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(tfsdcojw TImva J>oh JaxpaifBM Extremely welcome was the news last week that Cape May’s official 1942 tax rate will be $5.74 rather than $5.96 aa originally estimated. The official tax rate was struck last Tuesday by. the Cape May County Board of Taxation following a considerable delay resulting from new legislation postponing until after May 1 the confirmation of municipal tax rates by county boards. Cape May’s new rate compares very favorably with the rates of other county resorts, and even with many inland communities where tax rates are normally lower because of fewer required expenditures. The reduction in the official rate below the estimated figure which was included in the current year’s city budget was due primarily to inclusion of Cape May’s share of state franchise and railroad property taxes, which, under the law, cannpt be anticipated by munici palities in computing their annual budgets. To a roundly taxed American public any reduction, any saving in taxes is important at present, is even more welcome than usual as federal taxes continue to rise. Establishment of the official tax rates for Cape May County municipalities brings to mind several suggestions made recently by Cape May, ■which pointed out that delays in setting official rates have retarded for nearly six months efforts of local governing bodies to collect current-year taxes. •Tax'Collection is an arduous task at best. Although the law provides means of computing first-half taxes on the basis of the previous year’s rate, many taxpayers are reluctant to pay their bills on what they know is an untrue rate. They prefer to wait until they know what their bills actually are, and as a result local governments are deprived of the use of the money for nearly six months. Ten of the 18 municipalities in the cqanty—havc higher rates this year than last. Unless the Legislature heeds other suggestions for a broader tax base, that trend toward higher local taxation will continue as a result of new local government requirements, loss of ratables and the inability of adding new ratables due to restrictions on building. The tax burden on real estate in New Jersey is out of all proportion and has been for years. There are many possibilities for substitute taxes to spread the cost of government more evenly among all residents of the state. The Legislature sooner or later must overcome its politically-inspired inhibitions against broadening the tqx base to relieve real estate owners of the bulk of the burden before the law of diminishing returns begins to act. The time for such a change has been ripe for years. Further delay will be extremely dangerous to the financial picture of New Jersey and all of its municipalities.

fihapAodif 9n film The possibility that Cape May’s Convention Hall will be a “Rhapsody in Blue” during the 1942 vacation season was indicated Friday by the city commission as it announced plans to experiment with blue interior and exterior lights during the Memorial Day weekend, when the hall will be opened for an Army and Navy ball to be held there on Saturday evening, May 30. City officials arc considering various ways of han\dling the lighting situation at Convention Hall for the 'summer season, and ■will use the pre-season ball as an op ly along the beachfront during the summer season. Blue lights are being tried along the boardwalks'and beachfronts of various other New Jersey resorts in answer to the Array’s demand for an effective dim-out of seashqre lighting to protect ships offshore and prevent them fromjieing silhoiUJJtaiLagainst the glare of any community’slights. Indications nec-tiiatbluo lights are probably the answer to the silhouette pfoWem^or they cast little or no glare into the sky, although tlu^’ do provide a subdued -• ~but adequate light on their own level. Discussing the lighting problem at Friday’s commission fneeting, city officials decided to experiment with blue lights at Convention Hall for » the Memorial Day dance, and, if they prove effective, to use them extensively along the beachfroit during the summer season. It might be just wishful thinking, but there is a possibility that, this seashore dim-out might benefit resorts by making them more attractive. We don’t know what our boardwalk and beachfront would look like, bathed in a subdued blue illumination ... it’s never been that way. Perhaps it will be even more attractive than with its normal white lights that have always been used. Convention Hall, always one of the most beautiful entertainment centers of any Jersey coast resort, may be even more beautiful with blue lights. Possibly Cape May and the other resorts will kill two birds with one stone by using blue lights this summer, protecting coastwise shipping from the fatal silhouettes and adding greatly to their own attractiveness. At any rate, we’ll have an opportunity on Memorial Day to see just what effect the new lighting plan will have.

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PARAgraphs out of the Past .. Taken from files of The Star and Wave for the years 1937, 1932 and 1922. Five Years Ago With one of the largest votes ever polled in Cape May, I. Grant Scott, T. Millet Hand and George P. Wentzell were elected to the city commission in Tuesday’s special municipal election after one of the hottest contests the city has ever seen. Scott, who polled the highest vote, received 948. Hand placed second with 860, and Wentzell ran third with 810.

Nearly one hundred Coast Guards and Marines now on duty at the air station here were rushed to the Naval air station at Lakehurst last Thursday night for emergency duty after the giant airship Hindenburg exploded and crashed, killing . thirtyfive.

Searching Sunday morning for a minister who failed to return from a boat trip in time for his weekly sermon, Coast Guards from the air station here combed Delaware Bay for two hours before the Rev. Charles Abbott, a Salem minister, was found. Construction of K temporary emergency jetty at the foot of Ocean Avenue in Cape May Point was begun this week by the borough in an effort to prevent further erosion of the beach until negotiations for s WPA project can be completed. Ten Years Ago Following three years of endeavor by Congressman Bacharach, county leaders and local men of affairs all working to one end the objective of having the Government dredge out the channel between the stone piles at the entrance to Cape May Harbor has been reached. The Friends’ General Conference will return to this resort for the. fourth time on July 6, and will remain in session until the 13th, opening the session with registration on the afternoon of the sixth. Among the noted speakers will be Elbert Russell, Thomas Nixon, John A. Lester, Jesse H. Holmes, and Alexander C. Purdy. Acting upon the request of the Library Commission, Mayor and Council on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of Miss Edith Edmunds as librarian for the public library, for a period of eleven weeks. The Taxpayers Ticket, on which Kenneth K. Kirby, William H. Bright and Frederick McMurray were the candidates, won out in Wildwood's municipal election by a substantial majority. Twenty Years Ago After a thirty hours’ battle with the forest fires raging north of Richland and Pancoast on Tuesday, railroad section hands and villagers along the Reading tracks were on their way to their homes when a fire started east of Richland in the direction of Vineland that bids fair to be more destructive than the first. Business men and other citi-

zens are advocating the closing of the Beach drive, from Ocean street to Jackson, in this city, and the building of the boardwalk in such manner that one may walk from the stores and shops along the beach front directly on to the boardwalk. The Grammar School won a spelling contest which was held at Cape May Court House Saturday. The team, consisting of Elsie Van Guilder, Ethel Gibson and Catherine Cresse, Ethel Burroughs, Joseph Tenenbaum, brought back to Cape May the spelling banner for Cape May County. fathers will not be worried by air planes this summer as the commissioners have refused permits to land. A complete transformation has taken place in the general appearance of the city since the foliage has developed on the trees and shrubs. What Other Papers Say IF WE DONT BUY COAL NOW Washington officials are worried over the public’s failure to respond to the call to buy coal now. It’s the only commodity the Government wants householders to hoard, but they are strangely reluctant to cooperate. Industry also is omitting to stock up with coal while continuing to dig into its resources. There are several sound reasons why supplies should be laid in now. The time to buy is when transportation is available. The Government, the mine operators and the railroads all fear that unless this opportunity is seized soon, next fall will witness the biggest scramble for coal since 1917. It is up to the consumers in April to prevent a stiff system of priorities and rationing in September or even sooner .... The most compelling reason for buying coal now is that it will help the war effort. To avoid a coal famine next Winter, the operators say the mines should be run at near capacity during the next few months. But there must first be the demand. So prudence and patriotism alike dictate that wf fill up our bins before it’s too late. From: The Philadelphia Inquirer.

PLAN CHEST CLINIC Dr. Max Gross, state clinician, will hold a clinic for chest examination in the old court building, Cape May Court House, on Thursday, May 21, from 9 a.m. until noon, Miss Natalie M. Hand, Cape May County tuberculosis nurse, announced today.

By C. Worthy PAGING CHIROPODISTS Now that they’ve started doling out our gasoline by the cupful, figuratively speaking, a lotta boys and girls who haven’t walked' since they were kids are getting ready for the great experiment. Can they take it? Will their arches stand the gaff? What will be the outcome of this thrilling drama pf mere humans over habit? We will keep you informed as new developments develop. Providing, of course, that we can hobble to the office occasionally. PLENTY OF WORRIES Seriously, though, a lot of local folks are really worried about this gasoline rationing. It's bound to make a marked change on the life of the community, what with not being able to hop into the car and run here or there at the slightest provocation. Business is going to feel it, too. One of the saddest people we know is the fella who’s been patting himself on the back for weeks ’cause he got five brand new tires just before Uncle Sam said no more, and now he can only get three gallons of gas a week. At that rate, his tires'll rot long before they wear out. HEADACHES. TOO And how are you folks getting along with your reduced sugar consumption? Most people arc getting used to the idea of swapping a ration stamp for a half pound of sugar, but the ones we feel sorry for are the poor storekeepers. They not only have the bookkeeping headaches, but they have to listen to all the complaints the customers make about sugar rationing, etc., etc. WATCH OUT NEW YORK! Today’s a big day for the high school senior class. This morning a lot of very sleepy parents got up early to sec their sons and daughters off for their New York trip, and a lot of excited kids bubbled over with enthusiasm as the time for the train to leave approached. That’s a part of a high school education that’ll be remembered long after everything else is forgotten.

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BIG DOIN’S AHEAD The Recreation Commission is going to sponsor an Army and Navy ball at Convention Hall on May 30 to give Cape May residents, visitors and service men an evening of real entertainment and also to provide a suitable unofficial opening of the vacation

season.

KEEP WHO HAPPY? What’s this we hear about a couple of local gals starting a Cape May branch of Snuffy Smith’s Keep-Em Happy Club? It could be just a rumor, but reliable sources tell us there’s more behind it than that. The things we hear and can’t print! Tsk, tsk. OUR CHIN’S OUT We’re just waiting for the time when they start drafting the ladies. That’ll certainly be the day. 'Course we’re sticking our chin out by saying this, but we don’t know why the Army didn’t recruit women drivers long ago for the tank force and for The mobile combat units. Why, golly, they wouldn't even need guns to throw fear into the hearts of the enemy!

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Sowing and Reaping y the Rev. William R. Munson, pastor : die Pilgrim Holiness Church, Erma

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Gal. S-7: Be Mt (WceiTed; God -j ast Mocked. Whadsssvu • Mas soweth, that shall he alee lea* ^ Sowing and reaping is a law - of this world. When men plant anything they expect to reap of So God has decreed that same law in his spiritual realm. This talk that young folk must sow their wild oats first, then become a Christian is a false idea. Sowing to sin may seem pleasant to those who are reveling in it at present, but when vhey begin to reap they want to-shrink from it, because it seems unjust, yet they think not what they have

sown.

God’s word gives us a few characters who have sown to sin and reaped a whirlwind. Jacob’s name seems to be on the lips of some scorners about how he lived. Yet I wonder what w« wogld have done under the same circumstances. He had the same fallen nature in him that people have today. Human nature will do the same today as it did always without God’s grace. Jacob was good moral boy who was taugl by his father and his grandfathi of God and His justice. Yet when the opportunity presented itself he took advantage of it , Esaw, his brother, was the first born and had the birthright of the family, which -carried with it twice as much as any other child in the family of his parents’ possessions after death. Esaw came in from a hunting trip all fagged out and about to die as he thought. Jacob was sodding pottage for himself when Esaw asked for some. Here Jacob saw a chance to take advantage of one who cared not for life, to get in a legal way what belonged to another. How many people try to get their parents or relations when they are near death’s door to sign over their belongings before they die so that after their death they will have it all, taking advantage of the circumstances. We wish you to remem-

t>er our text.

One wrong not righted, leads to another. Jacob now has the birthright but he needed also the blessing of his father to have rulership of the household, mother heard Isaac tell Esaw that he should go and p re pari venison before he die that he maj bless him. She quickly called Jacob in and she prepared him a goat and told him to go in unto his father; if he would have listened to his conscience he would have saved himself a lot of trouble. His mother taught him to lie to his father, but he could not stifle his conscience. He said his father would feel him, because his brother was a hairy man and he was not. Taking advantage of his blind father as he did of his sick brother, his action brought him the blessing. Yet his mother never saw him alive again. His brother came in and tried to receive the blessing promised him. Heb. 12 states, “that he sought it carefully with tears,’’ but he did not realize that he had sold out so cheap. How many people sell out so cheap today. It might look valuable at the time. If you should gain all the world and loge your soul, what then? Jacob was in fear of trouble from his brother, so he had to flee. But God talked to him along the way by a dream. He made vows to God in the morning, that if followed by church people today they would not have to have box socials, card parties, food sales and suppers to keep the church going; they would quit being robbers of God and would bring in their tithes and offerings to support the church. Yet vowing is not enough unless you

put it into action.

Jacob made good at his uncle’s place. He also fell in love with Labon's daughter and was willing to work seven years for her, then to find out that he is beginning to reap according to our text. He still carried in his heart

the deceptive spirit when he put THIS NEWSPAPER

the ring stakes in the watering troughs to gain what he called

legal.

People think that if they can cheat one another out of their possessions in a legal way it is all right. I heard a preacher say after a man lost a thousand dollars that he had intrusted with him to invest in a business proposition that it was a business deal. Is it any wonder that people do not care for the church today? We see Jacob leaving his fa-ther-in-law under fire and with a guilty conscience. He thinks his troubles, are ended, but they just begin ' His father-in-law has

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Labon came to terms aai-fixad up differences, then they Irisaed each other and departed. There are differences in some people’s lives that they have held qdte for many years, yet they still profess religion. God calls them

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Jacob then built an altar and sacrificed to God after all waa righted. Jacob starts on his journey home; he is now befrontod

ther is coming with four hundred men. He tries to bribe his brother with his gifts, just like people are doing today, thinking their bribe will keep the things covered that others may not find them

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You will reap in due season aa all others have. He waa afraid to face the issue, so be remembered his Grandfather’s teachings. He went to his knees and prayed all night, wrestling with the angel of the Lord. When day broke he had confessed out that he waa a deceiver end God came to his help, .but his limping was a re-

that he would not I any mofe. His religion now did not stop him from reaping what

he had sown.

We see him weeping over his son, who was supposed to be slain by a wild beast. As he deceived his father, so was he deceived by his sons. As he was away from his parents, his son is also gone. He did not think that what he sowed in his early life that he would have to reap. What have you sown in your life, that now you are reaping with anguish and

pain? .

David sowed adultery and reaped an awful tragedy by his son taking his wife. Paul sowed murder and hatred under the pretense of religion toward the people of God. When God got bold of him, then he went out reading what he

had sown.

God’s word will stand. You and I cannot go against it and not suffer the consequences of its contents. “If we sow to the spirit w© will reap everlasting life. If we sow to the flesh, we shall reap eternal destruction from the presence of God”. Jesus made it possible that we may sow to the spirit by obedience to God’s word in all its fullness. 'Remember our text: "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

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