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On the threshhold of a new yeaT. it has been an annar castom of The Star and Wave to publish an editorial summ* rising the hopes and the anticipated possibilities for the coir ing year. . Often we have guessed wrong. Often we hav been over-optimistic. Often events have transpired dunn the year which were unpredictable. But the custom has cor tinned, for we feel it is good for all of us. good for all com . munities, to take stock at the start of a new year. This year we approach the task with mingled feelings. Cape May, like all the world, faces a year of uncertainties No onecan foretell what win happen. At the beginning of 1942, we are a world at war. And war creates conditions and situations which are as unpredictable as itself. What can Cape May expect? That is a question for which there is no complete answer. Many things are possible; few are certain. We might for example, become almost overnight a vast military garrison with our population doubled, tripled or even quadrupled by flip influx of service men and their families. It happened in WorldWar I and it may happen again at any time. Already a good start has been made by both the Army and toe Navy. Events in recent weeks have demonstrated the swiftness with which our community can become the home of large numbers of Armed forces. , , A . Defense enterprises, which during the last year have aAWwI greatly to Cape May’s total activity and total income, are likely to increase rapidly during the new year. Pending at present are three major projects directiy or indirectly asRAftafod with toe defense program m addition to toe vast amount of work being done at toe government reservation here. Each is an important project to Cape May. Taken collectively, for they will be under way simultaneously, the three will mean a great deal to this community and to the entire county. We speak, of course, of toe projects to construct a million-dollar chemical plant along the sohre of Del aware Bay, to erect 50 defense housing units near the Cape May Naval base and the construction of new access roads leading to toe base. . ' ' k v / All these projects will employ a considerable number of men. In addition, several hundred WPA workers are employed on various other projects at the base. Private contactors are employing additional workers on various phases of toe expanding defense set-up locally. - Combined, the defense work in this area is the greatest source of employment Cape May County has had since the last war. And when men work, thev earn ... and they spendand toe money cirulates among the entire community directJy or indirectly. From the standpoint of business prosperity. Cape May «apparently is nearing the long-sought goal of stable off-season

income.

Many other projects are under consideration. The canal, additional highway work, prospects of a new permanent Coast Guard servicing base . . . Any or all of these things might be given the go signal at a moment’s notice. They might become realities during 1942. Most but not all. visitors, we believe, will realize that thev will be safer at seashore resorts than they would be at their own homes in the large metropolitan areas which are the targets for “nuisance raids”. Higher taxes and soaring living costa may reduce somewhat the norma number of vacationists. But higher wages in industry wHl probably absorb the difference to a large extent. Already a good start for the 1942 season has been made by Cape May’s city commission which has been assured of two conventions during the coming season: The Friends General Conference and the three-week series of coferences of the Northern Baptist Convention. There still remains a strong possibility that the New Jersey Legion convention will come here next summer. World War I had little bad effect on Cape May’s summer seasons. It is unlikely that the resort business will suffer greatly in this conflict. With an apparently successful period before us. many of us will add new duties to ur normal lives. Many will be busy with defense work, preparations for any eventuality, adding to our knowledge and our resourcefulness. Yes. 1942 will be strange year, unpredictable, difficult, uncertain. The turn of events may have a very bad effect on seashore resorts. Many unanticipated events will probably transpire. We w'ill meet new situations constantly. We must add new responsibilities to ajir present ones. But. God willing, we and the rest of America—the rest of democracy—will emerge from the year stronger, more unified and a greater nation than we now are. Jjubuis Well (buMJwstd Cape May’s American Legion post last week went on record recommending Joseph Kennard Skilling, a Dost member. as a candidate for a national award presented annually to the American Legionnaire who has performed the most outstanding community service during the year. Basis of the post’s recommendation was Mr. Skilling’s excellent and untiring work in behalf of the Burdette Tomlin Manorial Hospital fund during the past summer and fall. Mr. Skilling. a well known Cape May resident, was chairman of toe county hospital fund campaign and was one of the most active of all toe workers who gave so willingly of their time

and efforts.

Success of the campaign was monumental. Surpassing the $25,000 goal which had to be reached by. November 1, the campaign actually passed the $35,000 mark before toe county-

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paring; two badgeta to meet an ■ IAI Ja

emergency which might oCeur tf ' the state legialatnre change* the budget act which now governs thfc drafting of budgets between

now and that date.

Campfield House, Morristown

Erected in 1760. the home of Dr. Jabei. Camfield. 5 Olyphant Place. Morristown, was the scene of Alexander Hamilton's successful courtship of Elirabctb Schuyler in the winter of 1779-1780. The house is of simple design.

with gable ends. The entrance porch U a later addition. Now owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution Uie house is open on Tuesdays and Fridays. It conUina a fine

collection of Qolonial furniture. A'nr Yrrsey Connctl. Hiatt Routt. Tr.«S»«

That a “Hudson County poetical machine’* is trying to poifcm the mind* of some of the state senators through a state-wide publicity bureau set up in Cape May Court House was the charge

hurled Saturday by the

The Weekly Sermon Corner: j The Summit Of The Years By Samuel Blair, Pastor o( the First Methodist Church

INFORMAL FOREWORD

Almost a year ago—February j ust gotten nicely into his stride

be exact—the editor of ;

s considering them-

hen others

this progressive newspaperi veg qU

launched an audacious innovation | Professor Thorndyke, of Colum"The Weekly Sermon Corner”. j,i a University, insists that only kis nnHr*. ia reliahlv informed forty per cent wnrlrl’n

mjich favorable reader comment as any department recently sponsored. People are magnanimous, ... >iiigs on ihcm! It so happened that in an editorial poll of pastoral names the A-riter's chanced to be drawn first, hence his contribution of the first sermon in the series. Now, again, the contribution you are reading proves to be the initial offering in the second series, hence this prefatory word. Incidentally, and paradoxically, it happens also to be the last sermon to appear in the Star and Wave this year, which accounts in some measure for the character of the delineation. To be perfectly honest, however, (your pardon for the personal reference) the author celebrated his natal anniversary on Christmas Day. and, as he will reach the half century mark in a few years now i SVi, Sh in 30 months) this particular dissertation was written as a sort of comforting balm for his own heart in face of the' inevitable ravages of that inexorable old soul ‘Tempus Fugit”. We have decided now to share it with you friends of “The Corner”, earnestly hoping you tnay glean some measure of comfort from it, and trusting, too, that this second series may prove as meritorious as the first appear to

have been.

The exigencies of journalistic space preclude further extension of this discursive preface, hence I conclude feeling confident that my clerical colleagues—collaborain this department—join me. i poetic language I wish the readers of the “Weekly Sermon Comer”, and of this newspaper, most blessed NEW YEAR,thus: As you climb the hills Of the coming years May you ride in high And never shift gears With plenty of gas And never a knock And a joy filling station In every block. Samuel Blair.

, the world’s greatest work has been done at or before forty. He calls seventy the masterpiece of age. In vindication one might cite numerous

examples.

Here is Oliver Weddell Holmes at seventy-nine, writing his literary "masterpiece “Over The Teacups”. Cato at eighty began the study of Greek; and Tennyson was eighty-three when he wrote his inimitable "Crossing the Bar”. Handel composed his immortal Messiah” when sixty-five. Haylen’s “Creation’ was done at six-ty-seven. Sophocles wrote his “Greek Tragedy" at eighty-nme. Voltaire was in the height of his activities at eighty-nine. Goethe wrote “Faust” when past eighty. Noah Webster learned seventeen languages after he was fifty. Scott, the commentator, began the study of Hebrew at eighty-seven. Wagner composed "Parsifal” at 69. .Verdi produced his masterpiece. "OtheHu”, at sevenly-four and wrote “Ave Maria” at eightyfive. Michael Angelo's most tremendous conceptions were painted^ between his fifty-ninth and' eighty-ninth years. Kant wrote his greatest works at seventyfour and later. Gladstone, o Europe's noblest statesmen, at the height of his powers after eighty. Benjamin Franklin, after eighty, was one of the most youthful members of the Continental Congress. While George Bernard Shaw at eighty-three, is one of the world’s most famous

playwrights.

Ordinarily we think

summit of the years as a period

“1 look to the years'for clothes and bread, I have bidden the past adieu; I laugh and lift my hands to the years ahead, Come on! I am ready for you." Science is concerned with adding years to our life. But many ' ^fd and tired 1< years are ap. we need is something to add life to our years. Markham had that "something”. May it be ours to catch the contagion of his triphant personality, so that the sunset years for us may prove a symphony, and at eventide there shall be light. After all, it is not how long a man lives but how much that counts. Time not the supreme test of lif« service U> humanity is: "By their fruits ye shall know them” ..declareiLthe incomparable Teacher

of Gi

the summit

As he appl

of his years, Jbhn Burroughs,

grand old rustic, rehiaf!

nacial interosting i _ _

legal advisory committee of the Few other generations have ha< Republican State CflRmittee in a the opportunity to watch ee mmtk report concerning the contest over history in the me king. We hep* the alleged fraudulent election of , none in the future will have tR Senator William C. Hunt watch this kind of history being I made. But at that, probably we*!* Workers in Cape May and better off than the kids a couple throughout Cape May County ro-iof generations in the future ceived Social Security account At least we wont have to lean numbers Monday morning when all this war stuff in history lse-

the identification numbers were j sons,

distributed to employees by the • • • local postoffice authorities. THATS ONE BREAK

1 the down payment even if we an r steadily as long as we live.

New Jersey’s Supreme

this week upheld the „

"gangster act” under which If- pay i , natius Lanretti and two of his J t « s the poor Idds of 2042 wboH henchmen were conyicted in Cape haVe the headaches of maotina

the installment payments on all

thia mesa. And the f ‘ “

WA

By C. Worthy

NEW YEAS COMING UP Here we are, all ready 1 wrap a nice new yafiT'

it wont be so nice I

es, the boedaches of war, etc.) but at least ftU bo hi and it tfumld he a mighty ^ for aB of as.

May County several months ago. The high court ruled on a similar

in Passaic County.

are much tougher than the down

Ten Years Ago

Protests are to be entered by j S_ Jt—*— — the Cape May County Chamber XLWAYS HOPE

of Commerce with the But whUe ^ in fant IMS Highway Commission on the re- mighl ^ pretty badly battered cent rejection of the bid to nave when it a t 12:01 Thurathe Bayshorc road at tjreen Hav moroimr it’, « nr*Mw

Creek, the last link between the

-■ked:

love with the world. It

has been my home. 1 have not bruised myself against it nor tried to use it ignobly. I have tilled its soil, I have gathered its harvests, I have waited upon its seasons, and dQways have I reaped what 1'vjf sown. While I have delved I hive not lost sight of the sky overhead. While I gathered its bread and meat for my body, 1 did not neglect to gather bread and meat for my soul. I have climbed its mountains, roamed its forests, sailed its waters, crossed its deserts, felt the sting of its frosts, the oppression of its heats, the drench of its rains, the fury of its winds, and always have beauty and joy waited upon my comings and go-

ings.”

From such a declaration it will readily be discerned that Burroughs was distinctly a philosopher to whom even the most

common things of life

imitably precious.

As for myself, life has been exceedingly kind and good to i ' proving a great journey'

of conservatism, but again and ! fine trip, and when the Great again we find adventurous souls j Conductor comes around to colwho insist upon growing and j lect the last ticket, I trust Ht

working long after their allotted will find me smiling,

three score years and ten have When Longfellow was well

receded into the swirling mists along in years, he

of the encircling centuries. This it was that he was able to keep ought to be comforting to those so vigorous and write so beautt* of advanced years who are ob- fully. In reply he pointed to a sessed with the idea that this is blossoming apple tree outside the almost exclusively a young peo- window and remarked "That apple's world and that old folks are pie tree is very old, but 1 never only in the way. Such is the saw prettier blossoms than these temptation to discouragement that | which it bears now. The tree

often comes when the shadow:

of our little day lengthen. “We all do fade as a leaf” de-

clared the prophet Isaiah; but the fading leaves of autumn have a matchless glory all their own that

is thrilling . to nature lovers. Obviously the thing that makes

a man or a woman old is not because their joys have ceased, but that their hopes have gone. So many pull down the shades at the setting of the sun, but that is foolish, better watch the moon come up and then wait for the stars to shine. Typical of the latter is Zona Gale's father as seen

grows a little new wood each year, and 1 suppose it is out of thal wood that these new blossoms come. Like the apple tree. I try to grow a little new wood

each year.”

It was Mark Twain, I believe, who said, “Life would be infinitely happier if We could only be born at the age of eighty, and gradually approach Eighteen.” But such ‘ ' ’'

Text: Genesis 47:8. “HOW OLD ART THOU” Joseph Cook is credited with the statement that man's life is teachable twenties, tireless thirties, fiery forties, forceful fifties, serious sixties, solemn seventies, aching eighties, shortening breath, death, the sod—God. No reckoning beyond 80 else there would have been a noble ninety or a hallowed hundred. In any event, "Our birthdays used to be so

few.

So long from next to last; But now that we don’t want

—.—— --them to, ■ - j, -——— . ' ,—- —.. - vu< uciBuuaiiby aou even « They^re coming thick and He was one of the few elderly manhood”. To say that youth fast." [men I have Joipwp who never j^ppier than maturity is. like Indeed they are, for the wheels ; seemed to grow homesick for the ^,1 the view from the of time spin rapidly. Yet each, old he Riever left the prow, bottom of a tower is better than stage of life has its corrrpensa-1 of the boat where he loved to ^ view from ^ 0 n the •ions. For youth it is pleasure, feel the spray of the future contrary, however, as we. ascend excitement, thrills. For middle against his face. Ah! there it is. the iral gta i rC asc, and glance

day morning, it’s got :

good chance of pulling tnrooan

i successful finish. This nrigfct the year that well lick tha

dickens out of the dictators. IV

'it be the year that America her allies start straightening

up a very badly bent and cockeyed world. Or it might be tha year that we just make a mighty good start on that job, with tha grand finale to come in ladar

years.

PROBLEM . . . AND HOW Yes, sir! The bouncing baby that represents 1942 is certainly a problem child. But we suppoaa it'll turn ont all right. Other years hare started off badly, bak have straightened themselves out before they got too' fa. along, and maybe this one will too. At any rate, we’re not going to predict anything. We’re gonna just sit back and wait.

• • •

BUYING BLITZKRIEG

The biggest part of the holiday season is behind us and H had

foaving his seat vacant, Virgil the usual amount of revelry and Weldon was appointed and con- stuff, considering everything firmed to finish the unexpired piere was the normal number of , _ j last-minute shoppers, crowding

'the stores Wednesday night ana Commander von Panl.en, for-' <>oymi: ,tnlf Uiey didn't Bke for

meriy of Baae Nine here, P»Pl« woiddn t Uke th. pilot of the Coan Guard tea- «»« the buyere hoo,ht and would plane Aretaru., whieh wa. badly probably ju.t keep it Ion* moush damayed while attempting to pu t :'or the .tore, to open Frldw up a drifting buoy off fort ban- morning .o they rould exchang; derdale, Fla., on Sunday A CG d- .°h, well. That .part of

patrol ptpeoeded from Ferunda. Ck"'™, .. . and the Friday «t-

uTed how I 12° miles away, to render aid. ehnngea do hdp bname.. a little.

The Commander and his two of- {

ficer companions were safely A FINE SPIRIT

danded. j Porks of posies to the dtr

firemen for the yeoman work

I.ess than two weeks after she they did in helping Santa Claus nuived into her new home in again this year, distributing reSouth Dennis. Mrs. Anna Mooie- built and repaired toys to a large house was cn Monday forced to number of poor kids throughout flee the building with her child- the community. They did a swell

ren when flames from a defect- ^ ,l '-

ive flue swept through it.

present end of the concrete face on the north with that at Green Creek on the route U Rio

Grande.

of Chosen Freeholders ^ok place at Cape May Court House Monday with a surprise or two for the uninitiated and possibly for at least one of the members. Luther C. Ogden, of this city, was renamed Director of the board and also named to head the new department of administration. The only direct change made was the transferring of the bridge department from Freeholder Powell to Freeholder Clouting. West Cape May Borough coun1 reorganized at the meeting held Monday evening, John J. Stewart being sworn in as Mayor and Charles Ellis as new councilCecil McCullough was reseated as councilman. Mayor Stewart having previously been councilman and his election

such retrogression would,

the words of William Lyon Phelps (in his “Autobiography atd Letters”), simply mean that "wo should gradually lose our intelli-

, . . . .... gence, our experience, our work, by Glenn Frank, ^who ^esttfies: qqj. personality and

wide drive was ended for the current year.

While everyone who worked for toe hospital fund dees a ffreat deal of credit, it was Mr. Skilling: whose leader-

and determination did much to assure success of toe

ttjrn. stage of life has its conrpensa-1 of the boat where he loved to!

a making - toeir recommendation to the county com ~ FHch Will then forward it to the state and national tents, Cape May Legionnaires made, we.believe, an ex-

cellent selection. ,

The value of a county hospital is unquestioneaas a benefit to the entire county. Every citizen and visitor W Cape May County stands to benefit from its establishment. Those who contribute to its establishment are certainly benefactors of fbdr fellow men. In this category, Mr. Skilling seems to be

t0 . r UK Mtion»l Md we .inerdy .... , I that hs will be given toe recogmtioil toat is due him for u>rir , f insect*, mice and fools die by Edwin when near- m, ' n ln charge of the Navy homing

' i—' • . alert, wvBi■—1 ■■ man lua ins- the neek feiabtv wean) i pigeons.

exavement, uinus. r or miaaie against uis abac. rcu. wee .t the s n lra i staircase, and fflpnrc age it is growth, development, ap-1 No matter how gray one s hair {rom j^g through the predation. To the years beyond may be. No matter how many narrow slits in the stoncT thet come mellowness, understanding, | wrinkles one may have, if one is nnge of our view widens imjudvment, tolerance, sympathy. | still optimistic, still possesses the mense ]y Final'y, as we reach —“‘Life begins at forty for those. spirit of adventure, still has cour- ^ g.^mmit it is a8 if we had •vho have something to live for, .age to keep trying, one is young, the world at our feet it ia the end of the 1 no matter how many years Fa-1

useiture and the he<-ier«r'- ' ther Time has checked up against

still treater music," states Wal- him. | There used to be a Naval rating

ter P'tkin, mnd'T" mv dc . . Listen, and catch the contagion . p;-__

on to say that while her- of th~e buoyant words penned * P ‘ K * 00 <fc»rtermaster **

job, and the workmanship displayed on the large bunch of toys contributed by generous Cape May citizens was of the best(It'a things like that that make Christmas such a swell season.

Twenty Years Ago

The annual meeting of the Progressive League will be held this Tuesday evening, January 3rd. It

is urged a full attendance of the Because of the demand for members be present at this meet- , foreign maps and charts, the Navy mg as it is the most important Hydrographic Office haa increased

business meeting of the year. I from 180 to 380.

Cburcb H’lottces

Gape fslanb Baptist Church Orner of Guemey Street and Columbia Avenue. REV. ROBERT D. CARRIN

Bible School 10-00 A M Morainic Worship 11:00 A.M. Baptist Tralnlne Union. 0:41 P.M. Evenin* Worship. 7:45 P. U. Week of Prayer Union Services January 4 ALL SERVICE MEN ARB WELCOME TQ OUR S