,AY MARCH 18, 1943.

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post orn at caps rat. ■*- J AS SSCOND-CLAM MATTSAPftCSS ASSOCIATION TMurrr-NiNTM stssst. nsw toss. m. v. On Qmpertiani Joed SouAcs, ■ With the nation’s interest focused on the impending food shortage, government officials are going to great lengths to stud? the farm labor shortage situation and to remedy, if possible, the conditions which have brought about the . c p®?; Victory gardens and other supplemental sources of foods •will no doubt go a long way toward alleviating the situation bo far as vegetables are concerned. They may not solve the problem, but they will certainly help. Other parts of the food problem cannot be met so readily. Published reports of food shortage discussions have made little or no mention of fiish as an alternative to ease the meat shortage. Here is an unlimited source of food which could add millions of pounds of nutritious, health-gi\nng nourishment annually with a comparatively small expenditure ot time effort. — ' . , , . But, because of its nature, the important food producing / fishing industry has been curtailed rather than expanded in a time when every pound of food is needed. Of course, we understand the necessity for strict supervision over fishing fleets at a time when enemy craft were plying coastal waters. But some of the more stringent regulations should now be relaxed. Manpower shortages are the most serious problem of the commercial fishermen at the present time. TYiese can be solved only by federal regulations applying to commeraal fishermen, rules and draft exemptions comparable to those for farmers and pther war workers. One of the greatest sources of additional food supply is at present sharply restricted. Party and pleasure boat fishing which in the past has produced millions of pounds of fish annually, is so strictly controlled that it was virtually nonexistent last season. If the too-stringent regulations on that type of fishing were modified to allow nearly normal operation of the vast fleet of small boats during the coming season, even greater number* of anglers would take advantage of the opportunity to increase their food supplies. At the same time, the sport would provide wholesome outdoor recreation for people who next summer will need recreation to prepare them for another hard year of war-time em-

ployment

The OPA has indicated that it will allow no gasoline for pleasure boats this year, yet the owners of pleasure boats could make a real contribution to the nation’s food supply if they were allowed even a small amount of gasoline to take

them to the fishing grounds.

Last ye*r. pleasure boat owners were given ample supplies of gasoline. In fact, many observers contend they received an unfair advantage over motorists who were sharply curtailed. Instead of going to the other extreme, the OPA should take the middle course and allow use of boats at least

for occasional fishing excursions.

We do not argue that fishing should be uncontrolled in time of war. But restrictions imposed last year were so

stringent as to be foolish. ^

With proper precautions, like barring enemy aliens and identifying all passengers, there is no apparent reason why party and nleasure boats should be kept to close to shore that

they miss the best fishing grounds.

Recognition of the importance of fish as an excellent auxiliary food source and revision of the restrictions on pleasure and commercial fishing are imperative at this time so that the vast army of anglers can help to swell the nation’s food supply at the beginning of the fishing season. JjrfA Slop JhsList JaAOLt Cape May. like the rest of New Jersey, was stirred to indignation last week by the farce blackout test which occurred

last Tuesday night.

Blackout tests in Cape May and many other communities have been geting progressively worse instead of better as time goes on. With the change of signals and apparent mix-ups among Army and civilian defense authorities, the volunteer, h who is the backbone of the civilian defense system, is at a loss moat of the time. Now he even has to ask householders, whom he is supposed to protect, when the all-clear has some

through.

( . Unless something constructive is done, and done quickly, what promised to be a smooth-working, efficient home defense corps will crumble into nothingness^and result only in confusion. This is not the kind of home^defense we need if the enemy should attack. With almost no real'surprise tests to train volunteers to act in emergency and with disorder instead of organization, civilian defense is bogging down in confusion. At the outset of the emergency, the civilian defense organization was carried along on a crest of enthusiasm, which was bound to diminish with time. However, if it had - been properly organized, it could have held the interest of at least .most of the volunteers, who are earnest in their desire to do something to help, r

TWO O F A KIND

t grcMCtl noderttt orea (350*

A POINT IN SATING

Now you must count your points

ns well ns your pennies.

(pahcupiapkA. Out Of The Past

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Taken from files of Tbs Star xi Wave for the ya*rs 19S8, 1983 and 1928. Five Years Ago a. Completing a series of gruelling testa, a new type flyi" *~* designed for Coast Goa _ _ vice, received unofficial approeal by a Coast Guard trial and acceptance board Friday. The plane has been in Cape May f“ *—• during the last month. The Board of Freeholders yesterday adopted a resolution opposing discontinuance of the Dias Creek CCC damp, which it is rumored, is being considered by the federal government. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of regular air mail service. Cape May’s postoffice, with 45,000 others throughout the nation, will observe National Air Mail Week from May 16 to May

21.

Ten Years Ago

The. confidence reposed ii local hanking institutions,

Merchants National Bank and the Camden Safe Deposit Company, was wall justified and no one was surprised when the institutions opened their- doors and resumed business as usual on Wed-

nesday morning.

was shot and seriously wounded by a bandit with whom he struggled in an attempted holdup neai the Wildwood Road last Thursday. Senator ChaataB C. Raad is btra today with the Appropriation Committee of the Legislature on an inspection trip to see at first hand the damage done the beachfront by storms and erosion. Assembly BUI No. 268 was introduced February 27, for beach erosion

protection.

EAe

CTARBOARD O WATCH Bt C Worthy Ho, hum! Now that March 15 is past, we have nothing to worry about except winning the war, ■• ' " ^ **-- — cost of

I things asential,

l the

Twenty Years Ago

gang back from the

game at Ocean City, came in from Bennet’s on three legs. Now either their victory or something else must have gone to their heads else how can you explain this? After six blowouts they ran out of good tubes so put back the old busted ones and spent an hour or so trying to pump them tight And at three in the morn-

A report from the county tax

board snows a ret'

ty-two points in — rate for Cape May City. The rate for this year will

food rationing, the rising coat of

living, scarcity of all the we used to think were es

and thousands of other things we don’t have space to print Anyway, Morgenthau Day was appropriately celebrated almost everywhere . . - everywhere except

Cleveland.

Even local gossip is in the doldrums. After spending so much energy worrying about taxes, surtaxes, deductions, fiduciaries, earned income credit and the myriad of other stuff that made life miserable for most folks for quite

- ,—. Fortun-

itely we have become accustomed to the rationing system through our weet tooth and then our coffee cup. Now our canned and frozen vegetables, fruit, juices and soups

e rationed.

But there will be some for all whether you are an early or late shopper under the now point system. Foods that are plentiful will require less points from your ration book, just ms they usually require less pennies from your pocketbook. So your points go fnrther and your

pennies go fnrther.

We have all had to budget our money tor food in one way or another so to this we will add the budgeting of our points in the

ration book.

The best budget stretchers will be the practical point valne stretchers. Thus, more food on the family table will be obtained through wise, thrifty selection from the • more plentiful foods. Food with low point valne may be equally as nutritious as food with high point value. The difference is in the quantity of the food available. It will take planning and a willingness to adjust our tastes to the foods on the grocery shelves. It we do this, then count our points, there will still be a point in eating through the entire month. On* Dish Dinner 1 cup elbow macaroni 1 onion, sliced cup butter or substitute 1 ib. hamburger 2 teaspoons salt y A teaspoon pepper 2 cups cooked tomatoes 1 cup grated cheese Cook macaroni in boiling salted water for 20 to 25 minntes until tender. Drain. Saute onions in butter or substitute until yellow. Add hamburger, salt and pepper. Stir with a fork until meat is brown. Add tomatoes, cheese, and

1J4 cups dried green split peas 4X cups cold water

4 frankfurters

3 peeled medium sized onions,

- ,

butter,

a fat

IX teaspoons salt X teaspoon celery salt IX teaspoons prepared mustard X cup thin cream or top milk Wash peas, pick over, discard poor peas. Soak fa 3 cups of cold water for 3 hours. Add remaining water. Cover and simmer until tender. Cover frankfurters with hot water and aimroer 10 minutes. Drain and split lengthwise. Cut into 1-fach pieces. Saute oniops until tender in the fat. Combine peas, frankfurters, onions, seasoning, cream or milk. Heat and serve. Beef Vegetable Soup 1 lb. shin beef with bone or bones removed from roasting

3X quarts cold water X tablespoons salt 1 cup minced onion 4 tablespoons minced parsley X teaspoon pepper 1 cup string beans, cut up 1 cup diced celery 1 cup peas 2 cups shredded cabbage 1 cup diced carrots 2X cups tomatoes Combine beef, water and salt. Cover and bring to boil Skin off scum that may rite to the top. Cover and simmer about fo«R hours. Add remaining ingredients except parsley. Cover and simmer mbont 30 minutes until vegetables are tender. Sprinkle with parsley and serve. Ways With Cabbag* 1. Cook chopped new cabbage, covered, for 1 minntes fa a small amount of boiling salted water. Senson with salt, pepper and butter. Cook 5 cups shredded cabbage covered saucepan fa boiling salted water for 7 minutes. Drain. Add 1 teaspoon saK, X teaspoon sugar- 1 tablespoon lemon jmee or vinegar. 3 tabletpoons salad oil and 1 tablespoon horse-radish. Mix.

well

_ icald IX cups milk fa double boiler; sdd 3 cups shredded cabbage. Cover and cook 15 to 20 minutes or until tender. Scasca with salt and pepper.

A gasoline station

be $4-39 and,

, compared to the $4.61 of last year, shows at last the tendency

attendant to change in the right direction.

mting their Victory

PRACTICAL HEALTH HINTS

Will Vitamins Prevent Colds?

- By Dr. lames A. l abor -

Gardens. Peter Dellas, the local Victory Garden czar, tells us he has everything under control and is expecting a bumper crop of vegetables to be produced by all of mateur farmers. Already of the boys are taking time but from being armchair generals to discuss the possibility of a second front against bean beetles and other subversive ele-

ments. * * *

Out in the hinterlands of Cape May County this week is certainly a busy one. Farmers are scouring their properties in search of scrap materials which may salvaged and returned to the war effort by way of the smelting our munitions factories.

'XstisAA Jo Jhi fcUtoA SUGGESTS REAL TESTS

To the Editor:

. do not write as an up-to-date miltiary tactician, but having fought on fronts in the first World War, namely the St. Die, August 26-September 18; the Argonne, October 8 - ?, and the Vargps, October 20-November 11, cannot forget lessons impress* upon me, both by instruction ol ficers and by actual experience. First of all is uniformity « action on the part of each one the nation

i must be

The time should not be announced and it should not always be in the early part of the evening. Two, three and four a. m. would have better training effect. TYist would be getting down to

What I have written is suggestive. If you think these remark* to be of any good to the pohbe. I would appreciate your publish-

ing them and oblige. Yours in service, REV. A. CHANCY.

independent action s easily and vigorously

- common cold, afflicts the strong and weak. It assaults the rich and the poor, doctors and the laity, in

fart everybody. Colds vary, however. In

| severity end

frequency. The

I healthy, well-

aourished person generally suffers less severely from colds than the

£

tive. There are, of course, excep-

tions even to this rule.

In order to be fortified against the ravages of colds by being

r months of muddling along in the dark, it is rather

late to recapture the enthusiasm and interest of the volun-:

teers. • ■ \ '

It can still be done only through the substitution of order j

for confusion.’,of clarity for misunderstanding, of uniformity i emaciated runfur individual rules. • ■ r down individ- / Civilian dnfvnae to too noemoary a thin* to let die. It "*■ wh °” ■“« i* poor or deleo-

w-too vital in la time of national emergency to strangle with red tape. Bren in the post-war world, it would be a valuable adjvn^rto police and fire departments, to disaster relief units, irfitch in.peace-time are in need of emergency organiza-

tions to function-at times of crisis.

■■gland's home defense organization is the outstanding example of the efficiency and value of such a group. It was born and reached its maturity in England.'8 darkest hours . when the German blitz was at its peak. Perhaps it, too, would have encountered difficulties such as ours if it had not been spnrred on by the falling of bombs and the death and

destruction which followed in their wake.

We pray to God that our civilian defense organization will not have to function under those conditions. But at the same time, we realize that it must be prepared to handle such

a situation if it ever should occur.

Loft put a stop to this muddling and get down to business

nesoU. Under competent medical direction, 120 students were given two vitamin capsules a day throughout the winter when colds are prevalent Theee capsules .contained proper amounts of vitamins A, B. C, and D. A similar number of student* served as the controls in the experiment receiving no extra vitamin*. The students in both groups

partake of a daily diet that supplies adequate food-energy, bodybuilding protein*, necessary food-mineral*. a galaey of vitamins, the spark-plug* of bu-

ViUmin* alone will not directly

well-nourished. What was tb* restiUTThose who received extra vitamins suffered from almost exactly the same number of colds a* those who did not get the vitamin capsules. Vitamins are, of course, of tremendous importance in nutrition, but they should not be overrated or their effects exaggerated. They % only one part of the story of well-balanced daily diet The common cold is a contagious spread from the sick to die well*. Most » probably y the cold virus around with md succumb to it only when resistance becomes low. This unhappy condition fhay occur

be in natural foods, ar taken in fpnn at tee more expensive pills,

tablets, and elixir*.

Confirmation of this statement occur* in the report of a

hrvtstigation of aeveral preatiy improved.

body a chilled.

having only mild attacks are

Cape May County has gone allout for salvage in other drives. After all the public education on the importance of scrap it looks as if the current campaign might set a new record. • • • These little tastes of spring we've been getting recently have got everybody in the. mood for the real thing. After a winter filled with wonder about whether or not the fuel oil ration was gening to hold out until the next stamp became valid, most folks are going to welcome — with wide open arms. Now that the high school band has its new uniforms, it’a one of the snappiest looking, as well as snappiest sounding, school bands in Sooth Jersey. Honestly, the kids, have surprised even themselves with the progress they

have

The Red Cross War Fund drive is nearing its climax in Cape May this week, and while the results are fairly good, there is still room for improvement. If every resident of this community who is able to contribute would give his share. Cape May would go far over the top in the campaign, and the money would go a long way toward making life more comfortable for our boys jn the service. If you haven’t done your share, don’t delay. Make your contribution right away. How do y'aO like that accidental poetry? Period 5 Coupons Good For 10 Gals, —headline. Good heavens! Have they started rationing them

involved in

stressed and practiced. Secondly, practice must be as sincere and as much like real action as possible. It must not lack interest; it must not be like

play or a sham.

Thirdly, ’

must be as . - . ^ executed as united action. There must even be substitute methods at the option of the individual when united action is impossible. We will never have a statewide air raid. While the statewide raid drills are necessary, the local drill accords best with actual air raids. So does the local all-clear signal accord best with local conveniences as well as with the dignity of air raid wardens who should have information for the people, and not the people for them, as would be the case of ra-

dio all-clear signals.

I call attention to these above lessons because of the confusion experienced during our last black- • practice. A uniform -signal -m has been adopted excepting the all-clear signal. ’ * sure that will finally come. But there are certain defect* among the local emergency volunteers of Cape May that car easily work havoc in case of a real air raid. The habit of flashing lights as we make our way to our post* may invite a bomb. The habit should be dropped. War must be carried on the dark most of the time, especially certain moves from place to place. The light should be carried, however. Local set-ups should not be such that call for every member of the local post to be present at the same time. The fact that one bomb can wipe out the last man of a squad dictates a type of set-up calling for only a certain percentage of the total members of an emergency group. Then, if the workers fcre killed, those in reserve can be\called into service. Such wisdom does not manifest Ha existence in our lo-

cal organisation.

I have wondered, also, why we are not given surprise air raid

Do we think the enemy

COOPERATION To the Editor:

Mr. Burton J. Smith, Cape May Court House, New Jersey, our County Salvage Chairman for Cape May County, has informed me of the splendid cooperation you are giving him through the

■wspapen ... fart, of the Nation, great credit for the arsistance they have given and are giving the Salvage For Victory Pro-

am.

You have been publicly praised by Mr. Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board, and other Government officials. However, while such praise is gratifying, nevertheless 1 feel it is tiie thanks of the men in our fighting forces who may give it silently but nevertheless genuinely, which really spurs us all on to greater effort. Sincerely yoar», , CUNTON M. WHITE Executive Secretary for New Jersey.

— tekM are to be surprise raids , should practice so as to be trained for surprises.

^Waiting For a Sail Tbe Modern Merdiaat Doesn't wnil for SALES '-HE ADVERTISES^