THURSDAY. MARCH 19, 1942

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(j)e TUtad Vyiotoi dimi&siA A campaign to enlist the aid of the federal government in solving a military problem here has been under way for some time and now appears to be gaining some headway. City officials for months have been attempting to have this community declared a defense area in order to assure a continuation of the building programs which are under way here. There is a definite shortage of housing facilities for service men in Cape May. Many services families’ leases on Cape May homes will expire in June, before the normal summer renting season starts. Where they will live is a question no one seems to be able to answer. A superficial inspection of Cape May will disclose at this time a large number of vacant properties. More careful investigation, however, will reveal that virtually all of these vacant properties are either without heating facilities, are not constructed for year-around occupancy or are reserved for the use of the owners themselves. The situation has been acute since the expansion of the Naval base, but with more officers and men arriving here constantly, the problem is expected to be most serious during the next few months. Following conferences and correspondence with federal officials, city commissioners late last week announced tj>ey were hopeful that some action will be taken shortly. The Maryland, Idaho and New York avenue building developments which have added approximately 60 houses to Cape May’s supply in recent years have done much to help. The 60 housing units being constructed by the Navy Department near the base will help also. But there is still need for

more.

Unless this area is declared a defense area, materials and FHA commitments will be unavailable and the private building enterprises now in operation will be forced to suspend for

the duration.

With such a classification, however, these additions to our community will be able to continue. Those engaged in the building trades will have an opportunity to continue with their businesses and the whole community will be beiAfited. The need for continuation of building operations in Cape May has been certified to by officers of military units stationed in this vicinity and by city officials. It is now up to the Federal Housing Coordinator and to our representatives in

Washington.

Their speedy and favorable action on this Cape May request will be of importance to the entire community.

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Further indications that Cape May will have “business as usuad” during the coming summer season are the decisions of the Friends’ General Conference and the Northern Baptist Convention, both of which plan sessions here during the sum-

mer, to continue their plans for the meetings.

The city commission was informed last week that the Friends had decided by an overwhelming majority to continue with arrangements for coming to Cape May this year as originally scheduled. In order to make certain that the decision was the wish of the majority, leaders of the Society made a popular poll, discovered that sentiment was nine to one in

favor of coming to Cape May.

Plans for the Northern Baptist Bible Conference which. ■ will be held here in August have continued uninterrupted, so apparently Cape May will have the privilege of entertaining

two important religious conferences during the season.

The two sessions, as they are now scheduled, will cover a period of four weeks during the season, giving added impetus

to the normal progress of the vacation period.

The Friends’ Conference is scheduled to be hel^ from July 6 to July 13. The Northern Baptist Bible Conference

will convene here between August 2 and 21.

It is expected that other smaller group meetings and sessions, similar to those which have been held here in the past, might also be included in the list of activities scheduled for the

approaching season.

This year, particularly, plans for such gatherings in Cape Mav are especially important from the standpoint of season business. They not only assure our business people of a larger volume of business but also provide an opportunity for a large number of people to be introduced to our resort community and thereby become potential Cape May visitors in

the future.

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Cape May’s resort advertising schedule will be started in metropolitan newspapers prior to the Easter weekend in an attempt to spur business here during that period, the city commission announced Friday. Although definite plans for the advertising program have not been completed, it was suggested that the early, season copy follow the line of: “Come down and see for yourself that Cape May has not been evacuated, that it has no barbed wire barricades on its beach, no guns along the boardwalk, that the houses have not been painted black.” That, roughly, is the idea the city officials are attempting to get across to the mass of potential Cape May visitors who have been harried by innumerable rumors concerning the effect of the war on Cape May. ' ~ 1 "I 1 ** In counteracting the rumors, all of which are baseless and far-fetched. Cape May and the other resorts have on their side one very important factor which even the war cannot change. That is the innate curiosity of the average

American.

It is that trait which brings hundreds of visitors to the shore to view storm damage, the trait that sends hundreds and thousands of curious to the scenes of disaster wherever they might be. We Americans are a curious people .... And that curiosity is our most important weapon in this anti-rumor campaign. If the rumors persist, and it is likely that they will for every day’s war news presents situations which the rumor mongers revel in twisting to their own fancy, sooner or hater curiosity will get the better of those interested in this section. Sooner or later they will come here to aee for themselves. And that is the surest way in the world to discount all the tall tales that have been and are being circulated.

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THE WEEKLY SERMON CORNER: Christ And This Crisis.. By the Rev. Samuel Blair, pastor, First Methodist Church, Cape May. iy Cfc: S Y 15s “Nev

Anyone viewing tha

of the world in fact The . are blacker than they have been for hundreds of yean. More people are homeless, more men are

dying, more millions are under I aaivene today might arms, more ships are going to conclude that truth is the bottom, more wrongs cry to ‘ ^ ’ * *

heaven for redress than ever before in the long generations of men. Millions are questioning, sorrowing, seeking a better day

and a better way.

ation the question has the Christian Church to say In this crucial hour?” Unmistak-

(paJiaqhaphA. Out Of The Past

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

1932 and 1922.

Five Years Ago

Faced with a municipal election i May 11, citizens of Cape May « divided on the question whether to continue the city

•hich preceded the present sys-

Plans are being made by the Woman’s Community Club for the annual reciprocity day which will be held here on April 1. Jnvitahave been issued to many .nizations in this section of

state.

jqmodore Morton R. AJexan•Cape May and Philadeln been re-elected chairligvjnXumher'S^of the i Powr "BOXt Association

and will he in tharge of all powerboat racing ,Jn New Jersey, Pennsylvania/ind Delaware dur-

ing the eperent season. Ten Years Ago

The resignation of City Manager Alfred B. Cutter was received and accepted by Mayor and Council at their meeting Tuesday, and Raymond B. Dean, of Ocean City, was immediately appointed to the office. The change will

take place April" 1.

After her safety had been des-

paired of for several days following the historic gale of Sunday. March 5, the CG-218, seven-ty-five foot patrol boat out of Base Nine, was towed into her home base here late Wednesday afternoon. By far the majority of the members of the Kiwanis Club were very much married men Wednesday evening when much to Iheir surprise they discovered half of the seats about the festive hoard occupied by their wives. Twenty Years Ago When Governor Edwards signed the bill authorizing the State Highway Commission to purchase and operate a ferry between Cape May and Delaware it trtis an important event for South Jersey resorts for the reason that the distance between the great southern cities and the world's most famous seashore resorts will be reduced from 200 to 100 miles and open new territory to motor-

ists.

The teachers of Academy School, Cold Spring, have evidently been doing excellent work this year, the kind that excites the interest of pupils. At the time of the big snow storm a month or so ago the bus which transports the children from points along the road to Fishing Creek failed to arrive, but seven cnildren were not to be deprived of their day at school for a little thing like that. They walked.

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wrong immoveaMy seated on I throne. There is enough injustice rampant in the world, enough «Ms-' honor atnlking Goliath-like through the land crushing the hearts of men in igominious defiance of thoee precious virtues we hold dear as to evoke reiteration of the depressing and age-

old wail "Vanity of vanities, "all

jaritafijj " n of spirit."

S TARBOARD WATCH By C. Worthy SPRING COMING SOON Shure and begorrah, ye'd niver be a-thinkin’ this bit o' blarney is bein’ written on St Patrick’s Day, now would ye? Well, if you want to get technical, it isn't This column is one thing that isn’t written at any certain time. It just sort of accumulates during the days and nights, and before we know it, here it is. But, of course, wc had to do our bit for the sons of the ould sod, seein' as how we’ve got a bit of the clan runnin’ through our veins. Anyway, St. Patrick’s Day come and gone, and spring i be long a-followin’. j THAT’LL SHOW ’EM I Now if we’d only get a lot of ! warm sunshine-^specially during f the weekends—we’ll really see jjust how much effect those nastyold war rumors that a bunch of meanies are spreading about the Jersey shore are having on the people who love to come to Cape May and the other resorts at every opportunity. Incidentally, the weekend crowds have been getting bigger ’n bigger all the time and some of our pals in the real estate business tell us renting’s pretty good for this early in the season. . . . BIG TIME STUFF Cape May took to the air Sunday afternoon when an "open house" program at the local USO Club was broadcast over station WFPG, Atlantic City, through the courtesy of the Neptune Broadcasting Co. Peak of the show were the clever imitations done by Charles Reading, one of the service men stationed hereabouts, and a former big-time showman before he answered Uncle Sam’s curtain call. GOOD JOB : : WELL DONE That was really a bang-up time at th& club Sunday, and a large crowd visited the club rooms to see just how the USO operates. To the many verbal orchids the USO, the local USO Council and Adjutant and Mrs. Theodore Thompson, directors of the Cape May chib received, we'd like own sentiments. They'

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WORRIED. HENRY? Well _ bet Mr. Morganthau would Have had the jitters if he had known how close some local folks came to not filing their income tax returns before the deadline. Best story of the week is the one about the local man who year and _ . two months ago, then forgot to ffiail it until the late afternoon mail of Monday, March 16—the absolute deadline. HELPING UNCLE SAM All that flurry of excitement about dim-outs along the Jersey Coast has more ore less died down when the truth of the matter finally came out. As far as we can learn, and as far as local officials can determine, the dimouts will have little or no effect on Cape May’s beachfront, or that of any otjier resort for that matter. The only thing the dimout will do will be to foil the U-boats by not making a silhouette of coastwise ships.

DOES NOT POL.. FAILURE OF CHRISTIANITY, BUT ONLY TO THE DESPERATE NEED OF IT. A consciousness of this fact has led our government, for the first time in the history of the nation, to provide chapels of worship for men of our defense forces stationed in camps and forts, which , leads to the conclusion that THE WORLD AT ITS WORST NEEDS THE CHURCH AT ITS BEST. It towers o’er the wrecks of time. Its foundation standeth sure. In these war-torn times when chaos and confusion are tearing life to pieces, we need a unifying center that will make life whole. Jesus is that center. The Church was created and exista for the supreme purpose of building around that Center. The flowering of friendships that endure, the deepening of spiritual experiences that abide, character enrichment that makes life a noble adventure, the evaluation of the cultural things that make the whole pattern of existence meaningful —all of these find their focus in Jesus and in the program of

His Church.

December 7 has become an historic date for our beloved country. On that date Americans

arose

is vanity and vexation <

that today is not God’s last day. THE SKY MAY BE BLACK, BUT NO ONE CAN TAKE THE SUN DOWN. Behind the darkest clouds there's always a new day dawning, and blessed is he who at midnight is sure of the dawn. It is a fundamental Christian conviction that we live in a world in which goodness, justice, and honor, truth and right have the endorsement of God, and that with such endorsement these cannot fail. The fact that the outlook is not very promising for the nonce must not blind us to the soul-exhilarating fact that to these and these alone belong the

ultimate triumph.

In other times than these evil has been brazenly arrogant and mercy has moved about like some dethroned monarch bearing no hint of its ancient sovereignty. Tyranny has had a successful career while veracity has lacked a champion. Yet through all this St Paul's words are vindicated "The foundation of God standeth I make hold to affirm that in the Almighty's own good time, intelligence will overcome ignorance, tolerance will temper prejudice, brotherhood will clear up

... corporate unit racial misunderstanding, love v against the paganism and bar bar- banish jealousy, good-will conquer ism of a nation which stands in ev il and hope triumph over every

conflict to the better way of life, despair.

Against a nation which continues 1 Godliness may win a battle, but to add other sinister chapters to ' "

the infamous epic of treachery perpetrated on the now memorable date. Against other nations which are making ruthless attacks on the abiding verities of freedom, love and human brotherhood, and assaults upon the souls

of peace-loving humanity. “Uncle Sam ’ has rolled up his

never a campaign. Cunning, conniving may lift men to dictatorships, but eventually they overplay their hands and the game

is up.

After Louis XV came a deluge of revolt. After Napoleon a Waterloo and after Kaiser Wilhelm came chaos in Germany. In precisely the same manner will the dictators of our time come upon a day of judgment, when in fear and trembling they shall be compelled to read “the handwrit-

ing on the wall’’.

Meanwhile, let us hold steady and keep our heads up, knowing beyond a doubt that through this war-torn world there still walks

the Light of Life—radiant proof

that every Black Friday will have its Resurrection morn; that the jeers about the crest of Calvary are inevitably followed *

triumphant chorus

dawn.

It behooves us to heed the ringing challenge of St. Paul “Stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong” rather than to dash off in cowardly retreat in the face of this crucial crisis. To take to one’s heels in head-long flight from the scene of conflict is simply to permit our robe of Hope to drop from our ignoble shoulders, and to allow our Shield of faith to slip from our quivering arm, only to lie along life’s Jerico turnpike like the battered and forsaken accouterments of a routed army. Rather, let it bo ’I will trust and not be afraid.

by the Easter

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cessful effort to MAKE THE EAGLE SCREAM TO PROTECT THE DOVE OF PEACE. He is drowning out the shouts and threats of tyrants and dictators with the thundering crescendo of a great nation in an all-out defense for the preservation of ideals and institutions infinitely precious, for the welfare of ourselves and our posterity, and for the final betterment of the whole

world.

America realizes with agonizing certainty that she must do her part to keep alight the candle of liberty and hope in the dim country of this world where death is so busy hanging his sickle by so many garden gates. To this end the United States cognizant that she must never surrender to the mechanized mars which is the Mikado nor to the blood-thirsty tyrant which

Hitler.

Though we shall undergo a wrenching dislocation of the normal tenor of life, though we shall be drenched in blood and tears, we know with a confidence born

of faith that we shall emerge,,- - , - ,-i victorious in this cataclismic con- ' or the foundation of God stand-’ fTict What is more important, we cth sure” and "the redeemed of shall win the indomitable peace the Lord shall return.. singing . that shall follow this chaotic car- They crucified Christ, but one nage. This is the victory that thing they could not do—mjure shall overcome Hitler and his in- ! the cause for which He died. Not glorious ilk, even our faith in i “ nful they drove pierced it; not GjxL | a stone they rolled before the St. Paul tested the promises of door of his tomb imprisoned it. God under every conceivable vi- Here is the basis of radiant hope cissitude — famine, peril, ship- » or broken, bruised and bleeding

wreck, imprisonment and perse- i humanity.

cution. In face of all this listen i When once Christianity has to the heartening assurance this started, no power on earth or courageous servant of the Most hell can stop it If you crucify High sends us across the years, it, you glonfy it If you bury “NEVERTHELESS THE FOUN- it, you give it an Easter morning. DATTON OF GOD STANDETH ; It has braved the lions, survived SURE." j the floods, emerged from the furA single missile precipitated nace, until the bitterest persecufrom a modern machine gun ■ tions, the deepest barbarism, the would shatter the cross in splin- I fiercicst cruelties and the blacktors, but thank God no bomb can | est superstitions have been combi ast the Rock of Ages. Hell's 1 pelled to cry out, truly “HIS worst onslaughts can neither [ TRUTH IS MARCHING ON" — jeopardize that foundation which for “the foundation of God staad-

standeth sure, nor dim the spir- eth sure".

Cape Islanb Baptist Cburcb Corner of Gnerney Street and Colombia Arfoue. REV. ROBERT D. CARRIN

ST7XCDAY, MARCH 33

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