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On Snchtpundsmai (Day The observance of Independence Day on Saturday will be more significant than usual this year, the first of the Second World War. Much of the former Fourth of July celebrations will be lost this year, and in the place of the usual gaiety will be the determination of Americans to maintain the independence for which our'forefathers fought in 1776. As the birthday of our nation; July 4th has long been one of the outstanding holidays in America. In times of peace and prosperity it has been an occasion for joyful celebration, but the true significance of the anniversary has too often been lost in the holiday spirit. This year America and the other United Nations of the world are engaged in a tiUntic struggle for.the preservation of democracy, for the salvation of civilization. Our fighting men the world over are giving their all in this most far-flung and terrible war. They are fighting to protect the independence which their forebears won 166 years ago in the Revolutionary War. In the rush and turmoil of our busy lives, most of us Americans think little about the Declaration of independence. We are vaguely familiar with it, of course, from our school days when we learned about the history of America, but few of us think scridusly about the Declaration of Independence as the sUrting point of the greatest nation in the world. To mast of us Fourth of July is a holiday when we can rest, relax and have fun. Too few of us remember that it is the anniversary of the birth of our iiation. Fourth of July this year should be a day of reflection as well as a day of celebration. It is a time when we should all realize the full import of its meaning. It is a time when each of us should re-dedicate tiis own mind, to the serious task of winning our struggle to maintain our independence as quickly as possible. America is making a noble effort in this Second World War. Our fighters, out industries and our war workers are proving their superiority daily, but by many, the full seriousness of the war has not yet been realized. Too few have seriously thought of the stakes involved, of the price we must pay to preserve our civilization. Unconsciously, many of us worry more about the minor sacrifices involved than about the fin.l outcome of the war. We are confident that America will win as it always has, but often we forget that we are "America . The fall of Bataan, the slaughter at Pearl Harbor should make us realize the seriousness of the situation. Apparently what has happened in the far-off Pacific has made little impression except upon those directly affected. Most of us are still more concerned about tire and gasoline rationing than about the lives of our men who are fighting to protect us. Independence Day seems a particularly appropriate time for all Americans to pause and take stock of themselves Are we really doing our part in this aU-out war effort ? Are we doing everything we can for the common welfare of our nation? Or are we more concerned about the insignificant privations the war has brought to us ? Are we placing ourselves before our country ? These are serious questions. Upon the truthful answers to them depends, lafgely, the success of America’s war effort. TUtud J<tfi City fiction. Faced with numerous complaints about the unkempt condition of vacant lots and properties in various sections of Cape May, the City Commission on Friday indicated its approval of a plan whereby an appropriation might be included in the city’s budget next year to provide money with which to pay for clearing those which arc most objectionable. Each year, from early spring until fall, city officials are deluged with complaints from persons liring in the neighborhood of such places. Each year, the officials give due consideration to the complaints and study the laws which give local governments the power to clear, weeds from privately-owned property and assess the costs thereof to the owners. But the legal requirements which must be mat before such assessments can be made are so involved that the cost of the work would be overshadowed by the cost of the preliminaries, making the plan impractical. Now, however, the commissioners are considering allotting a certain amount of money in the local budget to be used for just such work, so that the red tape involved in assessing costs where they properly belong will be eliminated by adding a negligible amount to the tax rate. That apparently is the sensible way of solving the problem. With every taxpayer contributing an extremely small fraction of the money involved, the work can be done and the community as a whole will benefit through a vastly improved appearance. Property owners who permit their places to become overgrown with weeds and allow them to become general dumping grounds for trash and rubbish are extremely inconsiderate of their neighbors and of their fellow townsmen. Attractiveness is the stock in trade of all resorts, and it is Cape May’s duty to look its best in order to meet the competition of other ' resorts. Personal and civic pride should be sufficient to prevent property owners from allowing their places to become objectionable, but > in instances where it isn’t, the city would be protecting its own interests and those of all its citizens if it took matters into it own hands and eliminated such unsightly conditions.

CARD OF THAJNkS The family of the late Mrs. Frank Gallaher (nee Emily Eldredge) wish to thank all their relatives and friends for their

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Thertf is only one commodity that the Government itself urges you to “hoard”. And that ' is COAL. The full capacity of trucks and railroads will soon be required for war supplies. This may easily result in a coal shortage. So, for your own protection—and as a patriotic duty—coaf now for next fall and winter. Today, order as mulh Famous Reading Anthracite as you can store. It’s the low-ash, long burning hard coal that’s trademarked with RED spots. Your bins filled this spring will protect you next winter. Cape May Coal & Ice Co. 512 Washington 8t.

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‘Time’’, the weekly newsmagazine which recently drew forth the wrath of resort interests from Maine to Florida by publishing an article reporting seashore waters coated with oil and dead bodies washing ashore, has apologized to Cape May and other resorts where those conditions definitely do-not exist. In this week’s issue of the magazine, “Time’’, published a letter written by Cape'May’s publicity department, emphatically denying the charges made by “Time” and criticising the magazine’s article as helping to spread false rumors. . Other resorts along the coist were also represented in “Time’s” -column of letters, their representatives oppressing similar views. Cape May apparently has eWrg^d from the verbal tilt with the •core in its favor. In the original article, “Time” referred broadly to the "seashore . and although the general term certainly includes Cape May, no specific reference was made to this resort. In this week’s issue, kowever. the city's publicity bureau managed to get Cape May into print as one resort where such conditions do NOT .Ti.t thereby making an important advance in its anti-rumor campaign which has been carried on for severals months, and at same time getting a plug for this resort in a national magazine which is usually closed to routine press releases. No doubt the original story did all resorts some damage by helping to spread false rumors. The corrections, for those who took advantage of the situation, will probably more than offset the damage done.

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Long lines of weekend traffic have come to a halt in a way no one could possibly have foreseen a year ago. America is facing a new kind of traffic tie-up. a slop light for the duration. Last summer a red light was all that ever stopped us. This year we are all doing a lot of thinking before we go anywhere. As a public utility serving the Jersey Shore, we are seeing something we haven't seen for years, trunks piled high at railroad stations, and excursionists coming by the thousands.—on the train. This takes us back a long time, for that is the way it used to be. But the gas lights, the doal range, and the over heated kitchens arc gone forever because we are Still providing the summer residents with the same efficient gas and electric service which makes surtjmer at the Shore a real vacation. Wc are cutting all unnecessary calls, yes. ano\we are putting our meter readers on bicycles. The necessity for saving copper haslimited line extensions, wc arc drastically restricted in the sale of new appliance^N^nd we are changing our service and collection policies, making every sacrifice weY^n to save vital materials But we are literally busting our buttons to give peo^ the same kind of service we always have Come on in, the water’s fineL