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J6 WILMETTE LIFE June 8, 1928 ' , WILMETTE LIFE ISSUED FBIDA.Y OF EA.CB WEE][ by . ' LLOYD BOLLI8TEB, INC. 1232-1236 Central Av· ., Wilmette, Ill. · Cbtcago oftlce: 6 N. Mlchlga 1 Ave. Tel. State 1311 Telephone . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . . . . . .. .. . .... Wilmette ..... SUBSCRIPTION PBICE ····..··.· .. ·· tJ.Ot A. YEA.B All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for pub-lication must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to lnarure appearance In current Issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituaries, notices of entertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge is published, wtll be charged at re~lar advertising rates. If the behaviorist has his way, there will in a few years he an end to home sweet home . Just as the old oaken bucket has heen 'superseded by the Must the bubbling fountain, s.o will sweet home be superseded Home Go? by a training institution of some advanced sort. The bucket was full of sentiment and germs. The home is full of love and bad training. The bucket and the home must both be relegated to poetry and to an unsanitary and unhygienic past. Our childhood days are inseparably bound up with home. The two most sacred words in the vocabulary of youth are home and mother. Our memories would indeed be empty were these words with all their associations removed. And yet those are the very words that the oncomin·g behaviorist movement seems likely to sweep ·away. Perhaps the strongest evidence of the coming .of this tremendous change is to be found in a book that possibly will rival in its popularity Dr. Holt's little manual on the physiological care of the infant and child. Probably there are a few hundred homes in America where Holt's manual may not be f.ound, but surely it is on the library or nursery table in every well-regulated North Shore home. The ne\v book is \l\7atson's Psychologiccd Care of Infant and Child. In its opening pages occurs the following sentence, "The behaviorist has to accept the home and make the best of it." The implications of this sentence are tragic. Watson, foremost and most radical behaviorist, plainly means by this sentence that the home n1ust go. Of course it cannot at once be easily done away with. But in a short time it must go the way of the bucket. In order that babies may grow up into happy and healthy ma.turity the mother, after bearing the infant, must hand him over to the scientific behaviorist, and the child must be taken from the home and gruw up in a training school. Happy thought! Why should not future mothers be given a thorough behavioristic training and the nursery be equipped with all the latest apparatus for conditioning the child? Home, sweet home is safe! Playgr.ound.s are a great boon to young people living in _ rather thickly populated areas. Many · of our own young people, living in neighborhoods where there are no large lots a vail able for baseball are obliged to go some distance from home to find such open spaces. Public playgrounds for all such are of unusual value: When the members of the National Federation of Business and Professional ~ 7 om en were banqueting in Evanston not long ago, a hoodlum yelled in at the window, "Sober up, girls!" An evidence of the feeble and misdirected wit of some soak who puts others into his .own clas!:l. The residents of each of our North Shore villages not only may be proud. of those features in which their respective ~illages excel others, but they ought to culBe Proud of tivate and' cherish a Your Village vigorous civic pride. If they have not this just pride they will lack such incentives as will impel them to make plans for the improvement of their community and to work for the realization ·of these plans. This sort of pride is widely different from that pride which is merely an en1pty conceit. It is the duty and privilege of those \vho have been here some time to instill and foster this pride in newco·mers. Either by word of mouth or by example you can influence those who have recently moved into your village to feel as you do about your town's reputation for good look s, good government~ and good citizenship. Now and then those who ride or walk about our towns see evidence of lack of this civic pride. Consider the following: South of \Villow Road and east of Hibbard Road is a beautiful stretch of natural woodland called Crow Island. The Winnetka Park Board has done a great deal to make this a real beauty spot for the use of Winnetka citizens. Recently a load .of tin cans was dumped at the very entrance to these woods. Apparently the offender was some Winnetka business man, who certainly would not have committed thi s offens.e against decency and thoughtfulne ss had he been proud of his village and jealous of its good reputation. How would a stranger have rated \Vinnetka citizenship had he on entering thi s lovely \\'Oodland seen this tmsightly pile? Let us by all the meai1 s in our power cultivate in our. elves as \\'ell as in .others, especially newcomers. genuine civic pride that will work not merely on holiday s but on every day in the week. S H 0 R.E L 1 N B S A POPULAR REFORM Dear MiqueLet's quit our kidding and ~et busy. ~n s~e thing that will be really conductve to Ctvtc Uphft. There are too many dandelions in this village. They are being allowed to .pollute our lawns, and, what is worse, they are ~emg wasted. Bad housekeeping and lack of thnft are both unworthy of the traditions of Wilmette. I et's encourage the discouragement of dandelions. How? By providing an incentive for the plucking of those golde~ blossoms before they go to seed. The conservation of dandehon bloss?ms will be greatly stimulated (and you and I h~e wise) when we inaugurate our Annual Dandehon Wine Competition. It won't be difficult. Here. for instance, are the RULES AND REGULATIONS I. The Judge will be I que and the Referee will be Mique. II. Each entry must consist of at least one quart. In case of a tie on quality, quantity will be the deciding factor. III. No entry, or any part thereof, shall be returned to any contestant. IV. This competition is not for colts. ·Yearlings may enter, but prizes will be awarded only to three-year-olds or better. V. Out of consideration for the wmners, their names wilt not be published, but pri~e winners may obtain their trophies upon application to the Referee. I think a contest of this kind would he a whiz. Yours for lovelier lawns-IQUE. Business Booms Chicago's claim to distinction as the center of the Pineapple Industry may or may not have had its favorable effect upon the coat of that com· modity on the north shore. At any rate, Barges brothers in Wilmette are window advertising in capital iettera: "Pineapples-two for 25 cents." To Alice (Reminiscent of her recent visit to Asheville, N. C.) Oh for a romp without any pomp, A picnic, or gambol that fits; To play hide and seek upon St. Michel's peak With Penny, and Whimpers, and Ditz. Or rather perchance it would more enhanceBe exalting, and place at/ at ease. To stroll gently away-in a dignified way, With Alice. and Mac, and Louise. But if I were younger my spirit Like vouth, for lip nectar and To nestle and croon bq the light While our fingers unconsciously might hunger wine: of the moon . twine. II It seems that there are .some owners of dogs who oppose the authorities in the attempt of the latter to stamp out rabies. There are some citizens who by their action and Protect attitude express the beHuman Life lief that dog life is more . valuable than human life. We are told by the police. in several of our North Shore towns that a number of dog owners object to muzzling. The fact is established beyond the least shadow of doubt that many pe.o ple in our villages have been bitten by dogs which have rabies. And stiU dogs are running about on our streets unmuzzlep, a special menace to the life and health of our little children. Some of our villages have been entirely to.o slow in taking measures necessary to protect human life. Meanwhile children and adults have · been attacked and wounded by stray unmuzzled dogs. If necessary every dog muzzled or unmuzzled must be killed. At present such an extreme step does not seem necessary. But it is necessary that every dog shall either be securely muzzled or kept off the streets. The big rule of the road is coming to be, "Drive S : aight !" The driver who gets · himself and others into trouble is pretty certain to be the o'ne who will not keep in his .own lane but breaks . . out suddenly to right or left. "Drive Straight!" 4 Alas ! and alack! I must never look back, Or get fer.:er of spring in mtl veins; To be. some flapper's daddy or grass widow's caddy , Is now about all that remains. .W hen you're in a crisis, then my best advice is; Let nothing !lOUr courage disma!l; Not the ones we have kissed, but the kisses we' ve missed Are the ones apt to haunt us todav. The plight of the nation is the great conflagration Of passion, of love and of sex; Ts this we call love, inspired from above? Or below? are the questions that vex. -HENRY F. <\TOW. ----~----~~-.~ Trouble Afoot Foot specialists in the Chicago area are said to be sharpening up the tools of their trade in ~n ticipation of a. busy season what with Bumon Derbies and Marathon Dances claiming the attention of numerous physically strong and 1lletltally deficient individuals. ----~----~~--~ Sane Idea, What? A Marathon Dancing enterprise arranged at Dunning was reported as a complete flop. The belligerent inmates allowed it was about time they exchanged places with the potential candidates on the ouuide. The Inmates. also laughed when news of a brand new Flagpole sitter was noised around. The present ehampion, at latest reports, was still cllngin'1 to a pole atop the institution's administration bulldmg. -MIQUE.