Ponghaiu latiofii titfout! Ma: f times ra the past fe»; jeais cdaapiimectei «i« May Cotmty Board holders f or the excellent’record nt has made m petting the county"* financial affairs in order. Once again, we and all other count}- residents have occaakIT wfSfer our comp'liments to our county offi'Xjcials. For the first time in many, many years the county's total debt has dropped below the nark, it was disclosed recently by Freeholder Ralph T*Sto^^irector of revenue and finance, upon receipt of the county's . 1942 auditAt the tame time, the county's tax e ° a ^ l ^^ c ^ r edned nearer the mark of perfection, cent of the total current year's levy collected during c»d 16.08 per cent of the levy for prior years taxes collected during that period. 64 per cent of the current tax levy toas collected during the firet six months of 1943. Ten years ago, when the present membership of the Board of Freeholders began functioning as a amt, SSJS'ftSdebtexceeded ^ ^,000 Constant payments on bonded indebtedness have whittled that amount to less than one-third of its size a decade agoWitfain the next five years, at the present rate of debt liquidation. Cape May Count}- should be entirely debt free, an accomplishment attained by few if an} other New Jersey counties. ' As the county debt decreases, payments of interest charges decrease sharply. Starting next year, the county’s debt service budget will decrease rapidly. The encouraging part of the whole picture is that the Freeholders are in accord on a policy of avoiding new debts as much as possible. Through careful financing and careful administration, the county officials have brought Cape May County out of the chaos of the depression to a position of financial solidity. . , , * (fonaL&Mon Joi ffaioitA. Relaxation of the ban against vacation motoring, announced last week by Jtepresentotive Fred Hartley. New Jersey Republican, after a series of conferences •with OPA officials, should be a boon to Cape May and other New Jersey resorts. Vacation spojs in this area are near enough to the east’s greatest centers of population to be within easy reach of motorists, who, ^ruUr the ruling, may use only A-coupon gasoline for such tripe. , Shortly after the announcement of the relaxation was made, some sources claimed it was meaningless of a clause which said vacation motor trips would be permitted only when “other adequate means of transportation were not available”. How such a ruling could be made seriously is hard to imagine for with the exception of the most remote spots, every vacation center is served by some form of transportation other than automobiles. However, reliable Washington sources now indicate that the OPA included that clause only as a stock phrase, and that the matter of granting vacation motoring permits will be left entirely to the discretion of load ration boards. That situation, if it is correct, of course will add to rather than reduce the general confusion about vacation motoring. At any rate, the concession by the OP A will certainly be of some value to Cape May and other seashore resorts. And even its most liberal interpretation by ratipn boards will not have any harmful effect on the nation’s gasoline supplies. If the vacation gas were not used for that purpose, it most certainly would be used for some other purpose allowed under the rationing program. If motorists desire to limit . their other driving to permit them to make one round trip to the seashore or other vacation center with the gasoline they have saved, they are entitled to it.

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Taken from files of The Star and Wave for the years 1908, 1S®3 and 1923. Five Years Ago Two fashion shows, displaying summer and fall styles, will replace Cape May’s annual flower show this season. Commissioner Scott announced Friday, following the resignation of William T. Scherer, who had been appointed managing director of the flower

festival.

Cape May’s eleventh annual Baby Parade will be its most suc- ’ cessful, if the number of advance entries is an indication. Director Fred W. England said yesterday. A large number of Cape May residents and visitors have applied for entry blanks and are preparing for the parade, which will be held August 5. Fewer Cape May County automobiles are being rejected in the second compulsory state inspection which started this week than there were last January when the inspection law became effective. “Rejections are running at least SO per cent behind those of the first inspection period,” said V. R. Farrow, supervisor in charge of the Cape May County inspection station at MayTen Years Ago The annual speed boat regatta on Cape May Harbor, conducted and sanctioned by the South Jersey Speed Boat Association and approved by the American Power Boat Association, will start

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The Borough Council of West Cape May at its meeting Tuesday eveiling voted to break an alltime precedent of the borough and grant licenses to sell beer. Heretofore there have been no licenses in the borough, and some years ago when a move was made by Cape May to merge the two municipalities the borough decided against the move because of the possibility of a licensed saloon being established in West Cape

May limits.

The Cape May Assembly Dances sponsored by a committee of patronesses composed of the social leaders of the cottage colony. begin at Congress Hall Saturday evening. Clarence Fufarman’s Orchestra is playing for

the dances.

Twenty Years Ago Captain John Brown, of the fishing schooner “Estella, ” out of New York with a party of fishermen, put into port here Thursday morning for provisions. Captain., Brown reported that when east of Winter Quarter Light Ship his lookout sighted what he thought was a squadron of submarines, but in half an hour's time it was proved to be a school of eight whales. After striking an - open switch at C K Tower, about two miles from here, the local train of the Atlantic City railroad, coining here from Winslow Junction, was derailed about 8 o'clock last Sun-

day evening.

Grab your hats, boys,- here we go again . . last week it was am.eunced that the OPA had decided to permit use of A gasoline stamps for one round trip to a vacation spot. Goody, goody, chorused everybody. Before the ink was dry on those headlines, the OPA said that only applied where other “adequate means of transportation” were not available, which made the first ruling good news only for the middle of the Sahara Desert or the Atlantic Ocean. After a couple of pow-wows between Washington big-wigs, it was hinted that the first ruling still stands . . . that anyone with enough' A coupons can get a vacation permit from his’ local ration board . . . that that crack about “other adequate means of transportation” was just a form used in all OPA rules and didn't mean very much . . . BUT Washington headquarters passed the buck to local ration boards, telling them to decide, but not giving them any official interpretation of the regulation. Monotonous,

General Eisenhower pulled 9 fasty on the Axis when he invaded Sicily last week. Well wager Herr Goebbels' face was red after he had so confidently predicted invasion on several different dates. That kind of propaganda strategy is something like a prize fighter taking bets that he'll be 1 -- -*■- *— — third

the _ Christian affirmations about Christ, tor these affirmations are the big thing that- distinguish . Christianity from all bther religions; -What think ye of Christ?" First then, the church has never hesitated - itor shirked stating, k dearly/as it could, that Jesus Christ.js/'human. Of course you cannot avoid that if yon take the trouble to read the gospel stories. He was bora. He learned facts. He grew up, K e was tempted, He was hungry and thirsty and tired. He asked questions in

order- to gain information, He , . „ . ... suffered pain, He thought and and RiSen Saviour of a be-

talked like a Jew of the first wildered vrorld.

century—He was no walking en- Our world is like a room with cyclopaedia with all the learning many windows. Most of them of the world at his fingertips, are very black, very dirty, soma Even in His mighty works. His of them tightly shuttered with curing of the sick and suffering, only tiny chinks to permit light He was human. He died as men to come through. Some few of

being alive. Now it is the Christian faith that this one God, who creates the worlds, who is ba-t-ini all the rich and colorful movement of nature and life, who ss working in every human being—it is the Christian faith that ’ this God, for us men and for our salvation (which means healthy living here and to all eternity) did express himself adequately, did “come through" definitely, did take to Himself life in a decisive and challenging fashion, in the Babe of Bethlethe Young Man of Galilee. <•>—t—« -r Calvary;

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Cape May County, through Freeholder Director Perey H. Jackson, recently reiterated its appeal to the State Highway Department, asking that agency to assume control and maintenance of a portion of the Old Seashore Road. Such action is important to Cape May County because the section of highway includes the bridge over the Cape May County Canal, which must be maintained from now on. ^ x Cape May County itself is'upt in a financial position to bear this added maintenance cost Even if it were, it should not be compelled to\for the canal is a govenynent project While the cost of bridge maintenance really should be a federal obligation. Uncle Sam makes, no provision for such expenditures. Because the State of New •Jersey was a co-sponsor with the federal government, It seems logical that the StaSe Highway Department should accept the responsibility. Certainly it is not fair to - dump the maintenance •ort^upon Cape May County which had pb part in the Years ago the road was legislated as part of the state highway system when establishment of the Cape May-Lewes ferry was imminent Under that action the Legislature, acceptance by the Highway Department is required. Certainly with-construction work sharply curtailed tecaiwe of the present emergency, the State Highway Department should have sufficient funds available to finance all maintenance of the bridge without causing any appropriation shortages. In fairness to Cape May County, the State Highway Department should act favorably on this county's

Fcr sever&l weeks a movement has bees .under way in Cape May to establish an honor roll as a tribute to the local men and women who are now serving in the various armed forces of the nation- Part of the required funds have been raised to finance the project, and plans are progressing for the selection of the type of honor roll and its location. Compilation of a list of names which will be placed on the honor roll is nearing completion and within a few weeks, the project should be completed. Many families of service men have responded to the public appeals for information about their sons and brothers and fathers who ahe in the services. Many others have not as yet. While the local committee has access to and is planning to use records of the Selective Service office and 'honor rolls of various local churches and organizations, some names are bound to be missed unless the families of the men take the trouble to inform the

local committee. -

committee has exhausted

virtually all sources of official information about service men from this locality. But there are still some names that have not been found. The families of these service men can help their community to honor their boys if they will just cooperate by submitting the names and some information about the branch of service, address and other per-

tinent facts that are nect determine the eligibility.

A friend was commenting on the differences between life at the sashore and in cities recently. Surprising as it seems, there are a great many marked differences. For instance, wouldn’t city folks be shocked if a large percentage of their neighbors suddenly congregated at a large vacant field for the express purpose of wearing scanty attire and sitting, lying or sprawling on the ground for several hours? That happens every day on our beaches and people would think it strange if it didn’t

It would be unfortunate to have the honor roll erected and dedicated without all the names of eligible mej and women on it, although provision will be made for additions in the future. Experience# of other communities that have honor rolls have shown that the most satisfactory method is to obtain a complete list of names before the board is erect-

Another difference is that city folks at home assiduously avoid the. hot summer sun, yet when they get to the seashore they lie for hours in the broiling heat just to get tanned so they can prove to their friends they were at the seashore. There are many, many other things that vacationists do at the seashore that they wouldn't think of doing at home. Maybe that's why vacations are so popular.

Even with the invasion to talk about, local victory gardeners insist on thinking their backyard farms are the most important n?w» of the war to date. Plenty of the amateur farmers are finding’ out why their professional brethren get gray at an early age what with bugs and beetles and all the other common garden plagues, but they still think It's wonderful . . . And it is, too! Maybe Japan was right in dropping baseball as a “barbaric" sport. The way the bosses of some of the big league teams have been battling with league officials over decisions and lack of decisions, it begins to look as if there is something to it. Or maybe some of the other teams are trying to cash in on the fighting reputation of “dem bums.” If this bicycle fad keeps growing, local authorities are going to have to establish a whole new set of traffic regulations. In the last couple of weeks there have been some pretty bad traffic snarls caused by and affecting only bicycles. Just at present they seem more in evidence than automobiles. The opening gun in Cape May County’s 4943 election campaign has been fired with the Republicans endorsing their primary slate. From now on it’s every man for himself and fdfcven help the inocent by-slanders.

Enlisted men in the Navy may have educational pamphlets on naval subjects free of charge.

die. He was no half-man, no pretense, no masquerader. He was truly man. This is the fact, even though He did not sin. But sin, while found in all of us, is not essential to man; it is a disease which afflicts man—precisely'as streptococci are found in all men, but are certainly not essential to human nature. Jesus Christ was man as He is meant

to be.

In the second place,■ Christ was and is truly divine. That does not mean that He had some nice qualities v.luch we like to call divine, in the sense in which you might say of somebody, "Oh, she’s simply divine . ...” Rather, it means that Jesus Christ is truly God. His human life is so bound up with, so integrated with, so one with, the God who "moves the sun and the other stars,” that Jesus Christ is not merely man, but is also and really God. for God acts in and through His human life completely and fully so far as human life could so serve as God's instrument. And this is no accident, either; it is planned, purposeful, by God’s will and purpose. God created this human lifs, this manhood of Jesus, for just this thing. It is God’s human life, from the very beginning; in God's intention, from

all eternity.

Why do people believe this? That question takes us over into • consideration of what Jesus Christ did. He has brought, and He still brings, to those who turn to Him and love Him—to those who are, in the words of St. John’s Gospel, His friends—a power, a dynamic, a quality of life, a richness and abundance < - of love and courage and faith and hope and happiness above all pleasure, that cannot be explained away. He did build up, and He does build up, human personality, on a level so enriching that all life is made new. He did conquer, and He does conquer, death and the fear of it, and give to those who trust Him a security that goes through death and finds life beyond the inescapable grave which awaits us all. In other words, He fulfills the functions of God-in-a human-life. When we think of it, remembering the -untold millions of people—black, white and yellow; old and young; simple and learned; rich and poor—who affirm it to be true; then to this we add the witness of His simple but stupendous life back there in Palestine, which got this Christian faith under way; when we do this, we can see that it is not idiotic, but simple common sense, to say that Christ is divine as well as human. This is no high-flown nonsense; it is the most adequate answer, to plain

facts—and we are neglecting Marine paratroops wear kneeplain facta when we scoff at the length overalls and a new type Christian interpretration of life of crash helmet.

the windows, though, are fairly bright and dean. And one of the windows is spotless, just an spotless a window as you could possibly have. Through ' that window, the sun which shone feebly, spasmodically, partially and in bits of life through the other windows, shines full and clear. As the rays of light aw concentrated in a burning glass, held' by some small child over a piece of paper, and thereby set that paper on fire, so it is that through the sacred humanity of Jesus Christ, God shines into our human life. God works through that humanity in our human world. God through that humanity saves our human souls. By that eoncentratiing and focusing of Himself in Christ, God sets us on fire with love, love toward God and men, as nowhere else and as never before or since. We draw our pictures of God —for it is human to do so. But God has drawn His picture of Himself—for it is divihe to do that. And the picture is not a dead, lifeless one; it is a picture in action, it is a human life whifitt He has drawn. “Show me what God is like,” cries the heart of man. And God replies. “1 will come and live amongst you as one of your own race; then you will know me as 1 am.” • That is “the terrible, shamefast, frightened, whispered, sweet, heart-shattering secret of

God's way with us."

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FROM EXPERIENCE:

To the Editor:

Congratulations on your editorial ‘'States' Rights Again.’’ It expresses the thoughts of millions of us who live in the East-

ern states.

Recently a Philadelphia OPA board refused my brother firs gallons of gas to use to take him mother to the hospital and return. She had a broken leg. Ws had to take a taxi instead! Where is the gasoline saving? But the added expense did not trouble

RETURN TO MEMPHIS Mrs. George Henan and her

son, Tommie, have returned to their hotne in Memphis, Term., after enjoying 10 days at this resort as the guests of Mrs.' Henan's aunts, the Misses Ann and Stella Weinmann, of 16 First '

avenue.