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Ufa Viand VYlsM (Doi/fight The question of whether or not we should have an extra hour of daylight this summer—even in addition to the one hour jump caused by the adoption of War Time—seems to be causing a great deal of discussion in all sections of New Jer-

sey.

In Cape May County there is no unity of thought on the matter. Even before the extra hour or daylight (the usual Daylight Saving Time) was formally discussed by officials, the Greater Wildwood Chamber of Commerce registered its protest. A few days later, the Cape May Court House Chamber of Commerce went on record as favoring the

change.

Resort interests thoughout the state have been loud in their efforts to have the extra hour of daylight, pointing out that with the dim-out of all coastal communities, another hour of good 6ld summer sun would hold off darkness until almost ten o’clock in mid-summer and would keep the dim-out Restrictions for storekeepers and others at the shore at a minimum. , Farmers in some sections of the state have announced their opposition to the plan, contending that an extra hour of daylight would disrupt the schedules on the farm no end. It’s not baud’to see where it-would be a difficult proposition to sell a herd of cows on the idea that milking time should be figured on Eastern Daylight Saving War Time instead of just on War Time or even the outmoded Eastern Standard Time. And there are many other grave problems involved. But the farmer might start his work at six instead of five a. m. and continue until some desirable hour in the evening. With a little readjustment of their personal schedules, the fanners could go along on the idea and still not add more worries to the livestock or perhaps we could have special time

for the seashore.

To our mind, it is important that New Jersey adopt the regular Daylight Saving Time in addition to War Time, .thus

advancing the clocks two hours.

We believe it will be of importance to Cape May and to the other seashore resorts. We believe, too, that it will aid the purpose of the shoreUne dim-out, too, by reducing by another hour the period of time when seashore lights are

normally used during summer.

Then, too, with daylight until 10 p. m. in mid-summer, visitors would have more opportunity to enjoy themselves. After-dinner swimming would probably become an even more popular Cape May sport, and the longer evenings would be -

boon to boardwalk business and activities.

Here’s hoping' the state will officially adopt Daylight Saving Time and that it will become effective the last Sunday

in April.

Jha U)cOi SbiikaA dioma. From the War Production Board in Washington comes

the announcement that hereafter razor blades will be rationed

at the rate of one per man per week. Who said the war’s not striking home?

Here in an inconspicuous statement, the WPB practically disrupts the daily routine of millions of American men and threatens to throw domestic tranquility in millions of Amer-

ican homes to the winds.

To the one map in seven who shaves every day, the announcement, no doubt, came as a relief ... especially to those . with tough beards that cannot be hacked off with the same blade seven days in a row. Now if they look like porcupines occasionally the blame can be placed on the war, and the United States government is an important ally to have on your side when you start explaining to the little woman that it’s only your patriotic duty not to shave too often or too wellBut it’s the women of America who will probably feel the effect of the curtailment of razor blades most acutely. And that statement was NOT intended as a pun. Research on the subject of shaving has pretty definitely established the fact that mere man, if. left entirely to himself with no undue influence from the feminine gender, would probably never shave after the first adolescent thrill of scraping his face. . ^ It is the women who from the beginning havFi>een responsible for shaving ... and it’s not too difficult to see their point of view. Besides making the male of the species looking several hundred per cent better, shaving for generations has provided women with those convenient little tools known ' as razor blades which have nearly as many feminine ” 000 na the proverbial hairpfri. , , , Of course, there are automatic blade sharpeners and we old method of rubbing a used blade around the inside of a glass to put a new edge on it, and there are electric razors and straight blades which can be stropped as of yore, but we 11 bet modern man’s ingenuity will turn the curtailment order on blades into a rather convincing argument for permitting . .Jhejtobble to stay a day or so more ... It certainly looks like Sherman was right. Warishell.

Grant’s House, Long Branch

' Wien Ulysses S. Grant was President of tie United States, he. accepted an invitation to make Long Branch the Summer Capital. A croup of Elberon residents purchased a . cottage at 991 Ocean Ave., Long Branch, and he occupied it during the Summer of 1868 and for a number of years afterwards. Built in 1866 by Howard Potter, of New York, the frame building, with an octagonal porch

extending from the southern corner, used as a private residence. Other President! have spent vacations at Long Branch and President Woodrow Wilson occupied nearby Shadow Lawn. President James A. Garfield died in the cottage of Charles Francklyn on the grounds of the old Elberon Hotel in 1881.

fiwvaqAapJtiu Out Of The Past

Taken from files of The Star and Wave for the years 1937, 1932 and 1922. Five Years Ago That thousands of anglers and boatmen in the lower regions of the Delaware Bay would be deprived of adequate protectior '**' government plans to decom sion the Cape Mcy Point Coast Guard station were consummated was the principal protest registered with Coast Guard officials this week by indignant citizens of Cape May Point and other lower county communities. Common Pleas Judge M. Way, of Wildwood, was appointed rent receiver of the Admiral Hotel last week by Vice Chancellor W. F. Sooy in Atlantic City, it was revealed this

week.

Transfer of the WPA project for the prevention of beach erosion at Alexander avenue, Cape May Point, ia expected within the next few days, it was revealed this week by borough officials. The project on the beach, north of the Presbyterian ■Seaside Home, which has been in operation for several months, is fast nearing completion. Forerunners of the Gloucester mackerel fleet which fishes from Cape May Harbor every April, arrived at Schellengers Landing this week for the mackerel season which will begin during the next week. Preparing to open the rifle and pistol ranges at the Coast Guard air station here, Coast Guard officers are anticipating the arrival of three thousand Coast Guards from the New York division and marines for small arms target practice during the approaching season. Ten Years Ago When the “Tuna", high powered rumrunner with a lot of high

<2 frdl dialfL

powered liquor on board struck a bar in Delaware Bay off Wildwood Villas^, and sank, men of that locality seized opportunity by the forelock and sac^s of liquor by ' the handiest ■grip and salvaged, a part of the 'eargo. ^^inferringr'writk^ilayor Sheppard and city councilmen last Thursday, Governor A. Harry Moore assured the group that he would recommend an appropriation of $15,000 be set aside for dredging opt the sandbars which have accumulated in the past 25 years since Cape May Harbor

was dug.

Twenty Years Ago

The four-masted schooner Clara H. Donnell, bound into New York in ballast from a southern port, was wending her way up the New Jersey coast early Tuesday morning in a thick fog and blinding rain, when off Avalon, Captain H. Nevins lost his bearings and the schooner went aground

on Townsend’s Inlet bar.

The street supervisor is a busy man. Streets are being repaired, scraped and generally improved, se^er repairs are progressing and many water leaks are stopped, coal is being transferred to the

sewer disposal plant.

Trees on sidewalks are being trimmed and many public nuis-

ances are being removed.

The Board of Health Is to be congratulated on the appearance of the dump. It is in better condition than most back yards. Coal is going to the water works "ready for the anticipated strike. Repairs on the tank and frame will soon be startedJ The gay and festive mosquito is hunting the tall cedars or some elevation where the mosquito commission cannot reach him.

This is a special note to the women of Cape May. For several weeks, the Cape May branch of the American Red Cross has been appealing for women to help with the sewing of pajamas and surgical dressings for the Cape May Naval base. A number of you have answered the call, but others are still needed. . . ,. . If you can sew and if you have even a short time each week to spare for such work, volunteer your services today. Your Red Cross branch needs you. Because of our position as a Naval base community, the Cape May branch of the Red Cross has been assigned the extensive project of doing a great deal of sewing for the men

stationed here.

The regular corps of Red Cross workers has been doing excellent work, but it is swamped under the tremendous load * niP< I^ necessary that the branch’s quota be filled and there is a time limit op the sewing project, so the all-out cooperation of all Citpe May women who want to do their part for the

boys in the service is needed.

The Red Croes sewing rooms on Decatur street are open dally .and women wishing to volunteer their services may do

ao at the local Red Croes headquarters.

EZ>e S TARBOARD WATCH By C. Worthy PALM SUNDAY WASH OUT With Easter just a couple of days away, it can’t be long until the good old summer time is back again. We’ve got our crossed and we’re hopin’ that Easter Sunday will be a better day than Palm Sunday was. From the standpoint of seashore resorts it was a complete washout. Ahd we do mean wash-out. We’ll bet Atlantic City merchants gnashed their teeth on Monday when they saw such beautiful sunshine after what they had for what was supposed to bo one of their biggest weekends.

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NO SNOW HERE THOUGH Anyway, the resorts fared much better than Philadelphia and its surrounding communities on Sunday. We only had wind and rain, while they had a spring blizzard. We often wonder why people insist on living in cities like that when they could live in Cape May just as easily and twice as well. THEY’D BETTER BE GOOD Everybody’s getting all set for the sugar rationing registration which will take place during the first week of May, and a lot of folks with more than their share are figuring out some good story to tell when the registrar asks about the supply on hand. NEW BIG SHOTS NOW War certainly changes modern standards. We can remember when people envied a guy that had to pay income tax. Now everybody that makes anything at all is in the tax brackets and everybody envies the guy with a new tire or an extra pound of sugar. People have more fun than anybody, don’t they?

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PECKS OF POSIES .If everybody took the war seriously as some volunteers who are serving on various local defense assignments here, all the shootin’ and shoutin’ would have been over long ago. You really have to give credit to those who are doing their part in the war effort. They’re giving up" a lot of fun and relaxation to serve as your protector in case of trouble. BAND STRUTS STUFF The new high school band made its debut Friday night in a concert at the high school, and the public was given an idea of what can be done \rith a bunch of kids that really want to learn. Despite the fact that they have been organized only three months, the band put on a good program, and it holds great promise for the future. 9 % 9 ITS A SWELL HABIT Speaking of defense bonds — and who isn’t these days—Cape May is adding up quite an impressive total of savings in the form of bonds and stamps. It seems the folks that have the sheckles are digging down and passing ’em out to their Uncle Samuel to buy guns and tacks and bullets and planes and battleships so that the Japanese Son Of Heaven (?) will get a one-way ticket to go home and see his folks^and so that the living caricatures—Adolph and Benito—will find* out that the decent people of the wofld don’t think they’re as funny as they are funny-look-

ing.

prepared.

The armed forces early recognized the fact that if our boys were to be alert with steady nerves, ability to think under stress, they must have nourishing food property prepared. So, for the first time in the history of our armed forces, our boys are daily eating meals that are properly balanced as to fats, carbohydrates and proteins, and equally important ere properly prepared to furnish the boys the maximum of the essential vita-

mins and minerals.

Instead of just talking about the way the armed forces are fed, let’s see for ourselves what the boys have to eat. Here’s a day’s menu, taken at random. This is typical of meals being served our lads, in Naval bases, army camps, etc, all over America. If yon will carefully study the menu, you will observe that the foods are of the « ' ’ "‘ -

iety. They are well prepared and served attractively. I know because I have eaten with the armed forces ahd know whereof I

speak.

BREAKFAST

Prepared cereal, fresh mUk, sugar, sausage, hot cakes, syrup,

jam, coffee and milk.

DINNER

Fresh pea soup, croutons, grilled ham steak, baked potatoes, buttered string beans, lettuce salad, bread, butter, apple pie,

coffee.

SUPPER Liver and fried onions, buttered potatoes, new cabbage, bread, jam, butter, rice custard, cocoa,

tea.

These meals comp up/o all requirements. Inexpensive, attractive when served, and brimmed to overflowing with vibrant health. Our first line of defense, as you see has enough of everything to eat. But what about our second line of defense? Since we homemakers are ranking officers of the second line of defense, we must begin to give serious consideration to the food we feed the home folks. We must be as well equipped to carry on as our men, and it is in our hands to accomplish this. It’s the biggest contribution we can make to the present emergency. It’s our job to keep the sec6nd line of defense as healthy as the first line and never forget that the second line is also essentia], for the safety of America.

RECIPES

The following recipe was submitted by Rose Mary Williams, demonstrator for the Electric Company . . . A good recipe for Canteen Workers to know. Savory Meat Loaf 1 lb. veal, ground 1 lb. smoked ham, ground J ,i cup tomato catsup 3 tabl. green pepper, chopped 1 onion, chopped 2 eggs, beaten !£ cup milk

Vi tsp. salt

% tsp. pepper

1 cup cracker crumbs

Mix ingredients in order given and pour into greased loaf tin. Bake about 1 hour in moderate

oven (350°). Serves six.

all well and that thing* going fine, bat yon MVnr ition having any aerviee fallows in for Sunday dinner. Tbn folks her* are so good to na fWlows, inviting ns into their h and treating ns like th " sons, and I would Hke 1 that yon and others hi were doing the eame : fellow up there, who, self, is far from home. I know yon would have dona this before, if the idee hid occurred to y on. Yon can’t have any idea what it means to have somebody come along and treat yon. like one dt the family, especially when yon are badly bent, if not broke, moat of the time. Believe me It isn’t easy to get along on about half of what I have been used to spending on a car alone, bnt I’m not kicking. I guess there are lots of folks on the other side who would be glad to change places with me, just for the food. That is one thing wfe never have to worry over. The food Is always ready when we are. I hear that lots of the local fellows are failing on their physical exams. Doc Cossaboon must be selling aspirin by the pound these days. Well, I guess I might as well call it a letter, amLget it ready for Mike to take with him when he goes on leave. Don't forget, maybe I can’t bo with yon, but you can have some other fellow there with you, while some other guy’s folks are entertaining me. It sure is funny how you run into folks you have :en on the beach back home durig the summer. \ Well, so long and keep tli» home fires burning, if there isn't coal shortage.

Love,

JUNIOR.

Home Ffont By the Division of Information, Office of Emergency Management Are yon a Horae Front Bombardier? Are you one of those curious New Jersey citizens who feels we don’t know we’re at war? That we need one good bombing to wake people up? Of course, it’s nonsense. And the “bombard-, iers”, you can be sure/ mean some other town, not their own, ought to be waked up. And" yet as each week brings a haR to production of more and more items used in Jersey households, we must realize that our daily lives am being changed. SO LIFE HASN'T CHANGED? New Jersey residents work differently today, play differently today, eat and dress differently. Well have all the wholesome food necessary to maintain health. But there’ll be less sugar and probably less tea, spices and eatables that used to come packed. in cans. Our tin’s too precious. There will bq a streamlined "static" silhouette design for the ladies to save cloth. In time to come Beau Brummel will find his suit has cuffless trousers, lapelI6ss jackets and no vests with double breasted garments. VITAL MISCELLANY .... Better learn to make that razor blade last longer. WPB is curtailing 1942 production to conserve "Swedish steel” ... Less

used

PLAN RECREATION Cape May’s Recreation

mission will meet at city hall ati' . 8 o’clock tonight to discuss plans ;

fioid bed will ai

shellac, too, because it’a to coat artillery shells . . . OPA cut? prices for meat scraps and O om . digester tankage—ingredients us- ' - J blending feeds for poultry

. . . Maybe your new

fi-ij oea win actually be softer after

neK 7-; _ Rubber shortage grows so acute — 1 that WPB is banning use of rei CENT SUPPER to be held claimed rubber in articles rangApril 9th, 6:80 to 7:30 pm. j n g from baby carriages tohouse- ... the Socinl Room of the First : hold gloves . . . And remember, Presbyterian Church. iyou “bombardiers" on the home

1 front, that “If any of us lose our

freedom, all of us lose it’*

„.. .Arable which is playing at the Liberty on Tfcesd&y and Wednesday, April 7 and 8.

The present Navy of the United tiie

(Tape Tslanb Baptist Church Corner of Gnerney Street and Columbia Avenue. REV. ROBERT D. CARRIN

Sermon: "Christ Was Raised For Mr Jusuilcallon" Blble School 11:15 A. M. Baptist Trslnlnc Union. 5:45* P. 15. ■ ' Evening Worship. 7:45 P. M. Special Easter Service. Special ALL 8SKVICE MEN ARK WELCOME TO ODR BERVICT*