■mURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1942

(Eapp jHag Star and ffiaup Published Every Thursday at the Star and Wave Building SI PERRY STREET. CAPE KAY. N. J. THE ALBERT HAND COMPANY, INCORPORATED. F. MERVYN KENT. Editor PAUL SNYDER, Manaoer

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Qua Jjvnfflk CkddsmiA. - Two lives were lost in automobile accidents in Cape May County last week. One of the victims was a pedes train. The other jg^s a passenger in a car which struck a pole and overturned. Both accidents occurred within a short space of time on Sunday, February 16. Thus, Cape May County got off to a bad start for the current year in the matter of fatal automobile accidents, after having made a rather substantial reduction in the number of fatalities during 1941. Perhaps these two tragedies will help to awaken in motorists and pedestrians alike the need for greater caution. Perhaps they will help to spur an even more intensive safety campaign in our county. » In recent years the Cape May County League of Municipalities has conducted a widespread campaign to reduce traffic accidents. The New Jersey Motor Vehicle Department and other law enforcement agencies likewise have carried on educational campaigns in an effort to reduce to a minimum the needless waste of life and property which result from highway accidents. Some of these efforts have been deflected by the current defense program, with the endeavors and interests being directed at the defense program and consequently aw r ay from previously launched safety campaigns. While national defense, of course, is the paramount concern of all of us at present, the eternal vigilance which is necessary to reduce our alarming highway accident toll must not be relaxed. America was aghast at the loss of life at Pearl Harbor when the enemy made its infamous raid on December; 7. Almost instantly, the entire citizenry of this nation was incensed by the outrage against us. But. •.. America’s annual automobile toll is far greater than the total number of American lives lost to date as a result of the

war.

Few of us realize the immense proporation of the nation': annual highway accident toll. It is even more shocking when the untold misery created by non-fatal accident injuries and the economic loss resulting from highway accidents is considered. Safety experts and law enforcement officers agree that a small percentage of traffic collisions are purely accidental and could not have been avoided. Certainly a large percentage of so-called accidents, while they are not intentional, could have been avoided if proper care and caution were exercised by all those involved. This needless loss of life, health and resources, represented in the figures showing the nation’s total accident loss, is even more significant now when every resource of our country * is needed in its war effort. Conservation is the keynote of most defense programs at present. A great step in the conservation of life, health and economic resources would be made if all of us, drivers and pedestrians alike, would re-affirm to ourselves our obligations to society and to our country and faithfully follow a pledge to exercise every precaution against highway accidents. G Chcuvui Jo Jsd JoudLiu - A meeting will be held at Cape May’s city hall Friday evening at which time the proposed Cape May County canal will be discussed. Persons who own property in the vicinity of the proposed canal route have been invited to attend the meeting and discuss with a respresentative of the U. S. Army Engineer's office their particular problems arising from the contemplated construction. The general public of Cape May 'County, who directly or indirectly are affected by the canal project, is also invited to attend the meeting. It is expected that a clear picture of the canal project will be presented at tomorrow’s meeting, and that answers to the innumerable questions which are being asked about the project will be answered fully so that all those interested in the canal will know the route and other pertinent facts about the project. Calling the meeting, Senator Scott said he hoped that a large attendance w’ould be present to hear the facts about the canal. Besides discussing the problems of property’ < whose lands will be directly affected by the construction, the meeting will also attempt to spike some of the wild and unfounded rumors concerning the canal project. Since the recent announcement that the long-sought canal project is imminent, these tales have been resurrected and embellished with many new points, which probably add as much to conversation as they detract from the real facts. Recognizing these facts, the Senator has made an extensive effort to bring together a large number of residents who will be affected in various ways by the canal in order to present to them the true picture of the project. Regarless of your opinions on the subject, it is a civic duty to obtain as many true fact<; the canal as possible, and tomorrow's meeting will be an excellent opportunity. Plan to be on hand at city hall.

KNOW NEW JERSEY. G. A. Bradsktu

Boyer Memorial Hall, Camden

The Charlfe* S. Boyer Memorial Hall, home of the Camden County Historical Society, is located at Euclid Avenue and Park Boulevard, Camden. The Tapestry bnck structure is of Georgian Colonial design with a double chimney at each end. It was built in 1726 by Joseph

Cooper, Jr. In the library on the second floor are numerous volumes on South Jersey, maps and manuscripts. The museum contains a fine collection of Indian relics and Civil War mementoes and is open Monday, Wednesday and Fridays from 1 until 4 p.m. S'eic Jencv Council. Ktotr Ununt T—«»•.■

(pahaqJwpkdu Out Of The Past

(pauAn Jhcd ft&fruL&h&A Senate President Scott and House Speaker Boswell issued a statement of which they may well be proud, either as statesmen or patriots. In fact, they show it is possible to be both. This statement flatly says Budget Commissioner Stephan did a good job as chairman of the State Defense Council. He did. Everybody knows it Then the statement says they don’t agree with the Governor’s request for pow’er to replace Stephan with another, think it a mistake but already having given the Governor centralized authority, and realizing he must have for defense in war time, they are granting his request for the necessary legislation. Now here is a masterpiece of statesmanship. It gives the Republican Legislature the credit it should have through Mr. Stephan’s good work. While on record as questioning the Governor’s plan, and thus being in a strategically favorable position if the new set-up fails, it nevertheless places the burden of responsibility solely on the Governor’s shoulders in the spirit of wrar-time unity. All Republicans should be proud of that It smacks of wise party leadership and makes sense. From—The Atlantic City Press.

Taken from files of The Star and Wave for the years 1

l»32 and 1922.

Five Years Ago Whatever goes up always come lown . . . But whatever comes !own doesn't always go up. That’s •'hat Aviation Pilot George Preson. of the air station here, found Monday when he had to make forced landing in a small field Hio. When they were ready to take off, they found the field was oo small to allow a take-off. The .lane was too heavy to rise in uch a short distance. Stripped >f all equipment that wasn’t absolutely necessary and its passenger left behind, the plane took

off yesterday.

Resolving to oppose the enforcement of the local budget act, the newly formed Taxpayers' League of Wildwood ordered copies of its resolutions to be sent to Senator William C. Hunt and Assemblyman I. Grant Scott with requests for them to do everything in their power to repeal the local budget act for the financial benefit of all taxpayers. The Independent Taxpayers’ League of Wildwood was formed recently in an effort to remedy the situation which will cause Wildwood’s tax rate for this year to jump to $16.60 a hundred dol-

lars’ valuation.

The Cape May Star and Wave has been certified for membership in the Half-Century Club of the American Press, an organization composed of newspapers throughout the country. A certificate of membership was received last Thursday. The Star and Wave is Cape May County’s oldest newspaper. It was one of the first periodicals in h'ew Jersey to be made a member of the Half-Cen-tury Club, formed of newspapers published more than fifty years.

Court House, was the speaker of the weekly meeting of Sea Isle Rotary Club Monday evening. Fisher's topic was “My experiences in the World War.” He was in the navy and made If trips across the ocean. Twenty Years Ago Passenger officials of the Pennsylvania system were In Cape May this week conferring with city officials, members of the Progressive League and Board of Trade in reference to better railroad connections and schedules for next season. The railroad of; ficials promised that the Pennsylvania would run a fast, nonstop train to and from Philadelphia next season, putting business men in their offices at 8:30 A.M. The officials also promised that connections from the South by the Delaware River bridge would be bettered and that a through coach and parlor car from Washington to this city would be a daily feature of the

summer schedule.

The school budget for the year 868.600 and the city budget is $247,504. The school budget is an increase over last year. The new items to take care of are

laries. The lat-

ter item is made necessary by a 35 per cent increase in attendance at the High School and a 25 per cent increase in the lower

grade school.

Harry Hebenthal, of this city, as reappointed jury commissioner for Cape May County by Governor Edwards and was sworn in at Cape May Court House on

Wednesday.

U/)e S TARBOARD WATCH By C Worthy HOT TIME . . . AND HOW There was a hot time in Cape May Point Saturday p. xn. as an intense meadow fire raged for three hours in the vicinity of th#l government stations and buildings. The engine-chasers had their fill of excitement, and no really serious damage was done So it wasn’t so bad. But firemen certainly took a beating, having to do their stuff with a bitter wind howling across open fields at them.

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TOUGH ON FIREMEN The ones we felt most sorry for were the fire laddies from Atlantic City who were sent here to help curb the blaze. Five engines were brought here from Absecon Island, and brother, a 90mile round trip on an open engine with the wind the way it was Saturday isn’t any fun. Incidentally, the local USO Club endeared itself to many firemen by distributing hot coffee scene of the blaze.

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IT NEVER FAILS

It's amazing how many fires get under way at this time of year. Usually in the spring, the number of field fires gets so large that the S&W professional fire chaser—the news staff—sort

“HELL” % ^ ie J\ cv ’. William R. Munson, pastor or the Pilgrim Holiness Church, Erma

Matt; 2S-3$—Hew Ca* Ye Escape The Dunnatioa at HeUT This subject is one that the public does not like to UiinV about today; yet it is an important one. It is important because God has it recorded in His word, and when Jesus Christ was here on earth He set His seel upon it by our text, and many more. It is God's eternal penitentiary for the devils and all sinners who reject Jesus Christ and His great salvation. H»H is one of the roost controversial subjects of the human race. People love to hear of heaven and about the love of .God, even the name of Jesus, but when Hell is mentioned they either state they do not beheve in it, or make a joke out of it, to pass it off. Unbelief in Hell does not alter God’s word or make it void. The same book that gives us authority on God and His love and heaven, is the same book that speaks of a fiery Hell. As it is necessary to have jails and penitentiaries to keep law breakers in to preserve society in this world, so God has His eternal penitentiary prepared for all souls who have broken His laws and refused Jesus Christ’s offered pardon. Hell was not made for man in the first place, for in Matt 26:41 Jesus states who it was made for, I quote: “Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the Devil and his

Angels.”

words and accept Ma salvation when offeree

of today are

. Me own way. i_ life. He said all theee r

ments have I kept from my w up and Jeans commended him

it He has put some prof church people of today to • Yet his keeping of the cam

ments and a good moral life < not save him. "Jeeua said he lacked one thing, that was to accept salvation on His terms. ^ has laid down His terns in the Bible, and naira y0 n and I to accept them with all our hearts. When I went to buy a car, I first had to meet the terms d the business man, who was going to seD me the ear. When 1 met his terms, he handed me the keys and said it is yours. So when a soul sees his lost condition, and meets God’s terms of which are laid down in the Bible, he can walk off with Jesus’ salvation and retain it as long as he continues to keep the agreement ascribed thereto. If you and I want To make it into heaven we must meet God’s terms of repentance and faith through the Gospel of Jesus Christ We cannot stop therfc, for there is a need to continue walking! in the Gospel light as it is shed across our y ' 1

When God made man in the be- “f. “ “ ****"&’ nning. He. made him perfect . Serm - on 011

nS P UacW' on strikehe'.lh^ new teachers salaries. The 1st- ed fire aian^ for or four

weeks, practically all of which are grass fires. Then, just as he quits engine-chasing, a real fire comes along and he misses it.

IT MUST BE SPRING

From the amount of griping about income tax, it cant be very long until March 15. A bunch of local boys and girls are going to dig way down and shell out to their Uncle Samuel this year what with the lower tax brackets and stuff. And a lot of 'em are

The students of Cape May _ High School had the pleasure of j finding out that when Uncle hearing Rev. W. S. Hunter, of the Sam says he needs money to win Baptist Church, who spoke upon j the war, he isn't foolin’ . . .

the occasion of the one hundred and thirteenth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln. His address mostly upon .the basis of the

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Employers of eight or more J persons in Cape May and other cities throughout the state are 1 preparing to file their returns '

f ith the Unemployment Compen- ■ „tjon j Cnmmiticifm ^ .La I * “ ISHC

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which is due Monday.

Ten Years Ago

4-H (XTTR NEWS

City Council met in a very quiet,

and uneventful session- on Tues-1 The Patch Work Club of Dias

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of IT WONT BE LONG

About the only nice thing we can think of concerning income tax time is that spring can’t be far from it. Seriously, it’ll only be a matter of a couple of short weeks until spring is officially here. Already there are infallible signs around town . . . People getting ready for the coming season by painting, repairing and

-ixing up their places.

City Manager Cutter reported council that a satisfactory agreement and settlement with the University of Pennsylvania had been reached in regards to the trouble and expense the city has been put to for the football practice field. The city improved the park at the Pennsylvania summer station to conform with the demands of the University engineers so that the college football squad could practice here. The team did not keep the agreement originally made because of a change of policy in coUege ath-

letics.

Rentals for summer cottages here are increasing according to all local real estatesmen, and '

Monday with six members present. The girls worked on the cooking project The Sunshine Girls of Green Creek met at the home of Miss Elizabeth Bostwick. leader, on Wednesday with five members present. The girls cut out material for blouses.

CAPE MAY WOMEN HAVE

FURNITURE CLASS

A group of Cape May women

met in St. Mary’s Hall on Friday

furniture renovation class

under the supervision of Miss

ana in- ^°' 8 Hamilton, county home to the I ^ emonstra tion agent.

iber of Commerce at the rate | Mrs. Samuel Elwell organized of two or three a day. Command- fhe class, and Mrs. Leon Herer E. F. Stone, of transatlantic bert, of Stone Harbor, taught the

flight fame, is replacing Com- j women.

mander Carl C. vonPaulsen, as ! Those attending were Mrs. aviator officer at Base Nine and Emma Bennett, Mrs. Tryphene has rented a cottage on Kearny M. Ware, Mrs. Ketherine J, * venne - Ratty, Mrs. Jav Me-ray, Mrs. — , „ „ Mary VanBuskirk. Mrs. Elwell Preston Fisher, of Cape May and Mrs. H. M. Vanzant

ginning. He made him pei pure, and holy and put hii_ ... the Garden of Eden and expected him to live that way, but the Devil, who was once a perfect creature of God’s creation, sinned against God and high heaven, and led a rebellion against God in heaven, was cast out, he and all his followers, having access to this world, (of which I camfbt explain why, it is one of God’s mysteries, so I must leave that with Him). He went into the Garden of Eden and took possespion of the serpent and tempted man into rebellion against *' Creator: ever since the fall, have tried to destroy one another all down through the ages, the Devil being at the bottom of it all. Some day in the near future God is going to say it is enough, then all sin and wicked sinners, with all the fallen angels shall be locked up in Hell forever. Hell is not just a myth as some folk think. It is just as much if a reality as God is or any other created thing that we see. You may joke about Hell, and not believe in it while here probation in this world, hut •e is no unbelief in any person, one minute after they dose their eyes to this world and wake' up in the next. God has made man with a trinity being. (Body, Soul and Spirit). A being that will live on after death, either in God’s eternal home of His eternal jail. Jesus said in Luke 12: 4-5: “Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do. But I will for-warn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into Hell: Yea I say, Fear him." Jesus said, “For the Son of Man is come to seek and to save that which is lost” Paul in Romans writes “For all have sinned and come short of the Glory of God.” This makes us all sinners in the sight of God in this world. This race of ours Bas fallen in Adam, and the stream of lives has been polluted by sin. God in His mercy has seen the pollution and sent His Son Jesus Christ into this world to destroy sin and all of its pollution out of the human heart by His sacrifice on the

cross.

1 John 3:8, states, “He that committeth sin is of the Devil: for the Devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that He might destroy the works of

the Devil.”

What then is the works of the Devil? Sin. Paul writes: “Sin •hen it is finished bringeth

HEY-DAY FOR POETS And spring is the season that inspires the poetic genius which burns in so many souls during romantic period . . . This year, what with the war and evrything, a lot of the poets are "ettine wanned up for the real thing by working out on the war situation. Here is one of the efforts submitted recently: IN THE POSTOFFICE Her shoes were awfully shabby; Her coat looked rather old; Her hat was really out-of-date; Her hands were red with cold. Her stockings had a runner And her nails were broken, too, | But somehow you forgot all this For from her eyes of blue There came a gleam of victory And with radiance on her face, | She unfolded a square white hand- I kerchief That boasted no perfume or lace And counted out a pile of change ‘ With non-reluctant ease. And prshed it through the win-: dow and said: T want a defense bond, please!” K. L. C.

Mount, recorded in Matt fifth, sixth and seventh chapters is the greatest sermon ever preached. It treaU on the "Evangelical Doctrine of-the Christian Faith.” You will take notice (if you read it) it lays heavy stress on Hell for the disobedient and punishment for the neglector and wicked. Yet it also commended the righteous and gives them the hope of a future abode with our Lord Jesus Christ in Heaven. If we had more of the preaching on this subject of a literal hell, of fire and brimstone as stated in God's word, and show to the people that God’s word will stand when this old world is on fire, and they who refuse the n ' offered through Jesus Christ, the smoke of their torments < ascend up before God as a testimony against them, there would not be so much sin, blood-shed and gangsterism in the country. We lay the blame where it belongs, the ministery has failed to warn the church people of today, they have smoothed the folk over with untempered mortar of reason and human thought, until God’s Word does not mean anything to the professed Christian: they can do most any kind of sin and feel safe with a church membership, which will never save anyone. It will take real salvation through the Blood of Jesus Christ to keep a soul out

of HelL

When some one dares to throw out the warnings of a Devil’s hell for the ungodly and sinners, whether in the church or out, ha is branded as a crazy person, or a back woods illiterate, who has not learned the science of modern thought. But remember the Bible will stand, and God did net mince words when he said: “But the fearful, the unbelieving, the abominable, and murderers and whoremungers, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which the second death." And again, “The wicked shall be turned into hell and all nations that forget God.” Take heed! God is trying to warn you of your future. The safvaof Jesus Christ is the only remedy for your sin. Accept Him now while he is offering mercy and be saved.

GOLF CLUB PRQ TAKES TURF BUILDING COURSE

One Cape May County man was

....I-.. ,1. Auunnou amon ff 36 New Jersey residents, forth death.” Not just natural , including many municipal cmdeath, but as the word states it , P! 0 >' ecs engaged in park superin Revelations: “The Second i v, s ,o n and similar work, i*ho reDeath”, which is eternal death. : ceived certificates at New Bruna-

The rich young ruler that came wick Friday for having attended

running to Jesus fell down be- *' ew Jersey College of Agrifore Him and prayed: “Good Mas- culture s 14th annual one-week ter, what shall I do to inherit course m turf management at

L-rnal life.” He had all the priv- j R, i£8 cre University,

ileges in the world to have spirit-1 ' he county man is Harry ual life and be saved in his time, Avery, of North Wildwood, .probut his heart was so set on his Sessional at the Wildwood Golf

riches and the pleasures -of life. Club.

that they blinded his spiritual I eyes, that when he awoke in the ] I n 1786 the United States had

not a single armed vessel.

Cape Hslanb JSaptist Cburcb Omer of Guerney Street and Columbia Avenue.

REY. ROBERT D. CARRIN

Morning Worship 10:39 A. M. Bible School 11:48 A. M. Bmp'1st Tmlnlns Union. 0:45 P. M. Bvrninif Wor,hln. 7:«S P. M. Mrs. Rllssbeth Shields' group of the Phllathea Class will hold a food sale at Wecke-lr's Plumbing shop. 403 Washington Street Saturday. February 33, at 10 A. M. ALL BFBVTCK MKN ARE WELCOME TO OUR SERVICES.