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By the Rev. F. Paul Langhome, pastor. Cape

Island Baptist Church, Cape May

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Battered and bruised by a series of war-time transportation curbs imposed by the federal government, the seashore cthife week took another body blow in the form of elimination of bridge trains to and from Philadelphia during summer weekends. While it is unpleasant for Cape May and the other resorts, apparently little can be done about it. The war, you know . . . The railroad has left much to be desired from.the standpoint of equipment and schedules in the past, but in the present situation it appears that we can expect little more than the schedule announced on Friday. Naturally, Cape May and the other resorts desire everything they can get in the way of train service, for this year the railroads will have to carry the bulk of seashore visitors. Thousands of city residents want to come to the shore, are anxious for vacations this year, but with the ban on pleasure driving and curtailed bus service, it is up to the railroads to answer the transportation problem. The number of trains between the city and the shore is probably as great as we can expect under the circumstances. It is unfortunate, however, that in scheduling what trains we are allowed, the railroad company did not try to make the hours of departure and arrival as convenient as possible for the general traveling public. For example, we can see no excuse for a 6 a. m. train and another at 6:39 when a train leaving at 9 a. m. would be so much more convenient for most passengers. The big question concerning the ultimate value of the railroad to the resorts is the number of cars put on the trains allotted under the new schedule. The resorts can probably get by if the railroad adds enough cars to its scheduled trains to accommodate all who desire to come to the shore. At this point, all we can do is hope for the best.

_Text: U . Corinthians 10:12— themselves by themselTes, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not

wise.”

Some leaders of thought and moulders of public opinion tell us we are at the parting of the way. Who of us dare take note of the speed and direction in which we are moving, and picture the end of such a course ? Hus is the hour of reckoning if we, and our children, with our boasted civilisation, are not to go the way of Babylon and Rome. We all have a tendency to.take a wrong standard for the 'measure of our lives. We are told that rt is “not wise to measure ourselves by ourselves.” The employer does not ask you what you think of yourself in comparison with the other workmen in his employ. The government does not ask you how your weights and measures compare with the other business men's about you. /That was a sorry at Sinai when Aaron, pointthe golden calf, said, be thy gods, 0 Israel.” Both God and man have been ashamed of that hour. But shortly another leader, his features aglow with divine love, stood before that same people and said, “Ye have sinned. Repent and return unto the Lord that your chUdren may not perish in this wilderness.” That was a great hour, as God and history testify. Which hour are we now in ? Whose call do we heed, and what measure do we use? The return of the Pentecost

Racial animosities would be drowned in a sea of brotherhood. War, with all its horror, its brutality, its devilistmess, would be an utter impossibility. “Peace on earth" would become

a glorious imUttm.

The cynic said, “I could have made a better world than this.” Said the sage, “That is why God put you here. Go ahead and

do it”

The lowly and wise, are they waiting and watching for Him? Only those who look for Him sKall behold Him. The hver of history found .a new channel ifc Christ Empires and peoples have bowfcd through the ages at His teaching, and all . mankind are invited to "take room for Him in their heart*- God’s answer to the cry * S*. worid * or help is the love of Const, and the question is will, you take Him to be the standard

measure of your life?

“O come thou again, for the cen-

turies have flown,

And surely the hard hearts must

softer have grown

And surely the blind eyes have

opened to see -

O come to the world that is wait-

^ ing for Thee!

Let my heart be Thy resting

place,

Lord of the {wart! Arise there, be found there, and never depart!’’ &f>e CTARBOARD WATCH

rise to heights of power and of wildcat strikes in vital industries, have you ever stopped to wonder what our fighting men think of these rank displays of unpatritAk, selfish childishness? Can you imagine their feelings as they slog about in the hell erf modern warfare when they hear or read that any one man or, group of men is attempting to set himself above not only the government but the country . . . their country which they are r to preserve . . .the printhat they are dying to

stay out we < w our griping is 1_ founded but we all j:

Things most seem pretty hopeless to these men on the battlefields when they go into battle, knowing that their own countrymen are wrecking the very things for which they are fighting . . . Pretty hopeless when treason is permitted to run rampant at home. Excerpts from a letter written by a friend of D, C. Applegate to another friend show what one of our fighting men thinks:

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ured, not by what they can im-

part, but by what they can re- By C. WorthV

ceive. The ox can receive but little! The dog can receive yet more. And the capacity of receptiveness gives accurate measurement and gradation of animals and men. I say men! For the same law holds good in the human species. There are some who receive little. On the other hand, there are those who are as a house when its windows are all open, and the sun and the wind play through its chambers. And when we view them on the higher levels of receptiveness—the levels

Formation of a Civic Honor Roll Committee to arrange for the financing, purchase and erection of an Honor Roll board on which the names of all local men and women in the nation’s armed forces will be inscribed was accomplished last Friday and plans were immediat£Ty launched to begin the task of financing the

project.

First event scheduled as a benefit for the Cape May Honor Roll is a dance to be held at Convention Hall Saturday evening, June 12, which the committee hopes the community will support wholeheartedly. Wishing to avoid canvassing the town for donations and desiring to give contributors something for their money besides the satisfaction of being among those

of mind and soul—we find that their intellects and their spirits alike are as pools that stand waiting for the pools to flow into them. From history and poetry, from science and art, from past and present, they are ministered unto ceaselessly. Renewed in mind, transformed in spirit, they become like Him of whom they have received. Their walk and conversation is with God. Never until Christ came was the greatness of this capacity to receive *o demonstrated. Christ showed what man might be, and thereby fixed his value. Heaven paid auch a price that man himself

was astonished.

If you hear loud groans and, moans from most quarters of thq town, don't blame ’em all on the OBA’s ban on pleasure driving. Lots of people who have been all in'a dither about that have forgotten their anguish and resentment for the time being. The reason? The new‘income tax law which puts us on a pay-as-you-go basis July 1. The only thing we can say in favor of the new law —besides its pay-as-you-go fea-

sacrifices they are making.

Support your Civic Honor Roll Committee in this *nd the other fund-raising activities it will sponsor! Gwaks Jo Jhs (pdiis ...

responsible for such a worthwhile project, the coftPx P 16 . * dvent °t Christ came not mittee has arranged the dance to provide an evening “ nder8too ‘j of wholesome entertainment in return for the pubUc's m,s,u TO ”^„ t id k by < 'E “ support. erience. but in the way of God’s Other events undoubtedly will follow, for, although p* 1 *®** holiness and righteousno definite costs have yet been obtained, the expense “! ute °!? r Lord s 0 f . suiUble tribute to our fighting men and women ,,nd repeat the wgelic welco^fc Will be considerable. The fund Will have to be suffici- the Prince of Peace, that by a ently large to provide for constant additions to the terrible irony the heavens around Honor Roll. u * ar ® black with storm and danThe Civic Honor Roll Committee is composed of p^Lking bj^every A7representatives of most of the community’s civic and "age, and suffering every form patriotic organizations. Others have been asked to °* pain; and that by each other’s join in the movement to make this a real community hands “ k •' in • u€h project hi honor thooo of the community who are giv- KoStn'iS ng *> much for us at home. which heralfed the Inc.WtionTf Here is your opportunity, Mr. and Mrs. Cape May t * ,e ^° n °I God:- the Magnificat. . . . your opportunity to thaw in a very small measur'e ‘, k '5^?“' '* tint .; at home have «,< forgotten oar tighfmg forces. V'E?'",’ £ w really appreciate the tremendous "Man of Sorrows." They are fol-

lowed immediately by "Rachel weeping for her children" at Bethlehem, and the flight from the sword of Herod. But yet in those dreadful days on earth, of blood and pain and triumphant iniquity, there was peace in heaven and joy of the angels; for

S'.ta* Employment S*™ U* week Srt ' tK £ suddenly halted its extensive farm labor recruiting see through, the angels knew who efforts just as the season when its services would be *** conquering. He is conquering most valuable arrived. and to conquer still. All falsev*** Nr* o- iw«"«? r* “• “«rw zr&iFZrz ars: facility for doing the wrong thing at the wrong time, fore Him. Amid the darkness of the USES announced that its appropriation for special our lif*. the hope of man is still farm labor recruiting had been depleted and that it was 011 ®‘ ra - M and as sure as withdrawing from the farm labor held. diMPPoim » /- _ ....... , „ ol hu hope, like the sunshine In Cape May County, the Agricultural Extension that falls with magical flicker “ and the farm board immediately jumped into 00 P® arl and ruby, lance and with a plan to carry on its own farm labor 2 rmoui \ in royal hall, yet over-

* Cod'* House clergyman luu,

toserve ajymergency farm labor nacistam priwer', cdl; pfS, cl„y the county office in Ckpe May Court -—

_ "e all applications for farm labor and laborers will i be cleared and coordinated.

/ Probably in the long run, county farmers will be x ysisL as well! oIf. Experience in the past has shown that the horfte folks can usually do a better job of

than most of the highly vaunted federal

agencies.

The maddening thing about the situation is mat - _ . . for months the USES has been talking about the farm ,n * ****•„- labor problem. For months its tremendous staff has “ T*

been issuing releases and regulations and directives revolutionary wnu would occur relative to farm labor. But the real need for all this Selfishness would die a death

is just beginning. Farmers generally have been able of * tarv, tion

to get their crops in the ground with skeleton crews , w *~£** woald ** hun * h * h « r

and the grace of Providence. It is now, when har- FoohriT^n

ture—is that it’s better than liquor if you like to have your head

spin. . . .

Apparently the Washington boys have decided that so long as so many people wanted pay-as-you-go income taxes last Mach, they were going to give it to ’em • . . with emphasis on the paypart of the phrase. Some of the figures are guaranteed to rock

you for generations.

nice thing about it, though: If the OPA keeps up for another year or two no one will have to worry about income taxes. The big wt»rry then will be about income which will be conspicuous

by its absence.

Mr. Morgenthau must feel mighty pleased with himself now that he's spent half the incomes of all the great American public. Hinoner asks us to put 25 per cent in war bonds, tells us to put 20 per cent in income and victory taxes with a darned good prospect of higher rates soon, and then lies awake nights thinking up things for us to do with the other 55 per cent . . . besides try-’ *“ regularly and keep

and clothed.

Part of-hia letter follows: “I have been at this location for eight weeks now and have had

a generally interesting time al-

though we are just about six degrees south of the line which

makes for pretty tough living and health conditions. As an exam-

ple, I’ve lost 20 pounds which

makes me wonderfully svelte but also pretty weak in the knees.

“We live in tents and fox holes m a shattered coconut tree grove

and have been without any con-

veniences but are slowly getting

a few. We recently landed some

big refrigerators and are begin-

ning to get some frozen meat

whicji is a welcome variation from

Spalh and dehydrated vegetables. ^-We ;recently landed some fresh

potatoes for the first time and you would have thought they were

some v exotic fruit the way we wentJor them. We have plenty of-' coffee, which probably sounds

attractive to anyone at home. I

think the hardest thing to get tised to is the long nights with absolutely nothing 1 to do for amusement. It gets dark about

18:30 and the anepholes mosquitoes come out and so do the Japs. “It's most encouraging to hear

of the big effort the company is making in production. Out here

we begin to doubt anyone but the few- we conUct is in the war

with us. It’s an unreasonable attitude but it comes from hearing of strikes and working hours

which have no place at all in this

scheme of things. It seems that everything We get is by superhuman effort beginning with get-

ting out our dispatches on over-

NOBODY home

With thousands of women working in war plants, for Red Cross, or in Civilian Defense activities, it has become increasingly difficult for our meter readers to get meter readings because they find no one home. It is as important to you as to us to get regular monthly readings, so please cooperate with us in seeing that we obtain a reading if your meter is inside the house. You will find that our meter reader comes about the same day each month. If your house is closed when he comes, he will leave a one-cent return post card with dials corresponding to your meter indicated on it. In this case please read your own meter promptly and mail us the card.' It is . very simple to mark it. If you are in doubt about it stop at any Jersey Central office and we will show you how. JERSEY CENTRAL POWER & LIGHT COMPANY

ourselves housed i

Here’s a war-time poem by H. F. Davis, of Plainfield, a typical

New Jersey motorist:

Oh where are my sturdy motor

cars,

Buick and Chevrolet . . . ? They are bedded down in the coo!

garage.

And there they will have to stay. Awaiting the touch of a "Van-

ished Hand"

(Otherwise gas and oil)

They look quite sad—but eager

to go

And resume their daily toil.

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Your Home is Second Front

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playful splendor on the wave, to touch the tiniest thing with the gladness that makes it great. So does the Savior's love, not deterred by our own unworthiness, not offended by our slights, come down to teach and bless the lowliest life in the new creation. This glorious season of spring, giving joy and happiness; emulat-

. . . ... , , Foolish pride would go down in vesting rtarta and whan cultivating and weeding and crushing def— fighting insects is so important, that the bulk of farm Senaeles.

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j insects is so important, that the bulk of farm • is needed. Naturally, it is now—the critical

time—when the USES say* “Sorry, boys, you’ll have _ .

to •nrrj about this yubndoeo. Wen all out of

strife and silly biek-

Jasus for the

log and pet my

dog.

And look-at their shiny sides, A gallon a week—it's a hollow sound When I think of those yesteryear Sides. For many a happy joyous mile They have carried me afar. In the morning cool, through the midday sun At night by the light of a star. I hope some day they will run , again, gy ®weet rivers and bossy dell. But now they must take a wellearned rest Till we beat the Japs to hell. (Ditto Adolph) CONTINUE LIGHTING CONTRACTS ON CAPE TRENTON _ Agreements for continued financial aid from thestate for road safety lighting were signed todayaby Dr, Spencer Millet, Jr., state highway codftnissioner, for additional counties and municipalities. The iasts will be * shared grants from automobilfees and gasoline' 1 agreements were those with Cape May County* Board of Freeholders for Rautsa 4. 47, *», S-4S and 50.

Conserve Critical Equipment for Victory T HE conservation of''critical aquipxnsnt for Victory is tip to you homomakers . . . and if you ere a homomaker by day and on the "swing shift" by night it's all th# more important

During these upside down wartimes, we are more aware than ever that cleanliness is next to godliness, but cleaning time has a celling, too, now and must fit into a crowded routine schedule. An electric vacuum cleaner is quick, hygienic, thorough—so guard that and all of your precious equipment grimly.

frar conditions prevent our usual promptness but well try not to keep you waiting too long.” Bril Phone 181 Keyrtoite 4000