THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1942

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(tap* Hlag S’tar attii ®aap Pusushuj Every Thursday at the Star and wave Binuomo SI PERRY STREET. CAPE MAY. M. X THE ALBERT HAND COMPANY. Incorporated. p. MERVYN KENT. Editor PAUL SNYDER. Manama

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(flamp (Down On Uioltrt&iA, Trafflc faUlities in Cape May County for the first 10 months 1942 show an increase of 60 per Cent over the corresponding period of last year, despite the marked decline in summer automobile traffic on county highways. The situation is serious. Something must be done to remedy the condition . . . and the only ones who can accomplish the goal of diminishing accidents arc the small minority of pedestrians and ajUomobiie operators who are habitual violators of safety laws. The recent death of a Marine guard near the Naval base, resulting from a dim-out accident, brings sharply ihto focus the necessity for for additional cuation in driving in this area. Although tfaffic has lessened considerably, the hazards of afterdark driving have increased many fold, for the stringent restrictions which been promulgated to prevent -glare from automobile headlights have brought with them greater danger of accidents. Law enforcement officers, for the most part, have increased their vigil to prevent speeding and other violations which arc the primary druses of accidents. The majority of drivers have done their part to reduce driving speeds to meet the increased hazards. But there are some who insist on violating the safety laws even though they realize they are endangering themselves and others. Another minority which is the cause of many accidents is the small group of pedestrians who disregard completely the laws of common sense safety. By their haphazard walking habits, they create situations which are extremely dangerous. That these violations are costly in life and limb is well proven by the -statistics of Cape May County accidents. For several years, we have had a mounting death toll. The number of personal injuries and the amount of property damage have increased proportionately. Most of the accidents have been caused by one or more persons violating the laws of safety. The percentage of real accidents is surprisingly small. Most socalled traffic accidents are not accidenU at all in the full sense of the word. They ar^tbe inevitable result of habitual law violations. It is these habitual violators to whom we must look for any improvement in the trafflc situation. We cannot expect voluntary response to any plea for safety. The laws that they disregard are certainly sufficient appeal to them. The only apparent solution to the problem is for law enforcement to do their utmost to crark down on habitual offenders. The system established by the highway safety committee of the County League of Municipalities two years ago has all the ingredients of. n workable'plan under which to penalize frequent violators. The only trouble with that plan was that it involved a little extra trouble and hence was never put fully into operation.. If that or some similar plan could be worked out and really put . - Into effect, mpny of the accident hazards—in th^form of drivers—could be made to mend their ways or be removed from the highways. Enforcement officials should pay more attention to violations of pedestrians .... §ay walking, walking on highways wi£h traffic, failure to carry a light or w^ar light clothing when walking on highways after dark and insisting upon walking in streets rather than on sidewalks are all major accident causes. Pedestrians, too, arc governed by safety laws. They must be enforced if real improvement in the accident situation is ever to be attained. , Another serious problem is bicycling, particularly after dark, for, despite state laws and local regulations, few bicycles carry lights. With a constant tightening of dim-out regulations, law enforcement agencies must take more initiative in penalizing violators of safety laws if we are to escape an even larger accident toll.

Jo’r Owi founiif Three Cape May County girls are among 16 New Jersey youths attending the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago this week. Two of the girl* compose a dairy products demonstration team, and the other is one of this state's club cooking representatives. Considering the large number of boys and girls throughout the state who Ere members of the 4-H Club, it is signal honor for little Cape May County, with its comparatively few club members, to have one-fifth of the New Jersey delegation at the congress. ^■he honor that is brought to this county through the selection of these three Cape May Court House girls is a reflection of the excellent leadership which county clubs have, of their individual ability and of their general training. Those sent to the club congress received their trips as awards for excellence in various branches of club work. The outstanding work of the girls who represent Cape May County at the national club gathering should be an inspiration to other club members and prospective club members, a goal toward which they, too, can work. The outstanding record attained by county club members should also be an additional incentive for more active participation in organization work by other county youths, both in rural and resort areas.

ScAap Joi Jhs $afL Approximately 700 tons of scrap metals and rubber have been collected in Cape Hay County in recent months as the result of several campaigns tying in with national drives to salvage scrap materials. For a county the size of Cape May, such a record is outstanding. The total Collection, not including what is or will be collected in the industrial collection campaign nbw under way, amounts to 47 pounds per capita. Few sections of the. country can compare with that record. The figuure is particularly impressive when it is considered that Cape May County is probably the least industrialised of all New Jersey counties. We are primarily a resort area, with agriculture as a secondary industry. We have ho factories or foundries or large plants where -scrap metal is a natural by-product. Cape May County has good reason to be proud of its record in the scrap drive. Hie success of the individual community campaigns has surpassed even the most optimistic hopes of those in charge of the various e of Cape'May County have gone all out to do whatever Tran to help defeat theVxis. The scrap drive is just one phase of their war-time efforts.

(pWia/jAaphA, Out Of The Past

Taken from files of The Star and Wave for the years 1937, 1932 and

1922.

Five Years Ago To eliminate games of chance Cape May County, a drive was started last week by state and local police to enforce a state ban on pin-ball games and punch boards. Launched by state police, the drive against chance games reached into every Cape May County community this week. Fullest cooperation of Cape May officials in establishing a ferry line between this resort and Lewes, Del. was pledged last week by city commissioners in reply to a letter from Mayor David W. Burbage, of Lewes. Arriving in Cape May this week, two new type Coast Guard speed patrol boats were attached to the base here for permanent service. The new boats aye manned by crews of six and are commanded by chief boatswain’s mates. Results of an eight-month probe of the municipal affairs of Wildwood will be submitted to the Legislature on December 20, it was announced last week as the

Ten Years Ago The pilot boat “Philadelphia” with several local pilots on board, limped into Lewes, Del. breakwater Sunday with its deck gear battered, two funnels missing and windows of the pilot honse broken. The 135-foot vessel was steaming in heavy seas Saturday night when a huge wave 30-feet high swept the vessel’s deck.

wood probe, completed :

At the December meeting of the Chamber of Commerce next Monday evening 1 four officers and seven directors will be elected to serve during 1933. The nominating committee composed of Jesse M. Brown, Louis Dawson, Francis Wodock, Peter Dellas and Charles Swain, Jr., elected at the November meeting to receive I nominations, will report to the I secretary, Alfred E. Undy on 1 Friday and the nominees’ names jwill be submitted to the electors.

Twenty Years Ago

Mayor Frederick Melvin on Monday appointed Mrs. Helen Marcy to the Board of Education to take the place of Williaih Porter, who died recently. Mrs. Marcy s appointment comes as a result of a petition received by Mayor Melvin from the Woman’s Community Club requesting that the next vacancy be filled by the

appointment of a woman.

THE POCKETBOOK o/KNOWLEDGE ^

S TARBOARD WATCH By C- Worthy * GOBBLE, GOBBLE After nearly a whole week of turkey and left-overs from the Thanksgiving dinner, well bet half the population of Cape May is just about ready to start gobbling and pulling pin feathers from various parts of the anatomy. That's one thing about turkey ... it's so dam durable and versatile. It'll outlast some of the 1942 tire retreads two-to-one, and you can serve it in so many disguises that the family will keep right on eating it until dam near time for the Christmas bird. • • • COMPETITION OUT This is one year when local merchants should have no kick about people hereabouts doing all or most of their shopping out of town. With transportation at a premium and the big city stores low on merchandise and sales people, the local business men should certainly come into their own. THEY’LL FIND OUT And it will probably surprise a great many inveterate out-of-town shoppers to learn that they CAN buy the same things at prices that arc often lower and with much less effort and trouble by patronizing their home merchants. PAPER HEROES ON JOB Now we can just sit back and stop worrying about the progress of the war. We 'see in the comic strips that Superman, Smilin’ Jack, Mickey Mouse and most of the other well known characters are battling _ the Axis tooth and nail. Why the heck should we fight? They always win ... in -the comic strips. HOTTEST SPOT If there are any unsung heroes of this war, we hereby nominate members of the local ration board for the honor. What started out to be a tedious job done as a -fayor has turned into a full-time carter with more being added all the time. So far the job is twice as nasty and twice as dangerous as being a 'combination big league umpire, judge of a beauty - test and lion tamer. Ya c

WATCH OUT, BROADWAY! That show presented Tuesday night by -enlisted personnel pt the Cape May Naval Base was par excellent and stuff. Seriously, the boys put on a bang-up performance which bids fair-to be the first of a long series of outstanding theatrical performances. Congratulations, fellas. Here’s for bigger and better shows in the future!/ HOW TIMES DO CHANGE They tell us that a lot of stores and other businesses have changed their policy about the customer always being right. With so many labor, troubles, they’ve added a new policy: The clerk is always right. And they tell us they'll fire any customer that puts up an argument. W*rishell!

Scuttle butt is the name for a drinking ’fountain in the U. S. Navy.

THE WEEKLY S

To The Glory of God... . By the Rev. Walter R Kelly, O. S. F. S., Assistant Rector of Our Lady Star of the Sea Church and* Auxiliary Chaplain of U. S. Armed Forces

“Whether you eat or drink or The sinner very seldom realises the great loss he suffers in that he is deprived of God's friendship and he cannot win it back without God’s help. Every insult demands an apology, and the dignity of the person we offend must be taken into consideration. Unless we lead a life of virtue we are insulting in God's sight. There is no ‘in-be-tween’ with God. Either we live a virtuous life, or we find ourselves classified as vicious, that is, full of vice. Virtue is a common English word and means ‘strength’, and that is just what virtue is — ‘strength to do something'. A physical virtue is strength to do s' physical thing, like lifting great weights; a supernatural virtue is strength to do a supernatural thing, like doing good for God’a sake. It is in this sense that we speak of virtue, for everything that we do must be connected with God directly or indirectly. One may help the poor for any one of a dozen reasons—because he wants to be admired by his neighbors, or because he likes to see his name in print, or because he likes the person to whom he has given alms. Whatever the case his act of giving is good, but there is no supernatural motive present. In either case he does not give because God wants

him to give.

Supernatural virtue is something that is always active, not something that crops up now and' 1 then. We must get into the habit of doing the right thing for God’s sake. God gave us certain powers and looks to ns to use them. If we do, we become strong or virtu oua; if we do not, we become weak or vicious. He gave us reason which tells ns the right thing to do. He gave us free-will, because merit only comes from choosing to do right when we have an equal opportunity to do wrffng. He gave us the ability to ask His help, because only God can give us all the help we need. We know then that wd have all the powers needed to acquire virtue, and we know just how feeble our efforts have been to be virtuous. If wc should only stop to consider this, we realize that our failures are all due to the fact that we have forgotten God. He will never forget us unless wc forget Him. He permits us to sink the sea of life in order to

show us how weak we a out His help. We have «. to blame because of our lack <

cope ration with Him.

The opposite of strength ’weakness’. If a man is * strong, be must be weak. then, is a weakness—the root <

all evil.

If a man makes a take only once, we do not say he is a slave of vice. But we do call a man ‘vicious’ if be has the habit of committing sin knowing^ and deliberately. The condition of knowledge of the gravity must be present so that the man knows clearly how great hit crime is, yet insists on doing it. He would not be vicious if he hated his sin, would give anything to be free from it, and would welcome any opportunity to release its grasp on him. We hate vice because it is opposed to God’s will. We fear it because we know that it is easy for us to become habitual sinners —or vicious persons. We cannot do this unwillingly. There is no vice which can grow in us without our consent. And we cannot give consent to sin and at the same time try to live as God wants. As long as we try to be what God wants us to be, we • cannot become vicious. We stop growing in vice the moment we start growing in virtue. What we have been in the past does not matter. Start- out now on a new attempt to grow in virtue, or try to strengthen those virtues you know are weak. If a choice could be possible, would you like to change places with a person you know who is virtuous, or with one you know who is weak? Suppose the weak man has a prosperous business, a sire home, plenty of coffee, gasolii c and tires, never knows wh t sickness is like—would' <you li’ i to find yourself in his place? Isn't there something inside of you that tells you something is wrong? Everything on the surface might appeal to you, but does he not have to face a day of reckoning? You wouldn’t like that. You prefer to live a virtuous life because it brings with it an easier conscience, peace of mind, respect from people whose respect is worth having, a calmness in difficulty that most other people do not have, a contentment that others seem to miss, y and a lasting peace at knowing that God is pleased because you are pleasing Him.

YOUR HOME

LUNCHEON DISHES Family luncheon menus often result from rallying the contents of the refrigerator shelves; hurriedly heating up the this and that, and hoping for the same appetizing eyeappealing dish it was the night before or the night before that. Possibly children with ravenous appetites will flatter such lac' of plaming by the speed with which they lick the platter clean. On the other hand, grown up members of the family with cares and responsibility will accept reluctantly uninteresting dishes for the noon day meal; They have appetites that must be catered to if they are to enjoy and digest the luncheon served in a limited Space of time. The -remains of previous meals should be and must be used, for not one crumb of food ought to be wasted, but we can use a little int enuity in returning it to the fold. Ven a spark of change in the wav it is to be served will be appreciated and certainly if eye appeal aids digestion, you will hare done your bit. These recipes will be useful we know in doing fust that; 4hus keeping the refrigerator as clean as old Mother Hubbard's cupboard. Lamb Salad with Minted Dressing I'A cups diced cooked lamb 1 cup .diced celery 1 cup diced cooked potetoes Va cup grated raw carrot li medium onion, grated

1 tablespooru green pepper. chopped fihe— N 1 tablespoon chopped mint

lettuce

Min| leaves Celery hearts Stuffed olives Toss together lamb, celery, potatoes, grated, carrot, onion, pimento 1 and pepper. Blend with mayonnaise to which mint has been added. Arrange portions on nest of lettuce leaves and garnish with mint leaves.

Serr; with celery hearts and olives. Serves 6. Molded Vegetable SMad ’ 1 tablespoon gelatine 2 tablespoons cold water ^ cup hot water 2 tablespoons lemon juice 11 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon sugar cup cooked peas Yi cup cooked green beans '4 cup cooked carrots, diced ■ 12-16 stalks cooked asparagus 4 slices tomatoes, 1-inch thick

Lettuce

Place gelatine in a bowl, add cold water and allow to sund 5 minutes; add hot water and stir until dissolved. Stir in lemon juice, salt, sugar, and add peas, beans and cairots. Cut asparagus to fit sides of individual molds -or a large mold. Place a slice of tomato in bottom of mold, arrange asparagus in upright position on sides of mold. FiH mold with gelatine mixture and chill. 'Unmold and serve on crisp lettuce with mayonnaise. Vegetable Shortcake 1 cup .cooked corn • 1 cup tomatoes, cut in pieces. 'A cup chopped celery 'A green pepper, minced 2 cups cheese sauce 12 slices enriched bread Butter, softened Add ‘corn, tomatoes, celery and green pepper to cheese sauce and heat over hot water 15 minutes. In the meantime, cut large rounds from slices of bread, (reserve trimmings jor other uses), spread with butter and toast in oven. For each serving use 2 pieces of toast, with vegetabh mixture between and on top; dust with paprika. Serves 6. Ham-and-Apple Club Sandwich 18 slices enriched bread

Butter

6 slices cooked ham

Lettuce

Mayonnaise 3 large apples 2 dozen staffed olives Toast bread and spread with butter, allowing 3 slices for each »andwieh. Trim ham to size of toast slices. Place a slice of ham, a lettuce leaf and mayonnaise on the first slice. Cover with another slice of toast. On this place a lettuce leaf and mayonnaise and cover wkfa thin slices of apple. Top with .Bn third slice. Stab with 4 toothpick* topped with stuffed olives. Cut the sandwich across diagonally and place it on a nest of lettuce arranged on a serving plate. Serves 6.