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{jJsdnsLkdaL} U)si£k-£nd! From Washington last week came the first official since the outset of the war that might lelp for resorts.. Joseph B. Eastman, director of the Office of Defense Transportation, urged employers to begin and end vacation periods for their employees in the middle of the week instead of during weekends to avoid congestion of public transportation

facilities.

Here is an idea that Cape May and other seashore resorts have been advocating for years. The motives for the request are entirely different, but the result is the same. The ODT made the request to equalise seasonal business and to avoid such peaks as normally occur during weekends when facilities are often taxed beyond capacity, while mid-week periods are compara-

tively dull.

Most announcements emanating from Washington since the war began have been actually detrimental to resorts. Constantly changing directives concerning the use of automobiles and public transportation facilities for vacation or pleasure travel have so befuddled the general public that a sizeable percentage of prospective vacationists don’t know whether they are

supposed to take such trips or not.

During the pre-season periods when vacationists are making their plans, an almost steady stream of vague hints and suggestions—all pointing to the desirability of staying at home—emerges from the nation's capital under the heading of innumerable agencies and bureaus. Most of the “information” is a re-hash of regulations which have been in effect since Pearl Harbor and are brought out of storage and applied to summer vacations more to give some federal wrnrker something to do than to serve any real purpose. Pinned down to a definite yes or no answer on vacations and vacation travel, no federal official has had the temerity to say that vacations have been banned or that they are not desirable during war-time. They cannot make such a statement because they know that all-out oroduction is spurred by normal vacations rather than hindered. They know that people can take vacation trips without clogging public carriers and that they can take trips in their own cars without seriously affecting the nation’s supplies of

gasoline and rubber.

Director Eastman, however, is the only official we know who has come out definitely to advocate vacations provided they are so scheduled that the normal weekend .peaks are spread out into mid-week periods. If more federal agencies would take a leaf from his book and tell the public what it can do instead of filling the press with vague statements and veiled hints the resorts would fare much better and the public at large would have a clearer conception of what is ex-

pected and why.

pronouncement be taken as a 1

ficoJunq Announcement that the local parking ordinance limiting parking in the Washington street business district to one hour during business hours came as welcome news to a large percentage of Cape May’s business people. Several years ago, shortly after the ordinance was enacted, it was enforced rather rigidly and its benefits were noticeable. It eliminated the condition that has been responsible for the loss of much business over a period of years. Some business people and their employees, who have made it a habit to park all day along Washington street since enforcement of the ordinance was relaxed, have damaged not only their own businesses but that of their neighbors, for in some cases they park in front of adjoining stores, leaving the curb in front of their own stores open for prospective customers. Parking has long been one of the principal traffic problems in Cape May. With its narrow streets and with a tremendous number of ears during peak seasons ft has often been impossible to park another car in the entire length of the business district. While strict enforcement of the one-hour parking limit will not solve the parking problem entirely, it will help for it will eliminate the habitual offenders. Confronted with the same problem several years ago. a group of nrogresstv?Nand public-spirited merchants established a free pubirc parking lot on Mansion street, close enough to the entire business district to permit walking'without undue hardship. With few exceptions, the parking lot has scarcely been used. For the business people who must use their cars to reach their stores and offices, the public parking lot would be a great help ... if they would only take the trouble to use it Perhaps if the parking limit ordinance is enforced to the letter and the enforcement is continued without interruption the .habitual offenders will find that it 'pays to park their, cars out of the business section. ' At any rate, enforcement should prove to be a boon to Washington street business in general.

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r gardeners throughout New Jersev who so ally began their backvard farms several 6 ago are enjoying some of the headaches which

sessional farmers experience.

News releases from all parts of the state indicate that two of the greatest problems to date are doe-= and rabbits, both of which do a tremendous amount of

damage to young plants.

Manv municipalities have enacted ordinances prohibiting dogs from running at large. Under *"rh lew* are permitted off their owners’ properties

only *f thev a»e on leashes.

Perhaps their natriotk efforts would be helped if local officials considered the ooesibifity of taking some Rich action, particularly aa far as dogs are concerned, for thev ran do more damage in 10 minutes than the average victory gardener can repair in a week.

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(pahaqAapkA. Out Of The Past

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WATCH By C Worthy

IWS and 1928. Five Years Ago Thirty-»ix Navy planes, their officers and crews will arrive at Cape May air station today as summer flight training gets under way here for the aviation squadrons of the U. S. S. Enterprise and the York town, two of the Navy's largest aircraft carriers. On ordinance making mercantile licenses compulsory for all hotels, boarding and rooming houses, beach tents, chairs and umbrellas was passed Friday by the city commission on first reading. A public hearing will be held in council chamber May 20 at 11 o'clock. With this section's first catch of drumfish reported last Wednesday night by Kenneth Hand, who returned from the “drum beds'' near Town Bank with a 45 pound fish, anglers from all parts of the county this week flocked to the bayshore. Ten Years Ago Tuesday's municipal election brought ou* one of the largest vote’s recorded in the city, a total of 1,593. Mayor William R. Sheppard was given the largest vote. S41; former Commissioner George P Wentell was second high with 718; and former Sen-

Called off last Saturday because of a nasty drizzling rain-' which set in just before two o'clock, the Pet Parade, joint observance of Be Kind To Animal Week and Boys' Day. was postponed until next Saturday, May 13. so as to give the smaller children and their pets a break. The date for the annual Cape May regatta on the Harbor has been set for Saturday, July 15. This information was brought to Cape May this week by Commodore Morton R. Alexander, of the South Jersey Speedboat Association, which organization was sponsor of the race. Twenty Years Ago The Commission Election ordeal is over and everybody rejoices that the results are at last known. “Progressive Business Efficiency Without Extravagance" wins and the candidates representing this slogan are Mecray, who received 778 votes; Wentzell, who received 666 votes; and Davis, who received 582 votes. The fourth man was Sheppard who received 521 votes. An Ocean City delegation was here recently, representing the Ocean City Fishing Club. Their errand was to examine the construction of our fishing pier with a view of adopting the plan for the Ocean City pier.

Maybe by the time this colyum is printed Congress will have decided what it's going to do on the income tax change . . . But don't bet on iL Lots of folks thought the same thing back in February and March, but they still peid their first quarter on March 15. It’s getting so now that even the Congressmen won’t predict what Congress is going to do. That's one nice thing about this American government of ours. When things get slack and nobody knows what to talk about or write about or cuss about, there's always Congress. And no matter which side of the fence you're on or what your ideas are, you can always find plenty of ammunition for a good old verbal set-to. The world's biggest fox hunt is just about over—all except the mopping up. We mean, of course, the one that took place in North Africa, where the Desert Fox—Marshal Rommel—lost a lot of army and a lot of prestige after the American and British soldiers got into the swing of the fighting. Rommel, it seems, wasn't taking any chances with his personal safety, so he pulled out of Africa pronto and left his men to bear the brunt of the onslaught. Perhaps our boys feel that it doesn't make much difference whether a prisoner or dead enemy is a genral or not. he's still a Nazi and dead or alive one Nazi is as good as another ... if any of 'em can be classed as good. How times do cnange! Remember a few years ago when there was never any question at all about Democratic gubernatorial candidates in New Jersey? Thercwas one name picked in North Jersey and that was that. Now they're wrangling just like us common folks. Tsk. tsk. They tell us that New Jersey's defense councils are suppossrt’ to embark upon a new program— that of caring for possible evacuees. That might be all right, but if there's as much confusion about it as there is with just a plain ordinary blackout test it seems like a waste of time. Some day maybe well get back to the old blackout signals so everybody will know what they're doing.

THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE ^

Signs of summer: Uncle Dave. Dan Ricker. PetrofTs and other boahdwalk and beachfront businesses getting ready for the start of another season. Incidentally— and you can take it for what it's worth—indications, according to those who should know, point to a mighty good season for Cape Mav. despite the war and all that goes with iL

SERVICES IN CHURCH COLD SPRING — The Cold

will worship regularly church at 10:80 o’clock Sunday mornings, and Bible School wfll be be Id in the chapel at 2:30 p.m., the Rev. William Bollock, pastor of the church, announced

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Straight From ‘fire

Much aa are dislike

stereotyped like that.

The same thing has 1 hundreds of times in all { the world. It seems that i

we Imagine that's what several Cape May people said recently when they met in cities far dis-

tant from this resort

A letter from Mrs. Harry Unruh, the former Miss Margaret McCullough, who is now living in Hattiesburg, Miss, where Lieuten-' ant Unruh is stationed, tells of

“ iptain and Mrs. Warren :, other Cape May folks

ways meet an a . acquaintance of an c . During the present war

many instances where local 1 have met each other in the I out-aMhe-wa

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Monday, I turned around and met Captain and Mrs. Robbins, of Cape May. Captain Robbins has been transferred to Camp Shelby from Camp Pickett, Va. and was assigned to the 114th Station Hospital, which, incidentally, haa its officers in the same building as the 157th Station Hospital,

Faced with a labor shortaga that threatens to curtail, to some degree, the normal preyeasOB* preparations and some summer work, the City of Cape May late last week experienced the peak of labor shortage trouble. Not only having difficulty in obtah^^ ing laborers for various depaz^V ments, the city last week was without the services of City Cleric

the unit to which Harry is at-

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Cached. The Robbins had _ t>een in town an hour when I met them- It certainly was grand to

meet someone from home.” Mrs. Unruh continued:

“Harry also met Lieutenant George James from Wildwood a couple of weeks ago. He has just been transferred to Shelby.”

home by illness; the assistant city cleric, Mrs. Marie Nittinger, who suffered an attack of grippe; "and City Treasurer Gilbert C. Hughes, who left on Friday to go to Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia, for 10 daya or two weeks of treatments. All that, even without .the help of John L. Lewis'. . . .

Another almost parallel case occurred in Nacogdoches, Tex., recently when Cape May’s first WAACs—Auxiliaries (1c) Elizabeth F. Jones and Elizabeth E. Harris—met a former Cape May visitor while they were sitting at a soda fountain reading The Star and Wave. Seeing the paper, the former visitor (whose name escapes us at the moment) asked if they were from Cape May. Learning of their mutual interest in the tip of the Jersey cape, the three had quite an interesting chat.

Cape May County resorts should receive the patronage of % many former Atlantic City visit- . ors this summer and hence should have a pretty fair advantage over % other resort areas. That’s the opinion of some of the resort and travel men of the metropolitan newspapers, the boys who cover the resorts with a fine-tooth comb looking for advertising. And It's not an individual opinion . . . It’s a consensus. That’s an encouraging prediction coming from men whose opinions about resorts amount to authority.

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By the time you reach the last line, property worth $570 will have been destroyed by fire somewhere in the United States. Minute after minute, day after day, on the average, this appalling pace keeps up, to a grand yearly total of $300,000,000. That, at least, was the record in 1989. What the showing will be this year, and the years to come, depends, in large measure, on YOU. Ninety per cent of all fires arc preventable, for they are due to carelessness. Take a look in your cellar, your attic, that doseL Clear out the rubbish—the old stuff stored away because “maybe some day you’ll find a use for iL” Many fires about the house are born in trash piles. While insurance marks the difference between protection and destitution, every American home has its treasured possessions whose worth cannot be computed in terms of money and can never be replaced. A minute’s thought now may save the patient accumulation of a lifetime from the ravages of fire. After all, it’s chiefly a matter of protecting your own dwelling and those whose presence there makes it HOME. Isn't it worth a minute to you ?

HOW TO TURN IN A FIRE ALARM ^ Right now, before fire strikes, look about you for the fire alarm box nearest you—both at horns and where you work, l&ad the directions for sounding the alarm and if all ia not dear to you ask a fireman or a policeman to

show you how.

When turning in a fire alarm be sure to follow exactly the directions given on the box. REMAIN at the box or leave someone stationed there to direct the fire department to the fire. In using the telephone call the operator and say “I want to re- • port a fire.” Be accurate and specific— be sure to tell just where the fire is—the exact street and number. Leave the receiver off the hook if you are forced . to go before the message ia de-* livered. | DANGER OF FALSE ALARMS Everyone should be ever alert to prevent prankish children and irresponsible grown-ups from sounding false alarms. They not only endanger the lives of the firemen, pedestrians and others, but also take the firemen and their apparatus away from their stations when they may be need-. ed vitally for actual fire. The sounding of a false alarm Is a serious offense and is being punished severely by heavy fines

and imprisonmenL

What Other Papers Say SMART FOR ONCE For once the Republican leaders in New Jersey have been smart. They have put aside sectional differences and smothered home-county ambitions to avoid s primary fight which could produce only ill-feeing, a secondrate candidate for Governor, and possible defeat. Their agreement on Walter E. Edge gives the party a candidate with broad experience in public life, a good reputation and a vigorous personality. Freed from a rancorous internal fight, the party can concentrate on the job of fighting the Democrats. — Newark Sunday Call. EDGE. THE CANDIDATE The announcement by former Governor Walter E. Edge of his candidacy for the position of Governor which he left in 1919 represents a brilliant achievement in Republican unity. Edge is now in a position to run as a man who has had experience as a War Governor. The fact that he was identified with national Republican politics at a time when the Republican party was influenced by world outlook should encourage those who hope to restore the party to national leadership. —Newark Star-Ledger.

Jjdi&hA Jo Jhs frdiioh ... APPRECIATION To the Editor: I can't tell you how much I - appreciate receiving my home town paper every week. It brings home and my friends much closer when 1 can read all about them in the paper. Thanking you, I am k Very truly yours. BILL BALDWIN. P.S. 1 certainly do thank you. APPRECIATION . ' San Francisco, Cal. To the Editor: I have been receiving the Cape ^ May Star and Wave as frequent- | ly as our mail comes in these days, an^ it sure feels good to •I read it once again. 1 want to thank you for being so thoughtful.and gracious. Your deed is highly appreciated to the | utmost and I do hope the reat of the fellow-men back there are as generous and obliging as yon t j Thanking you isn't enough, so i 1 shall repay you in the future | with a deed somewhat like you did for me. May you have the best of luck* with your work in the future. Thanking you again and again 1 Yemain, Very truly yours, ) RANSOM GRAHAM, BMle. U.S.C.G. j

HENDRICKSON BACKS EDGE FOR GOVERNOR TRENTON — In a formal declaration of his support of the present Republican gubernatorial candidacy of Walter E. Edge, New Jersey's Governor during the first World War, State Treasurer Robert C. Hendrickson said here today that the _ Edge candidacy “offers every citisen In the state the sort of unity and leadership here on the home front which will both encourage and Inspire thoae carrying ^he burdens of the war aa members of the nation’s armed force*.'*

FROM A SOLDIER Camp Mackall, N.G Dear Sir: This is a note of my appr*- • ciation to you and your company for sending me a copy of Tile Star and Wave. I want to tbewlr you personally for the fine moral* you are giving the soldier boy* in t t , *

know *1] the other boy* from Cape May ’ and the surrounding towns, will back me up on that Sincerely yours, THOMAS J: REILLY. -

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