THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1942

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WbthajA (Day,.... W2 America will pause in its multitude of activities on Sunday to pay tribuae to its mothers. This year the pause may not be as long as in former years, what with the quickened tempo of war work, but despite the war, despite everything, Mother’s Day will be observed in one manner or another on

Sunday.

Mother’s Day, 1942, will have even more significance than its predecessors, for today mothers of . America are playing their most important parts in th? growth, development and

preservation of our nation.

Millions of American mothers this year will be deprived of the pleasure of having their sons and daughters with them on Sunday. Their children have been called to serve their country—to help preserve it for future mothers of America —either in the armed forces or in industry vital to the success

of the nation’s war effort.

Many American mothers this year will be sad on Mother’s Day, sad in the knowledge that one of their children will never again take part in the national observance of Mother’s Day. Many of these mothers had sons at Pearl Harbor, at sea on a vessel which was sunk, in the Pacific war theatre .... Yes. Mother’s Day 1942 will be a sad day for many. For millions of other American mothers, Sunday will be another day of anxiety, another day of wondering about their sons, whether or not they have escaped the terrible penalties

of war . . .

But even though Mother’s Day, 1942, will not be free of sadness of worry, it still remains a typically American institution, a day when sons and daughters the nation over will pay homage to their mothers. War has had its effect even upon Mother’s Day, but this year's observance crystallizes again the necessity of an American victory, for dictators do not hold with the thought of paying homage or tribute to any but themselves. Mother’s Day. 1942, will be different in many ways from the normal, carefree, happy observance we knew in other years. But it will be observed this year in every city, town and hamlet in America, and it will be observed next year and the next and for countless more, for a system which considers motherhood merely a source of more soldiers rather than a wholesome, natural development cannot hope to survive and extinguish our American institutions and traditions. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. That timeJionored adage will prove itself once again when the dictators who have taken joy from motherhood in most parts of the world discover that they can never destroy the love and devotion between child and mother, can never triumph over a civilization in which motherhood holds a rightfully exalted

position.

And behind the defeat of the dictators will be the mothers of the civilized world who have taught their children to revolt at the principles upon which dictatorships are founded.

CbwttWi Slow Jo QhinuL This year’s annual Cape May Countv crime conference promises to be one of the most outstanding meetings .of its kind ever held in this county. The conference is scheduled for May 13 and will be held at the county seat. In addition to law enforcement officers and municipal officials from all sections of Cape May County and an impressive list of speakers, all authorities on various phases of crime control and prevention, this year’s meeting will be attended by enforcement officers from Cumberland and Atlantic Counties also, and part of the meeting will be devoted to the work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Prosecutor French B. Loveland announced last week that he had agreed to make this year’s conference a joint meeting for representatives of the three South Jersey at the suggestion of E. E. Conroy, special agent in charge of the New Jersey FBI district. Besides discussions of ways and means of combatting normal crime, the parley this year will also devote much attention to new war-time problems. Counteracting of sabotage and subversive activities, new problems created by large concentrations of men in various camps and military stations, these and many more important community problems will be discussed. The annual crime conferences conducted each spring during the tw’o terms of Prosecutor Loveland have done much to increase the cooperation among various enforcement agencies in this county. The practice of discussing common problems, hearing expert advice on meeting them and discussing ways and means of effecting greater solidarity and cooperation among officers of all sections of the county has had a beneficial effect.

lx)aA (Bond Qampaiqn §tnht/> - With the naming of zone chairmen to conduct Cape May’s campaign to spur the sale of war bonds and stamps, the drive got under w'ay this w’eeic and plans for city-wide coverage were made at a meeting of the local committee. Similar effortsrare being carried on throughout the county and the state:to increase New Jersey’s total war bond sales. . * \ Businesses throughout^the county will be contacted during the campaign and asked to adopt the plan, under which 10 per cent of a worker’s earnings will be deducted from his pay regularly and credited toward the purchase of a defense bond, if he signs the voluntary pledge. Municipalities have been approached with the proposal and have signified their willingness to cooperate, -pending approval of the plan by municipal employees. Under Treasury Department plans, it is essential to raise a billion dollars a month through the sale of bonds and stamps in order to finance part of the nation's roar effort. To reach that peak, every worker in the country must contribute something toward the grand total. War bonds and stamps have been readily accepted by the American public as one way in which the average American can help his nation and also as a sound investment which pays him a good return. The immediate problem, however, is to sell people on the idea of making their stamp and bond purchases regularly so that they will be assured of a program of continuous savings and the government will be assured of a continuous income from the sale of bonds and stamps. >

(paJuupuXIfihA, Out Of The Past

Taken from files of The Star and Wave for the years 1937, 1932 and 1922. Five Years Ago Mandamus action against municipalities whose tax payments to the county and state are delinquent was authorized yesterday afternoon by the Board of Freeholders after Freeholder Ralph T. Stevens had introduced a resolution calling for the legal

move.

Ballot boxes from every voting precinct in Cape May County will be repaired by the county soon, it was announced yesterday by Freeholder Lawrence M., Lear, director of courts and buildings, at a meeting of the board of freeholders'. Reconstruction of Cape May’s fishing pier which was damaged last September during a severe northeast storm was begun this week when city workmen began planking part of the rerfiaining pilings and started driving new

piling.

Ten Years Ago The proposed move of the state to raise the gasoline tax from 3c to 5c per gallon met with no approval by the members of the local Chamber of Commerce at the regular May meeting at Convention Hall last Monday night.

ning accepted a new lighting contract of the Atlantic City Electric Company at a reduced rate. The old contract was on a five' year basis and caused the borough to pay more for lighting because of its inability to benefit

by rate reductions.

State police are investigating the cause of the fire which burned the North Cape May Casino to the ground at 7 o'clock Wednesday morning. William Homan, who was working nearby, said the fire started with a rush and four

distinct explosions.

Twenty Years Ago

Woodbine High School.J team won the Rutgers College Interscholastic Debating Contest first over Wildwood High School and next over Woodstown High School and will receive the trophy which

will be awarded.

Cape May is being prepared for the coming summer season's business and many improvements are being made to old properties aside from the numerous new homes and stores that are being

erected

Cape May High School athletes are preparing for the coming ublic school athletic meet to be eld at Cape May Court House on Saturday, May 13, 1922. They have a specially good track team this year and good material for field events.

S TARBOARD WATCH By C. Worthy SIGNS OF SUMMER With a couple of more weekends like the last few, most folks won’t know the difference between this and real summer. The weather man came through in great style, and even though we can’t publish weather information (it's now a military secret, you know) nobody had any kick about the weather. If the size of the crowd of visitors in town over the weekend is an indication of the coming summer season, it looks as if the vacation period will be above par in spite of tire mil gup shortages, etc. ONLY ONE DIFFERENCE Washington street Saturday night looked like it usually docs in mid-July. The only difference was that once in a while in mid-1 July you can find a parking place somewhere along the main stem. Saturday must have been visitors' day for service men. Nearly ev-; ery sailor or soldier in sight had at least two companions, most of them of the feminine gender, and even the dimmed-out boardwalk had a thriving amount of

activity.

HAVE YOU REGISTERED? . Today’s the last day Tor the sugar rationing registry, and anyone who lets it go until the current registration is completed will have to go without sugar until the local rationing board gets around to ^Vking on sugar in addition to tires, tubes, typewriters and stuff. Wonder how many little white lies were told when the registrars asked that question about the amount of sugar on hand? - JUST IMAGINE! Ho, hum! That gasoline rationing they’ve been yelling about since last summer seems to be the real thing this time. All you car owners will have to sign up next week for your ration cards if you ever hope to get gasoline. Can you just imagine a muchregistered typical American going into a store, getting his ration cards, mixed up, and coming out with 4!£ gallons of a Remington portable four-ply box of granulated inner tubes?

REAL APPRECIATION

The high school band is processing rapidly and is developing into a musical organization of which Cape May can well be proud. It isn't often that amateur musical organizations reach the' K oint where people actully enjoy j earing their efforts, but the size of the audience at outdoor band rehearsals nowadays is an indication the local school musicians rank way up there with the top

flight bands of the nation.

IT MUST BE SPRING If Bundles for Britain or anywhere else are interested in collecting waste paper, miscellaneous junk, etc., etc., there was the annual housecleaning in ye ed’s sanctum the other day which produced enough junk, scrap paper and similar odds and ends to make quite A good sized cargo for any one bundle. Gosh, maybe those poor old pension-hungry (pngressmea could use the stuff!

West Cape May Borough Council at their meeting Tuesday eve-

THE POCKETBOOK */KNOWLEDGE ^

THE WEEKLY SERMON CORNER: A Fixed Heart

By the Rev. Augustus Chancy, B. D., Pastor of the Macedonia Baptist Church

Pa. *7:7: **7 heart Is find, O God. ay heart le fixed; I wB riae sad give pretoe". ‘Alia peal® is stmflar to man American Negro eptritHakTh tells the story of an oppressed heart, bowed low witt the weights and cares of a stormy life. Compare the GTth Psefac wtth

Stony the road we trod. Bitter the shast’ning rod. Pelt in the dare when hope unborn had died;

Have not oar weary feet Come to the place for which oar fathers sighed? We have come over a way that with tears has been watered We have come, treading oar path thro 1 the blood of the slaughtered, Out from the gloomy past. Till now we stand at last Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast. God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who has brought us thus far on the way; Thou who hast by TTiy might, Led us into the light. Keep us forever in the path, we pray, Lest our feet stray from the places. our God, where we meet Thee, Lest our hearts, drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Shadowed beneath Thy hand. May we forever stanu. True to our God, True to our Native land.

When David was seeking safety from the unjust onslaughts of Saul, he wandered through the forests and wildernesses of lower Judea until he came to the cave of Adulam. Climbing and crawling, he went upward and upward until he reached and entered that Providential excavation. He went in and sat down. There, he thought of the injustices of his enemies, of his forced loneliness, and experienced many heartaches. Finally the servant of his nation and of Jehovah was lifted into the realm of poetic ecstasy. It was then his burdened soul sought relief in the composition of the 57th psalm. The title of this 67th ffealm, in Hebrew, is “ALT ASHHETH”, meaning “Destroy not". It is an expression of the author’s desire to live on through the storms that raged in his unhappy life. David was confident of surmounting every obstacle so long as his heart was fixed. But what is implied in tills expression MY HEART IS FIXED? in the Hebrew language, the word “LEB” is a word that means the heart of flesh as well as the seat of thought, of affection, of sensations, of impression and even of deductions, as the result of reasoning. As David looked out of that lonely cave and beheld the twinkling stars, • the waxing and waning moon, and considered the rising and setting sun, he could see nothing in them that served a grander purpose than that of displaying the goodness and unspeakable love of God. This, in turn, was but a declaration of the glory of God. Regardless of the many planetary disturbance: or the stormy blasts of tbe atmospheric disorders, the £*ars were unmoved from their assigned tasks in declaring the glory of God. They were fixed! They were unmoved! The psalmist got his lesson, then and there. His heart, his life, was lifted and unshackled! His business was to do the will of God, whatever became his lot among the children of men. That lesson fixed his heart. So, the wanderer let it be known to the world, saying ‘ My heart is fixed’’. We Americans, who may gaze into the heavens, and even upon mighty rushing billows of the stormy deep, need to Tftake reasonable deductions; deductions like those that remade the heart of David. We need to let the world know that in these trying times, God has fixed our hearts. Wc must not be moved from our posts of serving our

God.

David interpreted the flowing of the spittle, the dissolving of the molecules of food and the sending of the taste sensation to Uie assdciational centers of his Brain, as but other ways of telling the story of the goodness of God. So, in another psalm (34:8) he wrote “0 taste and see that the Lord is good”. This was another deduction that served to fix his heart. To be in a land of plenty, to have health, to be

and Man at all man in making our world the kind of world of ' ty it to today. The know_o of thia fact ahooU help to fix our hoarta Then, where than to a flxad heart, than la always a uga <* it- ‘nda youthful pact dtoplayad hia aign of hto flxad haart whon

ho try to brood and woctroublM away. Thia to a

poet, in these words, toQa ua how he disposed of Us trooblaa: “I

truth when he writes: “Joans can help yon, Jeans alone” There are others who attempt to drink their troubles away. Thia is another plan that fails. Instead of removing our troubles, it becomes the habit that filla oar world with weak-sighted, weakbodied, weak-moraled, weak-mind-ed crime-breeding creatures. One sure way of ending troubles is to strike up a tune of divine praises. Thus, we can lay our trophies down at the feet of Jesus, and rest for evermore. The flowers of the garden nave taught me a lesson I shall never forget. When they are cniahed and braised and heavily ladened it is then they fill the whole atmosphere with their sweetest fragrance. If onr hearts are fixed, we WILL SING AND GIVE PRAISE".

A TRIBUTE TO MOTHER The curtain had fallen, her sweet life ebbed away For the angels had taken sweet Mother to stay I shall always remember that smile on her face .As she whispered, I’m going to that Wonderful Place. Just a tribute to Mother on Mother’s Day I shall always remember her sweet loving way As I turn back the pages, the tears start to fall She’s the sweetest, the fairest, the grandest of all. I can picture the farm house, the old arm chair Many hours has she rocked me there As 1 look up to Heaven, I can still hear her say I’ll be thinking about you on Sweet Mother’s Day. Jess Rutherford

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Cburcb IHotices

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