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WILMETTE LIFE September 17, 1926 WILMETTE LIFE ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WBBI by LLOYD HOLLISTER, llJC. 1Z22 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill. Chicago oftlce : G N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 6326 ltUBSCRIPTION PRICE .....···.··.·. tJ.OO A YEAR Telepbone .··.·...........·...·....·····. Wilmette lt!t All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for pub11<-a.tfon must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to 'nf;Urf' flltpe-a.rance In current Issue. 'RP!lolutfons of C'ondote-nce, cards of thanks, obituary, ,nti<-e-s of entertR.Inments or other atralrB where an ~dmlttanre chR.rge Is published, wlll be charged at C'P2'tt1ar Rdvertlslng rR.tes. · -mA II .-==============================~=====~ Entert'd at the lH)I!It office at Wilmette, Illlnols, as m~~tttf'r of the st'cond class, · under the ac;_t or "March 3. 1879. / We see hv the papers that Principal Clerk of New Trier has been looking around. He's been all up and down the Pacific coast visiting high Looking schools. And he's back home with a satchel full of good Around ideas. These same good ideas he intends to use for the bene-: fit of our own township high school. Anyone who looks around, as Principal Clerk has been doing this summer, will find answers to questions that have been troubling him for a long time, and they will be answers that would never have occurred to him had he not left his own job and ...~·--·--·--·looked around at the work of others. Mr. Among the courses given by the Hadley Clerk, for example, by looking around, saw School for the Blind one of the m.ost popua way of saving the space now occupied by lar is the course in life ins:.trance. Twelve study halls. This way, ·he ·discovered, is to · ·have completed the course. lengthen the class period. ·· He als.o saw· B.lind and fifty are now taking it. that much of the teachers' clerical work Six of the twelve graduates ·might be done by stude'~:ts· and the teach- . ·Succeed have received appointments 1 oers' more valuable time be thus freed: for · ... with the New York Life 'Inmore important work. . surance Company. According to the latest nd·- might' be · ai1d necessarily :vague, reports, all six are This idea .of looking. arou. adopted to great advantage by many peo- doing· well. · Pourteen of the fifty now takple in all walks of life. Th~ hous~wife C(,ln ing the c.o urse are selling insurance in sevlearn a great deal by wa.tchjng. othe~ hou~e- . ~ral companies. Everyone is interested in the results of wives at work. Writers :who have not bee11 improving in style can often make notab~e . this · good school. Many have been waiting e thods of .o ther - to see what its graduates will go into and advance by .observing the m_ writers. Executives in business .a nd gov- how they, ·will get along. While much of ernnlent can get many fine - sugge~~jons . the benefit ca·1 be measured only in terms n1erely from looking around at other ex- of pers.ona.l satisfaction, still some of this benefit can be measured in dollars and cents. ecutives. We recommend to our own local vil- For example, it will be interesting to know lage trustees this practice of looking how n1uch these blind insurance agents around. See ho'w other trustees solve similar earn per year. Of course it would be still problems. Since there is very little new more interesting to know what portion of under the sun, it is tnore than likely that this annual income is traceable to the problems now vexing North Shore officials ~ourse taken in the Hadley School. But this ·it is itnpossible to ascertain accurately. have been faced and solved elsewhere. According to accurate ·reports, blind inKeep your eyes and ears open. Look around at the other fellow. Y,ou'll learn sura'nce agents working for the New Vork Life have tnade as much as $15,000 per year. something. Though none of the Hadley graduates . has tnade this amount, still it is fairly probable "The heights by great men gained .and kept that some well endowed graduate may exWere 1zot attained by su. dden flight; ceed this sun1. · But they, ·while their companions slept, . As the w.ork of the school ·goes on in this Were toiling upward in the night.)J and other branches it tnay even appear that While others are spending their. holidays the very . bl_ indness has helped individuals. at the seashore our future great men and Deafness, partial or complete, is not an unwomen are going to sutnmer school. Over mixed curse. · If one does not wish to listen 600 boys and girls register- to a bore he can turn a deaf ear. And cerVacation ed for summer school tainly 90 per cent of the· sounds of a city hearing. · Alm.ost as many courses in New Trier High are not worth _ School school. It will be a source sights are not worth seeing, The blind can of justifiable pride to these concentrate better than the sighted, other young people and to their friends and par- things being equaC They can pay better ents to find that they have outdistanced attention to the pleasures of the .other their companions who did not attend sum- senses. Therefore, why should not the mer school. There will be many a boy who Hadley graduates be able to surpass the but for summer school would not be able sighted in n1any fields of endeavor? to enter high scho.ol until the fall of 1927. There will be many a girl w~o because of summer school will graduate from college a whole year ahead of her present grammar school comrades. Time is money to many young men and women. There are many b.oys and girls who ought not to go to vacation school. But there are many more who might better go to summer school than to the seashore or country. Time gained now will be money gained later on. Especially is this true of older youths who through some misfortune have been retarded. Such youths by taking two or three studies in summer scho.ol have often regained time lost. Moreover, this catcning up process usually gives one a real feeling of satisfaction. He has won a victory over time itself. He has forced time, · which along with tide waits for no man, to yield to his endeavors. Often it happens that a student does better work in summer school than during the regular year. . He takes fe,,·er subjects in the sumtner; he can put longer hours on laboratory work. He has as colleagues students who like himself are .:onscious of gaining time. Plan to go next summer to vacation school. You will undergo a ne\Y and pleasurable experience. SHORE LINES Hello everybody! Back again and glad to be here. After all, there's no place like h.o~e-even an adopted home. Jane Arnt and Lydta seem to have done so well in our absence that we are . afraid you will wish we hadn't returned. But that won't do you any good for here we a~e ._ Being quite as eccentric as colummsts are supposed to be (and usually are) we went .south on our vacation, although, up to the last. mmute, we had planned to go north. But '":e're JU~t as ~fad. Perhaps we wiJl tell you somcthmg of our tnp. WHY? (ToM. W.) Marguerita mia, maid of grace, Thy glorious beauty of form and face Hath me encharmed to the nth degree. I would, fair one, that thou belonged to me. I would giYe a castle and all my gold That if when I sang that song of old, "I love ' thee I love thee! Oh, wilt thou he mine?» Thou did st 'not shake thy fair head and dcdine . I would thou wouldst nod and say to 01(", "Yea, my lord, thy lady I'll he." But alas! 'Tis fruitles s those words to ttnfurlOh why. oh why was I born a girl? - ].I.. Welcome to the fold, Jane. Come again so me time- we always try not to he too critical. M ussolini seems determined to make us wear out that tittle quotation about "Whom the gods would destroy . . . . " First he undertook to pre scribe how the women should dress and now he informs a breathle ss world that his star of destiny will protect him from assassins and _ prese rve him to die a natural death. w·e had th(> pleasur·' of ~rPrting our old friE-nd Carp at . New Tri er this wt·Pk . HP is all tannrd from his YnC'ation trip t<i the ""<·~t. \\'t' had bad r Pports ahout him from one who saw him whf>n he start<'d . '.rhis one said that CarP, .lookerl quite tough in his driving outfit, and that none of th e pr('tty g-irh:; at ~ew Tri ('r woulrl h ave liked him as \·.rei! if they had sN. ' n him then. It's a g-ood thing he didn't nwPt tlw <'OnstabiC' at Oxford. ~flssisslppi, as we did on our trip. \\·.,, that is, thr Slavr, Bill and Bill dog, an ain·dalt of ex trf' mf'· ly grave and philosophi<'al d1·n11-annr, tri<'kl(' d intP Oxford about nin e o'clo<'k one (' vr nin~ . a bit worn as to t ern·H "r<; because of aightern miles of road without a sing)(' guiding sign and trouble with tht' lights. Fortunately (for him, we Ilk~.> to think), Wf' hart f'aten a g-ood meal and had repaire d thf' lights, or so Wf' thou~ht, when we madf' his acqualntant'P. ~ow we arE> t'E>rtain that Wf' couldn't havt> lnok,, ct tough. although we must have bPE>n carrying sen·ral tons of Mississippi_ dust, than whi<'h ttwrf' is nonP rtustif'r. upon our persons. But this ronstabl(' chosP to rPgard us its extremely suspicious characters and lnquir('d at h'ngth into our rE>asons for bE>ing in Oxford and our intf'ntions regarding the town. \Vt> assured him that our only desirfl in r··~a ·rd t() Oxford was the opportunity of t'onsidPring its many obvious deficif'ncies from the contE>mplated comfort of ~ hotel at Holly Springs, a town some miles farth('r north . This didn't satisfy the constable but he kept away from our Imme diate vicinity until WP finally took tlw ro::1 rt out of town for Holly Springs. To shorten a 1P'1gtl':V ,nd melancholy talf', there wE're no markers of any kind on this road whit'h finally Pnded abruptly in a patch Of weeds and railroad tif's. \Vp discow~re-d that E>vH'Icntty some day a bridge _ was to be built across a stream which blocked our path on the otht>r side of the ties, so we wearily and with somf' difficulty rrtrnc l' rl our path to Oxford, a diRtance of about fiftf'f'n mil es. By thi~ tim e we had but ont> thought and that was to g et out of Oxford and bat'k on thf' Florida l\fidwt>st hi!!"l1way. which at least has a marker, however dim and difficult to see, evf'ry few milE's. We had intf'ndt>d tn '"'111"' up through Kf'ntucky hut now Wf' decide d to let tl,at gn and to reach Mf'mphis, If possible ·when we got back to town thPre was our friend tlw rnnstable ' again. l-'<- was more suspicious than beforP and we were ruder. Whf'n we told him that our only desire was to strike the Midwest highway once more and proceed thereon to Memphis. he was obviously relieved, though still a bit doubtful. He shownfl 11~ the road out of town-all roads seem to cnnvergf' on the courthouse sQuare-and told us It was w <>ll.:-m ... rk f' d and easy to follow. This was at midnig-ht. or a Bit later. At two o'clock we arrived at the square again filled ,vith bitt~"" thoughts and dark designs against thf' hP..,lth "nrl rom fort of the const~ble. It had been the S<l~Tw old story-no markers on the road. Up came our fr1enfl. and only the thoug-ht that if we did our duty hy him w.,. would certainly have to g-et out of town immediately, saved him from just retribution. Sn wt> only defied him by stating flatly that we were going to stay all night at the .hotel. then we rlefif'tl th<> hotel clerk by taking Blll Dog upstairs with 118. defif'd common sense bY. sitting up an hour and a ~alf over our road maps, and defied our own better JUdgm~>nt by sleeping until ten o'clock In the mornIng. That was a glorious day. We advanced just ;:~ hont 85 miles and felt as if we had driven 850 or more. --·------ 1 J I THE SLAVE