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fi&nuunjb&A Jhs dfo/ns J'Aotti Remember The Home Front 24 pt c-lc mandate.. One of the most serious war-time problems facing America today is the impending shortage of food which threatens to become acute unless something is done and done quickly to aid the farmers. In Cape May County the problem—on a small scale, of course—has been illustrated time and again. An acute labor shortage is inevitable. At the same time, it is impossible to purchase—even with spot cash and all the required ration orders—farm machinery which could offset the labor shortage. It just isn t

available.

How the poor farmers can even dare hope to meet the nation’s demands for an eight per cent increase in farm output during the approaching season is a problem the federal officials who are directing the prosecution of the war effort have failed to solve. The situation is not peculiar to Cape May County. It exists in every farming section of the country. It affects the largest farmers just as it does the smallest. It is the inevitable outgrowth of the misguided philosophy of "all for the military, nothing for the home front”. The stupidity of that philosophy w-as admirably illustrated in the collapse of Germany during the first World War. It shouldn’t happen here, bat it could .... We need more food than we’ve ever produced. Eight per cent more than the banner year of 1942. We need it to feed our fighting men. our allies, ourselves. Without food all of our guns and tanks and planes are worthless. They need men to run them . . . good, strong, healthy American mefi. They need men to produce them .. . good, strong, healthy American men. We would not deny our fighting forces anything, but at the same time we cannot subscribe to the philosophy that the home front should be denied the things needed in order to back up our men on the battlefields. Even if it means a few less tanks, guns and planes, enough iron and steel should be diverted from war production to build the tractors and the other farm machinery which is so greatly needed to keep up food

production.

The powers-that-be must awaken to the fact that the home front must be given the tools or the men with ediich to produce. If it cannot have one, it must have the other. If it has neither, there can be no production. Without that our war effort will bog down more i iuickly and seriously than it would in innumerable deeats at the hand of the enemy. Farmers of Cape May County and of the nation are not only willing but anxious to produce more food tor their country. They are willing to take all the great risks involved. They are willing to go into a season they know will be packed with headaches because of the labor and material shortages. They do not expect to make a financial killing. They are wise enough and patriotic enough to know that their nation needs every ounce of food they can produce. All they ask is the tools with which to work. It is late—but not too late—to remedy the situr tion. But those responsible for the war effort must act and act quickly if the most serious crisis this nation has ever faced is to be averted. At the same time something should be done to clear up the misapprehension and misunderstanding regarding farm labor. Much has appeared in the metropolitan press about a new decision to defer essential farm labor from the draft. From the outset of Selective Service essential farm laborers have always been eligible for deferment and local boards following the regulations have been deferring them. The local board here has deferred essential farmers since its inception. It is high time that those in charge of the draft make a clear explanation of the true situation to remove much of the doubt and misunderstanding that hangs over the head of every man of possible military age. so that they can make their plans and do their utmost to work for the benefit of the nation’s best interests. - Slap Jhs Cbch (Again.! Here’s.your chance to take another slap at the

Japs and Nazis:

The Cape May Salvage Committee this month is conducting another scrap salvage campaign—this time in conjunction with spring house-cleaning—in order to obtain another supply of much-needed scrap metals and other materials to feed into the hungry mouths of tile nation’s blast furnaces and munitions factories. The time is particularly appropriate. Spring housecleaning always unearths a considerable amount of things you had forgotten about, things you had been \aating for years in the hope that someday you might

I c us* for them.

This year, you can make your spring housecleanr doubly effective if you discard everything you reallyjdon’t need or plan to use. This year instead of just inding yourself of the accumulation you will be doing distinct service to your country and a distinct dislervice to the Japs and Nazis because from this accumulated junk—after it has been sorted and reclaimed and. delivered to the war plants—will come guns, tanks bullets, airplanes, bombs ... all the instruments of war which our fighting men all over the world need to defeat oar enemies. Here on the home front, we can do a great deal toward winning the war if we take a little extra time and go to a little extra trouble. America has learned the hard way that scrap materials are extremely important in the praeecution tf wer. Now it it imperative that we ell do our share in providing enough scrap to keep the implements of war rolling out of our factories and off production “ ». Witkmd a etaudy flgw of ocrup our u

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Straight From The Shoulder

PwiajgAaphA, Out Of The Past

Taken from files of The Star and Wave for the years 1988.

1933 and 1923.

Five Years Ago One West Cape May councilman resigned and two others quit the borough's sewer committee Tuesday night . as council split over specifications for equipment to continue the $56,000 WPA sewer project. Councilman Julius Morton resigned from the borough’s governing body when a heated argument resulted in the resignation of John J. Stewart, chairman, and J. Harry Miller from the sewer committee. Work on Cape May's new $100,000 postoffice building was started Monday morning by Sofarelli Brothers Construction Company, contractor for the job. With equipment and material arriving daily, the building has been

officially begun.

Preparing for the 1938 target practice season, the Marine 3etachment of the Cape May rifle range was organized at the Philadelphia Navy Yard Marine barracks on Monday. Ten Years Aeo A fleet of twenty seaplanes of the Navy and Coast Guard and land planes of the Marines and the Army are making their chief headquarters at Base Nine at the air field and the harbor while continuing the search of the sea

for bodies of the Akron and for wreckage of the dirigible. New Jersey's temporary beer bill, amended to outlaw bars, passed both houses Tuesday night to continue in operation until May 25. The bill, subject of long and bitter dispute was adopted by the House 57 to 1. Members of a Cape May County Food Garden Commission were appointed on Tuesday by Mayor Nathaniel Rosenfeld, of Woodbine, president of the county Chamber of Commerce. Twenty Years Ago The Progressive League of this city tendered a banquet to the members of the minstrel troupe and all those who helped to make the entertainment of last week such a success, that over eight hundred dollars will be added to the treasury of the live wire business men's organization of

the city.

Spring is in the air and many people are anxious to get the "ql'' bus on the roads for a Sunday Spring. Naturally you who drive may have a desire to “open her up” and see how much shell make after being tied down quite a bit during the winter. State police are making a drive on speeders. Ocean City police are watching for speeders in their city and incidentally the speed limit through the streets of Cape May is 12 miles an hour.

BY THE OBSERVER Great Britain went on <

it six hours ahead of War lima. The new time will continue until August 15. The action was hailed by the general public as it gives it some respite from the blackout.—News item. Little more than a year ago after the first dim out regulations affecting Cape May and the Atlantic coast had been promulgated, The Star and Wave and many other newspapers as -well as numerous organisations and individual representatives of the resort sections advocated such a change for this country—or at least this section of the country—to offset the effect of the dimouL The idea was abandoned after a Gallup poll had showed that a scant majority of Philadelphians —who constitute the bulk of the visitors coining to the New Jersey resorts—were opposed to the additional hour advance. •Naturally tnere would have been some confusion—there always is with any change. Naturally, too, not everyone would have favored .it. But for the resorts and coastal areas it would have been a tremendous help. The “no, definitely” side of the sweater-girls-in-industry controversy won a victory in Washington late last week. The Office of War Information came out bravely with the announcement: “It isn't just a rumor that a tightlysweatered working companion takes a man’s eyes off his machines."

er-wearing to girls wot I on moving n " their nwlni, t _ the Chance-V ought plant Bridgeport agreed to s < survey of aU_ ” where safety i

Selective Service officials in New Jersey are working on tbs selection of a social and health counsellor to act in an advisory capacity for each local board to give much needed counsel to men rejected as unfit for military service. \ The draft done more than any other one thing to discover physical and mental ailments hi young men—ailments which probably would not have been discovered otherwise for years. But the mere fact that they are discovered is not sufficient- Something must be done shout them. The Selective Service officials of New' Jersey are to be commended for taking this highly progressiva step toward remedying and overcoming these ailments. Perhaps many of the men never will be ready for military service, but they will be better able to keep their places in civilian life. The action should be a tremendous benefit to every community in the state.

PRACTICAL HEALTH HINTS

Baker’s Bread Is Sliced Again

—By Dr. Jennas A lobar—

Dr. J. A. Tabay

IN MARCH the government reI scinded the ban on slicing of baker's bread, which had been in force for about two months. The I action came as great relief I to most house-

| wives.

No longer

I will they have I to struggle with I the problem of I getting uni-

form. neat

| slices of bread

which won't clog toasters,

nor the hazards of cut fingers and frazzled dispositions. The steel of the bread knives is now released for more important war work. There remains, however, one minor problem. Despite its convenience, sliced bread does not keep quite as well in the opened package as unsliced bread. It dries out more rapidly, and thus tends to lose its fine flavor more

quickly.

You can surmount this prob-

lem by keeping bread wrapped In its protective wax paper, and putting it in a clean, well-venti-lated but tightly dosed bread bo*. In warm weather, a good placv for snapped bread is, believe it

er not, hi the retriciratos. Contrary to a remmon super-

stition, bread Is equally digestible whether it is fresh or a day or more old. There is, likewise, no change in its nutritive properties. Older bread loses some of its natural moisture, and with it some of its flavor. Stole bread ia restored to full palatobility by heating it for a few moments in the oven. This bread also makes excellent toast food which ia our most easily digestible form of carbohydrate. Toasting converts most of the starch into dextrin* and soluble starch, which are readily ab-

sorbed.

All of our whit* bread continues to be enriched with vitamins and minerals natural to whole wheat The government requirements in this respect have not been relaxed, nor should they be changed. Modem enriched bread; containing the B ‘ vitamin*, thiamine ' niacin, and the food-mineral* and calcium, i* in the ciaas of the protective food*. It i* made with valuable milk solids and baa other nourisMhig ingredients, such as yeast sugar, vegetable shortening, and salt With wheat still plentiful, other bakery products such as cake, pie.

&f?e S TARBOARD WATCH By C. Worthy More to provide a topic of general conversation than anything else, Mother Nature threw in a sleet storm of short duration Sunday night as a gentle reminder that even though it is officially spring all is not buds and flowers. Oh, well, now that April’s here the weather can’t be too bad for too long . . Or can it? The Navy officially took control of the Rio Grande air station last Thursday little more than a year after the first surveys were authorized. While there is still much work to be done before the airport is completed, the transformation in the 1,000 acres of what only a short time ago was woodland is amazing. If it gets much bigger Cape May County will soon be a suburb to the airport. Without the slightest pretense at being graceful. Congress last week sidestepped the pay-as-you-go income tax issue and referred the whole thing back to the House Ways and Means committee where, only a short time before, absolutely nothing bad been accomplished after a great deal of Congressional palaver. What a pity the Ruml Plan didn’t bear the name of some of the administration big-wigs! It probably would have passed without question that way. Anyway, We all now have something to remember the present Congress by . . . particularly when election time rolls

around.

See by the papers where a Rutgers University professor has figured that a fair-sized Victory Garden will save the average family, 2,772 points during the coming year. With the amount of energy it must have taken to arrive at that conclusion, the Prof could probably have raised a good sized crop of almost anything that could have kept him and his family in -vegetables for years to

Locally instead of figuring out the number of ration points that can be saved, Chairman Peter Dellas, of the local V-Garden committee, is going quietly about his job, lining up available garden sites for those who have no land of their own available, and generally making himself helpful in putting the Victory Garden idea across in a big way in these parts. Cape May has seen some strange pets but one of the most unusual is a pet calf, answering to the name of “Susie”, that is owned by Mrs. Leslie Rea, of West Cape May. Susie follows Mrs. Rea like a well trained dog and attains the peak of performance and pleasure when she successfully begs for bread and jelly at the kitchen door of the Rea home. With her hind legs on the ground and her front hooves on the back steps, she stretches as far as possible 'into the air for the choice morsel. Gonna grow up into a contented cow, well bet.

ELIZA M. STEPHENSON Home Servlc* Direct oi Jcrszt CtmSAl Co.

TRICKS FOR EVERY COURSE Bread has a very important place in the battle for Victory. The enriched and whole grain bread assures our armed forces, allies and homemakers at home the most nutritious bread with excellent flavor. We are told there will be no shortage in this important food. Seems too trivial' to mention that we will be "slicing our own" for the duration. This does not indicate that we are being imposed upon for most homes have at least one large sharp knife and some sort of a bread or cake board, either of which be used satisfactorily. Slicing loaf of bread seems of small sequence, but when we think of the millions that are baked each day it will be considerable saving to bakers. Most of us had to acquire a liking for the ready sliced bread for ajl uses so now we will cut it to suit our particular need. _ With the rationing of meat we will all find many ways to nse bread for extending our allotment to serve more people. The custom of pressing a slice of bread into a muffin tin and brushing with melted butter or substitute is not new but worth reviving when a creamed meat. fowl. egg. cheese or vegetable dish needs an attractive pick up for easy serving. Biscuits are a great addition to anv meal hut thev surely are a welcome surprise topping rosy red soring rhubarb or a foundation for cheiries for dessert. So the versatile bread or hiscuits. dumplings, muffins made with enriched flour are all out for Victory to furnish additional health giving properties with many trickv uses for everv course. Cherry Spring Pudding _ I'd cups sifted enriched flour

1 egg ' i cup milk '4 cup corn .syrup 3 tablespoons melted shortening Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Beat egg. add milk, corn syrup, and shortening. Stir into dry ingredients, mixing only enough to moisten flour. Poor

into greased 8x8x2" pan. SpraaA ' erry mixture over top and beks moderate oven (375* r.) 35 «i»utes. Serve with Cherry Sauce made by thickening sweetened cherry iuicc. Yield: 16 two inch square*. Cherry Topping: Mix 2 cupe chopped red cherries, H cup core syrup and 34 cop sugar together and spread over batter. Meat s

Meat Mixture: 1 cup ground cooked meat < 1 egg Vi teaspoon salt Hi teaspoon pepper Stuffing Mixture: 1 egg 1H cups stock or milk Vi teaspoon salt Vi teaspoon pepper Vi teaspoon poultry seasoning 2 tablespoons mehed fat 1 4 cups enriched bread cubes Combine meat, egg. nit, and pepper. Mix thoroughly. Best egg. Add stock or milk, nit, pepper, poultry seasoning and fat Pour over bread cubes and mix welL Spread half the bread mixture over bottom of quart casserole. Cover with meat mixture. Spread remaining bread mixture over meat layer. Bake in moderate oven (350* F.) . for 30 minutes. Serve with hot tomato sauce. Yield: 6 serving*.

Rhubarb Betty & cup sugar (or V4 cup sugar and 34 cup honey) . 1 lb. rhubarb cut m eoe-mch 34 cup water Combine rhubarb, auger and water. Bring to boil and pour into individual casseroles. Place sweet biscuits on top. Bake in moderately hot oven (425* F.) about 20 nun*utes. Yield: 6 serving*. Sweet Biscuits: 2 cups sifted enriched flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 34 teaspoon nit 2 tablespoons sugar 34 cup shortening 1 egg 34 tup milk (about) Sift flour, baking powder, salt and sugar together. Cut in shortening. Add milk to beaten egg and add to flour mixture to make a soft dough. Turn out on floured board sod krie»d gentlv or pat and fold 4 to 6 times. Roll out. Cut in desired shapes and place on rhubarb nuca. Toast Cups Cut bread into slices 34" thick. Remove crusts, and brush both sides lightly with melted butter or margarine. Press a slice of bread into each section of 3" muffin pans. Bake in moderate oven of 350* F. for 20 minutes or in moderately hot oven of 375* F. for 12 minutes, then remove. These cups may be used instead of patty shells for creamed mixtures, etc.

puls of good wtrtinw diets.

Before the war Denmark’s yearly export* included more than MW mffian pounds of hatter, most of

Walker Busy With Cape War Beard COURT HOUSE — Andrew S. Walker, chairman of the Cape May County U. S. D. A. War Board, is now giving almost fulltime to the board's work. He is in personal charge of the office which is located in the old court building with the extension service. Walker found it necessary to take this step in order to give timely service to county farmers without war work crowding the County Agent’s time to the detriment of the regular extension program. During the last week Walker visited the Ocean City draft board, handled several RA.C.C. farm loans, straightened out na-

tion of a recently burned barn, held a meeting with livestock dealers and meat dealers, and investigated numerous truck and tractor gasoline applications. He said this week that he will not push work on his own large farm unless the burden of duties laid on the county War Boaid lightens. Rumors are that additional responsibilities are in the offing. CLHUC SPEAKS TO KIWANIS CLUB The Rev. Wilbur E. Hogg, rector ‘of the Church of the . vent, was principal speaker last night s meeting of the I May Kiwanis Club. Another club attendance cob- . test Will get under way at next week's meeting, with the yariosM teams striving for the sttmitonss

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