©apr Mag Star attii Want Puau«HKO Evmrr THunmoAr at thk Staw and Wava Buiudina si Mmmr sriwcT. capa mx%. m. a THE ALBERT HAND COMPANY, Inconpoaatad. P. MERVYN KENT. EOITOA PAUL SNYDER, MANASAA SUBSCRIPTION PRICE *200 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE THIS PAPA* •» ANTANAD AT TWA POST OFTI AT CAPS MAT. N. A AS SECOND-CLA3S MATTE*. NAHONAL. REPRESSNTATTVSS: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION »«■ WEST THIRTT-NINTW STREET. NEW TORE. N. V.. diofis J&i 7Uud SumnWc? 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, tne 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 take vacations 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! Salvaqs—d $ob J&i GIL Cape May and Cape May County have good reason to be proud of their records of collecting materials for salvage. During 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 ■coured for additional scrap in the form of discarded farm machinery and other scrap metals which accumulate on most farms and rural properties. While we have made 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 to the.individual, whether housewife or plant owner or farmer, the job of salvage must continue 366 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 fonces. 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 someT however, who are not cooperating fully. There are some who still throw 1 away their old tin cans, w'ho 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 cituens.

(patvcuqjwpkdu Out Of The Past

Taken from files of The Star and Wave for the years 1938, and 1923. Five Years Ago Contract for the construction of Cape May’s new postoffice 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 Smithsonian 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

week.

A meeting of Cape May Point beachfront property owners will be held in Philadelphia this evening, -it was announced yesterday by Mrs. Elizabeth- Erskine, temporary secretary of the Taxpayers’ League of Cape May Point. A discussion will be held on the subject of procuring adequate protection to the beachfront Ten Years Ago. Although Cape May County school budgets were decreased 31 per cent, County Superintendent ol Schools Thomas J. Durell announced this week that he doubted whether the schools would re-

main open or rettpen 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 after-

The Cape May County Board of Chosen Freeholders in their regular semi-monthly meeting at the Court Rouse 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 given the contract.

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OoLunismhA. Gml TlsadsuL - j 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 J airplane spotters in onler to reach a maximum of efficiency.. I The value of both these organizations is unquestioned, j Fortunately, we have never had to use them in actual emer- | gencies. We pray that we never will, but if the need should i arise, we are confident that the volunteers who are giving so j generously of their time and efforts will do their jobs bravely I. and well. More spotters are needed to ease the burden on those who | are working regular shifts to check on all passing planes. A 1 relief shift to step inin the absence of a regular spotter is J necessary. More air raid wardens and other defense council! Volunteers are needed in .Cape May to conyjlete 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 ing your services, don’t delay longer. <k>n- * »rm. Ernest Corson, chief observer at the Erma poet, if l want to be a spotter, or get in touch with Police Chief V chairman of the local defense council, if you want to nember of the civilian defense force. Your BdedlntM

S TARBOARD 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: sheep rancher in the west d to the WPB for canvas lild 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 work ... 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 on hand on November 28 that you were supposed to answer truthfully when you got your War 'Ration Book No. 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 “ling sequel on the matof 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 I6se money if the income taxes everybody's supposed to pay by March 15 marked for 1943 instead of

1942.

They’re just a few of the prize samples. There are doubtless many more. And these are without reference to some of the 0lostrious utterances of some of Congress who are noted for their occasional outbursts of misinformation. Ho,

But at that, it's a cheap , price to pay for being an American. If you really get down in the month about your income tax and the other things that most folks gripe about, just imagine v things wouldbe like if you ^ a citizen oi Greece or Poland or Holland or \Czechoslavakia. • • • People in big cities must have a lot of time to waste. Have y«T - 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 s check and mail it to Unde Sam. We don’t have time to fool around like that.

symbol of compelling eloquence, an emblem which our Christian ancestors have cherished for centuries. It is a confessional emblem easily understood whether lifted into the skyline on church spire or reverently worn man’s coat lapel or arcund woman's neck. No other symbol rivals the significant charm 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 updfi the Calvary scene, and that is 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 file 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

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 yon always . . . my grace is sufficieht.” If the harrassed world would oply move a little closer to the Cross it would hear the bleseed 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 infesting brambles of indifference and eollosal apathy, thus deepening the furrows on the brow of the Man of Sorrows and causing Him to reiterate the lamentable and age-old plea, "The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labor-

ers, are few."

To 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 whom no man can number, ‘who climbed the steep ascent, through peril, toil and pain.’ “0 God, 'to --- may grace be given to follow

their train."

to Souls benight* _ . 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 on before.” These devout servants of the Most 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 consciousness that God so loved the world, have gone .forth in God’s name; and with the words of His Son in their ears, “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 soul* have found freedom. The Gange* has ceased to fascinate as the River of Life has been presented to view; while the medicine man 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 the intangible realities of life. They fling the banner out, lift the cross high sfflf ’ achieve a faith that overcomes the world. “Not. 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, and as the death of Lincoln sealed democracy for this Republic, so these sacrificially faithful souls are the salt qf 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 j which that matchless life stands,

Having, given HimaeH with nt- 1 and the eacrificihl love whieh the ter Sbandofto the poor, the prod- e.pU,.t,ng cr.a. repreaeata.

PRACTICAL HEALTH HINTS

The Cheapest Source qf Vitamins

- By Dr. lames A. Tobey -

npHE best and cheapest way for war workers to get plenty of vitamins is by the daily use of 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 Dr. J. A. Tobey workers was vigorously denounced by Dr. Morris 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 i» obtained from butter and -margarines fortified with

cheese, egg yolk, ice cream, liver, yellow vegetables and fruits, and green leafy vegetable*. Vitamin Bi (thiamine) is supplied by enriched white bread.

whole grain breads and cereals, oatmeal, liver, kidney, meats, dried beans and peas, pasteurized milk, eggs, molasses, and nuta. 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 jukes, 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 malcp a well -rounded and healthful diet The human body cannot be nourished solely on pi^ls, no matter how valuable or how useful they are in certain emergencies. Our bodies require bulk as well as the nutriment provided by solid foods. Vitamins come in the victuals that stick to the ribs.