THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1943

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(Sapp fHatj &tar and ttattp PuaiMHKD EV«HYTHUI»*DAr ATTMCSTA* AND WAV* BUO^INO si FCASY snt«rr. caf« kay. m. x THE ALBERT HAND COMPANY. Incoapoaat*d. F. MERVYN KENT. Eorro* PAUL SNYDER. MAN AS* A SUBSCRIPTION PRICE *200 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE THIS SAAK A IS *NT*A*D AT TH« AOST OFFIC* AT CAM MAY. N. JAS SECOND CLASS MATTEA. NATIONAL ABPAESENTATIVESi AMEAICAN AAESS ASSOCIATION 2X8 WEST TMIATY-NINTM STAEET. NEW YOAK. N. Y. diopji J’ffi a ChanqsL Hope that the ban on pleasure driving might be relaxed sufficiently before the summer season has pass- . ed to permit vacationists to make at least one round trip to their seashore homes is held by officials of Cape May and other resorts as a result of the Congressional investigation of the OPA. Although no official announcement concerning the possible relaxatpip of the ban has come as yet, reliable Washington sources indicate that it is coming as a result of the efforts of the Congressional bloc represening the affected states. The OPA some time ago ruled that a summer home owner was entitled to one round trip to his property ... but only to close it to prevent damage. How that would require less gasoline than one round trip to his summer home to stay there for the vacation season and then return to his winter home is one of the questions that the Congressional bloc from the step-child states would like to have answered. So far the OPA has given no explanation. Principal bone of contention is the fact that X2 Atlantic seaboard stales are so drastically curtailed while the rest of the nation goes blithely on, getting the full value for its gasoline ration stamps and going wherever and whenever the rations will permit with no questions asked. Such discrimination is un-Amer-~~ican and unnecessary. If the gasoline and fuel oil situation is aciite enough to warrant such drastic steps in any area, the same curtailments and restrictions should apply to the rest of the country. After all, this is not the war of the 12 seaboard states. Apparently others have the same idea and are doing everything possible to have the situation ironed out At least we now have hope that some of the policies of federal agencies which rule by decree rather than by law will be reasonably modified. JhahsA O. final Tlnad d(si)isL Cape May’s City Commission last week renewed its efforts to have this city declared a defense housing area in order to obtain an exemption, to some extent at least from restrictions on private building. While the situation may remain unchanged for some time to come, we believe the city officials are Wise in renewing their efforts at this time, for there is apparently a strong possibility that the drastic curbs on private building will be eased soon. Principal reason for that assumption is that the Army and Navy to which virtually all building materials have been diverted for the last year or more cannot go on building indefinitely. By this time, one must assume, most of the important construction work is nearly completed. Of course, as the war continues, some construction by the military will naturally be required. But the bulk of it is done. That being true, it is reasonable to suppose that the vast quantities of building materials which for all this time have flowed to military establishments will now be returned to civilian markets. And with it will come an opportunity for civilian interests to resume building operation^ which are so badly needed in many areas. In Cape May’s instance, a rapidly growing housing development was halted by the building ban just as it was reaching a peak, both in demand and supply. Consequently, houses that would readily have been bought or rented by’ officer personnel stationed in this area could not be built There is, and has been a definite shortage of small, modem houses t'n Cape May. Those already built have been at a premium. Many more could be used to excellent advantage. If the ban on building is relaxed soon, we hope the federal government will heed Cape May’s oft-repeated appeals to permit continuation of private building which is so badly needed by those directly engaged in the w&r effort Declaration of Cape May as a defense housing area—a classification' to which this city is certainly entitled—would undoubtedly speed the day when building can be resumed. L«t’s hope such action is not too long in comimr. V •••••• UlaAninq Jo fialhsJiA Faced with a shortage of experienced lifeguards because of war-time conditions which have made serious inroads on the supply of younger men, Cape May officials this week urged local bathers to exercise more than the usual amount of caution While bathing this summer. With only four veteran guards as a nucleus of the Beach Patrol, the City Commission has appealed for the full cooperation of the bathing public in order to avoid serious beach accidents. This year—more than ever before—it is imperative that bathers stay on protected beaches, that they do not take foolish risks that might jfubject them to dayer in the water, that they obey jjie instructions and signals of the lifeguards to avoid trouble before it starts. y The task of guarding thousands of batherWover a two-mile stretch of beach is a big job at best Even TJ 01 e^Peneoced guards on duty at all principal' beaches, there have been occasions when abnormal water conditions have caused a great deal of difficulty, cape May has been extremely fortunate in maintaining an outstanding record for beach safety. If that record is to be kept in the face of the present shortage of lifeguards, every bather must do his utmost to guard himself from possible danger. By following the accepted rules of beach safety bathers can contribute much to their own personal safety and to the safety of others.

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THE WEEKLY SERMON CORNER:

Prove What Is Good By the Rev. Walter E. Kelly, O. S. F. S-, Church

of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, Cape May

-‘Be not conformed to this thinking of and how they are world: bat bo reformed in ihe praying/ then Staff Sergeant Bobnewness of your mind, that yoa ert Coyle, of the U. S. Army may pro\e what is good and ac- Air Corps, speaks for all the

ceptable, and the perfect will of boys: God.” (SL Paul’s Epistle to

the Romans, XII, v. 1) “Oh dear God, look down from

Human nature is pretty much . RboTe >.,

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THE WMC REPLIES To the Editor: There has been called to my attention the editorial which appeared in your issue of June 10. 19-1S, under the heading "Awake To The Crisis." The information contained in this editorial is so at variance with the true facts that I am sure you will wish to correct the misinformation which it conveyed to your readers as well as to rectify the serious charges which it unjustly contains against the United States Employment Service. For your information, 1 am sending herewith, factual material pertaining to the withdrawal of the United tales Employment Service from farm placement and recruitment activities. May I suggest that you submit this information, being sent herewith, to Mr. WTiite, your county agricultural agent, who I am sure will confirm the facts set forth thereI trust that you will see fit, in fairness, to make the correction which I think 1 am justified in requesting. On January 23. Mr. Paul McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Commiasion, issued in Washington a directive under the terms of which the Department of Agriculture was charged with the complete responsibility for the recruitment and placement of farm workers in the United States. In turn, the Hon. Claude Wickard, Secretary of Agriculttwe, delegated the responsibility within the department specifically to the Extension Service of that department. The Extension Service in New Jersey was without the necessary organization or financial resources to undertake and carry out such activities at the time the responsibility was vested in that agency. In early March of that year, as a result of conferences held in the regional offices\pf the War Manpower Commsision in Philadelphia with Mr. Louis B. F. Raycroft, • the then regional WMC director, sponsoring the meeting, it was agreed that until necessary appropriations had been made to enable the Extension Service to undertake the referred to activities, the United States Employment Service would continue its activities in the interests of New Jersey farmers. This plan was endorsed and agreed to by officials of the New Jersey Extension Service, the New Jersey Farm Bureau, and other agicultural interests in New Jersey represented at the conference with Mr. Raycroft. In keeping with this agreement, the USES did continue, very vigorously, its efforts to recruit farm workers and supply them to farmers needing such assistance. This was done to the extent that the actual placement* for the first five months cd 1943 greatly exceeded those of any similar period in the history of the United States Employment Service's farm placement operations. Approximately a month before the United States Employment Service discontinued its farm placement ac- . tirities on June 1 of this year, funds were appropriated by Congress for the use of the Department of Agriculture (the Extension Service) to carry on this work.

An agreement was entered into at that time between the United States Employment Service and the Extension Service of the Department of Agriculture under which the Employment Service, in order that there would be no slackening in farm labor recruitment and placement effort, continued to carry on its work during a period in which the Extension Service could effect an organization of its own and establish operational plans for eventually assuming those duties. In keeping with the transfer of farm placement activities from the United States Employment Service to the Extension Service, funds which had been at the disposal of the Employment Service for such activities were transferred to the Etension Service. Therefore the United States Employment Sen-ice, although it had a highly trained personnel available for such work, did not continue to have nnancial appropriations under which it could continue farm placement activities after June 1. The United States Employment Sen-ice did, however, offer the senices pf its trained personnel and its' special organizational facilities to the Extenson Service under any one of several plans which provided for the Extension Service financing, out of its funds, the costa of such cooperative activity. The Extension Service preferred to establish its own facilities and create its own organization and took over complete responsibility for farm placement activities as of June 1. Inasmuch as the Extension Service -decided to take over these activities and declined the proffer of continued United States Employment Service collaboration, the highly experienced farm placement personnel of the United States Employment Service was, therefore, assigned to the task of recruiting and placing workers for and in New Jersey's food processing plants. The United States Employment Service office made available to the Extension Service, for their information and convenience, tho complete records covering the history of farm placement activities of the United States Employment Service. The records of the Wildwood office of the USES show that during the months of March, April and May of 1943, a total of 256 farm placements was made. Very truly yours, RUSSELL J. ELDRIDGE Director for New Jersey U. S. Employment Service War Manpower /Commission FROM SUNNY SOUTH Dear Editor: Here I am in the sunny south, a long, long way from Cape May, but every day I think of home. Being the only one here from Cape May, it was rather hard on me when all the other fellows were tadking to their pals from their home . towns about what they used to do when they were home, and I had no one to talk to <n that manner. Then one happy day I received t Star and Wave. It seemed as though I was back in Cepe May again. So keep up the good work on the home front and continue to send us the news from home. Sincerely, S/SgL CHARLES C. JOHNSON

thTSS STS' .r.Vi.S i ,=> wb* ™, aq, a. l i.™. »L«t if St_ Paul were living Protect them aU while Im away;

My mom, my dad, my sisters gay.

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S TARBOARD WATCH By C. Worthy Maybe they can’t use their cars for vacation trips arid pleasure driving, but a whale of a bunch of people from Philjy and othei cities found they could still get to Cape May over last weekend, and they found that Cape May is still the tops in resorts. Never in the history of the Beach Patrol crowd count system have June crowds of bathers been as large as this year. All these Philly-Cape May steamboat advocates wore an “1-told-you-so” look on Monday after some of the Philly papers had carried pictures showing throngs of city residents, practically rioting to get aboard Wilson Liners for a short river trip to escape the weekend heat. Those who think the steamer idea will click if boats can be obtained can just imagine how much greater the demand will be for a longer trip that is really going somewhere. The way Congress and some of the New Deal appointees in high positions in Washington have kicked over the traces recently, it looks as if there might be all kinds of shenanigans on Capitol Hill between now and the time for the 1944 election to reach the boiling point. What with getting in bad with labor, having the anti-strike bill passed over his veto, and getting into a wrangle with Chester Davis, the ex-food czar, it appears as though FDR has collected enough material recently to fill a couple of paragraphs in "My Day." Today's the day that the new income tax system starts. Now Uncle Sam gets his before we get ours. But that isn't so bad. The only thing that worries us is maybe there won't be anything left for us after- the Treasury Department takes what it wants. All that talk about a compulsory saving law to make people save 20 per cent of their income in war bonds in addition to 20 per cent income tax plus all the other taxes and higher costs and stuff makes it» look like there's a very bright future ahead for most of us. And well have to enjoy the brightness of it. We won't be able to do anything else on what will he left .... Perhaps it's war-time hysteria or something just as bad, but after all the hearings and proteats concerning the proposed summer railroad schedule between Philadelphia and Cape May and the other resorts, everything is quite dear now except when the trains arrive and depart There will be no weekend bridge trains, but there will be one Saturday morning and as yet there has been no final decision on the early morning duplication of traina from here to the city. Oh, well..

that if SL Paul were living now, he would warn us that unless we improve our moral standards, victor} would not mean much to America and her allies. If defeat would cause us to live better lives and to be more faithful to the commandments of God, then it would be better for us to

suffer defeaL

By “this world” SL Paul means the aims, motives, and deeds which human nature will perform to secure what it looks upon as necessary or desirable for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, when not enlightened and guided by the light of divine grace. The best that “this world ’ can do by its own light is to make of this life what we call an end for mankind. For if Our Blessed Lord had never come to this world and manifested a vastly higher and supernatural end for the human race, what other end would ever have been thought of? The world says, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.’ There are more people today than ever who want to do their own way. They want a President who will let them throw overboard all law and order. They want a boss who will let them work when they want to work, or who will give them a pat on the back if they do not care to work. They want a victory to keep America free. I am convinced that the only reason some people are hoping for a quick victory is to keep America free. But their meaning of “free" is not at all like the meaning of free- in our Constitution. They think that as soon as wc keep our freedom, everything is going to bf perfect for

UntO the day this war is o’er And I march again on Freedom’s shore To the ones I love, to where I dwell, Protect them from harm, keep them well.

Bless her, God, watc too. And if perchance you call to me • To take a place that’s near to Thee, And when they hear, please make them brave. And tell them all their tears to save. To die for them is not in vain, I’d die a thousand times again.” There is an example of what the boys think of us. Isn’t it worth some effort on our part to make America a fit place for them to live when they return?

Straight From The Shoulder

BY THE OBSERVER

The colossal stupidity of some current situations Was strikingly illustrated last week when a Millville couple, long-time summer residents of Ocean City, began their annual vacation at that resort. Mindful of OPA restrictions

•mb ■» t, o — •- - on motor ing, they began the trip

them—free” froaTany laws, moral by train,

or civil; that now they. can^ do

PLAN COMMUNIOK.

COLD SPRING—The Cold Spring Presbyterian Church will celebrate Holy Communion on Sunday morning, July 4, at 10:3* a. ro., in the church. Bible School will start in' the~-chapel at- 2:30 p. m. There will: be ao evening

anything they care to do, whenever they care to do it, and however they care to do iL That does not sound like the America that was founded by our forefathers. And it does not sound like an America that would be pleasing to God. It sounds more

like Sodom or Gomorrht.

We hear people on every side say: We live in the world, we are men of the world, and although we have faith in and know of duties toward a higher destiny, we must conform ourselves to the way of the world or we would be left behind, unfitted to take part in the honors, and riches, and learning, and other desirable things which can be had for the striving. You see immediately where these people barter away their birthriht to Heaven for a mess of pottage. They seek after the things of the world first and esteem them as of first importance. If one fails in getting honors in society, or riches, or business, or an exceptionally cood education in science or art,

he thinks he is a failure.

At the present time we are all "war conscious." Page after page in our newspapers tell of our victories in Africa, Attu, and Guadalcanal Thousands of orators take advantage of the situation to find ears to listen to them. The radio uses a great portion of its program to excite us to greater war effort. Even the movies seem to have grabbed the opportunities for greater profit by producing wsr pictures faster than the government can keep up with them. All for one end—VICTORY! But what kind of victory? Just what is our idea of victory? Does it mean that kind of victory where each one of us can do just as he pleases? During this war America has suffered a severe moral relapse. Is it really a victory for os if we become unconscious of the Divine Precepts? Is it s victory for us if we gain the whole world and suffer the loss of our own soul ? Perhaps our estimate of the world's good things is all wrong. We make them first and most important, and then our estimate is false. Our use of the world's good things is wrong. We always run to an excess which is contrary to reason as it is to religion. Money, houses, land, food, drink, clothing, learning and all such things are good. But follow the maxims and practices of the world, and then judge if you can conform to them. What do you find? Too much money, to much eating, too much drinking, too fine houses and furniture. It is always “too much." Too much for reason, and

too much for religion.

Be not conformed to this world that cannot keep within the bounds of reason and is always rebelling against the wise restraints imposed by the commandments of God and the teachings of Our Lord. Do not be so cruel as to ask our boys to sacrifice their lives in vain. Do not cause unnecessary bloodshed if you cast aside the moral order and the very foundations of freedom. All of us have to reform. Our boys believe us. They trust us. They are living and dying for us. We are constantly in their thoughts and prayers. They are not praying for themselves, but for us. If you want to know what they are

Ocean City, as you probably know, is 28 miles from Millvilla by automobile. By train, they were forced to ride to Camden, where, after a considerable writ, they caught the Ocean City train and after more than three hours rode within ten miles of their starting point en route to the resort. The total trip required four hours. The expense and inconvenience were many time# what they would have been if these visitors had been able to jump in their car and spin over to the resort. Perhaps that is a sample of war-time conservation.

If it is, we're sunk.

The subject of train travel brings to mind the current season railroad schedule, over which there has been much controversy. Locally, elimination of the bridge train during weekends is not expected to cause much difficulty. The bone of contention here is tha duplication of early morning service to Philadelphia at an hour that most passengers rightly con-

tend is unreasonable.

Why the railroaff officials should continue to insist that a train leaving at six a. m. and another leaving at 6:39 a. m. serve the best interests of a majority of passengers, no one can guess. Commuters, they say. But anyone in * position to commut* daily between the city and ths shore certainly is in a position that does not require them to punch a time clock at or before

8:22 every morning.

For all but the very few commuters who use the trains daily, train service is supposed to be for those who must go to the city on business or to shop. Those who have done either know the tortures of arising in the middle of the night to leave cool Cape May and then to arrive in the hot city hours before any of the stores or business places are open.. If the railroad company has designed its schedule for the best interests of the majority of its passengers, someone ought to tell them..what the majority of its passengers really think . . . . Further proof that Sherman was right in his obasrvstion about war came last week with the disclosure that the City of Cape May is having a terrific time getting enough lifeguards to man the beaches. In fact, all of tha 15 applicants—only a small percentage of the number in normal times—are 17-year-olds with no previous experience. WiUi four veteran guards, city officials are planning to do the best they can with this year's Beach Patrol by putting two young guards and one veteran on the most important beaches. However, even under that method there will not be a largo enough force to patrol all beaches that were formerly guarded. City officials on Friday streased tba importance—this year particularly —of bathing only on protected beaches in order to avoid difficult situations which might be very serious in view of the shortage of experienced lifeguards.

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