THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1942

(Eape Hag g’tar anil Maur Published Every Thursday ay the Star and Wave Buildinr SI PERRY STREET. CAPE MAY. N. J. THE ALBERT HAND COMPANY. Incorporated. P. MERVYN KENT. Editor PAUL SNYDER. Manaoer

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0. Shook Jtfi Jhe JawitaJupL Last week’s U. S. District Court ruling: ordering the federal government to construct a connecting link between the Higbee Beach Road and the Old Shore Road, paralleling the Cape May County canal, is a boon to a large number of Lower Township residents who otherwise would have been seriously inconvenienced. The ruling made construction of such a connecting link mandatory in lieu of construction of a bridge across the canal to carry Bayshore Road traffic over the new waterway which is now under construction. Since the building of the canal was started residents of some sections of the township have protested vigorously because, they argued, they would be forced to travel a circuitous route and to cover a considerable distance to go from one point to some other nearby point in the neighborhood of the canal. Of course, construction of a bridge over the canal at the Bayshore Road would probably be the most satisfactory solution to the transportation problem, but bridges—even temporary ones—cost money axjd require time for construction. The Army engineers who are in charge of the canal project decided against a bridge on the Bayshore Road, at least for the present, because, they pointed out, traffic on the route was not sufficient to warrant such an expenditure. Construction of a connecting link such as that ordered by the District Court Judge at last week’s hearing Will alleviate the situation considerably, and should suffice until such time as it is feasible to construct a bridge over the canal at the desired location.

U)hat'i Jhs fitL&h (bufivcuf? Speeding, among other things, is out for the duration. Following Governor Edison's recent decree setting 35 miles an hour as top speed for motor vehicles in New Jersey, Joseph B. Eastman, coordinator of war-time transportation, has issued an order making 35 the maximum speed for al! vehicles in the nation. Rubber conservation, of course, is the. primary cause of this restriction on speed, for it is a well known fact that the lower the speed of a vehicle the greater the proportionate life of tires will be. While such a speed reduction will be a great novelty to most American motorists, who have become accustomed to much higher speeds, it will cause real inconvenience in a comparatively few instances. The speed reduction, providing it is strictly enforced, will probably pay the nation big dividends in lives saved as a result of lower accident rates. Curtailment of speed is essential at this time with many tires already on the thin side and with most car owners determined to get the last posable mile of use out of each tire. Speeds greater than 35 miles an hour, with tires of questionable quality, are definitely hazardous. After the great nation-wide sales campaign which has been under way for months to “sell” America on automobile conservation for the duration, one wonders if the average motorist who must keep one eye on the purse will ever go back to his former high speeds. With greater gasoline mileage and tire life and less expense for mechanical upkeep all proven facts, it is doubtful if Mr. and Mrs. Average Citizen will slide back into the old driving habits after the war is over. In dollars and cents as well as in the reduction of accidents. the value of the lower speed might well become fixed in the American mind and may be one of the few ihdirect compensations resulting from this war.

9(cwe ( ljou fi&qi&i&had? Tuesday, October 13, has been designated as the second day for permanent registration of voters during 1942, according to an announcement last week by the Cape May County Board of Elections. * While we supported the Cape May County Board of Freeholders in their opposition to instituting permanent registration at this particular time because of the tremendous exI>onse incurred by the change, the shift is inevitable as a ..result of the Legislature’s refusal to postpone the effective date of the law until after the war emergency, and we must make the best of the situation. It is incumbent upon every qualified voter to appear before the registrars for his particular voting district and be • registered permanently so that there will be no question about his right to vote when the law becomes effective. There is a great amount of detail work required of election board members and by the county board of elections in order to prepare for permanent registration. In order to avoid confusion and congestion near the time for the law to become effective, the Legislature provided that three registration days be held during 1941 and three during 1942. The law becomes effective July 1. 1943. A small percentage of Cape May County voters registered during 1941 and another comparatively small percentage registered on September 15 when the registration day coincided with primary election. But the bulk\of the county’s voters have not yet registered. Unless all qualified voters make certain that they are properly registered under the permanent registration law by the time it becomes effective, many will undoubtedly lose their right to vote until their registration has been accomplished. In times like these when the right of franchise is even more important than usual,-it is the duty of every adult citizen to cast his ballot, it therefore is an important duty for every citizen to make certain that he has a right to vote in every election. The ballot is the American public’s means of expressing its sentiments. In an hour of great crisis such as we are now passing through, every citizen should realize his individual responsibilty as an Amercan. should cherish it more highly than ever before, and should exercise his franchise ' intelligently and as he thinks best If you haven’t registered under the permanent registration law as yet, do so on October 13. It will assure you of your right to vote without difficulty after the law becomes effective and it will help the registrar and your election officials by avoiding the last-minute dngestion which wopldotherwise result in untold confusion.

Taken from files of The Star and Wave for the years 1937, Rl ° Grande schools and the Cold 1935 and 1932. Spring Grange Hall.

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Of The Past

Five Years Ago Preliminary plans for an elaborate Hallowe'en parade and celebration were drafted here this week by the Cape May Merchants' Association. The event will take place on Thursday, October 28, and will be one of the largest parades of its kind ever held in Cape May County, said Allan RRobson. chairman of the committee, yesterday. Congressional medal, the highest peace-time award in the country, was presented to Gay A. York, at the Cape May air station yesterday afternoon by Captain T. M. Molloy, commandant of the New York division of the United States Coast Guard. To preserve as much natural foliage and shrubbery as possible n the site of the new postoffice •hich will be erected here soon, Mayor T. Millet Hand, of Cape May, and Postmaster Lemuel E. Miller, Jr. are cooperating in urging federal architects to preserve **■' trees and shrubs.

Ten Years Ago The Lower Township Board of Education has accepted the offers of other school boards to take care of the pupils thrown out of school by the burning of the township consolidated school at Cold Spring. Rooms will be used in the Cape May Poiht, Wildwood,

The Chamber of Commerce swung into action for the fall and winter sessions with a large attendance on Monday evening, and several important matters were discussed and resolutions covering numerous matters were adopted. The members of the Board of Freeholders expressed themselves as willing to take a ten per cent salary cut for themselves and the employees under them or even more than ten per cent, but they balked at taking the step at their Wednesday meeting. The famous old Head-of-Rivcr M. E. Church, near Tuckahoe, identified with some of South Jersey's earliest industries, will celebrate its 140th anniversary Sunday, October 8. Twenty Years Ago G. F. Battersby, 3005 West York street, Philadelphia, and during the summer and fall of 121 East 18th street, Wildwood, was the victor in a ninety minute battle with a seven foot shark last Monday at Cape May Point. The cozy little dance hall at the City Pier Theatre is again to be the scene of many joyful dances this Fall on Saturday evenings. Special effort is being exerted to get the best music obtainable in this vicinity and everyone knows the ideal floor that awaits them.

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S TARBOARD WATCH By C. Worthy SOME SCRAP! Cape May piled up an impressive heap of scrap during the week of the Scrap Salvage Drive which came to a close Saturday. If there has -Ever been any doubt about what this community’s opinion of the international deadend kids (commonly known as dictators and by many other more expressive terms) the salvage drive certainly was conclusive proof. FREE DELIVERY, TOO Remelted and made into proper shapes and with liberal quantities of gunpowder and TNT added in the right places, Cape May’s scrap pile ought to blow a whale of a hole in the pride of the Axis. We hope most of it can be sent via air mail direct to Berlin and Tokio, possibly even with General Jimmy Doolittle taking personal charge of the special delivery .... HERE’S YOUR CHANCE And right along the line of Cape May folks doing their bit against the dictators, have you signed up yet to give a pint of blood to the Red Cross? That’s one thing most adults can do to help save the lives of our fighting men . . . our boys who are risking their lives constantly for us. Come on, Cape May! Today's the deadline for registering . . CAPE MAY IN RUNNING A race horse named “Cape May” has been making an excellent showing in recent races. The horse won a race at the Garden State track several weeks ago. and brought highly valuable publicity to this city, and placed second at Belmont the other day, showing that “Cape May” is definitely in the running. The horse is owned by Joseph Roebling, a steel magnate, of Roebling, N. J. The city publicity department this week wrote to Mr. Roebling, expressing appreciation for the publicity his horse is bringing. CEST LA GUERRE The way schools of other nearby towns are dropping athletics for the duration, it’s beginning to look as if Cape May won't have to take any such official action. Pretty soon there just won’t be any other teams Jo play. That would be tough on a lot of boys who endure eight years of grammar school just for an opportunity to play football in high school. SHOTS IN THE DARK . have heard a great deal about the inadvisa'bility of too many war profits. It would seem disc that we have too many wpr prophets. Wlitics have been adjourned for the duration. All those congressmen and other office-holders are merely playing ping pong. An Indiana man was fined $300 for flying an airplane while intoxicated, It doesn't pay to be a high flyer while you are a high flyer. In the good old days the fellow who wore cuffz on his pants was regarded as a dude. Now he is merely a fellow who is wearing last year's suit

’J3SS rest blessing ns sad com to the Holy Scripture., and i wefl lor as if we can find • bed foundations for oar

ed on the Being end of God Himself. He is the fi_ da lion of all belief. The knew, ledge of God is the very >ub

stance of faith. In the beginning GOD is very vital. Israel baaed

her faith on this: “Jehovi

God is one Jehovah”, which truth God insisted that they shonid not forget, or overlook. “They^shall

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was no God formed, heither there be after Me”. — ing that ir.aa is inherently religious, men have always I lieved in a Deity, varying fit

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high intellect. from a wooden to spirits benevolent who an to be worshipped, to spirits malevolent who an to be pacified, and on from these to a subtle reasoning from a known consciousness of moral elements in creation and in man, evidences in nature, and farts in man, of truth, goodness, beauty, intelligence — reasoning

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all true existence, knowledge and excelSt. Augustine, though he knew the Scriptures, yet similarly reasoned from Truth to God. for, said he: “Where I found Troth I found my God, who is the Truth itself”. said that'Peter the Great asked his chaplain for one word to prove the divine origin of the bible. After a moment’s thought" the chaplain replied "Israel, your Majesty”. Some days later the king acknowledged: “Your word altogether convincing.” Long before the days of Plato, Peter the Great, or Augustine, Jehovah passed by and proclaimed, “Jehovah, Jehovah, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, abundant in goodness and truth”. It is there, in the attributes of God that the basic, eternal elements of goodness, truth nnd righteousness have their seat, and there alone lie the issues of moral and spiritual conditions and conduct of all intelligent moral creatures. The goodness of God can do no other than "keep mercy for thousands”. The righteousness of God cannot possibly “clear the guilty”. The truth of God must by its very nature “bring to light the hidden things of darkness” and condemn them. There is LAW in nature and Revelation. Every person’ has moral law within. The same as written on tables of stone and was exemplified in the One in whom was no sin and in whose mouth no 'guile. Experience and observation prove that the way of righteousness is peace and happiness, that the way of transgressors is hard, convincing us that “the wicked shall not go unpunished”. Modem hymnology has restored to life an old hymn of 150 years ago, in the beautiful and popular setting of “Finlandia”. "Be still, my soul, the Lord is on thy side”. It is a saint of the long ago comforting herself, and us who sing it. And God does surely take sides. Not in the sense of personalities nor in the sense of fa•ored nationalities, but certainly n the sense of moral law, on he principle of righteousness.

Able paaaaga to h ality of dod”: “Waa L _ asks Victor Hugo to his | account of Waterloo to 'Ll ermbJeo', “for Napoleon to the battle?” Ws tmwh Why? On account of Wal or Blocber? Ns; on account God Bonaparte, VICTOR nt 1 ter loo did not harmonise with law of the 19th century Napolsoa had been denounced in infinitude, hi. fall waa decided Waterloo 1 waa not a battle. It was a transformation of the univerao. 8a may we say Waa it possible for the Kaiser and his boat to win the war? No. Why? On account of Haig and Petain, Pershing and Foch ? No. On account of Gad. The Kaiser, VICTOR in Franca, did not harmonise with the tow of the 20th aeutory. He had boon denounced in infinitude. The stars were fighting against him. Thu Mania was not simply a a transformation t of such •

He romee marching in t£a of His strength, and through it. smoke and mist looms up in clearer certainty and great-

formation L Archbishop Temple advises ns that the question now before us whether those moral and spiritI ‘ forces which assume a' God of justice and righteousness and truth, or those other forces of violence and evil that insist that only might is right, shall be supreme. Which shall prevail in the end? The vision of last things is clear. “Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. A sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of Thy Kingdom”. The last thing is • the throne; the throne of the great Creator—the throne of the Redeemer, the thone of the Judge of all the earth, before whose face the earth and heaven have fled away. Judgment works two ways: to the promotion and reward of good and to the punishment and destruction of evil. It weighs the nations and puts the handwriting on the wall. II is intensely personal, rendering to every one according to his deeds. It is final and settles destiny. There is just one way of disarming the judgment now and hereafter. “He that hearcth my word, and believeth in Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life and shall not come into condemnation.” Thomas Carlyle- was walking with Bishop Wilberforce. They talked of the deep things of life and the abiding values. Suddenly Carlyle asked: “Bishop, have yon a creed?” “Yes,” answered the other, "and what is more, the older 1 get, the firmer that creed becomes under my feet. There is only one thing that staggers me”. “What is that?” asked Carlyle. “The slow progress that creed seems to make in the world.” Carlyle remained silent for>a few seconds, and then said slowly and seriously, "Ah! but if you have a creed, you can afford to wait!” So. can we.

JEEPTOONS + + + By Fighting Men

Mca of the fighting services are adept with pen and brush, as proven in art groups In USO dubs. USD present, examples of their work J* a series of "Jeoptoona."