skill. Two cups will be awarded at an open match on ( ' the IJ6Ij*-Grthnds on Saturday, the 1 ' l'fth.,'-" Bring your gun along. | Haiyy Griffith of Erma is plan- j

rrlmr to put on a special auto race of ] camouflaged Ford speedsters each day after the horse leces. I The base ball line up is as follows: I On Friday, South Seaville P- O. S- of ' , A. vis. Cold Spring, and Ocean City , ! Red Mean vs. Cea Isle City. O* Sat ' | urday, Cape May* Court House "vs. Cape May, and Ocean View Vs. Belleplain. These games will be hotly contested, tod ..will be exceptionally - interesting to all baseball fans. ■ 0 " A FISH STORY f Our Labor Day visitor, the oftquoted, "very dead" whale has re- ' ceived so much flattering attention ' . from thp metropolitan newspapers! ' that- we feel it would be vain repetition to talk about it here- Enough to 1 -say thi^ Mr"* Whale' was as very un1 welcome as he was "Very dead," and ' ■ that he was removed without undue • delay. . Sufficient unto this whale has been " the publicity, thereof. But? we ven- - ture to say, without egotism, that if • we HAD written about it, it would ' have been "a whale of a story." 1 " MRS. .ANNA B. CLOUD ' " Mrs- Anna & Cloud who has been ! known to the residents of Cape May for some years, died suddenly, Sep- 1 ; tember 3rd, aged 70 years. She was - ' • a faithful communicant of the Church of the Advent and held in high. regard by all who knew her. The funeral was at the church on • , Wednesday at noon, the Rector, Dr. Howe, officiating- Interment was Laurel Hill Cemetery. i If you want anything in Cape May 1 I advertise in the STAR & WAVE. f .<

HOARD OF CHOQEN FREEHOLD- ■ , ! ERS, CAPE MAY COUNTY, NIT U JERSEY I Se*led_ bids will be received by the ■ Puchasing Agent of the County of M Cape May, in the Freeholders' Rooms ■ • in the Court House Building, Cape 9 May Court House, Cape May Co-ir- ■ : *>• New Jer8*y. on Tuesday, the fl twentieth day of September, A. D., ■ 1921 at twelve o'clock noon Daylight fl Saving Time (11 o'clock A. M. Stan- fl dard Time) for the following: I Cement Binder or like material, to fl , cover one mile of road known as fl 1 1 First Avenue or. Turnpike, West ■ 1 Cape May and Lower Township, fl Cape . May County, New Jersey; fl ' quantity to- be not less than forty a • tons (40 tons)- nor more than fifty fl 1 (60) tons; delivered at Capq. May 1 1 Cit>'> 'New Jersey, f. o. b. West Jer- 1 sey and Seashore Railroad siding. Specifications to be. furnished upon application to Samuel F. Eldredge, Purchasing Agent, Cape May City, ! New Jersey. Each bid-toust be accompanied by ' cjjsh or certified check made payable to the ordto of the County Treasur. i er, id an amount equal to ten per ■ cent. (10%) of the total bid. ' | The 'right is Teserved^to reject any ; or all bids. SAMUEL F. ELDREDGE, Purchasing Agent, •>* Cape May Countv. 9-10-5t • ** * — 1 ' * It may be interesting to know that Italy discarded the British pound as \ a basis fori her gold money -and in P'ace of it, has adopted the American .dollan

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THE FLftUQR LASTS Don't Buy Any Automobile " . Until September 6th. Day After Labor Day

Sale Continued Week of Sept. 9 to 17 PIERPONT, & BROWN * City Hall Block WILD WOOD New Jersey • i ■- ■

WE haVc been swamped with orders for StudebakswAtrtomobiles at the • . new low prices. We mun have ready money to finance new car sales. We most sacrifice to get it. On September 6th we slash our prices! Every used car will be marked at an astounding low price. No cars put aside— Bring cash or your check book. ^ Waif Until September 6th. ■* v ' - ' " 7