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Cl (JaluaJbk dddiimn, ... Purchase of the Camden Trust Company bank building for use as a city hall is one of the most progressive steps taken by the City Commission during this administration. Acquisition of the building to house municipal offices serves two very important purposes. It provides adequate offices for city departments and at the same time eliminates the depressing aspect of having one of the city’s roost impressive structures standing vacant. The purchase price of $7,500 makes the new dty hall building one of the bargains of modern times. The huge vault alone could not be replaced for that price even if there were no restrictions on such purchases during the present emergency. To be' sure, acquisition of the building removes it from taxation, but the loss is not nearly so real as it may at first appear. The county board of taxation, this year, chopped some $7,000 from the assessed valuation after an appeal by the former owner, and because of the difficulty of finding any local enterprise that could utilize the building profitably a continued vacancy and additional tax cuts are inevitable. Cape May has for years needed a new city halL Several years ago there was some talk of attempting to obtain a WPA project or some similar federal assistance to construct a new building, but it was found that the cost to the city would be prohibitive. The idea of constructing a new high school and using the present building for a city hall was also considered, but here again the cost to local taxpayers and the difficulty of obtaining adequate federal aid made the plan impractical. Meanwhile, dty departments labored in antiquated and inadequate quarters. Proper fadlities were not available for permanent filing and safekeeping of important records. Cape May has for years been a leading contender for the doubtful distinction of having the worst municipal building in South Jersey. ”^ The location of the new dty hall is ideal. At the principal intersection in the business district, it is easily accessible from all sections

of the dty.

Its architecture is eminently suited for its new use. Of brick con* Struction throughout, it is one of the most imposing structures in the community. There is ample space for the city's clerical departments and commission offices, and the excellent basement is an ideal place for the storage of munidpal records. If, in the future, it is necessary to expand the office space in the building, it will be comparatively easy to add a mezannine floor to accommodate additional desk space. Another consideration, of utmost importance this year in view of fuel oil shortages, is that the building is heated with coal, and the heating plant is in excellent condition. At the same time, the transfer of dty hall to the new quarters leaves available the first floor of the old city hall for use by the local ration board, which has been working in inadequate quarters on the second floor. • Vastly increased duties of the rationing board have made it essential to have more space and facilities. Under a lease with the OPA, the dty will receive $70 per month for rental of the office space. The original ration board quarters were donated by tne dty. All in all, it appears that the acquisition of the new city hall is and will be highly benefidal to the dty from many standpoints. ’Cfood J’ffi r ljou, Ja/umAi! Cape May County farmers last week strongly expressed their sentiments about mileage rationing in a resolution adopted at the annual meeting of the County Board of Agriculture. The farmers sharply critidzcd the manner in which the Office of -Defense Transportation has handled the situation, charging that the entire mileage rationing set-up, affecting farmers particularly, has been

poorly planned and executed.

There is plenty of justification for the farmers' protests, just as there is for protests from other groups which depend largely upon

automotive transportation for their livelihood.

Tightly tangled in official red tape, mileage rationing, like so many other emergency measures, is seriously disrupting essential • services. The inequalities of the mileage rations are legion, parently those charged with the administration of the new regulations are as vague about the rulings as the general public is. The result is

inevitable confusion and-misunderstanding.

: Locally, there are many cases where business men and farmers are going to be forced out of business by the drastic cuts made in their essential mileage. In many instances, the reductions have apparently

'been made without rhyme or reason.

The farmers are the first local organization to make ’ a formal protest about the situation^ Others undoubtedly will follow as conditions

on the home front become worqe.

County farmers logically point out that the government is asking farmers to^end every effort to increase food production, while at the same time it is-apparently doing everything possible to put obstacles in their path by reducing their essential transportation until it reaches a

point that is ridiculous.

Of course, there’s a shortage of rubber. We all know it and even without the government’s fumbling program of rationing we all would have done our utmost to conserve rubber from purely selfish motives if nothing else. Americans, by and large, are resigned to the rubber shortage until such time as it can be-relieved. But if half the energy *nd money expended to set up and attempt to enforce the mileage rationing program had been used to develop ■ynthetic rubber the shortage would have been pretty well alleviated . . . at least for essential services and industries. County farmers who are anxious to increase production to help boost the nation’s food supply have good reason to bo indignant about mileage rationing. We commend them for their courage and forthright 'attitudein adopting a resolution of protest.

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Wlany (?hanqsi& (ttisadL The Presidential directive automatically deferring *H men above the age of S8 from induction into the Armed forces through Selective Service already has required many changes in the local administration of manpower conscription. More will undoubted]^follow. Principal effect of the new ruling, besides freeing men above the age limit from possible service, will be to speed up induction of remaining eligible men considerably. Almost immediately upon receipt of the new order, the local board which has jurisdiction oyer the southern section of Cape May County removed 23 names from the list of men scheduled to undergo final physical examinations last Thursday. Designed for the nation as a whole, the Selective Service system is bound to .work hardship on some communities. In some large cities there are still supplies of 1-A men, physically fit and without dependents, who have not-yfrCbeen^aUed for induction, while in smaller places, like Cape " ^ " ^ ------ be changed.

TOUGHER GOING AHEAD

S TARBOARD WATCH By C. Worthy 8—MORE DAYS—8 Just eight more days . . . Yes, r! Christmas certainly sneaked up on us this time . . . Maybe because we’vfe been having nice weather, or maybe it’s because we’re getting older and ime seems to go faster. At any ate. here we are just about a reek from the big day and we on't even have Oswald’s' annual necktie picked out. EKIOUS QUANDARY Oswald, you might remember, i ... or was . . . the scourge if the office until his Uncle Sam■1 decided that he might do better scourging in the Army. The' big question this year is shall we jet him a tan necktie or will it i tan one? Either’s approiriate for KP. MILITARY SECRETS Departure of Oswald to Camp CENSORED to serve with the CENSORED division is one reaion why this col-yum has confined itself to the less lurid details of rommunity life. He was the lurid •tory digger-upper. He still gets cm, but now, he says, they're nilitary secrets. KIDS ALL-OUT TOO The kids in 'Cape May's gramar schools are certainly doing their bit for the war effort. NowJiey’re buying war stamps so Jncle Sam can buy some more Jeeps. Good work, kiddies! IDEA FOR THE ARMY Now if the Army would just adopt our suggestion of providing a Jeep for each WAAC and (ending thg combination to the battlefields and just let ’em drive around normally, the war would >ver before you could pronounce some of thosb trick war area names. Other armaments would be unnecessary. Pardon us, lady drivers. SLIGHT MISTAKE That fella who's been going around town -since last Thursday •ith a very, very red face is none other than ye ed after the good old S & W reported last week that the new city hall would be bought for J1.500 when the real price is $7,500. Typographical error, sez he. CHILLS A-PLENTY Lots of folks are going to be pretty chilly before the winter' over if some of the fuel oil ra s we've heard'- about are a: indication. We can understand this business of blood and sweat and tears for' the duration, but nobody said anything about icicles. 'WE PLANNED IT . . . Maybe the brain trusters have figured out that • by income tax time, 'when the real pinch of fuel rationing should bb felt, everybody'll be hot enough under the collar to forget- about the rest of their anatomy. That’s about as logical as some of the other ideas that have been produced to date.

Taken from files of the The Star and Wave for the years 1937, 1932 and 1922. Five Years Ago Ice skates sparkled as they glided over the glassy surface of Lake Lily this week as temperatures hovered in the twenties although winter does not officially arrive until Wednesday. Work on Cape May County's $100,000 waterway improvement project was started here Monday with the deepening of Cape May Harbor and its tributary streams. igin- „ - . . City arrived in Cape May last week. What is believed to be a, recd was establish^ in Cape May County this week when a man was indicted by the grand jury less than twenty-four hours after the car he was driving is alleged to have killed a pedestrian. Ten Years Ago A bill presented by Congressan William H. Sutphin, of Mataan, to make available federal funds for the construction of seacoast protection will be considered by the House Rivers and Harbors committee in conjunction

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with the coast erosion program now in contemplation, the congressman has been advised. A move begun some time ago inside the ranks of the members of Harry Snyder Post, American Legion, to turn the Legion ambulance oyer , to the city was spiked at the Legion meeting last Wednesday night by a decisive vote of 8 in favor and 32 against

such a move.

Twenty Years Ago The Coast Guard Cutter Kickajo, Captain R. C. Weightman charge was asked by the Atlantic City Coast-Guard Station on Wednesday to put to sea in search of several cod fishermen who put out of Atlantic City on Monday and were still missing. Sixty years ago on Wednesday, the twenty-fifth New Jersey Infantry was in the battle of Fredericksburg, and on Wednesday. December I3th, the regiment held a reunion in this city and only eight of the twenty-five surviving members were able to be present.

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The Living Word of God By the Rev. William Bullock, pastor of the Presbyterian Church Cold Spring

The word of God . . . liveth and abideth forever. I Peter IJS. A word is that which iz spoken or written by which one person communicates his thought to another. It is the common method of men everywhere. The word, of God is that by whidh He.-com-municates His thought, will and purpose to men. The scriptures tell us that God snake unto the fathers by the prophets and spaka

ito us by bis bon.

The Apostle Paul likens believing Christians to letters of Christ, written, not with ink but with Tift Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone hut on tablets of the human heart This afiords an apt illustration of that statement that “The WORD became flesh and tented with us”, meaning that His Son Jesus Christ is Himself the word God speaks to us. All that God wishes us to know from‘•Himself, and all that we desire to know of God can be read and known in Jesus Christ Himself, in His words, and in His deeds. Jesus tells us so—“He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.” In Jesus Christ, God speaks. In Him God saves.

Him God reigns.

We say the Bible is the word of God. It is the word that “was spoken by Him”, IN the prophets and IN His Son. God wrote His law first in human hearts, later on stone, eventually IN His Son Jesus. We are like the clock which only the maker of it could lir. God our Maker alone knew jt to say to us and how to say it. The Bible must be, therefore, the most vital and most important word that men can read and know, unspeakably precious in its way of life, supremely tragic in its doom of death. When we read the bible we find its words powerful and arresting. It absorbs our minds and controls them. It chastens our spirit, exposes our character, challenges our conduct, explains our origin and unfolds to us the

realities of eternity.

It brings light into the dark places of our lives, upon our troubled wrestling with providences, upon the shadow of death, gleaming on into the future. It offers life to souls dead sins, new life from above that akes ono "a different self” and sets him in a new delightful world. It brings love such as man otherwise never knew. A love: of God that forbears, forgives and saves. The love which when all other words and overtures were spurned, said: I have yet.a beloved Son, perhaps they will lis-

n to Him.

An Italian woman, a fruit seller, had received this word of God in her heart. She used her leisure time at her fruit stall in reading the sacred book. “What are you reading there,” asked a | tleman who purchased fruit, answered, “It is the word God”. "The word of God,” he exclaimed, “Who told you that?” "He told me that Himself”, was • answer. “Have you ever spokwith Him then?; She was momentarily embarrassed but presently said: “Can you prove there is a sun in the sky?” ' “Prove it,” he replied, “why the best proof is that it warms me and that I see by its light.” “So it is with me,” she replied. “The proof that this book is the word of God is that it warms my heart and lights my soul.” Over- one hundred and fifty years ago Voltaire, the French infidel, said that within one hundred years the bible would pass from common use. Well, it has not, but the remarkable thing is that the house in which Voltaire lived has been for years the -depository of the Bible Society,

stacked with bibles.

Dr. David D. Burrell, of New York, was speaking with a Union Seminary man to the effect that the bible is the only authority we have today for believing in Christ. The latter said: “Do you mean to say that Christ and the Bible stand or fall together”? NO,” exclaimed Dr. Burrell,

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Time was when copies of the scriptures were chained ti desks in the churches or i teries. The world knew about them. Those day*

aptly called the “dark an*”. Three hundred years ago those chain* were broken and the scriptures, in the languages of the people, came m the open. They met fire and sword. Church and government united to suppress them. The tortured the votaries and burned them at the stake. It was the age of martyrs come again. I myself have seen actual bones of the martyr charred and blackened by fire. Yet the book lives. “Cities fall, empires come to nothing, kingdoms fade away as smoke. /The bible stands amid the wreck of everything human without the change of a sentence to change any doctrine in it” (By

Jewell).

Nobody ever outgrows it It widens and deepens with the years. “It will stand a thousand readings and ever reveal new wonders. The longer you read it, the more you will like it; it will grow sweeter and sweeter; the more you get into the spirit of it, you will get into the spirit of Christ” (Romaine). Dr. Moo rehead took home, one day, a dissected map of the United States. Tossing it in a confused heap upon the floor, he said, laughingly to the children: “Sec if you can put it together." The young children knowing nothing about geography, soon became discouraged. The pereoa who had put out that map caused his owp picture to be put on the reverse side. The younger child, six years old, gave up and started to run away. The elder sister of eight years, called: “Come back, sister, there’s a n on it”. With this new key the puzzle, they soon called their father and showed him triumphantly the picture perfectly constructed. “There is a ms n And He is the glory of iu 2 need to know of Go , . all the supply we need from Gtyi. Find Him in the book for "Thou, 0 Christ, art all I want All I need in Thee is found’. 1 know not what may become of this book in the great transition. I know that what we take along is what is in our minds and hearts. 1 know that God has preserved it throughout the years. I know that, now, in this worldwide confusion and bitterness, ally and alien alike are clamoring for it and are seeking the comforts of the sanctuary- I know that the everlasting gospel was designed to be preached on earth and my heart says that so long as this earth endures, so long as man needs a Savior, this book will live and abide. It will live until we need The Word no more, in Jhe light of heaVen. There was a solemn scene on one of our destroyers after the sinking of the Carrier Wasp. Five of its heros were dead. Chaplain Lieut. Merritt F. Williams tells

the story:

“There under the warm tropical sky, amid the silence, surrounded by my battle scarred shipmates, I repeated of the burial service from memory: Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto yoti. Not as the world giveth . . . Let not your heart be troubled, ye believe in God, believe also in Me. In my Father’s houte are many mansions. “Unto Almighty God, we commend the souls of our brothers departed and we commit their bodies to the great deep. “As I repeated the words, the boards upon which the bodies lay were lifted one by one. Sailors stationed at each side gently lifted old glory and our shipmates slipped away”. “PEACE I leave with you, My peace I give unto you "Let not your heart be troubled. Believe in God, Believe in Me.

'In my Father's house

“who said anything about fail-1 niany mansions'.

ing?” “THEY STAND TO-| Yes, my friends, the word of GETHER”. God liveth and abideth for ever.

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