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24 W ILMETTE . LIFE :August 10, 1928 WILMETTE LIFE 188UBD I' BIDA. Y OF BA.CB WBBK by . LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 1232-1236 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill. Clalcaco oftlce : 6 N. M1ch1gan Ave. Tel. State Teleplaoae ' ' ssz· .. . .······...···...·.......·· Wilmette fiN IUB8CBIPTION .P BICE ........... . .. 11.11 A. TBA.B All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. ' Articles for pub- , ltcatlon must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to Insure appearance In current Issue. Rel!!olutfons of condolence, cards of thanks, obituaries. notices of entertafnments 'o r other atfalrs where an AdmittAnce charge Is pubUshed, wfll be charged at regulttr ttdvertlslng rates. Charles Ha~·es. president of the Chicag-o 1\1 otor Clnh. has named a few of the qualifications of a good driver. He tells us that a g-ood driver gives waY to the driver who Who Is a is ascending- a steep hilL Good Driver? \Ve are sure that this is a mark of a good driver. If you don't believe it. iust see what you think of a driver who does not give full advantag-e to YOU when von are nearing the top ~f a steep hi11 and- hopingthat you '"ill not have to shift into second. ~e names other specifications of a good dnver. . If a man is a good driver he wil1 give way to a less experienced driver. Sad . to say "·e know some drivers who regard ~hemselves as top-notch motorists and yet seem to expect from others exhibition .of the same technical skill that they them_s~lves possess. A young man who takes advantage of less experienced drivers is not a good driver. Nor is one a good driver who does not help to make bewildered pedestrians less bewildered. Stopping to allow a . pedestrian to cross a crowded street is a virtue seldom sho\:vn in or about Chicago. The new sewage disposal plant at Howard street and McCormick road is an outstanding example of the successful com:. . bining of beauty and utility. Within this atUtility. tractive building a proand Beauty cess takes· place that is from one point of view rather unpleasant to contemplate and from another perhaps the most useful of all artificial processes, namel~r the disposal of sewag e of all sorts. This waste matter must be disposed of if life is to be conse rved. The problem has been for ages how to do it with least offense. It seems incredible that there should ever have been a time when · this unde sirable material was carried down the public thoroughfares in open se,·v ers. Yet we know that thi s was once the case, and is still the case in so me backward communities. It is not necessarv to consider what a menace this was to health and what an extreme offense to human sensibilities. May we congratulate ourselves that v:e live in a district which believes that esthetic feelings should be taken into account even though that taking into account involves the expending of ·great sums of money. And that these feelings have been taken into account is easily proved by the fact that thousands have often passed these structures on 1\tlcCormick road and have not had the slightest idea as to \Yhat their function was. The 11cCormick road plant could readily serve as a model for similar estab1i hments in our north shore communitie . The problem is vital and current. \\'ilmette is to be congratulated upon the character of work contractor Edward J. McCarthy is · putting into the resurfacing ,of the Fore"t and Lake a venue pavements. The A Good Job Forest avenue job, pracof Paving tically completed this week and now readv for traffic, has given occasion for genera"'! approval. The type of resurfacing pavement -sheet asphalt-was prescribed by the Streets and Alleys committee of the Village , board only after painstaking investigation of . resurfacing materials, in actual use, whtch took the officials into many cities in the Middle West. These local resurfacing projects were in discussion before the board over a period of many months and at hearings attended by interested property owners. It appears that the long wait for the improvements has been amply justified. It's a fine job of work-but. SHORE LINES I Title--"Won't Be Long Now" An Hour in a ' Cub Reporter's ·nay or ] ust Another Soul Gone Wrong Place: editorial room Principal character: one very green reporter Other characters : various staff members Scene I Brrrr Brrrr B r r r r "Somebody answer that phone." (voice directed at v. g. reporter) V. G. reporter casts wild glances at all three phones, answers wrong one. Time elapse, ~ minutes ·B rrrr Brrrr B r r r r V. G. r eporter grabs phone. "Yes, this is the Bugle. You say' 'Mrs. S. Conlin ?-0. ~fiss F. Donlin, do you spell it with two ll's - - -0-vou said Bondsman, I see-and did YOU sav she- was visiting her sister-in-law ?-0her mother's brother, at--will you spell that please. C A M T 0 N--0. · Hampton you mean, Yes H for Harold. No I know you didn't say Harold; now let me see if I have it right: Mrs. M. Conlee is visiting her sister-in-law at Camton." Curtain -The Cubbess. HOOFBEATS FROM THE OLD PLUG It was a most baffiing case (case used advisedly) and Sherlock's long fingers were combing his hair, which was the way his fingers always comb his hair when the case (there we go again) is mysterious and baffling. "Ha, Ha,'" he chuckled and his face lit up, "a gross of Ha, Ha's. Get on the job quick Watty and produce the needle." Watty, who never failed to produce before, was dejected. His face did not beam with admiration, as always it did beam before. "Sorry, Old Sleuth" sezzee. "We're just out of needles. The blawated Americana have taken them all for their beer." Well, Hello, Old Sleuth! 'l f 't We n1ay add other qualifications of a good driver. He will keep .on his own side of the road even when he rounding a sharp turn. He will not back out of a parking place without duly warning others. He will not drive fast through towns. He will not be continually trying to pass others on a crowded highway. lt seems, now that so many have acquired an ability to drive that would have been regarded some years ago as little short marvelous, that most of the qualifications p£ a good driver are negative, that he needs not so much to do certain things as to refrain from doing certain other things. Chief Charley who used to be Chief 111 Evanston before coming to Wilmette says everybody in Evanston calls him Charley, while in Wilmette they ca11 him Chief. These are days of wonderful inventions and remarkable feats. Machinery is taking the place of man power in many industries and all aorta of labor saving devices are being developed. But it remained for Cheater, who gets dirtyed up in our composing room, to find one way of saving labor. He puts his necktie on over his head thereby saving the trouble of tying it. -The Old Plug HEAT WAVES of Since Doc Rawlings sees fit to frighten us with the startling word that half of. Illinois' population is "physically impaired," we may well revise our customary matutinal salutation to read: "good morning, here's hoping you'll live 'till evening." Shaving the Coat Tom Lynch, the north shore tree doctor, ia in receipt of thia succinct gem from an opulent Lake F oreat customer: "Dear Mr. Lynch: When you were spraying the trees on my place in Lake F oreat, one of your men used the telephone in the garage · for a long distance call · · · · Therefore, will you kindly remit me ten cents to cover this · · · · " . That sending letter~ by air is rapidly growing in popularity is proved by the lowering of atr mail rates to five cents f o r a n o u n c e letter. Such a letter as our ancesAi,. Mail tors wrote on thin onion Popularity skin paper and containing as much news as the ordinary metropolitan newspaper can now be carried through the air for the small sum of five cents. Air n1ail reminds one verv vividlv of carrier pigeon service. If we ~vere inc-lined to be romantic, which, being over fifty, we are not, we would never send again by ordinary earth mail any letters except bills and such. All our missives ending "'ith "Yours with much love" we should certainly have carried through the air by that most ntarvelous of all hinls, the airplane. And that "but" has to do with the very essential program of maintenance that must f.ollow. These resurfaced streets will require periodical inspection and careful attention. That's a job for our Department of Public Works, and more particularly, of the "asphalt gang" of 'that department. We've got a good job of paving. Let's keep it so! Much, but not too much, has been said emphasizing the va]ue of doing things now. Every person, especial1y those of 1nature years, will easily find in his o\vn experience ex::tmples of the value of the tin1ely doing of things. Procrastination, putting off until tomorrow, though sometim.e s of value, is surely the thief of ti1ne. Having achieved the venerable age when the baseball bat is gracefully latd aside in favor of ~he driver, prassie, midiron, etc., we fared forth tother afternoon and spent the price of half a dozen grandstand seats at Cubs' park. Yep, it was the water hole on the tenth at Glencoe. .Elmer T., a ~ellow sufferer at the grand old game, wtll never forgtve the Pro at Winnetka Playfield who recently offered a swimming lesson in lieu of the prescrib d pill-whacking test. Elmer teed off and nearly drowned. Ain't nature grand-and the mosquitoes just too cunning for words? ' if -Mique.