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THE WEEKLY SERMON Whom Say Ye That I Am? By Adjutant Theo. F. Thompson, Director USO Club, Cape May.

SUBSCRIPTION PRICE 92-00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE TH,. PAPER IS ENTERED AT THE POST orric AT CAPE NAY.N. A AS SECOND CUASS MATTER. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES: AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION rts WEST TMIETY-NINTW STREET. NEW YORK. N. Y. Wa Vnay fiaai 9t Vs*. ■ ■ The possibiUty of interesting a steamship company in establishing a route between Philadelphia and Cape May to provide vacation transportation lor thousands of residents of the Philadelphia metropolitan area is being investigated by Cape May’s city commissioners. What the outcome of this attempt will be, no one, of course, can foretell. If the steamship companies, which operate Delaware River excursions between Philadelphia, Chester, Wilmineton and a number of amusement P*™® the river have equipment available, it is entirely p table that they will be receptive to the ^ the establishment of such service may not be far away. Availability of equipment is, of course, the biggest oroblem If that can be successfully met, the tnaugSZtion of Philadelphia-to-Cape May steamer service should not require a great deal of time. Itis proposed to have teesteamenteaveldown fte river, through the bay and through the Cape May Canal to the harbor, where existing wharves might well be used. Already the city commission’s proposal has had two definite results. It has obtained a considerable amount of publicity for Cape May aa a aeashore resort and it baa shown millions of " ew >r a .' >er ., r ?;?. e r«‘“I Cape May is progressive enough not to sit idb b> and watch transpbrtation curbs dry dp its resort business. The idea has been enthusiastically received in the metropolitan area and Cape May by thousairds o/ potential visitors who see tn it an extremely pleasant wv of coming to the shore and by hundreds of resort business people who see in it hope for a piuch better summer season than we would have without such a service. The boat ride from Philadelphia to Cape May is very pleasant and would be an ideal start and ending for a seashore vacation. So appealing is the proposal to the public that many predict if it is realized tins year, it will continue even after the war transportation emergency has passed. As we said before, we don’t know what the outcome of the plan will be, but we are certain that if such a route is established it will be highly successful at least during the present emergency, for it would bring a great mans, visitors to Cape May who cannot reach other resorts by auto, bus or train. Pending a reply from the steamship company that has been contacted, by city officials, all we can do is hope that adequate equipment is available. • •••«* Qaaus fjoas Boom! For about a rear now, there has been an eargplittine howl to tear up the New Jersey Constitution and write a new one. The loudest noises came from New Deal newspapers in the state. They breathed fire and brimstone on anyone who said a good word for the ancient document. Governor Edison, in his inaugural address nearly three rears ago, virtually excommunicated small counties from the state, and would prefer a Constitution tW would push the suburban counties in the corner. We were told almost daily that Constitutional revision was being demanded by the people and any legislator who so much as advised caution would be swept away In an avalanche of public indignation. The theme was that an obstinate group of Senators were depriving the people of their most cherished desire. Then came a YMCA-GaDup poll to take the public's racing pulse. Twenty-two hundred sample citizens were questioned. Seven per cent favored revision. Fifty-two per cent had no opinion at all! And an over-inflated “issue” blows up in the Governor’s face. Of course the Constitution need" change in some respects. So let’s study it calmly and not be bullied or frightened into hastily swallowing any half baked

plan.

Jo JiqhJtaAs' Jamilias: .An Honor Roll tor Cape May and vicinity will soon ed as a tribute to local men in the armed A committee composed of representatives of t Cape May’s organizations is making the ar^“ts and conducting a fund-raising drive to Honor Roll. guardian* or other relatives of local men ' he fighting forces are urged to send the branch of service and other pertinent imformatwn alfout their service man or woman to amrtnce D. Fikher, chairman of the Honor Roll Commtttee. so that the information wiO be available when it is naadad. _ / of the local Selective Service board and other community records will he used as a basis for the Honor Roll list, .but to avoid errors and omissions —psrticulariy of those who .enlisted in the various eervices before Selective Service and volunteers both before and since the beginning of conscription—it is (inired to obtain the information first-hand from the fMBiRee tooee concerned so that a double check can If you have someone in any branch of the service, MBd your information to the committee right away. The sooner ttey receive it, the sooner this community tribute to oar fighting men and women car. be ar-

MatL ISOS This mesaacc is si . ially to those who m*y be tempted to wonder if Christianity is the right thing for our present troubl ous^ime. “Whom say ye that I am?" The question fell from the lips of a Galilean Carpenter some two thousand years ago. At that time, the challenge appeared to concern a mere hand_ini at «ifnr'i- fitiipr^fiiit Today, the future progress and happiness of the whole human race is involved in the whole issue. The question persists down through the centuries: “Whom ssy ye that

I am?"

We modems cannot escape the challenge, even if we would. We rightly boast that ours is a scientific age. We have outgrown the days when, in meek submission, we would shut our eyes, open our mouths and swallow whatever others thought good for us. If the symbol of the Victorian age was a full stop, ours is the day of the question mark. We want to know; we must have the facts. Jesus iheJ N'aiarene is the outstanding fact'of all time. Look back upon the rough and thorny road which mankind h«« progressed, and you cannot escaj Him. Even the noted author, L G. Wells, perhaps the severest critic of the Bible, declares that of all the great benefactors of the human race, none can compare with the Carpenter of Galilee. “Whom say ye that I am?” Jesus is at least the worid’s Best Friend, replies Mr. Wells, in ef-

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Only about two hours are necessary to read the meager records of his amasing life. Born in poverty, reared in obscurity, He massed no wealth, made no new discovery, wrote no book, established no colleg-e, marshalled no army, founded no empire in fact, did nothing that ordinarily makes men great. By every known law, Jesus of Nazareth should have passed into oblivion centuries ago. Yet even the most ardent unbelievers -confess that He is the most potent influence in modem life. LIKE A GREAT AMEN He is dominant in music. In the great moments of- our lives —whether national or individual— we may pass by the multitude of melodies to which our feet have danced, and express our souls in those chords that sound like a great amen, those majestic harmonies which magnify His name. He is foremost in literature. All the splendid libraries buDt by Andrew Carnegie could not contain the volumes written about Him, whereas the Scriptures which testify of Him continue to be the world's best-seller, even in war-time. Even industry cannot escape Him. A hundred times every day the oft-iime grimy figures of little children tenderly handle Hi» likeness in the five-and-ten cent stores. He is in your home; even though He may not be the honored guest, you will find Him on the doorstep, for we are at least christened in His name; we are buried in His name; we are married in His name. UNSTAINED AND UNDIM MED But why Jesus? Why not Socrates, Buddha, or Confucius? It Would surely be. unscientific to evade the challenge. Who is this Galilean whose every word is a revelation, through whose character unstained and undimmed in its passage shone the light of another world ? Who _ is this man who hung truth like pictures on the walls of time, who dared to claim that even when the very heavens and the very earth are gime. His records would remain? Who is this Nazarene whom -Satan' could not seduce; whom death could not destroy, and whom the grave could not hold? If He be an impostor, how is it that in two thousand years, none of the learned and wise of this world have succeeded in exposing Him? ® The identity of Jesus of Nazareth is Yital to our day and generation. Whom did He declare Himself to be? When his contemporaries inquired, “How long dost thou make us to doubt ? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly." He replied in simple, language, “I and the Father are

one."

Let Hiis Man have His way with a nation or an individual and tiie result is ever the same. As light dispels darkness, as truth

An impersonal God leaves man to his own fata; it is up to us each to make the best of a bad job. It is a ease of every man for himself. Science has done her work well. She has gives u- the automobile for the ox-cart and the radio for the tom-tom. Science tells ns how to get more out of material, more out of our fellows, more out of our time. Religion is not opposed to science. Religion begins where science leaves off. Science tells us what things are, then religion tells us what use we can make of them. To our age Christ comes with His claim that God is Father. We are not the slaves of impersonal forces. We are intended to be free men in the family of our Father. Nor did He confine His claims to words. He lived it out to its ultimate conclusion in His own life. Every 'babe ever born into the world is born to live. Jesus was born expressly to die—born for the very purpose of dying in « prescribed manner. His death was got a murder over which we mourn. It was an accomplishment in which we glory. He died exactly as the Scriptures declared He would do. If we win not believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Eternal God, then to us the cross is a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense. If we offer Him no welcome, in the Bethlehem of our schools;* if we relegate Him to the outhouse of our social life; if in the councils of industry we cry, “Away with this Man;" if when peace comes we gently lay Him in a tomb with seal and guard; then as sure as night follows day, future generations—perhaps our own children— will rush headlong to the horror of another even bloodier war. For “there is none other Name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.” The nations stand at the crossroads. There must be no doubt as to the way to take. There is always a sign. It is the sign of the cross. It reads, “I am the Way;” and if we take His way: Then there shall come from out of this strife and groaning A broader and a juster brother-

hood.

A deep equality of aim, postponing All self-seeking for the common good. The time will come when each shall to another Be as Christ would have him— brother unto brother. We must ever remember that the challenge is essentially personal: “WHOM SAY YE THAT I AM?” We must each answer for ourselves. . “Jesus does not come in the' glory of the scientific or the intellectual order, any more than He comes in the order of military or kingly glory; He comes in the glory of His own holiness." And when, like a stamp on gold or a seal on wax, the life of Jesus presses down upon a penitent heart, the impression made is incomparable and ineffaceable. He saves from the uttermost to'the uttermost. He breaks the power of cancelled sin. He sets the prisoner'free; His blood can make the foulest clean, His blood avails for me. “Whom say ye that 1 am?” “Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God."

BY THE The soot coast and their cities have a ni ing angles. One is that they show the typical spirit of red blooded American youth is not deed, as some of youth’s critics in recent yean have charged. The fact that our service men, who typify the best in American youth, resent the asinine foppishness of some of the root-suiters is encouraging. It must be mighty

to see root-suiters and pictures of soot-suiters and to realise that they are a part of what they are giving their lives to preserve. Another angle—this one disquieting—is the fact that the soot suit. Which we believe started as a fad appealing, to a hep-cat market, has suddenly become a badge of hoodlumiam. On the west coast, it appears that the gangs of undesirables have adopted soot suits as their uniform. Recent reports indicate that the same situation holds true in some etstern cities. It is not unusual that the drape shape and the reet pleat should become a uniform for mobs of young undesirables. Such radical departures from conventional styles would appeal only to radical and erratic elements of society and to A jive-mad group of youngsters, most of whom could be brought back to acceptable conduct by the applicatiion of a parental paddle. Charge it up to war hysteris or pre-war hysteria. The harmless, although disgusting, part of the present situation began several years ago with the introduc-

either not old t S service or those rejected ss for service for one reason or another. Why organised gangs of west coast root-suiters should set upon service men and launch a wave of stabbings, slashings and beatings, we do not know. Had the service men, rankled with justifiable disgust st the sight of soot suits, started the trouble, we could understand the reasons. At any rate, here is a situation that demands immediate action on the part of all law enforcement officers and the social planners. If it is hot settled properly by them, we are confident that the service men will attend to the settling in their own

way.

Thank heaven that Hie root suit fad has touched Cape May only slightly. Maybe the present disturbances will spike the craze and prevent its further spread.

JjrflaAA Jo Jha frditoh . .

THANKS FOR MEMORIES

To the Editor:

Since 1 left Cape May, almost four years ago, people have died down^there—old folks, who used t.6 pat me on the head and tell .fee what' a nice voice I had when I sang in Convention Hall and in churchy-colored folks, who always used/io want me to wait on them when I worked in grocery stores on ^Washington street because I’d give ’em good weight—I’ll miss ’em all when I get back. Then, new people have been born there—and the kids who used to run around having fun are either being married or drafted. Lot* of the girls who used to wear short skirts and show their scrawny knees are now proud mothers, figuring out ration points, or working for defense, or

are nurses.

With each issue of the Star and Wave that yon send me, I’ can see each of these people as they were then—I can make the old folks live again for a few minuts—I can run around with the lads, like I used to on the beach—and—well, I just live there again each week. I made many memories in old Cape May—things that .1 couldn’t possibly forget—so I’ve got a stinkin’ hunch that I'll be back after this is all over. This time though, HI bring a family with me—my charming wife, and lovely daughter, Rachelle anj! Carolynne, respectively. So all this is simply to say thanks, Mr. Editor—thanks for the weekly paper, and—a million thanks for the memories.

Gratefully,

STANLEY MURRAY,

ington offering me this duty I am now on—training firemen, oilers and watertenders for our new Liberty ships. This is interesting work as you meet all types of men who want to lend a hand in restoring peace on this world

once more.

After five weeks’ preliminary training they are put on this ship to learn the practical end of their jobs and then taken in our West Coast training station for additional training m theiir jobs and the customs of the U. S. Merchant Marine. I left home to go to sea in 1933 and haven’t lived there very much since, so I suppose a lot of people won’t remember me. But I’ll never forget Cape May and all the nice people there. I read the Star and Wave whenever I get one and sure enjoy it My mother, Mrs. Louis J. Sayre, has a lot of letters to write as she has four sons in the service and is one of the few mothers in Cape May to give so many to the services. She knows all her boys love her. Sincerely yours, LOUIS E. SAYRE

Ensign

U.S.M.S.T.S. American

Sailor

c/o Postmaster Long Beach, Cal.

that could even think of v service. The rest have no facilities even if they wanted sb service from the big cities.

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Maybe the idea won’t materialize. Maybe it’ll hang fire like the canal -did for so many yean and like the Cape May - Lewee ferry has done for yean and years. But at any nte it’s giving folks a lot to talk about and . tlunk about, and it certainly is getting Cape May talkedaboot in the dty, which isn’t bad publicity any way you take it The war and silly regulations notwithstanding, it looks as if Cape May is going to have a summer season after all. Recent weekends have brought large crowds of visitors to this resort . - . good crowds for mid-June. If that’s an indication well still be in there pitdiin’ willy-nilly. Some local folks were pleasure * dn T; n ? Sunday ... but don’t get excited. They were touring the town in a horse-drawn carriage and seemed to be getting a big kick out of it. Now thereTl probably be a federal directive rationing horseshoes. Oh, hum... They tell us there are going to be two more Saturday evening dances at Convention Hall before the city’s entertainment program gets under way for the season. Both events will be benefits for the Cape May Honor Roll Board, on which names of all men ana women in the armed forces will be inscribed. The committee in charge of arranging for the honor roll is doing a good job and” the cause is certainly worthwhile. The main thing that is needed is the continued support of the public to supply funds for the enterprise. But the committee isn’t asking for just charitable donations. They’re offering two more full evenings of pleasant entertainment in return for the purchase of tickets.

Repair shops in the U. S. Navy are named for characters in Roman and Greek mythology.

CONVALESCING Mrs. Frank W. Hughes is convalescing after undergoing a major operation in the Atlantic City Hospital on Saturday morning. MBS. SWAIN CONVALESCING Mrs. Charles Swain is convalescing at her home on Jackaon street after being iH for the past two weeks.

grades. He liberates and never binds. He purifies and never contaminates. He gives beauty for ashes, the oB of jey for mourning, the garments of praise for the spirit of * *

What Other Papers Say TO THE SHORE VIA BOAT The pleasant prospect is now pending of being able to travel to the seashore this summer via the Wilson Line. Cape May County officials have asked the boat line officials to run their ships from Philadelphia to the South Jersey shore resort. At present the Wilson Liners are regularly sailing between Philadelphia, Chester, Penns grove and Wilmington, and there’s hardly a more interesting boat trip anywhere in these United States. The run to Cape May, down the bay and through the Cape May Canal, would be a thrilling addition to ^Tfison Line service. If the Wilson line should start the Bay-Shore service—tarn, that’s a good name for ill—and we hope they will, we have an idea the boats will be booked weeks ahead. We’re sending in oor reservation today. George Smith, of the Ess ington Yacht Yard, who knows the river and bay like a book, estimates the Wilson liners can make the trip in four to five houre. —From the Chester, Pa., Times,

Public’s Cooperation Asked

Cape May viators and r raid rati are urged to ofcaerre

Amy cegalatioas which prohibit persona from hang on the beach after dark and which baa the em of caaorao and field giseare along the

Pcana food misting the regale tiras will he eaMect to thoreeg* iaveotigatiM by eefherttia. -a proeaas which thkas valaaUe time and ee'iohorr reaid rat. and mitora. bat thTregaiatians arar fa force .art he eh eyed fa tin fad a i el■ of eecnrity," ~ n a^fafaa*.

MMlc u. a c. g. P. -S. Sincere regards to “C. Worthy.” MERCHANT SEAMAN WRITES To the Editor: It sure has been a long time since I wrote to our great little newspaper. The last time I wrote was over a year and a half ago and I was leading a contented and happy life in Palm Beach. Fla. Now that conditions have changed and I am back to sea once more I’m writing to let you know what’s going on around

me.

After graduating from . Merchant Marine Officers Training' and securing both an unlimited marine steam engineer’s license and an unlimited marine Diesel engineer’s license, I was chosen along with 25 others to act as an engineering instructor for the U. S. Maritime Service. A-fter several months of this duty, the call of the sea was heard, and I answered, so I shipped out on the sea I love so well. After several trips to the South Pacific war area, where I met— of all people—Harry Bachman, who gave me a ride in his Higgins Landing Boat and nearly drowned me and about 50 marines with spray from the rough seas and the speed of the boat He tojd me that my old Merchant Marine friend Russell Whitney had just left a day or eo before on a tanker bound for the C. S- . is a licensed mate and a great fellow. Harry told me he had seen Harold Rhodes and he was wounded slightly. He said he didn’t have much time to talk to Harold as he had several urgent . things to do and couldn't stay and chat. I -alio visited my brother-in-law oa one of my trips. He sure was glad and surprised to see me and get aD the news from home (Florida). He is a Nary man sad has done a lot of diving _ ^ other repair work fleet after their battles and^also took part in a lot of On my return from my last trip J received a letter from toe U. fi. Maritime Service in Wash-

Millions of Vacation ists are Nearby

We’re within a stone's throw of more than 5,000,060 vacationists. Most of them are work weary and need a change, rest, relaxation. These prospective vacationists, from the clerk to the industrial Worker, have incomes far greater than ever before . . . and they are being urged to spend some of, it to regain their working strength. In planning for our season’s business we should keep the members of these new income groups in mind, as potential substitutes for many former patrons that may not be able to visit us this year.

PERCY H. JACKSON, Diracfer BfVAITaiRT Of VREUC AffAIEI