THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1942

(Gape Mag §iar ana Mao? PCJUMm Evsry Thursday at thb Star and Wavs Bun-Diwo SI RSRRT STREET. CARS MAY, M. X THE ALBERT HAND COMPANY. Incorroratso. MERVYN KENT. EOfTOR PAUL SNYDER. AOSP

SUBSCRIPTION PRICE #130 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE

THIS PARER IS SMTERU) AT THE ROST OFFICE AT CARS MAY. N. * AS SECOND^LASS MATTER. NATIONAL RSRRSSENTATTVSSl AMkRICAN RRESS ASSOCIATION EES WEST THIRTY-NINTH STREET. NEW YORK. N. Y.

y&A, SheAman UJoa ftiqhL ... After three years of steady decline. Cape May’s 1.942 tax rate last week took a jump of 71 cents per $100 valuation when the new city budget was introduced. The increase will probably mean the addition of several dollars to every 1942 tax bill, but the increase, unwelcome as it is, probably won’t break anyone. In fact, it hasn’t been so many years since everyone gave a sigh of relief when the tax rate dropped to a point as high or higher than the present

figure.

The commissioners pointed out last week, the increase is dufe principally to increases in the county tax rate, in the amount necessary for the operation of city schools, of rises in annual payments on principal and interest of the city’s bonded debt.... all these in the face of the loss of $100,000 in taxable valuations. It is unfortunate that all these conditions, necessitating a higher tax rate, should occur in a high-cost war year, but apparently these situations were as unavoidable as they are unfortunate. Compared with the drastic increases in federal taxes this year—the higher income tax rate, additional taxes on commodities, luxury taxes, automobile use taxes and the thousand and one hidden taxes on everything we buy—Cape May’s 71cent tax rise is only a drop in a very large bucket. Americans generally are accepting higher federal taxes patriotically. They’re willing to contribute their share toward financing this war to protect democracy from the threat of dictatorship.

Museum At Paterson

The Paterson Museum is located at 268 Summer StreeL It contains one of the finest mineral collection? in the State. Another object of interest is the 14 foot submarine built

in 1878 by John P- Holland, which sank in its first trial in the Passaic River. Almost 60 years later it was located in the mud. dug up and presented to the muaeum. Ht%c Jertcp Council. Blair Houte. Trenton

New Jersey citizens, most of whom will receive larger local tax bills this year as a result of defense appropriations and other increased governmental expenses, would do well to accept their local tax increases as graciously, practically and philosophically as they do the much larger federal increases. After all. local government is the heart of our federal system of government. It, too. has its part in the defense of democracy. Local government has the greatest stake in this battle for the preservation of our democratic way of life, for

it Is the very essence of democracy.

While we’ll all have to dig a little deeper in our pockets to meet our tax bills this year, we might as well accept our increased obligations as cheerfully as possible. If we must object. Herr Hitler is the man who should receive our protests, for fundamental!v, higher taxes are his fault. As long as we have to pav higher taxes, we mieht as well pay them promptly so that Uncle Sam’s Army and Navy can voice our objections to Mr. Hitler in person . . .

Conauininq Utah dhmuAA. Into a county rafnpant with hysterical war rumors, Prosecutor French B. Loveland last week hurled a charge that there are indications of a deliberate attempt being made to create civilian suspicion by spreading false rumors of subersive activity by reputable citizens.

Explained the Prosecutor:

"All sections of the county are buzzing with unfounded reports of subversive activities, of tie-ups with enemy submarines and other unpatriotic activity. The general public should heed the warnings that have been sounded time and again by our authorities. These rumors are exactly the same type that were spread through France and other European countries to disrupt civilian morale and which eventually

helped to effect their downfall.”

Since the start of enemy submarine action off the Atlantic coast several weeks ago, all sections of the county have been flooded with war rumors. Many have pointed the finger of suspicion at some resident ... in some ca«es possibly a neighbor of some of the rumor-carriers. In the hysteria of war, the time-honored American custom of judging a man innocent until he has been proved guilty has been forgotten. Patriotism demands us all to remain constantly on the alert during the war emergency. But patriotism al«o demands that we remain level-headed, unswayed by baseless reports

and unswervingly American citizens.

Most of the rumors have come from "reliable sources”, directly from those “on the inside”. And that inevitable tag of all wnr rumors should be the first cause for suspicion of the story, for sources that are really reliable, those really “on the inside”, are charged as part of their duty to preserve the

secrecy of their war-time activities.

France and other European nations disregarded the warnings against the serious effects of rumor on civilian morale. Today they are in bondage, indisputable evidence

of the folly of their false security.

Each of you can do your part by refusing to spread unfounded war rumors, by believing only what you, of your own knowledge, know to be the truth and of doing your best to counteract the war hysteria by keeping whatever knowledge

you may have secret.

dlapfuf ctaiidinqA.... Transfer of Commander Steven W. Callaway, commanding officer of the Cape May Naval Air Station, announced late last w'eek, is a distinct loss to Cape May. During their short residence in this community. Commander and Mrs. Callaway have made many friends and have, through their many associations, made a place for themselves in the community which will be hand to fill. During Commander Callaway’s administration at the Naval Air Station, the Naval operations in Caoe May have reached their highest peak since the days of World War 1. The base has been transformed from one on inactive status to one of the more important Naval stations along the Atlantic coast. Commander Callaway will join the fleet where he will continue his work in Navy aviation, a branch of the service in which he is a pioneer. It is hoped that the absence of the Commander from Cape May will be only tanporary, and that sometime in the future, in happier days after the business of war has been completed, he may again return to this community. Uniti then, "Skipper”, Happy Landings!

(pjaAoj^JiaphA, Out Of The Past

Taken from files of The Star and Wave for the years 1937, 1932 and 1922.

Five Years Ago Two hundred and fifty WPA laborers from the air station project were put to work last Wednesday, clearing brush from the route of the new Pennsylvania Avenue extension between Pittsburgh and Yale Avenues, after the city and county had decided to construct a new temporary road to the air station to replace New Jersey Avenue which is badly eroded. Work on the temporary extension which was begun last Wednesday is expected to be completed in about a week, County Engineer Holland A. Sharp said yesterday. The directors and officers of the Taxpayers League of Cape May Point held a business meeting in Philadelphia on Friday. The dire need of beach protection at Cape Avenue was the main discussion of the evening. Steps are to be taken immediately with the cooperation of the commissioners to try to get aid at this point as quickly as pos-

sible.

Requesting the appropriation of $150,000 for the dredging of Cape May County’s inlets and inland waterway system, the board of i freeholders yesterday passed a resolution urging action on their request by the New Jersey Board of Commerce and Navigation. Cape May County officials requested the state board to include the $150,000 appropriation in its schedule for the current year. Wet for seven days . . . scenes of horror seared in their minds . . . memories of the relentless destruction of swirling, churning waters that devoured everything in their path ... of homeless men and women ... of sickness and disease . . . Those are the things that will live forever in the minds of Coast Guards from Cape May and Cape May Point who were pressed into emergency service in the flood district. Ten Years Ago A large crew of carpenters, hatchet and saw men and helpers, all Kiwanians good and true, or Boy Scouts, are,busily engaged in erecting the new scout hut in the heart of the Bear Swamp between Nummytown and Fishing Creek meadows today. Alban Faulkner is directing the work and he with a small crew spent Tuesday laying the foundations. The Junior Community Club enjoyed themselves on Saturday evening by giving a Leap Year Frolic in the West Cape May borough hall. The hall was decorated in red and white with hearts suspended from the ceiling, and crepe paper drapes lined the wall. The room was dimly lighted to a red glow. The "Whispering Syncopaters" orchestra rendered tantalizing music. The two men who are outstanding figures in the yachting world of the eastern United States and who are rummer residents of Cape May and deeply interested in promoting yachting interests and improving the water facilities

here, head the South Jersey Speed Boat Association in 1932. They are Commodore Morton R. Alexander, who was unanimously elected head of the association this year, and John Wanamaker, Jr., who always spends the summer season in his houseboat on the harbor. The “Phantom", 56-foot schooner, which the government charged was used in Delaware Bay for importing liquors, was ordered forfeited last Friday and the three men found aboard it when captured were sentenced. The schooner, seized during a chase May 26, 1931 by the patrol of Base Nine, was carrying 288 cases of liquor and 15 barrels of

mash.

Twenty Years Ago The steamship Northern Pacific. recently a transport, was destroyed on Wednesday by fire and sank in a gale forty miles off Cape May with four aboard unaccounted for after rescues by other vessels. A crackle of the radio early Wednesday morning brought word that fire had broken out aboard the vessel and that it was a mass of flames. ^On Friday evening, February 17, at eight o’clock a concert will be given by the High School students and the children of the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades. The object of the concert is to demonstrate the work done in music in the schools, the grammar school having four lessons a week and the High School one. The program consists of selections from popular operas and by famous composers, together with familiar songs known to nearly

everyone.

A regular meeting of the Women’s Community Club was held in the Auditorium of the High School on Thursday, February 2nd, at 3:30 o’clock. Ninety-two members were present. Miss Maginnis, teacher of English in the High School, gave a short talk on Parliamentary Law, aftdr which the president called for Hie reading of the minutes of the preceeding meeting of the Club by

the Recording Secretary.

Cape May regained first place again by defeating the Wildwood Basket Ball team here on Thursday night in one of the most ■exciting games of the season. With but two minutes and a few seconds to play Cape May netted four field goals. Little starting the rally and tieing the score with a spectacular stab at the basket which registered two

points.

TO HOLD CHEST CUNIC Dr. Max Gross, state clinician, will hold a clinic for chest examination in the old court building, Cape May Court House, on Thursday, February 19, from 9 a.m. until 12 poon, Miss Natalie M. Hand, Cape May County tuberculosis nurse, announced this week.

IN HOSPITAL

Mrs. George Monger, of Washington street, is a patient in the Atlantic City Hospital, where she is recovering from a major operation performed there on Toes-

day.

By C Worthy YAWN, YAWN, YAWN Now that Eastern Standard War Time has been in effect four whole days folks hereabouts are getting used to the change in rising hour, but the new time played a lot of funny tricks Monday a.m. We don’t suppose there’s any accurate record of the number of Cape May workers who arrived on the job an hour or so late Monday, but we’ll wager Uiere were more than a couple. Even the metropolitan morning newspaper distributors must have overslept, ’cause most of the sheets didn't arrive until mid-

morning.

ALMOST MIDNIGHT SUN Comes now the query about

regular Daylight Saving Time in addition to War Time. A good many local people want to know if the United States, like England, will lop off another hour of darkness along toward the end of April when Daylight Saving Time normally goes into effect We don’t know, and we don’t suppose anyone but the President has even an idea concerning the change, but if we do. have War Time plus Daylight Saving Time, it should be daylight untu well after 10 p.m. in mid-summer. They tell us the city fathers are rootin’ for it to save electric light costs at Convention Hall

LINCOLN IN CAPE MAY Here 'tis Lincoln's Birthday

and time for the annual collections of legends and facts about him to be brought out of mothballs and told to the rising generation. Cape May had the honor of entertaining the Great Emancipator one summer, and his boldly scrawled signature on a page from the hotel register of the old Mansion House hangs in a place of honor at city hall as evidence of his presence in this community. Apparently there was nothing spectacular about his visit to Cape May for no legends have been built up around it, but this resort proudly classes him

among its summer visitors. BET HE WOULDN’T TRADE Well bet Lincoln would get

quite a jolt if he were to return to earth today and see the things that have happened and are happening. Of course, life wasn’t exactly a bed of roses in his time. There was the war between the states and the job of rebuilding the south. But he didn't have

three crackpots across two oceans

trying to commit international '

han-karL

TAINT A SPY Incidentally, hari-kari (which, in case you don’t already know it, is a super-duper form of suicide developed by the Japs) is the ■ only Japanese custom that we thoroughly approve of . . . providing. of course, the Japs reserve it for their own use. Speaking of hari-kari, there's one local lady who until recently thought those two words were the name of an international spy . . . NOT SO SCREWY We wonder if that organization of future war veterans which was suggested by some college kids several years ago is functioning. It seemed ridiculous then, but it’s not so funny now. Maybe they knew what was coming . . .

The Weekly Sermon Comen

The Soul’s Salvation By the Rev. William Bullock, pastor, Cold Sprint Presbyterian Church

is none othto name under

heaven given among men where-

by we must be saved.

In the story where our text is found there is a man, lame from his birth, who was Carried daily to the temple gate where he asked charity. Seeing Peter and John

coming along, he" begged of them. Instead of giving money, Peter mded him in the nam* of Christ of Nazareth to rise up and walk, and suiting his action to the word, Peter helped him up. The man, seeing that be could stand upon his feet, did more. He walked and leaped, and, entering the temple, shouted praises to God. This attracted a crowd. The authorities, who had caused the crucifixion of Jesus, seized upon this to put the Apostles under arrest Next morning the Council gave them a hearing and demanded of them: “By what name or power have y* done

.this"? Peter answered boldly: “By

the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom ye crucified, whom God hath raised up", and he added: “Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby ye must be

saved.

This crippled man lay day by day at the temple gate—just begging, apparently without any personal initiative or effort to overcome his handicap or to earn in some way his own livlihood. Certainly he never imagined he could

be healed.

Peter had no money, but had something better—a mighty Savior with a mighty saving name, who now heals the man and makes him perfectly sound

and whole.

In chapter four, verse nine, Peter really says, “by what means” this man “Is SAVED”.. And salvation it was, deliverance from tiie bodily and social ills that his lameness incurred. But almost in the same breath Peter spake of a salvation infinitely better than the healing of the body. He had previously told these wondering Jews, “Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved", “Repent and be baptized for the remission of sins, Repent and be converted that your sins may be blotted out. Save yourselves from this untoward generation”. These words do not apply to material things nor to bodily infirmities. They do apply to the soul, to the self within the

body.

Clearly, man, as a complex being of soul and body, is capable of “filthiness of the flesh and of the spirit". Men sin in the mind where spirit alone is active. Men sin also when “the mortal body is made the servant to uncleanness and iniquity”. A man sins ajone in mental thought and morpurpose. He sins also ’

iffll" VS diSX

ment in which high ideals

and thrive. These are found

in the word, spirit and power Him who lived and taught righteous ess and truth and who loved to the giving of His life for the world upon the Cross, and is

those who follow Him,

On that Cross “hangs »H human hope. That nail supports the falling universe. That gone, we

drop”.

There is no question about our dropping, about the ungodliness of the world. When ungodliness afflicts the race, churates are forsaken, religion languishes, morals decay, truth departs and evil has an open door. Where there is no vision the people perSalvation is the being saved from selfishness and sin, being cleansed from its pollutions, freed from its guilt, delivered from its penalties, and transformed from its practice. It changes the character, the thought, feeling, purpose and tiw conduct It brings the person being saved to the highest reaches of life. He grows in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ It gives him a future beyond the bounds of time. It has the promise ef

the life to come.

Salvation does not come te every man, only to those who seek or accept it The cripple found help by asking for it The prodigal son found home and its joys only when he said “I will arise and go to my father”. When you will to believe, you can; when you will to confess your sin, you may; when you will to pray, all heaven is open, God will hear. And there need be no delay. Delays are dangerous. There is One Time given, whether you be young, mature or aged. “Behold, NOW is the accepted time, NOW is the day of salva-

tion.”

And there are choices along the low and the high levels of life. One can muddle along amid the pittances of the world. One can revel in the abundances of material things—unsaved, unchanged —and lose—lose all. But one can believe in the Lord Jesus Christ

and be saved.

There was a shipwreck on our shores some years ago. A life boat rescued all the crew except the Captain and the first mate. “Get aboard,” said the Captain to the mate. “Wait a minute," said the mate as he slid down the companion ladder to fetch something from the cabin. The Captain jumped into the lifeboat to await the coming of bis mate. The boat drew off from near the

look of his eyes, in the hearing sinking wreck. A great wave of his ears, in the words of his struck the vessel. She rolled over mouth, in the deeds of his hand, and sank with the mate in the and in the passions of his body. < cabin. When they found his body But the sin is in the mind that Us right hand was tightly closed, knows, in the heart that lusts, I They unclasped his clenched hand.

I that direrta It in His purse fell out Thev opened

the inner self that is guiltythat same self that is urged to call upon the name of the Lord, to repent, to be converted that sins may be forgiven or blotted out.

It contained—thirty-six cents. The price for which he risked

and lost his life.

There is no more blessed' truth than this; that faith in His Name

brings salvation.

Miracles like that of healing this man’s lameness and many others were done by a word, a touch, even by a will without a touch or word. But the salvation of the soul that requires repentance and conversion is not so accomplished. For this the Son of Man gave His life, a ransom for many. “While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. We are redeemed, not with silver and gold .... but v.-ith the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without

spot.”

Silver and gold meant much for tiie cripple at the gate. Strength in his ankle bones meant more. It transformed the whole processes of his life. So do the gifts of God mean much for human life and happiness. Our daily bread, the meat and drink and raiment for which we are not to be distracted, the relationships, friendchips, and homes are all His gracious gifts for our well-being. Godliness has the promise of the life that now is, through which His goodness covers all. We are constrained today to match force with force that our good things may not be ruthlessly taken from us. But we can ourselves destroy them by our ungodliness. It is well said that wc are fighting for ideals. And for them we will fight. But we can destroy low

Here is a question that no one can answer; not I, not you; not an angel from heaven; not a devil from hell. It is this: “How shall we escape if we neglect so great

salvation?”

District Deputy Is Feted By Chapter Mrs. Vesta S. Olsen, Worthy District Deputy of tfte 18th District, Order of the Eastern Star of New Jersey, made her official visit to the Cape May Chapter No. 156 on Monday evening. Mrs. Olsen was welcomed with an impressive ceremony and was presented with a bouquet. Mrs. Madlyn England, assisted by -the officers of the Cape May Chapter, presented Mrs. Olsen with a gift The chapter room was decorated with American flags and ferns. A large delegation front each of the five chapters of the 18th District were present together with the Worthy Matrons and Worthy Patrons of the five chapters.

The U. S. Navy changed from a navy of wood to a navy of steal between 1878 and 1898.

Cburcb IWotices

Gape Islanb JBaptlst Cburcb Corner of Goerney Street and Colombia Avenue.

REV. ROBERT D. CARRIN son dat, roauAXY is Bible School ]•:•« A. M Moraine Worship ll.-M A.M. Beptlat Tralnln* Union. «:4S P. M. Bvenlnz Worahlp. 7:« P. 1C. Mm LoGatee- croup of the Phllethle Cleee will have a nilvcr tee at the home of Mrs. Kenneth Miller. SIX Jefferoon BL. Friday afternoon at S o'clock. All ladies and friends are Invited. V ARK WKLCOKK TO OUR EERVICKR