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Monday’s conference at Trenton, at which officials and representatives of virtually all of the state’s resorts discussed their common problems in the face of gasoline and tire rationing apd other war-time conditions, probably will have a beneficial effect on the summer vacation season in Cape May and all other resorts. The fact that resort interests are pooling their efforts in order to overcome the obstacles standing in the way of what normally might be expected to be the best vacation season "New Jersey resorts have ever known will go a long way toward offsetting the blight on the vacation

industry.

All-out cooperation of all resorts interests can overcome to a large degree the many problems which presently beset us. As the prospects for the season now stand: Rationing of gasoline, tires and automobiles loom large on the debit side of the books. Inability of railroads and bus lines to expand their services to keep pace with the increased demand are important factors, also. Longer working hours, less opportunity for defense workers to enjoy their leisure time at resorts will probably be felt too. > On the other side of the books, however, are these facts which cannot be disputed and which hold hope for the resorts: People have more money today than ever before. They are more in need of vacations than they previously were. There is a growing realization that the seashore is much safer than crowded metropolitan areas ■4-hero defense work provides a good target- for any possible attack. Staggered vacations may boost the mid-week business to offset some of the loss of weekend crowds. The success of the Memorial Day weekend shows that people are still vacation minded, that a large percentage can find a way to come to the seashore, and that while here, they spend more money per capita than they did formerly. One of our big problems, about which we can do something, is to prevent needless interference with vacationists, such as the mock invasion maneuvers held along the North Jersey coast several weeks ago. That resulted in long delays of traffic, much inconvenience for motorists caught in the area of the maneuvers. There is little anyone can do about tire and gasoline rationing. There is little anyone can do about increasing the facilities of railroads and bus lines. These things we must accept as part of the war effort. But it is possible to avoid unnecessary interference with vacationists by shifting the days of maneuvers to mid-week and by avoiding undue confusion and congestion during busy periods. That was the gist of Monday’s conference, and it is hoped that the meeting will result in unified action on those matters over which there might be some

control.

At best, no resort will fare too well. We must do everything possible to make the best’ of what we have.

Cbuf /Bondi Jodaif.

John xiy 6 — “I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man coraeth unto the Father, but

by me”.

A comprehensive eity-wide canvass is under way in Cape May to stimulate interest in the systematic purchase of U. S. War Bonds. The local committee which is in charge of the campaign and its corps of assistants are making a house-to-house canvass of the community, urging all Cape May residents to do their utmost in purchasing war bonds to help the nation finance its gigantic^

war effort.

Purpose of the campaign is to seek pledges from those with regular incomes tffcontribute 10 per cent ot their weekly or monthly earnings to a fund from which war bonds will be purchased at regular intervals. For those not in this category, the committee has pledge cards which authorize an individual’s hank to deduct a certain specified amount regularly from liis account and apply the deductions to tlie purchase of war bonds. Behind all this is the government’s urgent need of money to pay for the vast war effort. _ Cape May’s war bond drive and similar ones in virtually all communities

in the counts- are attempting to increase the amount of

county-

bond puremtses sufficiently to provide enough addi-

tional money so that the government will not be forced

to make such sayings plans compulsory.

Tlie goal of the present drive is to contact all residents of Cape May with the request that they pledge themselves to purchase bonds systematically so that the government caiyanticipate a more constant flow of funds. To be sure there are some who can contribute very little. There are others, however, would could, well afford to purchase war bonds, but who, for some reason or another, have never gotten around to it. If these people cacn be induced to become regular bond pur-

chasers, much will have been accomplished.

In the war bond drive you are being asked to LEND your money on the government’s pledge to repay it, interest, in 10 years. The boys in the armed forces are not LENDING themselves to protect you. They will receive no interest. They have sacrificed their normal civilian lives, have giveh up their jobs, their families, their friends, and are daily risking their lives for YOU.

They are doing their pacta. Are yout

Favorably reported out of committee late last week, the Bouse Rivers and Harbors bill which includes appropriations to four important South Jersey waterays, including: the Cape May aunty canal, will be voted upon - •on by Congress, H was nonneed this week.

Contract to tne construction of Pennsylvania avenne as a permanent road to the Coast Guard air station here was awarded to the Ocean City Contracting Company yesterday afternoon by the board of freeholders.

w it waa in Cape L_, the other seashore reeorta ] abouts, a lot of folks f much easier this holiday weekend wi and we hope it was just a sample—maybe things wont he as bad as some of the gl have been predicting. . the weather man certainly came through, and if there was anyo in Philadelphia who didn’t least want to come to the seashore, he needs attention . . . but quick.

Rejection, of plans for a shorter sewer route which would allow inclusion of Learning avenue. East Mechanic street and the Arnold tract In West Cape May’s new sanitary sewer system was officially received by borough councilmen Tuesday night

That New Jersey’s semi-annual motor vehicle inspection will be delayed until 1988 is possible was announced this week by Arthur W. Magee, commissioner of motor vehicles, in Trenton.

S R.O. FOR UA.a And if you have any doubts about the success of the weekend, just ask anyone who attended the Army and Navy ball if there was a crowd. Convention Hall waa packed, and everybody had a swellegant time. All of which >ves that people still like to ie fun and everyone isn’t sitting around chewing his nails and worrying about higher income taxes and stuff.

THE WEEKLY SERMON CORNER:

‘Christ - the Way In or the Way Out?”

By the Rev. Albert W. Lenz, S. T. M., Pastor of the

First Presbyterian Church, Cape May

Ten Years Ago The newly elected County Exi cutive Committee of the RepuL lican party met at the old court building, Cape M&y Court House, on Tuesday and a battle was staged between the Regular publican forces and the Union Republican adherents for supremacy, with a complete victory resulting for the regulars. Samuel F. Eldredge, well known Cape May, attorney, was elected chair-

This is a theme worthy of very serious and thoughtful consideration in such a time as this, in the crisis in which our modern world finds itself. The New Testament uses the term “Way” frequently. We read of the way of salvation, the way of righteousness, the way into the holiest, the new and living way, the way of God in truth. These are references to Jesus Christ, or to the new life of reconciliation which He came to establish among men. Since all of God’s plans and purposes are for man’s ultimate salvation, His provisions toward this end converge in Christ who is preeminently “The Way”. The application of this title is also one of the earliest names for Christianity as a world-religion. The term signifies all that Christ has taught and lived concerning the validity and power and mission of the entire Christian life, the true method of knowing and worshipping God, the course of action and conduct affecting every area of experience, whether think-

Jesus Christ enters into the picture only when despair causes us to turn to Him as a last resort. When all other panaceas have been tried and have been found wanting, then the Master perhaps given half a chance, the hope that by a revival of religion He may lead us out of the confusion of life.

the years . of reference for all those who have followed in the steps of the early Christians.

In the crisis of the present hour, though we feel somehow that we are emerging from the

have little true sense and security. In our quest for satisfying answers to the persistent questionings of our minds and hearts, we realize quite poignantly how our appraisal of the world situation reflects the conditions of our inner selves. Too many people have fallen short of fulfilling the deep meaning of Christianity, in the failure to follow Christ by walking- with Him “The Way”. We are confrontwith problems which most deeply test the human spirit. On every hand we see nations tom by dr aroused for strife; the suffering, the destruction, the irreverence for human personality, seem to be the denial of the Christian way of life. Is there any wonder that many who have thus far endeavored to keep the stout heart and unflinching loyalty to the Master of their spirits, are on the verge of doubt as to the divine power of our Christianity to save and to conserve ? Fundamental values, such as. righteousness,, peace, truth, love, have been crushed to the earth in large- areas of contemporary life. .Sin and error are in the high places as well as in the low. Our social, political, economic, and educational life has been endangered by the gradual

the consecration to guarantee His complete rule in all areas of life. We date our letters and docu-

ments, A. D. 1942, “Anno Dom-^ ors along the waterfront here

Is Christianity merely a way out? Some people hold that religion in unreal, that it has no valid claims upon them. God is merely an escape mechanism, and religion an opiate of the people. Instead of facing and battling the problems of life, men hide behind God, who will in the future compensate them for all the trials and sorrows which they are compelled by circumstances to bear on earth. Meanwhile the forces of evil rule. Keep the people in ignorance of the currents of life, and allow them to drown their griefs in the possibility that a God does exist who will some day rescue them. Is this our belief? If religion, specifically Christianity, were merely a way out of life’s sin and tragedy, there would be some justification in characterizing it as the opiate of the people. 11181 is the gospel of communism; merely a way out, whether by revolution or dissen-

Christianity is more than a way out; it is God’s way of entering into human affairs. “God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world though him might be saved.” “God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself." Jesus says of Himself, “I am the wdV . . .; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me”. Jesus is God’s way of entering into human affairs to make possible a way out of the world’s distress There can be no lasting and satisfying way out, until there has been first of all a way in. God confronts us with Christ, who came into our nature, lived among men, knew what was in man, tasted the bitter taunts of selfish humanity, and yet He wrought out for all men the true and living way to the Father through Calvary’s cross. When we compare our lives with His perfect life, and evaluate our characters by the matchless grace and beaiity of character, of the Son of God, we find how far short we have fallen from the full demands of God. An entrance into a universe, so overwhelmingly complex and distraught by spiritual tragedies—why? For the supreme purpose of leading men from sin

The big S S Manhatten, the $10,000,000 liner built in Camden, ran down the Delaware Saturday an’d Sunday. Many holiday visit-

the year of our Lord.

Have we wholly dedicated this year of grace to Christ? Our coinage is inscribed with the motto, “In God We Trust"; do we really believe this? The confusion and the corruption of modern life have come in part through the failures of so-called Christians. One of the curses of today is the dishonest use of the name "Christian” to serve as a front, while at the same time hiding deficiencies of character. We test our lives by other people’s living, whereas the only true touchstone of character and holy and. fruit-

ful living is Jesus Christ.

Likewise, ecclesiasticism is not adequate. Christianity is more than the external framework and machinery of the Church. We do not forget that the divinely instituted fellowship has suffered from human failings. Christ is the Head, but the members are impect vndividuals. The sanctions of the Churdr are no stronger than the fulfillment of them by professed adherents. We ought to put ouf churches under the full control of Christ, by recovering what a previous generation called “unction”, the fire of apostolic purity and zeal. The Church needs a revival, if it is to lead men out of confusion; Christ must come in, and the pagan gods will

depart.

distance the big craft

as she was sent on a 400 mile run as a shake down before official test run sometime in July.

ing thirty-fopr in all, will hold the commencement exercises Thursday evening, June 9, Convention Hall. This year an novation will make the exercises different. There is to be . no special speaker as heretofore, but instead the members of the class will present their own program, featuring mostly Washington’s

bicentennial subjects.

Twenty Years Ago Commissioner Wentzell, who has looked into the matter, states that the city can obtain dependable service at the water works by installing electric power and at the same time save two three thousands of dollars year. The usual steampower wiuld be held in reserve for use in case of emergency.

Frank Swain, of Swainton, has succeeded in growing lemons

the fact that cotton successfully grown in Cape May century ago.

ing principles of Christianity. The world at large has lost its bearings, traveling as it were in a sea of troubles without compass or guiding star. We have lost the urgency of Christian ethics because we have not been sufficiently grounded in Christian beliefs, and the havoc and the distressing cruelties have entered into the stream of life anew. The just and the unjust have been caught in the maelstrom, and the cry goes up to leadership, to guid-

Neither conventional religion nor ecclesiasticism can give the world the desired release from overwhelming tragedies. Only Jesuji Christ as the true and living way can satisfy. We begin with self-appraisal. Just as ships go into drydock for the removal of barnacles accumulated on numerous voyages, and automobiles undergo overhauling for the removal of carbon, so is it infinitely more important for people to have removed all hindrances and preoccupations and divided loyalties which prevent full fellowship with Christ as the Way. Such an experience would not demand of

us the elimination of anything worth while which the progress of the years has contributed to the well-being of the whole world. Good justifies itself; evil can never stand permanently before the penetrating light of the Gospel. It is in the Cross, however, where we ha^e th^-«ntral fact of our religion. It is H*od’s way into the world’s sin to provide a way out from the burdens, from which men seek release. On manVpart there must be decision and siir-

makinir avail lnere nlu si oe decision unu suiable . Mlowehlp f.r *11, wh™ to enjoy in the btoen.im of the S 0 ™- ,ull L

f™.' J.eTnd.r^^.f’XA'! | S, k'Xe'Tn'r' 0 ” er ef God unid aS torrent* of in'"* 4 'b 1 " experience, the possession of __a Christ—the Way in or the Way

vital peace, come what may. We •have in our Christianity a true way out, because Christ has truly

entered into our lives.

What kind of religion do you have? Conventional religion is not adequate; it ia the desire to be outwardly identified with Christ and His program, without

out? The answer to the question is not in terms of either-or, but both-and. Christ is the Way into tragic situationa, that they may be seen in their true light; Christ is the Way out of life’s tragic situations, from which every one in Him receives full and

CORRECTION, PLEASE

A couple of our summer pals from the big city think the President made a typographical error when he recommended "staggered vacations” recently to offset transportation (lifficulties of vacationists. They contend that it should have been “staggering va-

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IT WON’T BE LONG NOW Now that we’ve had one taste of summer, it’ll be a job struggling along contendedly until the real thing arrives. At any rate, we hear that at least one more pre-season dance is being planned at Convention Hall and weekare expected to .bring fairly good crowds here until the season officially starts diming the last weekend of this month.

WATCH YOUR COMPARISON One of your correspondent’s

correspondents who was lurking

.... . ,, along the highways of Jersey The graduating class of the. -during the weekend reported that Cape May High School, number- (j, e cr0 wd of automobUes was

Memorial Day weekend past. Possibly the number of cars wasn’t as large as last year, but it was up to average. As P. H. Jackson, the county’s advertising director, says, many of us might make the mistake of comparing the 1942 season with that of last year, which, is generally conceded to be one ’ of the best ever in these parts.

YOUTH BREAKS ARM

Alfred Cresse, Jr. was painfully injured last week while playing baseball at the home of Lewis Dickinson at Cold Spring. Young Cresse broke his right arm in two places, while playing with th© 4-H Club baseball team.

Let the motorist who is accustomed to drive in New Jersey, whether a resident of the state or a visitor, make special note of this date, June d. On that day, William L. Dill, commissioner, intends to launch a drive to weed the bad drivers from the good.

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