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Diplomas will be awarded to 43 Cape May High School seniors tonight at the annual commencement exercises which will be held at Convention Hall. The seniors have completed their secondary schooling. They have mastered their prescribed subjects. According to the- standards of society, they are ready to be launched into the adult world. What a muddle this old world of ours must seem to the graduate! What a mess they must think their predecessors have made of it! What a jolt it must be to step out of the comparatively sheltered security of adolescence and be forced to battle the maelstrom of 1942 as an

adult!

Business is certainly not “as usual”. Life in general is far from normal. Possibly many of the plans that have been in the minds of the graduates for the last four years are now impossible for the duration. Despite all the shortcomings of the world today, the 1942 graduates are as full of hope and courage and faith in themselves and their futures as any of the graduates of former years. That’s part of youth,, part of the spirit that has made America, part of the spirit that will keep America the great country it is. Unlike the graduates of the early 1930’s who faced the abysmal depths of depression with little certainty ot any measure of security, this year’s graduates find a great demand for labor. To be sure, few are skilled, but all are able to learn. There are countless openings for training in war industries which will stand them in good stead in later years. Many of the boys of the graduating class will probably be called to serve in the armed forces of their country before long. There, their training will be continued, and they will have the broadening experience of military life to add to their background. With their courage, their hope, their ideals, the graduates of Cape May High School and the countless other high schools and colleges throughout the country stand today on the threshold of a new era, one in which they will have great opportunity to utilize the knowledge they have gained during their schooling. They are the ones who will be the young men and women of America when this war has ended, the ones who will play a large part in the rebuilding of the world. Upon their young shoulders rests a grave responsibility. They have had the advantages of the most modern educational facilities in the world. They have the natural intelligence, the courage, and the stamina that has been bred in Americans for generations. So equipped, the 1942 graduates should be well fitted to meet their obligations as adults. Perhaps with the help of the older generations, they, in their time, might be able to solve the innumerable problems which keep the world in turmoil. Perhaps they can do a better job of running the nation and our part ol the world than their ancestors have done. Perhaps they, too, will run into stumbling blocks on the road to progress. Perhaps they may never reach the ultimate goal toward which we are all struggling. But they deserve a chance to try it. They deserve all the breaks our 20th century’ society can give them. Our hats are off to the graduates of 1942. They ’ve probably got a tough battle coining up. • But we think thev can meet every obstacle and keep on fighting!

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Stain fioiiai Madia KsdfUL. Installation of two ’.Vay radio at the Cape May County state police barracks, completed recently, is a boon to the law enforcement .agencies of the entire county. The new radio transmitter and receiver at the county barracka is part of a statewide network of state police radio which has recently been installed as a further step in combatting the forces of crime. ‘ The effectiveness of police rndia is unquestioned. In large cities where it has been tried, it has proved its value time aiid again. The unforunate part of it is that the equipment is too costly for the average small community, yet the need is often greater in smaller towns and rural areas than elsewhere because of smaller police forces. With the installation of the state police equipment, all communities of the county stand to benefit, for while not as effective ns individual police radio systems, it will be available to all in cases of necessity. Through the combination of te^hone, teletype and the two-way police radio, Cape May County police may now cover the entire state of New Jersey and reach into other.surrounding'states in search of law breakers. Modern equipment and facilities have increased the effectiveness of police officers manyfold. It is partly due to that effectiveness that Cape May County’s crime level has been so low in recent years.

Taken ttoih Hle!i or The Star and Wave for the years 1937, 1932 and 1922. Five Years Ago A record for Cape May Hi$rh School graduating classes will be equalled tonight when forty-two seniors will receive diplomas in the forty-fourth annual commencement exercises which will be held at Convention 'Hall at 8:30. Twenty-one boys and twen-ty-one girls will graduate tonight, tying in number the class of 1933 which wap the largest i receive diplomas 'from Cape May High School. New Jersey’s Governor Harold . Hoffman will be the principal speaker at a testimonial dinner which will be given in his honor at Henri’s Cafe, Beach Drive and Decatur street, by the Cape May County Republican Club tomorrow evening. Ordinances prohibiting horses and ponies from Cape May's beaches between June 1 and October 1 and trailers from parking ithin the city limits were passed on first reading Tuesday morning by the city commission. That Cape may is an All-Amer-ican summer resort has been proved this season by a tabulation of all out-of-state license plates seen along city streets durinBBthc last month by George Woemcke, a Cape May messenger. Twenty-four states, the District of Columbia and Ontario, Canada, have been represented ir Cape May between May 2 and June 5, according to Woehlcke’s tabulation. Cape May’s ninth annual flowshow will be held in the Casino ...•re on June 15, 16 and 17, it was announced Tuesday by city commissioners. Plans for the show were begun Tuesday at the commission’s weekly meeting at •ity hall. Ten Years Ago Four lucky anglers intent upon catching a big drum fish or two off Town Bank on Tuesday hooked something which came to the surface unlike any fish they have ever encountered, and carefully bringing their catch to the surface found they had hooked “bottle fish”. Four sacks of a case of liquor each were salvaged and he news spread rapidly there were so many boats on tne scene Wednesday that there was little room left for water in the

bay.

A petition from the Chamber of Commerce and numerous letters are protesting against the proposed closing of tfie U. S. Weather Bureau here.'Cape May Is one of the 16 stations on the list to be abandoned after June 30 as an economy program. Twenty-two’ officers and 26 listed men of the Fourth Naval Reserves, in command of Lieutenant C. K. Wildman, are practicing here at the flying field until June 18. The contingent is practicing gunnery and bombing. A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Gape May County Art League was held in

Cape May Court House May 24. Plans and program for the forthcoming season were discussed. Mrs. Jesse D. Ludlam was elected hairman of the Music Extension Committee.' Twenty Years Ago Cape May is assured of a real Independence Day, according to the plans- for the Fourth of July Celebration Organizations. announced on Wednesday night. An extensive and interesting program has been arranged, and it is assured that it will be carried it to the smallest detail. Cape May and Cape May Point •e in Cape May County, just the same as Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Wildwood, Stone Harbor and several other places. These have been benefited by the expenditure of hundreds of thousands of dollars of the county’s money in their development, while Cape May and Cape May Point have had very little aid of this kind although paying large sums regularly in county tax The Woman’s Community Club has petitioned the commission to aid in the expense of retaining the Hygienic Nurse and to appoint a woman on the Board of

Health.

Grass and weeds are running wild on many properties and disfiguring the appearance of the sidewalks and open lots.

2T/>e S TARBOARD WATCH By C. Worthy

A REAL HOLIDAY ! ! ! Plans are under way for i super-dooper Fourth of July cele bration in Cape May with a par ade, a field day and all sorts of things. A1 Robson, who ranks high among Cape May boosters, is getting the parade together, and Don Lear, also of the Recreation Commission, is planning the field day which promises to be an outstanding bit of holiday entertainment for local visitors. Good stuff, fellas! The more activity like that Cape May has, the better its chances for a

cessful summer.

ORCHIDS, PAL Incidentally, to the best of our knowledge, no one has ever given A1 a medal or bouquets or such for ,his efforts, but if the time for such tribute ever comes, A1 certainly rates it. In recent years, he’s been the instigator of many civic projects. F’r example: the Hallowe’en parade a few years ago; Chrismas decorations for the business district; the annual Christmas party for local kids sponsored by the Kiwanis Club; the high school band; farewells for selectees; etc., etc. . . . And now the Fourth of July cele-

bration.

Dividend Declared The Board of Directors of Jersey Central Power & Light Company has declared the regular quarterly dividends on its preferred stock payable July I, 1942 to stockholders of record on June 10th. The dividends are $1.75 per share on the 7 per :ent preferred stock; $1.50 a ihare on the 6 per cent, and $1,375 a share on the 5 Mi per preferred stock.

WILSON TRANSFERRED Virgil M. Wilson, of 1146 Washington street. Cape May, who has been receiving Navy training at ’ Newport, R. I. for .more than a month, has now been transferred to Jacksonville, Fla. "e will restive training at tig; aviation radio school there.

DIM-OUT HELPFUL 'n>is coastal dim-out is

tainly a boon to romance. The boardwalk is the scene of many budding romances now that the lights are low. Reports from reliable sources indicate that Cape May’s dim-out is satisfactory, and that it will probably be possible to have unpainted globes boardwalk lights if blue bulbs used. That sounds good. The blue lights are really attractive and have caused much favorable <

chance for promotion and reward. So you see St. Paul's desire was a laudable and ambitious one. The whole solution of life lay in the words “I MUST reach Rome.” Well, his desire was consummated. His ambition was realized. He reached Rome—but he came there A PRISONER. And never were chains more suggestive than those he wore. They speak to us of the way the really great opportunities of life come to men. They come at a price. Between each of us and the best we hope to be or do there lies much submission and much renunciation. In other words, the law of sacrifice is the law of success. After all, if existence were entirely sunshine and happiness it would be impossible to distinguish between the hero and the coward. All sunshine makes a desert while all rain makes a swamp. The chemist states that the average human being contains water enough to wash out a pair of blankets, sugar enough for a small cake, fat enough for seven bars of soap, iron enough to make a ten penny nail, potassium enough to fire a child’s cannon, lime enough to whitewash a chicken coop, and sulphur enough to kill the fleas on a medium sized dog; at a total value of less than the price of an Ingersoll watch. Let it be remarked however, that the things we point to when we wish to justify our existence are not so much those which may be calculated in terms of market values. We vindicate - ourselves in the attitude we assume toward life’ challenges, life’s tests and its responsibilities. The fact that to live in Rome or even to visit it means that a loll will be exacted from us in one form or another. This is the very test of our right to enter the city’s precincts. The knowledge that they cannot hitch-hike into the city of their dreaipsjs sufficient to kill what at best was but a very anemic aspiration in the heart of multitudes. Rome holds rewards, but they are not for cowards, sissies, or those of faint heart. They are received not by the hitch-hikers but by those who are content to endure the climb and who dares to say that we have reached the summit, or that we know all that there is to know. Rather, with Lowell, we realize increasingly that New times demand new measures and new men; The world advances and in time outgrows the laws That in our father’s day were

best,

And doubtless after us some

purer schepie

Will be worked out by wiser

one’s than we.

Made wiser by the steady growth

of truth.”

The wisest dog of today knows 10 more than if he had lived 5000 years ago. As a matter of fact the bee’s geometry, spider’s web, the bird’s nest, the ants’ colony are no different today than when man first trod the moon of his creation. But every generation of man since Adam is wiser than the ceding. What has made the difference? Thajact that men have girded up their loins and hav< struggled to reach the Rome ol their highest ideals and noblest

aspirations.

Thus the stone hammer gives

to the polished

back up and be i

fli

■in what we an haadad \ id she helps as to it. After all, life is a very ( ious affair — so serious in 1. that none of us will ever get « of it alive. It is simpl of function or fizzle i in which only the trombonist i affbrd to let things slide and in which the largest room is room for improvement In other words, if ' for success, we must keep oh “scratching”, killing time by working it .to death and ever keeping our shoulders to the wheel rather than our “backs to the wall”. Remembering that a satisfied flower is one whose petals are about to fall,'while the raqst beautiful flower is one, wherein the pangs and ecstasies

ACTION PLUS The United States fleet is tainly doing a bang-up job in Pacific, what with chasing the Jap fleet all around the ocean and inflicting a whale of a of damage. With a little r of that kind of fighting and t more bombings like those Colougne and Emden recently maybe the Axis will think Uncle Sam, John Bull and the other United Nations mean business.

Gburcb IKlotices

Gape Islanb Baptist Cburcb Corner of Gnerney Street and Colombia Avenue. REV. ROBERT D. CARRIN

n i« Morning Worship 10:30 A.M. Mr. Chkrles Batten, Theological Seminary, will preach. Bible School 11:46 A. M. Baptist Training Union. 6:10 P. M. Evening Worship. 7:46 P. M. Rev. A. H. Stanton. D. D., Superintendent of Evangelism. N. J. Baptist Convention, will preach next Sunday.

pine knot to floureseent light.]. ,r”’ The crooked stick as a means of _

cultivation to the gigantic tractor. The ox cart makes way for the diesel locomotive while the prairie schooner is superseded by the streamlined automobile. Where stood the primitive log cr.bin now stands the palatial mansion, where the heathen altar was erected now the steepled temple lifts its tapering spire. Out gf the trackless wilderness mob have carved thriving cities. They have tunnelled mountains, plumed seas, bridged rivers and caused the desert to blossom as the rose. When such effort ceases (which we pray God it never shall) we mav as well busy ourselves preparing the tombstone for the grave of progress. We are heirs of the progress of departed generations—Egypt’s wisdom, Persia's love, Greece’s grandeur. Rome’s glory, the Hebrews’ devotion—historians, novelists, musicians, scientists, philosophers, all have enriched us immeasurably with result that we are debtors jn a measure that cannot easilv x be cancelled. Indeed it is incumbent upon us i matter of reciprocity that endeavor to make our own thv contribution to the general

welfare of mankind.

We are not here to play, to

dream, to drift

We Ijaye .hard work to do and

loMs to lift

Shun not struggle, face it;

God’s gift.

Let us then be up and doing

and finer growth. 1 is bbvkma. believe, who when asked how best to learn the art of sculptoring replied, witheringly, “Just get a block of marble and knock off whai you don't want.” This, because ho felt “they pick up the chips we knock off, and finding them rough, toss the pi aside scarcely looking at the revealed image upon which frar hands are working.” Even if we are not successful in getting the angle out of the stone, the very, effort to do so saves us from sordidness and the shame of not aspiring. 1 can easily visualize hanging over the desk of an executive ox a great enterprise, a sign, reading "Did you reach Itome'.''’ Such a question is arresting. It does not ask “Was the road rough?” “Was the weather bad?” "The visibility poor?”. One single question stands- out in the force of its pertinence. “DID YOU REACH ROME?” That forestalls excuses and explanations. It demands success, now glorious to ^ be able to repon "YLo, 1 reach-, ed Rome.” It was such a man vho wrote: ‘I'm tired of sailing my little

boat

Far inside of the harbor bar 1 want to be out where the big snips float ■Out in the deep where the great ones wre.'' To reach Rome one must be - tenacious. Must come down from the bleachers and sweat in the Must forsake the hearth strike out for the horizon. Must be blind to the formidable obstacles which lie in the path the goal. So many fail to reach Utopia because tney have only wishbones where they ought to have back-bones. Others may have back-bones, but they are so far back no one has ever been able to find them. The progress of the world is the history of men and women who would not permit defeat to speak the final word. We come into the world very much us a fiddle comes from the factory. (A violin is only a fiddle wiui an education). We have a body and a neck. That is about all there is to us or to the fiddle. Our minds are empty—we have # no strings. About six years of age the human fiddles are toted on to school. They progress through the grammar grades and get the first string — the "E”

string.

The trouble is so manylof these human fiddles think t%y are a whole orchestra right away, iney want to go fiddling through life on this one string. To make the sweetest music, however, it is best to acquire the full set of trings. When the b, A, D, and itrings are all in place sweetharniomes can be discoursed

lues symphony.

Bear in mind, that the studies, tests and exams you have hao uunng your school career were meant to break the fiddle— er tney were intended to turn pegs, drawing the strings of your mind and your soul tighter and tighter, nearer and near-

to concert pitch.

Ladies and gentlemen of the graduating class, 1 wish you continued success—indeed every last person here wishes you Goa

speed.

Above everything else, may 1 remind you in this parting word, that if you would reach Rome and master its 'curriculum, it is highly important to recognize that the crowning object of a well trained mind rests upon a moral

foundation.

It will not be possible for yon to get the most out of lilfe unless you endeavor to develop that type of character which will stand Jhe test of ETERNITY as

well as time.

•Rome challenges the. aoul of

triumph.

Try, therefore, to make the best grade possible, and then you need have no fear of “Wasting your fragrance on the desert air."