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Sum 9i'A Junpowjut Led by Atlantic City, many South Je j? ey .. munities on Tuesday protested the proposed ehnnnation of bridge trains between thi§ sectl0 ^Lf p n J r Slj: delphia during weekends this summer. were filed at a hearing before the Public Utility Commission in Trenton. _ . , Cape Mav expressed its views in an efficial communication to the Public Utility Commission, although it did not make an issue of the bridge tram dummtion Cape May officials hold the opinion that the bridge train curtailment is not a Ber ! 0 4 s resorts, for it means only arrival and departure at a different terminal with little, if any, more inconvemence for the average visitor. , , , . Instead of adding its official voice to tbe howls of protest about the bridge train, Cape May s City Commission protested' the against the proposed summer schedule on the ground that it is highly inconvenient to most passengers. The fact that fr -010 Mon aj through Friday there will be trains leaving CapeMay at 6 a m. and 6:39 a. m. was one of the objections filed on the premise that it is an “Potion of service. A morning train to Philadelphia, leaving at 8 or 9 o’clock, would be much more valuable and convenient. The other objection filed by Cape May concerned the evening tram to this resort. Formerly one left Philadelphia at 4:30 and another at 5.55. Under the new schedule, however, it is proposed to compromise and have one train leaving for Cape May at 5 o’clock, which is unsatisfactory- to the majority of most of the regular passengers who used either of the two former trains. The reason that Cape May officials avoided the main issue of the hearing is that it is felt that ehrmnation of the weekend bridge tram might tend to encourage more mid-week travel to this resort, thereby reducing the peak weekend loads which jam most facilities of all resorts and spreading the business out during the normally dull mid-week periods. Regardless of the position taken in the present controversy, there seems to be little hope of much improved train service for the duration. The railroads point to the increased war-time traffic and the ODT in reply to any criticism of curtailed service, and there is no doubt some merit to their arguments. The important thing, as we see it, is to make certain that any curtailment of service is purely an emergency and temporary condition, and that normal servicers resumed as soon after the war as possible. And such service as is afforded, should be arranged more sensibly than morning trains leaving within forty minutes. ^ •••••• Jeanuixfik fPuhADttiftuieL The Borough Commission of West Cape May last week instructed its officers to make full payment of all current county and state taxes and to pay in full the current obligations to the West Cape May Board of Education. By its action, W’est Cape May became one of the very few municipalities anywhere in New Jersey and particularly in this area to wipe out its major current obligations. For some time the financial position of our neighboring community has been constantly improving. With a substantial cash balance, a good percentage of tax collections and with its obligations met promptly, West Cape May has demonstrated what can be done when everyone works together. Such an outstanding administrative record can be possible only when taxpayers meet their obligations promptly. But that alone is not enough. It also requires qualified leadership on the part of the governing body, and a business-like administration which can manage the affairs of the community in a conservative manner. West Cape May is extremely fortunate in having such a combination functioning in the general interests of the community. The offiicials and the citizens of West Cape May deserve commendation for their joint efforts which have resulted in such a healthy condition. • • • • Plod) (Dhinidnq Tnin&ii! City officials recently introduced an ordinance designed to break up drinking among minors. The new measure prohibits minors from entering liquor-selling establishments unless accompanied by parent or • guardian, prohibits them from purchasing alcoholic x beverages and imposes fines or jail sentences or both for violations. \Here is an ordinance for which there has been real need\for some time. The New Jersey alcoholic beverage. control law imjMses\penalties upon licensees who sell to minors, but no priuilties are rorided for minors who violate the law. They are the ones who cause most of the sing as adults, yet they go scot free. r’s new ordinance, if it is finally adopted, ag deterrent to the youth who now freely .dult. But with a likelihood that he or seriously involved, most minors will before subjecting themselves to fines or jail terms. Personal appearance is not always an infallible guide to a person’s age. Only by obtaining a written statement in cases that age is questionable can a licensee properly protect himself. But where a minor looks older than his years and gives assurance that he is, a licensee would be hard put to decide against servCape May’s new ordinance apparently fills an important gap in existing state laws. Perhaps the Legislature will recognise' its value and enact legislation to cover the situation for the state as a^whole.

THE WEEKLY

True Greatness

By the Rev. Samuel Blair, Pastor of the First

Methodist Church, Cape May. We are all familiar, l am sate, with the chemist’s somewhat facetious analysis of the human body and the relative value of its constituent elements. He states that the average human body con-

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a pair of blankets, sugar enough to make a small cake, fat enough

end of the Oriental potentate who was very unhappy and summonsd a philosopher to ask for a HtUs advice. Characteristically, the philosopher told him to seek ofit the most contented^ man ir his kingdom, and to wear for a while his shirt. But when, after exhaustive search, they found, the

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for seven bars of soap, iron man, as yon may have surmised, '

enough to make a ten-penny nail, he had no shirt,

potassium enough to fire a child’s Just at a time when our home* cannon, lime enough to whitewash are equipped with all manner of “ „ and sulpl,ur radgeta and ingenious devices; enough to tall the fleas on a me- when our offices boast of every J

Ana. .♦ . modern appliance from dicta*-

dium-sized dog, at a total value of less than an Ingersoll watch. Be that as it may, it must be obvious to all right-thinking people that the things we point to. when we wish to justify our existence- are not so much those which car. be calculated in terms of monetary values. You see.

phones to air conditioning, when all the forces of land ‘ and sea end sky have lent themselves to man as willing servants, to carry his messages, ran his errands, reap his harvests, pull his trains and push his ships—in an age when a thousand instruments .that

man is a peat deal bigger on make for refinement and culture the inside than he is on the out- have been invented and man is' side, though people who measure tempted to address his soul in the " " ‘ familiar language of the rich but

feet in inches and weight . avoirdupois may think it difficult to think so. Nevertheless, “the spotless soul within outshines the

fairest skin.”

That is precisely why, although

man “looketh on the oui

pearance, God looketh heart.” Well He knows that beauty is not in the pigments, but in the soul of the artist who blends them; grace is not in marble, but in the vision of the. sculptor who works on it; harmony is not on notes printed on

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APPRECIATION To the Editor: Just a word of appreciation for the ladies who sacrifice their Sunday afternoons as well as the evenings during the week to make sandwiches for the service men at the local 'USO Club. Truly they are among the unsung heroines who are donating their services in the war effort of this country. They serve the boys with a pleasant smile and a kind word. Three cheers for them! JOHN F. HANDFORD C.Y. US NR U. S. Naval Base

DEFENDS U.S.E.S. To the Editor: Out of justice to the U. S. Employment Service someone ought to comment on your editorial of issue of June 10, "Awake to the Crisis." USES stopped its farm placement service June 1 because Congress voted in April to give the work to the Extension Service. USES did not forsake farmers just before the busy season because of any typical New Deal perversity. Congress ordered it. While our farmers hope that new awareness of need for food will spur people to take farm jobs, and that better farm wages will attract more farm workers than got into overalls and straw hats last year, arid while our local labor committee can do much to keep the Extensiion Service farm labor program as sane and sensible as possible, we still believe that farmers themselves must, as last year, look around for help if the work is to be done. Three hundred farmers can locate more workers than can any office. We are going to use the office, but it is going to be a hard battle all summer to get enough farm workers. While we farmers hope that the new office can do more for farmers than did the USES last year when overburdened in finding labor for defense work, we believe that USES would have served farmers well this year. The Wildwood office had a man, Howard Shields, visiting farms, and the farmers liked him. I do not think it • is fair to represent our farm board and Extension Service as leaping into a breach left by the retreat of the USES. We had word in April of the change. Manager Henning, USES, Wildwood, sat with our committee and gave us good advice based on -his experience with the labor situation in this county. He and Howard Shields have continued hearty cooperation down to the present moment, I know, and will transfer any applications they receive for farm jobs. Editor, I do not know whether or not your editorial suggests that we are financing the new

farm labor office with local funds. The Extension Service has $70,000 federal and state funds for the work in New Jersey. We expect to have about $1,200 of this money. It will be used to cover the many expenses necessary un running any office, phone, postage, travel, salaries, etc. If our farm labor office can help locate a few hundred workers in the busy June to October farm season, it will be money well spent. Yours truly, THEODORE B. YOUNG, President Cape May County Board of Agriculture IN APPRECIATION Traax Field Madison, Wis. To the Editor: You are doing a grand service for those who are in the service by -keeping us in constant contact with what is happening in Cape May through your newspaper. Each and everyone of us do certainly appreciate it. Also I wish to notify you of a change in my address. Sincerely, PFC ROBERT G. HUGHES

fsihe S TARBOARD WATCH By C. Worthy Now they tell us the OPA's even got a theme song: “That Old Black Market's Got Me

Oh well, if the OPA and all its antics have done nothing else they’ve at least provided all of us with conversation material

enough to last for years. And - —. incidentally, we wouldn’t be too Cognizance of this fact inspired surprised if the OPA might have f bp familio*- —'i'•

paper, but in the soul of the poser; grandeur is not in stone, but in the mind of the architect who plans the building., In other words, men make values, but character makes men. “By their fruits ye shall know them,” declared the penniless philosopher

of Galilee.

After all, no one is asked to accepr life, it is thrust upon us. It is not a choice, we must take it. Our only choice is the attitude we assume toward its use or its investment. In this particular it is regrettable to confess that by all too many it is regarded . from the bargain-counter standpoint—a conception typified by St. Peter when, addressing Jesus, he said: “We have forsaken all and followed thee, what shall we have, therefore? (St.

Matthew 19:27)

That such is a most unsatisfying philosophy is obvious when one views the contemporary scene. The laboring man strikes for higher wages, only to discover that when the larder is full that “man does not live by bread alone,” and he is restless again.

selfish farmer of old: “Thou hast much goods laid up . . . take thine ease.” At such a time, strangely enough, from the

.. 0 .. depths of human society to its ^ the outward ap- heights, there are operative in

men’s hearts strange yearnings that are not met, and wistful longings that go unappeased. The fact is man can never take his ease, even amid all this material opulence, so long as his soul is starving for “bread to eat that the world knows not of." Alas! So much of our so-called culture is nothing more than a thin veneer that warps under the heavy pressure of life. The syncopated and synthetic way of living soon exhausts itself because * it has no fundamental Sources of replenishment. You see, we are built with the steady pull of God upon us, thus the whole set and tension of our lives is toward the heights we haven’t yet climbed. * The Master diagnosed the cause of all our difficulty when in quiet sincerity he declared “ye will not come to me that ye might have

life.”

some bearing on the next presidential election. You just can’t

get votes thataway.

Here it is almost the official beginning of the summer vaca~ti°n season and we’re still griping about the administration when we should be offering our best wishes to Ed Griffin, who is going to be floor manager at Convention Hall this summer. Ed was appointed Friday after Fred England, a veteran of five summers at the pier, found that he frozen in a war job in Flor-

Colonel Douglas Is Assigned To Camp Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hulburt Douglas, U. S. Army, has completed the General Staff course at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and has been re-assigned to an infantry division at Camp Van Dorn, Miss. Colonel Douglas is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Bacon Douglas, summer residents at 1049 New York avenue, Cape May. Before entering the U. S. Military Academy, Colonel Douglas resided in Swarthmore, Pa., where he- was a student at Swarthmore Colleger

Will Represent Cape At State Conference TRENTON—A war-time conference under the auspices of the New Jersey Chapter, National Association of Postmasters, will be held here June 26 and 27. A program has been arranged that will consolidate into a constructive conference, complete in discussions of postal and government affairs, interspersed wiith association matters and current legislati&n of interest to all postmasters. Cape May County will be represented by LeRoy Jeffries, of Ocean City, county director, and Patrick J. Shortt, Wildwood, assistant county director.

Public’s Cooperation Asked Cape May viators sad residents are urged to obaerre carefully Aray regulations which prohibit persons front being on the beach after dark and which baa the use «< can eras and field glasses along the

ida.

In spite ox everything, the ban on pleasure driving, no gas for party boats and all the rest of the resort headaches—Cape May will be a thousand per cent better off than Atlantic City. Now the Army has cancelled leases on 35 hotels in that resort and plans to move out by July 15 .... too late to do anything about this season’s vacation business. That must be an awful jolt to the

W’orld’s Playground.

With a blow like that plus the likelihood that Cape May has found a way to beat the transportation problem—if the steamer line between Philly and this city materializes—Atlantic City business people must feel pretty sick about the whole thing. But Cape May isn't escaping without plenty of headaches. The biggest problem in these parts is getting help to man the resort businesses. Last summer the r . — serious. This/7, summer, it looks as if it’s going/ to be acute. Remember the good old days when all a merchant had to worry about was getting cusThis series of pre-season Saturday evening dances at Convention Hall to raise funds for the community honor roll is serving a dual purpose. They're giving lots of folks some place to go and something to dp on Saturday nights and at the same time are giving the committee a start toward the purchase of the honor roll. Well see y’all at the final benefit dance this coming Sat-

the familiar poetic exhortation: "If thou of fortune be bereft, And in thy store there be but

left

Two leaves, sell one, and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed they soul.” The captain of industry tears down his barns, factories and office buildings, and in their stead erects more imposing structures according to the latest modernistic designs—only to find that “the flavor doesn’t last,” for “a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things he possesseth.” And he is restless again. Man is not contented very long with mere animal comforts. W’e live longer today than our fathers did. We travel faster; we earn more and we learn more, but are we any happier, that's_ the thing? Remember the leg-"

Tennyson uttered the burdened cry of the human heart when he wrote: “Tis life whereof our nerves are scant, O life, not death, for^ which we pant, More life, and fuller, that we want” Such a life is gloriously available to all those who will accept ’ the challenge of the Lord himself: “He that will be my disciple, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow me.” Such a challenge sets apart those who are eager to assume a cross * and endure hardship, as distinct from the people who are clutching for a crown or reaching for a scepter. Those who meet the challenge do so fully persuaded that while sacrifice is in the law of greatness, the eternal God is their refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. They are aware, too, that— “Not where the Hanging Gardens Gleamed over Babylon, But in the den of lions "The wings of the angel shone.” Far from the feast where princes In gold and scarlet trod, Through the burning fiery fur-

Straight From The Shoulder

BY THE OBSERVER

Monday's papers carried feature stories about a 12-year-old boy who has recently been honorably discharged after serving almost a year in the Marine Corps, the last seven months as a private first class. The fact that he was five years under the minimum age limit was discovered recently by Marine Corps author-

Jimmy Baker, of Jacksonville,

Fla., is the lad who fooled his commanding officers and his buddies about his age. When be was discharged, his commanding officer lauded him for • his cx-

rilent record and told him iQge heaven and earth to get

nim back in his command if he still wanted to be a Marine when

he reached the age of 17. That’s a pretty good sample of

how youngsters feel about this war and also a good indication of how well they can handle themselves even at such an age. With a spirit like that among the kids of today, how can America go

far wrong?

out that while violators Bight intend no hara by bring after dark, their presence woo id distract beachfront guards fro* their patrols and might make it poooiblo for enemy action to oct^r withoot

LIBRARY TO REOPEN ~ Cape May's public library will reopen Monday at 9:30 a. m. after having been closed for two weeks tc allow for the annual spring cleaning. The usual schedule of hours will be in operation during the sum-

Destroyers are fast, light v«

which carry a heavy of torpedo tubes small number of guns.

Again comes a plea from local representatives for gasoline for party boats to add materially to the supply of food fish during the present food shortage. Senator Scott, of Cape May, has contacted officials in Washington with a plea for party boat fuel, citing the vast amounts of fish caught by party boat fishermen last year

and in the past.

Recently commercial fishing boats struck schools of bluefish and made good hauls. With prices high, the operators stood to cash in. Then they found there was no gasoline available. With the last box of fish shipped to the Fuhon Market in NdW York, one

sent a note to the triling of the sit-

and a fisherman sent

uation. What happened then, we don’t know, but it wasn’t long until the gas tanks for commercial fishing boats were filled * and they are kept filled. Now Senator Scott is contending that if gasoline can be so easily provided for commercial • fishing boats in order to keep up food fish production, some fuel should be granted for party boatsi which also bring in a surprising amount of food fish in the course of a season. All who are familiar with the party boat industry know its importance from the food fish angle, but so ■‘far the OPA in Washington has consistently refused to be convinced of its food production value. All we can do is hope that the pow-ere-that-be will realize the true situation and allot some gasoline .to the-party boats before the sea-

The coal miners are at it again. * It s getting so that no one know* whether they’re striking or working. We don’t hold any brief for the coal operators. They’ve been hard masters in the past. But at the same time, we don’t believe miners should strike during war-time and jeopardize the entire war effort of the country. The inevitable result will be legislation that will curb labor** * rights not only for miners but fpr all classes of labor. Thus, By taking advantage of present liberal feelings, some union bosses are pushing their luck too far. - booner or later it’s going to bounce back and bounce hard! VISITS RELATIVES Private Louis C. Lenz, of Newwu th ,d Atterbury, Ind.. ^ taxes t of his brother and AW^W^’ th * ^ ev - Mrs. man*, this .week.