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Ufa Tlaad G. Jwc Qhonqa. % A demand for a broader tax base in Nciy Jersey was voiMd last week by Mayor T. Millet Hand, of Cape May, in which he pointed out that the present burden on real estate

taxpayers is oppressive.

With new expenditures cropping up almost daily for state, county arid local governments as direct results of the war effort, taxation must produce added revenue during the next few yearS. As the situation now stands, the property owners will pay the bulk of the bill while others escape most

of the burden.

Still the money is not being spent for the exclusive benefit of property owners. We all reap the benefits. We should all help to pay for them. New Jersey’s archaic system of taxation has long been „ bone of contention. Officials are practically unanimous in the opinion that it needs revision, that it is unfair and that “■ must be supplanted with a new system. But officials have for years shied away from the task of doing anything about it because tinkering with taxation is one of the cardinal fears of political officeholders. The time has come now, however, when a courageous and honest attempt should be Ajjiade to place New Jersey taxation on a more equitable basis. The bugaboo of public reaction against those instrumental in apy tax law change will vanish into thin air if our Legislature attacks the problem in a forthright manner and really attempts to make a fair tax system to distribute more justly the cost of government. In his statement, Mayor Hand suggested several possibilities of new revenues. But, he emphasized, the changes should not merely produce ADDITIONAL revenue; they should provide NEW SOURCES of revenue in order to REDUCE the burden- which is now borne by property owners. Lawmakers have for years successfully evaded the issue of revising the tax system. In times of prosperity there is usually sufficient money available so the overburdened property owner doesn’t complain too loudly. In times of depression, no one has money and everybody is complaining about taxes so they let sleeping dogs lie as quietly as possible. And all the while, the lawmakers and the public realize that ther should be a change. Now we have new expenses as a result of the war. Many workers have higher incomes. Tax increases are inevitable anyway. Now, would be an opportune time for the Legislature to take the bull by the horns and adopt a comprehensive and fair system of taxation.

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This is an important week for Cape May. In the span of just a few hours, local citizens felt more strongly than ever the effects of a war which is centered several thousand miles

away.

Well over 1,000 men in the southern section of Cape May County registered under the Selective Service law in the fourth national registration which ended Monday. More than 100 local business people who sell sugar or products which use more than the average amount of sugar registered on Tuesday and Wednesday under the sugar rationing program for their allotments to commercial users. All of Cape May County, in addition to five other New Jersey counties and parts of eight more, experienced the largest test blackout this state has ever attempted Tuesday

night.

These three major occurrences, coming so close together, have done much to impress all of us with the war. If lack of new automobiles and tires, curtailed sales of gaspline, electrical appliances and hundreds of other items which have been placed on the list of federal taboos as a direct result of the war haven’t sufficiently impressed us wifl? the fact that we have a total war on our hands, the events of the current week have certainly done much to. bring the picture

of America at war into sharp focus.

Daily we are all becoming more aware of the tremendous scope of this wqr. In one way or another, every American every person in the worlds—is affected by its far-reaching

ramifications.

Every American man from 21 to 65 years of age has been registered for possible military duty under Selective Service. Our armed forces are growing by leaps and bounds. American industry is bn a full war basis. American business is

feeling the effects of the war acutely.

Today we have an idea of whaLtotal war means. Things that a year agd we thought would never happen have come to Pass ^ Things we now see as far fetched possibilities will probably be as certain and as final next year as the fact that you.canjt buy new tires for love nor money today. We’re starting to feel the effects of war, the inconvenience, the- economic repercussions. But. we have escaped,

—thank God, the horrors of bloodshed and destruction which

most of the people of the world are experiencing every day. .. W ® Americans complain a lot. For many it is part of the daily ritual. We’re not happy because the war has ruined

. this or that business, has robbed us of this or that luxury and

we tell all and sundry that we are not happy about these

things.

But while we complain there isn’t a man or woman among us who down deep inside isn’t eternally thankful that he or she is an American, still possessed of the right to have an opinion, still free of the horrors of war. That one fact is enough to compensate for all the difficulties and inconveniences we are experiencing today, and we’ll go through far more than anything we have yet had to face if our sacrifices will help us to preserve our America.

suffering. On earth pitied men. But His “feeling of our infirmities" is more than pity and greater than kindness. It is “suffering together”. It partakes of and shares the pain and sorrow with another. A past day

a “divine naasivitv’.

(pahjcuyAapkdu Oat Of The Past

Taken from files of The Star and Wave for the years 1 1932 and 1922. Five Years Ago Opening a drive to force small boat owners to equip their crafts with safety devices and emergency equipment, Lieutenant Richard L. Burke, commanding officer of the Coast Guard air station here, announced Monday that violators of the laws governing boat equipment would be prosecuted. mass of rubber strips, beI to be part of the wreckage of a large balloon or airship was found late yesterday afternoon near Villa Maria, Cape May Point. Until late last night Coast Guards were unable to

identify it.

Eleven more men will be added to the personnel of the West Cape May sewer project soon, it was announced last night by Councilman John J. Stewart at a special meeting of the borough

council.

general indictment' returned against Mayor Doris W. Bradway and Commissioners Frederick W. McMurray and Roland Corson, of Wildwood, in 1935 was quashed Tuesday by the New Jersey Supreme Court. Ten Years Ago The combined Gloucester and Boston mackerel fishing fleets forming the famous Cape May

fleet came in late last week with a large haul of “spikes” or the smaller mackerel and everyone about town and nearby had their first taste of fish for the season.

The State Board of Commerce and Navigation, county officials, Senator Charles C. Read and Assemblyman Slaughter, city officials and others interested in the restoration of Cape May Harbor to its full usefullness will meet in conference here next Saturday and will then proceed to Coast Guard Base Nine and inspect the

harbor.

Twenty Years Ago

Sherman S. Sharp, contractor of this city, was awarded the contract for the construction of Cox’s Pier and Theatre by Hunt's Theatres^ Inc. at a director’s meeting in their general offices, 1324 Vine street, Philadelphia, on

Tuesday of this week.

Officers of public instruction and of civic and'fcommercial organizations were urged by the president “to unite in thought and action for the preservation of our common heritage by planning such educational and instructive exercises as shall bring before the people the disastrous effects and the present waste by forest fires and the need of individual and collective efforts to conserve the forests and increase our tree growth for ornament and use.”

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Jha (paipwtt SovinqA (plan A countywide campaign to spur interest in the purchase of war stamps and bonds is under way in Cape May County with the establishment of the voluntary payroll allotment plan as one of its major objectives. Municipal officials who are organizing the county campaign in their individual communities will meet today at Cape May Court House to make preliminary reports on the success of their efforta to date. It ia expected that they will report condderahle progress since the plan was inaugurated two weeks ago.

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WATCH By C. Worthy /

DARKNESS ON THE DELTA That was a very black blackout we had Tuesday night, wasn't it? They tell us you could count on your fingers the lights shining in the 4500 square mile area that Tuesday's test blackout included, and that is really a record that can't be sneezed at. And if you don’t already know it, you good people took part in the largest test blackout, from the standpoint of area, that has ever been at-

tempted in the cast. BIG DATE NIGHT

After the test blackout was nounced last week, it was s prising how many fellas called

their girl friends to reserve Tuesday p.m. for a date . . . Any time as long as it included the period from 10 to 10:15. Well, every cloud has its silver lining, and maybe blackouts are one of the compensating effects of war.

SHEDDING THE YEARS

. This Selective Service registration has some mighty beneficial effects if Capt May can be taken as An example. We watched the entrance to draft board headquarters in Cape May High School on Monday when men 4565 registered under the law. Many of them who walked in slowly and slightly stooped with care came out as spry and chipper as the youngest recruit in the army. We’ll bet they could have handled half a regiment of enemy troops single-handed as they emerged from the important

job of registering.

WORRIES ARE STARTING And they tell us some of the boys in the 35-45 year class of Selective Service are getting jittery about the whole business since draft boards were notified to have on hand at least enough men of that class to supply 90 per cent of the June draft quotas if the government decides to' do

FROM THE NAVY: From the “Wheel Watch”, sheet published weekly at the Naval base, comes this "Sailor's Prayer”: Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep Grant no other sailor take My shoes and socks before I wake Lord, guard me in my slumber And keep my hammock on its number ; May no clews nor lashings break And let me down before I wake Keep me safely in thy sight And grant no fire drill tonight And in the morning let me wake Breathing scents of sirloin steak God protect me in my dreams And make this better than it seems Grant the time may swiftly fly When my self shall rest on high In a snowy feather bed Where I long to rest my head Far away from all these scenes From the smell of half done beans Take me back into the land Where they don’t scrub down with sand „ Where no demon typhoon blows Where the women wash the clothes God, Thou knowest all my woes Feed me in my dying throes Take me back, lU promise then Never to leave home again.

emphasized a “divine passivity’ 5 , a God unmoved, a dread sovereign enthroned in the heavens. The revelation of “Our Father” has smoothed the harshness and tempered the severity, and has enabled us to see more clearly the Eternal Love that was afflicted in all the afflictions of His people, who, by “the Angel of His presence saved them", and in His love and pity redeemed them and carried them all the

days of old”.

.-It is, indeed, a blessed revelation that Jesus lias carried to its utmost measure the love and pity of God and, ascended as He is, s yet interested in us, is still ‘touched with the feeling”, suffers together in and with His

people.

’"'■’or warm, sweet, tender, EVEN YET, A present held is He; And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee.” II. There is a background—a foundation for this interest of

Christ in us.

We read that "He was tempted in all points like as we are”. The fuller significance of “His Temptations” is borne out by the full story of His earthly presence. He took hold of the seed of Abraham. That is, He chose to become a son of the chosen race—part of Israel. He became “partaker of flesh and blood”. That is. He became one with the human race. He became for a little while inferior to the angels through the suffering of death—tasted death for every man. “Who, in the days of His flesh offered up prayers supplications with strong crying and tears unto Him wh< was able to save Him from death' —to impart endurance and bring Him through the ordeal of that death. We are told that Jesus learned obedience and was perfected from the things he suf-

fered.

Going deeper than the yearning for the shepherdless multitudes, stronger than the touch of the leper, more poignant than tears at Bethany and the bitter wail over Jerusalem, down into the very fibre of His Being with a sorrow unto death and an agony only God could understand, He took into that human nature which He had assumed, our sins, bearing them, His own self, in His own body, upon the tree. There were trials all the way He trod, but it was there, upon the cross, that He carried our sorrows, was wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities, and, Himself not knowing sin, was made sin for us. It was .in His Passion that loved so intensely, obeyed so completely, sacrificed so perfectly, that having done so, He sat. down on the right hand of God; not more because His "Redeeming work was done”, than, in doing it, He had perfected Himself, and had proven Himself the author of eternal salvation, infinitely worthy to sit down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. He was crowned With glory and honor for the glory and honor that were in Him. That divine self, that infinitelove and sacrifice wrought out

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CroBi this great truth. The immediate inference is “therefore let ua come with bokfoeos to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to

help in time of need”.

He sat down on the throne of God. His throne is what His nature is. By Hie grace of God He tasted death for every man. According to His mercy He saved us. Repenting of our sins we receive, first. His mercy in the pardon of them. Then grace continuously helps us in time of

eed.

“There is welcome for the sinner, And more graces for

the good;

There is mercy with the Savior, There is healing in His

blood.”

Xhen, we are to be like Him. The Scripture enjoins:—“Be ye all of one mind, having compas(sumpatheis) one of another for Christ hath suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that

to God”. “To

He might bring us t

you it is given” for Christ, not only to believe on Him, but also

suffer for Him”.

So it is that vicarious sacrifice is perpetuated in the lives of His people, and the blessed “TOUCH” is continued in them. Jesus touched with His hands and with His spirit. Now He touches through you and me. Alexander Irvine’s “My Lady of the Chimney Corner” tells of Anna who has gone to comfort Eliza, after the death of her son. Anna says: “Ah, wumman, God isn’t a printed book to be carried aroun’ by a man in fine clothes, nor a gold cross to be danglin’ from the watch-chain of a priest. God's spirit comes in as many ways as there’s need fur. He’s cornin’ and that’s quite a wheen. Get down on yer knees and have a talk with Him. Now tell Him to lay His hand on yer tired head in token that He’s wi’

? in yer distress."

And then as Eliza falteringly prayed, Anna gently laid her own hand on the bowed head. “He’s done it, Anna. He’s done it! Glory be to God. There was 4 nice feeling went through me, Anna, and the hand was just like yours!” “The hand was mine,” answered Anna. “But it God’s hand also. Sometimes He takes a bishop’s hand, or a minister's hand, whenever He can find it, and lays it on a child’s head in benediction; and then He takes the hand of a doctor to relieve pain, the hand of a mother to guide her child, and sometimes He takes the hand of an old craither like me to give a bit Of comfort to a neighbor. But they are all hands touched by His spirit, and His spirit is everywhere looking for hands to

use.”

“Touched with the feeling of our infirmities”.

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