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ObUqaiwn Jo (poAit/Jiilif.. America will mark the 24th anniversary of the signing of the Armistice on Wednesday, November 11. To a world once again weary of war . . . weary of its. bloody futility ... the observance of Armistice Day, 1942, will be a rajther hollow and pointless affair. For while the signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1918 irfarked the end of one bloody epoch in the history of the world, it was, in the final analysis, only an armistice, a truce, a temporary cessation of hostilities. On the 24th anniversary of the World War Armistice, every American should pledge himself to oppose wholeheartedly any similar attempt to end the present war prema

turely.

Most of us remember the history of the World War. We remember Germany’s fanatical brutality until the tide of battle turned. We remember, too, how with its home front collapsed and innumerable military reverals in its wake, Germany sought the Armistice which ended the first phase of the World War that has, flared anew . .. ended it before Germany had suffered as it had made so many other nations of the world suffer by its aggressiveness. We remember, too. how the well-intentioned but misguided “humanitarians” pressed for acceptance of the Armistice, how they lulled themselves and their fellowmen into the false belief that the world was then “ safe for democracy”. Had this false humanitarian concept not been so strongly exerted or so quickly accepted, had the war not ceased so abruptly, Germany, the arch-aggressor of the present world, would have tasted bitter defeat, would have learned at first hand the true horrors of war as it imposed them on its foes. Had German cities been smashed and wrecked, had German civilians received even a fraction of the mistreatment those of other European countries had received at the hands of the German army, the present war never would have -'^egun. '' As natriotic Americans ... as lovers of the democratic way of life regardless of nationality ... it is the solemn duty of every citizen of the United Nations to oppose any such half-victory in order to assure a half-peace. Experience has shown us that in total war, nothing short of total victory will win a total peace. We, like all other civilized and democratic peoples, are unalterably opposed to war, to needless bloodshed and slaughter and ruthless torture. But in view of the world’s experience during the last quarter of a century, we are not idealistic enough to believe that the first shout of “Kamerad" or its Japanese equivalent should be accepted with a vain hope that it will erase all the treachery and the misery which the Axis has^ngendered. The Axis nations have a great debt to pay to the entire world. It is a debt which is accumulating daily, a debt which can be paid only in kind. It is fitting on Armistice Day, while the true horror of war is screamed from the headlines daily, that all true patriots pledge themselves anew to see that the war is prosecuted to its logical and inevitable conclusion, that we accept no false security in return for treachery and International murder, that we exact a fair and just penalty for the crimes that have been committed and that will be committed against every free man and every free nation. Only in that way can we be assured that our sons . . . the babies of 1942 . . . will not be called upon to sacrifice their lives ort the altar of war in 1965.

Cap# ‘YYlay Jo Jokio fiy GihDisclosure that the old trolley rails on Washington street will be removed and added to the nation’s scrap piles came as good news last week to Cape May citizens. Motives both patriotic and selfish inspired the welcome reception the news was given. For while the trolley rails from Franklin to Ocean streets will be a valuable addition to the nation’s total scrap collection, they have for years been a distinct liability to Cape May ... particularly from the stand-

point of motorists.

Recognizing the.nuisance value of the tracks, city offlcials have long contemplated plans for their removal, but the accompanying costs have always outweighed the potential b$aents when budget-making time has arrived. . ' .Now, it seems, the War Production Board has an agency which handles such problems almost exclusively. In its search for scran, the WPB has taken into- account untold miles of similarly unused tracks, and has made arrangements to have them removed and to have the street surfaces restored suitably in return for the valuable metal in the tracks. By and large, it is probably a good thing that our city fathers hesitated about spending money for the track removal several years ago. At that time, the scrap steel would probably have found its way to Japan as so much other American scrap did. Nowtit will go directly to American war fiM*tories to be made into instruments of war, which, we hope, will eventually find their way to Japan with all possible haste

and destruction.

Thus we’ll be killing two birds with one stone (Japanese birds, we hope) and at the same time the city will not bear

any of the expense.

Ouh Quid finniveJi&jcVuf Cape May County will observe its 250th anniversary as

an incorporated county-next Thursday. Because of the war, the observance will be strictly local. There will be no large .ceremony, no special program. County officials have been forced to forego all the elaborate plans that had been started

prior to December 7, 1941.

Probably at no time since the founding of the county has an occasion of such significance been celebrated with so little fanfare, but that is all the more reason why every citizen of Cape May County should take part in some way in the observance. Because of the war and war-time problems, we must revert to the ways of our forefathers ... to the ways of those who were responsible for the founding of Cape May County ... to celebrate the anniversary of their work. Homely little celebrations of that kind are often more impressive and more earnest than the elaborate ones that have become so common in recent years. Maybe such a celebration will help us to rekindle the embers of that lost art of Apierican neighbor-

liness ...

WILL

PAGF '

THE WEEKLY SERMON CORNER: Lights and Shadows On The

Canvas of Life

By the Rev. Samuel Blair, Pastor, First

Methodist Church, Cape May Upon the wooded heights o£ nature at this time of year, one may behold the gorgeous robes of autumn’s glory, as though one glimpsed the vestments of archangels. Flaming scarlet, dull brown, glowing red, flashing yellow, conservative bronie. Over hill and valley the Master Artist has spread a canvas of bewitching splendor. Several important lessons may be learned from the

picture.

Ufye S TARBOARD WATCH By C. Worthy J ORCHIDS AGAIN And once again we take our hats off to the High School Band for being the moving force behind the Hallowe’en parade and dance here on Saturday. Both affairs helped to liven up the old town and provided a great deal of entertainment for all and s dry. And as they used to say the old Showboat: This is only the beginnin’, folks, only'the beginnin’. BACK TO GOOD OLD DAYS Time was when a band was as much a part of every small town as the main street hitching posts, but when this machine age came along, most young-’uns were considered accomplished when they learned to play the radio. But things are changing now. People finding out that the little aunity bands played a important part in life. The main difference bewcen the present High.School Band and many of the old town bands is that what these kids play sounds like mu-

sic.

LIFE’S LIKE THAT Our friend, Bill Haffert, Jr., editor of the Cape May County Times until he enlisted in the Coast Guard several months ago, has had a lot of interesting experiences including being burning Wakefield and visiting ports in war-torn Europe. As an inveterate news .hound, Bill has the tough job of being on the spot when news is in the making and not being able to write the story and blare it out in headlines. WORRIES REDUCED (?) Now that election's over, all we have to worry about is the rapidly dwindling number of shopping days before Christmas and the rapidly mounting taxes that everybody will pay next year. MAKE HASTE SLOWLY They tell us the Legion boys ■e starting a Jalopy Round-up to add all cars beyond repair to the nation’s scrap piles. If they’d postpone the campaign for another six months, they could probably triple their quota without even half trying. We know number of alleged automobiles that will be jalopies by that time. EINSTEI.n'VaS RIGHT Incidentally, now that we can’t get coffee, sugar rationing doesn’t seem like such a hardship any more, does it? Maybe that’s what Einstein meant with his theory of- relativity. NO ALTERNATIVE Often when a man of mature years reforms it is a sign that there is nothing else to do. ODE-TO GRANDMA She powders. She paints, She reads “La Vie Parisienne’’. J3he drinks my liquor, She cusses, too; She eats lobsters after midnight, She does lots of things she oughtn’t to But, dam it, she’s my grandmother, and I love her.

Midshipmen are given a- condensed version of Emily Post when they enter the Naval Acad-

emy.

(pahaqJvciphtL, Out Of The Past

Taken from files of The Star nd Wave for the (-years 1937, 932 and 1922. Five Years Ago Navy Day was observed in Cape May and its surrounding communities yesterday when two Navy officials visited the public and parochial schools in this area, lecturing on the observance. The visit of the high Navy officers was sponsored by the Peter-son-Little Post, Veterans of For-

eign Wars.

Air mail will be dispatched from Cape May as part of New Jersey’s Air Mail week observance, it was announced here this week by Postmaster Lemuel E. Miller, Jr. Mail will be sent from here to Newark on November 16 in a transport plane of the Eastern Airlines, Miller announced. Despite the arrival of autumn and the fact that the mercury has hit a low of 38 degrees' during the month, strawberries are growing in the garden of Howard N. Smith, 1277 Washington st. Ten Years Ago Final plans for the Hallowe'en celebration here Saturday evening of this week have been completed and as far as possible everything is arranged for a merry time for both young and old, with plenty of attention being given to the juvenile divfejon ' The American Fingerprinting Society, a national organization

of fingerprintinj

ters at Troy, N. Y., unanimously elected John J. Spencer, Jrl, di-

rector of public safety president for the State of New Jersey at a meeting last week. Mr. Spencer’s term of office extends to Decem-

ber 31, 1933.

The Rio Grande Baptist Church after being closed for a period of about four years, will reopen to its congregation next Sunday, and will continue open under the pastorage of Rev. Leonard Clayton, of New York, who with Mrs. Clayton will spend the weekends at the village.

Twenty Years Ago Nearly one hundred and fifty members of the Progressive League, the live-wire business men’s organization, will visit the Young Men's Progressive league at Ocean City Thursday night. It is understood that the men will journey to the northern county resort by special train over the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad.

The last two of the seven fishing boats i which were caught in a thunderstorm and northwest gale off the coast Monday put in here Wednesday with all hands safe. The other five arrived earlier. The last two boats were each manned by two men. Captain Hans Hansen and Jens Franadan in one, and George Nichols and Harry Peterson in the other.

One of these is the important, of distance, perspective. In other words God refuses to be hurried. That is a most significant statement made by Gabriel in the devotional drama “Green Pastures” as the star character makes his appearance: "Gangway fo’ de Lawd God Almighty". God must have ample room and plenty of time when he paints enduring masterpieces. For a sunset scene ho employs the whole sky as a canvas. Lofty mountains are the easels upon which he sets up captivating specimens of His autumnal handiwork. After all, since all time is His, He takes His time. The God who excavated the Grand ' Canyon and built the granite walls of imperial Niagara is not one whose Century Plants can be made to bloom in a night. How true of the creator in His dealings with mankind. As close proximity to an etching causes it to appear little more than po many meaningless daubs; so within the short horizon we are not in a position to fully understand or'intelligently appreciate what He is seeking to interpret. Intervening years, however, often lend the perspective that brings the previously obscure meaning into the broad daylight of perfect elucidation. Hence, wq must ever “let patience have her perfect work”—otherwise we will .... be sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own Interpreter, And HE will make it plain.” Another important feature to be noted is that the glory of the autumnal canvas provides a medium ‘ which gracefully and graciously hides the tragedies of the mountainsides—for tragedies there certainly are in those wild, rugged steeps. Trees whose very hearts have been eaten out by sinister enemies. Gaunt limbs that lift their piteous arms in gesture of abandoh, or in earnest appeal to the Great Spirit. Also little scrub trees that withered before they had gotten well underway in growth and development. Flowers, too, that have long since withered, faded and fallen * to the ground. But the blazing beauty of it is that God’s autumnal canhides away Or blissfully conceals these depressing tragedies, we gaze upon it from afar. Needless to say—in life there are manifold tragedies. Lives that have missed the mark. Lives that are filled with remorse. Lives that are withered and gaunt. Yet here is the. glorious thought. ?narled old sugar maple was being cut down. Its day was dene. The soil had denied it at last, and 'the winds had won. 014 scars were noted as the saw was drawn through its sturdy trunk. Some sugar-maker had borrowed from- it years ago. The old tree was hollow. Decay had eaten away its heart—BUT, glory be, the wild bees had taken the situation in hand, set out on theii mission of friendly pillage, and lo! the cavity jn the old tree presently filled with slabs

honey.

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-By Dr. lames A. Tobey—

his finest paintings to conceal the tragic and unsightly things. He does it in nature and He does tfc in life. He does it by the use of time, perspective, so that the wounds heal over, and even our closest friends n«ved net detect the

scars.

Finally, there’ is brjught home to us as we gaze upon the autumnal canvas, the heartening thought of fellowship. • No one painting can make an art exhibit, so no one tree—painted however beautiful by the Master Artist, can quite reveal the full orbed splendor of autumn. It is each tree giving its particular and distinctive hue and tint and shade

i glory that produngly fascinating

corporate effect in the presence of which men are 'lost in wonder, . love and praise.’ Only as the SERMON — GALLEY No. 2 .. dull brown gives itself to the vivid scarlet and thus merges with the great mass, does it really become a part of the pic-

ture.

No man liveth unto himself. Each must give to the whole, that the whole may be beautiful with the splendor of God. What each gives may seem discouragingly small and insignificant in contrast with the great whole, but it is nevertheless an integral and imperative part of the splendid consummation God has in his heart for mankind. Then, by and by, we “understudies” shall ourselves “splash ten-league canvas with brushes of comets hair”. “We shall work for an age at • sitting And never get tired, at all, And oifly the Master shall praise

us

And only the Master shall blame, And no one shall work for money And no one shall work for fame, But each for the. joy of the working. And each in his separate star Shall draw the thing as he sees

it

For the God of things as they are. —Kipling. PRAYER ‘For the beauty of the' earth For the beauty of the skies, For the love that from our birth Over and around us lies Christ, our Lord, to Thee we raise This our prayer of grateful praise.” —Pierponti

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L!ving~ls~spending, and i filch our hearts. Who

I N THE peaceful day* of early December, 1941, tljere appeared “in this column & story about the blood banks of the American Red Cross. Then came the sudden. treacherous attack on Pearl Harbor. Blood plasma promptly saved the lives of many vali Americans. Plasma^ that part of the blood remaining after removal of the red cells and white cells, has since helped to restore health 'to soldiers and sailors wounded in numerous battles. It Will save many more lives in our armed forces. More than 300,000 persons have donated blood for the production of this precious plasma. Among this legion of patriotic donors no fatalities and no serious accidents have occurred. Only about 8 per cent of those offering blood have been found to be unsuited as donors. After careful testing, the blood plasma is dried and placed . in sterile containers. It is then ready for use in transfusions to control ■hock and loss of blood in woundad or injured men.

Great as has been the response to the plea for blood for our military and naval forces, and for our fighting allies, even more is needed., Any healthy person between the ages of 21 and 60 can donate blood for this purpose. Giving of a pint or so of blood is a simple and harmless process, supervised by a corps of competent doctors and nurses. There is no pain, and the whole procedure takes less than half an hour. After giving blood, the donor rests a while, and generally is fed on sandwiches made of enriched bread and butter. Normal perkms rarely have any reaction, and many even feel better. The-healthy body promptly restores its blood, although the donor is not permitted-to contribute again for at least eight weeks. This natural restoration process is aided, however, by eating ironrich foods, such as liver, eggs, dried fruits, lean meats, whole grain products, and enriched

white bread.

American Red Cross blood donor ‘cvices are located in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Buffalo, Rochester, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago, St Louis, Detroit Milwaukee, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

.... . . .. the years filch our hearts. Who goes far knows loneliness. Comes a time when one is hollow-hearted after many partings, and going on alone. How blessed and sublimely beautiful then, is that life whose mind has been stored full of the honey of sweet reminiscences and happy thoughts, by the wild bees of friendship, reading, travel and meditation—bees which go far afield, gathering their soul-delighting treasures from widely scattered, though

lovely scourcea.

After all, in the years to come it will not be our business ability, but our adventures in friendliness and neighborliness that will count most with us. The cheerful letters we write, the kind words with which we enrich other lives, the little acts of love and kindness, these are the treasures we lay up to warm our hearts when by and by, age beckons youth away, which age most surely will. You see, self is something we are creating continually as we live day by day. Whether that self shall be barren or productive depends upon the interests we cultivate. the thoughts we permit, the ideals we reacb_out after, the reactions we permit ourselves to enjoy. It is the self one develops inwardly, rather than the fortune one may have outwardly, that dfetermines whether one shall live in serenity or in gloom. In • every feast there are two guests to be entertained. the body and the

soul; and that which we give the body we presently lose, but that which we give the soul lives for-

ever.

Thus far we have noted that God must have room^-time—in which to work. That He does not rush to the studio door every time we think He should in response to our knock. We have observed, too, that the Master Artist uses

fellow soldiers, we wish ’to press our gratitude ot the people of Cape May for the fine send-off given us recently.. It* really made us feel that we were a part of Cape May. At present we are members of a combination ski troop and pack mule outfit. Soon we will break camp and make our winter camp in the Rocky Mountains, two miles up in the snow covered Pike's Peak Chain. We are hungry for news from home and will appreciate and answer

all mail.

Sincerely yours,

PRIVATES RAYMOND BECK

and JOHN BOLLINGER Be it ever so humble no place like Cape May.

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4-H Members Busy With War Tasks NEW BRUNSWICK — A total of nearly 30,000 tasks relating to the nation’s war effort are being carried out by approximately 14,000 New Jersey boys and girls who turned to 4-H Club work this summer to find their way to help speed Victory. This was reported here today by Kenneth W. Ingwalson, state leader of 4-H Club work at Rutgers University. “Traditionally, the 4-H Club prjMKsm concerns itself with ef-ficy'-rt methods, taught by Extension Service leaders and tested by actual- experience in the field,” Ingwalson sajd. “Thus, when the request came for more farm products we asked the 4-H Club members already identified with the work to increase the size of their projects and take on great responsibilities on the farm. Then we went outside of our regular 4-H Clubs and inaugurated a program among already existing farm youth organizations which are known as the 4-H Victory Corps.*’

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