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■ Schools, churches and individual organizations have dedicated honor rolls or service flags as tributes to .their fighting sons and daughters, but the Oommunity Honor Roll which will be dedicated here is the first all-inclusive tribute to the service men and women of the community.

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JhfL QommunihfjL. JhibuisL Dedication of the Community Honor Boll on Sunday, August 22, will be the first joint formal recognition given by citizens of the four southernmost communities of Cape May County to their mfen and women in the nation’s armed forces.

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The honor roll is distinctively a community project, under the sponsorship of a committee composed of representatives of most of the civic organizations of this area. Each of the-governing bodies of the four communities included in the scope of the Honor Roll have contributed funds to help with the financing of the project, and citizens and visitors of all communities have supported fund raising activities and have made donations to make the project possi - ble.

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While inclusion on the Honor Roll is hut small recongnieation for the great service they are performing, such a remembrance is important to our boys on the fighting fronts of Ihe world. 11 is in the fox holes and on the deserts and on the high seas that those little remembrances take on real value. Out there where bombs and shells and death are constant companions, new sets of values are established. Things that once were all-important suddenly become meaningless. The once trivial matters, which meant little to them when they were at home, now become the important things of life. Little reminders of home, letters from their friends and families, news from their home towns, the chance meeting of a home-town acquaintance in some remote comer of the world . . . all of these things are important to them now. ' War has brought them to the fundamentals of life. They, more than any others, appi&ciate the real value of things as they are. Perhaps it will be months before some of them learn of it, but we are sure they will feel a little better knowing that the folks at home remembered them enough to erect an Honor Roll as a tribute to their sacrifices and courage.

Straight From The Shoulder

BY THE OBSERVER The following letter was received by Mrs. Frank Tyler, of 814 Decatur street. It is published here because it gives an intimate picture of the feelings of at least one Cape May boy now in Uude Sam’s service.

No words or deeds are adequate to express the feelings of those of us at home. Only through our small actions showing our boys we have not forgotten, that we do appreciate their contributions, can we show them what is in onr hearts.

Dear Mrs. Tyler:

How are you? I am fine and I hope you are the same. Today 1 was surprised, but very happy, to have heard from a dear friend, whom I have never expected to hear from. After reading your letter, it sort of brought back old memories of when I was a child. It made me think of times when my sister and I played on your lawn, and running through your yard with the neighbors’ children. I guess we were noisy and aggravating at times, but sometimes 1 wish I was that young again, *and- know the things 1 know now. Yes, we have grown up, faster than 1 can realize. My sister is married and the mother of two wonderful children, and me—well, I have grown up fast enough to

be in the Army.

So far the Army has treated me swell. It made me think for myself and it has even put weight

me.

The Community Honor Roll which will be dedicated here on Sunday will be one of those small remembrances which come from the heart of the community.

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Adding to the confusion about what we may or may not do, officials of the Office of Price Administration have for several weeks been dangling the prospect of removing the ban on pleasure driving before the weary and bewildered motorists of the Atlantic seaboard states.

Almost since the start of summer there have been reports—all of them from reliable sources— that the pleasure driving ban would be lifted within a few days. l * Now, according to latest reports from Washington, the drive will be lifted on or about September 1. But in the meantime, there have been so many conflicting statements, so many guesses hazarded by various officials who should know that the general public doesn’t know whether or not pleasure driving is permitted. Many of those who do know what the wore is feel that if the gasoline situation is so much improved that the ban will be lifted soon, it is not unpatriotic to do a little pleasure driving whenever the gasoline is available, regardless of official edicts. Consequently there has been a marked increase in the number of automobiles on highways to the seashore, the mountains and other vacation spots. Last weekend. OPA highway Snoopers made a record haul, citing hundreds of Motorists for ipleasure driving. Many of these motorists will hejg^ialieed undoubtedly. But is is not entirely their fault. M. Kke so many other violations, is the inevitable result of a confusing policy of public utterances which have little if any foundation m fact. The result is that no one is certain of anything, and following the example of our government agencies, we—the ordinary citizens—blandly muddle along doing the best we can and often getting into trouble because of it C'esi la guerre I Sherman wm right!

I am now stationed at Camp Santa Anita, as you already know, and I think that the luck has been with me, being sent out here. ! have never expected to see California, that is I never had ambition to as long as I was living in Cape May. Well, California is a very beautiful state, and the climate is wonderful. In the day time the weather gets very warm, and in the evening and nights the weather cools rapidly, making it very comfortable

to sleep.

My camp is a very beautiful^ camp. It is situated on the site* of a race track. It is supposed to be the most beautiful race track in the United States. There are large brown mountains that border thia camp. It is really beautiful to watch the sun come over these peaks in the morning. Around Christmas when the_ orange blossoms are blooming, an^ the odor that these small buds leave off will never be forgotten especially when one has never seen an orange tree. I left Cape May in th dead of winter to come to California, and honestly I don’t think that I have recovered from the effects yet It seemed awfully funny to leave a town with approximately a foot of snow, and three days later arriving in another town that has flowers blooming and everything that grew was green. At first when I arrived in California I was probably the most depressed boy that anybody has ever seen. Being 3500 miles from home wasn’t a picnic for anyone who has never been far from home. To tell the truth there are countless thousands like me and there will be many like that until we all get to onr homes again. Mrs. Tyler, I hope I am not boring you with my letter. I cannot ever forget how nice you have been to me, and I do like yon to know a little about me. I probably can tell you a lot, seeing that I haven't seen you for

weeks. After that I was sent out to the desert where I practically spent nine weeks. I enjoyed the desert very much, and I wished I could go out there more often, but that is impractical now because my ability to instruct will be proven in a few weeks. We arc expecting quite a few men in our new company and when they do arrive we all will have to teach them their basic and technical training and when this is completed we are scheduled to go overseas. When and where we arc going is just keeping the group guessing. There is one thinp I can honestly say and that is I have the utmost confidence in my officers and wouldn’t be afraid to tackle any job that was assigned to us with them. Well, Mrs. Tyler, that should be enough about me. 1 hope I made it interesting for you. Mrs. Tyler, how is Junny Bill? I just can’t remember what he looks like, but I guess he has grown up to be quite a young man. I guess it has been about eight years since I have seen him. Mrs. Tyler, I do hope you have a wonderful summer and I am praying that this mess can get over soon so that everyone can get back to their loved ones again. Sincerely yours, JOHN C. SUDAK

&f>e S TARBOARD WATCH

By C. Worthy They tell us that most Congressmen have been sounding public opinion back home during the Congressional recess. If they really have been finding out what the people back home are thinking, we wonder how many of them will have courage enough to go back to Washington in September?

If Cape May is a sample of what goes on in other parts of the country, Congress will find it. more peaceful in Sicily or Kharkov than in Washington. By the time they reconvene the full effect of this new income tax law will have been felt (September 15 is deadline for first return) and there will be thousands of other things that the public looks to Congress to straighten out, although nobody knows why.

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Then, of course, there’! ever-present subject of politics that’ll be growing more intense by that time what with fall elections not too far away. And, of course, the war which is uncovering more problems on the home front than on the battle front. We Americans do have the fun,

don't we?

New Play At Cape Theatre

First of geant; as a matter of fact, 1. made that grade a few days ago. I have worked fairly hard and I was sent to a school to learn a technical subject that later on I was supposed to instruct oehers. Well, afer I finished my training I then taught a class for a few

By The Observer The Cape Theatre on Tuesday evening for the first time this season presented a new play, the first production of an entertaining light comedy, entitled “Listen, My Children." Miss Mabel Taliaferro, after playing the first three weeks of the 1943 summer returned to the cast for one more week and was starred in the arduous role of Cynthia Pomeroy. The remainder of the cast was as follows: W. James Bedell as Albert Stevens; T. C. Upham as Andrew Dilling; Ted Leavitt and Frank Gregory new members of the company—as Larry and Michael; Don Cameron as a photographer,- Helen Wagner as Joan Dilling; Elizabeth Wilson as Hope Starling; Dorothy Crane as Mrs. Owens; Gloria Jennings as Flora, and Vidalia Rodriguez as a reporter. Clay Franklin is the author of this bright, fast comedy which is entertaining throughout. The new play jvas staged jby Mr. Bedell with imaginatjopAj'eelmg. and the fast temflCj(hieh» this style of near-farce demands. Miss Taliaferro as Cynthia had an unusually long part, which she carried through from start to finish in a splendid characterization of the woman who had two husbands, planned on a third, bnt eventually remarried her daughter's father. Mr. Bedell and Mr. Upham played the two fathers and extracted from their parts much of the comedy of the play. Miss Wagner had the stnuijht part of the daughter and was direct, alert, and right. The Misses Crane, Wilson .and Jennings were satisfactory in their interpretations, and fine work was turned in by the two new men of the company, Messrs. Leavitt and Gregory, both of whom have had long experience on the stage, the former having appeared* * in at least eight Broadway shows.

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Repent Ye And Believe, By the Rev. E. N. Martin, pastor of Allen A. M. E. Church, Cape May.

Matt. 1:15: And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and

believe the Gospel.

L Repentance. The capacity to distinguish between right and wrong is inborn—e part of the soul’s constitution. Rom. 2:14-16. The standards of right and wrong are furnished by society.

All laws are supposed to embody these standards in all im-

guiit as s consequence, sion, the definite turning i the old way of living, i acceptance of a new end ' life. The Christian is called a i creature. This is the larger mi ing. Though the terms apply 1 a Christian who falls and r' ' again.

and man. But every community has ■ code of unwritten laws called customs. On a higher plane arc those principles regulative of conduct furnished by the Christian church. Now sin in practice involves a conscious departure from one or more of these standards. Repentonce grows out of this consciousness. The sinner perceives that his act has put him into wrong relations with his felllow men, individually and in their collective social capacity, that he has forfeited .their confidence. Secondly, he becomes aware of having broken communion with God, that God’s face is hidden from him. God, being the judge of all, the sense of accountability to him for our conduct toward our fellow men is the deepest motive for repentance. Much may be hidden from man, but nothing from God. Earthly judgment may be escaped, but not the di-

Nowhere outside of the Bible is there such a dear doctrine of sin and of accountability for H, or such high standards of moral conduct, of social justice and individual righteousness. Men may differ on the question of eternal punishment, but no sane thinker doubts that so long as the sinner persists in sin punishment, as the consequences of sin, in some form will continue in this life and in the next. II. Repentance defined. Literally it means a change of mind; but it is more than an intellectual act. It is s'moral movement. It means a change of the spirit of one's life, and a corresponding change of conduct, ' It means giving up the old^-siwit of selfishness, of self will, or self-indulgence as destructive to one’s true happiness, and bringing the whole life into an attitude of obedience and reverence toward God and of symK thy and good will toward man. e change is, first of all, an inward operation. Change of conduct is the result. III. Emotion as an element of repentance. Conceraion or repentance viewed on its positive side. Repentance usually denotes the consciousness of some particular sin, or a sinful life, and of

ance: The kingdom of heart at hand. According to Matthew and Marie the theme of Jesus from the beginning was a call to repentance because the kingdom of heaven is at hand. This, too, was the theme of John the Baptist. ' Matt. 3:2. Thia marks a new era in nligell ious life, a new motive is presented. Nothing so grand, so attractive, so full of promise was ever known before. Under the motive of a new life, continuoua . through this world into the next, and forming a bond of good will and sympathy with all men on earth, and with the spiritual hosts of heaven, is the peculiar glory of Christianity. No religion except Christianity ever presented God in the character of a father, or love as the universal bond, linking man with man and all men to the throne of heaven. Regeneration is the term often applied to this change into a new life. It embodies the thought of Jesus in the interview with Nlcodemus, John 8:4-16. There is a repentance without hope. Conversion is repentance with hope, the hope of something • better in the place of the old. The kingdom of heaven is a universal spiritual brotherhood, based upon the universal divine fatherhood, and is offered as the motive ox Christian repentance. All the light that had been gradually dawning for the world through the general experience of. mankind and threugh the successive revelations in the Bible is now gathered up in a single person and offered to all the world. A new spirit has now entered the world. New standards of life are presented. A new universal religion is one that rises above all race barriers, taking the place of the particular religions that exist, and making possible the spiritual unity of all the world in the bounds of a universal brotherhood. The kingdom of heaven is an invitation to give up the selfish life, which is exclusive, and enter into the spiritual life, which is inclusive. Hence conversion means not only turning from the old way, but into a new way. Repentance is as old as our first parents in Eden.

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Just as an example of how far this war hysteria has gone: A visitor walked into a local store the other day. Before he even opened his mouth, three clerks ran up to him and said, “Sorry, sir, we don’t have it." And they were probably right.

To the Editor: Your leading editorial in last week’s issue concerned the keeping of sidewalks clean to make Cape May clean and attractive to visitors. I agreed with every word of your rect mmendation. 1 You objected, and rightly, too, to cluttering the gutters and streets for t:ie benefit of the sidewalks. it’s true, as you stated, waste paper and other litter swept into the gutter So often return* t > our own or our neighbor's sidewalk and really it is about as objectionable in the gutter and street as on the sidewalk.

Newspapers which have been plugging along despite the war now anticipate a big increase in advertising and circulation. The reason? The War Production Board says paper is gonna get scarce, but really. So some papers have started their own rationing program of advertising and circulation. And when that happens, watch the sales Soar!

The whole community is expected to turn out on Sunday for the dedication of the community honor roll. The board, containing nearly 500 names of service men from this area, will be dedicated at 12:30 beside the First Methodist Church. A brief patriotic program has been arrang-

Royalty will be in full bloom in Cape May tomorrow evening when .Queen Maysea XVI is crowned at Convention Hall. While the coronation is strictly juvenile and the title purely honorary, the event is one of the highlights of Cape May’s season. Where else could you see a queen and her whole court for only 44 cents including tax?

at intervals on sidewalks :i i«ceptacie for depositing trash. If Cape May had n few of these on the street it would encourage householders and mere hunts to use them for the sidewalk litter. Further, and of more importance, it would suggest and enable pe-ii--strians to carry to and deposit therein wrappings, cartons and uastc they don’* know now what to do with and so drop it on the sidewalk or throw it in the gutter. 1 would like to suggest that our street commissioner secure and place a few trash baskets and note results. Then too, I * juid like to -ecommend that the city commissioners who arc in favor of clean streets in Cape May see to it that litter from sidewalks in front of city hall is gatherea up and not swept into the street as ay present and maybe the business hous'is cf Washington street •vill follow suiL Another matter, foreign to the subject: Why are we obliged to bathe in our « <-an with a lot of mongrel or maybe thoroughbred dogs? Some n. ople doa’i ike to bath, with dogs A few days ago I noticed seven dogs in one bunch running loose and froiici-ng in •he water and > n the sand. I like dogs, but not for bathing companions. DAVID C. APPELGATE

Needles has developed a squad that ranks high in efficiency and is deserving of the highest praiae for his successful efforts in converting a green squad into a beach patrol that favorably ranks with the splendid squads of former years. In closing, let us not forget that these veterans know the sea pusses, the backwash and the undertow better than you. When they megaphone an order they are not trying to curtail your enjoyment but to protect you from possibje danger. Very truly youra, RALPH P. MILLER 208 Windsor Ave., Cape M N. J. 208 Windsor Ave. Cape May, N. J.

Legion

Convention

To Be Held Aug. 27

NEWARK—The 25th anniversary convention of the New Jersey Department, American Legion and Auxiliary, will be held in Newark from August 27 to August 29. Department headquarters will be at the Hotel Essex House. The Auxiliary and 40/8 headquarters will be at the

liviers Hotel. R. Graham Huntington, of Maplewood, department vice commander, is general chairman. Mia. ^Terence Braun, of Irvington, • pkst state president, is chairman for the Auxiliaries. State Commander Leo E. Honore, of Union City, and Mrs. Elwood T. Carmichael, of Roselle, etate auxiliary president, will preside at their respective sessions. • A parade of immense proportions will be held on Broad street from Lincoln to Washington Parks on Sunday afternoon, August 29, at o’clock.

If this liquid refreshment situation doesn’t dear up pretty soon, some of the local gentry are going to have to learn to drink water. When liquors became scarce, some turned to wines. When they ran short, they turned to beer. Now that beer is almost as saarce as champagne, they’re really worried.

LAUDS BEACH PATROL To the Editor: Despite traveling eonditiona, the rush on our food emporiums and the nightly scramble for seats in the popular Convention Hall, Cape May is enjoying a banner

Fishing Kits For Soldiers Goal

“Eastre" was the goddess of light, or spring. Many* of the popular Easter observance* are of pagan' , origin, and Christian significance has been given to such of these rites 'um could not be rooted out.

Dancing, bowling, hone beck riding, bicycling, all have their devotees, but to most of our visitors surf bathing ranks first in popular appeal. In this connection let us pause for a moment to remember our

uh only three Lieutenant Norman Brown, McGonigie and Cannone, Captain Sol

hands of every seas who wants to go fishing during time off from active duty is the aim of the International Gama Fish Association which is mslriny an appeal for funds for the nonprofit manufacture of a pocketsized kit especially designed for this purpose. The drive, starting August 16, is being conducted by the Tackle Committee of the International Game Fish Association with beadquarters at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.