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<2 QhaUanqsi, J-tfi Oil! Have you subscribed to your quota of bonds in the Second War Loan Drive? Have you dug: down into,tour savings to invest in democracy ... in your country ... in the post-war world? ^ Have you done your part? Or are you letting the War Loan Drive go by, hoping that George will do it? Those are some of the questions we should all be asking ourselves this week. America is mid-way iu the greatest financial undertaking in history. The success of the drive to date on a nationwide basis points to a successful conclusion. The thirteen-billion dollar quota will undoubtedly be met. But will you have done your share to help your country reach its

goal?

Exclusive of the quota set for banks, little Cape May County is expected to raise nearly $700,000 as its share of the bond drive. That means, if the federal government's expectations are to be met, that you and your family and your neighbor and his family ... every one of us ... must dig down into our savings and come up with enough to buy our share of bonds .... It means that we can’t just sit by and hopeAhat someone else will buy our share as well as his own. We've all got a stake in this war. We’ve all got an obligation in financing it Some will not fulfill their obligation because of personal situations. That means that the rest must do a little more than their share. They must dig a little deeper to carry the load of their neighbor who can’t carry it himself at this particular

time.

Cape May’s local quota, exclusive of the bank’s qfuota, is $100,000. That means that everyone will have to stretch a point in order to meet the goal. In a community of this size, $100,000 is still a lot of money. That quota can be reached only if everyone who is able to buy bonds cooperates to the limit. There can be no slackers in this home-front phase of the war. The community would look with disdain and brand as a slacker any man who refused to answer his country’s call to arms. In times like these, such an act would be the supreme example of lack of patriotism. The War Loan Drive is purely voluntary. If you refuse to answer your country’s call, you will not be held up in shame before your neighbors and friends. You will not be looked upon by your community as a Stacker. But in your own heart ... in your own mind . . . you will know that you failed to do your part. You will know that your country asked you for help in its hour of greatest need and that you turned a deaf ear to its plea. You are not being asked to give your government anything. You are being asked to lend your country as much money as you possibly can to help finance the

WATCH By C. Worthy

Palm Sunday was a wash-oat for the local lovelies who had planned to stint the boardwalk in their pre-Easter finery. With the kind of spring weather we’ve been having to date even the thought of spring clothes starts us shivering. ■Course husbands always shiver every trine they think of Easter clothes anyway . . . Even Atlantic City, which in normal years made a rough count of the boardwalk crowd, then multiplied by 23 and announced to the world that half a million visitors strutted the ■walk, reported only a paltry 85,000 for last Sunday. Let’s see,' 23 into

85,000 . . .

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One of those nice little community mysteries which seems to provide great pleasure for those in the know and considerable annoyance for the others is how to get in the new city hall when the main doors are closed. The mystery, of course, is no mystery at all . . . they're simply massive sliding doors which can really be worked very easily . . . if you know how. That, however, doesn’t deter many of the local gentry from fussing and fuming with the things for long periods and Anally giving up in disgust and going home without even bothering to learn the secret. From the grapevine exchange comes the report that one lady actually stood outside for three hours recently before someone else came along and opened the door. Another lady made four tripe to the hall, leaving each time under the impression the place was closed. Innumerable others have invented * new words of lamentation in their struggles to get in. This change of city halls has plenty of interesting angles. Hardly a day goes by without at least a dozen strangers coming in to cash checks or deposit money under the mistsken idea that it is still a bank. Now there’s an idea for a money-making city side-issue. A sign painter was at work there the other day lettering the windows to proclaim to all and sundry that the building was a city hall. Maybe that'll stop some of the misunderstanding. The -way this pay-as-you-go income tax issue is popping up again in Congress, it looks as if maybe some of the Washington boys have found out how the people back home really feel about such things. Now that they’ve started reading the handwriting on the wall, it appears that some definite action will be taken soon ... we hope.

BY THE OBSERVER

If' you’ve been about the weather

having this spring (?) . who hasn’t? . . - there may be some consolation in the fact that this is not the first spring with such abominable temperatures. From Min Mary A. Doak, of 838 Washington street, comes a Newspaper clipping which refers to the year of 1816 “in which there was no summer”. In fact, the clipping relates, there was not a single month during that year when there was no snowfall. Miss Doak recalls her grandmother telling those who complained about the weather that her mother had often spoken of the year 1816 when every month had its snow and freezing temperatures. A new disease — opaphobia — was discovered recently among butchers and grocers by Dr. John C. Button, Jr. at a meeting of the board of the Loyal Independent Food Merchants, Associated', according to Ernest L. Chase, secretary' of that group’s “Buy-a-Bomber” campaign. Dr. Button had been invited to discuss the “Psychology of Cantankerous Customers” but he discussed cantankerous merchants instead. Some of the merchant* at the meeting were found to have severe cases of the malady characterized by 'morbid fears, intense phychic upsets, and attacks of depression connected with current, retail regulatory problems.” And already it’s in the epidemic stage . . . If this war does nothing else, it will permanently change the American way of living to a large degree, according to the opinions, of authorities. As an example, the new ideas of design, the whole new world of plastics ' which will replace many of Hie

peace returns. The worWr-whlch " " " folks think

is just on the threshol era which will make the progress of the last 50 years look like back-sliding by comparison. With such a foundation on which to work and with such potentialities developed by the research departments of our large manufacturers, the post-war period should be an experience none of us would want to miss. Before we think too seriously about the post-war world, we must solve our present problems. One way of helping to solve some of those problems is by investing as much as you can in that postwar world by buying war bonds and other government securities to the limit of your ability. Have Y'OU subscribed to YOUK OWN quota of bonds yet?

Such a choice is not given to the millions of fighting men on the battlefronts of the world. They are giving everything they’ve got today and every day. They are doing this for you. In return, you are asked to lend your money to help lighten their great task. Will you do ft? J'OAmeJiu QouJiaqstDixA ■Cape May County farmers, answering the nation’s appeals for increased food production, are planning to raise an additional thousand acres of vegetables during the coming season, it was disclosed last week following a survey of the leading farmers of the county. The farmers are planning to do everything possible to meet the demand for more production, in the face of conditions which would normally mean sourtailment rather than expansion of acreage. A serious farm labor shortage is a certainty Lack * of manpower was felt sharply last summer, when farmers had great difficulty in obtaining all the labor necessary to care for and harvest their crops. Some-' how they pulled through. Lack of farm madnhery this year is another equaly *enous problem. To Operate farms of any size IK®*""**? 1 l £ v 2L« i S*» m «> or machines. Without •itherthey ire licked before they start. At present, even with ration orders, it is impossiWe to purchase most types of farm machinery. It just isn’t available. Production has been halted for two years or more and the supplies which once formed a backlog from which to draw have long since been dedot" everything pomible to «*ep their present machinery in operstion. Durinn the ”> overhauled their equi? ment They *ttended ctasse, to.learn to make reJaiS But the need for some new equipment is _.How they are going to manage this season with «*> less machinery and less available farm labor tb»n r had last y»r and with an additional thousand -aeof cropland, only the farmers themselves know. /They are playing a long shot gambling on getting eootLrari^' t W,th 1*“ hdp °* and the nL*°? e of , who live in ^ resorts and WOMMBe wflBag to volunteer our service* to help the A*nri«* at harvest time, they'll probably come through tkSLftoS 5^--£ they -,ri n 1 ^ hi8 the addu But the importnnt thin* in thet they are demona>0* one of the fundamentals of Americanism.

the war elfort

1 that kind of spirit, how can we lose this war?

in it. But there is no use in fear

and blind reaction. The transition is reaching its the society of men and

is being

Whether er socialisation.

consists in which he ia—not in

what he

that

e like it or not, greattion, a leas haphazard fe, a less selfish na-

in the values of human life ««- shrined within its outward circwnstances ? Those things which cannot be shaken are the things which God produces ir human life —thE only wealth that survives

nobility of-rharee-

of wealth are the signs of the .future. The changes are frightening, thrilling, wonderful, depend-

ing on how we view them. “Yet ^ k is preeminently in tiwtaa Ijfca this once more rfignifieth the re- fteae that men'aaoouls — moemg of thoae thtnga that are and tested. Lreaswith .h«n~.

that are roots will be upturned among the

faith. Do we really believe *>-♦ ' t™und of vanity ia swept from

oat God and His under them. Only those Uvea rootwhieh we Christ- ed and grounded in God and the

Most of-ns have been pretty haphazard about our inner lives with God. We have been so concerned with other affairs we have had no time for any but the most occasional bows in God’s general direction. Yet we confidently hope that when the test comes and the moment far proving ourselves arrives, we shall miraculously measure up. But great occasions never make great men. Great occasions merely show what men and women have been all along. It is the humdrum duties of daily.life and the spirit in which they are met that makes us what we are—the day by day conversation with God,

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THE WEEKLY SERMON CORNER: Faith In The Unshakable By the Rev. Wilbur E. Hogg, Jr., rector, Church

of the Advent, Cape May.

Hebrews 12:27X “And this —

word. Yet once more significth the removing of those things that are. shaken, as of things that are made, that those things that cannot be shaken may remain." The writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews has been explaining how Christ is the completion and fulfillment of the religious development of the Jewish Church. He S lints out that the religion of the d Israel was the preparatory school of the New Israel, and that in that school the foundations were laid for the fuller life of

grace in Christ.

But great changes were taking place and the Hebrews were confused and frightened and furious. Tlfeir neat system of ritual and law and hierarchy was being at-

t ^ ck f d to these upstart followers . . of. the Galilean, aad they lashed disintegrate. “I saw,” says St put in blind anger when the fa- John, “a great white throne and miliar old ways were challenged. Him that sat on it, from Whose Like all human beings, they fear- tace the earth and the heaven ed what was new and different It '»way." All man’s work on is often a sign of lack of faith which he has expended his enerin God when we fight furiously BY will perish one day.' and blindly for things exactly as This is not to say that the

£ U * Pointings of the artist, his poems,

sign of faith in God and His sov- his symphony, his noble building ereign power over the issues of have all been wasted. They have men when we seek, not to revert their influence, like every other tothe old ways, but to seize the act of man, on people’s souls. But "*** and them for it still remains true, and cannot

be too often repeated, that noth-

Today, as many look to the fu- ,n X car > be saved or survive inture, they shrink with fear from to eternity but human souls. It is the shattering changes in our °f s Greek philosopher that modes of living, our social and be used to advise men to seek economic ideas that are upder onl y that wealth which they could way. They can envisage a society carry to shore with them from a so different from the old they shipwreck. What does that mean W0 7 d cr if they will be at home except that a man’s true wealth

ians profess are unshakable? Do we cower inwardly at the changes we see ahead—changes in our means, our modes of living, in the unrestricted luxury we have known? If we can grasp firmly the things unshakable, what need have we of the things that can

be crumbled? "

“The world passeth away and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever." In times of confusion and perplexity, when things seem to be going wrong, when doubts and temptations arc strong, it is good for us to sit down quietly and think matters out, getting back to the bed-rock realities of human life as God reveals them to us in Jesus Christ The things that are of purely human device

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