IAY. MARCH 11, 1943

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2Cop& J'Cfi 7l*xl SununsUi,? Relaxation of the drastic curb on automobile travel, scheduled for March 22, according to reports from the nation’s capital, revives hopes for a more normal summer season for Cape May and other resorts. If even a small portion of the average motorist’s gasoline can be used for pleasure driving, it is reasonable to assume that a fair percentage of it will be used for trips to seashore, resorts, for after two years of intensive war work the average city-dweller will be ready for a rest away from the confusion and hurry of large cities. From the standpoint of national health, me summer season of 1943 should give Cape May and other resorts an opportunity to play a really important role in the war effort. The value of vacations is unquestioned. In England, where war conditions have existed for four years, war workers and others even men in the armed forces—are given vacation periods during which they relax and recuperate from the strain of their war-time activities. Close to one of the greatest centers of war in America, Cape May and other county resorts are the logical vacation spots for a tremendous number of war workers. Another factor favoring the prospects for seashore resorts in 1943 is that the incomes of war workers in these metropolitan areas are at their highest peak in history. There is more money per family than there has ever been. At the same time, there are fewer commodities which may be bought for personal comforts and pleasures. Many luxuries are things of the past. The considerable percentage of workers who in former years travelled extensively or motored from place to place can no longer spend their vacations that way. With restrictions on travel to conserve tires and gasoline, most of those who will.takVvacations will visit vacation spots close to home and stay there. That should be another boon to Cape May County resorts. Perhaps all this is wishful thinking. Perhaps conditions will change so that it will be impossible for us to have a summer season that has any semblance of normal year. But if the restrictions on travel are eased only enough to allow some recreational driving, we can at least hope!

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Cape May and Cape May County have good reason to be iroud of their records of collecting materials for salvage, luring the community junk rally last fall, Cape May went over the top, exceeding its quota considerably. Cape May County, as a whole, went over its scrap metal quota. Throughout the county, housewives are salvaging kitchen fats and tin cans, and the ladies of the county are making an important contribution by giving their discarded silk hosiery to the salvage committee to be returned to the nation’s war

effort.

During the next week rural sections of the county will be scoured for addition^kscrap in the form of discarded farm machinery and other scrap metals which accumulate on most

farms and rural properties.

While we have mjjde excellent progress in collecting and contributing our waste and scrap materials to the war effort, we must remember that salvage is one of war’s unending jobs. Intensive salvage campaigns are timed at intervals to give householders,-farmers and industrial plants an opportunity to accumulate salvage material in the normal course of

repair and replacement.

But ,10 the individual, whether housewife or plant owner or farmer, the job of salvage must .continue 365 days a year. Since its inception several weeks ago. the collection of tin cans has made rapid strides in Cape May. Similar reports have been received from other county communities. The housewives are doing their bit by taking their used cans properly cleaned and flattened, to their grocers, from where they are collected and taken to de-tinning plants for reclama-

tion.

Ladies’ shops in most county communities have collected surprising amounts of old silk hosiery, which are being sent -to collection centers and salvaged for use in various items for the armed forces. Most people are growing increasingly conscious of the importance of avoiding any kind of waste. They realize that it is essential for everyone to do his part in conserving the materials which may mean the difference between victory and defeat. There are still some, however, who are not cooperating fully. There are some who still throw away their old tin cans, who still dispose of their waste kitchen fats as they did before the war. There are some who still have not rummaged through their attics and cellars for discarded articles which contain valuable scrap metals. These are the ones who should bestir themselves, who should do their parts as real American citizens.

The Captivating Cross By the Rev. Samuel Blair, Pastor of die First Methodist Church, Cape May. irresistably

(pWirucpiaphA, Out Of The Past

Taken from files of The Star and Wave for the years 1938, 1933 and 1923. Five Years Ago Contract for the construcfiAfl of. Cape May’s new postdffijee building will be awarded within the next three weeks, it was announced yesterday in Washington by officials of the Procurement Division of the U. S. Treasuury Department. • Representatives of the Smithnian Institute,. Washington, D. C-, this week launched an investigation to determine the exact age and identity of the ancient hull which was discovered on the beach at Cape May Point last reck. A meeting of Cape May Point beachfront property owners will be held in Philadelphia this eve- . , it was announced yesterday by Mrs. Elizabeth Erskinc, temporary secretary of the Taxpayers' League of Cape May Point. A discussion will be held on the lubject of procuring adequate protection to the beachfront. Ten Years Ago Although Cape May County school budgets were decreased 31. per cent, County Superintendent of Schools Thomas J. Durell announced this week that he doubt- • hether the schools would re-

main open or reopen next fall. Durell declared financial assistance is necessary for the schools to continue operation. Sixty-nine volunteer firemen of the Wildwood departments will be ousted in a reorganization move and two new companies will be formed, it is announced by the City Commissioners. Twenty Years Ago A joint committee from the Wildwood Board of Trade and the Cape May Progressive League made an urgent appeal for certain improvements in railroad service to representatives of the Philadelphia and Reading R. R. at the luncheon given by the former in the Bellevue-Stratford Blue Room on Wednesday afternoon. The Cape May County Board of Chosen Freeholders in their regular semi-monthly meeting at the Court House on Wednesday afternoon, awarded the contract for the erection of the new West Wildwood bridge connecting Wildwood with the new West Wildwood settlement, to Mayor Warren D. Hann. of the Borough of West Wildwood. Mayor Hann was the lowest of six bidders and so was given the contract.

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OolunissthA, Qjisl Tlejtdsd, Two war-time volunteer agencies which have been doing yeoman service in this community since the outbreak of hostilities have issued appeals for more volunteers within the last two weeks. The local civilian defense council needs more air raid wardens and volunteer members of other 1 branches and the Army observation post at Erma needs more , •irPjan® spotters in order to reach a maximum of efficiency.' Th® value of both these organizations is unquestioned, i Fortunately, we have never had to use them in actual emergencies. We pray that we never will, but if the need should , arise, we are confident that the volunteers who are giving so generously of their time and efforts will do their jobs bravely I and well. 1 More spotters are needed to ease the burden on those who I. regular shifts to check on all passing planes. A i relief shift to step in in the absence of a regular spotter is 1 necessary. More air raid wardens and other defense council! volunteers are needed in Cape May to complete the coverage of the city and to ease the burden on those who are now required to do double duty in many instances. If you are one of those who has been procrastinating about volunteering your services, don’t delay k>*ger. Con- , tact Mrs. Ernest Corson, chief observer .at the Erma "post, if 1 want to be a spotter, or get in touch with Police Chief !r, chairman at the local defense council, if you want to i *er as a member of the civilian defense force. Your s are needed In both places.

&/>e QTARBOARD O WATCH By C. Worthy The story is making the rounds that Washington is the only insane asylum in the world run by its inmates.

'Course that’s just a joke. But then again, so are some of the people down there. For example, the wonder boys responsible for the following boners: A sheep rancher in the west applied to the WPB for canvas to build lambing sheds. “No," said the wonder boys, “your request is out^of order at this time. We're at war you know, and canvas is scarce. You just change your lambing season." Another of the wonder boys, ardent in his search for new and better ways to conserve precious metals, made the suggestion that all owners of horses remove the horseshoes except’ when the animals were engaged in necessary •ork ... to save wear and tear. And the pay-off came when one of the most wonderful wonder boys made a trip to the west to study the meat situation. After inspecting a rancher’s herd of steers, he started asking questions, among them, "How much milk do you get from a herd of steers this size?" And then there's the guy who thought up that $64 question about how much coffee you had hand on November 28 that you were supposed to answer truthfully when you got your War Ration Book Xo. 2. And the pre-war wonder boy who once wrote and published (at government expense) an exhaustive study on the love-life of a bullfrog. Maybe some day there’ll be a thrilling sequel on the mating calls of the oyster, perhaps entitled "The Baritone Bellowing ,of a Bivalve" or something equally as elucidating. And. of course, there's the Washington big-wig who insists the government would lose money if the income taxes everybody's supposed to pay by March 15 were marked for 1943 instead 1942. ^ They’re just a few of the prize samples. There are doubtless many more. And these are without reference to some of the illustrious utterances of some members of Congress who are noted for their occasional outbursts of misinformation. Ho, hum! ,— But at that, it’s a cheap price to pay for being an American. If you really get down in the mouth about your income tax and the other things that most folks gripe about, just imagine what things would be like if you were a citizen of Greece or Poland or Holland or Czech oslavakia. People in big cities must have! lot of time to waste. Have you I noticed those pictures in the city papers showing thousands of people standing, in line waiting to pay their income taxes? Here in Cape May most folks are so busy they just write a check and mail it to Uncle Sam. We don’t have time to fool around like that.

when the Son of God hung upon " —is outside a city wall the _ has loved that “gr« ' far away." No elevation sacred than Calvary, -that holy height surmounted by the degraded instrument of Christ’s ignominious torture and deatb-^-an instrument which has become a symbol of compelling eloquence, an emblem which our Christian ancestors have cherished for centuries. It is a confess 16nal emblem easily understood whether lifted into the skyline on church spire or reverently worn on a man’s coat lapel or around woman's neck. No other symbol rivals the significant chinn of the cross. “All the light of sacred story gathers round its head sublime”, and from it “the radiance streaming, adds more luster to the day". Brazen indeed must be that individual, and cold and callous must be the heart that is not stirred to its depths while gazing upon the Calvary scene, and that not led to dedication of self. The light which shines from that cross is a captivating beam which illuminates the unutterably dark night of sin for mankind— “in hope that sends a shining ray, far down the future’s broadening way”. The years come and the years go, and ever the far-flung radiance of the captivating cross— mighty challenge Godward—quickens a weary world to rise, renewed in heart and soul. That cross has been set up so high it can be seen from the ends of the earth. A Christless cross no refuge is for me. A crossless Christ my Saviour could not be. But, O, Christ crucified, I rest my soul in Thee. The symbol of our faith is not a couch but a cross; and to be Christ’s disciple involves taking up that cross and carrying it often in the face of bitter antagonism and other formidable obstacles. But while the Master warns us that “in the world ye shall have tribulation". He also bestows this precious assurance, “Lo, I am with you always . . . my grace is sufficient." If the harrassed world would only move a little closer to the Cross it would hear the blessed Sufferer say. "I am always in the company of those who ye nailed to crosses, never allied with those who erect crosses for others.” But, alas! Self-sufficient sophisticates in their smug complacency stay at a distance, wringing from the heart of the yearning Christ the poignant cry of disappointed love: “Ye will not come to me that ye might have life.” This group is still tragically numerous. These are the people who insist on remaining amid the nfesting brambles of indifference and collosal apathy, thus deepening the furrows on the brow of the Man of Sorrows and causing to reiterate the lamentable and age-old plea, “The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborTo the glorious company of cross bearers belong such dynamic and illustrious souls as Joseph the courageous, Daniel the uncompromising, Job the sufferer, Stephen the martyr, John the ostracised, Paul and Silas the optimists, and a multitude of others number, ‘who climbed the steep ascent, through peril, toil and pain.' "O God, to may grace be given to follow

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igal, the publican and the ] verse, Christ came at last to pitiless execution. But having i down His life for others, me eagerly responding to the power and the pull of the captivating ;

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We think of Livingston dying. in an African hut, Of Grenfell tossing on stormy northern seas, of parents fain, yet pursuing in order to give sons and daughters the best possible chance, of toilers in city slums, of Christian workers who know no surcease from their toil, and unnumbered hosts who in this twentieth century go forth in a spirit of magnificent dedication, burning for Christ in the tropics, freezing for Him in the arctic, treading , for Him the jungle trails, braving for Him the sickening swamps and daring for Him the dangers of the desert, allowing neither bitter persecution nor cruel injustice to deter them from the fulfillment of their divine commission to carry the radiance of Christ and His captivating crosf to souls benighted even In the uttermost parts of the earth. This glorious army of consecrated trail-blazers, with a loyalty that beggars description, leads the march of civilization onward toward the shining goal “with the cross' of Jesus going bn before." These devout servants of the bst High, having recognized the * words "so,” “go”, and “lo” to be not only the largest words in the. dictionary of the Christian, but to contain the imperative of our holy faith, in the consdouaness that God so loved the.world, have gone forth in God’s' name, and with the words of His Son in their eafs, “Lo, I am with you always”, have tackled and overthrown tenacious superstitions and shattered cruel tyrannies. They have brought light to those who sat in darkness, and preachefl the gospel to the poor. Feet have been unbound where souls have found freedom. The Ganges has ceased to fascinate as ths River of Life has been presented to view; while the medicine mas with his queer incantations, has vanished, as the Great Physician has been made known. Day by day such courageous spiritual adventurers are making magnificent contributions to ths intangible realities of life. They fling the banner out, lift the cross high and achieve a faith that overcomes the world. "Noi by any might or power of their own, but by the spirit of the living God.” As one cross serves as God’s tribunal of mercy to the end of the ages, as a few hundred martyrs were enough to subdue imperial Rome, 1 and as the death of Lincoln sealed democracy for this Republic, so these sacrificially faithful souls are the salt of the earth whose righteousness .exalteth a nation. Those who yield to the compelling magnetism of the captivating cross inevitably find their personal religious impressions — so apt to be worn away by the swift-moving traffic of time across the highway of the spirit — indelibly re-inscribed. Then, receiving the life-enriching benediction of the sinless Son of God, “that dear Friend upon whom our hopes of heaven depend”, the loyalhearted are impelled to go forth to lend the influence of a consecrated personality, and the constructive potency of devoted service, to the promotion and support of the beautiful things for

which that matchless life stands.

Having given Himself with ut-'anJ the sacrificial love which tho r abandon to the poor, the prod- captivating cross represents.

PRACTICAL HEALTH HINTS

Tiie Cheapest Source of Vitamins

- By Dr. lames A. To bey -

'T'HE best and cheapest way for * war workers to get plenty of vitamins is by the daily us wholesome natural foods. Vitamin pills and elixirs may be taken when prescribed by a doctor; but not merely because a pill salesman urges this practice. Routine use of vitamin cap- „ , . _ . sules by war Or. J. A.Tobey worker , wal vigorously denounced by Dr. Morxis Fishbein of the American Medical Association at a recent legislative hearing on nutrition in New York. Others, representing the manufacturers of such capsules, disagreed with him, as might be expected. Since there are six working vitamins, let us see how easily each can be obtained through an adequate daily diet There are other vitamins, but if you get these six, you will be sure to have them all. Vitamin A is obtained from butter and margarines fortified with <hi« vitamin, from milk, cream, cheese, egg yolk, ice cream, liver, yellow vegetables and fruits, and green leafy vegetables. Vitamin Bi (thiamine) is supplied by enriched white hrrsd.

whole grain breads and cereals, oatmeal, liver, kidney, meats, dried beans and peas, pasteurized milk, eggs, molasses, and nutt. Vitamin B, (riboflavin) occurs mainly in enriched white bread, whole grains, cake, milk, meat, fish, green leafy vegetables and dried beans and peas. Niacin (another B vitamin) is furnished by milk, meats, fish, eggs, fruit juices, green vegetables, and in enriched, whole wheat, and rye breads. Vitamin C is most abundant in citrus fruits, tomatoes, cabbage, other green vegetables, potatoes, liver, and in berries and other fruits. Vitamin D is provided by irradidiated vitamin D milk, fish-liver oils, butter, cream, and egg yolk. Children need this vitamin, but adult requirements for it are not great Most of the foods mentioned as sources of these important vitamins are still readily available. Most of these foods also supply the minerals and other nutrients needed to make a well-rounded and healthful diet The human body cannot be nourished solely on pills, no matter how valuable or how useful they are in certain emergencies. Our bodies require bulk as well as the nutriment provided by ■olid foods. Vitamins come in the victuals that stick to the ribs.