IAY, MARCH 18, 1943

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Jhs Public He (Damnad! Reports on the House Ways and Means Committee study of possible revision of the income tax law were released late last week, the majority report making: a determined effort to kill the-Ruml Plan,“and the minority report—submitted by nine Republican members of the committee—announcing that the Rural Plan is the best solution to the income tax question. And so, as has been increasingly evident for several weeks, the fight on pay-as-you-go income taxes has evolved into a political party battle with the Democrats against it and the Republicans for it. What will happen to the plan now, no one can tell. There is still a hope that the Republicans in Congress can push the question to a floor vote, and that if they do, there will be enough Democrats interested in the welfare of the people rather than the welfare of the New Deal to adopt the Rural Plan. One of the most outrageous statements ever to emerge from an important Congressional committee was contained tn the committee’s majority report. . Your committee members who have approved this report do not want their taxes forgiven. They are ready to pay their 1942 taxes ...It is believed that the vast majority of the American people also will not want any of their taxes for-

given."

And these are the men whom the people pay $10,000 a

year to act as our representatives!

How they can ever ask their constituents to vote for them again is a mystery. How they can ever even go back and face

the people at home ..;.

Here is the’best example in many years of the old political

phrase: “The Public be damned."

Certainly adoption of the Ruml Plan would not prove a panacea to all financial ills of the country. With a spending spree that has passed the 10-year mark, it is doubtful if the

nation's financial ills will ever be cured.

But the Ruml Plan would prevent a great deal of the catastrophe and chaos which is bound to follow the war. When war workers who are now making from $100 to $175 a week return to their normal jobs or to no jobs at all, it won’t be any cinch for them to dig down and come up with seven or eight hundred dollars to pay their income tax the year

after their big money stops.

Pay-as-you-go is the solution to many post-war problems. Despite the petty bickerings and the stubborn attitude of some of the alleged representatives of the people in Washington, there has never yet been a sound economic argument against the Ruml Plan, although the issue has been beclouded and misrepresented by the greatest corps of beclouders and misrepresentatives the world has ever known,*with the possible exception of Nero’s Rome. Adoption ofthe plan would cost the government not one cent in revenue, despite the majority committee’s statement that the country cannot it The truth of the matter is, although some of our congressmen apparently are not yet aware of it that our country ... if by country we mean the people who make it what it is ... cant afford not to have the Ruml Plan. Confident that there are enough congressmen who do not subscribe to the “Public be damned” policy, we call upon the Senators and Representatives of New Jersey to support the Ruml Plan when it comes to a vote on the floor of the House. If they are sincere representatives of their people, now is their chance to prove it, for the people of New Jersey . . . and the rest of the nation ... want the Ruml Plan not only as a present convenience, but as an assurance that after the war ends they will not be faced with a tax debt that cannot be paid" if they and their families are to stay off the relief rolls.

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(pWiaqhaphA, Out Of The Past

Taken from files of The Star and Wave for the years 1938, 1933 and 1923. Five Years Ago Plans for appointment of an industrial commission here were launched Friday by the city commission and legal technicalities of the procedure were referred to Mayor T. Millet Hand and City Solicitor Samuel F. Eldrcdge. The move was made to attract light industry to this city. Plans to push West Cape May's sewer project to completion as rapidly as possible were formulated Monday night at a meeting of the borough council and WPA officials. ApT additional fo authorized.

June'A Cl-UlaAiin' . A number of Cape May business men wasted an hour and a half last Wednesday night In round figures, the time amounted to one man’s full 48-hour faar-time work-week . . . at a time when nothing is supposed to be wasted. It was not done intentionally. The local business men attended a meeting in the high school auditorium, hoping to find out what the score is on point rationing and how they could adapt their businesses to war-time conditions. Two OPA representatives climaxed a full day in Cape May by addressing the meeting, while another one was in the

audience.

One OPA man read a newspaper'clipping on meat and *e rationing, which most of those at the meeting had read in their morning cm- evening papers before going to the meeting. The only pertinent point he brought out was that he prefers cheese to meat The other tried vainly to stir up interest in a business men’s organisation in Cape May to effect war-time economies. We say. vainly, because we believe that if any such organisation is formed here in the future it will not be due his efforts. The principal reason for this organisation, according to the OPA expert—the principal war-time economy to be effected— would be c&uervation of heat and light by business men agreeing to close their stores earlier. Of course, he admitted, other benefits'might accrue from such an organization, but the other potentialities were a bit vague. \ The two business men who had interest enough in the , meeting to take the floor seemed to express the thoughts of the majority . that it was not trivial expenses like heat and Ugnt about which/they are worried, that it is their inability to buy merchandise that people want that it is their inability to compete_witipwar-time industry for manpower. These are mo importanTproblems. not saving a few pennies on beat and M»t by closing up shop 15 minutes earlier. Most of us have doMd early for years without OPA urging. But hospitable to the end (even though some did walk frt). the local busineas men did their best to spare the fadings of the OPA agents. They did not bluntly turn thumbs down. They referred the question the the Kiwanis committee on businem standards, which sometime in the future is to make a study and present its recommendations, and if it decides the idea is good, another meeting win be called. Oh, well. We didn't have anything special to do last

Unless there are unforseen changes before municipal tax rates are set by the County Board of Taxation, Cape May’s 1938 rate will be $5.98 per $100 valuation, it was revealed yesterday. The probable rate is considerably lower than original rate estimates made by city officials during formation of the current year's bud-

get.

Ten Years Ago After a chase from five miles off the Delaware Capes last Friday the Coast Guard patrol boats caused the crew of three men on the rum runner K-1414, an open craft, to run her ashore at the end of Sunset Boulevard. The men leaped ashore and disappear-

liquor. >8 State Department of Education that financial aid for the Cape May School district is forthcoming, the schools were not closed this week as had been threatened. The promise, however, is very indefinite and doubtless drastic action will be taken by the Board of Education unless the relief materializes by the end of this week. Revival of the Cape May County Baseball League during the coming season seems assured. After seven years’ healthy existence, the circuit did not function last year" due to the formation of a county firemen’s loop. 1 Twenty Years- Ago A joint committee from the South Jersey resorts will try to make an appointment with the State Road Commission next week to confer on the issue of the Cape May-Lewes ferry. They had hoped to broach the subject to the commissioners while they were here on the inspection tour, but the opportunity did not present itself. The Vocational School will debate with the Boy Scouts on Wednesday, April 9, in the High School Auditorium on the subject, “Resolved that the Country' Lad has better advantages than the City Boy”.

Plan Band Concert At School Tuesday Cape May High School's band will give a special public concert next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in the high school auditorium, band officers announced

this week.

The concert will be the band’s first since the arrival of the new band uniforms. The program will be presented Tuesday afternoon for members of the student body and in the evening for the general public. Taking the form of a modern minstrel show, the program will include selections by the band, the girls' glee club and featuring the band majorettes. “School Days” will be presented by the majorettes.; the band will play Sousa's "Thunder March”, a saxophone trio will play several selections, which will be followed by “Paiade of the Wooden Soldiers” and “Sidewalks of New York”, played by the

week was elected class president of next year's Sophomore Class at the University of Pennsylvania. Miss Schwebel attained the Dean’s List after mid-year examinations. She has played hockey, basketball and badminton and is a member of the Women's Glee Club and mixed chorus. She has been active in all her class affairs and is a member of the Freshman Commission. She was recently initiated in Alpha Chi Omega fraternity.

* featuring Frank iooI janitor, will be of the highlighta of the per-

The program will cloae with th* playing of . “Our Director March”, "Dreas Parade March’

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CAFE VISITOR NAMED PRESIDENT OF CLASS

PHILADELPHIA — Miss Mary Louise Schwebel, one of Capo

Congratulations State Trooper and Mrs. John J. Killeen are receiving congratulations upon the birth of a son, John Edward, born at the Atlantic City' Hospital on Friday, March 19th.

Mrs. W. Frank Spang announces the birth of a son, Billie Franklin Spang, weighing 6M pounds, born at Lying-In Hospital, Philadelphia, on Tuesday, March 23. Mrs. Spang was the former Miss Bette Frost, daughter of Mrs. Gyi Rief, of this dty.

COLD SPRING — Mr. and Mrs. William Parker are receiving congratulations unon the birth of a son, named Lawrence Richard Parker, who was born at Long's Maternity Hospital, Wildwood, on Friday. *

Mrs. PaT

S”>6c QTARBOARD O WATCH By Q Worthy Ah, Spring! Aw, nuts! What a wonderful first day of spring . . . with more snow than we had during the greater part of the winter. If this col-yum sounds kinds cynical about spring, don’t judge us harshly. We’re writing this epistle amid the falling flakes Monday morning. Of course, by the time this is printed. the sun will undoubtedly have shown its face and buds will be budding and bees will be beeing. But right now it reminds us of

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Anyway, March still has six days in which to go out like a iamb. And that reminds us of the meat shortage and makes us even fiiore unhappy about the whole thing. • • • Back to the weather: If that old legend about the kind of weather we have when the sur* crosses the equinoxial line being the prevailing kind for the entire season, well bet everybody hereabouts will be shoveling snow right up until June 21, ’cause the prevailing weather when the sun crossed the line was snow with a capital NO. But we’re not the only ones Who are having trouble .... They tell us that the Army Quartermaster Corps which went to such great lengths and was so proud of the results of shipping dehydrated vegetables and fruits to all parts of the fighting world (to save shipping space) is now sending good old American water to go with them 'cause the water in most war centers is so vile that it spoils the dehydrated foods when added. It stands to reason that the ships required to transport the dehydrated foods plus the ships required to transport the water equal more than the number of ships required to transport fruits and vegetables in their natural form. Oh, hum . . . Incidentally, the local Red Cross war fund workers have certainly gone to town. Did you notice the impressive total published in last week’s paper? After the slov _ ‘ seems that the t on a little extra really outdid them-

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. . 1 feature. In it the i whose opinions we have a great deal of respect, d patriotism of the men who not so many years a labeled as “tories” and “copperheads” ter r

New Deal.

It is those same big businessmen who converted lactones and shops into war plants without which the U Nations would not have had much chance of stopping victory march of the Axis. “But now,” writes Mr. Pegler. “they are the men who a running the arsenal of Democracy and putting to ■Runw. & cheap and venal politics of Washington, where thousands o lawyers and party press agents on the public payroll stL, carry on the class war and are trying to renffW their jobs foi four years after 1944.” “Big Business and the fighters, who include a due proportion of the sons of Big Business, are winning the war, but Big Business is not doing this for the New Deal and the ducks and lawyers and press agents of Washington. These men are doing this for the United States, which created and thrived on Big Business long before the New Deal and today would perish without it,” concludes Mr. Pegler. \ Representative Jessie Sumner (R., IU.) veteran woman legislator, recently said: n I can't understand anybody who talks about full employment and perfect security, and then ' Umits salanes to throttle the very capital which is needed to start the wheels going after the toar." Out Hollywood way, the glamor girls of the fihn capital and Lockheed umteo recently in defense of woman’s wartime right to trade grease and greasepaint for off-shift cosmefacs. They informed a New York State Episcopal Bishop that the painted lips and tinted finnger-tips he deplored are a necessity for the girls at home and an inspiration for the boys overseas. _ They suggested that the Bishop—the fit Rev. G. Ashton Oldman, of the Albany, N. Y. Diocese—give up shaving before attacking the cosmetics industry as non-essential. The Bishop invoked the ladies’ wrath when he remarked, in the course of a Lenten address, that rouge, lipstick and fingernail polish were not necessary to morale. He failed to win a tionUnes ereDt ^ co ^ ony ^ on th® aircraft producPerhaps we're old fashioned, but it doesn't aeem logical to start arguing with your allies before you have defeated your enemies. Recently the press has carried reports of tension between some offlcials in the United States and Russia, tension which might easily place Democracy ln a mighty precarious posiUon. Regardlabe i. w e m ‘* ht Pl?ce on Russia—be it Communist rt.?a y ,k th ' r 77 th , e f y‘ rcma >»e that without Russia’s valiant stand, the ouUook of the war would be vastly leas optimistic right now. If we re going to light and die for Democracy nHnc ? nf 'f n ° f H?* 1 *- And one of the cardbil principles of Democracy ia that every man ... and conaequSo'KT ■ h “ a ri * ht hi! o'™

Social £vsw1a Qf Jhs Ulaek.

solicitors

VISITING PARENTS Senator and Mrs. I. Grant Scott have been entertaining their daughters, Miss Lucille ' Scott, a student of Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa., and Miss Jean. Scott, a student of Grier School at Birmington, Pa., for the spring vacation.- Miss Lucille Scott has had as her guest while here her classmate, Miss Allison, of Pittsburgh, Pa. CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY Mr. and Mrs. John Starynski gave a party for their daughter Joan recently to mark her 11th birthday anniversary. Those who attended were Joan Kabalan, Ann Walton, Patsy Needles, Eleanor Shea, Patsy Holden, Gloria Beachamp, Betty Lou Zienner, Sylvia Foulk, Barney Dougherty, Joseph Hawkins, Herbert Pharo, Paul Hart, Arthur Smith, Joseph Woehlcke, Leslie Barkowiak, Skippy Kehr, and John Starynski. CLASS NAMES OFFICERS Class Number Three of .the First Presbyterian Sunday School met Wednesday evening at the manse for the election of officers. Mrs. Lida VanWinkle was elected president, Mrs. Gertrude Sharp, secretary, Mrs. Francis Hines, treasurer. Others attending were Mrs. Samuel H. Moore, Mrs. William Gibson and Mrs. Albert

Lenz.

RECTOR'S AID MEETS Members of the Rector’s Aid Society of the Church of the Advent held their regular semimonthly meeting last Friday afternoon at the parish hall with the following in attendance: Mrs. Frank Humes, Mrs. Rex Thomkx, Mrs. George Macpherson, firs. V. M. D. Marcy, Mrs. SanTuel M. Schellenger, Mrs. Allen Bush, Miss Anna Whitlamb, Mrs. Margaret Ewer, Mrs. Raymond Otter, Jr. and the Rev. Wilbur E. Hogg, Jr.

Marion Fix, Mrs. Frank Underkofler, Mrs. Stewart Sibble, Mrs. Kenneth Miller and Mrs. Stanley Schellenger. MISS HANES ENTERTAINS Miss Jennie Hanes was hostess to the members of the PhitetW** - Class of the Cape Island ’Baptist Sunday School at her Perry street home on Thursday afternoon, March 18th. Attending were Mr*. Harrison Shaw, Mrs. Elizabeth Shields, Mrs. Ida Pierson, Mm. Charles Perkins, Mrs. Albert Piercef Mrs. Arthur Cohen, Mrs. F. Paul Langhorne, ” Mrs. Musgrove, Mrs. Mabel LeGstes, Mrs. Ivans, Mrs. Horace F. Church, Mrs. Frank Engman, Mrs. Bessie T. Hazlett and Mrs. George Bohm. CLASS HAS MEETING COLD SPRING — The S.T.R. Sunday School Claas held a potluck luncheon and business meeting last Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Leora Needles. A gift from the class was presented to Mrs. Gladys Sandgran, who will leave in a few days to join her husband in California. Those attending the meeting were Mrs. Needles, Mrs. Florence Thompson, Miss Isabella Elmer, Mrs. Marguerite E. - Williams, Mrs. Sandgran, Mrs. Julia Huber, Mrs. Bessie Ewing, Mrs. Clam McPherson, Miss Florence Snyder, Mrs. Marjorie Repp and Mrs. Edith Jones.

New Legionnaire

This Victory Garden movement is gaining headway . . \ but fast. Peter Dellas, local chairman of the Victory Garden committee, reports (hat several new applications for garden space on cityowned land have been approved, and West Cape May’s through fathers have indicated their willingness to provide borough-owned land without charge for anyone desiring to start a V-garden. Here's an inside tip: If you haven’t a full supply of liniment in the medicine chest, you better stock up soon, 'cause the first crop these Victory Gardens am going to produce is a crop of aches and pains from digging and getting the ground reedy for planting.

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ing their home i _ he is employed.

When the flying jeep, American “ - ' on plane, can’t be Sown , it can be taken apart, a track, and hauled with t to the scene.

FETED ON BIRTHDAY

ERMA — A surprise birthday

;y was given in honor of Miss ian McNeill on Saturday eve-

ning. Those attending were Mr. and Mrs. John, Keeler, Mr. and Mrs. William Vilkinson, Miss Jean Shirley Hoover, Private Stephen Kucha, of Cape May, andMr. and Mrs. Alvin Mason and

Mr. and Mrs. William Ivory. HOSTESS AT BRIDGE

Mrs. John Binkley entertained at bridge on Tuesday evening. Her guests were Mrs. Swift Hand, Mrs. Warren Corliss, Mrs. Goorga Douglass, Mrs. GO DeHart, Mrs. William McGonigle and Mrs. C.

DeTen *7 West Cape May youth who la

the first veteran of World War

MRS. TROUT HOSTESS II to become a member of a Capa Mrs. Walter Trout entertained May County American Legion the members of her Tuesday eve- post. Collins, who was given a ning bridge dub this week at her medical discharge from the Army Sewell avenue home and had aa some time ago after having her guests Mias Katharine Stev- «d for 16 months, joined ens, Mias MOdnd Holliday, Mias Harry Snyder^ Post, Wednse

HARRY J. COLLINS