THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1942

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SsdisUi flail §ahvicn TbtstdsucL Improve'd railroad service to Cape May and other county communities is being demanded by officials and private citizens since rail service has been brought into the limelight by inauguration of wholly inadequate “winter” schedules on all county runs and discontinuance of service to Sea Isle City and other Seven Mile Beach points. Almost simultaneously demands for better service and protests against curtailment of rail service arose in at least three different sections of Cape May County. Mayor T. Miflet Hand, of Cape May, last week wrote to railroad officials, requesting revision of present winter schedules to provde more adequate service for Cape May. Almost at the same time, a representative of a Stone Harbor lumber firm indignantly protested the discontinuance of service to his area. Last Wednesday the Board of Freeholders officially protested curtailment of service to any Cape May County community and urged improvement of schedules and facilities. Even at best railroad service to Cape May County towns has left much to be desired. The calibre of rolling stock assigned to Cape May County runs has generally been below average compared with trains operating between cities and other resort sections. While peak season schedules have been adequate, those for the greater part of the year have been atrocious. With war-time demands taxing all railroad companies to capacity, it would be unreasonable for Cape May County to expect the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines to provide entirely suitable service and equipment at the present time. But it is not unreasonable for Cape May County comipunities to expect and demand that the railroad company provide service that is adequate to meet their needs. In Cape May’s case, freight and passenger service .has increased many times as a result of a sharply expanded population growing out of military operations in this locality. Hugo war-time projects under construction in, this area have soared freight shipments to new heights. According to information from Washington, provisions have been or are being made to provide railroad schedule* and equipment for wartime needs. The needs are here. They should be met. For the rest of the county, where war-time traffic has not increased needs, the question is one of personal convenience and economic necessity. With businesses and individuals denied unlimited use of automobiles and trucks, they have turned to railroad transportation in order to continue at least the essentials of life. Freeholder Stevens expressed the view that the railroad company was using the present emergency as an excuse to discontinue service that has not been overly-profitable, but which under normal conditions would have to be maintained. If that is the situation, it should be fought with every ounce of energy we can muster. If it is utterly impossible to have additional trains added to the Cape May schedule, revision of the time-table to have departures and arrivals at more reasonable hours certainly could be worked out for the benefit of the general public. Cape May County must assert itself if it is to retain a semblance of modern railroad transportation.

QI'a (xl&iihy Of J'ull Support Efforts to have the Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association support a movement to have the New Jersey inland waterway improved so that it will .be able, to handle barge traffic will be made next week by Senator I. Grant Scott, representing Cape May at the annual convention of the association.

Senator Scott will ask the organization to throw its weight behind efforts to obtain federal funds with which to accomplish the waterway improvement. Such a project, he pointed out last week, would enable coastwise barge traffic to traverse the entire Atlantic coast from Florida to the metropolitan east without the necessity of outside passage where it might be subject to enemy attack. President Roosevelt recently recommended that barges assume the burden of coastwise transportation. He pointed out that much of .the present emergency transportation problem could be solved by such barges utilizing inland waterway channels, thus freeing freight trains and coastwise ocean-going vessels for other more vital work. New Jersey has long been the only state whose inland waterway was not capable of handling barge traffic,. , With completion of the Cape May County canal—expected within the next few months—if will be possible for barges starting in, Florida to use inland channels until they reach ■Cape May. After that, at present, they must seek outside passage, for the New Jersey waterway is not sufficiently deep in some places for them to operate.*,. Senator Scott s proposal is that the federal government allot funds for the dredging of the waterway channel between Cape May and Manasquan Inlet. Compared with a cross-state ship canal, which has long been advocated by the association, the Scott proposal would cost only'a fraction. With the extreme scarcity of vital materials and labor for war use, it is inconceivable that the proposed ship canal will be built during the present emergency. Its only function would be to provide inside transportation between Philadelphia and the New York area, allowing ships to go up the Delaware and across New Jersey through the canal. . In view of the slight likelihood that the canal will be built, Senator Scott is going to ask the association to divert, for the present, its efforts to having the inland waterway improved. At a time when every dollar of public funds, every piece of material and every bit of labor is required for the nation’s war effort, it is inconceivable that millions of dollars and untold amounts of labor and materials will be used for construction of a canal that isn’t a vital necessity. If the same results can be obtained by dredging the inland waterway at a fraction of the cost of the canal project we feel the association and all other interested parties should do their utmost to see that the project is accomplished.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: In place of he Weekly Sermon, which was o have been written by the Rev. iobert D. Carrin, pastor of the 3r?e Island Baptist Church until iis entry into the Chaplain Corps if the U. S. Army last week, we lublish herewith a summary reiort of the Cape May Bible and Missionary Conference, held at the Cape Island Baptist Church dur-

ing August.

At the oldest seashore resort along the New Jersey coast, the pastor of the Cape Island Baptist Church of Cape May, Rev. Robert D. Carrin, saw liis dream become a reality when the first Cape May Bible and Missionary Conference opened on August 2nd, for three consecutive weeks. During these three weeks, Christian lenders and workers, with open Bible in hand, studied the Word of God under the direction of qualified Bible expositors and heard the inspiring and challenging messages of well-chosen Chris-

tian speakers.

Under the capable leadership of Dr. Luther Wesley Smith and Dr. G. Pitt Beers, the Christian Education and Home Mission Week (August 2-7), brought to Cape May Dr. E. T. Dahlberg, of Syracuse, N. Y., and Dr. W. E. Woodbury, of New York, N. Y., is Bible expositors and placed its inferences under the efficient leadership of Miss Alice W. S. Brimson, Executive Secretary of the Woman’s American Baptist Home Mission Society; Mrs. Everard Deems, of New Brunswick, N. J., President of the Woman’s Missionary Society of New Jersey; Rev. Anthony Vasquez, Italian missionary, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Dr. Mabel Lee, beloved Chinese missionary, of New York, N. Y.; Miss Mary Butler, missionary from Nicaragua; Rev. H. C. Loughhead, of Town and Country Work in Pennsylvania, and Rev. W. David Owl, Indian missionary among his own pcople\in upper New York state. The conferences were extremely informal, and. therefore, unusually informative: The inspiring evening .•ni'ssnges of Dr. Smith and Dr. .Beers will long be remembered as will the worship in music, so efficiently led by Rev. C. W. Jewett, of North Wildwood, a talented and capable musical director. The second' wcekAof the Conference—Foreign MiS^tBYia Week —(August 9-14) under the direction of Dr. Jesse RT Wilson, presented as Bible expositors Rev. I-eo W. Spring, who has spent thirty-three years as a missionary in Burma, and Rev. August A. Berg, missionary on furlough from Bengal-Orissa. Mrs. Howard Wayne Smith, former president of the Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, and Miss Marion Shivers, missionary on furlough from Burma, brought challenging messages. Dr. Wilson conducted each of the informal morning conferences amj, in addition, presented the inspirational evening messages. The music for the week was under the direction of Rev. E. E. Peterson, of Scotch Plains, N. J., wellknown gospel song-leader. The high level to which these two weeks led was climaxed by the third week of the conference —Pleaching Week—(August 1621), during which _the Bible expositor waa Dr. H. E. Dana, of Kansas City, Mo.; and the preacher, Dr. Samuel M. Lindsay, of Brookline, Maas. Rev. J. W. Marson, of Newark, N. J., in charge of the musk, made a

definite contribution of dignity and beauty to the closing week of the conference. It was during an evening service that the signal sounded for a state-wide surprise blaqjiout! The lights in the church were extinguished, Dr. Lindsay continued preaching, and, at the conclusion of his sermon the congregation sang the old hymns of the church until the “all-clear’’ signal sounded. It was an unique and soul-stirring experience! The last evening of the conference was a period of reconsecration, Dr. Dana present-

ing the message.

Mention should be made of the musical contribution made by Miss Edith Edmunds, organist of the entertaining church and the heart-searching solos sung by Rev. G. W. Jewitt, baritone; Howard W. McFall, boy soprano of Philadelphia, Pa.; Miss Dorothy Talbot, soprano of Philadelphia and Rev. J. W. Marson. Duets by Jean Peterson, of Scotch Plains, N. J., and Howard McFall; and Rev. and Mrs. Marson made further contribution to the musical worship of the conference. The Book Store and Exhibit Room of the conference under the supervision of Rev. C. W. Dannenhauer, of Cape May Court House, was a happy place of fellowship and browsing. The free literature furnished by our Home and Foreign Societies, and Council on Finance and Promotion and the American Baptist Publication ’Society was wide in its range and comprehensive. Many favorable comments were heard concerning the variety of books sent by our Publication Society and the worthwhile, exhibit of articles from our mission -fields. Considerable interest in the exhibit was especially noted immediately following the two afternoon Women's Conferences, led during the first week by Miss Brimson and during- the second week by Mrs. Smith. Cape May is a friendly, refined City with an expanse of sky -and ocean unexcelled by any New Jersey shore, resort! Its unique location—actually 20 miles at sea on the tip of the New Jersey peninsula—surrounded on three sides by water and yet a mainland city—places it at the top of the resort field as a comfortable location for a summer conference. The close proxiitfity of the water to the two-mile boardwalk makes the ocean an intimate thing—as though one could really hear the waves speak! The City of Cape May made' a very definite contribution to the conference. Through its Publicity Department, Senator I. Grant Scott, Director, it paid for the greater part of the publicity. The hospitality of pastor and people was felt with the first step across the threshold as Mrs. J. T. Hewitt and her committee of Hostesses expressed by action and word their sincere friendliness. The building and equipment of the Cape Island Baptist Church is unusually well suited for such 1 a conference, and added to all this, the learned, dignified and friendly conference leaders who presented their subjects in such a personal and challenging manner made each session a magnet,

drawing one’s souL

“Thanks be to God for the Cape May Bible and Missionary Conference and for a pastor who had a vision and dar-

ed to promote H." Violet M. Hoener, Plainfield, N. J.

&/>e S TARBOARD WATCH By C. Worthy v AN IMPORTANT ANGLE If the Cape May County canal does nothing else, it’s certainly provided this section of the county with unlimited entertainment After having talked about it for nearly 60 years every time there was nothing else to talk about, we’re finally seeing it take form, so of course its an even more important topic now. Probably from now on everything in Cape May County will be dated either B.C. or A.C.—Before Canal or After Canal—which might help to simplify things at that. KICKS FROM THE PUBLIC Another thing that’s coming _ for its share of the limelight of public opinion is' Capo May County's rail service ... or the lack of it Following discontinuance of one run between Seven Mile Beach and Ocean City and the inauguration of some mighty primitive schedules on other county lines, citizens and officials are starting to wage a campaign for more and better rail service. We know we can’t expect the most modem equipment, but at least it should be good enough so members of the 40 and 8 don't get homesick every time they go from here to Philadelphia. WHAT THEN? “Woman Lies Dead 12 Hours" —headline in an Ocean City paper. Wonder what she did after

that?

SR! SHI SECRET it -it Tumored that there’s going to *be an election in about three weeks, but from the amount of advance political 'activity Cape May County both parties are keeping it more secret than the average surprise blackout test. THEM WERE THE DAYS Time was when politics used to be a full-time job hereabouts. Members of both partjes started campaigning for the next election the day after the last one was held, and it was sort of an endless chain. Now that most of have assumed positions as ai chair generals and fireside defenders of jiStalingrad and the Solomons even election day doesn’t make too much of an impression . . . Sort of like shouting for democracy continuously and then not taking advantage of it when it is operating right under our noses .... ON THE HOME FRONT ’Course there are problems on the home front. By this time no doubt Ma’s got the fall housecleaning under %ay, and the rest of the family is having its ups and downs trying to locate anything, and Pa’s probably right in the middle of burning leaves and getting things ship-shape for winter. And if you don’t think thijse are the most important things in the world right now, just try talkihg the little woman out of it some day . .... COULD IT BE? Contrary Mary, one of the lo-cal-belles, tells us that old story •bout wolves, in sheeps’ clothing is all wrong. They’re all in uniform nowadays, sex she. -

Navy men affectionately call Chaplains “padres” or “■ky-pi-

May from discharging sewage into. the waters of Delaware Bay within the limit specified, dty officials this week instructed Solicitor Samuel F. Eldredge to prepare an ordinance authorizing a bond issue to finance necessary work. The proposed canal across Cape May County near here has been included in plans for the improvement of the entire inland waterway system of New Jersey, it was revealed Tuesday by Assemblyman I. Grant Scott, state senate candidate and city commissioner, following a with Army engineers. Personality, that mueh-talked-of trait that has Assumed such in-’ creasingly important proportions in the last decade reached a new high in local importance this week with the announcement that school pupils in Cape May will be graded on their personality as well as their scholastic standing. Ten Years Ago The municipal finance officials of the county municipalities were called into conference with E. L. Chalmers, director of finance of the Board of FWeholders on Monday to consider ways and means for the municipalities to meet their delinquent county and state taxes. The merchants committee of the Chamber of Commerce, of which Leslie Tenenbaum is chairman, completed plana this week for the celebration of Hallowe'en on Saturday evening, October 29, and invitations to out-of-town organizations have been sent. Seven bids were received and opened by the supervising archi' tect of the Treasury Department on October 14 for sites for the proposed new Cape May postofficc. In a telegram Monday, H. R.

tember grand jury against 78 parsons, the largest number ever to be returned in this countv. By far the greatest number of true bills found were for violations of the Hobart Act and for possession of slot machines. Twenty Years Ago Charles R. Hoffman, ardent radio fan, has installed in the rear of his store a complete radio receiving outfit and entertained friends on last Thursday night with a radio concert from jazz music to grand opera. The outfit -can pick up concert; from such broadcasting stations as Gimbels, Phils.; Westinghouse, East Pittsburgh; General Electric, Schenectady, N. Y.; Newark, N. J.: Atlanta, Gz.; Chicago, HI. and Davenport, Iowa. In the near future Mr. Hoffman stated that he will try and give concerts to the pub-

The "Carnegie", a Swedish fishing smack, Captain Johan son in charge, arrived at Otten’s Harbor this week and has been the center of attraction for local fishermen and others ever since. The “Carnegie" left Hono, Sweden for Halifax where she arrived in 28 days and at Wildwood in 29 days. The annual Teachers’ Institute of Cape May County was held in the local High School Building on Monday, October 16. More then 200 teachers were In attendance. The program was splendid and had sufficient variety to interest all groups. * Good fishing for “bottle fish" suddenly developed off Town Bank and Highland Beach early last Saturday, when someone discovered that a rum runner had jettisoned a part or all of its^pargo when the boat struck jrTfarid bar. All day Saturday^and Sunday men were busy trying to hook the sacks up from the bottom and dame rumor has it that several were successful.

2-39 By ELIZA M. STEPHENSON

JCSSEY CXNTSAI Power & Light

QUICK MEALS Fish is an excellent food- It is easy to prepare and certainly most versatile—has a way of combining with other foods to make dclccfable dishes. Seafoods are a good source of iodine, calcium and phosphorus which help our menus include the necessary elements for good nutrition to build health. Canned seafood is convenient for quick meals, but where fresh obtainable it is usually more c nomfeal. * We hope these recipes offer you new ways to_ use seafood in saving nutritious meals for busy days. Baked Potato Stuffed With Shrimp 1 5 or 5f£ oz. can shrimp 2 large baked potatoes 1 tablespoon butter teaspoon salt Dash pepper Vx cup milk 1 teaspoon minced onion 1 tablespoon. finely chopped parsley ■ ‘ . Clean shrimp: cut hot baked potatoes in halves length' Scoop out insides: mash; add butter, salt, pepper and milk. Beat well. Add onion, parsley and shrimp. Refill shells. Bake in a hot oven at 450° F. for 5 to 8 minutes until lightly browned. Broiled Oysters on Toast Triangles 24 small or 12 large oysters 6 slices buttered bread 1 tablespoon buttef 4 tablespoons Russian Dressing Remove crusts from buttered bread; cut each slice crosswise. Place under broiler with low flame, buttered side up, for one minute. Remove from broiler; place oysters on toast triangles. Dot each with butter; top with Russian Dressing. Broil for about 2 minutes; serve hot. Serves 6. Baked Salmon 1 1-lb. can salmon 2 caps soft bread crumbs H teaspoon pepper H teaspoon sage 2 teaspoons minced onion 2 teaspoons chopped parsley _ 2 teaspoons chopped pickles

4 tablespoons butter, melted !4 cup milk Flake salmon in large pieces. Arrange in bottom of medium-sized shallow casserole. Mix together remaining ingredients: spread over salmon. .Bake in a moderate oven at 400° F. about 25 minutes. Serves 4. Creamed Codfish 3 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons fleor V/j cups milk teaspoon salt Dash pepper 1 teaspoon minced onion 1 7'A-oz. can fish flakes or % 14-os. can ffesh codfish 1 teaspoon chopped parsley 2 hard-cooked eggs, sliced Buttered' toast Melt butter in saucepan; add flour; blend. Add milk; cook until mixture thickens, stirring constantly. Add salt, pepper, mnion and naked fish. When reaqv to serve add parsley and eggs, serve hot on toast. Serves 5-6. ^ Tuna Fish Fondue 5 slices bread, cubed 1 7-oz. can tuna fish H cup grated American chccsc 3 eggs 2 cups milk Vt teaspoon grated onion x h teaspoon salt Dash of paprika Cover bottom of greased casserole with layer of bread cubes. Cover with flaked tiina fish; sprinkle with cheese. Add remaining bread cubes. Beat eggs; add milk, onion, salt and paprika. Pour over tuna fish mixture. Bake in a moderate’ oven at 325° F. for one hour. Garnish with watercress. Serves 4-6. Tuna Fish and Egg Sandwich 1 13-oz. can tuna fish 1 teaspoon grated onion . ' - 2 teaspoons lemon juice 2 hardicooked eggs, chopped / cup mayonnaise Drain excess oil from tuna fish; flake. Add remaining ingredients; mix well. Spread between buttered slices of whole wheat or white bread. Makes filling for 6 double sandv/iches. -l Tomatoes and Fish Flakes 2'A cups tomatoes 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour 2 tablespoons chopped onion Vt teaspoon salt * 54 teaspoon pepper 1 7V4-oz. can fish flakes or 1 8-oz. can canned fresh codfish (1 cup) 6 slices buttered toast Drain tomatoes: reserve iuice. Melt butter: add flour: blend. Add tomato juice; cook until mixture thickens, stirring constantly. Add drained tomatoes, seasonings and fish. Cook slowly for JO to 12 minutes. Serve hot on toast. Serves 6.