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· 14 WILMETTE LIFE, FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1924 leading of community singing m~ets with the heartiest co-operatiOn. Fanners, city people, children, business men--everybody enjoys singing together. Why shouldn't there be as much singing now as there was in war time? We need it! We enjoy it! Won't those who have charge of public meetings plan to begin the meetings with folk singing? WILMETTE LIFE (Formerly The Lake Shore Newa) Eat&bllahed 1912 with which 111 combined THE WJLIIETTE LOCAL NEWII Eatabllahed 1898 IIIIUE.D FRIDAY 01' EACH WEEK Pagea.1 to QJ . by UU Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill. LLOYD HOLLI!ITER, INC. Tete··-· ........ ... .. 8UB8CRIPTIOI'f Wll·ette 1.,_ f2.00 A YEAR GOSSIPERS The habit of spreading "bad" news about others is not uncomResolution· of condolence, cards of mon. No time or group of people thanks, obituary, poetry, notices of entertainments or other atralra where has been entirely free from this an admittance charge will be made or vice of talking more or less malica colledlon taken, will be charged at iously about others. The inforrecular advertising ratea. mation which is thus passed Entered at the post otnce at Wll · What we mette, Illlnole, ae mall matter of the around may be true. aecond cla.ee, under the act of March are concerned with is the too I . 1871. common habit of liking to point out the failings of others. When FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1924 Adam in the famous apple incident put upon Eve the blame for Separate the Grades. his misdoing he set an example Enforce the Traffic Laws. which has been followed ever Build the Through Traffic Road. since. "NOW'S THE TIME!" Why is it that some people enThe best way to prepare for joy indulging this habit? It the future is t.o make the most seems to yield them a positive of the present. Live as well as pleasure. Iri fact it ~ght be you can in the present, and you'll truly said that scandalmongers, be assuring for yourself the best big and little, always like their future. Those who do not be- nefarious business. We advance our own answer lieve that this. is good advice must remember that we do not live in to this question. May it not be the future; we Jive only in the that those who take such illicit present. And the best kind of pleasure in dissecting .others are present living is the kind that envious of their victims? Pertakes account .of the fact that the haps they themselves would liketo present is going to continue. do the very things they find so Men, women and children unusually reprehensible in otherc; : everywhere are laying too much but they fear the consequence:.. emphasis on the future. Men are It has . been said, by Macaulay, promising themselves that they we belteve, that the Puritans dewill make much-needed changes nounced bear-baiting not so much tomorrow. Many women are hecause of their sympathy for the afraid of the future; they think bear as because they hated to too much .of the coming years. see the be~r baiters having such Children are urged to prepare. a good . ttme. In. other words Too little is said to them about , they envted t~e batters: . the value of the present days. Our conclus10n then 1s th1s : If Literature is full of exhortations sca!ldal-spreaders would mend to cherish ideals, to follow the the!r own errone~us ways, set gleam. More should be said thetr own hou~es m order, they about making the most of the ~o~ld ~ave netth.er the time nor present. mclmat10n ,to thmk and talk of Just here attention should be other peoples faults. called to a very common error: namely, the belief (and action upOUR SECRET AMBITION on that belief) that an aim is a It is our secret ambition to buy future affair. It is not a future an island. Mr. Arr.owood who !hing; it is. a pres~nt process. It used to live in Wilmette, re~ently ts somethmg gomg , o n NOW. bought John's Island in Indian Every real aim operates in the Bay near the city of Greenwich present. It influences action of Connecticut. Some years ag~ the present moment. If it Mr. James Porter of Hubbard doesn't, then it is not a real bona Woods, bought an island off the fide aim. ' Maine coast. And a month or so According to one w.ho is per- back Mr. Kinney b.ought Big haps the leading philosopher in Strawberry, an island in Green America today, John Dewey, we Bay .. As yet we own no island. shout~ so act as to increase the Thmk of OWJ?ing as your very !lleanmg of the present exper- own a ~~ole tsland. . Recalling tence. If we could form this the defimt10n that an tsland is a habit we should be well on the body of land entirely surrounded way to elect good public officials; by water you wil! see that an iswe should also be doing much to land-owner has JUSt reason for prevent the recurrence of wars. holc;Jing himself a little aloof from Seize the PRESENT oppor- ordmary men. Having sole title tunity. to such a body of land he might well ~e pardoned for climbing to the htghest point in his domain FOLK SINGING During the war there was a great and declaiming, as he gazed on ~eal of community (or folk) sing- the landscape, "I am monarch of tog. Almost every public meeting all I survey ; my right there is was opened with singing by the more to deny." whole assembly. We needed some stimulation to pull us up to the emo· If y.ou see a great big gray tiona! demands of those strenuous automobile bus sliding past your days. Singing filled the bill, and home after midnight, you will so we sang with enthusiasm "Over know that a party of "night there" and "Keep the home fires hawks" is being carried back to burning" and "The long, long trail." the wicked metropolis a dozen or We felt all the thrills that come so miles to the southward. from singing in unison and in harThis gray aut?·bus co~lects pasmany. seng-ers at Madts.on and La Salle. But the joyf.ul. excitemont ·that ~t 7.;30. in . the .evening it begins marked the armtsttce celebration al- 1ts JOurney towads the north M marked the almost total cessation shore. It follows the boulevard of folk singing. Since that time route until it reaches Lake ave!here has been practically no sing- nue in Wilmette, where it turns tng by large groups; audiences are westward and keeps on until it now nothing but audiences, people reaches the Garden of Allah at who merely hear, surely a most in- Waukegan road. There the hunadequate participation in any activ- gry tourists disembark, and there ities. Our voices are going back they dine and dance. Round again to their original hoarseness about midnight they climb aboard and we're forgetting the 101 or the bus, which retraces its way more "songs that everybody likes to the Lo.op. to sing." It is a great privilege for toilIt's all wrong I We like to sing. worn urbanites to get even a We want to sing. Why aren't we fleeting and night-covered glimpse asked to sing? Fred Carberry, of the celebrated north shore, Well-known, leader of community a.nd to instil into their smokelings at the Municipal Pier, says tmged blood a gallon or tw,o of that no matter where he goes his pure suburban oxygen. .All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer· .Articles tor publication should reach the editor by Wednesda.y noon to Insure appea.rance In current Issue. For North Shore Citizens The NORTH SHORE LINE 0 MATTER why you travel to the city or along the North Shore, there is every reason for taking the North Shore Line. For trips to Chicago or neighboring towns, for visits to friends in other parts of the North Shore, for safely getting the childreh to school, or for a pleasure excursion into the country, the North Shore Line is constantly ready to give you the comfortable transportation you most appreciate. 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