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Jsi Jham. £aL Cake,? In the face of an impending food shortage, the recent OPA edict denying gasoline to operators of fishing party boats is the peak of bureaucratic stupidity. The OPA has apparently overlooked the fact that the catches made from party boats add considerably to the nation’s food supplies. In a year when everyone is doing his utmost to add to his family’s unrationed food supply, it is extremely short-sighted for the OPA or any other agency arbitrarily to eliminate an industry which runs into the millionss and which could augment the war-time menus of a large percentage of the nation’s families. OPA officials, contacted last week by represemotives of Cape May and Ocean Counties who sought minimum allotments of gasoline for party boats, received the appeal unsympathetically. They entirely discounted the food production value of the party boat industry until, after long argument, the seashore delegation had .presented a case which could not be over-

looked.

As matters now stand, it is possible that some ■mall amounts of gasoline will be allotted to operators of party boats. Probably enough to permit limited operation in the inland waters of New Jersey. But before that possibility can become a reality, the OPA must be sold on the war-time food production value of tiie industry. Otherwise, the edict which sounds the death-knell for the party boat business for the'duration will undoubtedly stand. In Cape May County alone with a fleet of some 200 party boats approximately 11 million pounds of fish were caught by anglers during 1942. With present meat shortages and food rationing, it is reasonable to assume that many who did not fish last year would do •6 in 1948 if they-have an opportunity. Multiply Cape May County’s partv boat catches for 1942 bv those of the party boat fleets of other New Jersey counties, of other coastal states, and you arrive at a figure that is ■taggering. That much fish would go a long way toward helping the food shortage situation. Another point apparently overlooked by the OPA is that party boat fishing is not purely pleasure. We can understand the ban on gasoline for pleasure boating. We don’t like it. but we accept it without question. Party boat fishing, however, is a business just as much as any other transportation business. Boat owners have millions of dollars invested in their craft. They carry a tremendous overhead. During their short season, they operate as a public conveyance to take fishermen to fishing grounds where they catch food fish. If the gasoline shortage is serious enough to warrant elimination of such an industry, the OPA should at the same time deny gasoline to buses and taxis which transport the public to various places to engage in various activities which are not purely occupational. Certainly if the OPA can allow extra gasoline for Victory Ganieners to make frequent trips between their hmnes and their gardens, they can allot a small amount of gasoline for each party boat . . . enough to permit it to operate in its own locality at least. Here’s an opportunity for New Jersey’s Congressional delegation to save an important New Jersey industry from a federal squeeze which is bound, to be ruinous. How about it Congressmen ? Qlsan. HfL JtfL SunumA,! Neighboring West Cape May has designated the week of May 8-8 as “Clean-Up Week” and is appealing to its citizens to cooperate by improving the appearance of their individual properties.. Borough officials are doing their share in the campaign bv providing free municipal trash and rubbish eollec+ion during the special week. The importance of improving appearances at or near the seashore, particularly at this season of the S ir, cannot be overemphasized. To visitors, first pressions are lasting. If they are agreeably impressed with the appearance of a community, they are Hkelv to remain ... likely to return in other years. If. on the other hand, the community makes a bad first impression, von may be assured that their visits will be short and infrequent. \ West Cape Mav officials are to be commended for their orogressive.attitude. Cape May and other communities would-make no mistake in following our neighbor’s lead. HA. Qlsah, CUl. ... WmA Ten days ago War Manpower Commissioner Paul V. McNutt issued a directive from Washington “freezN ing” essential workers in essential jobs. The nation informed of the action through the press and . An estimated 27.000.000 workers were affected, ’an days ago.- the Star and W*ve purveyed the .fc. found that 70 per cent of conntv workers come within The “essential” brackets and wpre therefore yf their jobs for the duration. That was re1 Thursday. days ago. regional directors of the War Commission explained in the metropolitan it the “freeze” order was not in reality a . order. They said that workers were not ftuacp in their jobs, that they could switch from job to job after the proper red tape had been waded .

through

Suddenly the whole thing dropped from public print. Apparently the WMC had become so confused that it didn't know itself what the status of essential workers was or is. Maybe it does. At leasst no one ebe knows . . . . At present, thp only thing we’re sure of is that 70 cent of the workers m Cape May County are .... . . . Well, they’re . . . er . . . uh . . . well, they’re 70 emit of the workers in Cape May County, anyway.

NOT AS POOR AS H6’S PAINTED.

THE WEEKLY !

PafuufAaphA, Out Of The Past

Taken from files of The Star and Wave for the years 1938,

1938 and 1923.

Five Years Ago Contract for supplying cast iron pipe and materials for the construction of a new water line to the government reservation was awarded to R. D. Wood A Co., of Philadelphia, on Friday by the city commission. The contract for the materials totals $7,337.46. Despite rainy April weather a large number of clubwomen from all parts of Cape May County attended the annual Reciprocity Day of the Woman's Community Club which convened Thursday rooming in the clubroom in the Focer-Mecray Building. Consolidation of the Camden Safe Deposit and Trust Co. and the West Jersey Trust Co. was approved on Thursday at a stockholders' meeting in Camden. The merger resulted in formation of a new institution known as the Camden Trust Co. Cape May Kiwanians gave their ladies a treat last evening when the annual Ladies’ Night was held. A turkey dinner was served in the West Cape May Chapel in honor of the club's guests. Ten Years Ago The April Grand Jury returned 93 indictments against 35 persons on Tuesday evening at 6 o’clock and the findings were made

public Wednesday morning. The jury will return for reasons known only to the members next Tues-

day.

The combined county rally of the American Legion pests and the Legion Auxiliaries will be held Easter Monday evening at the Wildwood Golf Cl&b. Prominent speakers have accepted the invitations to speak and the final round-up for membership will be made. Twenty Years Ago The sale by Frank D. Schroth, receiver for the Cape May Real Estate Company, of 1200 acrts ■of land in Lower Township, known as Two 'Mile Beach, to William Lipkin, of Phila., for $460,000, was approved by Vice Chancellor Backes in the Court of Chancery-

President George F. Sproule of the board of commissioners of navigation selected the following as apprentices on the pilot boat Philadelphia stationed at the Delaware Breakwater: Harry D. Lemmon, Kenneth L. Miller, Curtis Johnson, Charles L. White and Thomas R. Ingram. Twenty government buildings at the Naval Air Base were sold to the General Wrecking and Salvage Company of Pennsgrove last Thursday. The bungalows will be cut into sections and be transported to several states throughout the country.

PRACTICAL HEALTH HINTS

Quinine for the Control of Malaria

—By Dr. Jam— A Tobey—

A N APPEAL for quinine for army and navy use went out recently to all American druggists. This valuable drug is needed

I fully with ms- | laria, a disease I which now af- ] flicts many of | our soldien and

I sailors through

I out the world.

Malaria

Dr. J- A. Tobey

a today than any other dis-

ease. It is widespread along both sides Bf the Mediterranean; in **— Orient, and in sill the warm gions of Asia. Several mil cases occur annually in our own country, chiefly in the southern

Just as vaccination is the only effective preventive of “ so is quinine the mas prophylaxis against % bout of malarial fever. As pointed out in the official statement accompanying the government's appeal, “quinine is vitally needed for our soldiers abroad because this drug has a faster action, brings the malaria under control more quickly. and thus shortens the time the wddw is incapacitated.'

used for many Important medical purposes, but for the duration of the war it can ba employed only in the prevention and treatment of malaria, the season for which begins ir our spring. Quinine for the control of the disease in this country is still available, even though our supply of the valuable cinchona bark from Java has been gut off by the barbarous Japs. Licensed druggists will con-

tinue to furnish quinine to pacauses more who have prescriptions of sick- TrSm physicians stating that the

drug is required for antimalarial purposes. It can not now be obtained without a prescription. For the prophylaxis of malaria, physicians generally prescribe fl greihs of quinine a day, given at night before retiring. In the treatment of the disease, 20 grains are given daily to adults for 5 to 7 days, with proportionate doses,

for children.

In the past quinine has been phyiaxis.

Persons suffering from malaria requirP- bland - diets rich, in iron for blood-building. Soft cooked eggs on enriched white toast, with milk and fruit juiceagare valuable

Note to the Weather Man: All is forgiven. We take back all the nasty things we've said about you this spring. The Easter holiday weather was lost right. Keep up the good work. Signed, C. Worthy. After that little epistle it'll probably snow for weeks. Seriously, wasn’t the holiday weekend swrilegant ? Cape May has never gone in for this Easter parade business as seriously as some of the resorts. But there was a good crowd of holiday promenaders on the boardwalk during the holiday period. Some sections on Sunday afternoon looked like mid-summer with all the boys and girls out sunning themselves. And Cape May’s feminine gender did itself pfoud with the traditional Easter finery. Some of. the girls had the last laugh on their husbands who, as a last line of defense, pointed to the weather we had been having as a good reason 'why the family bankroll should not be sunk in a new Easter outfit. How they chortled when the real Easter weather arrived! You’d think husbapds would learn after while, wouldn't you? One of 'em even sent a poem clipped from some magazine to this col-yum asking that it be printed to build up his case against Easter togs. The poem—which wasn't used because of lack of space, incidentally — suggested putting Easter clothes money in war bonds. But even that patriotic appeal wouldn't help hubby much. It'd be clothes AND bonds ... or

else.

What price glory ? The City Fathers were paying some of their bills at last Thursday’s meeting, when they discovered that they are .charged 50 cents for burying a cat and one dollar for burying a -skunk. After due deliberation they decided the difference in price was justtfjed evfti though the animals ./are about the same size. Maybe the OPA will set a ceiliag price . . . With rising temperatures and the first whole day of sunshine in weeks, a number of local Victory Gardeners bent their backs in honest toil during the last weekend. Strangely enough (?) .some of ’em stayed bent. At least half the amateur farmers we've seen since then have been hobbling around with plenty of grunts and groans. Warishell! We knew it would happen: Last week the Coast Guards announced the 1943 summer fishing rules . . . where anglers coaid fish and where they couldn't r-. . No sooner had the story been set in type than the OPA announced that there would be no gas for fishing boats, except the commercial craft. Sort of a case of not letting your right hand know what your left hand is doing . . .

On To Pentecost By the Rev. ). L Peaco, pastor of the Franklin Street Methodist Church, Cape May Text: Heb. 12:11. Nevertheleaa afterward. Most of the best *_ v ..

things of life come to us after-

wards. / “

- AJto- experiencs tUt .r. <*“» *»I»lt. ileassnt, come the more ^ ter »a»oei*tion sad

conversation with tbs Christ that they found their hearts tmnrfa*. Oh, for men with warm h—fts

After the bitter

things of life comes the sweet. -- -- After the clouds, the wind, the ^ lnUl yr * m J lightning, the thunder, the storm, J 0 '**? 1 °£' ^ >en the hurricane, the cyclones of ^dayl > I life, come the smoother, brighter "' mun X ylth God’s love until and better things. After the cold, “J** • of lost souls dull, brown Winter comes Spring *, burning passion for win-

with all the appearance of life, mn K

joy and happiness. After the What will do this? One wort darkness of night, with all of its is onr answer. Pentecost Pentaterror, dread and fear, comes cost: On to Pentecost Comparing the morning, bright and clear. It the two 40-day periods oreis after death that life and im- Crucifixion and post-Crucifixion.

- - - - light, we find they were eventful days, 2nd Tim. 1:10. but the three days of this period

u.- h i /- V, . . ..

mortality

brought to

10. ,

We have Just passed through which stood out preeminentlv Easter, the day that brought above all others was first, the ire hope, joy and life to the early of Crucifixion, second, the day of Church, but we must not forget Resurrection, and third the dav that Easter came after Gethsem- of Ascension, but it was after ane, after the betrayal, after the all of these that Pentecost came denial, after the false and treaeh- First, the day if Crucifixionerons trial in Pilate’s judgment Within a period of 24 hours, ini hsll. After the scourging, after eluding the three hours Christ the bearing of the Cross, and af- was on the Cross, there were 25 ter Crucifixion. Weeping may en- Old. Testament prophecies fulfill, dure for a night, but joy cometh ed, concerning this matter. More in tb* morning. Psalms 80:5. than one each hour. Unparalleled, And new we say: “On to Pen- marvelous, astounding. Truly may

.. , Great >* tile mystery of We believe we can have another Godliness. 1st Tim l-jg

Lrsr<L w 'Dri ^

Itod. .total, the tatant Unto, SrST.i? ni'l. ' , shed, human slaughter, wholesale nnaTldmi SSL murder, destruction of property fg *lso rein ” 1st

and life. Life. life, human life,

the most precious thing we know of fn,' ri t y . the . about. The thing Jesii came to tomb ' SI*! E,” taT'S i r»°"« J o"L'” r ta'• TES’

CTARBOARD O WATCH

By C Worthy

St. John. 10:10.

Yes, I say, with these facts before us, we need another Pentecost. With world conditions as they are today, it will cost something to bring a Pentecost, but it is worth the price whatever

sorrowing and suffering from the taunts, jeers and threats of their enemies. But let Sunday morning come; let the promise of Jesus come W pass: St John 2:18.

it is worm the price whatever i ‘ . it costs; for goodness is always erted *fT worth the price it costs to be and sp **‘ t in artKm ' an<1

good, regardless of how dear that price. Then I say again: “On to

Pentecost”.

Nevertheless afterwards.

Marvelous was the experience of the early seekers at the tomb on that first Easter morn. But it was after the Resurrection. Astounding but inspiring and encouraging was the appearance of Jesus, in the midst of the eleven as they were assembled behind closed doors, but it was afterward, after the Resurrection. Touching and convincing was the appearance of Jesus when He rebuked Thomas for his unbelief,

but it was afterward.

I wonder what the Holy Spirit, Christ and God, think of the scene today as They view it, over the sunrise side of the ocean. Over where Christianity began; over where The Christ was born; over where lived the Man who “went about doing good”, where

never Sin “plke^e TaS thTt ^

walked with the two men on the ' t L£‘ t y the CMt * nd *° on

Emmaus Road, when their hearts

Straight From The Shoulder

speak in action, and

we have an empty tomb, a risen Christ and the first glad Easter

Day.

Third, the Ascension. Ascension

Day.

With the birth of Christ before ns, the life, the Criciflxion and the Resurrection, if it were not for the Ascension, there would be a missing link. Well may the Sainted Paul have said: Ephesians 4:8. Wherefore He saith, when He ascended up on high, He led captivity captive,' and gave gifts unto men. The following verses state: Now that He ascended, what is it but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all

things.

Nevertheless Afterwards: It was after the Crucifixion, after the Resurrection and after the Ascension, that Pentecost came. Therefore we plead for Pentecost.

A*pid malaria if possible, but if you lire in or go to s malarious locality, quinine is the best and

method of pro-

Laundry operators in New Jer-

barrela of soap, are consumed by the laundry industry in tbs state

An innovation in the activity program at the Cape May Naval Base that promises a great deal of entertainment for the officers and men stationed here are the boxing bouts, first of which were held at the Navy Recreation Hall at the Base last Tuesday night. A surprising amount of leatherpushing material has been found at the Base, with a number of former professional or amateur boxers in various branches of the service. One example is Eddie Hocevar, formerly a prominent professional, who is now stationed at the Marine barracks here. Another is Coast Guardsman George Elpaso, 1942 Philadelphia Inquirer Middle-Atlantic A.A.U. middleweight king. Also well known to the fight world is Jimmy Frain, of the Coast Guard, who was formerly trainer and manager of heavjrweight Tony G a 1 e n t o, who is supervising and directing the matchmaking for the Base scraps. Lieutenant J. S. Scardefield, who refereed .last week’s bouts, was a well known boxer when he fought for Army during the last war and later when he was closely associated with the fistic fraternity. Working with Frain in arranging the bouts was James Greenwood, of the Naval Air Station, a former) sports editor of a Virginia newspaper. These are only some of the boys now stationed here who figured in the world of sports before going into -uniform. Much credit is due all those who participated in the evening’s program aiid who will participate in the bouts to come. The morale value of their efforts will be ter-

rific. Good luck, fellows.

Unheralded and unsung — at least in Cape May County—is the important work which is being carried on by the Women's Field Army of the A roe ri call Society for the Control of Cancer. While the volunteer members of this as-

do their jobs 365 days

a year, the month at April, which is just ending, has been set aside annually aa “Cancer Control Month” under an art of Congress.

In New Jersey eight counties have been organized to date, and two are partially organized. The others will be organized as quickly as possible. Object of the organization is to battle cancer

and to make strides against the malady such as those which have been made , against tuberculosis and venereal diseases since these educational campaigns have been in progress. The keynote of the cancer campaign, as well as those of the other drives, is “Act in time.” Medical science's biggest 'problem is to teach the public that almost any ailment can be cured effectively if it is taken in time. ■ Within one week of the opening of the Second War Loan Drive, Cape May County, one of the smallest in New Jersey, had reached 45 per cent of its war bond quota, exclusive of the amount subscribed to by banks, insurance companies and state governmental units. The crucial test in the war loan drive will be at the end. The answer to the question of whether or not individual localities will meet their quotas does not lie with the financial institutions but with the public at large . . . the small investors. Have YOU bought bonda to the limit of YOUR ability? DR. ROBBINS BEING SENT TO MISSISSIPPI Captain Warren D. Robbins, of Cspe May, who has been serving with the Army Medical Corpe at Camp Pickett, Va. since he was commissioned last fall, has been transferred to Camp Shelby, Miss. At his new post, Captain Robbins will be attached to the 114th Station Hospital in Camp Shelby. He expects to begin- his duties . in Mississippi about May 1. He visited friends in Cape May last Wednesday, stopping hare for a brief period. TURN IN YOUR WASTE FATS to year butcher today! A