rt' . I THURSDAY, APRIL 9. 1942

(Eajtr Mag &tar and Manf PwsuaHn EVSRY Thursday at tor Star and Wave «mldin« St MUtRY STREET. CARS MAY. N. X THE ALBERT HAND COMPANY, Incorrorated.' PAUL SNYDER, MANASER

SUBSCRIPTION PRICE SI^O PER YEAR IN ADVANCE

fcaiJjLti Ulsskund—O. $ampl& New records for Easter holiday vacationists were established during the weekend just past, according to figures of traffic experts, railroad and bus companies. A large number of visitors enjoyed beautiful spring weather in Cape May during the weekend, although, of course, the Easter crowd was not comparable with that which jammed Atlantic City, traditional location of the Easter pargd£But the important-observation is that people are~f^sort minded despite the war situation. Cape May’s crowd of Easter visitors compared very favorably with that of last year. Other Cape May County K>rts reported similar successes. fshore-bound traffic records were broken during the ikend, with va^ numbers of automobiles crossing the [aware River bridgejjetween Philadelphia and Camden. Railroads reported unusuaHyTeavy - vacation-bound traffic. Bus lines experienced similar increases in business. Taken as a whole, the first real vacation weekend of 1942

was a tremendous success.

Possibly we are too optimistic, but it seems that the success of the Easter weekend is a fairly good indication of the general trend for the coming summer season. Despite the false rumors which are circulating in city areas about (Cape May, Atlantic City and every other New Jersey resort, throngs of visitors flocked to the seashore at

their first opportunity.

Despite the fears expressed by pessimists about the effect of tire ijnd gasoline curtailments on resort business, thousands^of/tity residents came to the seashore, many of them usifigtrains and buses instead of their own automobiles to

Conserve tires and^ gasoline. " ' But they came! \

- And th^ii" aiming proved our contention that this year above all yews, people who live in the crowded cities teeming lilith defense'work, NEED vacations more and- are more able fip/mcialljt'u^ enjoy vacations at the seashore. Let's hope that the Easter weekend was just a sample of the vacation trend during the summer of 1942.

Frienda Meeting House, Camden

(Blow Jo Jfl£ (RlUM’lA. Announcement that the New Jersey Defense Council has asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to probe the source of the innumerable wild rumors which are circulating about Cape May and other New Jersey seashore resorts was heartening news to resort officials who this year are beset by the problem of counteracting this definitely harmful propaganda. Thomas S. Dignan, staff director of the Defense Council, last week hotly denied the many tall tales which are going the rounds among potential seashore visitors, and suggested the possibility that these rumors may be started by agents of enemy countries in an attempt to weaken the morale of the American public. ^ That is a logical deduction, for it seems incredible that those who know the true facts of the situation and were not bent on damaging resort business as well as throwing fear into a large cross-section of the American public would create such tall tales. With the FBI on the trail of the many rumors, however, it is likely that, regardless of their source, tfie rumors will be reduced markedly. Those who used the fantastic war-scare rumors concerning barricaded beaches, submarines within easy sight of the shdre, and all the other tales as pieces of conversation will be more careful in the future. They will be reluctant to place themselves in a position which might involve them with the Federal Bureau of Investigation by repeating the stories they have heard without first making sure of their facts. From that standpoint alone, the suggested FBI investigation will pay big dividends to Cape May and the other Jersey resortsiwhich have been included in the network of rumors. Cape May is vitally interested in squelching the rumors about the effect of the war on this resort. Its officials first took action to refute the tall tales by publishing denials of the wild stories in metropolitan newspaper: . Other resorts followed suit, and now the New Jersey Defense Council has entered the picture, on behalf of the resorts. We have three months to overcome any bad effects the war rumors might have had on our prospects of summer business. It is up to every one of us to do his part in deny- , ing these baseless'stories whenever and wherever we hear

them.

The Friends Meeting House was built in 1828 at the time of the great Schism, on a large plot of ground donated by Joseph W. Cooper. The tract was covered by a grove of large oaks and it was sometimes called the “Woods Meeting House". In 1846 the

building was enlarged through the addition of'a vestibule .and in 1876 a small frame school house, still standing on the grounds, was built The building is still used for meetings by some sixty Friends. It faces Cooper Street, above Seventh... »mo Jerlet/ Council, Bute Boute. Trenton

PaJvouqJijapkiL. Out Of The Past

Taken from files of The Star reported thal he had received and Wave for the years 1987, | $44,107.22 in taxes so far since

1982 and 1922.

Five Years Ago Appropriation of $32,000 state funds for the dredging of Cape May Harbor and its tributaries was authorized Saturday by the Appropriations Committee of the New Jersey Legislature, it was announced by Assemblyman I, Grant Scott, of Cape May, Republican member of the commit-

Results of the Cape May County canal surveys, completed recently by Army engineers will be released on May 17, it was revealed last week by U. S. Senator A. Harry Moore, in Washington. That the lower county route which had been advocated as the shortest and best route will be recommended by the engineers was indicated by recent despatches from the,capital. Cape May voters decided to revert to commission form of government in the special election Tuesday by a vote of 681 to 180. Featured by unusually light balloting throughout the day, the election was to decide whether voters wished to continue under the city manager plan or to readopt the commission form in ef-

fect previously.

Senator William H. Smathers and George R. Swinton, director of the fifth WPA district, visited Cape May on Monday to inspect government air station here consider the possibility of a

housing program. Ten Years Ago

At council meeting on Tuesday Tax Collector Gilbert C. Hughes

January and that the taxpayers are responding very well to the offer of a pre-payment discount amounting to approximately

per cent.

The annual High School play for the benefit of the Senior Class Washington trip, given Liberty Theatre last Wednesday and Thursday evenings, was enjoyed by two good houses and only praise of sincere nature is heard for it. Track and field fans and aspirants will have their day April 20, when the annual clash between the four high school class teams comes to n head at 4 p.m. Twenty Years Ago is high time that the citiof this city awoke to the fact that men who have no principles or a bit of American manhood are selling hootch to young men and boys of the city which is known as block and fall and white mule. The New Jersey State Utilities Commission met at Cape May on Monday morning last. The meeting was called to order in the Commissioners’ room at the city hall for the purpose of hearing petition against the contemplated rise in the rates of tht Cape May Light and Power Co. The Sunday Schools pf'i Cape May and West Cape May are endeavoring to reorganize the twilight baseball league Which proved so successful several years ago. On April 30, the daylight saving time goes into effect and it will be possible to play a nine inning game after 6r"“

THE POCKETBOOK °/ KNOWLEDGE ^

(Do yoioi (pant! . Cape May County motorists have urged for some time to turn in their discarded automobile license at the Motor Vehicle inspection station at Mayville so that the metal in the old tags may be reclaimed and placed back in war production. Already a large stack of discarded plates attests the willingness of the public to cooperate in this movement Several tons of old metals have been collected in this county alone, and many, many more tons are expected to be received when motorists visit the inspection station to have their cars checked. Here is something that virtually every family can contribute to its country’s assistance with no extra effort or expens^, and still, taken in the aggregate, the total amount of reclaimed metal will be suffeient to help considerably with the production of guns and tanks and ships and planes. So if you haven’t yet turned in your discarded licenses, do so as soon as possible. And if you, like most other motorists, have old license tags dating back several years in your garage or cellar or wherever you store such odds and ends, get the other old ones out and take them along too. To date, the pile of licenses collected in this county includes tags from every state in the union, Panama Canal Zone, Hawaii, Canada and many other distant points. With a minimum of effort you, too, can add your shore to the total tonnage which will be coUected in Cape May County to help with the war effort

CTARBOARD ^ WATCH

By C. Worthy

BACK TO NORMAL (7)

Now that Easter's over and the 1 kids are getting over their Easter egg tummy aches and mother and sister are sort of cooling down about their new Easter outfits, things are getting back to normal. Easter weekend was wonderful in Cape May with the

real taste of summer wea-

ther bringing a large number of visitors to this resort for the holiday period. The boardwalk had quite a crowd and Washington street took on the appearance of summer. You know, no place

to park ...

BAD COMBINATION

The fire laddies in this section ere certainly kept busy during the latter part of last week, pi ting out field and woods fires which started over widely scattered areas. It makes it sort of tough on the firemen. These field fires always reach their peak about the same time that spring fever takes its annual toll, and

just don't go together. NICE COLLECTION

Chief Vernon Farrow at the Cape May County automobile inspection station at Mayville has gotten himself quite a collection of old license plates in this drive to collect discarded plates for scrap metal. Some of the tags back as far as the days when they were made of leather with large metal numerals nailed to the background and there —e some that have been turned from other states made of copper, aluminum and other materials that are as valuable as gold

at this time.

TIME'S A-WASTIN’

The old town is starting to awaken 'for the summer season. From way down south where the management of the Admiral Hotel operates another popular sort hostelry comes word that Jack and Irma Moeller and Tom and Mary Hatton, all of the Admiral staff, will arrive in Cape May about the middle of this month to start getting ready for what they expect to be a big

R«v. Benjamin B. Brows, I Cape May:

, Church of the

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nature, life dytng to c

body that shall

■Jain, it may eh of seme other kind; but God

*t a body even aa it pUas-

Wm, and to each seed a body

Its own. I Cor. 16:86-88

a his tesohing Christ draws „ ■ treat deal both for

inthians St Panli. aS. ' PW^mg one, is the Rerarret same thing to show a ? d Christ's promise of E for eternal life apart from nlrW’i! Life . ^ difficult to accept? R«.a,s3i,ir -ttafied^rx k. , dug plants out bv the l e ? i8te, l c ® “ perfection itseift haps you have 1 reen the^rith]^' th,t nothing better and and decayed seed frnm JSX^ 1 ' more “tofting after the difflPlant existence? Our w in Wg. Md Sy ttrJS Stations, aa

h? 8 !? 8 11,6 niore abund-

the te B of # th ? v new Pknt; and the body of the new plant is wM | A t |f* 1 L like 'S ,e seed from

E***. he says,

has a body of its own.

. As We examine life in its varmn«f 8 ^ e * S and nmnifestations we

° f ,ite are being fed from

lower forma. The food that we eat is a form of life that has been sacrificed to supply our S’" for that li,e "“eh we use for food was fed by some other form of life. Then too, as "ir* 8 ' L n . ? nr observation, from lower to higher forms of life we PW? u° ther .interesting things. Plants have a limited sort of life: they stand rooted forever in one on!?’ i he ^ are se n si0v e to climate f" d V*? 6 /’ *nd their function is a limited one. Animals and birds are free to roam about,

~ - . IIWMRftyijiyT—i other forms have theirs. Cannot there be a state of Ufe in whkh the limitations cease to be? Is there not something more desir-

able than this?

Christ and ‘ St. Paul seem

think that all nature suppUes evidence. Christ seals his pro with the Resurrection. And in _ _ day of doubt and despair the lesson that out of the greatest darkness comes the most brilliant bght should be a welcome one. From the Crucifixion the Reams rettion. We who fear the dark, and the victory of the forces of evil may take heart from what Christ teaches in this: but remembering that it may demand not only the sacrifice of our Uves but of our way of living. For in the Gospel there is a social as well as a personal teaching, and most us are aware of the limitations our imperfect society. And the nope that comes from the Resur-

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environments this one.

selves always

dtinlA Jen diam&maksihA. BUDGETS THAT

WON’T BUDGE

- the Admiral.

BIG DOIN’'S PLANNED

It looks as if the -coming Fourth of July might be one of

the most active Cape May had for a number of years, addition to a peak crowd of v ors as in former years, plans

under way now to have an elaborate program of athletic events under the sponsorship of the Local Defense Service Council and the Cape May Recreation Commission with games and athletic contests galore. That’s good stuff. It provides more activities for visitors and gives everybody a chance to participate in good

I clean fun.

SCHOOL SHOW COMING The high school students are all in a dither about the coming school show which will be presented at Hunt’s Liberty Theatre next Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. “June Mad", an entertaining comedy, will be the piece de resistance (how do you like that word?) and the kids are all primed to do the show up in real Broadway fashion. If it’s as successful as school shows usually are, we don’t think anyone will: have any kick coming. i

Purchases 6y the ^ Supplies and Accounts of the U. S. Navy for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941 totaled approximately $2,200,000,000.

By Virginia Reynolds,

of Cape May

1 ^ t0 marl ‘et I

find that the price has gone up on my old favorites or I can't even buy them. Yet I have to provide exactly as much food and

fu-'? 0 ? 1 for the family, or ioh y rJ nk i 1 am 8 * u mping on the

job. ive learned that a cheap cut of meat with clever cooking and canny seasoning can be made to Uste like a filet mignon. I ve learned how, by virtue of a small amount of sugar and spice and

i " ,c ®' te bare lamb

stew clamored for in preference 1 a cr own of lamb; how to make

man believe he’s eating crab-

flake salad when in reality he's gorging himself on halibut; how to serve hamburger in ten differten delicious ways. A humble Hank steak can compete favorably with the more exclusive cuts wneu it is rolled around a bread stuffing seasoned with browned onions and hope-radish, and then baked to a rich brown tenderness.

A well balanced food budget in- “ S I na11 allowance for fats,

i unity homemakers are or should be accustomed to saving dnppmgs from bacon and sausage for use in gingerbreads, and of salvaging the rich yellow fat trom chicken for use in white

sauce and cakes.

Fats have a pleasant ability of slowing up digestion and keeping foods in the stomach just long enough to keep us from getting hungry immediately after we have eaten. The fat you add to vegetables not only makes them taste better, but adds calories which produce heat and ener-

Store salvaged fats in the refrigerator. this keeps them from becoming rancid. You can use clarified fats for pan frying, to brown meats for braising, in fric-

asseing and sauteing.

Be sure to keep fat at a controlled low temperature to prevent discoloring and scorching. Use your deep fat frying fat over and over again. Melt the fat, keep the fire low. Add slices of unpeeled potatoes, then turn the Harne higher until the fat bubbles. When the potato slices are well browned strain hot fat into a container through several thicknesses of cheesecloth held in a metgj. fxame. The potato slices absorff" flavors and odors and help to clarify the fat. ,When it is cold

and hard, cut off the bottom layer of sediment and discard. Store clear fat. To clarify lamb or checken fat mix it with boiling water. Put i i n i a - ? rge kettle and pour sufficient boiling water over it to lt ; Place kettle over flame ?,° - the I'qmd boils gently. Boil fat thoroughly, then strain. When ,t u cold lift off the top cake of clear fat from the liquid containing sediment in .bottom of container. Mrs. J. B. Kaighn, Cold Spring, suggests the following recipe! which was found to be excellent. POUND CAKE 6 eggs ^6 Tb. butter 1 teaspoonful salt 1 lb sugar 1 cup milk 1 lb flour 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder flavoring. . Cream butter and sugar, add one egg yolk at a time and beat until very light, then add salt and flavoring. Mix baking powder and flour and add alternately with on f.. cu P ® f „ mi ! k - Beat egg whites until stiff. Fold in. Bake one hour m a greased pan with 376 F.

oven.

Open House Listed For N. J. Students Cape May High School students * who are unsettled in their college plans because of the war have been invited to attend a -- symposium on college education in wartime at the third annual Open House at the New Jersey College for Women on Sunday

afternoon, May 3.

. Or. Robert C. Clothier, president of Rutgers University, will speak on “Youth Weighs College in Wartime", and four outstanding XJC seniors will discuss both academic and social phases of col-

lege life.

The program will open with a pre-college symposium, at which Dean Margaret T. Corwin will

preside.

After the guests leave the chapel where the symposium will be held, they will be taken on a tqur of the campus by NJC un-der-graduates and will visit the dormitories, recreation centers and various college buildings.

Cape fslanb JSaptist Church Canter ef Gnerney Street and Columbia A venae. REV. ROBERT D. CARRIN SUBSAY, Area 13 Morn Inc Worship 10:30 A. M. Bible School 11:46 A. If. Baptist Training Union. 0:46 P. If. Evening Worship. 7:46 P. M. «« ?®? ul “ r “eotjnr of the Uadle.s• Aid Tuesday. April 14. at 3 P. M. a! the home of Mrs. Franklin Porch. *>17 Washington Street. ALt. SERVICE MEN ARE WELCOME TO OUR BRRYICM.

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