WILMETTE LIFE UIVBD I'&IDAT O.P BACB WBB.;. · . LLOYD BollmTB.. DC. ··. . ·: .: 1111-111· Central A: e..- Wilmette. IlL .;_ · ·. oftlce: 6 N. lllablcaD A: TeL 8tata ··1 To us Eew entertainments seem so completely satisfying .'as an orche.stra conc~rt. Movies frequently help one to pass the t1me pleasantly. Many vaudeville performances are diverting. Artists' recitals are evidence of the heights to which individual skill can rise. A Boon to the Plays and operas are North Sfaore all right in their way. But for all-round profit we know ·of no public presentation that can equal an orchestra concert. North ·Shore· communities are exceptionally fortunate in hearing' each year programs by G~~rge Dasch and his exc.ellent musicians. ·: Himself an instrumentalist of high rank, and a director, able; to inspire others with his admirable knowledge and feeling, he has assembled a group of players well fitted by nature and experience to form a most competent orchestra. To have the opportunity of hearing their programs in a hall so conveniently located is an exceptional privilege. Mr. Dasch and his men do not Moreover, offer music that is merely frothy and frivi) ... ous, but compositions of the more serious sort, thus providing that educational element without which such concerts would be only amusements. Serious elements furnish · the foundation and strong framework which make it possible for human beings to meet life's tragedies more effectively. One of the n1ost enjoyable prospects is that of the return, of. the Little Symphony orchestra next fall. . .. ·one is so· dull or so reactionary .as· to question the value and pressing. need ~f separating the railroad and street grades 1n all our North Shore communities. It '!otild make grade crossing accidents impossible and hence would conserve Separate life and property. The two grades ought now to be the (jTades separated. It is the duty <!f our officials to make thts iaear·become a reality as soon as p~ssible. And . this is just what our respective authbtities are doing. They have realized for several .yea~s past that the need of separation is a crying need. They have held meetings locally, with r~presenta~ives of o~her communities and w1th the ratlr. oad offictals. The problem~ involved are not sil!'ple. Some communities want grade depresston. Others are not so insistent. The distribution of .costs demands most careful consideration. Inasmuch as the expense will doubtless be immense, plans must be laboriously worked out . . . : : . · . Some . months ago a Grade Separat~on Committee, consisting of village offictals from all the towns from Wilmette to Glencoe inclusive· , was appointed. · Recently this larger committee appointed !1 speci~l committee of three, represent1ng W tlmette, Winnetka, and Glencoe. We may justly e~ pect satisfactory action on the part of thts special committee, comp?sed as. i~ is of three men of proved executive abthty-W. D. Gerber of Glencoe ; Henry Tenney of Win.n etka, and Paul Hoffman of Wilmette. No SHORB LINES THE ·GARDEN Life is a garden, where thoughts are the seeds, 011e n1ay plant flowers,_ or.OM Ma.Y /Jlanl weeds. Will is the nurture, faath ts the svn, Lo~re is the dew; hate, the frost t~ereNPon. Some plant· while smiling, some flll!ale · lhty weep, EacJJ is the sOUJer of wltat each wall reap. -Johanna Frada, Wi.nnetka . . "GIN" THE EDITORIAL CANINE, WHOSE DAILY PEREGRINATiONS ENCOMPASS NUMEROUS . PRECINCTS, WAS QUICK TO NOTE THE UNUSUkL STIR ATTENDANT UPON TUESDAY'S MARCH TO THE POLLS. NOT TO BE OUTDONE BY OTHIERS, HE AVAILED HIMSELF OF A SAMPLE BALLOT AND ESSAYED ENTRANCE INTO THE PORTALS OF HALF A DOZEN POLLING PLACES ONLY TO EXECUTE A HURRIED EXIT IN EACH INSTANCE AT THE EARNEST BEHEST OF THE DULY AUTHORIZED JUDGES. THIS SEEMINGLY UNTOWARD ACTION ON THE PART OF .THE BALLOT OFFICIALS WAS EASILY EXPLAINED WHEN IT WAS NOTED THAT THE SAMPLE BALLOT IN THE POSSESSION OF THE TYPE-EATING TER!.{IER BORE THE TERSE LEGEND, "VOTE EARLY AND OFTEN." ·I Ralthit Haatna., No Doaht The urge to inspect .the various places was, however, as naught compared to this enterprising. fellow's determination to attend Easter servtces, whence, he reports, most of his h~man acquaintances journeyed last Sunday mornmg. De.a th and taxes are very similar in at least two respects. Both are unpleasant, and both are unescapable. Death has one advantage. It comes only once. Taxes come every year. And not only one tax, but three at least. Death and Real estate, personal, and income. Taxes The worst of the three is the income tax. The other two are full of MUST'S and PENALTIES. But in addition to these unpleasant features the income tax requires distasteful tabula·tions of items that are nobody's business but your own. The making out of the income tax return Now that most social affairs and most is so much like the figuring out by yourself recitals and concerts, except those at of the punishment that you ought to get Ravinia, have been postponed to the autumn for your misdeeds that it is positively painmonths, how are we to occupy ourselves ful. It's bad enough to have to pay to the on those evenings when we used to slline government. a portion of one's very small our shoes and hie to some drawing ropm income, but to be forced to figure it out is or concert hall? Nothing left now. except insult added to injury. the movies, and even they are not all worth the price. Besides, we know quite a number of people, government employees and the like, who receive a check at the close of each Many a boy develops a nose for news in month several times as large as ours, who his early years. He knows, without having don't have to pay an income tax. This seems · been taught, what will interest his contempto us an unfair discrimination against us. oraries. This ability is fostered by writing The present method of income taxing for school papers and for such departments .could be greatly improved. Even then we in our papers as }t1NIOR LIFE and JuNIOR NEWS. shouldn't like it. We have ~very reason to be proud of the scholastic record made in college by the graduates of our township high school. Eight of the largest colleges in the east, including Yale, Harvard, Smith, and Williams, and NorthL ---ld western, Michigan, Why SJWK n't Wisconsin, and IlliW e Be Ptoud? nois in the west, have testified to the excellence of this record. We have unusual reason to be proud, because this testimony appJies not to a few but to several hundred New Trier graduates now in attendance at these schools of higher learning. We suppose that much of this excellence is due to inheritance and home environment, but it seems probable to us that the deciding factor has been the schools. Too much credit cannot be given to the work which they did under skilled and interested teachers at the high school, the last work' they did before going to college. Do we realize sufficiently how fortunate we are in our surroundings, at home and in school? There are thousands of places where we might be living, but, as the real estate ads have it, there's only one North Shore. Perfid:r After apeadiaa a coaaiderahle portion of hia time d.iaa the put few weeb at tlae DeaeeaEmmenon headquarten ia 'W ilmette, oar ·ero did the expected hy totiaa- aro...t a Wot plaialy marked for the Small-Thompaoa caadidatea. In A Moment Of Petalaace Run alotzg to yottr tomorrow, Moon whose face is rue and sorrow, Or at least seek out a clmul And make it your nocturnal shroud. I"l'e retJotmced the sigh and tear, The sentimental, candled bier; Have the goodness, moon, to smileOr hide your sad reproach awhile! R. L. P., Glencoe. Health Note "Doris had just heard about curing hams," writes little Emma Bickham, "when she suddenly exclaimed to her mother : 'How funny it must be to see all the little hams sitting around getting well.', Get Thia, Pe11J' I Mique Sir: We who haild the "two hi'CNMI columu" which PeaiJ' hunllea each week ia her hute to Lmd oa Shore Linea are not "·imply furiou." Kaowiq u we Yei'J' well do that there are readera with auch exotic tutea u driYe them to read the clauifiecl ada or the aociety DOtea Wore they read the afontmeatioaed "hroacl · columaa," we cannot couiateatly 'be furioua. Some people like cahhqe, othen lib old cheeae, aad ,tiD othen like auaar ia their Yegetahle aoup. Let Peau hunUe. ~Fil, tlae raloaofer. Note: He's always thinking of something to eat. Where'· ~ Gaaae Wanlea? 'Twould appear that Evanston's bluecoated nimrods have de.clared open season for north shore cab drivers. That Wilmette youth who spent several minutes dodging bullets last Monday morning, should be placed Oil the Evanston · payroll as a moving target at the police practice range. . 1 :tj -MIQUE.